Tim, what are you refering to by "low level formating" of your 18gig drive?
Also, to anyone following my saga, I've corrected the pin set up on the Apple Sony CD-rom I used in place of my Yamaha "toaster", but alas once again as XPF was working its installation to my scsiHD (newly formated and partitioned (7.5gig for 10), it showed "xbooting" and then a window came on and said "Can not complete your request because of disk error". Why is it showing this message? The HD "disk" is new, been newly formated, been checked by techtool, shows the two files XPF put on it. The CD-rom seems to be working fine, I did a test and reinstalled photoshop 6 without a problem. The CD itself seemed to start up fine earlier (When I was using the Yamaha burner CD-rom, it completed the booting process, restarted, showed the logo and then showed code, ending with "waiting for root" which lead "us" to believe the Yamaha was the problem). But this replacement is an Apple Sony from a 9500, so the conflict SHOULD have been resolved??? But this "disk error" is coming on BEFORE the booting, which in a sense has me going backwards, the "Yamaha" had gotten past this stage. So all you noble XPF wizards out there, whats the story? I thought perhaps its time to try XPF 3 but it wouldn't download from the www.opendarwin.org site. I'm very not computer savy and if anyone thinks there is a way to lead me step by slow step through another method of completing the 10 installation, I'd try it, but I have not been able to understand some of the directions so far because it seems you guys are thinking I understand what you're talking about! Seriously, I do very much appreciate the intention to help, but I'm such a novice at all this that I need step by step directions if I'm going to attempt to do more than the standard XPF installation. BUT, first of all, can anyone explain the "disk error" message and what to do about it? Thanks, Jim --- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 05:12 AM, jim > frisino wrote: > > > ....it had begun rebooting, then the Apple logo > came on > > and then the code came on ending in "waiting for > root > > message".) So any idea what this "disk error" is > > refering to and what I can do about it?#$*?? > > > > I checked the files that XPF had installed into > the > > HD; there are two, one titled "private" which I > didn't > > touch, the other "system", in which there were 130 > > items totalling 920k. Does that sound like XPF > > completed its installation, is there some way to > get > > it now to "reboot" into the 10 CD or is there > > something else I should do??? > > > The 'private' and 'system' files are installed by > XPF before the reboot > to enable it. I just reinstalled Jag on this 9600 > and also couldn't > get past the 'waiting for root' screen. After > trying about a half > dozen plus times, I low level formatted the 18 GB > drive that I put X on > (all 18 gigs mind you) and using XPF3, everything > worked! > > Just make sure you do NOT say 'erase and install' in > the install > options..... > > <!-- #EndEditable --></TD> > -- > Tim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1st/pci-powermacs list nanny > > Sig last modified > <!-- #BeginDate format:Am2 -->09/13/03<!-- > #EndDate --> > </p> > </DIV> > <!-- #EndLibraryItem --></TD> > </TR> > </TABLE> > </CENTER> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > > -- > 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/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! > http://www.applelinks.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- 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/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
