On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:07:34PM +0100, Justin Davies wrote: > > I don't think you damaged it, it's possible that you just triggered > > a dormant HW damage... > > > > There are 2 remaining solutions: The Power Manager reset (there's a > > small button for that below the kbd on the titanium powerbook; I don't > > know where it's located on the 12" G4, though Apple has a technote), > > and the backup firmware. > > > > The later (backup firmware) is triggered by using the same key combo > > as for a firmware update. I don't remember exactly which combo it is > > for your model, probably something like keeping cmd-power down for more > > than 5 seconds during boot or something around those lines. You should > > hear a double boot shime, on which you can then do a cmd-opt-P-R > > > > Ben. > > > Ben, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately neither worked. I was aksed to go > through PM reset by Apple and this did not work either. > > I appreciate you help though. It just seems weird that loading the wrong > version of yaboot managed to kill/trigger something. Maybe I should send a > mail to Olaf about it and see what the yaboot.chrp actually does. why i recommend only using official mainline yaboot. currently the only distro version of yaboot i approve is debian's. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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