From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:28:19 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: firewire screwup Message-ID: <20010829152819.U28241@plato.local.lan> References: <15244.11337.823289.698210@titan.metzler> <15244.47416.198967.661158@titan.metzler> <20010829041634.M28241@plato.local.lan> <15245.5095.262375.114791@titan.metzler> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yT5CehYOm/p2z10t" In-Reply-To: <15245.5095.262375.114791@titan.metzler>; from mocm@convergence.de on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:10:15PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --yT5CehYOm/p2z10t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 06:10:15PM +0200, Marcus O.C. Metzler wrote: >=20 > Ethan Benson writes: > > > > i did something like that once as well, removing the battery did me no > > good whatsoever. only entering the backup OpenFirmware image worked > > and allowed me to reset the nvram. > > >=20 > So, how do I do that? boot while holding the interupt switch, in the same manner as if you were performing a firmware upgrade, except keep it down even after the long tone is heard, after a certain ammount of time you can i think press command option p r (to reset the nvram) or command option o f to enter OF. im not sure of the details, when i did it had a black screen after the tone, i pressed command option p r and it immediatly rebooted and all was fine after that. previously no keyboard input was accepted at all, all i had was a startup tone, black screen and nothing. =20 --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --yT5CehYOm/p2z10t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline --yT5CehYOm/p2z10t-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/