hello, very sorry you are having so much trouble, glad you are persistent, hope i have not made it any worse.
here are things i have used in past with my pismo to reset: a) hold down the power key for about 30 seconds until you hear a long beep. b) press and hold the reset button on the back for (not sure exactly) about the same amount of time. c) restarting the computer, push down all the keys command-option-p-r, hold until you hear chime second time, this is called resetting pram. d) using a free software tool in os9 which also clears pram, called tech tool. although i don't recall having black screen with pismo i have had it with some older macs and it was the firmware settings corrupted, the other things i used there were "apple system disk" and "xpostfacto". i have not tried either of these with pismo, i cannot say if they would help or make things worse. they do work with os9. another thing to try is take out the battery, disconnect ac power and let it sit overnight (or longer). reset the date in mac os afterwards. you did check all those other things ? especially, mac os does mount the cd and you can go look, you see a folder with a mac icon on it that is meaning the cd is bootable ? (the buttons you see when you held down option key they are not to be trusted as OK for the cd). you have *some* bootable mac cd you test your cd, with it ? (like i said you should have one before you erase your disk...) to check your ram there was a utility on the mac on linux site, i am not sure it catches all problems but it might some. i believe that not all pc-100 ram is 100% compatible there ... other ideas i don't know really much about: your friend knows a lot about debian/linux, you might be able to get a network boot from his machine. --- Florian Znottka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning! > I worked on this problem the hole weekend, so > it seems to be a problem with the powerbook itself, > because I used 5 different CD (3.0, 3.1, ubuntu, > etc.) > from a friend. He burned it with a plextor premium > - > so it can't be the fault of the cds. > > I don't know, what to do next! > > > black screen sounds funny, if you have still > > problem after trying all of the above, if it still > > does that you may have to reset the open firmware > > "screen" variable (like pcs bios, sort of). well > > others here can probably advise better than me, > > i never have had that problem ( i have some idea > > what to do but its your machine not mine ). but > the > > greatest chance it seems is you have a bad cd, > > somehow or other. > > > > After the boot from the cd there is everytime a > blank screen. > can somebody help? > > Thanks a lot > > Florian Znottka > > _________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]