Warped88 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Hi, guys. I'm new to all this, so bare with me... first, My system: Dell XPS 420 Q6600 4gb ram Nvidia 8800gt two internal drives, one with Vista 64, the other with the OS X install. (These are, obviously, not it a raid array). The OS X drive was formatted GUID. I successfully install iDeneb 1.6 lite. upon reboot, it goes right to Vista, so I'm not sure were the boot loader went. With the OSX DVD in the drive, I booted with rd=disk0s2 -v and it hung with "Still waiting for root device). I tried various combos of rd= just to be sure. I did ONCE manager to get into the install in safe mode (-x flag), but have not been able to since. Always "still waiting for root device" I did select some option during install that made sense (to me anyway) like nvidia injector, a fix for ICH9 ata and one or two others I can't remember now. So, I can't get in at all. Perhaps its the fact I'm not using the raid controller (which disables ACHI (that right?) ) be the problem? If so, I can rebuild the array, reinstall Vista, and then OS X (This vista is a pretty clean install, anyway, and all my stuff is backed up already). I would prefer not to, though. Bottom line, I'm confused with all the stuff I've been reading, and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201650-cant-boot-after-successful-install-ideneb-16-lite/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warped88 Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Never mind After I read and discovered there are problems when OS X is on the 2nd drive, I said to hell with it and wiped all my drives and started over. With OSX on the 1st drive, all is well and posting this from Leopard Only thing I had to troubleshoot (for now) was the nvidia driver. I used nvinjector at first, but I just got a blue screen. So, I booted into the dvd and replaced that with NVdarwin. I wasn't sure If I did right, but I must have as it seems to be working ok. Anything I should watch for as far as the vid card is concerned? Next step is to put Vista on the 2nd drive and mess with the bootloader. Shouldn't be too bad. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201650-cant-boot-after-successful-install-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1355415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 You probably need AHCI enabled in your BIOS. I'm unsure if that's linked to a RAID setting, but on my system it isn't. Play around with the options. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201650-cant-boot-after-successful-install-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1355436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warped88 Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Thanks, Jeremy. Yes, AHCI is linked to RAID in the bios, so only option was to start fresh with a new RAID array or do as I did above. I didn't want my disks in RAID, so... Anyway, having fun learning. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201650-cant-boot-after-successful-install-ideneb-16-lite/#findComment-1355728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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