Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy
OK...well, Clearing the PRAM w/ cmd,opt,P,R works, and got the mac
running again. I decided to use BootX to get started, and loaded
root.bin as ramdisk...np there, I got to the installer.
Got to fdisk (or it's Mac equivalent) and set up the partitions. Told
to go ahead, write it already, and it does.
Then it freezes.
So I reinstall MacOS (I was really hoping to get through this in one
shot and install quik, and come out with one partition. I begged to be
smitten for my confidence.) Put it on a 200 Mb partition, and boot it
up....and....my ethernet card has spontaniously died.
And I do mean hardware dead, I think, unless I've done something really
strange. No link lights on any port on the switch...tried cables, tried
hooking the Mac straight to the cable modem and DHCP. Nothing.
Does anyone have any other ideas what I might have done? The NIC was
happy until I ran the debian installer, now it's dead to the world.
Seems like a red herring to me, and the nic just died, but perhaps
there's another explanation, or a good way to check. Else poor Pmac
goes in the pile of machines for which 10base connections cost more than
thier worth, I'm afraid :(
BTW, the NIC is a funny critter attached to a wierd slot on the PCI
riser card. It is detected by Linux kernel as a 3c59x. Of course, I
haven't been able to boot into linux since it dies, as I wiped BootX and
related files on the first go round...didn't seem so irreplaceable at
the time.
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