Need Help with New Install on an AMD Machine with SATA Drives

[manic_panic]

Hello. Thanks in advance for any help you are able to give me.

 

I am trying to load leopard on my Dell Inspiron 531 for the first time with Kalyway 10.5.2 and I keep getting the dreaded "Still waiting for root device" error. I am attempting to dual boot with Vista. I have the boot screen working. I am hoping someone can give me some pointers on something I'm doing wrong. I'll start with a description of the hardware in my machine, and then I'll move on to what I did.

 

Dell Inspiron 531: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron#Inspiron_531

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.1 Ghz [sSE3]

MOBO: ASUS M2N61-AX

RAM: 2GB DDR2 800

GRAPHICS: ATI 3850 PCI-X

HDD: Western Digital WD3200AAKS 320GB SATA

DVD: GSA-H73N SCSI DVD+-R Burner

Wireless NIC: Linksys Wireless G PCI

 

 

What I did:

1. I downloaded and burned Kalyway 10.5.2

2. I partitioned off 50g from my HDD and left it unallocated

3. I setup all the files needed to dual boot with vista as mentioned in one of the tutorials (this is working fine)

4. I booted from my Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD and attempted to install in -v mode, but a few moments into the install I received the "waiting for root device" error. This happened after it attempts to load the Nforce drivers (it looks like to me anyways).

5. I swapped around my SATA cables and turned off HD sound in Bios and tried again with the same results.

6. I tried another configuration with the SATA cables and still received the error

7. I posted this

 

If you know of anything that can help me fix this problem, or you need me to go into more detail about something let me know. Thank you.

[manic_panic]

Any help you can give would be great. Thanks.

[MacNutty]

Root device means the device from which you are booting. Make sure that your DVD drive is primary master and your HDD is primary slave. Kalyway distro has a problem with IDE drives. You can also try using a external DVD drive it may work.