Re: OpenFirmware: ROM checksum failure!


Subject: Re: OpenFirmware: ROM checksum failure!
From: Tommy Young (tommyyoung@mac.com)
Date: Sun Aug 20 2000 - 15:26:31 MDT


how many times did you let it chime after zapping it?

> From: Christopher Cianci <cianci@tiger.cc.oxy.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: OpenFirmware: ROM checksum failure!
>
> Yes, and the only noticable differance is that the OpenFirmware prompt now
> displays at a lower resolution (larger type). Good thought, though, it was
> one of my first also.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- chris --
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Tommy Young wrote:
>
>> did you try zapping the pram?
>>
>>> From: Christopher Cianci <cianci@tiger.cc.oxy.edu>
>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>>> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:24:01 -0700 (PDT)
>>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>>> Subject: OpenFirmware: ROM checksum failure!
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is my first time asking a question of a list, but I am desperate. I
>>> attempted to install YDL on a blue/white G3, and failed, but hosed my
>>> partition map in the process -- the machine now refuses to boot from even
>>> a cd (YDL or MacOS), but rather dumps me into the OpenFirmware 3.1.1.
>>>
>>> If I could find documentation for this "New World" (no pun intended), I am
>>> sure that it must not be that difficult to re-instate the proper ROM.
>>> However, I am currently at a loss. Any help that anyone can offer would be
>>> greatly appreciated. At this point I would rejoice just to get it back the
>>> way it was.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> -- chris --
>>>
>>
>



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