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Leopard boots on USB hard disk, not on the built-in one..


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I've installed Leopard on a Lacie USB 160GB disk drive and it boots good with Kalyway 10.5.2..

I've trayed to install the same version on the built-in hard disk, and Leopard says "Still waiting for root device", the same is with Leo4All 10.5.2.

How can i do?Can someone help me?

My notebook is a Pavilion dv6700, here you are its configuration:

 

Processor

Model : AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60

Speed: 2.01GHz

Number: 3618

Cores : 2 Units

Thread per Core : 1 Unit

Type: Dual-Core

Internal Data Cache : 2x 64kB,

Cache L2 On-board : 2x 512kB

 

System

System: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC

Motherboard Manufacturer QUANTA

Model 30D0

Chipset NIVDIA Nforce 520

SouthBridge NVIDIA ID044D Bus : ISA PCI PCIe USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus

MP Support : No

MP APIC : No

BIOS: Hewlett-Packard F.2A

Total Memory : 3GB DDR2

 

Chipset

Model: AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration

Front Side Bus (FSB) Speed: 2x 804MHz (1.61GHz)

Total Memory : 3GB DDR2

Memory Bus Speed: 2x 335MHz (670MHz)

 

Video System

Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS (256MB DDR2, PCIe 1.00 x16, SM 4.0)

 

Phisic Memory

Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 160GB (SATA150, 7MB Cache) : 149GB (C:) (D:) (G:)

TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N (ATAPI, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) : N/A (E:)

ZV4483K VPD703C (ATAPI, DVD+-R-DL, CD-R) : N/A (F:)

 

Logic Memory

Vista (C:) : 127GB (NTFS) @ Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 160GB (SATA150, 7MB Cache)

Leopard (G:) : 11GB (HFS+) @ Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 160GB (SATA150, 7MB Cache)

HP_RECOVERY (D:) : 10GB (NTFS) @ Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 160GB (SATA150, 7MB Cache)

CD-ROM/DVD (E:) : N/A @ TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N (ATAPI, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache)

CD-ROM/DVD (F:) : N/A @ ZV4483K VPD703C (ATAPI, DVD+-R-DL, CD-R)

 

Controller LPC Hub 1 : HP MCP65 LPC Bridge

Controller LPC Hub 2 : HP MCP65 SMBus

Periferica Audio : HP MCP65 High Definition Audio

Codec Audio : Conexant Systems ??? (5051)

Porte Seriali : 1

Controller USB 1 : HP MCP65 USB Controller

Controller USB 2 : HP MCP65 USB Controller

Controller FireWire/1394 1 : HP R5C832 IEEE-1394 Controller

Controller di Sistema SMBus 1 : nVidia MCP5+ SMBus 1

Controller di Sistema SMBus 2 : nVidia MCP5+ SMBus 2

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When you are running OSx86 from the external drive: Do you have the proper .kexts loaded for your motherboard chipset? Does OS X "see" your internal drive? If you run the Disk Utility, can OS X partition and/or format your internal drive?

 

If it can: Boot using the Installation DVD. Use the "Disk Utility" to create a Disk Image of your external drives OS partition. Reboot. Boot up using the external drive. Use "Disk Utility" to "Restore" the disk image you just made onto the internal hard drive. You may have to make that partition bootable. Boot off the internal HD...

 

It'll only work if OS X is able to "see" (read and write to) the internal drive. If not, you have to fix your OSx86 installation so the main chipset is properly supported...

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