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Subject: Re: HD problem on my PowerMac G3
Date: Friday, 09. March 2012
From: Valter Prahlad <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
> Il giorno 9-03-2012 7:12, Eleni ha scritto:
> > Keyboard is USB and mouse connected to keyboard, all work ok.
> > I also have an ADB keyboard and mouse if needed.
>
> Ah, that's likely the problem: USB ports aren't standard on a PM G3, so
> they are enabled by system extensions AFTER the boot process. :-)
> That's why you G3 doesn't respond to the "C" key for booting from CD.
>
> Try using the ADB keyboard and see if that solves the booting issue.
On my Power Mac G3 B&W the keyboard is also connected on one of the two
internal USB-1.1 ports.
Obviously it doesn’t work when connected to a USB port of a PCI expansion
card, like any USB-2.0 PCI expansion card.
With the internal USB 1.1, at least, holding Cmd-Opt-O-F works to go into Open
Firmware. I also noticed that it wasn’t possible to boot holding the “C” key,
but I’m now unsure if this was always the case or if I fixed that. ???
Anyway, if you can get into Open Firmware, then your keyboard works. From
there you can boot from any optical media if you type:
boot cd:
or (if that doesn’t work):
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
(See also
http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Running_Apple_Hardware_Test_When_Your_Hard_Drive_is_Freaky_Screwed.html)
>From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2179: You can also eject a disc (on later
Power Macs without a physical eject button for the drive) if you type:
eject cd
Then you can put in another one and close the drive by just pushing it in.
The “boot cd:” thing in Open Firmware should do the trick if holding “C” does
not work as expected.
It’s also noteworthy that the G3 B&W does not support the boot menu when
holding down the Option key.
Cheers,
Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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