Can't Install on My Desktop so I'll try my Laptop

[Bizmarke]

Hey all, first things first. I must say there is an extreme amount of infomation on this site to pull from and props to this whole project and authors of the diferent release out there. Having been a Mac user since childhood this whole thing really is some thing I would like to get running. But anyway I do have the

current Uphuck 10.4.9 AMD install dvd v1.4a on DVD and have been stuck trying to get to the install screen. I have tri

d various switches for verbose etc. But I keep hanging with an error about the V

A 8237 SATA then boom im "Waiting for Root Device" I then tried to  

-v -x and it goes on to complain about IOUSBUSER etc. Currently I have one 300gig Fj Sata drive on channel 0 with one 14 Gig IDE drive set to Master and one DVDR set to salve. I have check in the bios about the SATA/PATA setting but there on none on this Asus board I have. Just wondering giving my current specs which I will list below should I try a different release or just throw in the towel?

 

 Motherboard:

     CPU Type                                          AMD Athlon 64, 1845 MHz (9 x 205) 2800+

     Motherboard Name                                  Asus K8V-X  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)

     Motherboard Chipset                               VIA VT8383 Apollo K8T800, AMD Hammer

     System Memory                                     2048 MB  (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)

     BIOS Type                                         AMI (09/12/05)

     Communication Port                                Printer Port (LPT1)



   Display:

     Video Adapter                                     Radeon X1650 Series Secondary  (256 MB)

     Video Adapter                                     Radeon X1650 Series  (256 MB)

     Monitor                                           KDS Visual Sensation VS-7i  [17" CRT]  (AAB02014038)



   Multimedia:

     Audio Adapter                                     VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller



   Storage:

     IDE Controller                                    VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571

     SCSI/RAID Controller                              SCSI/RAID Host Controller

     SCSI/RAID Controller                              VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller

     Floppy Drive                                      Floppy disk drive

     Disk Drive                                        ST332062 0AS SCSI Disk Device  (298 GB)

     Disk Drive                                        Maxtor 91531U3  (14 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/66)

     Optical Drive                                     ATAPI DVD+RW 4X4X12

     Optical Drive                                     CB5679L IVD023A SCSI CdRom Device

     SMART Hard Disks Status                           OK

 

Thx in advance for any help or comments that can get me going on this.

[keydet]

try setting "SATA Native mode" in bios to YES.

[Bizmarke]

Well, I looked and looked but Asus will not allow me to change anything to do with SATA except to disable the bootrom and boot order

 

*EDIT

 

Just a quick update untill I can find more info and do a little more searching I gonna put the desktop on hold for a bit. So I have decided to drag out my good ol' Dell Inspiron 2650 and slamed in -Mac_OS_X_10_4_9_Intel_SSE3_[JaS_10_4_8_AMD_Intel_SSE2_SSE3_with_PPF1_PPF2_iso dvd i grabbed last night and it started right up! Right now it's installing and has 25mins to finish so I will let you all know how it goes