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Hi Guys, Ive downloaded a Retail Version of Snow Leopard and I was going to installit with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] or my personal BootCD, but when all was going to load and get to the installation of snow leopard, it gaves me "still waiting for root device" error i think, so i could not get to the installation, i think i will have to buy an IDE hdd and install it there, what do you think?

 

PC:

Gigabyte MA74GMS2

AMD PHENOM II X4 965

HD 5770

4GB DDR2 800 MHz

Seagate HDD 500 GB (Windows, 1 partition)

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I thought [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] was for intel CPU's - so you are going to need a Boot CD for AMD.

Getting a IDE (ATA) Hard Drive is not going to help at this stage as the error is with the DVD drive. Try changing the port if it is a SATA. DVD or making it master if it is a ATA DVD. You may have to find a boot CD that has drivers for the DVD controller. Run 'System Info App' to ascertain what controllers your board has. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=219584

 

BTW since you downloaded your copy of OS X retail, it could be faulty, although I would expect an EBIOS error in that case.

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I thought I had explained, changing ports etc. As ifrit05 said try searching. One thing to try is boot with "rd=diskX" or "rd=diskXs3" Where X is the DVD drive number.

 

So, its the dvd drive number not? not the hdd , ok , the number is the number of the port it is connected or what?

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Yes at this stage you are trying to boot the DVD install disc from the DVD drive. So what drives have you got & what ports are they connected to? Do you know what controllers the ports run (use "system Info App" in Windows)

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Well, I only have connected 2 things to my sata ports, my dvd drive and my hdd, my dvd drive is connected to Sata2_5 so the port is "5" i think, and my hdd is in Sata2_4 so the port ir 4 not?, the link you gave me por the "system Info App" does not work, so what else can I do?

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