Quicksilver G4 boot straight to OF...

I never really knew you could get into open firmware until today. This morning, my son put my G4 into sleep mode which caused it to just freeze up. I had to do a hard shut down. I hate doing that, but that was the only option. Got back this evening and booted the computer up. I got the following message:
Bad Bus Info CRC-16
DEFAULT CATCH! code=300 at %SRR0: ff84755c %SRR1: 000b030
Apple PowerMac 3, 5 4.2.5fl BootROM bult on 08/16/01 at 22:19:35
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc
All rights reserved
Welcome to Open Firmware, the system time and date is 20:55:18 04/14/2006
To continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return
To shut down, type "shut-down" and press return
If I type mac-boot, I get a screen of black and white stripes. I removed a PCI USB card, and same result, removed the PCI Firewire card, same result. Removed the remaining peripherals (an iSight), and it still goes straight to the OF, but now the first line about a bad bus is gone. All other lines are unchanged.
Looking at it now, the time seems to be a bit off, or is the GMT? Not really sure what time exactly that I tried the boot that gave me this time. It is now 18:07 here in EDT. Insights?
Quicksilver dual G4 @ 1.2GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Blue & White G3 @ 400MHz for the kids

I have been running for two days with no booting issues:
After getting OSX installed on my firewire drive. The computer booted and ran fine using only that drive.
For argument sake, I reconnected the internal drives. Letting the computer boot directly from the firewire drive was smooth. Additionally, the internal drives mounted. However, if I have the internal drives conncected and hold down the option key while booting, the computer locks at the selection screen.
In one of my direct firewire boots, I was able to use SilverKeeper to make a copy of my internal drives and create another bootable firewire drive that is identical to what I had the day everything went awry. It did fail two times however before completing successfully. The failures both happened when I was doing some other stuff. Once I let the computer run only that backup, all was fine. I have been using this firewire drive now as my main drive with the internal drives disconnected to avoid any potential problems.
I am thinking the controller on the Mother Board is toast. Everything else seems just as it should be.
Quicksilver dual G4 @ 1.33GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Blue & White G3 @ 400MHz for the kids

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I have been running for two days with no booting issues:
After getting OSX installed on my firewire drive. The computer booted and ran fine using only that drive.
For argument sake, I reconnected the internal drives. Letting the computer boot directly from the firewire drive was smooth. Additionally, the internal drives mounted. However, if I have the internal drives conncected and hold down the option key while booting, the computer locks at the selection screen.
In one of my direct firewire boots, I was able to use SilverKeeper to make a copy of my internal drives and create another bootable firewire drive that is identical to what I had the day everything went awry. It did fail two times however before completing successfully. The failures both happened when I was doing some other stuff. Once I let the computer run only that backup, all was fine. I have been using this firewire drive now as my main drive with the internal drives disconnected to avoid any potential problems.
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I'm throwing alot of stuff at you here. A bad PRAM (also called clock) battery can cause startup issues AND FireWire not to show.
I would check it first. When mine went, I had no response from my Mac at all; just a light on my power button; absolutely no boot at all.
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Hello,
I have read your post on how your HDD boots with an error, passes all the tests, and I would be happy to assist you!
The first step I recommend is to follow this document on Restoring the BIOS. This should help how your computer will boot from the HDD. In addition, I also suggest replacing the SATA cable connecting your HDD to your motherboard. To do this, please follow this document on How to Remove SATA cable.
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HOWTO: Repairing a headless Arch Linux system that fails to boot

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I have a "headless" (no monitor or input peripherals) Arch Linux computer that is connected to a local network via a wireless adapter, and accessed from other computers via SSH.
Earlier today I accidentally broke its kernel so it did not boot anymore.
Idea: Temporarily connect a monitor to the computer, boot from a live CD (like the Arch Linux install CD), then chroot into the system and fix it.
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Idea: Log in to the live CD session from another computer via SSH.
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a copy of the Arch Linux install CD (I used the 2013-05-01 version)
an Ethernet cable
a keyboard (might be dispensable, with additional preparation)
a functional Arch Linux laptop (or other computer within physical range)
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ip link set eth0 up
ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0
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While we're at it, we might as well enable IP forwarding, so that the live CD session on the headless computer will be able to directly use the laptop's outgoing Internet connection (which will make it much more convenient to install/upgrade packages during the repair session). To enable this, run the following as root (replace "eth0" and "wlan0" with the names of your laptop's Ethernet and wireless interfaces, respectively):
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sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
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interface=eth0
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Connect the laptop and the headless computer via the Ethernet cable.
Connect the external keyboard to the headless computer.
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You can check whether it booted up and successfully initialized the Ethernet connection, by ping'ing the IP address that was specified in step 2c) from the laptop:
ping -c3 192.168.0.2
Step 4) Start the SSH server...
Unfortunately, the Arch Linux install CD doesn't automatically start its SSH server, and also it uses a randomized root password. To make SSH connections possible, you will have to use the connected keyboard to type in some stuff "blindly" (but it's simple enough):
type "passwd" (without the quotes)
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press ENTER
type in the same password again
press ENTER
type "systemctl start sshd" (without the quotes)
press ENTER
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Now you can open an SSH connection, by executing the following on the laptop (when it asks for the password, enter the one you chose in step 4):
ssh [email protected]
Step 6) Profit!
Within this SSH shell on the laptop, you can now do whatever you would usually do to fix an Arch Linux system from a live CD.
You'll probably want to chroot into your Arch root partition, which is very easy thanks to the arch-chroot tool that is included on the live CD (replace "/dev/sda3" with the name of the headless computer's root partition):
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt
If you set up IP forwarding as described in step 2b), then Internet access should magically work in this shell without any further configuration, so you can freely use pacman etc. inside the chroot.
Enjoy!
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It is definitely able to recognize the USB and DVDs as separate drives; it gives the option of booting from USB, and it gives the memory capacity of the USB drive I used as a live USB, and the memory used for the live CD. But when it comes time to actually boot, something is going wrong.
I would suspect it is a problem with the BIOS, if not for the fact that I had a similar issue on my previous system, which used a completely different motherboard. If it is the same issue, it would either have to be a problem with the DVD drive (although I don't know why it would be against loading some live CDs but not others) or perhaps the way I created the live CDs. Although, again, I don't understand why the Linux Mint 32-bit DVD would work fine, while both 64-bit DVDs would not.
I will try using a different DVD drive to boot the DVDs, and if that does not work, I'll try creating a new Arch live CD to see if I can resolve the issue. But if anyone has any ideas, it would still be greatly appreciated.

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I unplugged the computer for a few minutes to reset the "NVRAM". No effect.
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""To update anyone watching this, we tried putting the hard drive in a different machine and still had the same boot issues,""
Are you saying that the questionable HD was put in another computer and THAT computer had the same issue as the Professors?
If so I would just backup and erase the hard drive, reformat and reinstall everything as something buggered up the Boot Manager and your going to take more time figuring it out as to redo everything.
I don't think the HD is going out but you MAY have some bad sectors on the Mac partition, if that's the problem then the bad sector might be in the bootable part and thats why it can't boot. If you want to save the HD have a disk utility do a Surface Scan to make sure.
As far as not being able to boot into Safe mode, etc, if it had a bad sector it won't be able to read the boot part which is why you can still boot into the Install DVD.
You know, looking back at your original post if you can't boot into safe mode while pressing the Shift Key after the bong, can't boot from an external HD or any of the other ways, then I would say it's a hardware problem.
Like I mentioned before, if you can put in another Dual boot HD from another machine into the Professors machine and it still won't boot into both OS's then you have confirmed it's a hardware problem.
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