I used Matthiu's advice plus some help from macrumors.com to get the box working again. Problem now is that dma is crashing and the system goes into a never ending load problem.
Here's what I'd like to do- if the machine ever stops screwing up: have OpenBSD on a small portion of the second disk. It's 320G; 80G should be enough. I don't know the boot path and I am not sure if the bootloader can be dd'ed on a hfs boot partition. Logs from FreeBSD crashes have been saved and I'll try to look at the Linux crash logs. Maybe a hardware error? I don't know. CDRW/DVD would freeze and I'd need to remove the drive and manually eject the disc. On 10/10/10, Sergiu Partenie <pser...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 09.10.2010, at 12:24, Super Bisquit wrote: >> >> I thought that by setting : >> setenv pci-probe-mask=-2 I would be able to use two video cards on a >> powermac g4. >> >> The machine chimes and that's it. >> >> I've tried resetting the PMU. No dice. >> >> Being impatient may have cost me a box. >> Ok, can it be saved? > > Zap PRAM: keep pressing Command+Option+P+R at boot time until it > chimes three times. > All OF variables will be reset to the deault values. > > In a pinch you can also disconnect the internal PRAM battery for 5-10 > minutes.
