humor? usefull info? take your pick... in an effort to speed up startup time and save ram i removed (among many other things) what seemed to be a useless file called 'powerbook duo enabler' from the system folder of a duo 210 running system 7.1 (later i find out that what apple calls enablers are OS patches... i have removed them on other macs but they werent needed because the os had been updated... removing them then didnt do anything so i thought the files were pointless...) and on reboot i get a message saying that macos 7.1 is too old to run on this hardware... and that i need to run the setup program to reinstall/update the os (cant remember how it put it exactly) and the only clickable button was 'restart'.... yay....
but im from the PC world.... and even DOS 1.0 will boot on any intel machine... regardless of how new... so i thought 'why the hell wont macos boot on any machine .. all i need is basic functionality to put that file back in place anyway' so now with no floppy drive or dock i now have a powerbook duo paperweight (or an interesting nightlight since it would just sit there with that window open and the lcds backlight would never be triggered to dim since there was no OS running) out of curiosity i wondered if the debugger could be started from that point (apple+power)... it could... so i figured i would get on the web and look for commands for it... but due to my procrastinating ways i just thought 'ill do it later'... and typed 'G' and pressed enter to close the debugger... much to my amazement when the debugger closed i got the oh-so-familiar 'welcome to macintosh' and the os started loading... complete with system extensions... but since the patch wasnt in place when the extension for the duos internal modem loaded the system crashed with a rather odd error message.... (f-prot something... cant remember... and im not about to replicate this situation) ... so i reset the machine... waited for the 'you need to reinstall' message... opened the debugger... held the shift key and typed 'G' and pressed enter (shift key down the whole time)... got 'welcome to macintosh... extensions disabled'... also got the 'basic functionality' i was looking for.... problem fixed.... (apparently procrastination has its good points)... a 'safe mode' would have come in handy here...... anyone out there have any infos as to why this even worked?? -- --sam http://mephitus.renamon.org/ "When you've done something right, no one will be sure you've done anything at all." -- Futurama -- -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
