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Title: PPC Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: TheGoose on January 24, 2004, 04:30:19 PM

Can anyone help me with the different keys you can hold down for different boot options? My machine won't boot after I changed some scsi device numbers and need to shut off some things.

I get something like "Failed to find blizzard.device blah blah" and the whole thing pukes.

I know you can do several option like:

turn off PPC
turn off SCSI
turn off video card

I can't remember and can't access the info. I do know about the ESC key, but want to know the others.

Thanks a bunch
 :-?

Title: Re: Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: lempkee on January 24, 2004, 04:33:07 PM

i guess the thread should be named PPC!

anyway , "2" is the key to press to disable the whole card, i dont recall the buttons for "memory" and "ppc" ..

sadly i dont have the manual anymore but i am pretty sure that "f" is MEMORY and i belive "s" was something also but hell if i wanna try it ;)

i am having to much pain atm with broken cia's so i am just glad my damn machine works at all.

cheers

Title: Re: Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: bloodline on January 24, 2004, 04:51:43 PM

Quote

lempkee wrote:
i guess the thread should be named PPC!

anyway , "2" is the key to press to disable the whole card, i dont recall the buttons for "memory" and "ppc" ..

cheers

Holding down 2 disables any Blizzard...

Title: Re: Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: PaSha on January 24, 2004, 05:03:07 PM

The scsi device of the BlizzPPC is blizzppc.device
S disables scsi

-Paul

Title: Re: Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: lempkee on January 24, 2004, 05:29:31 PM

bloodline:yes i know , why i said ppc is because of the thread name and he asked for PPC specific keys.

as in, you cant disable scsi from a normal blizzard 68k card AFAIK!

you cant disable FASTRAM from a normal Blizzard 68k card AFAIK!

You dont have a early boot menu in the 68k blizzard cards (110% sure of that :))

etc..

Title: Re: Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: bloodline on January 24, 2004, 05:31:17 PM

Quote

lempkee wrote:
bloodline:yes i know , why i said ppc is because of the thread name and he asked for PPC specific keys.

as in, you cant disable scsi from a normal blizzard 68k card AFAIK!

you cant disable FASTRAM from a normal Blizzard 68k card AFAIK!

You dont have a early boot menu in the 68k blizzard cards (110% sure of that :))

etc..

Ahh right, I'm with you. :-)

Title: Re: Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: TheGoose on January 24, 2004, 06:22:33 PM

Thanks people, I will try those out. And yeah, I shoulda said PPC blizzard board

 :-)

Title: Re: PPC Blizzard boot modes???
Post by: TheGoose on January 24, 2004, 09:40:06 PM

Well, I got it working again and I'm now
talking to you via my A1200T on cable broadband!

Cheers and thanks!