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revolution
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
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2005-09-20, 07:05

My friend has a problem with his e-mac. Sometimes when he starts his mac up, he gets a white screen and has to type either "mac-boot" or "shut-down". If he types shut-down and reboots holding command-option-R-P he goes into OS X. He checked on apple help and its something to do with repairing permissions but neither of us really understand it. Any help??
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Brad
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2005-09-20, 07:20

That's the OpenFirmware screen. Its similar to a PC's BIOS menu.

I'm not sure why he's getting it periodically, though.
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2005-09-20, 11:22

next time it happens, tell him to enter the following commands (each followed by Return key):

reset-nvram

reset-all
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