Quick question

[castelli]

I've made a boot disk and thrown a whole bunch of different kexts on it that people have suggested, I can list them if needed, but I'm getting the infamous "Still waiting for root device", I can't change many bios setting, it gives me no options, is there anything I can add to the disk like a kernel or DSDT file, SMBIOS.plist or other kext?

 

 

 

Thanks for your help!

[castelli]

Someone, anything, please?

[Gringo Vermelho]

Cry all you want, the way you post only other owners of the Dell Inspiron B130 will be able to help you. To me it might as well be a hairdryer.

 

I can almost promise you that anyone else who might have the required knowledge to help you out will turn away because they will have to first google the specs of your laptop. I'm not being rude here, I'm being helpful, stating the facts.

 

Personally I like to help, but I don't like doing mundane slave labour like googling other people's specs. I like a challenge.

 

'Still waiting for root device' means you're not using the right driver for your motherboard hard drive controller.

For more information on how you can help yourself, read this thread (towards the end):

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=231274

[castelli]

Cry all you want, the way you post only other owners of the Dell Inspiron B130 will be able to help you. To me it might as well be a hairdryer.

 

I can almost promise you that anyone else who might have the required knowledge to help you out will turn away because they will have to first google the specs of your laptop. I'm not being rude here, I'm being helpful, stating the facts.

 

Personally I like to help, but I don't like doing mundane slave labour like googling other people's specs. I like a challenge.

 

'Still waiting for root device' means you're not using the right driver for your motherboard hard drive controller.

For more information on how you can help yourself, read this thread (towards the end):

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=231274

 

 

Hey, I'm not doing this for myself, I'm trying to help a friend. Windows isn't on the computer anymore so I can't find the model numbers to everything. But thanks for the suggestion on the motherboard driver.

[Gringo Vermelho]

You can use a Linux live CD (Linux Mint for example) and run tools from that to get the specs.

Hey, I'm not doing this for myself, I'm trying to help a friend.

And..? I don't see how that changes anything.

[castelli]

Do you know how I could find out what motherboard controller is on the iAtkos S3 V2 disk, because that disk boots up but won't burn to the hard drive because of SAM Multimedia error.

[Gringo Vermelho]

I don't know anything about iATKOS, I haven't used a distro since iPC 10.5.6 came out.

 

If you boot the DVD with -v you should see some messages from the PATA/SATA controller driver. Use this information to find what you need.

 

If you boot a Linux Live CD and run LSPCI -nn from the command line (you'd have to install LSPCI first, but that's just typing a few commands, use google to find them) you can get all the information you need about the hardware. It's the simplest, easiest way and the information is 100% reliable.

 

"Live CD" means the whole OS is on a CD - you don't have to install anything, no changes will be made to your hard drives. The OS uses part of your RAM as temporary file storage. Go get it: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

 

SAM Multimedia error means the burn is bad or the disc is scratched.

 

Burn again, use quality media and burn at the lowest speed supported by burner and media.