MrSirIce Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Help please! I've now spent a whole day trying to figure this one out! I am a beginner and I am trying to set up Snow Lopard using iatkos s3 v2 The Chameleon bootloader loads just fine. But when I try opening the installation DVD it stops at the, now, very frustrating message: "still waiting for root device" I've tried so many methods from all over various forums and tutorials and the only one that does somthing different is "rd=disk1" witch ends in a loop The end is something like "Cannot mount root device - errno 19" motherboard: MSI MS-7350 Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz 2Gb RAM Do you need more info on my computer? Please help. I need the computer for work so if I won't get any progress tomorrow, then I'm going back to Windows7 Thank you -MrSirIce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSirIce Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share Posted September 21, 2010 Can you at least tell me if my system is compatable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixtherat Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Tried altering disk number rd=disk2 rd=disk3 etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boringghost Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 i got the same error with iatkos s3 what i did is set the SATA mode to AHCI in bios. it was IDE so i was getting the error, once i changed it to AHCI, OSX started normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSirIce Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share Posted September 21, 2010 I'ves seen some people say that but I can't find AHCI anywhere in my bios menu. But I can see some Raid/IDE options is that the same thing? .... And yes I've tried up to disk5 Thanks for your replies! tocla clarify I'm getting these errors during the install process Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Raid implies AHCI so try setting it to raid mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSirIce Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share Posted September 21, 2010 I have tried that... still the same. When I put RAID mode to RAID then a pop down menu comes down that says SATA1,2,3,4 all disabled. I've also been fiddleing with the SATA ports inside the computer but no luck. Please help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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