johnlocke2342 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Hi. For the past months, I've been trying to install OS X Leopard on my PC desktop. I downloaded IATKOS, iDeneb, Leo4all, and finally Kalyway 10.5.2. This last one is the only one on which the installation process started, but it doesn't recognize my HD. Yesterday, I downloaded iPC 10.5.6 and I just finished installing it on my PC, but it doesn't boot at all: I have a "Still waiting for root device" error. I've been looking in the wiki and I searched the forums with no result. Here are my specs: AMD Athlon X2 Processor 2 GB RAM nVidia GeForce 9400 GT 200 GB SATA Hard Drive (Windows 7 Beta is installed on it and is working well) Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlocke2342 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas86 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Try to set SATA mode to IDE or something else, NOT AHCI. This may cause this problem. Try to name your HDD partition for MAC OS X in just one word like: MACOS not MAC OS. Or it could be your motherboard incompatibility... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlocke2342 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 SATA is already set to IDE, and I don't see an AHCI option. I'll try to rename the partition, but how? I have a PS/2 keyboard and an USB mouse so I can't rename it within the installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
de_autojohn Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 try to boot with: cpus=1 -v -x -f -c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlocke2342 Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 "Still waiting for root device" It looks like I also have a firewire error just before : "Firewire unable to determine security-mode: defaulting to full secure" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlocke2342 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Any help? BTW, I'm not sure of the options that I choose to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlocke2342 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Help, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpv123 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Have you apply ppfs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Your motherboard uses the SB400 chipset I think so make sure you have installed it during install. Do not select more than one chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaDoo Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Hello, i have the same error. Have tried several images, only the iPC Final 10.5.6 worked yesterday on my machine. Asus P5N-E SLI Chipsatz: nVidia 650i + Realtek Soundkarte and Creativ X-Fi Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHZ GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 2GB Ram IDE0 Master HDD IDE1 Master DVD Player Installation was okay... Have formatted the HD with Disk Utility and using GUID as Bootloader. At the Custom Settings i used the default Kernel (Vanilla) have only installed a few driver. And now, if i want to boot the installed Mac OS X my pc says: Still waiting for root device. BUT WHY?!??!!? jMicron COntroler is Enabled and FireWire, too. Have s.o. an idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaDoo Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Finally I have a soloution for this board! My Installation looks like: You need an IDE HDD at IDE0 Master. An IDE DVD Drive at IDE1 Master. An USB Keyboard + USB Mouse. iPC 10.5.6 Final release. At first BIOS Settings: -> Advanced -> Onboard Device Configuration: HD Audio Enabled nVidia LAN Enabled Rest Disabled -> Advanced -> Onboard Device Configuration->IDE Functions Setup: SATA Controller 1, 2 Disabled SATA Port 3, 4 Disabled Rest Enabled Insert the DVD and press F8 at the prompt and boot with the flag -v. Make a partition with Diskultility using the GUID record. Customize your installation: NVKush AppleNForce ATA Dual Boot Time Sync Apple SMIOS-27 Rev 3 Mac Pro Chameleon with DSDT Custom Boot Picture All Applications except AMD After the installation you have to install the LAN driver http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=125569 and the Audio driver ALC883 (Use the search funnction). Have Fun! P.S.: After the installation you can enable the SATA Controller and use the SATA Hardware under Mac OS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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