Can't boot from DVD drive

[jfn]

Trying to install 8f1111 from a DVD I just burned onto an SSE3 machine. It's a Dell Dimension 9100 and has two IDE drives - a CDRW drive as master and a DVD-RW drive as slave. The BIOS only gives me an option to boot from "Onboard CDROM drive", which will only boot that master drive. That drive won't read the DVD, and if I disable it in BIOS then it doesn't give me the option to boot from CDROM at all anymore. Since it's not my computer, I don't want to open it to switch master/slave.

 

Any ideas what I can do to boot from the DVD and install OS X? I have a Darwin install CD which has worked for me before, but if I try to boot it normally on this computer it kernel panics.

 

Thanks!

[jfn]

Update: I can boot from the Darwin cd using -f.

 

Now that I'm in a shell from the Darwin cd, can I somehow run the installer program on the DVD?

[Suzuka]

well Im no expert, but for most computers if you press F12 while booting (or right when you turn on your PC) it will give you a boot menu with all bootable devices, it should be under something like CD-Rom Slave

[thrunner]

Any ideas what I can do to boot from the DVD and install OS X? I have a Darwin install CD which has worked for me before, but if I try to boot it normally on this computer it kernel panics.Thanks!

Apparently the Dell setup will not boot from DVD. http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/bo...=en&cs=04&s=bsd

(I HAD ALSO TRIED BOOTING FROM THE MEMOREX DVD DRIVE BUT IT DID NOT WORK CONNECTED

TO THE SLAVE SPOT OR SECONDARY DRIVE ON THE FLAT RIBBON.)

Your alternatively is probably some kind of a VMWARE install if you really don't want to open up the PC and swap the optical drives.

[jfn]

Yeah - I couldn't figure out a way to do it, so I just swapped the drives around. Worked fine, of course, but since it's not my computer I didn't want to take any risk of being blamed for something going wrong.

 

It's a 945 board with SATA that isn't recognized, but there's an extra 20gb on a USB2 Maxtor OneTouch II that I used for OS X. The Radeon x600 supports QE and CI, although a few mouse artifacts are visible.

 

I have a few problems that I'll have to work on, though. Most importantly, the onboard ethernet doesn't work. It's listed in Windows as "Intel PRO/100 VE". OS X doesn't recognize it (grays out "Built-In Ethernet" in the Network prefpane). Also, Darwin reports VESA 2.0 for the graphics card, so it won't let me specify a refresh rate and is stuck at 60Hz, which really annoys my eyes on this CRT. I'll search the forum to try to fix this stuff (but if anyone knows the workarounds, feel free to post!).