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Performa 5200 + 5260/120 refuse to boot from CD
Posted by: hageir on 2019-07-16 10:08:40 What’s the dealio? I have a HFS formatted Performa 5200 Restore 7 and 7.5 CDs, burnt at slow speed. Neither computer wants to boot from it (four chimes downwards) BUT they both see the CD when I’m in the system (desktop) and I can browse and run the restore app. Holding C and cmd-alt-shift-delete: no dice. Does the SCSI drive only boot from sub-650 MB CDs?
Posted by: hageir on 2019-07-16 14:41:33 edit I guess I was a bit tired, I had the Performa 5200CD System Restore disc, when I should be using the Performa 5200/75 one....... Seems to work, especially when I booted into the old IDE drives’ system and chose CD as the default boot device.
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