Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?
hello,
exactly the same thing happened to me, and if you know
how to get into the OF then you can change the settings
to boot from floppy, and then you don't need macOS.
but i couldn't do it, i even tried the exact same stuff
as you. since i couldn't see the OF (i even tried
typing blind) and since i couldn't figure out how to
put a another terminal on my machine so that i could see
the OF, i ended up using another macOS disk that i had.
(i had already repartitioned and formatted my original
disk and i had no OS cds). but now i boot through macOS.
here's what you could try:
if you can get a copy of a macOS to install then you
can try to clear the OF settings by taking the cmos
battery out for few minutes. i had to take mine out
for about 15 minutes i think. boot from macOS cd,
install macOS on a smallish partition and then use
bootX to do a dual boot.
disclaimer: this worked for me but i am not very experienced,
someone with experience will answer your question more
knowledgably. :)
you haven't fucked up your machine though. it's easy to
take the battery out and clear the cmos and then you are
just back at the beginning.
good luck
groetjes,
sisi
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:59:21PM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
> I got myself an old PPC8200/120 (same Specs as
> the 7200) and was/am about to install debian
> 2.2r3 on it.
>
> The mac-harddrive is empty. There is no macos
> on it.
>
> As booting from CD did not work I used the hfs-bootdisk
> together with the rootdisk from the ppc-debian-cd to
> install debian.
>
> That part worked well, but when rebooting
> the machine the blank (rom?) screen came up and
> nothing happend. I was able to use the boot/root
> disks again and install again with the same result.
>
> The rescue disk-image from the debian cd did
> not work.
>
> I booted into the debian Install-Menu and changed
> to a shell to do two things of which at
> least one must have fucked my mac up.
>
> I tried a nvsetenv boot-device scsi-int/sd@0:0
> as suggested in some mail I found in an archive
> plus I tried runnig quik manually.
>
> Both measures did not throw an error message
> but I am now unable to see anything when booting
> nothing happens. Neither does it try to boot from
> disk nor displays anything on screen :-(
>
> --
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> of flaming gas.'
> - D. H. Lawrence, British Writer; 1855-1930
>
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