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Re: G4 boot failure

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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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