musket Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Hey, I am having some problems getting osx installed, I get a "still waiting for root device" message when i try to start off the JaS 10.4.8 install dvd (or any x86 install dvd). I have tryed both SATA and ATA Harddrives and DVD-ROM drives and cant seem to figure out the problem. Has ANYONE had this problem and found a fix?? Thanks Musky Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 no suggestions?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-324846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtom Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I was having a similar "still waiting for root device" problem with a regular ATA set up, and solved it when I saw that the hard drive was not set up as my Primary IDE Device in my BIOS (in fact, my drive was not even visible in my BIOS) - I looked at the drive and saw that the switcher was in the Slave position. So I put the switcher in the Master position, hooked it up again (with the Master connector on the IDE cable - I think this is important as well) and did another install. This time I got past the "Still waiting" message but now have another problem in that the install goes Ok but when I reboot, it gets to the grey screen with the Apple logo and spining busy thing and then my monitor goes into sleep mode and won't come out of it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-325080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 chipset,pc specs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-325083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtom Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Maud Dib, if you're asking me my specs, I've got: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 1GB Ram Asus A8N SLI motherboard Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro graphics card Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-325094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 My specs are... ECS PA1 MVP motherboard.North bridge: ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire. South bridge: ATI SB450 Pentium D 3 ghz cpu Western digital ATA Harddrive and Western digital SATA hard drive SATA DVD Drive and ATA DVD Drive (I have tryed both) 1 gb ram X1950 RADEON video card Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-325172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 red: probably you have problems with your gpu, have a search mus: search for your mobo chipset and find proper ata-sata kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-325185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
musket Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 I have found a fix to this. It was all in the DVD drive the jumper was set to SLAVE. Thanks for the help, I have some other problems now... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=45502 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45318-installation-problem/#findComment-325515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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