On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:00:27AM -0500, Melissa Reid wrote: > No, I haven't seen anything about this on the list, and I can't > find anything in the mailing list archives either. > > I have a G4 AGP Powermac; I downloaded the first binary powerpc > image, and the MD5 checksum matches; I burned it to disk with > Toast with no errors reported. When I boot off this CD, I get a > gray screen for a long time; I can hear the DVD chug a bit at the > beginning, then nothing. After a while, the screen flashes black > for an instant, then white, then my monitor goes black and says > "Frequency over range". On the 2.2r2 disks, there was a yaboot > prompt where I could tell it "video=ofonly"; I think that may be > that black flash on this sequence. > > How the hell do I boot off this thing? Any ideas, or do I have to > use this CD for a coaster and go back to 2.2r2 again? 2 options: 1) burn potato r3 CDs, they will boot correcty. 2) boot the CD manually from OpenFirmware. note that Apple officially forbids its users from entering an OpenFirmare prompt ;-) if you don't mind ignoring them the command is: boot cd:,\\yaboot -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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