ozmend Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I am trying to load this on my HP zv6130US. Athlon64 3200+ based system. I have been following instructions from http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/05/...-computer/?id=1 I am leaving a screenshot so you can see where Im getting stuck. Thanks in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 During the install, right before pressing the "Install" button, did you click on the "Customize" button and select packages that pertain to your computer? You had to click the little arrow to reveal packages for Intel and packages for AMD. And you should have chosen either SSE2 or SSE3 but not both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyDavidK Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 are you trying to load os x after installation, or the installer itself? Either way, this means the system can't find either the hd with os x on it, or the drive with the dvd on it. If this is after installing, try rammjets suggestion first, and if you still have a problem, try toying with your jumpers. Set all jumpers (optical drives (cd, dvd, etc) and hard drives alike) to master or slave, ie no cable select. If you're still getting this error, rearrange your drives a bit until you can get it to work. Try setting your hard drive to primary master first, then primary slave, etc. Usually if your main hard drive is primary master, and your main dvd drive is primary slave things should go smoothly, but it all depends on your system. That said, what's your mobo and chipset, and are you trying to install on an ide hard drive or sata? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozmend Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 I am loading this off an iso that I burned to a dvd. There is no install or customize buttons. I simply created a seperate partition on the hdd and set the new partition to active, told bios to boot off dvd rom, rebooted and pushed f8 so I could enter -v and then the screenshot is as far as it gets. If it cant see the hdd is there any way to point to it? This is a laptop so opening it up and messing with the jumpers shouldnt be the problem should it? It's a HP ZV6130US. I don't know what kind of motherboard it is but it's a 2ghz 3200+ athlon64 and an 80gig eide hdd. I've looked all over the net to find out what type of mb it is with no luck. Im a noob who wants his osx to run on his stupid work laptop that's all Thanks for your help again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurvcom Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 same here i getting same thing i doing it in vmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozmend Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 help please! check last post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcus Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 sorry for my english I have same error with 10.4.3 and I burn ISO ON G5 very slowly and after this burning booting correct. Try to Burning ISO slowly (or write ISO on another DVD medium) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozmend Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 I burned it a 1x and tried 3 different brands with no luck. I still get to the same point. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 You are suffering from a "waiting for root device" error. The system can't figure out where the bootable System files are. The only thing that works (sometimes) is to get the DVD and hard drive on the same ATA chain, setting the hard drive as master and the DVD as slave using jumpers, not using cable select. Since you have a laptop (and this happens a lot with laptops), it isn't easy for you to do this. There are only 2 other solutions: 1) Put your hard drive into another computer and install to it, then transfer the hard drive back. 2) Use VMware to install to the hard drive http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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