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Re: Can no longer boot into Mac OS

Thanks for the help, Chris. Actually, resetting Open Firmware involved more than just holding down Cmd-Opt-P-R at startup. I had to open the machine (no easy task on a PM 9500), remove the pram battery, and leave it all sit for 12 hours or so. After I put everything back together it booted right into my Mac partition. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, though. 

Tom

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 11:18 PM, Chris Tillman wrote:


On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:53:03PM -0700, Thomas Carlson wrote:

I have had some experience with Yellow Dog Linux but wanted to try
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on my old Powermac 9500.  Tried using BootX and
the same partitioning scheme that I use with Yellow Dog.  In the
installation process, however, I managed to set things up so that the
machine will only will boot from the root partition.  Tried disabling
the system by deleting /boot/vmlinux so that I could boot from an
installation floppy or cd and now the machine won't boot at all.  What
do I do to get back to square one so I can boot into Mac OS again?


At the startup chime, hold Cmd-Opt-P-R. That will reset it to boot
into MacOS.

If you want to continue to use BootX, don't choose the menu item in
the installer to make the hard disk bootable. That installs quik,
which on a 9500 gives you no option but Linux, as you saw.

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