boyce11 Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Ok, a hackingtosh noob here. Basically, wanting to multi boot with linux, xp and osx. have a spare 30gb partition for osx. Installing iATKOS, come across with the notorious 'still waiting for root device' error. I have searched for this, but havn't found any real fix. I don't really know anything about SATA and IDE drives.. so a quick insight would be helpful. any help would be appreciated. few specs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ SSE3 enabled ASUS M2n4-SLI 2GB DDR2 RAM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/125015-iatkos-v4a-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakine Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Ok, a hackingtosh noob here. Basically, wanting to multi boot with linux, xp and osx. have a spare 30gb partition for osx. Installing iATKOS, come across with the notorious 'still waiting for root device' error. I have searched for this, but havn't found any real fix. I don't really know anything about SATA and IDE drives.. so a quick insight would be helpful. any help would be appreciated. I also had problems iATKOS v4a. I've tried many things that people have suggested in various threads, but still couldn.t get past the Waiting for root device. What I finally did was ditch the iATKOS disk and downloaded and installed "Kalyway_Leopard_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_AMD" then installed "Kalyway_hackintosh_10.5.3_combo_update" then used Software Update to update to 10.5.4. Everything installed without a hitch using the above method. There is probably a simple way to get iATKOS v4i to work but I could find it. EDIT: Apple's Software Update will probably not work in your case because you are using an AMD processor and then would not be using the Vanilla kernel which I think is needed to be able to update with "Software Update" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/125015-iatkos-v4a-problem/#findComment-883775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyce11 Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 argh thats annoying... i had to wait forever to download iATKOS... not again.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/125015-iatkos-v4a-problem/#findComment-883816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leuchtturm Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Had the same problem here. I solved it on checking the SATA-Driver (in System I think) during installation of iAtkos v4. Hope thats it for you! Leuchturm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/125015-iatkos-v4a-problem/#findComment-884034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyce11 Posted September 9, 2008 Author Share Posted September 9, 2008 i come to no option to check SATA driver? i cant even get into the installation process Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/125015-iatkos-v4a-problem/#findComment-884660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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