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| From | J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: G4 boot failure |
| Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:52:41 -0400 |
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On 4/9/14, 2:16 AM, David Lesher wrote: > 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? > > I think you'd get a flashing, broken folder if it couldn't find a bootable drive. I think the slashed circle means trouble with boot.efi. One thing boot.efi does is load drivers. I wonder if it was on a wild goose chase for SATA software.
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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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