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Installation. "Still waiting for root device"?


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Hi all..

 

I have now tested to boot my computer with several DVDs. The latest is a Uphuck 10.4.9 DVD 1.3.

 

And my problem is: Still waiting for a root device.

 

Is this because of my SATA Drive?

and how to solve it?

I really want a solution for this problem. I want OSX on my PC! ^^

 

Motherboard: MSI P4N Diamond (MS-7160)

CPU: Intel P4 630 Prescott 3.0Ghz

 

Regards

King

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I had the same exact problem. :)

 

It's most likely not the best solution, but I just used another computer with an IDE dominant motherboard for the installation, then booted it up on the SATA dominant one.

 

It seems that OS X recognizes my IDE drive as a SATA drive.

 

It was an older 15GB IDE, and I didn't plan to use Mac most of the time.

Of course, I prefer OS X over Vista now. :D

 

I'm not sure if OS X is able to be installed to a SATA drive on an OSx86 PC, but someone else should be able to tell you that. :)

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I had this problem ages ago.

 

Try and give any IDE devices their own IDE cable and set them to Master.

 

 

My old computer didn't seem to like Cable-select, or having the Master/Slave jumpers set either.

 

2 devices, 2 cables, 2 devices jumpered to master - booted just fine.

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I had this problem ages ago.

 

Try and give any IDE devices their own IDE cable and set them to Master.

My old computer didn't seem to like Cable-select, or having the Master/Slave jumpers set either.

 

2 devices, 2 cables, 2 devices jumpered to master - booted just fine.

 

hmmm.. i tried that.

But it didn't work?

I unplugged my sata drive.

Do i have to format the drive to another format?

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You shouldn't do. I'm pretty sure this is more low-level than what filesystem it's formatted to.

 

 

Unplug everything you can and try booting with just a cd-rom (no hd), then add components one at a time... also try turning off any IDE channels you're not using in the BIOS (IDE and SATA).

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