Jota07 Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Cheers mates. I'm new on this world, and I tried iPC, iDeneb and iAtkos v7, and I'm allways getting this annoying error "Still waiting for root device". I tried several solutions I found around the Web, but none worked for me. Please help me. I really want to install this on my PC. I just burned the iso to a dvd and tried to boot (with win7 installed but I'd format on the MAC installation menu if I get there..) Core2Duo E6300 Motherboard: MSI (i dont know the model right now) BIOS: Pheonix Award Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 It will be a drive error. AHCI or sata problemheres the homework http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cli...mp;oq=&aqi= I've read something about AHCI but my BIOS doesn't show any option related to AHCI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 What drives do you have you have not explained What drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 your dvd drive, your hard drive(s) did you read any of the link As I said on the main topic, I read a lot about the problem before opening this thread. I know that is something related to my HDD that is not being recognized. My DVD drive is Optiarc DVD RW AD My HDD is WDC WD250JS-55NC Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 ReallyAre they sata, pata? what bus are they on? I guess they are SATA. That is chinese for me. Lol. Where can I see that info? Thanks for your patience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 In windows, probably in device manager, or maybe a friend could help you. You really need to know this information . Do you know the chinese say its all dutch to me. Here you have the Everest report on both devices. Hope it helps: http://i48.tinypic.com/2ufbxhc.png http://i49.tinypic.com/2zfk1om.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 Ok You have a sata hard drive. Can you boot the IPC dvd, if so pick Drivers for Intel ICHx SATA chipsets & ACPI fix I only can get to the screen where i choose F8 or enter. If I choose F8 and the -v option, i get the error. If I hit Enter to start normally, I get to the Apple logo with a small "forbidden" icon over the logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 Try this boot flag rd=disk1s1 or rd=disk1s2 or maybe 2s1 or 2s2 Will give it a try. I tried rd=disk0s1 (I've seen the example rd=diskXsY and I though that the disk was 0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 Disk 0 is hard drive, in this case trying to boot off DVD drive usually if you only have 2 drives the dvd will be 1.Here are other boot flags to try as well Platform= this parameter sets the platform to use at this boot time. Examples of this flag are: platform=ACPI (ACPI support) platform=X86PC (non ACPI support) platform=ACPI|86PC (try to support ACPI if fails do not support it) I tried rd=disk1s1 -v and got this: http://i48.tinypic.com/33m4k8y.jpg This was with iPC. Then I tried iDeneb and it just rebooted when I hit enter after typing rd=disk1s1 -v Than I tried iAtkos and it stuck on the load: http://i48.tinypic.com/29m7g4g.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 Getting closer, am off to work now. Hopefully someone else will come on board, will check back later Thanks for your help. Time to sleep here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 Bump! Need Help :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Have you tried these yetplatform=ACPI (ACPI support) platform=X86PC (non ACPI support) platform=ACPI|86PC (try to support ACPI if fails do not support it) I've tried that before, now I need to try with rd=disk1s1? Example: rd=disk1s1 platform=X86PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 & rd=disk1s2 1s1 can be the drive & 1s2 the dvd itself Tried all the possible combinations. Still same error as reported on previous page http://i48.tinypic.com/33m4k8y.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Yes, all the solutions are for when the install is doneCan you borrow a DVD external drive or get some one with a mac to restore the installer to a flash drive It needs to be an external drive? Well, on my work we sell a macbook pro, is it enough? So, the problem is with my dvd drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Yes the problem is with the DVD drive setup Yes you can do it with the mac pro You use disk utility on the mac to restore the install DVd to a flash drive And then what do I do with the flash drive? Just plug it on my PC and boot from it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jota07 Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Yes thats the idea, hope it works Will try it tomorrow. I really wanted to make this work :\ Thanks for all the support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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