I have a BIG problem. I had my G3 beige running on OSX Jaguar on the internal 4GB HD when the password-protected screensaver came on. This was when I realized that I had forgotten my password :( So I restart and go under System Preferences > Startup Disk and, playing around a little, pressed Network Startup (I have an iBook G4 on the home ethernet newtork). I then rebooted. Bling! The screen went white and it put the following text at the top: "mac-boot, unknown word_" And that was it; nothing else. I have tried to start off of various system CDs but to no avail; same old procedure. Help! Please help my troubled Beige G3!
Umm, your iBook is running OSX Server? That's what's needed for net boot to work...
Likely your PRAM has been set to net boot, which I don't think works on OldWorld systems...
Yank the power, yank the pram battery overnight, push the cuda switch a few times, then boot up with command-option-p-r and let the startup noise happen a few times, see if that fixes it.
What you're seeing is an Open Firmware error message.
It's POSSIBLE you could boot into open firmware (I believe it's command-option-o-f) and set the boot device, Apple has documentation on OF commands.
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