can't open cd-rom drive to boot from cd

Hello--

My G5 was improperly shut down and now is frozen on boot-up (hangs on Waiting
for Application Services"). Holding down the option key while I boot brings
me the startup manager screen with the circle-arrow, straight arrow, and
picture of hard drive in between. Apple Support docs tell me that from this
point I can cmd-period to kick open the cd-rom drive, but I can't get that to
happen. It just doesn't open.

I'm on 10.2.x, Jaguar.

I'm really stuck! Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

--Letitia Carper Long

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Received on Mon Nov 17 11:59:01 2003