Installation DVDs not booting. How to fix / where to start reading?

[lillil]

Hello everybody,

 

I've recently been trying to install OSX on the following hardware with the help from a friend: Gigabyte EG45M-DS2H (with Intel G45 IGP, F1 BIOS), Intel E2160, 4GB DDR2 800, IDE PATA DVD-ROM and DVDR, (HDDs see bleow);

 

I'd be willing to change to a dedicated videocard/NIC if my setup would boot any OSX/Hackintosh distro at all but so far I didn't get past a "still waiting for root device"-error on 3 individual 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 distros I testet (iDeneb something, iAtkos v7, SnowOSX_Universal_10.6(432)GM-v3.5).

 

I suppose my drive setup could be the problem as for safety reasons I plugged off my SATA HDDs and tried an installation from an IDE PATA DVD-drive to an IDE PATA HDD. I all three cases I got that "still waiting for root device"-error.

 

My friend supposed my PATA-DVD-drive might be the problem and I could copy the installation files directly to the PATA-HDD and boot it from CD or GRUB but as there are so many other possible problems about booting, partitioning etc. that I decided to ask for help here.

 

My current questions are: What might be the cause of my problems to boot any of the above installation media, how could I fix and what would be a good source of knowledge about booting, installation under my circumstances?

 

TIA lillil

[lillil]

I hope you don't mind if i push this up once.

 

Might dd-ing the "universal"-installation dvd to an individual partition on my harddrive be of help? What would I need to boot it then? Would a commandline boot from the installed be grub ok or would I need some other boor loader? How would the source and target partitions of HDD have to be partitioned/formatted?

 

Tanks lillil!