Re: iMac/quik booting problem
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:11:13PM -0400, Matt Kraai wrote:
> But my real problem is that I can't boot very well anymore. When I soft
> reset the machine, it hangs. When I try a hard reset, it gives me an
> image of a floppy with a blinking question mark. I can boot using the
> restore CD, use Drive Setup to mount the drives, and then use BootX
> to get into Linux, but I can't load the extensions so I can't use most
> of the existing MacOS stuff. This occured after I booted Debian for the
> first time. The only thing that I can think of is that quik somehow
> broke the boot sequence, since it ran at this point.
>
> If anyone has heard of or encountered this problem before, I'd really
> appreciate any advice you might be able to give me.
Where in boot does it hang if you reset?
And are you trying to boot into macos or into linux at startup? Sounds
like your Open Firmware settings decided to take the day off.
Dan
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| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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