d4ny07 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 i have a Packard Bell with spec: Intel Pentium Yonah T2060 1.60GHz (SSE2,SSE3) Mainboard: Packard Bell MZ35 (ATI RS400/RC400/RC410 Chipset with Southbridge SB400) ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 80GB PATA Hard Disk 2GB RAM i try different distro(ideneb, kalyway, leo4all v2) but all of them give me boot error: Still waiting for root device. in bios i dont have acpi or other setting like these. it is a chance to install osx86 on my laptop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 ..in bios i dont have acpi or other setting like these. it is a chance to install osx86 on my laptop? acpisettings has nothing to do with the problem. It looks like you need a proper driver for the disk controller (namely SB400) in the first place.Then check these in BIOS (if you have such settings in BIOS) ATA/IDE Mode : Native Configure SATA as : AHCI S.M.A.R.T. : Enabled Also: Your rom/writer must be set as Primary Master. Your hard-disk must be set as Primary Slave . Though I'm not sure about the VGA you have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4ny07 Posted September 6, 2010 Author Share Posted September 6, 2010 acpisettings has nothing to do with the problem. It looks like you need a proper driver for the disk controller (namely SB400) in the first place.Then check these in BIOS (if you have such settings in BIOS) ATA/IDE Mode : Native Configure SATA as : AHCI S.M.A.R.T. : Enabled Also: Your rom/writer must be set as Primary Master. Your hard-disk must be set as Primary Slave . Though I'm not sure about the VGA you have... my vga card is a Ati expres 200m my hard have an ide connector and the dvd-rw have slim atapi conector. when i switch the hdd to slave, my hdd in bios don`t appear. i will this with this configuratios this morning. L.E. i switch hdd to slave and screen remain black when boot from dvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d4ny07 Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 anyone can help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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