> From: Eric J. Leopold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:53:24 -0800
>
> Last night and tonight I tried another XpostFacto install of Jaguar
> and in both cases a screen full of text stalls with the line: Still
> waiting for the root device. It waited all night. I reformatted the
> disk, reinstalled OS 9.1 and Classic and looked at the disk with
> Nortons 6. After the disk was error free, I tried XPF and AGAIN got
> the same message: Still waiting for the root device. Any ideas about
> other options to get this install unstuck?
> snip
> Eric
Waiting for root device can mean your CD Rom Player isn't being seen by
the machine. So it can't do the install. Sometimes changing the
throttle setting can help when you get this message or just not
installing problems. When using my old SCSI drive i didn't need any
throttle at all. My Quantum 13gb ATA drive hooked to the Sonnet/Acard
ATA 66 PCI card needed a small amount of throttle say 8 or so. My
Seagate 40gb drive seems to need full throttle of 24 in order to nearly
always boot ok. There is no good reason to wait all night when you get
the waiting for the root device message ;-) I have found that if I get
this message more then about twice it is time to do a force restart (
control, apple and power keys) It just isn't going to boot. The last
time I did a reinstall I had to force restart 3-4 times before it
worked. I have no idea why. Did my last install of OSX on Sept 27,2002
this is the longest I've gone between new installs. I've ran OSX for
over 2 years and used to do a new install every few days it seemed. I
am now using OSX Jaguar as my main OS for over a month and liking it a
lot. OS 10.2.2 runs great boots faster and no problems yet except Toast
crashed when I tried to burn a CD but it may have been the file I tried
to burn not sure yet. Best of luck. Will S
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