On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:59:20AM -0600, Mack Allison wrote: > I got ready to Install woody on my 4400, made some floppies, set my mac > to boot from floppy. . . no go...it found the floppy, started to boot > it, showed a little penguin on the screen, then stopped with a big red X > over tux :(. > > No big surprise that my first floppy didn't work, but now the trouble > is...it won't boot from anything else! I expected that if it was set to > boot from floppy, and no floppy was in the drive it would boot from HD, > like it does with CD. Nopers....it just waits patiently for the floppy > disk. Of course, it's not like there a MacOS system floppy for 8.1 > laying around. > > I try to go to Open Firmware, and force it to boot from HD or CD, but > when I press the magical 4 keys (c'mon, guys, four?) the video signal > dies (at least thats usually what makes the monitor go to sleep like > that.) I suppose it could be dropping to serial? > > What do I do now?
Yes, likely you're right. Perhaps you have a bad floppy disk... anyway, to restore booting to MacOS, try Cmd-Opt-PR to clear the parameter RAM. You have to hold it until you hear the second chime. You should also still be able to boot from CD, if you hold the C key. Then use the Startup Disk control panel to set the startup back to the hard disk. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
