Re: Can't get into Control Panel

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

That had no effect either. Oh, well. Snipped out the battery. Machine boots
again. Time to bust out the soldering iron :-)
"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> Greg Andrzejewski <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Help!!!! I think I just ruined my gs. Upon trying to boot from a
ramdisk,
> > using Flashboot, the machine would just freeze with a blank screen.
Since I
> > chose to boot from the ramdisk only once, I would then reset and boot
back
> > into GS/OS. Then I stupidly set the boot slot to RAM disk. Now I'm
screwed.
> > Obviously it won't boot from the ramdisk. When I hit
CONTROL-APPLE-ESCAPE,
> > the machine freezes and/or displays garbage. When I get to a BASIC or
DOS
> > 3.3 prompt, I tried typing PR#5, but the machine says "Not a startup
disk,"
> > even though there is one there. Didn't even spin the drive. Is there any
> > other eay to get into the control panel.
>
> Yes.  Press Control-Option-Reset.  This gives you a menu which lets you
> enter the control panel, reset defaults or continue booting.
>
> If you enter the control panel via this method, the machine will reboot
> after you leave the control panel, so you should use
> Control-Apple-Escape for normal on-the-fly changes to control panel
> settings.
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz