Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?
yea, i forgot about that pram zapping. but it never worked for me
at all. it's a better way though if it works :)
grts,
sisi
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> um, something that people informed me about when I hosed my system
> was that you can boot the system holding down the cmd-opt-P-R keys,
> and it will reset the nvram to the defaults so you can start all
> over again trying to get it to boot with OF/quik. When this
> actually works (sometimes it takes a couple of tries) my machine did
> the chimes twice. my advice is after you reset the nvram, read the
> man page for nvsetenv and for quik before doing anything precipitous
> like changing your boot-device. it helps to find out for sure what
> the disk device is to use. like, is your hard drive set to scsi id
> 0 for sure, and like that. if you can get into the OF, check your
> aliases to make sure that you have a scsi-int alias, and that it
> points to the right scsi bus that your disk is on. My 8500 has two
> scsi controllers, and they both have a connector on the motherboard,
> but only one is attached to the external connector.
>
> a
>
> sisi wrote:
> >
> > 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 :-(
> > >
> > > --
> > > 'Whatever the sun may be, it is certainly not a ball
> > > of flaming gas.'
> > > - D. H. Lawrence, British Writer; 1855-1930
> > >
> > >
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