hardsteel Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Hi, never used mac on my pc, the conf is this: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ AM2 MB: Asus M2N-E VGA: MSI 7600GT 256MB passive RAM: 1GB Corsair 667MHz DDR2 (2x512) HDD: 120GB SATA-II Samsung 8MB PSU: 520W Sinan 19'' Philips 190C LCD 8ms When I boot the DVD (JaS 10.4.8) this is what happens: www.hot.ee/hardsteel/boot.jpg thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspers Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Try another SATA port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 (edited) that didn't change a thing edit: now i didn't press anything when it was counting 8 sec.s and I get another another error: system file/com.apple.boot.plist not found (or smthn) what's going on? Edited January 31, 2007 by hardsteel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 up (y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 another up I would delete the previous one but I didn't find a way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 no1 knows a solution? :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkosx Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Try setting your dvd drive to master and any others to slave. and put the sata port back to where it was originally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 you mean with the jumpers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orea Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 What does your disk drive do during this problem? BaYlisS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 well something was spinning, was it HDD or DVD i don't know but when the 'Still waiting for root device' message appeared, about 1 min later, the spinning stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkosx Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Yeh with the jumpers, Give it a shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyw0lf Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 im having the same problem already tried changing my HDD jumpers still nothing. anyone else know a solution?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 (edited) Set your DVD drive to slave. Hold F8 on boot and type idlehalt=0 at prompt. Edited February 2, 2007 by joe75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 (edited) My DVD has no jumpers I can't set it to slave and idlehalt=0 didn't change a thing Edited February 2, 2007 by hardsteel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardsteel Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 guess what, another up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Sounds like you're gonna need an ATA drive. Plug the master jack to the HDD and the slave to the DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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