Just curious (additional and translated)

[GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1]

Andrew wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 12:53, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
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>>Okay, gave that a shot.  The reset-nvram line went fine, but the 
>>set-default line resulted in a BAD DEFAULT error message.  I did some 
>>googling for this message but the only thing I found was in some other 
>>language so I could not read what it said about it.  What does it mean?
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>>Just a message from Doug...
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>Its in french. Extremly poor french I must say. Basically, its about
>some problems a dude had/has with it's iMac so some other dude (Gilles)
>suggested to re-initialise the nvram. It doesnt work out well..
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>Translation begin at 3rd paragraph: 
>" (...) then, after the second command "set-default" OF answered "bad
>default". I kept on and re-did it all but I always get the same answer?
>Somebody know?
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><some impossible to translate garbage>  (...) my problem is the boot
>prompt I can't choose the startup partition using the alt key because
>after I do, the mac is unable to boot and show the famous question mark
>that mean it can't locate a system folder. I must then reboot violently
>(hard reboot) It then boot into the Startup Disk's system folder. (huh?)
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> I can choose between three system folder corresponding to my 3
>partitions (2 MacOS9 and 1 MacOSX) using the Startup Disk control panel
>but not using the alt key during startup.
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>Is it bad?
>I canged the battery (voltmeter reported only 1V instead the 3,6V) I did
>the voodoo tricks (pram zap, unplugged it all for some hours, rebuild
>desktop.....)
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>If anyone have ideas here thanks in advance.
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Thanks for the translation Andrew, not much there to go on, but the 
error was the same as mine.  I will keep searching for an answer to this 
problem.

Just a message from Doug...