EthanJ Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 I just finished installing iATKOS v7 on my desktop (hardware below) and the installation completes successfully but i get the apple boot screen with the "circle with the slash through it" icon over the apple on startup. I did a verbose boot with reloaded drivers (-v -f) and got some more information. Intel Core2quad Q6600 Gigabyte EP45T-UD3P ATI HD2600XT ( my damn 8800gt just died ) Auzentech X-Raider Hitachi 1tb hdd WD 500gb hdd 2 x2gb G-skill ddr3 1333 am i forgeting anything?? ALSO if iATKOS v7 isn't what i should be using feel free to recommend a better distro! Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/223307-installation-successful-but-failed-boot-on-iatkos-v7-pics-included/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 You'll see "Still waiting for root device" when OS X can't talk to your drive controller, either because you haven't installed the right driver for it, because your PATA drives are jumpered/cabled wrong, your drives are attached to an unsupported controller (then you're out of luck), or SATA is not set to AHCI mode in the BIOS. Most modern motherboards have a secondary SATA controller from JMicron, Silicon Image or Marvell. The SATA ports of the secondary controller are normally colored differently (white or orange) than those of the primary controller (usually red). Check your motherboard manual to see which ports belong to which controller. There are drivers for OS X for the most common secondary controllers, but the main controller (Intel ICHx or Nvidia nForce) is usually the more compatible since Apple use Intel ICHx and nForce as well. If you have problems with drives not being recognized, either plug them into a port on the main drive controller, or find and install drivers for the "off-chipset" drive controller. For PATA (IDE) drives, try a different jumper setting and/or cable position, and make sure you're using 80 conductor cables. If you have two IDE ports, put each device at the end of it's own cable and jumper it as master device. There's very limited support for PATA drives in OS X (IIRC no modern Macs have PATA devices?) so you'll probably need a community provided driver to get your PATA drives running. Again Intel and Nvidia are the easiest to get working. The Chameleon bootloader official download includes some injector or "legacy" kexts for many common PATA and SATA controllers. If your board has a Marvell 6xxx controller, you need AppleVIAATA or SuperVIAATA.kext. There are also nForceATA and ATIATA kexts out there. Older Intel boards with ICH5 might need a patched AppleIntelPIIATA.kext. Intel ICHx or nForce SATA controllers in AHCI mode (set in the BIOS) are the most compatible and easiest to get working. Gringo Vermelho Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/223307-installation-successful-but-failed-boot-on-iatkos-v7-pics-included/#findComment-1501639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthanJ Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 Thanks for the info! really helpful! the SATA ports on my mobo are either orange or purple (its gigabythe what do you expect ) but the larger cluster is organge, so im guessing that they're on the primary controller. I have all of my HDD's plugged into the orange ports. I know my mobo has a Jmicron secondary controller so i'll try connecting my OSX hdd into the secondary controller and installing the jmicron drivers from the osx install. Would that work? Also, ive got an ICH10 southbridge on my mobo, is that supported by OSX? Because if not, then that would explain why the primary controller isn't working UPDATE! I just changed my SATA mode to AHCI i the BIOS and im now typing this from OSX! thanks for the help! now to find sound drivers.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/223307-installation-successful-but-failed-boot-on-iatkos-v7-pics-included/#findComment-1501663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 what is your sound card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/223307-installation-successful-but-failed-boot-on-iatkos-v7-pics-included/#findComment-1501680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthanJ Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 what is your sound card? Auzentech X-Raider, it has c-media CMI 8768 processor if that helps i noticed that there's a driver for the 8738 processor in the database, could i try to get some partial success with that one? UPDATE! i installed the 8738 driver kext and it worked perfectly! so no need for further help here! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/223307-installation-successful-but-failed-boot-on-iatkos-v7-pics-included/#findComment-1501722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krishna21 Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 =P There's a Snow Leopard Guide for your board you know.. http://x86osx.com/bbs/c_data/osxtips_comme...Bit)___Snow.pdf Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/223307-installation-successful-but-failed-boot-on-iatkos-v7-pics-included/#findComment-1502083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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