Subject: BIG trouble - system hosed
From: Bob Patton (max_patton@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 10:19:33 MDT
I have a very recent installation of YDL2.0 no a beige
G3. Out of curiosity, I unchecked the BootX option
that says something like "Force video settings". I
didn't save the settings.
I booted into runlevel 3 just fine. Did startx just
fine and messed around for a bit on nothing
significant.
Then I tried to reboot the machine to get to the MacOS
via running the command macos as root after exiting
from X. The screen went black like it was supposed to,
I heard the nice little MacOS chime, the tiny light on
the monitor went from yellow to green, but then the
light went back to yellow just a second or two later
and nothing else happened. The screen stayed black -
no further sounds from the hard drive indicating that
it was trying to do anything. Nothing. This is all
happening well before any happy or sad Mac would have
appeared.
So I tried rebooting from the system CD and, to my
great suprise, got the same results. So it does not
appear to be a hard drive failure. Its as if some
firmware setting was changed that hangs the machine
early in the boot process.
Does anyone have any hint as to what could have
happened or what I could do to fix it? I am totally
lost and totally dead in the water.
Regards,
Bob Patton
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