shanepinch Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Hi everyone! this is my system: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (SSE3 Support) MSI MS-7349 Motherboard Chipset - NVIDIA nForce 560 1GB DDR2 Geil Geforce 7050 PV/Nvidia nForce 630a WD 160GB sata2 HD (I have WinXP installed on it) +WD 80GB sata2 HD (I want to install Mac on it) OK i've been trying to install mac on pc for awhile now with no success. I tried iAtkos v.7, iDeneb, Leo4all and kalyway and I got that stupid "still waiting for root device" message in all of them. I tried to change my BIOS setting accorrding to a guide that I found here but I don't have the CPU Feature menu in my BIOS so I gave up on that. I also tried to boot with F8 and write -v rd=disk1s1 to let my computer know which HD it needs to use but that didn't work either. Note: my 80gb HD which I want mac to be installed on is formatted to NTFS. Anyone?! PLEASE! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 To install OS X on a disk, it must be ether with no partitions at all e.g. blanc, or contain a FAT partition. OS X can only format FAT and some other partitions, but not the NTFS. So erase/partition the disk with GPartedLiveCD. Think about creating two partitions - one for Windows and one for OS X. Sure, if it's an OS X dedicated drive, then only one FAT partition is needed. On "still waiting..." problem. Read this i h a c k i n t o s h .com/2009/05/still-waiting-for-root-device/ You have a nForce chipset. So need an appropriate driver for that chipset. Not all the install disks do provide the particular driver. So find a distro that is known to have it. Read this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=99713 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t126095.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1294691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanepinch Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 To install OS X on a disk, it must be ether with no partitions at all e.g. blanc, or contain a FAT partition. OS X can only format FAT and some other partitions, but not the NTFS. So erase/partition the disk with GPartedLiveCD. Think about creating two partitions - one for Windows and one for OS X. Sure, if it's an OS X dedicated drive, then only one FAT partition is needed. On "still waiting..." problem. Read this i h a c k i n t o s h .com/2009/05/still-waiting-for-root-device/ You have a nForce chipset. So need an appropriate driver for that chipset. Not all the install disks do provide the particular driver. So find a distro that is known to have it. Read this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=99713 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t126095.html Thanks for the help, i'll try some methods and update. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1294719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanepinch Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 To install OS X on a disk, it must be ether with no partitions at all e.g. blanc, or contain a FAT partition. OS X can only format FAT and some other partitions, but not the NTFS. So erase/partition the disk with GPartedLiveCD. Think about creating two partitions - one for Windows and one for OS X. Sure, if it's an OS X dedicated drive, then only one FAT partition is needed. On "still waiting..." problem. Read this i h a c k i n t o s h .com/2009/05/still-waiting-for-root-device/ You have a nForce chipset. So need an appropriate driver for that chipset. Not all the install disks do provide the particular driver. So find a distro that is known to have it. Read this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=99713 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t126095.html ok i tried everything and I still get that message. what should i do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1294761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanepinch Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 ok i tried everything and I still get that message. what should i do? anyone knows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1294831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 You have a nForce chipset. So need an appropriate driver for that chipset. Not all the install disks do provide the particular driver. So find a distro that is known to have it. So find one that is named like "AMD only" or something. There are some AMD only versions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1294882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanepinch Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 So find one that is named like "AMD only" or something. There are some AMD only versions. I even downloaded JaS 10.4 (tiger) and it didn't work. what only amd versions are there? thx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191363-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1295654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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