G4 boot failure

From	David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	G4 boot failure
Date	2014-04-09 06:16 +0000
Organization	NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex
Message-ID	<li2ok2$nsj$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)

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My faithful G4 MDD PowerMac3,6 would not boot. The screen would
start out with a folder, then a happy Mac, then a Slashed
circle.

It did so with 3 bootable volumes in the system: A 10.4 SATA
RAID with PCI controller, a 10.4 PATA raid, and a bootable DVD.

The last thing I did was set the startup disk to the DVD drive.

I did find the PRAM battery dead. But replacing it made things
worse; the machine would not even try to boot. So I removed the
new battery.

It would start into Target mode.

I finally pulled the SATA controller; and low and behold, it
booted off the PATA drive.

After I reset the startup drive, I powered down, reinstalled
the SATA controller, booted again and reset the startup to
there. Then I put in the new battery.

One issue appears to be the Open Firmware was NOT recognizing
the various keyboard commands, i.e. C for CD boot, OPTION for
a choice, PR, OF, etc. But T was, usually. I've seen this before
with non-apple keyboards, and used to keep an original Bondi
Blue one around for this reason. Now I can't find same, Grrr.

But does anyone know why it would not seek out a bootable drive,
when it didn't like the DVD?





-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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G4 boot failure David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2014-04-09 06:16 +0000
  Re: G4 boot failure J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-09 12:49 -0400
    Re: G4 boot failure J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-09 12:53 -0400
    Re: G4 boot failure David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2014-04-11 19:30 +0000
  Re: G4 boot failure J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-12 07:52 -0400
    Re: G4 boot failure David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2014-04-21 02:30 +0000

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