Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feed.news.qwest.net!mpls-nntp-02.inet.qwest.net!132.250.1.121.MISMATCH!ra.nrl.navy.mil!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!wb8foz From: David Lesher Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: G4 boot failure Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 06:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Lines: 40 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1397024194 24467 166.84.1.5 (9 Apr 2014 06:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 06:16:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:58420 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