Boot from installation disk, hold "C" is not working.

Hello,

I have a problem and i would like to ask for helps. I am trying to reinstall a PowerPC G5, as i did before with others Mac I hold the "C" key when the mac restart. This time I did exactly the same but the Mac I am installing is not boot from the installation disk. It just go though to normal.

Any suggestion would be appriciate.

Thanks a lot

Jack

jackdecember said:

Hello,

I have a problem and i would like to ask for helps. I am trying to reinstall a PowerPC G5, as i did before with others Mac I hold the "C" key when the mac restart. This time I did exactly the same but the Mac I am installing is not boot from the installation disk. It just go though to normal.

Any suggestion would be appriciate.

Thanks a lot

Jack

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Which installation disc are you using? The one that originally came with the machine? Or is it one from another system?

the disk i used is Mac OS X Tiger-- Includes Xcode 2 --- Install DVD---Version 10.4.6

I bought it from apple

jackdecember said:

the disk i used is Mac OS X Tiger-- Includes Xcode 2 --- Install DVD---Version 10.4.6

I bought it from apple

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I assume that the drive you've put the disc into is actually a DVD drive, and not a standard CD-ROM or CD-RW drive. Right?

cwa107 said:

I assume that the drive you've put the disc into is actually a DVD drive, and not a standard CD-ROM or CD-RW drive. Right?

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Yes, this is DVD drive. By the way, the disk i got is a retail disk.

any suggestion, please help.

What about if you hold down the Option key instead of C? Does it show the DVD as an option to boot from?

cwa107 said:

What about if you hold down the Option key instead of C? Does it show the DVD as an option to boot from?

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I did, I tried to hold down the option key and what I see is only 1 option of starting from Hdd of the Mac. I am thinking about if the problem is the DVD drive, do you think it is stop working?

I tried also to plug an external DVD drive of my pc to the mac and run from there. I don't know if that is the right way to do but i still get nothing.

Any suggestion please !

You should be able to do it from an external drive as well. In my opinion, it's starting to sound like a bad disc. When you boot the machine and insert the disc, can you read its content?

Well, I am surely the disk is ok because I just used it to install on another mac and it runs pretty good.

I would like to ask you about the external DVD drive. This external DVD drive use USB cable, so is it ok with USB cable or it has to be firewire cable.

Thank you.

jackdecember said:

Well, I am surely the disk is ok because I just used it to install on another mac and it runs pretty good.

I would like to ask you about the external DVD drive. This external DVD drive use USB cable, so is it ok with USB cable or it has to be firewire cable.

Thank you.

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You're on shaky ground here, legally since you've already mentioned you used the disc to install on another machine (it's one license per disc). This forum prohibits discussion of illegal activity, but I will tell you that you can indeed use a USB cabled device for booting from a disc. Is it possible that the disc is for an Intel-based Mac?