norgatem Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hi, I have a dual boot system with w7 on a striped hardware RAID and iPC on another hdd. The problem I'm having is that to get mac to boot I have to change the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI, this obviously makes the raid unusable. When I try to boot mac with RAID mode i get "Still Waiting For Root Device" Any ideas how I can leave RAID mode enabled and still get mac to boot? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed Khairy Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Hi, I have a dual boot system with w7 on a striped hardware RAID and iPC on another hdd. The problem I'm having is that to get mac to boot I have to change the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI, this obviously makes the raid unusable. When I try to boot mac with RAID mode i get "Still Waiting For Root Device" Any ideas how I can leave RAID mode enabled and still get mac to boot? Thanks in advance tell me what is your mother board and i will help you on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norgatem Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 tell me what is your mother board and i will help you on it ASUS M4N82 Deluxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed Khairy Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 ASUS M4N82 Deluxe on my board on sata setting there are two option sata from 1-4 sata from 5-6 i set sata 1-4 on raid mode i set sata 5-6 on ide mode you need driver for ide search for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norgatem Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 on my board on sata setting there are two option sata from 1-4 sata from 5-6 i set sata 1-4 on raid mode i set sata 5-6 on ide mode you need driver for ide search for it I don't have that option, the board only has 5 SATA ports, 1 fixed raid others have same setting In BIOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed Khairy Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 I don't have that option, the board only has 5 SATA ports, 1 fixed raid others have same setting In BIOS try snow leopard with this kext http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=211866 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norgatem Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 try snow leopard with this kext http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=211866 Is there a way I can upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6, if not can you recommend a distro that will work with my mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed Khairy Posted August 1, 2010 Share Posted August 1, 2010 Is there a way I can upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6, if not can you recommend a distro that will work with my mb you can try iatkos s3 v2 i perfer that you try retial 10.6.3 and made your boot cd but on my system asus m4a78t-e sb750 give panic from raid i amnot sure if you can pass this panic before you try snow you try one of this kexts on leopard if no success try snow http://nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.5/SATA/NVIDIA/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norgatem Posted August 1, 2010 Author Share Posted August 1, 2010 you can try iatkos s3 v2 i perfer that you try retial 10.6.3 and made your boot cd but on my system asus m4a78t-e sb750 give panic from raid i amnot sure if you can pass this panic before you try snow you try one of this kexts on leopard if no success try snow http://nawcom.com/osx86/files/10.5/SATA/NVIDIA/ None of the kexts work, Unfortunately I've tried a version of snow leopard before and had kernel panic which I couldn't get passed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed Khairy Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 None of the kexts work, Unfortunately I've tried a version of snow leopard before and had kernel panic which I couldn't get passed you have bad luck to me now i destroed my raid there are no high differnce between raid and achi if you want destroy your raid and setup windows from begin the cause of panic from patched kernel nearly the patched kernel have no strcutre for raid so panic occur during checking machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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