Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy
- To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy
- From: Mack Allison <mallison@linux-support.net>
- Date: 06 Mar 2002 18:56:21 -0600
- Message-id: <1015462582.7593.41.camel@suid>
- In-reply-to: <20020306155243.F10505@pentangle>
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Cool, I thought there was some sort of PRAM reset, but couldn't 'member
what it was. Hopefully, that will bring my mac back to life enough to
mess it up again. :) guess I gotta make more more boot floppies..or try
that apple floppy/bootX/boot the debian cd thing.
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 14:52, simon wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:59:20 Mack Allison wrote:
>
> >
> > I try to go to Open Firmware, and force it to boot from HD or CD, but
> > when I press the magical 4 keys (c'mon, guys, four?) the video signal
> > dies (at least thats usually what makes the monitor go to sleep like
> > that.) I suppose it could be dropping to serial?
> >
> > What do I do now?
>
> You need to PRAM zap CMD-OPT(could be shift)-P-R,. I did that once. BIG
> mistake. I had the same problem you did, and I remembered that if
> something like that happens, you need to zap the PRAM.
>
> eric
>
>
>
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