It's Powerbook5,6 (G4 1.67 GHz 15"). No, I haven't tried resetting PRAM, how should I do that? Good news is I got Sid back doing apt-get dist-upgrade today in chroot in lenny.
2011/5/29 Thomas Carlson <tcarl...@sharedcup.com>: > 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 > > -- 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/BANLkTik7_W-ttNGpP0gAfRc=nek8_nw...@mail.gmail.com
