Thanks. Already tried making another CD, and it only happens with Panther. I even borrowed our disks from work. I ordered memory. Something tells me that's the answer.
I have this graphite rev.1 clamshell iBook. It will not boot from my factory standalone Panther CD. It mounts & reads it, but won't start up from it. The flashing '?' folder blinks a few times, then it starts from 9.
I have:
initialized & clean installed 9.2.2 - updated firmware - reset PMU...