On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 20:28:29 -0800, Brent Miller composed: > A friend of mine just gave me an old Power Computing PowerWave 604|120 > that he had lying around, and not being much of a mac person, I decided > to throw debian on there as I haven't yet played with linux on a mac > before. The installation went smoothly and was able to get it up no > problem, upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18 and that went smooth as well, but > I tried passing a boot parameter to the kernel by changing quik.conf > around and now the thing won't boot. > > When I turn the machine on now I get the mac "Daaaa" but nothing after > that. No sad mac, no floppy icon with a question mark, no error messages > from quik or the kernel, nothing. The monitor doesn't even come out of > standby mode. I was hoping that I would just be able to boot from the > debian installation floppies and change quik.conf back to normal, but > the computer dosen't even seem to check the floppy dive for a bootable > disk at startup. It won't even let me boot from the original mac os > cdrom when pressing the "c" key at startup. > > Is there a way to make the system bootable again? As it may be obvious > by now, my experience with macs is pretty limited so I'm sorry if > there's just a common key sequence that just needs to be pressed at > startup or something like that. (I did search this list's archive and > google but I didn't come up with anything useful.) > > Thanks, > Brent > try option-command-p-r, resets the parameter ram. do that right before the bong starts, and wait til it bongs 3 times, and have the hfs boot floppy ready to insert.
go to vt2 in the installer, and edit quik.conf appropriately. double-check it. run "make system bootable" from installer. you may need to change quik.conf again later, and re-run quik, but the important thing is to get you booting. and don't insert whatever made it screw up again, hehe. read man quik and related docs. in a nutshell (pardon pun). simon > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ._________________________________________________________________. |UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.| |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://www.nuit.ca/ | | `. `' | simon-AT-nuit.ca | | `- | PGP key: 3744 810B 50F5 187E | :-----------------------------------------------------------------:
