Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Got to fdisk (or it's Mac equivalent) and set up the partitions. Told > to go ahead, write it already, and it does. > > Then it freezes. That's the fdisk from the Debian installer? I've had reports on kernel crashes on some newer iBooks with mac-fdisk but never from older hardware I'm afraid.

Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-07 Thread Debian User
OK...well, Clearing the PRAM w/ cmd,opt,P,R works, and got the mac running again. I decided to use BootX to get started, and loaded root.bin as ramdisk...np there, I got to the installer. Got to fdisk (or it's Mac equivalent) and set up the partitions. Told to go ahead, write it already, and i

Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-06 Thread Mack Allison
Cool, I thought there was some sort of PRAM reset, but couldn't 'member what it was. Hopefully, that will bring my mac back to life enough to mess it up again. :) guess I gotta make more more boot floppies..or try that apple floppy/bootX/boot the debian cd thing. On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 14:52, si

Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-06 Thread simon
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:59:20 Mack Allison wrote: > > I try to go to Open Firmware, and force it to boot from HD or CD, but > when I press the magical 4 keys (c'mon, guys, four?) the video signal > dies (at least thats usually what makes the monitor go to sleep like > that.) I suppose it could be

Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-06 Thread John Fremlin
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:59:20AM -0600, Mack Allison wrote: [...] > Perhaps you have a bad floppy disk... anyway, to restore booting to MacOS, > try Cmd-Opt-PR to clear the parameter RAM. You have to hold it until you > hear the second chime. > > Y

Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:59:20AM -0600, Mack Allison wrote: > I got ready to Install woody on my 4400, made some floppies, set my mac > to boot from floppy. . . no go...it found the floppy, started to boot > it, showed a little penguin on the screen, then stopped with a big red X > over tux :(. >

PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

2002-03-05 Thread Mack Allison
I got ready to Install woody on my 4400, made some floppies, set my mac to boot from floppy. . . no go...it found the floppy, started to boot it, showed a little penguin on the screen, then stopped with a big red X over tux :(. No big surprise that my first floppy didn't work, but now the trouble