Subject: Re: BIG trouble - system hosed
From: JIm Crick (jcrick1@maine.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 08:34:06 MDT
Bob:
this sounds alot like my misadventure trying to get OS X to run on my
starmax-
I'm not entirely sure what the problem is, but from the above experience my
guess is that it has to do w/ some non-volitile ram settings-
what I had to do was open up the case and hit the system reset button-
I'd try a pram zap first, though (hold down command-option-p-r keys until
you hear the second chime)-
if no luck, the reset on the motherboard should work- hold it down for 30
secs or so
if still stuck, you may have to go so far as to unplug the motherboard
battery for a few hours, then plug it back in and then try the system reset
button-
These steps do actually work on older systems, at least- good luck!
Jim Crick
>
> 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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