Just curious

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Sat Oct 2 15:00:14 MDT 2004


Have you tried re-flashing the firmware? Some of Apple's firmware flashers
allowed flashing firmware of the same version. You can find the current
B&W firmware at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n58374 now. A side effect
would be to reset the nvram.

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:32:13 -0400, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:

> markov at tele2.be wrote:
> 
>>  
>>
>>>Some of you may remember this thread from awhile back.  As an update, I 
>>>finally got around to repartitioning my B&W HD as it should be.  Now my 
>>>bootstrap is located on HDA9, OS9 is HDA11 and OSX is HDA13.  The 
>>>original problem I had was that when I went into OS9 and tried to 
>>>restart the computer, it would hang, basically just a blank screen.  Now 
>>>that I have redone everything, both OSX and OS9 cause this problem!  The 
>>>only time I get the yaboot screen is when I restart from YDL.  The 
>>>original problem was thought to be because of the odd location of my 
>>>bootstrap drive but now it's in the "right" location.  Any ideas?
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Do you have an extra PCI-IDE card?
>>The ide is faulty on rev A machines...
>>
>>I have a BW that doesn't want to install os X.
>>It might be the ram, maybe the ide chip.
>>
>>It seems to run ydl when I install with one 64mb chip, 
>>then hit the cuda button(cold) when I add new ram, AND do a
>>hdparm -X34 /dev/hda  
>>just after reboot. (before you start a session in kde, otherwise
>>it can hang.)  I have already been working for about 2hrs, then shut
>>down the machine...
>>I deleted the irda package, as it got broke after a crash too...
>>I guess the bw doesn't like to be peeked around in his brain...
>>
>>  
>>
> Nope, just a single 80 Gb multi-partitioned HD.  Besides, it is a rev B 
> system.  
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
> 
> 
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