Dell E310(3100) Waiting On Root Device

[mckooter]

Okay, So i have been reading and have tried nearly every thing I could think of. I have Leopard installed to one drive, and am trying Snow on a completely seperate drive (need new xcode)

 

At first I couldn't boot at all, and had no idea why, after a few days I came accross the modbin kernel and have been using that, now im able to atleast get into the kernel to see any panics (-v)

 

 

 

So now Im at the famous "Still Waiting for root device" error, and from everything I read its completely related to my SATA drivers, i have no ahci mode in bios that i can see, ( computer specs here http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/dell-dime...7-31594474.html )

 

I have tried kexts from kexts.com including:

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/83-intel_ahci_injector_.html

http://www.kexts.com/view/228-aplleintelpi..._ichx_snow.html

http://www.kexts.com/view/171-appleintelpi...rking_fix).html

http://www.kexts.com/view/87-appleviaata_f...ow_leopard.html

 

But i think i confused myself quite a bit between the /System/Library/Extensions and the /Extras/Extensions/ so I may just have things in all the wrong places to be honest.

 

I do all the modification from the Leopard install because I cant boot so some of the kext helper tools dont seem to work well as they dont provide a way to work on a seperate drive ( i may be wrong about it )

 

Anyway, anyone have a good idea about what I should be using, and how to clean up some of the stuff I put in in case i have things in both places. I feel like im so close, but so far away. I may just get a Dell Mini 10v as I know those work well, but it would be easier to have my spare pc working.

 

 

 

Thanks to anyone / everyone,

 

 

 

p.s. 90% of the time i finally get to the point of posting a question I find the answer myself, I dont think thatll happen this time as I have been trying for days on just this, but ill be sure to post if i do

[oldnapalm]

Run the command "lspci -nn" in terminal to check the device ID of your SATA controller, then search for it in the kext Info.plist. If it's not there, add it.

 

lspci for Leopard

http://www.x86dev.org/forum/index.php?topic=307.0

[mckooter]

okay after a week, i finally got it working, not sure what was wrong specifically before, i think it was my massive mis-understanding of kexts and locations.

 

my solution was using the hazard 10.6.2 disc, and some ioata kext that im not even sure where i got at this point,

 

so far everything seems to be working 100% in 64 bit

 

thanks for your help oldnapalm, the lspci did help me quite a bit in other areas i was having issues with