Try this... http://www.ehow.com/how_5760413_reset-pram-g4-powerbook.html
Tom On May 29, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > It's Powerbook5,6 (G4 1.67 GHz 15"). No, I haven't tried resetting > PRAM, how should I do that? Good news is I got Sid back doing apt-get > dist-upgrade today in chroot in lenny. > > 2011/5/29 Thomas Carlson <[email protected]>: >> What kind of a Mac is this? I'm assuming its a Powerbook or iBook of some >> sort as you can remove the battery. Have you tried resetting the PRAM? >> >> Tom >> On May 29, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote: >> >>> Yes, I tried that. Actually my description was imprecise. In fact I >>> got to slashed circle via gray apple trying to boot with alt pressed, >>> whereas in the case of booting as I usually do, by pressing "x", the >>> screen goes black and immediately the same menu with x, c and l >>> appears. >>> >>> 2011/5/29 Jeroen Diederen <[email protected]>: >>>> Can you boot with the option key (alt) held down ? You should be able to >>>> choose OSX from there... >>>> >>>> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:54 +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: >>>>> Dear list, >>>>> >>>>> I guess I must have done something utterly stupid, although it escapes >>>>> me when. I can no longer boot OS X. When I press "x" I see gray apple >>>>> for a moment but then it is quickly replaced by a slashed circle and >>>>> all I can do is take out battery and reboot. Before installing Squeeze >>>>> and upgrading to Sid I had Lenny installed and OS X was booting fine. >>>>> During installation I did not format the Mac partition and I can still >>>>> mount it fine. Also I did not touch Apple Partition Map and Apple >>>>> Bootstrap partitions and I can see they are where they used to be when >>>>> I do "fdisk /dev/hda". I don't know when I could have screwed things >>>>> up as I was very careful not to write to any Mac OS partitions during >>>>> install. I write Squeeze/Sid installation, as I haven't verified if I >>>>> can boot Mac OS after Squeeze installation (I use it only when I want >>>>> to use Skype), and later I upgraded Squeeze to Sid (which rendered it >>>>> unbootable in turn, but let's leave it for now). Right now I would >>>>> like to find out if it's still possible boot my Mac OS somehow without >>>>> reinstalling everything from scratch. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks for any hints in advance >>>>> >>>>> Piotr >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://okle.pl >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://okle.pl >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>> [email protected] >>> Archive: >>> http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >> >> > > > > -- > http://okle.pl > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
