What gives? (additional)

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Tue Oct 12 16:53:38 MDT 2004


Well, if you can't even get into OF with Cmd-Opt-O-F after a restart,
(assuming you're using the Apple keyboard that came with the machine, and
not a different keyboard that you got later) your firmware is almost
definitely corrupted, and the only solution is for someone to help you
hack the flasher program to ignore version numbers.

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:50:15 -0400, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:

> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 
>>So if I understand you correctly, after any successful boot into either
>>OS9 or OSX, upon the following restart, holding down Cmd-Opt-O-F doesn't
>>get you into OF? What about holding down Option instead?
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> No, after going into either OS9 or OSX, the ONLY way to get the machine 
> to do anything is to zap the PRAM at least once.  As soon as I do that I 
> get my yaboot prompt back or I could go into OF with cmd-opt-O-F.  But 
> the machine is basically useless after I choose restart from either OS9 
> or OSX unless I zap the PRAM.
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
> 
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