"Still Waiting For Root Device" Error

[natu]

I'm getting a "Still Waiting For Root Device" Error after install when trying to boot. Install went smoothly, I chose 9.2.0 kernal (not vanilla) Specs of my computer are:

 

Pentium 4 2.8Ghz with SSE3

MSI PT880 Neo Motherboard with VIA chipset

1GB Dual channel RAM

9600XT Vid card

160GB Western Digital IDE HDD

 

I tried this

 

Step One

Boot up using the LeoV3 DVD as if you are going to install Mac OS X again.

 

Step Two

Select Terminal from the Installer's Utility Menu.

 

Step Three

Now we are going to copy all the the ATA kexts from the install DVD to your hard drive. To do this enter a command like this:

cp -pr /Volumes/Leo4allv3/System/Library/Extensions/*ATA* /Volumes/MacHD/System/Library/Extensions/.

 

NOTE*: Replace Leo4allv3 with the name of your install dvd and replace MacHD with the name of your hard drive volume.

 

Step Four

Now we need to set the permissions for those kexts we copied

chown -R root:wheel /Volumes/MacHD/System/Library/Extensions/*ATA*

chmod -R 755 /Volumes/MacHD/System/Library/Extensions/*ATA*

 

NOTE*: Replace MacHD with the name of your hard drive volume.

 

Step Five

To remove the kextcache execute the following:

rm -rf /Volumes/MacHD/System/Library/Extensions.*

 

Note* Replace MacHD with the name of your drive volume.

 

Step Six

You may now restart your computer. I would suggest pressing F8 while booting and then entering -f as a boot option to force reloading of the kexts.

 

but in the first step, when I type it in the terminal, it doesn't work. that is "cp -pr /Volumes/Leo4allv3/System/Library/Extensions/*ATA* /Volumes/MacHD/System/Library/Extensions/."

 

But I didn't put the period at the end of the code, maybe that's why?

[jantunes]

Make sure you select your chipset driver on the options. That did for me.