mickoes Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Hey all, I spent my whole day on this, alot of frustrations, alot of googling and of course alot of failure. Here's my story : 1 AM heard about the VMware installation method to bypass common setup error with the DVD. I tryied before to install OSX with my DVD (JaS patched) and I was unsuccessful due to a "Still waiting for root device" error. For your information, I own a P4S800 motherboard with a SiS648FX chipset (ATA hard drive). 1:30 AM actually figured out how to install and started the installation 7 AM Woke up and I was at 80-85% 9 AM installation finished but oups, I forgot to install OSX in a primary partition. 9h15 AM restarted the fracking installation step by step IDENTICAL to the tutorial but on a entire disk (5400 rpm ATA) Around 6 PM Finished the darn installation, did the last step and rebooted. After, I had an error with my chain0 files. 6:10 Installed Wingrub 6:45 (after supper) - Figured out how Wingrub works and set everything like the tuto (hda 1,0) 6h47 total failure, my other drive cannot boot osx. I even tryied to boot with my disk via the BIOS. Why? I don't know, there is no boot and no way to actually detect the hard drive (but the OSX installer can!). I think that OSX just cant run on my controller, and now I'm BEGGING JaS and other skilled programmer to patch the SiS chipset in their next release because many users are reporting various failure with my chipset. I want to be a tester. Period. A good point, we successfuly installed OSX in a more recent computer AMD-based without VMware. I'll try tomorrow to burrow the hard drive and boot with it. Even if I'm sure it won't work, that'll confirm my theory about the bloody chipset. Please feel free to share your very frustrating exprerience. One day wasted. Mike- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Try other bootloader like explined in the wiki, add chain0 to windows root and edit boot.ini to. I can not confirm to you that it will work, but it can if you have formated your osx partition in AF with ubuntu live-cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickoes Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Try other bootloader like explined in the wiki, add chain0 to windows root and edit boot.ini to. I can not confirm to you that it will work, but it can if you have formated your osx partition in AF with ubuntu live-cd Is there any way to make OSX work on a extended partition instead of a primary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 it will not boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickoes Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Hm yeah, guess what.. STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE. Go to hell SiS chipset, go to hell p4s800 motherboard and go to hell you darn hard drive. For the info // Jumpers are OK // Got the error even with an installed version, ghosted or wathever // I have a p4s800 motherboard with SiS648FX chipset // Still waiting for root device even with the install DVD // Latest version of JaS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 what are the 3 line just before still waiting for root device? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickoes Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 what are the 3 line just before still waiting for root device? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=1816 Forget the old specs, I'm now running with a ATI Radeon 9000 PRO and a 2.4ghz Celeron D with SSE3 according to CPU-ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 go to /System/Library/Extensions ans delete a file with a close name to the 3rd line before still waiting for root device you can use macdrive or an ubuntu live-cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etx Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 I'm just lurking. I have the same issue on my Sis 661FX MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickoes Posted December 7, 2006 Author Share Posted December 7, 2006 go to /System/Library/Extensions ans delete a file with a close name to the 3rd line before still waiting for root deviceyou can use macdrive or an ubuntu live-cd Of the installed disk? Ill try. Ill keep you updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 on your install, not the cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 There is some active development for SiS chipsets now. Current progress: Converting FreeBSD code to IOKit. (Pain in the ASS) http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=35861&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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