Mailing List Archive: HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM...

HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM...

Feb 21, 2005, 10:00 PM

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Hey everybody!

In a REAL crunch here! Was playing around with adding a new firewire
drive to my PowerMac linux system, wouldnt you know a power outage
shows up... as a result I cant boot and I need to be able to get to my
hard drive to edit the mess ups... but I cant eject the CD drive to
throw in knoppix or anything else. When I try to boot I ge tthe yaboot
welcome and can choose to boot l for linux or c for cdrom... i need to
be able to get a disc in that cdrom... PLEASE HELP!!!

THANKS!!!!

Charles Read

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Re: HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM... [ In reply to ]

pylon at gentoo

Feb 22, 2005, 12:38 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1997 views)

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* Charles Read <csu15397@mail.claytonstate.net> [05/02/22 00:00 -0500]:
> In a REAL crunch here! Was playing around with adding a new firewire
> drive to my PowerMac linux system, wouldnt you know a power outage
> shows up... as a result I cant boot and I need to be able to get to my
> hard drive to edit the mess ups... but I cant eject the CD drive to
> throw in knoppix or anything else. When I try to boot I ge tthe yaboot
> welcome and can choose to boot l for linux or c for cdrom... i need to
> be able to get a disc in that cdrom... PLEASE HELP!!!

Hold the Mouse-Button, turn on your computer, hold it until
the CD-ROM opens, put in a Gentoo LiveCD (there is a Knoppix
ppc version out, but don't ask me where you can download
it), reboot again and hold down 'c' this time.

Regards, Lars

Re: HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM... [ In reply to ]

csu15397 at mail

Feb 22, 2005, 6:21 AM

Post #3 of 3 (2004 views)

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THANKS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!

Charles Read
On Feb 22, 2005, at 2:38 AM, Lars Weiler wrote:

> * Charles Read <csu15397@mail.claytonstate.net> [05/02/22 00:00 -0500]:
>> In a REAL crunch here! Was playing around with adding a new firewire
>> drive to my PowerMac linux system, wouldnt you know a power outage
>> shows up... as a result I cant boot and I need to be able to get to my
>> hard drive to edit the mess ups... but I cant eject the CD drive to
>> throw in knoppix or anything else. When I try to boot I ge tthe
>> yaboot
>> welcome and can choose to boot l for linux or c for cdrom... i need to
>> be able to get a disc in that cdrom... PLEASE HELP!!!
>
> Hold the Mouse-Button, turn on your computer, hold it until
> the CD-ROM opens, put in a Gentoo LiveCD (there is a Knoppix
> ppc version out, but don't ask me where you can download
> it), reboot again and hold down 'c' this time.
>
> Regards, Lars

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