Whats wrong? does my PC have the supported hardware?

[pointpin]

When I boot up the disk and type -v I keep getting:

AppleNForceATA: warning: phy connection failed. status=0x00000000

AppleNForceATA: warning: phy connection failed. status=0x00000000

AppleNForceATA: warning: phy connection failed. status=0x00000000

AppleNForceATA: found 0 units

AppleNForceATA: found 0 units

AppleNForceATA: found 0 units

Still waiting for root device

 

I try all different commands and made my IDE drive the master. I don't know whats wrong how do I fix this? Could it be that my hardware isn't supported? By the way, I'm a total n00b. lol.

 

Here are my specs:

 

Mobo: ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 v2.0

RAM: 2GB

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+

Video Card: GeForce 9600 GT

HDD: 2 IDE drives and 1 SATA drive (I forgot what models they are and stuff, but let me know if you really need to know them)

 

Ya, so whats wrong? Im also using iDeben v1.4 for Leopard 10.5.6

 

Oh ya and ive heard about patches and stuff but I have no idea where to get them or which ones I need.

[Jonathan1966]

I'm just beginning in trying to install. But judging from what chipsets you have on that. OS/X wants your sata drive to be in AHCI mode which is fancy way of saying faking SCSI. This part had me screwed. Before I switched my linux from preview 32 bit to release 64 bit my windows would boot perfectly in AHCI mode but was no joy after I redid it. Took me hours to just basically bork up my windows install so it would reinstall and load the AHCI drivers when it could have been a simple matter of adding the driver and rebooting without Blue Screening.

 

After that. I could make an empty partition on it using gparted and finally figured out what apples version of format this disk meant. Now I've installed and set grub up to boot but i get a failure on boot because I don't think it can use my graphics card.

[pointpin]

I'm just beginning in trying to install. But judging from what chipsets you have on that. OS/X wants your sata drive to be in AHCI mode which is fancy way of saying faking SCSI. This part had me screwed. Before I switched my linux from preview 32 bit to release 64 bit my windows would boot perfectly in AHCI mode but was no joy after I redid it. Took me hours to just basically bork up my windows install so it would reinstall and load the AHCI drivers when it could have been a simple matter of adding the driver and rebooting without Blue Screening.

 

After that. I could make an empty partition on it using gparted and finally figured out what apples version of format this disk meant. Now I've installed and set grub up to boot but i get a failure on boot because I don't think it can use my graphics card.

 

I unplugged my SATA drive suring the installation so I don't think that has anything to do with it. Could it be that my IDE drives aren't in SCSI mode? How do I put them into it?

[Jonathan1966]

I unplugged my SATA drive suring the installation so I don't think that has anything to do with it. Could it be that my IDE drives aren't in SCSI mode? How do I put them into it?

 

IDE doesn't have an AHCI mode. I'd put everything you can on the ide's and then set the SATA drive up as AHCI and try to install to that. I'm sure theres some version you can install that will go on ide but kalyways wouldn't touch the drive without it being in AHCI, though some of the mac disk programs seemed to want to play with it in non useful ways.

 

Now I just figured out how to customize the install and I picked what I thought should work and it boots much further and then says it has to shut down. Rinse and repeat.