The Operator Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Hello my wizened brethren! Relevant bits of my system: Gigabyte GA965 DQ6 (Intel P965+ ICH8R chipset) Core2 Duo 6600 ATI Radeon X1900XT Installing from Uphuck 1.4i R2 DVD. 300G HD, 4 Partitions (XP NTFS, Vista NTFS, Data NTFS, OSX86 HFS+) Used Parted Magic to format 4th partition for HFS+ at first, installer didn't see it, so erased partition using Disk Utility. Install went fine, rebooted (forcing verbose mode) - I get the dreaded 'still waiting for root device' message. Tried setting IDE legacy mode for SATA in my BIOS, makes no difference. Other solutions on the Wiki seem to be specific for other hardware configurations. If one of you lovely people could offer me advice on how to proceed from this point, I'd be eternally grateful. Anyone else got OSX86 working on this Mobo from a SATA drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58423-almost-installed-gigabyte-ga965-dq6-mobo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Does disk utility recognize the partition? If so, does it show it as guid or mbr mode? If guid, re-partition it, and in options, choose mbr. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58423-almost-installed-gigabyte-ga965-dq6-mobo/#findComment-417051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Operator Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 I hit the options button to see how it was set before I installed, it was set to MBR. After that I erased the partition using Disk Utility and installed fine. The brick wall i'm hitting is old chestnut 'still waiting for root device'. I installed the ICH8R chipset driver from the custom install options during install - I'm at a loss on now to proceed now :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58423-almost-installed-gigabyte-ga965-dq6-mobo/#findComment-417053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Operator Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 OK, it seems the Wiki had actually thrown me off the scent! I'm typing this from my OSX86 install To correct the problem I went into my BIOS and changed all the IDE/SATA options to AHCI instead of legacy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58423-almost-installed-gigabyte-ga965-dq6-mobo/#findComment-417063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Glad to see you've got it up and running now. Good job! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58423-almost-installed-gigabyte-ga965-dq6-mobo/#findComment-417165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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