Yes, I tried that. Actually my description was imprecise. In fact I got to slashed circle via gray apple trying to boot with alt pressed, whereas in the case of booting as I usually do, by pressing "x", the screen goes black and immediately the same menu with x, c and l appears.
2011/5/29 Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiede...@zonnet.nl>: > Can you boot with the option key (alt) held down ? You should be able to > choose OSX from there... > > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:54 +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> I guess I must have done something utterly stupid, although it escapes >> me when. I can no longer boot OS X. When I press "x" I see gray apple >> for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and >> all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze >> and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. >> During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can still >> mount it fine. Also I did not touch Apple Partition Map and Apple >> Bootstrap partitions and I can see they are where they used to be when >> I do "fdisk /dev/hda". I don't know when I could have screwed things >> up as I was very careful not to write to any Mac OS partitions during >> install. I write Squeeze/Sid installation, as I haven't verified if I >> can boot Mac OS after Squeeze installation (I use it only when I want >> to use Skype), and later I upgraded Squeeze to Sid (which rendered it >> unbootable in turn, but let's leave it for now). Right now I would >> like to find out if it's still possible boot my Mac OS somehow without >> reinstalling everything from scratch. >> >> >> Many thanks for any hints in advance >> >> Piotr >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://okle.pl >> >> > > > -- http://okle.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTikAZi=rsij3yznhfgasmmtxq3+...@mail.gmail.com
