Re: Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?
- To: Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>
- Cc: "matt-land.com" <admin@host.freeprofessionalhosting.com>, Rick_Thomas <rbthomas@rcthomas.org>, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?
- From: Ralf Schlatterbeck <ralf@zoo.priv.at>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:26:29 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 2CF31E64-BD5D-11D8-8A9B-0003936FABA0@pobox.com>; from rbthomas55@pobox.com on Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:14:49PM -0400
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On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:14:49PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the
> Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys
> down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should
> boot normally from floppy.
>
> Rick
>
> On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 05:51 AM, matt-land.com wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> >
> > It seems I have one of those non-bootable machines you speak of. After
> > the installer (v3.0) finished, the machine never booted. Booting
> > from a
> > floppy nolonger works either. Any way I can boot from a floppy?
Yes, I had the same issue with one of the machines which had some
environment variables changed in the open firmware. cmd-opt-P-R fixed it
(you will have to boot from floppy and re-run the quik setup).
Ralf
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