[Sugar-devel] Adventures with GPA Macbooks

[Caroline Meeks]

Thanks Martin,
Does that give us any hint about whats happening? How is that PRAM/PROM
normally set?  Maybe we need to go change the default somewhere?

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Caroline Meeks
> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> > Problems seem to be a good bet! What the golly gosh jimminy crippers is
> > going on?!? Why does it work once and not again? What is linux doing that
> is
> > keeping MacOSX from booting even after all the linux medium is removed?
>
> The macs have a funny BIOS that has a persistent memory. So it will
> remember where you booted from, and a few other things. If this BIOS
> gets confused and stores its confusion in persistent mem, you get
> exactly what you are seeing.
>
> Removing the batteries resets this memory.
>
> In Mac parlance, resetting this memory is known as "resetting the
> PRAM" (or maybe PROM). There is a key combination -- different between
> mac models -- that does this. Add the exact model of your mac to the
> search below...
>
>   http://www.google.be/search?q=resetting+pram+mac
>
> this is a good example
>
>  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
>
> hth,
>
>
>
> m
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