By pure coincidence, after I replied the first time, the following was sitting on my LinuxPPC mailing list. It is essentially a followup to my earlier post, but I have copied some text from a few eMails which you may find helpful.
JC posted under : BIG trouble - system hosed: JC installed Linux on his G3, and upon restart, the following: "... Then I tried to reboot the machine to get to the MacOS via running the command macos as root after exiting from X. The screen went black like it was supposed to, I heard the nice little MacOS chime, the tiny light on the monitor went from yellow to green, but then the light went back to yellow just a second or two later and nothing else happened. The screen stayed black - no further sounds from the hard drive indicating that it was trying to do anything. Nothing. This is all happening well before any happy or sad Mac would have appeared. ..." JC also stated that he tried booting from the CD with the same results. BC replied under : Re: BIG trouble - system hosed: BC mentions he had similar problems installing OSX on a Motorola Starmax. He continues: "... what I had to do was open up the case and hit the system reset button- I'd try a pram zap first, though (hold down command-option-p-r keys until you hear the second chime)- if no luck, the reset on the motherboard should work- hold it down for 30 secs or so if still stuck, you may have to go so far as to unplug the motherboard battery for a few hours, then plug it back in and then try the system reset button- These steps do actually work on older systems, at least- good luck! ..." -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
