On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 08:52 PM, Eric J. Leopold wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 08:48 PM, Eric J. Leopold wrote: > >> >> On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 07:36 PM, Will Schou wrote: >> >>>> Snip >> >>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> Thanks for the reply Will. What is the throttle? The CD -ROM is a new >> 24x Mashita and it's visable in 9.1 and mounts the X disc. So when >> you're installs stall, you just restart and restart? Do you dump any >> files that were written to disk or let the installer write over them? >> Gotta find out about this throttle. Thanks. >> Eric >> >> > > Oh! The throttle is found in XPF!! > Eric > >
Jacked it up to 24 and again it stalls looking for root device. It installs a Private folder and System folder. Eric -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
