Root Device / Panic...

[netboy007]

UPDATE!

 

Finally I have my Laptop running OSX... Now please read this post about my driver related issues...

 

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=2886&hl=

 

Any help is enormously appreciated!

 

Thanks,

netboy007

 

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Hello,

 

I have an HP zv5267LA laptop computer. It has P4 (Northwood, SSE & SSE2 only) @ 2.8Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI 9100 Video Card with 128Mb (shared), Internal DVD+RW and 40Gb HDD.

 

My HDD has WinXP Installed.

 

When I boot using the -v command from the Release 1 DVD I just made, I receive a "Still Waiting for root device" message. My HDD is set as Master.

 

I read here trying to boot with -v rd=disk0s1. This made a kernel panic (I think), I include a picture of it.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Netboy007

[Cowboy Mike]

Hello,

 

I have an HP zv5267LA laptop computer. It has P4 (Northwood, SSE & SSE2 only) @ 2.8Ghz, 512Mb RAM, ATI 9100 Video Card with 128Mb (shared), Internal DVD+RW and 40Gb HDD.

 

My HDD has WinXP Installed.

 

When I boot using the -v command from the Release 1 DVD I just made, I receive a "Still Waiting for root device" message. My HDD is set as Master.

 

I read here trying to boot with -v rd=disk0s1. This made a kernel panic (I think), I include a picture of it.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Netboy007

 

start up with the -x command - works always

[macgirl]

Remove ATI extensions

[moriarty]

Remove ATI extensions

 

 

Hello...

 

I had this same type of problem the other day on my hardware - because of the relative inexpensiveness of the Celeron D's, I went and purchased one the other day, installed it in the same board I was running OSX Intel on, and booted it. It worked fine. No problems whatsoever.

 

I turned the machine off, and let it sit for a while (day and a half). I came back, and booted it up, and I got the exact same error as what the original poster took the screenshot of. It totally bummed me out for three days.

 

This morning, I was at my nerve's end trying to figure out what I had changed in the machine (nothing besides the CPU) so I thought I would go through the BIOS's settings. Lo and behold, the drive I was booting Mac OSX off of was set to use LBA geometry. I changed the geometry to use CHS, and it worked. No problems whatsoever. This machine is a Celeron D 2.53 Ghz with 1GB Ram on an Intel 865 chipset-based motherboard (made by Foxcomm). The video is an Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 w/128 MB with AGP 8x access. The onboard sound works (AC'97 clone), as does the NIC (Realtek 8139 hybrid). Also, the SATA drive I have in the system is picked up nicely and I can access it with no problems whatsoever. The OSX drive is a standard PATA drive running in ATA100 mode having a capacity of roughly 45GB.

 

In addition, I have now verifed this as a solution to the same problem on a VIA chipset based system with a P4 1.6 GHz in it. I had >512MB in both machines as well. The problem I had was trying to understand the error message - it reads like some sort of error occured because of a corrupted file or software structure, not because of some corrupted understanding of how my disk is laid out... This cause of the problem makes sense to me because up to a certain point, both drive geometries would have the same data layout. Only after a certain portion of the geometry be read would the data being read be different, thus causing the problem. I guess sometimes we have to go back and look at things from an 'older' perspective.

 

Hope this info helps anyone out there - this was a strange problem, fortuantly, I have been playing around with alternate OSes since Minix was a new kid on the block, so nothing surprises me anymore...

 

Brian