Kalle432 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Hi, first I just wanna say sorry for my bad english. Anyway. I've tried with many different releases and all i get is this damn" still waiting for root device" error. The solution is to switch the harddrive as primary master. How am i supposed to do this on a laptop? Btw i am using a Acer Aspire 5100, i think the harddrive and cd-reader is IDE. Thanks! Edit: And btw, according to my BIOS my harddrive is IDE 0. If thats any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129819-how-am-i-supposed-to-set-harddrive-to-primary/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
candykane Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 what version of leo are you trying to install? i had problems with leo installations till i found leo4all v3 till then all my previeus installations did not work because i was using ide drives. . well if you have an other working mashine you could always use the flat image method (hocking up you hard drive to an other computer and installing a preinstald back up ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129819-how-am-i-supposed-to-set-harddrive-to-primary/#findComment-919906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle432 Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 what version of leo are you trying to install?i had problems with leo installations till i found leo4all v3 till then all my previeus installations did not work because i was using ide drives. . well if you have an other working mashine you could always use the flat image method (hocking up you hard drive to an other computer and installing a preinstald back up ) I've tried Kalyway, Leo4AllV4.1 and now i tried JaS OSx86 10.5.4. And it didn't work either. I'll try out Leo4all version 3 soon. But can you tell me more about this "hooking up drive to another computer method" Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129819-how-am-i-supposed-to-set-harddrive-to-primary/#findComment-919911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
candykane Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 sure here is an old installation guide but nothing changed in the installation proces http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=68934 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129819-how-am-i-supposed-to-set-harddrive-to-primary/#findComment-920261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalle432 Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 sure here is an old installation guide but nothing changed in the installation proceshttp://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=68934 I will try that out tomorrow! Thanks for the reply. I'll probably be back with more problems . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/129819-how-am-i-supposed-to-set-harddrive-to-primary/#findComment-920337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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