On Jan 15, 2006, at 5:44 PM, JR Heald wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to get a newly acquired G4 QuickSilver 867MHz machine to
boot
with a known-working hard drive running OS 10.3.9. It came w/o a hard
drive. On power-up, it chimes and then boots to the gray screen
with the
apple and goes no further.
You might try booting into Open Firmware:
Press Command-Option-O-F while starting (depress keys immediately
after chime).
At text prompt, type:
reset-nvram <return>
reset-all <return>
bye or mac-boot <return>
I have also seen this variation of the above:
reset-nvram <return>
set-defalts (not having used this, I don't know if the misspelling is
intentional)
reset-all <return>
bye or mac-boot <return>
Another approach is to boot into single user mode:
Restart with Command-S depressed immediately after the chime. Hold
keys down until presented with a white text screen.
At command line, type:
fsck -y <return> (repeat this as many times as a system file
modification is reported)
reboot <return>
NOTE: fsck is roughly equivalent to disk repair when running Disk
Utility.
Zapping PRAM is another thing to try:
Restart while holding down Command-Option-P-R. Keep keys drepressed
through 5 or 6 chimes.
HTH
Regards,
Wayne Clodfelter
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