On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:33:31PM -0700, steve harley wrote: > on 2013-12-27 15:28 Larry Colen wrote > >On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:08:45PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > >> > >>It had been saying six hours to do a 200G backup, so I excluded a bunch > >>of random stuff, and maybe that'll go a lot quicker. > > > >PVRAM reset seems to have solved the problem > > odd, as it is generally understood that PRAM stores little of > consequence these days; is it possible you also did a safe boot > (shift-restart) which clears caches and checks the disk?
I did that, and it didn't help. the machine acted up again today and I misremembered, did a ctrl-command-v then p on power up. I got a verbose boot (showing kernel messages) and then it booted fine. > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

