Struggling to boot after KVM Switch
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  • Cocoon
    Cocoon
    Posts: 53 from 2026/1/10
    Hey all,

    I am a little confused to a boot situation I have at the moment. I installed a cheap KVM switch and the G5 became VERY slow to boot. I see the Radeon took a while longer than usual to init. Okay, fine, I can understand if the hardware has to get oriented to a new setup... etc etc.

    The machine would then boot occasionally to a black screen and would respond fine to CTRL Q then R to reboot and the Radeon showed its usual successful output on my serial debug upon every (failed?) boot.

    Booting from OF always gives me good video however. SO! I decided to issue a new boot command in OF for whatever reason and I am now getting an OF error " ultra1:,\\bootinfo.txt, unknown word, HERE= ffa23278

    I can "load" the boot.img and "go" and it boots up really fast with solid video every time.

    Any clues as to what I goofed up? How do I go about cleaning this up? There is plenty of hope seeing that I have a working system other than having Morph be the default boot system.

    TIA for any tips!

    G5 2.0 PCIE
    SSD
    No edits to bootinfo.txt
    Blessed it anyway...
    sd1: and ultra1: both show the same drive contents of DH0: I am new to OF but that seems odd. Both partitions give the above error...
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