Re: iMac/quik booting problem
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:13:05PM -0400, Matt Kraai wrote:
> It plays the startup sound, and I can hear the hard drive spin up for a
> second or two. But the screen stays black the whole time. If I do a hard
> boot, it goes to the screen with the disk and the flashing question mark.
> At least it displays something.
If you have a serial cable available, you could try to see how far into
booting it gets; presumably you wouldn't see anything, though, if quik
is the problem.
> I first used the default quik.conf file, then I backed that up and used
> the quikconfig program to try to make linux bootable, and then tried to
> manually edit it to make it boot to MacOS.
>
> If it is the Open Firmware, do you know how to fix that (or can you point
> me to someone who might)?
Well, I would recommend looking through the FAQ-O-MATIC. I don't
remember the address, but the archive for this list
(http://www.debian.org/ has a link to that) should contain the address.
Dan
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