Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Aug 13 17:17:00 EDT 2004
On Aug 12, 2004, at 14:43, Bill Freeman wrote:
> Just for grins I tried holding C while it booted. No
> difference. (I get a chord played rather than what I'd call a ding or
> dong.) Might you know how to ask the OS whether it believes that it
> has a CD?
Does it sound like this:
http://www.tcp.com/~dschaub/Files/Crash/cpwrlc.aiff
Those are death-chimes, or BIOS-level boot failures. A bum drive can
cause that.
On Aug 12, 2004, at 15:04, Bill Freeman wrote:
> I wonder if it's firmware predates
> bootable CDs.
CD booting goes back to the Mac II line so it's probably not a ROM
issue.
On Aug 12, 2004, at 15:18, Travis Roy wrote:
> Macs generally don't have eject buttons for much of anything so most
> mac hardware that might have an eject button doesn't have that button
> enabled. They do have those little emergency eject holes and that's
> about it.
This was true of the old mac floppy drives. All the tray-loading Mac
CD-ROM drives have eject buttons. You have to open the tray to get the
CD in... Granted, the new laptop-style slot-loaders don't, you have
to use a software eject (or hold down the mouse button on restart which
is "eject everything ejectable") but every desktop save the
slot-loading iMacs should have a commodity ATAPI CD-ROM drive with a
button extender.
-Bill
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