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HP Mini 110 – Still Waiting For Root Device
Jan 4th
I installed a new 500GB, 7200RPM drive into the HP Mini 110 netbook and proceeded to install Snow Leopard on it.
Upon booting from the USB drive (made with Netbook Installer), I received an error on the apple loading screen (the ‘do not enter / no smoking’ symbol appeared). I restarted the computer and went into the boot options of the USB drive and selected verbose from the menu (use the up/down arrows to see the menu).
Upon booting verbosely, I saw the Still Waiting for Root Device message. After googling that message, it appeared that the error was common in the OSX86 world and was not usually easy to fix. Many different people having many different experiences with it. Some easily fixed, some not fixable.
To fix, I restarted the PC again and went into BIOS setup, changed the boot options to have the USB drive first in the list and the HDD second. It seems that whenever this error came up, switching the boot order resolved it. It didn’t really matter which drive was listed first, as long as you change it and save/exit the BIOS.
After I made that simple change, the Still Waiting for Root Device message went away and installation proceeded as it normally would.
System:
Model: HP Mini 110-1000
RAM: 1GB
HDD: Seagate Momentus 2.5″ SATA 500GB (7200rpm)
OS: Mac OSX (Snow Leopard 10.6.1)
2010 New Year’s Resolutions
Jan 1st
In no particular order…
- Drink less coffee
- Drink more water
- Build an iPhone app and get it published in the iTunes App Store
- Write a childrens book
- Take more family photos (specifically, focus on the family unit photos)
- Take more “Nick & Jen” couple photos
- Continue to not drink soda (been a few months already)
- Learn to speak Chinese
- Have more patience
- Eat healthier
- Continue to love and cherish Jen, Sam, Lizzy and the rest of the family
iPhone 3Gs Voice Control Issues
Jul 11th
I’ve really been enjoying the new iPhone 3Gs, a lot.
The voice control functionality is very nice and helps a lot when you want to start playing music or turn on shuffle mode, or make a call. Well, call almost anybody. There is one person voice control refuses to recognize. Who? Mom.
Me: “Call Mom mobile”
iPhone: “no match found”
Me: “Call Mom”
iPhone: “no match found”
Me: “Call Jen Melchi mobile”
iPhone “calling Jen Melchi mobile”
I’ve had others try to “call mom” on my voice control, all to no avail. Voice control recognizes everyone else I want to call, just not “mom”.
Interesting, wonder why Apple doesn’t want me to call mom using my voice.
Anyone else having the same issue?
iPhone AFP Share
Nov 11th
Erica Sadun posted about this over on tuaw.com. Thought I’d try it out for myself. Seems to work quite nicely, minus a couple minor things.
1. Copies over to the iPhone quite easily
2. Using the command provided (/opt/iphone/afp/startserver.sh. &) the AFP server starts on the iPhone and stays running for some undetermined amount of time (one of the items that seems buggy to me)
3. Via the Mac, accessing afp://<ip address> brings up the usual apple share dialog (see screenshots on tuaw).
4. Once authenticated, you are in and ready to go…
The author talks about enabling Bonjour, which I haven’t done, yet.
The other item that I noticed was that after a couple hours, I wasn’t able to reconnect back to the iPhone via AFP. Multiple attempts crashed Finder in Leopard. Attempting to start the AFP server again on the iPhone produced a message indicating the service was already running or in use.
Only after rebooting the iPhone and restarting the service, was I able to get back in via AFP.
I’m sure we’ll see a ton more development on this in the near future. A GUI to manage the starting and stopping of the service would be a crucial next step.
Credit to creator:
http://wickedpsyched.net/iphone/afp/
Apple Searching for iPhone Hacks
Oct 29th
I see you Apple…
Someone from apple.com did a google search for IGXP2 google code and my site happened to be the firstresult.I wonder why an Apple employee would be searching for applications that only run on hacked iPhones…The first block is them clicking on my site from the google search results. The second and third appear to befrom an RSS feeder from the same person.
***Referrer:http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=igxp2+google+ code&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 ***Server Name: nickmelchi.com***Browser Information: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en)AppleWebKit/522.11.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Sa***IP Information: 17.201.43.170 -> a17-201-43-170.apple.com
***Server Name: nickmelchi.com***Browser Information: AppleSyndication/54***IP Information: 17.201.43.170 -> a17-201-43-170.apple.com
***Server Name: nickmelchi.com***Browser Information: CFNetwork/129.21***IP Information: 17.201.43.170 -> a17-201-43-170.apple.com