MateuszD Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Hi there. Its my first topic here. Yep, I am a newbie about MAC OS. So, I have a PC which is quite unpopular I think, it's a Acer Aspire Z5610 with a touch screen. After I looked around forums and tried booting my PC with a retail MAC using about 5 different boot dvds, all of them failed giving either Kernel Panic or Still Waiting for Root Device error. Now I have played with my BIOS settings as my PC was not even able to boot Linux Installation and I maked it do so by disabling an option called Memory Hole Remapping (Phoenix BIOS). Now After disabling all other options (Intel VT, Intel EIST and Intel (something)) I managed to boot IAtkos v7 Installer. The problem is that with the same options Retail MAC is not able to boot and hangs at Still Waiting For Root Device. For me it sounds like missing SATA driver or something because Linux used to hang just after detecting my HDD. Now after explaining the situation thats my pc spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 MHz 4GB Ram, 1TB HDD (Hitachi HDT721010SLA360) Intel® ICH10 Family 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 3A22 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series Realtek High Definition Audio. I think thats useful information for the specialists like you. I am happy to provide even more if you need. What I want to achieve is making a boot DVD ready to boot my PC with retail MAC with your help. All help appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Is your SATA device configured as AHCI or IDE in BIOS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1410886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 15, 2010 Author Share Posted February 15, 2010 Tried both, AHCI and IDE and none of them booted in the installation. Normally its set as AHCI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1410944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 The "Still Waiting For Root Device" with retail Mac happens when you boot the DVD, or the installed system? Is the DVD drive IDE, and which controller is it connected to? What boot CD are you using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1410975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 15, 2010 Author Share Posted February 15, 2010 It happens when I boot the DVD, the DVD is connected as AHCI I suppose (The same SATA controller). I can not remember but I tried quite a few of them and none of them worked, they were on a rewritable CD so I have lost them now. Is it possible for someone to make a new boot DVD with my sata controller supported? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1410988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Your SATA controller (3a22) is supported by the original AHCI driver, so I guess your DVD drive is IDE. If you have Linux or Windows installed in this PC, try to confirm if it's IDE or SATA, and if it's IDE, find the vendor and device ID of the IDE controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 15, 2010 Author Share Posted February 15, 2010 Its annoying because IAtkos V7 now boots up properly to the installer. But I had to modify BIOS settings to achieve that. Its weird but in Linux, my HDD is under the IDE category and somewhere else its shown in ACPI... Linux says my CD-ROM kernel driver is AHCI and its bus is SCSI BIOS setting is ACPI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I would try Empire EFI using the same BIOS settings that you use for iATKOS to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 15, 2010 Author Share Posted February 15, 2010 OK, is Empire EFI a Boot CD or a bootloader? Ok. I had a look but is says its incompatible with any Moblility Radeon HD 4xxx which in this case is my graphic card. EDIT: Well, the first image boot.iso managet to get past this error ! but instead of gui, I saw random lines and boxes... I am trying other images now... Edit 2: None of them fixed those lines... setup started but unusable... Graphics Driver is messed up now I think... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 Is noone going to support me?? This is not that hard for you, is it? Thats what I am getting: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Have you tried to boot the installer in safe mode ("-x")? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 I've just done it and it works, I had the installer on my screen !! First successful Retail MAC on this PC. Now, In order to install it do I need to remove all my existing partitions or I can just go with shrinking another one... I am currently double-booting Windows 7 and Suse Linux 11.2 and Bootloader could be a problem... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 You can shrink another partition and create a new one. If you are using GPT partition table it will be no trouble, but if you use MBR you will have to make some modifications to the installer, check this guide http://prasys.co.cc/2009/08/installing-sno...pard-for-osx86/ (search for "Patching Installation for MBR Disks") Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 OK. As from Monday I was playing with my PC a lot a had a brand new installed Windows 7 which I did not mind to kick out... Now I am writing from MAC but it seems to be many issues upcoming as I am still using -x command to start it... Now I need help with bootloader and everything like that... Should I start a new topic in the Post-Installation Problems?? EDIT: Hold-on, is a PC able to boot from GUID HDDs?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Will you use GRUB or Chameleon? Did you use myHack to install the bootloader to HD? Have you already installed Windows? If not, when you do it will probably mess with Mac boot, then you can use Empire EFI to boot into Mac and install Chameleon again. When you install Chameleon you have to be careful not to mess with Windows code in MBR, but if it happens you can still fix it using Windows install DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 At the moment I have done nothing... i'm still in safe mode with 1024x768 screen resolution on a full hd screen (1920x1080) so it's painfully hard to use it... What would you recommend me to use, I've read that PC EFI has now got support for my AtI Graphics Card which id quite important for me now but I have no idea how to install it. Help Me! And remember I am now using GUID partitioning and I am afraid Windows will not like it . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Yes, you will probably have to use PC_EFI 10.6 and ATI drivers modified by netkas. If you install Chameleon, manually or using an installer, you just have to replace the /boot file by PC_EFI one. I never tested it, but I read that Windows doesn't bother about GUID partitioning. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 Any tutorials you know for installing chameleon? I apologise for asking you for everything. I'll try to find one myself too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnapalm Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 You can use this installer and just replace the boot file http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184766 There is this guide to installing manually, it's for Leopard but I think it's mostly the same for Snow Leopard http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=209712 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MateuszD Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 What about this BIOS patching thing, DMDL or something...? Unfortunately the bootloader I found at http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/02/pc-...pported-by.html which is the PC EFI 10.6 fails at probingHardware() of my network card where the Empire EFI has no problems... OK: Everything works almost, Network Card works, now I'm stock at the missing graphics driver, it boots my system into a black screen... If I don't fix it my mac will have to go away... I don't think there is any driver available at the moment, I had a reseach already and I did not find anything... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/210859-acer-aspire-z5610/#findComment-1411649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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