Using burned DVD+R DL as a startup disk on a DVD/CD-RW drive

I am trying to boot up my iMac G5 (which has a DVD/CD-RW drive, can read DVDs and CDs, burn CDs only) from a DVD+R DL homemade startup disk that I burned on my other Mac that has a Superdrive.
The iMac can read the DVD+R DL disk fine, and I can select it as the startup disk in the Startup Disk System Prefs.
But when it restarts with the DVD as the startup disk, it hangs on the gray screen with the apple icon in the center. The fan then revs up to top speed (very noisy) and nothing happens. I then have to manually shutdown and hold down the mouse button to eject the DVD.
Does anyone know if this is an issue with the iMac's CD-RW drive?

Hi Baby Boomer,
Sorry, but I just cannot take my computer in without wiping it first.
It's got my entire life on it. No way. I must do the zeroing out first.
Well I tried to boot from a few other DVDs that I thought should work.
I tried the Apple Tiger X.4 Install DVD, but this didn't work giving me a gray screen with a circle/slashed icon in the middle.
When I found the Install DVD that came with this computer I noted it had X.4.2 as the basis (sort of possibly explains why X.4 wouldn't work), and the disk booted just fine.
I imagine the problem is with Alsoft Universal Disk Warrior Boot Disk not being compatible. However Alsoft will not admit to that, nor will they send me a newer or even a replacement CD! I asked.
I doubt very much that calling Apple could possibly help me here.
Sigh. There sure have been a lot more waves in the turbulent sea of software change this past 6 month. I need some dramamine.
Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

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