Okay, here's the deal. I was working on my computer, and it crashed. So I pressed cmd-control-power. The next thing I see is the blinking question mark.
This is the second time I've had this problem. The first time, I fixed it by fooling around in Open Firmware and setting the boot-device to something I knew wouldn't work, but for some reason it did. However, at the moment, the internet connection is down and I don't remember any of the commands.
I try booting off the Norton, DiskWarrior, and System CDs and running Norton, DiskWarrior, and DFA, but nothing even recognizes the drive. I can't even reformat it.
Next I try booting off the OS X CD and running Disk Utility. Again, same problem. Can't even see the drive to reformat it.
I try pressing T at startup to put the system into FireWire target mode. This doesn't work. The system just shuts down. Instead, I decide to put my desktop into FireWire target mode. The iBook then boots fine. When I start it up, the drive is recognized by Disk Utility, but with some weird name and with a capacity of 0 bytes. pdisk will not read /dev/rdisk0, and I can't manage to open it either.
Now, the internet connection comes back up. I boot into Open Firmware, and try setting the boot-device to various things, but none work. The system just flashes the question mark and system folder.
I've tried:
setenv boot-device hd:x,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX
Where x is from 0 to 15. Nothing works.
I'm sure the drive works, and I'm sure the system isn't corrupt, but it's not working. I'm thinking it's probably a corrupt partition table, but I'm not sure, since the drive really doesn't work at all. Any ideas?
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