From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marcus O.C. Metzler" Message-ID: <15244.47416.198967.661158@titan.metzler> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:43:20 +0200 (MEST) To: "Timothy A. Seufert" Cc: , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: firewire screwup In-Reply-To: References: <15244.11337.823289.698210@titan.metzler> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Timothy A. Seufert writes: > > I think you may have corrupted nonvolatile memory. Try doing a > complete PRAM wipe: turn the computer on while holding Cmd+Opt+P+R > and let it do several reboot / PRAM wipe cycles in a row. Five or > six is probably enough. (The first PRAM wipe doesn't clear > everything. The firmware watches to see if you do several in a row > and will do successively more thorough resets on each iteration.) > -- > Tim Seufert > I tried 6 cycles of the PRAM wipe, but still get the SELFID Timeout in open firmware and no boot of any MacOs. I also tried disconnecting the power and taking out the battery, still the same problem. Maybe I should mention that I have flashed the latest firmware some time ago, but I didn't have any problems with it, although there had been some reports, but mainly about trouble with memory chips. Marcus -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Marcus Metzler mocm@netcologne.de http://www.metzlerbros.de mocm@convergence.de http://www.convergence.de Convergence Integrated Media GmbH Rosenthaler Str. 51 D-10178 Berlin --------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/