ozymandyaz Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 There seem to be a few people out there with an issue installing where in -v mode all you get is: Still waiting for root device (In normal mode you get a circle with a line through it early on and the system hangs) It seems that this issue is both related to your root hard drive OR the DVD you are installing from. In my case I had a SATA DVD drive that I was installing from on a Dell Optiplex 745. This box has no IDE channels so there was no way to use an IDE DVD ROM drive. To fix the issue I did 2 things, 1) I set the drives to "legacy" mode in the BIOS This seems to have allowed Darwin to see the SATA drive i wanted to install too, but did not solve my SATA DVD issue 2) I installed from a USB DVD drive This solved all my problems and while its slow as all hell... (how slow is hell...) It works. Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathington Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 What version did you use for the install? 10.4.8 AMD/Inte Final ??? I will have to try this when I get home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willamlholla Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I got a Brand New Dell E521 and there is NO way to change that to Legacy in the bois..({censored} {censored})..any other ideas lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathington Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 I checked the settings on my motherbard Asus M2n-e and there wasn't any settings to change to legacy either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknowsky Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I have no legacy options either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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