Brad Boyer wrote:
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.
One problem may be that the primary (i.e. built-in) display adapter on this box failed a couple of years ago. We've been using the PCI video board ever since (at least until my wife decided she'd had enough of Macs and got a Windows laptop. Yeah, I know, I tried to tell her....). So a normal MacOS boot on this box goes something like this:
- Turn on the power - Listen to chime - Watch pretty blank screen for about a minute. Monitor shows "No sync".- Then admire nice grey screen, which eventually shows a nice MacOS logo and boot proceeds normally.
When I press cmd-opt-o-f (should I do this with power off and turn the box on while holding them down, or can I do it a bit later? If so, how long do you get to do it?), I get the same sequence as that above. It may, of course, be trying to display the OF console on the primary adapter, but I have no way of telling. How do I set OF's input and output devices?
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