On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 12:36 AM, jim frisino wrote:
Well I took the big plung and tried to install 10.2 on my Umax S900. Things didn't go too well. I partitioned the 18gig HD (9gig for 10, I have 3 other"mini" hd, one running 9.1) put in the 10.2 CD and started XPF. Designated the CD to load 10 into the partition, it restarted and then I got the apple logo. That changed to a black screen with code running. There was alot of it but I noted some and some in particular seemed to repeat.
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Still waiting for root device (This was repeating every couple of minutes, nothing else was happening)
I tried restating the computer, it did the same thing. I restarted it again with the CD removed, it did the same thing. I could not see what else to do so on the next restart I removed the plug. Thats were I'm at at the moment. Haven't tried to replug the computer or start it up again for fear of whatever is going on. Thanks and.... HELP!
Jim
Hi Jim,
This happened to me too. I looked in the archives of this list (bottom of Email).
Here's what happened then:
from the archives (search for: waiting for root device)
I just went through this problem. If your CD-rom will boot a system CD then it's probably OK. If it won't boot your S900, then your CD player may be at fault.
If your CD player is OK, then Will S. suggests opening XPF and in the menu select throttle and increase that to 24x. I tried this but it didn't work BUT my CD ROM was at fault.
So my cop out was to switch CD-ROM's from a second S900 I have that works. Will
S recommends trying the XPF install again several times if necessary as
stalled XPF installs are not unusual. Good luck.
Eric
That was then. So the same advice is good: Start the install over again from the beginning. Hopefully you don't have a bad CD player and you just need to adjust XPF.
Eric
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