On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:38:04PM +0100, Riccardo wrote:
> Daniel Eggert wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe...: I remember having some luck booting off a 1.5.2 CD. Check the
> > guide, that I refer to. You need to set the boot-file to something like
> > "abcdefg". This gives you an oportunity to swap the 1.6.2 CD in after
> > loading the ofwboot.xcf.
> > /Daniel
> 
> Help!!
> 
> I got the 1.5.2 iso and tried booting that. I get the same identical
> error....
> 
> Since now desperation begins to creep in... I tried what someone lese
> here suggested. Taking out some ram modules.
> I took out all my precious ram modules leaving but one (thus also
> disabling interleaving). The original that was shipped with the mac. I
> also took out ethernet cards, etc.

the machine wont boot with less then 16MB of ram. also, did your 9500
come with a rom simm, did you take that out to?

> Now I can't get it to boot! The mac does only "bong" and I can't get
> something on the display or on the serial line! I tried pressing the
> magical button on the m-board... nothing.

the butten resets the cudda chip, witch stores the time and basic hw info.
a good thing to hit when adding/removing hw

> Bong should mean that at least I didn't fry the CPU taking it out right?

if the machine was off, then its fine.

at this point, all i can tell you is to start kicking & screeming :(

jb13