r3dd3vil2 Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Hello, I'm trying to get my own hackintosh working. My specifications are: Mobo: GA-K8NS (F19 Bios) Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Graphic Card: Ati Radeon HD 4650 I need to know if any distro would run with these specifications. I tryed to install iPC 10.5.6 but all I get is a "still waiting for root device", and if I force it to load disk0 (rd=disk0) then it hangs after trying nfsboot... As you can see, I've tryed and googled a lot before posting here, but I'm desesperated... I need to know if is possible to run hackintosh on my system, or if it'd be impossible. Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everett Glovier Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Are you using "rd=disk0" or "rd=disk0s2" the "s2" is important in identifying the partition. I had the same problem and that fixed it. I also had a problem with "disk0" as I had two hard-drives and I was on "disk1" Maybe that'll help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3dd3vil2 Posted September 28, 2010 Author Share Posted September 28, 2010 Thanks for fast answer Well, I don't have any specified partition ready for the installation, I thought that I was going to create my partition once the installer starts... Then my problem is that I need to create a partition first, and then load installation from the cd ? Please can u explain which kind of filesystem my new partition need to be ? (I'm gonna do the partition from Ubuntu (GParted)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everett Glovier Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Ok I may have been wrong here I apologize. If you are trying to get to the installer then the root device should be the cd/dvd drive. But, if you have a hard drive in your computer, your cd/dvd drive will most likely be drive 2. So, with one harddrive, your command would most likely be "rd=disk1" With two hard drives "rd=disk2" Etc. I am still really new to this and am pretty much stuck right past the point you are but I did get past the "still waiting on root device" screen. Sorry about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3dd3vil2 Posted September 28, 2010 Author Share Posted September 28, 2010 Ok, then I've to point rd to my dvd drive, right ? Well, I've been trying disk1 and disk2 (my harddisk drives) so I think my dvd should be disk0 ... I'm gonna try and see if disk0 is beeing detected correctly Thanks, I'll post when checked this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3dd3vil2 Posted September 28, 2010 Author Share Posted September 28, 2010 There's no way ... I tryed with rd=disk0 (my first hd), rd=disk1 (my second hard disk) and both gave me nfs_boot failure... If I try disk1s4 or disk0s4 (they're both partitions with hfs+ file system) I get a distinct error: devfs_kernel_mount: failed to find directory '/dev' ... So I think that what I have to refer to with "rd" is the dvd drive because /dev is a folder in my dvd image... But I tryed rd=disk0 to disk5 and anything happens :S Please! Help me with this or tell me if it's possible to install any other like iATKOS V7 or sthing like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everett Glovier Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 That is the EXACT same error I am getting right now! That's why I told you to try the disc drive as your root device. Are you using and IDE DVD drive? I am and I am wondering if that may be giving us the trouble? I am downloading iDeneb and iATKOS right now to see if they work better. I should have then both tested in a few hours and I will let you know. I have never had this kind of trouble with a hackintosh. A friend of mine told me iPC has problems and recommended iDeneb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 When booting from an Installation DVD, "Still Waiting for Root Device" appears most commonly when: You're using a SATA DVD drive and the motherboard SATA controller is not set to AHCI mode in the BIOS. You're using a SATA DVD drive that's plugged in to an off-chipset, secondary SATA controller on the motherboard (Marvell, JMicron, Silicon Image) You're using a PATA DVD drive that is not jumpered and cabled as master device. You're using a PATA/SATA DVD drive and there is no driver for the drive controller that the drive is plugged in to on the installation CD you're booting from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everett Glovier Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 So, on install the DVD drive must be the master and the hard drive slave? That must be what's going wrong. If I have the HD as master will that definitely cause that? Update: Well, I switched the DVD drive to Master and completely unplugged all other drives and I still get the message. I even used the flags to try to manually get the drive. So, I guess the distro I'm using doesn't have the drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3dd3vil2 Posted September 29, 2010 Author Share Posted September 29, 2010 I've 2 IDE DVD-Drives and 2 SATA Harddisks ... My first DVD-Drive is as Master, and my 2 hard disks are as slave. So I think this is correct, right ? I tryed to search in my BIOS info about SATA/IDE modes, but nothing found (almost nothing,...) I recently updated BIOS to last one for my GA-k8ns (F21A) Any idea ? I got iATKOS v7 and I'm looking for getting iDenet (one friend of mine suggested this to me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everett Glovier Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I googled your board and found a few successes with it. Try googling it and seeing what distros those people used. I decided to swap my motherboard for another one with the same socket and now I have iPC working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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