On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:55 AM, jim frisino wrote:
I'm the Umax S900 "new to 10" guy, still trying to get prepared for the big jumb!
Thanks for the help on the partitioning question, think I have the full picture on that now. But I'm not as clear on the black screen potential blow out. In a previous email it was explained that it had to do with probelms with "non-bootable" CDs (I believe?). Does that refer just to the CD used to install 10 or does it refer to all CDs from here on out? How would you know if a CD is going to boot or not boot? Can someone give me the very specific does and don't to avoid this potential black night of the soul? When you install any CDs should you be using the "c" key? Sorry if this may seem very obvious, but I'm not very savy about all this, I appreciate all your help.
Thanks, Jim
Hi Jim,
AFAIK the black screen will occur with all disks save the OS 9.1 system disks when you try to boot with the ''C" key. Any OS X disk used as a boot disk, the new Nortons 7, TechTool Pro 3.09 and Disk Warrior 3 will all cause this problem when used as a boot disk. This happened to me (always the dis-believer-idiot?) with each.
Earlier versions of the 3 products are OK and there are no problems booting into 9.1 from these earlier disks (Nortons 6, TechTool Pro 3.04 and Disk Warrior 2). I think any boot disk has to be carefully considered as to it's incompatibility. But there aren't those many instances where you need to boot from a CD except to do maintenance from an early version of DiskWarrior.
Since I've installed X on 2 S900's last year, I haven't kept up with Ryan Rempel's advances with the latest XPF. WillS has posted that this black screen issue has to do with a firmware issue in the S900.
When you see that screen go black, you sigh. But you now know your course. Open the box and pull the battery again. It helps to mentally say in a chant "I'm not stupid, it happens to make me strong."
Eric
PS I cc'd to me & u as I was having a mail to the list problem
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