leotyranus Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 I have tried to install both iDeneb_v1.4_10.5.6 and iPC's 10.5.6 release (with and without nforce patch) iPC fails at the boot loader and reboots with no chance for writing the error message down. <- I gave up on. iDeneb_v1.4_10.5.6 makes it to the loading screen and gets the still waiting for root device error. I'm using a Gateway DX4720-03 w/ AMI BIOS. I've seen suggestions to change the SATA MODE in BIOS, this isn't an option for me. The BIOS has it greyed out. I can't upgrade the BIOS, nor find a modified version allowing SATA MODE changes. The Motherboard in the machine is an MSI MS-7339 (Nforce 6 630i/Geforce 7100) which I can find nothing for anywhere on the internet except a few scattered message boards discussing SATA issues with this same problem but dealing with Windows XP installs. I refuse to believe there isn't a single person on this planet that hasn't found a work around, a hacked bios to get ANY OSX86 release to run on this hardware. I am literally at my whits end over this. countless coasters and reboots. So I would like whatever help you can render, and if there is no help out there I want someone that KNOWS the situation on this issue to tell me to cut my losses and GIVE UP on OS X PERIOD. Or I want some kind of solution. I see so many people on these message boards with issues, and so many that have successful installs but I see no one that has my issue or a way around it. It's disheartening. And some of these technical threads claiming to have workarounds are so horribly constructed as to make reading them a chore that numbs the mind and wounds the soul. Please Help me. My e-mail address is cannabisleo@gmail.com I don't expect e-mail, I don't expect any replies, I don't expect any help. I truly think no one on this planet knows or has a method to get around this that works. Prove me wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leotyranus Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 Like I thought, no ideas, no suggestions, no one that knows anyone that has a workaround, no one that knows someone with this chipset. Looks like I'm SOL on this one. If anyone knows a distro that works on a SATA MODE forced to RAID. Help a brother out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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