[suluben]

Hi

Is it true that to install the Mac OS X I need to have an Apple CD-ROM drive?

I've bought one used iMac 333 (6GB disk and 160MB RAM) with the CD-ROM broke and it has the 8.6 OS. I've changed the CD-ROM to a laptop ATAPI PC CD-ROM that reads perfectly the Mac CDs but when it needs to boot from the CD, it refuses and starts always from disk.
I've tried everything (pressing 'c' on boot, reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all, inclusively I've add a slave IDE conventional 24X CD-ROM that again, reads the CDs but still can't boot from them.

Any sugestions or is again an Apple hardware fidelity protection?

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sulu

[bradoesch]

I can't boot from my FireWire CD-RW drive except for installing OS X. I have to run the Installer and click 'restart' in order for the computer to boot from the FireWire drive. If I press 'c' or hold Option at startup, even selecting the disc in the Startup Disk control panel or Preference Pane does nothing. Maybe it'll work for you too.

[suluben]

I forgot to tell that I've tried to run the installer first and it gives me the error:
"An Error Occured. Startup Disk was unable to select the install CD as the startup disk"

[slider]

I have been able to start up from the Mac OS X cd using a MCEtech internal CDRW which I installed.

[suluben]

Yeah but MCEtech CDRWs are built for Apple computers. I'm talking about ordinary PC laptop CD-ROMs.

Originally posted by slider:
I have been able to start up from the Mac OS X cd using a MCEtech internal CDRW which I installed.