buhmillion Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Yes, i have a custom built computer with asus A8n5x MOBO mith an nvidia chipset, Nvidia 8200 GT GPU, AMD athlon 64 bit processor, 2 gigs of ram, 250 gig drive, and two dvd players/readers. I have tried kalyway, iatkos, leo4all, iPC, ideneb, xxx osx, and the generic drivers image. please help me, i am desperate to install osX86. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 What's your problem? Need more info dude if you want help. Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buhmillion Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 iPC crashes after saying Extension "com.apple.itunesphonedriver" has no expliit kernel dependency. iDeneb, kalyway, and iatkos crash after saying SAM multimedia read write failed. xxx osx crashes after reporting that the voodoo kernel has panicked. all these crashes are followed by the "still waiting for root device" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 You've given no info on the computer at all other than model numbers. I mean are you using SATA drives or IDE? It seems like you might be choosing the wrong kernel and probably wrong chipset drivers. Double check what are you choosing. You are also making things harder for yourself by trying to install on an AMD rig. Intel rigs with the right hardware will install in a breeze. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's more foolin' around and someone without much knowledge will tend to struggle. Also what versions are you trying to install.....10.5.6......etc? Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buhmillion Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 im using sata for my HDD and IDE for both my CDrom drives. I'm trying to install 10.5.6 or later, since i will be using it for development. I know that AMD is much harder, but i don't have any alternatives. i am trying to install iATKOS v7 now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mija24 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Try using a usb or SATA dvd drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buhmillion Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Try using a usb or SATA dvd drive how would i image the iso to the usb drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I thinks he's saying to use a usb dvd drive. I think you really need to ditch the ide drive. I've had nothing but issues with using ide drives. Going SATA is the way to go. Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Edge3000 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 The "Still waiting for root device" means that the system has no driver for the DVD or Hard Drive it is running from. Since you've tried many different distros, I'll have to conclude that there simply is no such driver for you IDE. So either get a USB drive, or restore the DVD image to a partition on your hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1217921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sultanoswing Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I thinks he's saying to use a usb dvd drive. I think you really need to ditch the ide drive. I've had nothing but issues with using ide drives. Going SATA is the way to go. Chevy Interesting. I've had nothing but trouble with SATA and OSXx68 on my rig, worked fine with IDE only activated in BIOS - at least for first boot and install....but then I haven't tried to install much since 10.4.7, which ran fine. 10.5.x just didn't seem to want to play nice with my Nforce 250 M/B and SATA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178211-tried-many-distros-need-help/#findComment-1218189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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