---------- Original message ---------- Subject: G3 B&W strange system behavior and specs Date: Donnerstag 07 Januar 2010N From: "Mac User #330250" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
> The big issue with this Power Mac is that it will get stalled at the > initial startup sequence (Open Firmware or something very early) IF I set > a Startup Volume in Mac OS 9 or in Mac OS X. > As I remember it this boot selection is stored somewhere in the device tree > or so. In Open Firmware, typing "devalias" shows a "last-boot" entry, but > it is set to "p...@80000000/pci-bri...@d/mac...@5/ethernet". Anyway, this > is the only fault I could discover so far. To make the G3 fail right after > switching it on, all I have to do is set the boot device in Mac OS or Mac > OS X. Voila - it won't even show video. Fixed. I just installed 10.4.11 Tiger on it and miraculously it now works like nothing ever happend. I don't understand the world anymore. There was so much trouble in the beginning, now everything is working... :-) I've set 10.4.11 to be the default OS for now, maybe 9.2.2 breaks it again. But I will not fiddle with this. "Never touch a running system." Most of the other problems are solved too by using Tiger. The missing modem is no longer a problem. The ATA-Bus is no longer so specifically reported in Mac OS X 10.4 as it has been in 10.3. It's simply listed as "ATA Bus". Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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