Sonnet Installer? |
September, 02, 2002 11:45 PM |
flynjmac |
Hi, I was wandering if you knew of any complications caused if I used the Sonnet Installer package to initially install OS 10 and the went to xpost for 10.2 upgrade. I have tried using the Sonnet installer to install 10.2 and have failed every time. I was using Xpost to Install os X from 10.0.3 up to 10.2 and everything worked great for about a month until last Friday when it just wouldn't complete it's startup. Looking at it in verbose mode, I got a lot messages like: "getDependencyListFORkMOD():extension"oldworld.support.Pat chedIOSCSICDDrive"cannotbe found. Load_Kernel_extension():Cantgetdependencies for Kernel extensions"oldworld.support.PatchedIOSCSICDDrive". Waiting for Root Command I also got something about AppleCurio could be found but I cannot remember the exact wording. I tried reinstall 10.2 with Xpost 2.2 all weekend and it kept failing everytime so I went to the Sonnet Installer that I had saved to see what would happen and I was able to get to 10.1.5 but I can't see my scsi drives. I was going to try to go back to xpost, so back to the original question. Can I use xpost at this point after having done all the original installations with Sonnet? Thanks, Jack |
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RE: Sonnet Installer? |
September, 03, 2002 1:07 AM |
OSXGuru |
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The messages about kernel extensions which would not load are normal. Some of the extensions only are needed in certain versions of Mac OS X, so they are set up so that they will not load in other versions. If you're getting the repeating "Waiting for root device" message, that means that there is a problem accessing your boot device. I'm not sure why that would stop working--it sounds as though it did not correlate with a change you made. Which machine are you running on? It's been a long time since I took a close look at Sonnet's installer. --I suppose I should really pay more attention to the competition :-) I'm not entirely sure what issues might come up when trying to switch from Sonnet's installer to XPostFacto. The main issue would be whether any of Sonnet's extensions might be left intact, and whether that might cause some problems. Do you have a list of the kernel extensions that Sonnet's installer uses? If they have the same names as XPostFacto's (at one time, they mostly did), then when you get XPostFacto to install its extensions, it will remove Sonnet's in the process. (Of course, Sonnet has an extra extension for their CPU cards, which would probably work alongside XPostFacto--I haven't tried it, though). Sorry I can't be more definite on that. |
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