Cr0n_J0b Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Hey everyone. I've freed up a PC and I would like to try my hand at installing 10.6 on it. I have a retail DVD for 10.6 and I've read a number of the guides, but I'm a bit stuck. I can get as far as loading the BootISO, but the system hangs when it boots up with a "waiting on root device" prompt, which I think means that it can't find my hard drive. I've tried switching the order of the drive and the DVD rom, but that didn't help. I've read another guide that suggests making formatting the drive on an existing mac, but the only one i have access to is a VM image and I can't get that to recognize my drive in disk utilities. Any help would be appreciated. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/241479-need-some-basic-help-for-a8n-sli-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cr0n_J0b Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 Well, i've since hit a few more guides at different sites and they all say to use an exisitng pc with Leo or snow...but I don't have such an item. does anyone else have a guess? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/241479-need-some-basic-help-for-a8n-sli-install/#findComment-1613230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cr0n_J0b Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 well I've made a little progress (not much). I was able to boot into the 10.5 installer using an iPC disk, which then let me partition the drive. So now I have a 500GB drive with 2 partitions (350GB) and (64GB) and it also has a 100MB EFI section that i could see in the terminal. So after that, I went back to the chameleon loader and started it up...I'm grasping a straws a bit, since i'm not sure what all of these things do. I guess I was assuming that the loader would put a boot loader on the EFI partition and now that there is a GUID drive partitioned, I figured it would load up there...but that didn't happen. I can get to the boot prompt, I type in boot: rd=disk0s1 and it will start to load and then go into a loop of error messages. I'm going to try again with some other boot lines. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/241479-need-some-basic-help-for-a8n-sli-install/#findComment-1613737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cr0n_J0b Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/241479-need-some-basic-help-for-a8n-sli-install/#findComment-1615501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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