drunkenoaf Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Edit: Workaround stumbled upon! Use a USB drive with an appropriate partition to install on. Although your BIOS needs to support booting from USB. ======== I'm trying to install (presumably the myzar) 10.4.5 DVD onto (here goes) a 1.5Ghz Dothan Pentium M chip, in a Asus CT-479 daughterboard, in a Asus P4P800-VM motherboard. --I've trawled the forum and notice others have got that motherboard to work, somehow! I'm getting a "IOATAController device blocking bus" error, followed by (this) followed by "Still waiting for root device". Please, does anyone have any advice to overcome this? Help!!! No serial ATA hard disk has come near the machine. What I've tried is: Installing to an 8Gb Seagate ST38410A (8.4Gb) part, wholly devoted to it. It's been diskpart'd to be partition primary id=af, I've installed MacDrive 6 and formatted it as a HFS+ volume, I've even copied the contents of the 10.4.5 DVD onto that disk, to no avail. I've tried partitioning 10Gbs as HFS+ primary on a Maxtor 120Gb HDD to, as in here to no avail. I've even tried installing to 2 USB hard drives using the same cobo od partitioning then formatting as HFS+. Still the same error. However, if I attempt to install the image on a friend's laptop (a Sony vaio FS-115b) it gets all the way to the choose a partition screen. So the installer/ image seems to be ok. The error screen: Thanks for your time. Cheers, drunkenoaf Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17793-cantt-get-past-ioatacontroller-device-blocking-bus-asus-p4-p800-mobo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggyworld Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 I had this error while trying to install on an older hard drive. I switched to a different hard drive and the error went away. I ran alot of diagnostics test on the drive that gave me that error and it was fine. I even installed Windows XP on it without any issues. The hard drive did sound really bad though and would take long seek times so I thought it was going bad, but all the tests and Windows XP ran fine on it. Does your hard drive sound like it's clicking alot? If so, perhaps you need to switch to a different hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17793-cantt-get-past-ioatacontroller-device-blocking-bus-asus-p4-p800-mobo/#findComment-115473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkenoaf Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 The 120Gb maxtor HDD is relatively new -- 18months old. I get the feeling that osx86 is a bit sensitive over what HDD to use from your post. I'll scrounge around and see what I can borrow to try a few HDD out. Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17793-cantt-get-past-ioatacontroller-device-blocking-bus-asus-p4-p800-mobo/#findComment-115586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkenoaf Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Interestingly, putting a USB hard disk with a partition made HFS+ by XP's diskpart, then activated by Partition Magic 8.0 meant that the installer got past that bit. Then I could install to the blank Hard Disk by using Disk Utility to wipe it then installing onto it. Really odd! But a workaround nonetheless! Now I have 10.4.5 running, albeit without wireless, sound output (although input works!) and 1024X768 resolution only. *begins trawling the forums, wiki, etc* Yay! I have a Mac!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17793-cantt-get-past-ioatacontroller-device-blocking-bus-asus-p4-p800-mobo/#findComment-115797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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