How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-29 Thread Frank Cornew
after a while. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:20:55 -0600 From: Greenfield Bowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark? I'm hoping one of you Powerbook gurus might be able to help me get my Powerbook to boot up. I recently purchased

Re: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-29 Thread Hal
On Dec 29, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Finally, I seem to recall a size limit on slave/target mode from my experience with Duos and 2400c platforms - drives over 2? 4? 6? 8? gigs would 'work', but would get munged after a while. I think the limit was 4GB, though I've seen larger

Re: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-29 Thread Illovox Media
on 12/29/03 12:32 PM, Hal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 29, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Finally, I seem to recall a size limit on slave/target mode from my experience with Duos and 2400c platforms - drives over 2? 4? 6? 8? gigs would 'work', but would get munged after a

Re: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-28 Thread Clyde Kahrl
First place---if you got to the question mark, you're in good shape. 2d: I can think of absolutely no reason to run 8.6 on your Lombard--it is not faster than 9.2. Don't run OS9.0. The reset button on the back of the Lombard is not the same as a CUDA button or the reset button on the Tibook.

How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-27 Thread Greenfield Bowie
I'm hoping one of you Powerbook gurus might be able to help me get my Powerbook to boot up. I recently purchased a PowerBook G3 on eBay (Lombard/G3/333/OS9.0/192Mb/4Gb/) It arrived on Christmas eve (perfect!) The 9.0 system installed on it booted ok, but was very s - l - o - w ! Years

Re: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-27 Thread Richard Smykla
Greenfield, As to your CD drive, you need OS 8.6 at a minimum (the one delivered with the 'bronze' PowerBooks), which could explain your failure to boot from the 8.5 CD. You really need to find a generic (retail) OS-install CD, as the system from your 7300 will be missing pieces your

Re: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Nelson
At 8:20 AM -0600 12/27/03, Greenfield Bowie wrote: I'm hoping one of you Powerbook gurus might be able to help me get my Powerbook to boot up. I recently purchased a PowerBook G3 on eBay (Lombard/G3/333/OS9.0/192Mb/4Gb/) It arrived on Christmas eve (perfect!) The 9.0 system installed on it