[vatin]

Hi.

Since today, my powermac G3 B/w 400 is not booting correctly. When the computer starts up a text appears telling me the command

"mac-bo/t" is unknown

then, after telling me the version and everything else if I type mac-boot the system starts correctly. I havent changed anything or installed new software.

How can I correct this problem.

Thanks

vatin

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Jose 'vatin' Restrepo

[Orbit]

What you're describing is an open firmware screen, which you can get to by holding down "option+apple+o+f" at startup. If you don't hold this down and still get to this screen, there could be something wrong with your hardware- the RAM or L2 cache are usually to blame in this case. If it's just a one-time thing then I wouldn't worry. You could also try resetting the PRAM (option+apple+p+r at startup, hold down until you hear another chime). Also, when in open firmware, typing in "reset-all" and pressing enter will reset the PRAM for you. Like I said though, if you keep getting this, bring in your system because this is a pre-OS firmware related problem.