aderae Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 First of all hello. I'am reading insanelymac forums almost 6 months now. I tried several times installing hackintosh before and almost all of them failed after installation finishes. Finally I made my preparations, burned almost all releases and decided to try once again. First of all my spec; - Sapphire pure element (PE-AM2RS485M) Main board - AMD 3800+ X2 Cpu - Sapphire ati radeon 3650 HD Gpu - Seagate 160gb IDE Hdd - 4gig Ram Releases I tried; - Kalyway 10.5.2 - Leo4all v1 10.5.2 and v3 10.5.4 - Lawless & Phenom 10.5.4 - iDeneb v1 10.5.4 My Problem; Installation and partition always goes smooth on all releases. I'm formatting as HSF journaled and installing as MBR. Installation doesn't take too long and finishes in like 10-20 minutes. After the first reboot in ALL releases I see gray background and apple logo and stuck here. On some releases like after 10-15 seconds later a sign comes up like no smoking sign near apple logo. I tried booting as -v -f -x and even setting my hdd manually. No result. Always stuck at still waiting for root device. I tried almost all combinations and almost everything that happen to fix this issue time to time. But no luck yet. I also tried installing in VMware (10.5.X releases never installed but I could install JaS 10.4.8) and its the same. After the first boot, I stuck @ still waiting for root device. Any help would be much appreciated. Ade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 There seems to be a problem with IDE drives. Try booting from install disk and install a patched AppleIntelPIIXata.kext to get IDE drives working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whip187 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I had the same issue when trying to install to a newer SATA drive. Change the install to IDE and it worked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderae Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 How can I boot from install disk ? When I try to boot with cd inside my drive, darwin only sees the option to boot from cd-rom and then I see installer again. @whip187: I'm already using an IDE harddisk not SATA. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderae Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drudess Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Hi you haven't really put in any information that can help too much with diag ... have you looked at the logs in /var/log/system.log at where it fails what's the last thing you see when you boot with -f -v I agree with the first answer you probably want to look at the ide/sata drivers but you need to know where it's falling over Latz DrU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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