"still waiting for root device", the old problem

[haferflocken]

I am having great problems installing iDeneb 1.4.

 

My hardware:

 

GA-P35-DS3 Rev1.0

Core2Duo E4400

 

IDE HDD Master:

-Primary Partition NTFS (Windows XP installed)

-Primary Partition Unformatted (for Leopard), Active Partition

-Primary Partition NTFS

 

IDE DVD Drive Slave

 

These are connected to my mainboard via the only IDE connector that it has. I removed the SATA drive i have to exclude further complications.

 

Now i boot from the DVD just fine, although i get a kernel panic if i activate AHCI in BIOS, so i just stick to IDE mode. After all AHCI is only for SATA drives, and i dont have any connected.

 

Installation goes well and i select everything that sounds like my hardware, ICH9 stuff and so on (i reinstalled OSX like 8 time with varying the installed software, mind you, once i even installed everything from "chipset" out of frustration).

 

Now then the Installation is finished and it reboots. Now i do F8 and -v and get stuff like (not exact wording):

 

"USBOHCI check - controller will be unloaded across sleep"

 

and after some time i get "still waiting for root device".

 

Things i checked: master/slave setting. Like i said i reinstalled OSX about 8 times with different software checked, but i may have missed something. i tried the 2 ICH9 things in Chipset, the AHCI in Chipset, the micron thing in Chipset. Later i checked SM BIOS stuff, because i read somethign about that in the motherboard manual. i tried a lot.

 

Also i tried booting with AHCI in BIOS. Either i get kernel panic or i still get "still waiting for root device" error.

 

I would be so delited to get some help. Today until now i have spent 7 hours straight rebooting my PC and reinstalling.

 

What could be the problem and how do i fix it? i have now read so much about the problem "still waiting for root device". But i cant seem to fix it.

 

If you need more info please tell me. I do not know how to copy text from the -v output, so please tell me how to do that if you need some of that.

 

ps. is there some quick way of booting into win xp again other than using the Win XP cd to switch the active partition?