Hi Peter
Thanks for the advice... but I cannot disable auto-boot? as this is  
the primary web-/mail-server ..
Which is also the reason that I have to find a solution....
If I am away (customer site.. or whatever) I really am dependent upon  
the system coming up again, if there has been a power-failure.....



Den 09/05/2007 kl. 16.12 skrev Peter Bex:

> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:07:05PM +0200, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
>> Hi guys
>> I have a problem with my trusty old Powerbook 3500(Open Firmware
>> 2.0.1) ....
>>
>> Whenever I reboot the system it stops with a black screen... but
>> forcing it into Open Firmware I just type "boot" and everything boots
>> fine....
>>
>> Somewhere there was a hint with
>> setenv boot-command " screen" output boot
>>
>> .. and I tried that but still no luck in getting the system to
>> autoboot (yes! the auto-boot? flag is set to true)
>>
>> Any ideas ??
>
> I believe you should disable auto-boot?.  By having boot-command  
> set, it
> already starts booting, I think.  I use a bootmenu I snarfed somewhere
> from the mail archives and modified a bit.  You can find it here
> ftp://frohike.homeunix.org/other/bootmenu.4th
>
> I don't understand most the code, but you might be able to find the
> magic incantation that resets the screen here.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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