macsnowz Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Hey Guys I Am Kind Of Newbie I Am Installing Snow Leopard On C2D Gigabyte Mobo 2GB RAM 320GB HD .... Help After Booting Into Verbose After Install I Get Still Waiting For Root Device I Checked Forums They Said To Do Something In BIOS with AHCI I Found Out There Is Nothing Like Ahci In My BIOS Only IDE and RAID I Have An SATA Hard Disk What Do I Do!! 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 set it to raid, that will automatically put it in AHCI mode, then try. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsnowz Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Tryed In RAID Nothing Happens HELP! Tried Re Installing Many Times What To Do??? 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Which version of Snow Leopard are you trying to install? Which boot loader are you using? Are you using any flags to boot? If so, which ones. The still waiting for root device error happens when the boot loader can't find the partiion to boot from. Have you tried booting with rd=disk0s2 (change to your snow leopard partition obviously) Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsnowz Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Installing SL By Hazard Tried All Kinds Of Flags -s -x -v Using Chameleon I Tried rd=disk0s2 but didnt work After Turning To RAID OSX Setup Doesnt Find My HD After rd=disk0s2 Im Getting Spinning Wheel Under The Apple Logo It Isnt Ending But Still I Will Wait For A while 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brusmisbruk Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Try Chimera Bootloader Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsnowz Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Dont Have Chimera In CD 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brusmisbruk Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Then install boot from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] You can find it at tonymacx86.com under downloads. This makes your system look like a mac Just burn it to a cd Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Installing SL By Hazard Tried All Kinds Of Flags -s -x -v Using Chameleon I Tried rd=disk0s2 but didnt work After Turning To RAID OSX Setup Doesnt Find My HD After rd=disk0s2 Im Getting Spinning Wheel Under The Apple Logo It Isnt Ending But Still I Will Wait For A while Boot with -v rd=disk0s2 Tell me where it stops Always boot with -v (verbose boot) until you have a stable system. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsnowz Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Hey Guys Figured It Out And Some Answers rd=disk0s2 Didnt Work At Last I Found That SATA Wasnt Supported I Installed It On My IDE Which I Had Back At The Workshop After rd=disk0s2 Ends Up For 2 Hours And Gets To A Cross Above The Apple 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
khabrigujur Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 thnk u macsnowz i bought an ide and everything went fine Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274622-installing-snow-leopard/#findComment-1786722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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