Subject: Re: 5500 Blank video bootx
From: Simon Troup (simon.troup@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 09:32:41 MST
>>> Trying to install YDL 2.0 on 5500/225 (built in monitor). When bootx prompts
>>> for OS no matter what I select I get a blank screen. I searched the archives
>>> and the question has been raised a number of times but there are no answers
>>> to the problem. Can anyone help?
>> I've just been reading a little more and it seems that BootX can't be used
>> with anything after OS 9.0.0 and I have 9.1 on the powermac 5500, so perhaps
>> that is the problem.
>>
>> Is there an alternative as I don't have OS 9.0.0 or anything earlier?
>>
>> In fact, I don't need MacOS running on that machine at all.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ST
>>
> I have never read that ... but I do have BootX starting YDL2.1 on an
> 8600-300 running 9.1!
>
> Maybe the 5500 is a special case ....
>
> -ms
I read that (bootX not working on post OS9.0) on the Suse site. Maybe that's
wrong, I'm not sure I'm ever going to get this thing working. It must surely
be a 5500 specific problem then, and besides, I have an identical problem to
others who wrote to the list, no-one replied to those questions though.
Regards
ST
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