Can't boot YDL on IMac

[1***@addisonglass.com]

Recently I purchased a 333 iMac with no OS installed. Not a problem,
I found and installed my restore CDs. Needless to say OS 8.1 ain't
what I remembered from years ago.

Running Slackware on my x86 laptop, I thought I had seen a PPC version
and there is: Slackintosh. However it is not currently a running
project. So I downloaded YDL 3.0.1 to my new iMac running OSX v.
10.3.5. Checked the MD5 sums and they all checked out fine.

I burned the CD set and thought that all I needed to do was boot up my
Candy iMac and install.

The old mac will not boot from the CD. Yes I am holding "C" down
while booting.

The install 2 and 3 disks that contain the RPM packages are read by
the old mac however the install 1 cd puts up an error when trying to
mount:

"This disk is unreadable by this computer. Do you want to Initialize?"

last night it was wanting to format the disk with "ProDOS"
today it is reading the disk differantly I suppose It want to
initialize as "Mac OS extended 622"

Now obviously it can not be initialized, but why is it not being read?

I have reset the PRAM and now am at a loss. Did I miss somthing while
burning the CD. I have burned many CD from my new mac that boot all
sorts of x86 machines.

Thanks
STU

[1***@addisonglass.com]

Hardware:

RAM 32 (512 on the way)
HD 20G
333MHz
Strawberry tray loader
OS 8.5

Upon further research:
-It looks as if I can not boot from any CD other than an Apple OS
without first updating the ROM.
-The ROM can not be updated from any OS less than 9

Is this correct?

Thanks
STU

[Bryan Frechette]

Post by 1***@addisonglass.com
RAM 32 (512 on the way)
HD 20G
333MHz
Strawberry tray loader
OS 8.5
-It looks as if I can not boot from any CD other than an Apple OS
without first updating the ROM.
-The ROM can not be updated from any OS less than 9
Is this correct?
Thanks
STU

Zap your pram, and nvram, it will work after