Insert the disc. Reboot. Hold down 'C' after the chime.
The iBook is not recognising the format of the CD. Is this a commercially produced CD, or one made at home? If it is a homemade CD, it might have been made on a Windows computer and not formated for all computers.
The most thorough way of testing your RAM would be using a boot-up memory test (unless your computer has a built-in RAM test in its BIOS, which can be accessed by pushing F1 or F2 when the computer first turns on). Here's a link to an iso image you can burn to a CD. After burning it, you would boot the computer from the CD. If it doesn't boot from the CD, you might need to change your boot order from the bios. Set the CD drive as the primary boot location and if it still isn't booting from the CD, you may not have burned it correctly. http://www.memtest86.com/download.HTML
For maximum reliability and portability, it is recommended that you burn a bootable CD at the lowest speed possible. Unlike an audio CD, an error on a boot disc might make the whole thing unusable. Also, some older computers may not be able to read discs burned at a faster rate correctly.
Because, you didn't choose the CD drive like a bootable, or the CD disk is not bootable.
use to boot up the unit from the cd/dvd drive rather than the HD.
The Ultimate Boot CD website consists of a download to the Ultimate Boot CD software, a forum, and a wiki. The download's purpose and features are listed on the page.
The most obvious reason is because you burned the CD incorrectly.
i burned the CD
First thing is, the CD has to be a 'Bootable CD'.Change the 'First/Primary boot device' in the bios setting to 'CD ROM'. Ususally it will be floppy disk, by default. Insert the bootable CD into the CD drive. That's it!!
You can and it will load but it will tell you that there is an error because the CD is meant for Dell only. You will need an E-Machine CD to boot or have some sort of Hirens Boot CD which can be downloaded for free by Googling it by name
There's no way you can install the CD / DVD drive from a Dell laptop in an iBook. The hard drive should be possible, as long as they are both IDE drives.
A CD-ROM drive is not needed to boot the computer. Just put the hard drive first in the boot order in the BIOS.