Subject: Re: BIG trouble - system hosed
From: Malayil Philip George (georgemp@mac.com)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 11:32:26 MDT
try zapping your pram....hold down command-opt-p-r at startup...let it
chime a couple of times. then try restarting again.
George
On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 09:49 PM, Bob Patton wrote:
> 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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