kinglevel Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artorius Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 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. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknowsky Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 know what disconnect SATA make sure the DVD and HD are on the same IDE CABLE 1 master and 1 slave and DISABLE USB in the BIOS give that a shot and get back to me here!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omfg Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinglevel Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omfg Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggypop1234 Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 make sure your sata drive is on the first connector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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