angryjack Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Hi everyone, I really need your help I've been looking on your forums for a few days, I've searched everywhere and i cant find anything anywhere, so i decided to write a post. Im trying to install iAtkos s3 v2 Snow leopard on my old Compaq presario s0000/8000. It has 512mb ram Intel Pentium 4 with HT technology Intel extreme graphics I have a usb keyboard/mouse wireless. This is post intstallation, i cant even get to the install. i insert the disc, boot up the PC and i get to the iAtkos boot screen, press any key to boot from disc or press f8 for more options, ive tried boot flags or whatever you call them -x with -v -x, -v, -s wont boot at all. it says ERROR: Firewire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full-secure. I wait and then i get Still waiting for root device this continues on and on. I've seen posts about still waiting for root device but none of the replys ever seem to work. when i turn off fire wire in BIOS, i get "com.apple.AppleFSCompresionTypeZlib load succeeded." then still waiting for root device I once got what I though was a kernel panic, cant quite remember, something like please take a photo of the screen and send to someone and explain what you were doing at the time. sorry for any inconvenience (then loads of different numbers. if I don't use any boot flags then my apple logo appears with the loading pin and then a few mins later I get the circle with diagonal line through it. I don't know what to do, i have an idea it might be something to do with my hard drive. I recently had iDeneb leopard installed but i really need snow leopard i watched a video on YouTube how to do it with pentium 4 processor and 512mb ram, it is possible, apple may say its not compatible but I've seen it up and running. so if it is my hard drive maybe i need to format it to a certain type, but I don't know how with no OS installed as i formatted iDeneb through Windows XP installation disk but only to (raw) I don't know what that is, it doesn't pick up NTFS file system. so i really don't know. please help! and I've spent like an hour explaining this so please don't say its not compatible or something stupid because I know it is i just need an answer! Thanks! my photos wont upload Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xadikx123 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 What kernel you choosed before install ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genofloresaz Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Did you set your HD to AHCI in your bios settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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