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Aluminium PowerBook G4 won't turn on

68kMLA · PowerPC · 13 posts · Jun 5, 2015 — Jun 7, 2015 View original thread ↗

#1 Fri, 5 Jun 2015 - 22:40 68kMLA

So I got this Aluminium PowerBook G4 (A1106). I replaced the hard drive, and afterwards it turned on but displayed the folder with a question mark/Finder logo. I thought that perhaps I needed to press C to boot from the Leopard DVD in the drive, so I turned off the machine. I haven't been able to get it boot since.

Any ideas?

#2 Fri, 5 Jun 2015 - 23:29 68kMLA

So when you press power, nothing at all?

#3 Fri, 5 Jun 2015 - 23:40 68kMLA

Did you try a PRAM reset?

#4 Fri, 5 Jun 2015 - 23:52 68kMLA

I managed to get it work

Putting Leopard on a USB SD card reader right now!

#5 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 01:08 68kMLA

I can't get it to boot from the USB SD card reader

Any thoughts?

#6 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 03:16 68kMLA

did you go into open firmware and try the command boot ud:, \\:tbxi? if you can't read that command here it is in slightly more legible font

boot ud:, \\:tbxi

#7 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 14:12 68kMLA

It doesn't work. It says

can't OPEN: pci2/ata-6@D/@0:3,\\:tbxi
Can't open device or file
ok

.

#8 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 14:21 68kMLA

Getting PPC systems to boot from USB is a crapshoot, it varies from model to model. Doing it with an SD card is probably impossible.

#9 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 15:54 68kMLA

Leopard is installing from a DVD!

#10 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 19:01 68kMLA

Sent from my PowerBook G4!

#11 Sat, 6 Jun 2015 - 23:44 68kMLA

Good for you!

c

#12 Sun, 7 Jun 2015 - 00:28 68kMLA

Whoops wrong thread....

#13 Sun, 7 Jun 2015 - 03:15 68kMLA

What did you say?