Sephee on 2/9/03 10:43 PM wrote: > > Wow! That's all I have to say about the new AlBooks. But aside from > the wonderful design these little things are a real pain when it comes > to fixing something that goes wrong. That's where my trusty old Pismo > comes in. > > In less than 12 hours after she first got it, I managed to render my > girlfriend's brand new AlBook into a sleek, aluminum Mactop-shaped > paperweight. Everything's fine now though. It started when my > girlfriend saw the cute little Hexley boot image I had on the Pismo. I > then pointed her to the Resexcellence site to check out the tons of > boot images to choose from. She chose one and installed it using > MacBoot. She said something about it complaining about the file size > but clicked on the button to install it anyway. I told her not to worry > too much about it because if anything went wrong we'd just boot the > Restore disk and all would be well.... not!!! > > Well all we got after rebooting was an OpenFirmware prompt. Ok. So > something went wrong. I grab her system restore disk and held the 'c' > key when it started just like the instructions printed on the DVD said. > Well....nothing. Thank's Apple! So what to do? Method 1, the brute > force, give OF a couple of boot commands pointing to the CD device > failed miserably. So I had to resort to Method 2, get a firewire cable. > Luckily for me the ONLY places near me that sell 6-pin to 6-pin > firewire cables are a hop, skip and 40 miles away in the most crowded > mall of New York. So finally after an hour (both ways) of driving and a > half-hour of searching for a parking space, then since she came with, > add on another 3 hours for browsing, shopping and a trip to the food > court; I was finally ready to fix our "little" problem. >
Let me see if I understand you correctly. YOU rendered a new PowerBook useless when your GIRLFRIEND ignored a warning during a hack, and it's APPLE'S fault that it's hard to fix operator inflicted damage? NOW, you PowerBook won't boot because of an open firmware problem. So when it also refuses to boot from another volume, because of this same open firmware problem, this too is Apple's fault (ref: Thanks Apple!)? It would seem logical that the same problem preventing you from booting from one drive would also prevent it from booting from any other drive. Just out of curiosity, did you try to zapping the PRAM or better yet, simply reset open firmware? Or, since it's new, give Apple a call (hence no need for a second mac "to the rescue")? Just curious, -Mark -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
