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Hey all,

 

Since I have a SATA disk with nForce4 chipset I followed this tutorial:

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...ATA_hard_drives

 

I installed Mac OSX 10.4.5 ( osx86_10.4.5_amd-intel_sse2-3.iso ) succesfully using all this steps. When running it straight from the disk using VMWare, it boots without any problem. But unfortunality, when I want to boot it, it hangs on "Still waiting for root device". I am pretty sure I installed the SATA driver succesfully, since it does load a few things and in the past, without the driver, it just totally ignored the mac os partition.

 

I tried the usual solutions for avoiding this message ( http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...e.22_message.3F ), but unfortunality this didn't help.

 

So to be honest, I don't have a clue where to search. There is only one thing that gets my attention when running the tutorial. When executing the command "kextcache -m /System/Library/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleVIAATA.kext" to add the SATA driver to the automatic startup, I get the following warning:

 

warning: kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleVIAATA.kext is missing dependencies (including in cache anyway; dependencies may be available from elsewhere)

 

Since the tutorial doesn't talk about these warnings, I presume this might be the bottleneck, though while booting I presume to see the SATA driver is loaded succesfully.

 

Does anyone have a clue for me where to search? Just one more fact, but I don't think thát matters: my harddisk is connected on the SATA-3 port, not the SATA-1. Ohw yeah, and I installed both the AMD support and the Intel-support...

 

Image:

 

DSC01742.JPG

 

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Specs:

 

DFI Lanparty nForce4 Ultra-D

AMD Athlon 3000+ (Venice)

GeForce 7800GT

Western Digital 200GB SATA (WD2000)

2048 MB memory

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Peter

The Netherlands

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