[geeks] Fargin Issles - my Ti PowerBook is locked...

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 21 14:43:25 CDT 2003


--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:51:36PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Boot from the installation CD and try to repair the startup disk,
> then
> > repair permissions.  Bill swears by going into OpenFirmware (Apple
> +
> > Option + O + F before the boot chime) and zapping the PRAM like
> this:
> >   reset-NVRAM
> >   set-defaults
> >   reset-all
> 
> I also do Apple + Option + P + PR to zap the PRAM, but I think the
> "reset-nvram" step (NVRAM doesent have to be allcaps) does the same
> thing.

Thanks, I'll try it tonight - I assume others have had success with the
OS X 10.2.8 update? It pisses me off that my machine went "tits up"
after an OS patch...


=====
Lionel

"I am not into examining other peoples' dumps..." - Sheldon T. Hall

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