Installer will not load

[MetalFanLiam]

Hey guys, new computer and new problem. I have attempted to boot off two kalyway distros, 10.5.1 and 10.5.2, however, they all result in the same error. My computer is indeed 64bit, but is x86-64, meaning i can run 32bit software as efficient as a 32bit computer could. However, after the darwin prompt appears, and i boot, it loads up the drivers, but then shows a glimpse of the second black screen with white text (the one that shows kernel panics etc) before rebooting. I have tried -v, -x, and all results in the same thing. If i try cpus=one (because i have a quad core processor), the second black screen loads up, however, i get the error of "Waiting for root device". I have to harddrives installed, one IDE, and one SATA. My cd/dvd drive is SATA. The IDE has no slave, as far as im aware of. I have a partition situated on the SATA and IDE drives. The structure is below:

 

SATA DRIVE - 500GB

PARTITION 1 (/DEV/SDA1) NQSERVICE - ACER RECOVERY - NTFS

PARTITION 2 (/DEV/SDA2) VISTA HOME PREMIUM 64BIT - NTFS

 

IDE DRIVE - 160GB

PARTITION 1 (/DEV/SDB1) LINUX UBUNTU X86_64 8.10 - EXT3

PARTITION 2 (/DEV/SDB2) LINUX-SWAP - SWAP

PARTITION 3 (/DEV/SDB3) FAT32 PARTITION ( FOR OSX86 )

 

This current computer has the following processor info:

 

Number of cores 4 (max 4)

Number of threads 4 (max 4)

Name Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700

Codename Kentsfield

Specification Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz

Package Socket 775 LGA (platform ID = 4h)

CPUID 6.F.B

Extended CPUID 6.F

Core Stepping G0

Technology 65 nm

Core Speed 1599.9 MHz (6.0 x 266.7 MHz)

Rated Bus speed 1066.6 MHz

Stock frequency 2666 MHz

Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T

L1 Data cache 4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L1 Instruction cache 4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

L2 cache 2 x 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

FID/VID Control yes

FID range 6.0x - 10.0x

max VID 1.300 V

Features XD, VT

 

and the following chipset info:

 

Northbridge NVIDIA GeForce 7100 rev. A2

Southbridge NVIDIA nForce 630i rev. A2

Graphic Interface PCI-Express

PCI-E Link Width x16

PCI-E Max Link Width x16

Memory Type DDR2

Memory Size 4096 MBytes

Channels Single

Memory Frequency 400.0 MHz (2:3)

CAS# 6.0

RAS# to CAS# 5

RAS# Precharge 5

Cycle Time (tRAS) 17

Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 24

Command Rate 2T

 

Obviously, the fat32 partition in my IDE drive is designated for OSX86, and i wish to erase the fat32 into HFS+ extended, which i plan to install OSX86. I am not sure whether it is an issue with my computer architecture (64bit) or my harddrives. I do not know how to remedy this situation. Any help is appreciated. The waiting for root device is really annoying.

 

Thanks,

MFL

[Dark Horse]

My understanding is that a "Waiting for root device" error indicates that you need to select an I/O chipset. For example I selected the "intel ICH10 SATA support" chipset in iPC 10.5.6 for my notebook (because it matches the chipset in the notebook), and that "Waiting for root device" error disappeared.

 

dh