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Re: How to boot from a CD under Mavericks

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On 2014-01-30, Juan I  Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Dear Jolly & friends:
>
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> It is the same DVD of a Paragon Partition Manager I used in the Snow
> Leopard times. And the media is good, because I booted it in a Windows PC
> without any problem. 
>
> Also I tried to boot a Vista Recovery DVD in my Mac, only to check if it
> could boot, with the same negative results. 
>
> It seems that Mavericks installation changed something there. 

Can you get any other (preferably Mac install) DVDs to boot this machine
now?

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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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