On the ANS machines, you have to use serial.  They won't boot using the
onboard video, no matter what you call it :)

SystemDisk is also useless on these machines, since they won't run MacOS
without some creative installation.  They're missing the necessary ROM for
macOS.

On 2/26/01 11:39 AM, "Daniel Lamblin" <daniell@slithy.toves.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:50:39AM -0600, Josh Escobedo wrote:
>> On 2/26/01 8:10 AM, "???" <jambo@hackerslab.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> on Apple Network Server 700/150 model, I turned it on to boot.
> ...
>>> It was my great mistake.
>>> I have tried to boot on console. Actually, I don't know how to do exactlly.
>>> can I set Open Firmware Settings to their default values?
>>> please, let me know.
> 
> Josh's explanation for reseting OF values should be correct;
> However, my experience with my Power Mac 8500/120 has lead me to think that
> using ttya (or b) at all is inconvenient without a real serial console lying
> around.
> Hence I prefer using the input device kbd and the output device /chaos/control
> (the output device varies on each model of machine).
> For example, with my voodoo3 card I use /bandit/3Dfx,Voodoo3 as an output
> device.
> Either way, at least having keyboard input has lead me to be able to set the
> output device by typing blindly.
> 
>>> ps. probably, can I use system disk tool? unfortuately, I don't know how to
>>> use 
>>> SystemDisk2.3.1.smi.bin.
> 
> Clearly its a macos tool,  if you get it to run and select the right-hand
> button, marked advanced, you can check the bottom right check-box, and type in
> a new input and output device to be used.  Then click save and reboot while
> holding command-option-O-F.
> 
> -Daniel
> 

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