I have a powerbook I installed the PPC version of openSUSE 11 on. My dad wants to use it, but he needs OS X reinstalled for whatever he’s working on. I backed up the folder with my data and set to reinstall OS X, but the disc that came with it won’t boot. I tried holding down C like I did when I installed openSUSE and I tried holding Command, Option, Shift, Delete, but neither seems to recognize the disc. Any ideas? Do I need to do something special to make the powerbook book a Mac disc again?
I’m sorry to have to ask you a couple of mundane questions…
Is this the disk that came w/ the Mac? Not a Leopard/Intel disc, etc.?
Is there an option at the bootloader for any kind of disc boot? I have never seen what the bootloader looks like on a PPC based Mac…
Zap your PRAM? opt+command+P+R at the startup of the machine hold it down, let the computer reboot 2x…
The CD Drive is in working order?
It shouldn’t be too difficult, the Macs I’ve dealt with have always made it really easy to boot from disk, etc…
Good Luck…
Yes, this is the disc that came with the machine. A commercially pressed copy.
I’m guessing that the closest thing to a bootloader is what Command, Option, Shift, Delete does, where it shows an icon for any bootable device it finds.
I’ve had 0 problems with the drive, and it is the same one I used to install openSUSE, so I don’t see that being a problem.
I’ll look into the PRAM. Maybe that’s what I need. Thanks.
When you turn on the power for your laptop, during the apple “chime,” just hold down the option key, you don’t need all those keys to get to the boot options menu…
When you turn on the power for your laptop, during the apple “chime,” hold down C to attempt a force boot from cd…
When you turn on the power for your laptop, during the apple “chime,” hold down Command+Option+O+F, this will take you to Open Firmware, from there you can tell the computer anything, but let’s start with “reset-all,” not quotes or commas…that will do a serious reset of your machine…
I am still googling for the command to boot from disk, if I come across it, I will post that too…
Good Luck…
hi chum,
hope these pages could help you…
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/suzanne/startup.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1812
http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html
good luck…
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:56:03 GMT
ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> When you turn on the power for your laptop, during the apple “chime,”
> just hold down the option key, you don’t need all those keys to get to
> the boot options menu…
>
> When you turn on the power for your laptop, during the apple “chime,”
> hold down C to attempt a force boot from cd…
>
> When you turn on the power for your laptop, during the apple “chime,”
> hold down Command+Option+O+F, this will take you to Open Firmware, from
> there you can tell the computer anything, but let’s start with
> “reset-all,” not quotes or commas…that will do a serious reset of
> your machine…
>
> I am still googling for the command to boot from disk, if I come across
> it, I will post that too…
>
> Good Luck…
>
>
Wow! I thought my eyes were experiencing “Groundhog Day effect” or
something… I kept reading the same sentence over and over and over…
{Grin}
Is the command to boot from disk… to wait for the apple “chime” and then
NOT hold down any keys… ?
(sorry, I’m in a good mood… something about AUGUST(US))
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Just wanted to be clear…sheesh 
The whole thing is, considering you can’t boot, we need to get to Open Firmware, to check what errors spew out…
I think it’s just mac-boot…
So is there any progress?
We eventually had to connect it to a newer macbook (or powerbook, I’m not sure) and boot into target disc mode to get the installation disc to boot.