LightInDark Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 My newly built custom PC, has the following specs. AMD Phenom II X4 970 (or something similar i cant remember the exact) 4GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz Blu Ram 500GB SATA Drive MSI 760GM-P23 Motherboard Nvidia GeForce 9500GT 1GB SATA DVD-Writer. The distro I have tried it with is iATKOS S3 V2 as its the only one i've had luck with, and only Snow Leopard I can successfully download. It gets to the USB controller stuff then disc stops and I get Still waiting for root device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rrrrrrrrrrr Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I've had a hard time getting past that ''Still waiting for root device''. It seems to be a problem with some AMD chipsets, specifically the 7xx. Almost all the OSX distros I used resulted in the same message. After a lot of time spent getting past that message, I finally bumped into something on the internet. A boot CD called Hack OS X boot, made by a brazilian OSX86 team for use with AMD (and Atom). All you have to do is burn it on a disk and boot into it. You will end up at a bootloader. This is where you swap your Hack OS X boot cd with a Snow Leopard retail (or something like iAtkos, but I don't recommend that as it might produce another problem, namely: getting stuck at PCI configuration begin). Now press F5 to refresh the bootloader and boot the Snow Leopard retail disk. Here the (direct) link to the Bootcd: hackosx.com.br. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightInDark Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Thanks! Luckily I have a retail disc as well. Haven't had luck with it so its tucked away somewhere, but this should help. I've tried with nawcom mod cd (or similar name, im not good with remembering names) but when I hit F5 to refresh it crashed, maybe this will help. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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