I've got an emachines d620 and when I install Mac OSX the damn thing won't recognize my boot disk, when I have it installed and enter back into Startup Disk it doesn't show my volume there just the DVD and Network startup. There are people on here that have had success installing Mac OSX on this very machine if anyone can help me I'd be very happy. I've tried Kaylaway and now i"m on iDeneb, is there one particular one that works better?

When Macosx was installed on the laptop and I did a -v it kept saying "still waiting for root" which I guess makes sense as it isn't finding my hard drive in the boot list, please help!

Its an AMD based system, incase anyone has anything to offer also it has an IDE drive, I don't know if thats any help.

If you need more info just ask I'll be happy to tell you.

You want to make sure that your hard drive is set to Master via the jumpers on the drive itself.

Hi, thank you for the post, I'm sorry that I omited the fact that this emachine is a laptop with only one hard drive thats what makes it so confusing.

Even when I set the section to Active it STILL gave me this error and would NOT show the hard drive in "Startup disks" utility .

This is my structure
0,1 some emachines crap partition
0,2 Vista
0,3 Mac
0,4 XP

Even when I made the Mac partition active it was STILL waiting for root .

I looked around and googled a bit but nothing helped fix the problem .

Can anybody PLEASE HELP! This isn't making sense with the other posts on the board, the answers I've tried DONT work.

What is the BEST version for me to use in this case???

So I tried the newest xXx verions of OSX and it told me that it couldn't find the VGA family specific driver, my laptop has a x1200 in it which isn't supported by that distro, is there a generic videocard driver I can use just to get me booted? how does it boot into the installer w/o the proper vga driver?

Why won't ANYBODY ELSE help me??? I've given all the info I possibly can!!!

well it seems like you got it to recognize your hard drive. I have the same laptop and used Leo4all distro. works fine for the most part. at the moment there is no driver for the ATI x1200 it probably loads a generic display driver (much like how safe mode works on windows) that brings out a resolution of 1024x768 which of course looks pretty bad on a 1280x800 display. keep me posted if you find some new things.

for me at the moment the display doesn't work properly and the wifi doesn't work natively (there are work arounds that i have yet to try) Ethernet works after loading the appropriate driver.

oh and on a side note. people here on this site do thier best to help. if they dont have a clue they wont reply since its best to keep quiet than to give false info. i too have posted regarding this laptop and no one has replied regarding it. i take it no one really has this laptop.

I was wondering if you ever found a workaround for getting the wifi working and how you got the ethernet working

What type of wifi card do you have?