Re: Can no longer boot into Mac OS

[Nathan Sprangers <farruinn@hotpop.com>]

Thomas Carlson wrote:
> Thanks for the help, Chris.  Actually, resetting Open Firmware involved 
> more than just holding down Cmd-Opt-P-R at startup.  I had to open the 
> machine (no easy task on a PM 9500), remove the pram battery, and leave 
> it all sit for 12 hours or so.  After I put everything back together it 
> booted right into my Mac partition.  Thanks for pointing me in the right 
> direction, though.
>
> Tom

May I ask why it had to sit for 12 hours?  I would have thought that 
holding down cmd-opt-p-r through three chimes would be sufficient.