Layer3 Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I have a HP Pavilion a630n and have installed OSX before and went smoothly. But had to uninstall because HD was going out IT was a IDE. I bought a new second SATA The first one Was running XP and I updated my BIOS. I have then tryed to install OSX on the new SATA HD but get a NO smoking like icon ontop of the grey apple screen win I try to boot the DVD install. I dont know if this is because I took out my IDE or if it is because of my BIOS update.!??? Does anyone know of or had the same problem.. Hear are my sys specs. Thanks Hardware Base processor Intel Pentium4 520 (P) 2.8 GHz * 800 MHz Front side bus * Socket 775 (Grantsdale) Chipset Intel 915G Motherboard * ASUS name: PTGD1-LA * HP/Compaq name: Grouper-GL8E * Motherboard specifications Memory Component Attributes Memory Installed 512 MB Maximum allowed 4 GB (4 x 1GB) requires the replacement of the installed 256 MB DIMMs Speed supported PC3200 MB/sec Type 184 pin, DDR SDRAM DIMM slots Four Hard drive * 160 GB SATA * 7200 rpm CD-ROM drive 48X maximum speed Multi-media drive 8x DVD+RW/CD-RW Type Attributes DVD+R Write Once 8X DVD+RW Rewritable 4X DVD ROM Read 12X CD-R Write Once 24X CD-RW Rewritable 10X CD-ROM Read 40X Power DC5V, DC12V Video Standards PAL, NTSC Modem PCI K56flex data/fax modem Video graphics Integrated graphics with up to 64 MB shared memory for video Sound/audio Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17104-updated-bios-and-now-osx-wont-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suser Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 That sign you see is the indication for the "Waiting for root device" issue. Search the forum, you might find an eventual solution. I don't know it. Sorry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17104-updated-bios-and-now-osx-wont-install/#findComment-110526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 seems that there's a problem with your sata controller maybe it's not supported i dunno Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17104-updated-bios-and-now-osx-wont-install/#findComment-110565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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