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Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks
Date 2014-01-30 02:57 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-01-30, Juan I  Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Since the old days of Snow Leopard, I have never tried again to boot my
> MacBookPro from a CD. I didn't had any problem at that time, but now, I
> cannot do it again. Simply, when I press the "alt" key when I start my
> computer, it presents me all the alternatives to boot from the hard disk,
> but any from my USB connected external CD player/recorder. 
>
> Any hint?

I take it you actually mean DVD, right?

I also take it you have verified that CD/DVDs placed into the device do
mount on the desktop while you are booted up?

What DVD are you using?

Is it possible whatever DVD you are using isn't bootable, for some reason?

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How to boot from a CD under Mavericks Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-29 18:36 -0600
  Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-30 02:57 +0000
    Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-30 00:38 -0800
      Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-30 13:49 -0500
    Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-30 07:18 -0600
      Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-30 14:36 +0000
      Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-30 15:02 +0000
  Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-29 23:18 -0500
    Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-30 07:18 -0600
      Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-30 13:49 -0500

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