Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:41:55PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote:
> It does look like I have a lot to learn with these things,
> though. And I thought alphas were hard! For one thing, I don't seem to
> be able to get into Open Firmware on bootup, even when I press
> cmd-option-o-f like the book says. Should I? Of course, this machine
> may be a special case since I'm reduced to using the PCI video card,
> since the on-board video adaptor failed long ago. It has worked well
> with MacOS, though.
What does it do when you try cmd-opt-o-f? Have you explicitly set the
output-device and input-device? OF is pretty dumb about auto-detecting
which devices you want to use for your console. Early models defaulted
to using the serial ports, but most G3 based models default to using
ADB keyboard and built-in video, if possible.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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