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Dell Inspiron 5150 iAtkos S3 v2 'Still waiting for root device'


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It's a laptop with no onboard graphics... I could, but then I wouldn't be able to see the screen... :)

 

You may need to get another card that is compatible with Snow Leopard. From what I found your card working in Leopard.

 

You can try this boot file. I added a device property for your card but I can't promise it will work.

 

org.chameleon.Boot.plist.zip

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No, that doesn't seem to work either. It's time to splash the cash then... sigh.

 

Before, I booted just after I'd restored to the USB drive and it loaded the installer fully, GUI and everything, without finding the hard drive... was that a complete fluke? Just wanting to make sure if I am going to have to buy a whole new graphics card in order to make this work.

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I've tried the Chameleon .pkg installer 3 times now and it seems to think I have a Windows partition on the disk, even though the disk has only one partition formatted HFS+. Is there a reason / workaround for this?

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I formatted the USB drive NTFS, then restored the disk image. This converted it into an HFS+ filesystem I think. Next, I ran the Chameleon 2.1 r2064 .pkg installer, and this is what I get in the installer log:

 

Chameleon installer log - Sun Dec 23 14:36:20 GMT 2012
Installer version: 2.1svn 2064
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/dev/disk0
  #:					   TYPE NAME				    SIZE	   IDENTIFIER
  0:	  GUID_partition_scheme					    *161.1 GB   disk0
  1:					    EFI						 209.7 MB   disk0s1
  2:				  Apple_HFS Macintosh			   160.2 GB   disk0s2
  3:				 Apple_Boot Recovery HD			 650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
  #:					   TYPE NAME				    SIZE	   IDENTIFIER
  0:						    iATKOS S3 version 2    *8.0 GB	 disk1
======================================================
Backing up Chameleon files
Backing up /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1/Extra folder to /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1/Chameleon.Backups/2012-12-23-14h36/Extra
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Renaming existing com.apple.Boot.plist to org.chameleon.Boot.plist
Clearing options...
======================================================
Running Standard postinstall script
Target volume = /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1 on /dev/disk1
NOTE: Target has existing unrecognised bootcode in the MBR. Leaving as is.
Detected a Windows installation on this volume.
======================================================
Stage 0 loader not written to /dev/di.
Written boot1h to /dev/rdisk1.
Written boot to /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1 on /dev/disk1.
======================================================
Preparing to check target disk for previous installations.
Going to check the EFI system partition also.
Checking di.
Nothing found that could cause any problems.
======================================================

Windows is installed so that can remain the active partition
======================================================
Standard script complete
======================================================
======================================================
Running Post postinstall script
Target volume = /Volumes/iATKOS S3 version 2 1
===============================================
Unmount all volumes named EFI
======================================================
Post postinstall script complete

 

 

I completely wiped it of everything... how come it thinks I have a Windows install? This worked correctly straight away last time :unsure:

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