The struggle goes on. As far as I can tell it is impossible to get the Mac to boot from the OS X disc I have. Whether that’s because it’s not a bootable disc (it was toasted straight from the .img, so that shouldn’t be it), or if it’s something else that I’m missing, I don’t know.
I’m getting my hands on another image of OS X, but these things take tiiime.
Update:
Do you really have to boot from the disc to install it?
It seems that way. I’m not very knowledgable about Macs of course, but there’s a bunch of files on the disc, and they all lead to a dialog with a “restart” button…
Is there any other way of doing it that you know of? Something more manual?
I dunno, you should ask some people on a Mac forum or on IRC (ie. #macintosh on Dalnet).
I think I know why. It’s because the .img has to burned in a specific way. It’s a long story, but I’m downloading the image now…