Sometimes you need to boot back into os9 after installing X. Something about the X installer moving files around and XPF needing to reinstall them. I have only vaguely heard of isolated problems like this with X.0.x, however, this extra step is REQUIRED with X.1 and up.
-Robyn On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Leon Sargent wrote: > When I run Xpostfacto on my copy of 10.0.3 and install it on my only > hard > drive everything seems to work until I get to the rebooting process. > When > we start up I get the good system icon and then it hangs for about 3 > minutes > and turns into a broken system folder. > > When I have booted in Verbose mode I can see that this broken system > folder > is when the screen reads "Still waiting on root device." If you wait > about > three minutes it will say it again and again until you reboot with the > OS > 9.1 retail cd. > > Does anyone happen to know why it can not find the root device when I > specified it in the Xpostfacto window. > > Lee -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
