Hey everyone, after installing OS X 10.1 on my Umax S900 for what seems like a million times, I jotted some notes in hopes that it will help others.. (and I came up with a few questions as well.
First, my hardware: Umax S900 with 3 SCSI internal drives: (2) 2 gig seagate drives, (1) 9 gig IBM drive Generic OWC firewire card and IMSTT 128M 8 meg card on PCI slots 1 and 2 respectively Generic 4 port USB card on PCI Slot 3 Panasonic CD Drive with Apple Flashed ROM (I can boot off the CD drive) 416 Meg Ram NewerTech 333 Mhz G3 upgrade card Now, my questions: I can get OS X 10.1 to boot pretty regularly--and its working great (so far) -Here's a problem: I tried updating 10.1 with the "Installer Update 1.0" which will allow me to further update OS X to 10.1.5. However, when I get to the point where I have to choose the hard drive that I want to install the updater, all my hard drives are grayed out. Anyone know why I can't install onto my main drive where OS X is installed? This has really been bugging me and I can't think of a solution. -Another issue: Whenever I try to install OS X 10.1 Server, I get a kernel Panic. Has anyone experienced this? What's so different about 10.1 Server that won't allow for a smooth install? Finally, my notes: -I originally couldn't get 10.1 to install because I kept trying to install on a second (internal drive). It turns out (for my case anyway), that I had to try to install on to the main drive (SCSI ID 0). -Also, it helped ALOT to play with the throttle option. At the default value of "8", I kept getting a "Waiting for Root Device". When I set the throttle to 18, things seemed to start working properly (most of the time). -For those times that I couldn't get it to work, it seems that if I did something drastic--such as disconnecting the other drives, or rotating the PCI cards, things started to behave normally. Maybe this is something worth looking into for the next revision of XPostFacto--perhaps when removing some hardware or changing some hardware from its current location, something happens that allows for the boot process to occur. For me, it seems that this was the only way to boot if the throttle option didn't work. I hope someone can help me figure out my issues posted at the beginning!! Either way though, its nice to see my old Umax running OS X!! --Bondster!! -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
