On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:58:44AM +0000, Rob Andrews wrote: > In newsgate.debian.powerpc, Ethan Benson wrote: > > i hope your warrentee has not yet expired, because your bootrom has > > probably been destroyed. see the netbsd FAQ: > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#ofw-bugs > > Aye, that's what I'd read. Thus bringing the sudden, painful realisation to > my head.
sucks doesn't it :( > > your only chance is to try and boot the backup rom, to do this > > shutdown, and boot while holding down the interupt switch, keep > > holding it down for a long time and if it works you should get a OF > > prompt where you can run set-defaults. > > 'kay... the interrupt switch - is this the thing defined as "reset button" > on Apple's website? The little button just above the power switch on the > iBook? its not the reset switch, its usually next to it. the reset switch usually is labeled with a triangle symbol. the interupt (or sometimes called the programmers switch or NMI switch) has a -\/- symbol inside a circle. > Are most Apple's supplied with backup ROMs? the newworlds apparently have some sort of fallback or backup which is access this way. this is not documented. i was able to bring my blue g3 back to life using this method when i entered a command into the nvramrc that stopped OF from probing for devices. (again nvramrc on newworld == Bad Thing. the yaboot-faq is going to get a warning added to it soon about this) > Warranty's gone, which is a shame. It ended just before the hard disk died, > and I had to replace it. > > I'll try this when I get home, thanks for the advice! good luck -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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