Re: Messed up PowerMac 7200/90

[James Nord <teilo@teilo.net>]

James Nord wrote:

> Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I inheritted a PowerMac today - no OS and set about installing 
> > > Debian on it.
> > > Booted from floppies and installed from NFS.
> > I sounds like it might be crashing in Open Firmware. To see on the 
> > 7200, you
> > would need to hook up to another computer's serial port through the 
> > Mac's
> > modem port and watch in a terminal program while the mac boots.
> Thanks all,  I eventually found a working serial cable and then 
> managed to boot from the testing boot floppy.
>
> I decided to install testing but a lot of packages had errors in them 
> so I decided to revert to stable.
>
> So, I reset the boot-device (floppy) and rebooted.  Erm wrong boot 
> device...
>
> And now I can't get into OpenFirmware with Ctrl+Option+P+R or 
> Ctrl+Option+O+F
> All I see over the serial connection is "can't OPEN: blah"
> Tried with two different keyboards with no result.
> Is there any other way to reset the firmware battery backup etc..?


Never mind I'm feeling brain dead today..

Command+Option+p+r...

;-)

/James