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Ok hello everyone , iam kind of new to OSX in general my first time trying to install didnt went so

well , i have tried installing iDeneb V1.5.1 i think and every time no matter what flag i used i allways

got the "Still Waiting For root Device" allthrough i made a partition and made it active , switched my

HDD type to AHCI and it still wont do any good

 

My Spec is

AMD Phenom II x3 710 2.6Ghz (Opened the fourth core so now its)

AMD Phenom II X4 10 2.6Ghz

Gigabyte MA770-UD3 REV2

ATI HD4870 Vapor-X

4 Gigs DDR2 Ram

Logitech Wireless Set EX100 (i use the keyboard only) heard wierless do probs with OSX

Razer Imperator

SAMSUNG HD502IJ ATA Device 500G

now iam not an experet and i didnt yet figured out what is SATA or ATA and that stuff but both my

HDD and my DVD Burner are plugged in with SATA Cable which is this one

http://www.7shop.co.uk/images/sata%20hard%...ive%20cable.jpg

 

now i have 3 partitions i made

1 is system reserved (windows 7)

2 is C: which holds 250 G

3 is an RAW Partition which set to be active and holds 250G

 

please help me what do i do to get past the Still waiting for root device thing

btw i havnt got through the boot yet iam still stuck at the boot screen

now another prob i have with snow leopard is when i try and install it my pc reboots imidiatly

as i press enter at the boot screen so i tried leopard and got stuck with the Still waiting .. prob

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