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Re: Help an idiot



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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