Fishbone Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) Hi all And thank you for a great forum. Since this is my first post I would like to greet you all and apologise for my poor English, I'm Danish so it really can't be helped. I have been following the hackintosh debate since the roomers started on the web, and spend quite some time browsing this forum before registering. I have been searching the forum and the web for answers to my problem but it seems I'm stuck. When I boot from the jas 1.4.8, text flies by and then it halts. With the ever so famous message "Still waiting for root device" this happens right after a message about firewire (ohci). The thing is I probably have incompatible hardware, I have looked at the list and it's not on. So what I'm probably looking for is someone to crush my dreams so I can stop messing around with my laptop. Cpu-z reports the following: CPU: Intel PM Dothan (which means I cant use vmware, because of the pae thingy: it does have sse2 though. Mainboard: MTC CANYON-Intel ODEM, with a i855pm chipset. can't find any info about this board on the web, it even seems MTC denies any knowledge. Other than that it's a pretty straight machine with no fancy sata or anything. So is it useless, is it time I stopped wasting my time, or is there a small hope somewhere? Edited January 13, 2007 by Fishbone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay_us Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Hi all And thank you for a great forum. Since this is my first post I would like to greet you all and apologise for my poor English, I'm Danish so it really can't be helped. I have been following the hackintosh debate since the roomers started on the web, and spend quite some time browsing this forum before registering. I have been searching the forum and the web for answers to my problem but it seems I'm stuck. When I boot from the jas 1.4.8, text flies by and then it halts. With the ever so famous message "Still waiting for root device" this happens right after a message about firewire (ohci). The thing is I probably have incompatible hardware, I have looked at the list and it's not on. So what I'm probably looking for is someone to crush my dreams so I can stop messing around with my laptop. Cpu-z reports the following: CPU: Intel PM Dothan (which means I cant use vmware, because of the pae thingy: it does have sse2 though. Mainboard: MTC CANYON-Intel ODEM, with a i855pm chipset. can't find any info about this board on the web, it even seems MTC denies any knowledge. Other than that it's a pretty straight machine with no fancy sata or anything. So is it useless, is it time I stopped wasting my time, or is there a small hope somewhere? Did you try booting with the -f flag? Press F8 for boot options, then type -f and enter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 Yes I tried that, not to sure what i does though. I have seen flags like -f -s -x, but haven´t figured out what those do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 Got a bit further with rd=disk0s1. Now i get a bit further to a kernel panic saying loads of numbers and "invalid frame pointer" ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay_us Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 -f is used to tell the system to ignore the extensions.mkext and the extensions.kextcache and to read all of the kexts directly. It stops the root device error on my system. So when you use -v and -f, do you still get the "still waiting for root device" error? If so, be sure that your hard drive and dvd-drive are both on primary IDE and that the hard drive is master and dvd-drive is slave. Not sure about "invalid frame pointer," Peekay Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 Thanks I get past the waiting for root device typing rd=disk0s1 (dont really know what that does either) Then the kernel panic appears called by "nfs_boot_init failed with 6" sometimes 4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay_us Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Sorry, that's beyond my abilities to help. Hopefully a 'guru' can help you more. Only other thing I can think of trying is to boot with "platform=X86PC" flag (without the quotes, of course). Some people have had luck with doing that, Best, Peekay Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 So am i to boot with both rd=disk0s1 and platform=x86pc and do I then put a ; between them or? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay_us Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 yes, with both. no ; just a space Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 Thanks, error remains the same though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-274864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishbone Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 I changed the topic to get the right people to see it Am I getting the error because of problems with my disc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38447-nfs_boot_init-failed-with-6-topic-changed/#findComment-275207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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