What kind of a Mac is this? I'm assuming its a Powerbook or iBook of some sort as you can remove the battery. Have you tried resetting the PRAM?
Tom On May 29, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > 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 > > -- 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/839d8564-2e17-43a9-9c21-2982966d9...@sharedcup.com
