winteum Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Installed Jas 10.4.7 repack through VMWARE. Boots ok on vmware. After reboot the chain0 works fine but can't initialize the root device. Installed the AMD pack, AMD kernet, Nforce Patch. semprom 2800+ m2npv-vm geforce 1500 nforce 430 Barracuda 7200.10 sata2 320GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 OK, two potential problems. OSX requires a processor to be capable of SSE2 or SSE3 in order to work. You need to verify your processor. Go into Windows, download and run CPU-Z and verify that your processor is capable of SSE2 or SSE3. VMWare is a simulated computer running in Windows. It uses the Windows drivers to get its job done. Your system has nForce4 SATA. OSX doesn't have drivers for the nForce4 SATA controller. So, when you try to boot in OSX, it can't access the drive to read the boot data. That's why it is "waiting root device". Install a PATA drive and install OSX to that. A 20 GB PATA drive should be able to be obtained for next to nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winteum Posted October 9, 2006 Author Share Posted October 9, 2006 Thank you. Yes my semprom 2800+ have sse2 and sse3 too. But i think Jas has included a nforce sata driver in 10.4.7 pack and i installed it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Jas has included a nforce sata driver in 10.4.7 pack and i installed it... JaS included a hacked VIA ATA driver for VIA and nForce. But I'm pretty sure it is only for nForce3. Very few people have gotten nForce4 SATA to work on OSX and most of those who do suffer from data corruption. Not a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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