scalar Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 I've got an older Xeon machine here that seems to dislike booting from dvd's, but booting from cd's works fine (posted here). I'm using the XxX installer atm, but the Jas 10.4.8 will be here eventually too (still incoming). I'm wondering how I might go about booting to cd and then installing from the dvd. Ie, some way to boot to the essential files on an image that will fit on cd, then swapping to the dvd and running whatever binaries are necessary to actually execute the installer. Any ideas? Not terribly familiar with darwin but willing to give whatever I need to do a go to get this to work. I'm guessing the machine will probably also not boot to a usb drive btw, so I can only think of using a cd as an interim solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64389-problems-booting-off-of-dvd-need-some-ideas/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalar Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 Any input appreciated. I'm thinking the 2 best options are either to have some form of a darwin boot cd that I can swap for the XxX (or Jas 10.4.8) dvd, or a darwin boot partition on a HD that I can use to access the dvd. I would also need some idea of how to execute the installation script/binary (not sure which it is) once I can access the dvd. Any takers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64389-problems-booting-off-of-dvd-need-some-ideas/#findComment-456117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 so you can't boot any kind of DVD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64389-problems-booting-off-of-dvd-need-some-ideas/#findComment-456150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalar Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 You got it. The bios of this box doesn't seem to be able to recognize/mount any bootable dvd image, linux OSX or DOS. Tried the Nero 'fake floppy' bootable image, a few linux bootable images, etc. The machine will boot to a bootable cd image in the same drive. Also tried a dvd-rom I had lying around and the same results so it isn't the drive. All of the bootable DVD's work fine in my laptop and my other systems here so it's definately the Xeon box. So.....help? I could probably fuss around for a while and get a boot partition or cd with darwin going, but I'd still need to know how to setup the environment to be compatible with the OSX dvd's and what to mount off the dvd and then execute. Any takers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64389-problems-booting-off-of-dvd-need-some-ideas/#findComment-456557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalar Posted September 27, 2007 Author Share Posted September 27, 2007 It turns out that it's user error, in a way. I just haven't had time until today to do any real troubleshooting. Halfway through this 50 dvd spindle and it seems the Sony burner also no longer likes the ink/media in these TDK dvd's. All other machines here can see the burned dvd's fine, but the Sony can't read them, although it can still write to them and verify them (?). It's had no problem seeing any of the DVD's I've burned from this spindle up until this weekend, as I frequently do backups of my work and have to go back and pull up assets constantly. None of the disks that have been previously read work now, they all say empty disc. I ran out and bought a short stack of dvd+r disks that seem to work fine, and now I can boot the OSX image I have. Of course now I'm getting an ACPI error on booting the drive, but at least the fun can finally begin. Hopefully I'll have time this weekend to make some progress. Strange that the Sony burner suddenly decided to stop reading media it's read just fine for the last 3 months. I also don't get why it can verify them then immediately sees them as empty after closing Nero... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64389-problems-booting-off-of-dvd-need-some-ideas/#findComment-457562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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