Need help booting from a CD

I wanted to run Norton Utilities to see what shape my Mac is in, but I could not boot from the CD (by holding down the "C" key at startup). I've also tried changing the designated startup disk (under "System Preferences" to the Norton Disk (after having the Norton Disk in the computer), but again it won't recognize any other operating system other than the one on the hard drive. And I've tried this same procedure with another copy of Norton Utilities to confirm that this is not a faulty Norton disk.
So then I decided to try and run disk first aid from my MAC OS X install disk, but here again the computer would not startup from the MAC OS X disk.
Any idea why I cannot get this computer to boot from a CD? (and no - the "c" key on my keyboard works just fine!).
-Frustrated.

Hi PMAC MD;
I would STRONGLY suggest that you do NOT run Norton on your Mac.
Norton is not compatible with OS X. It is known to do more harm then good.
Allan

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hi Moh27,
Thanks for Using Lenovo community Forums!
Inside BIOS under boot tab you will find there UEFI Boot you will need to disable that
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Need help recovering from glibc upgrade [SOLVED]

I recently did pacman -Syu on a system because I was having trouble with a softphone utility. I installed Arch on this laptop perhaps 6 months ago and have not done many upgrades since that time. Of course I've been waylaid by the recent glibc changes and I'm trying to recover. I think I've gotten a good deal of the way there by researching the issue and attempting a few solutions. But I'm quite confused by what I'm now seeing, so I want to ask for help here.
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/lib/libnsl-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libcidn-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/librt.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_nis.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
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/lib/libcrypt.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_db.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libutil-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
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/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
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/lib/libnss_nis-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
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/lib/libnss_compat-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libnss_compat.so.2 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libmemusage.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libm.so.6 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libresolv-2.16.so is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
/lib/libutil.so.1 is owned by glibc 2.16.0-1
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Can anyone please offer input on what might be going on with this system? And perhaps offer suggestions for straightening out the mess?
Thanks,
James
Last edited by jamtat (2012-11-02 23:55:10)

Ok. So I'm officially dumb--in case that wasn't already apparent. I thought I'd tried upgrading glibc after I'd deleted the symlink to /usr/lib/modules (I deleted it a couple of times). But I was apparently wrong: after just now deleting it upon reading your post, I see that the upgrade has worked and that the system reboots into its former normal state. So. it looks like it's fixed and like this thread can be marked solved. Still I'm curious: will mkinitcpio continue looking for modules in /lib?
Thanks,
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Last edited by jamtat (2012-11-03 16:22:09)

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