Rakurai Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 My mb is an ECS nForce4 socket 939 with an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core, onboard PATA and SATA. I have successfully installed LawlessPPC 10.5.4 (I'm using it now), but I need 10.5.7 for the iPhone SDK. I am having problems getting the install DVD for iATKOS v7 (10.5.7) to boot, I get stuck at a "waiting for root device" message. I am using the same settings that I installed 10.5.4 with, not that there are many on my board relating to ATA. I am currently in a DVD as master/PATA drive as slave on primary IDE, although I have tried other configurations, including using an SATA drive. So, I assumed that my hardware configuration was not the issue, as LawlessPPC didn't have problems booting the install DVD. I used TransMac to strip the System/Library/Extensions.mkext, System/Library/Extensions/ and the mach_kernel (Darwin 9.4) from LawlessPPC installation DVD. I tried 3 different modified iATKOS DVDs, one with with Extensions.mkext replaced, one with both mkext and the Extensions folder replaced (with -f boot switch), and one adding the Darwin 9.4 kernel and using that instead of 9.5 or 9.7 from Chameleon. As far as I know, "that one should have worked" But it didn't. Same problem, waiting for root device. Where do I go from here? I would like to know *why* its not booting, instead of just trying another distribution. Is there more that needs to be modified for the installation other than kernel and kexts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188459-iatkos-v7-on-nforce4/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 restore your Iaktos V7 DVD on a Stick USB, install on it chameleon 1.0.12 and boot from USB stick an install Iaktos V7. Giorgio Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188459-iatkos-v7-on-nforce4/#findComment-1277935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 It is disk controller related problem. Read this i h a c k i n t o s h.com/2009/05/still-waiting-for-root-device/ Need to install an appropriate SATA/ATA/IDE controller driver cos it is not installed by default. e.g. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88335 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188459-iatkos-v7-on-nforce4/#findComment-1277961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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