Re: HELP!... cant boot and cant open CDROM...

Lars Weiler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Charles Read <[email protected]> [05/02/22 00:00 -0500]:
> In a REAL crunch here!  Was playing around with adding a new firewire 
> drive to my PowerMac linux system, wouldnt you know a power outage 
> shows up... as a result I cant boot and I need to be able to get to my 
> hard drive to edit the mess ups... but I cant eject the CD drive to 
> throw in knoppix or anything else.  When I try to boot I ge tthe yaboot 
> welcome and can choose to boot l for linux or c for cdrom... i need to 
> be able to get a disc in that cdrom... PLEASE HELP!!!

Hold the Mouse-Button, turn on your computer, hold it until
the CD-ROM opens, put in a Gentoo LiveCD (there is a Knoppix
ppc version out, but don't ask me where you can download
it), reboot again and hold down 'c' this time.

Regards, Lars
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