irtehun Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I have an averatec laptop. I am trying to install tubgirl 10.4.10 and i keep getting still waiting for root devices. with all the other releases i get stuck kernel 8.8.1 my specs are AMD Turion 64 X2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 You gave too many details. Try saying even less, and we'll try to read your mind. Here's an idea: leave a blank message -- that'll do it. We crave for such challenges... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 i really dont know all the specs of my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 then you have to try to find them out. else: no one can really help you. its like:"my car doesnt drive anymore! Its a beetle!". how would you help someone with this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 MMX (+), 3DNow (+), SSE, SSE2, SEE3, x86_64 mobo: Averatec 7100 Chipset: Nvidia GeForce Go 6100 Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP if you need anything else let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 This one? http://www.averatec.com/products/portable/...170DualCore.asp If not, check to see if your hard drive connection is SATA type. In either case, if hd is of sata type, then you're in bad luck: osx doesn't like your chipset when it concerns sata drives, and the special medriver mainly covers nforce4 (not nf410/430). sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 yeah thats the one, so i am kind of out of luck huh? there are no releases i can use that will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I know of none. This isn't about jas or uphuck or 'tubgirl', it's about a particular driver for osx (nf4) in a particular situation (sata drive). It took quite a while to get it working on nf4/sata (thanks to medevil et al); some developer would have to work further, to support a chipset that won't be talked about in a couple of years... (we with nf4 were lucky to get the attention). You could try with a small portable external drive though. You can search about such topics here on the forum or in the wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 i can run it fine in VMworkshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 The problem for nf4/sata were mostly about corrupted data, even though it could initially install and somewhat run. Maybe you 'waiting for root device' what something else (it would take more details about your installation procedure), but eventually the nf410-430/sata problem is the wall others in your situation eventually hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 dang it, now i dont know what to do then, i want a hackintosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 if anyone knows anything that i can do to help with this problem, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustJoe Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 like he said, buy an external usb harddrive. search the forums on how to install. i haven't been paying attention to this method: maybe you could even get an external firewire drive. thats how apple does it. don't complain about the cost, you're getting everything else free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 thats the problem though, i dont have the funds to buy a new external hd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatoto Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I have an Averatec 2260-EH1 with tubgirl 10.4.10 and it works great except audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I have an Averatec 2260-EH1 with tubgirl 10.4.10 and it works great except audio. Firstly, from these specs for your Averatec 2260-EH1, you don't even have the nf4 chipset, you have a via chipset. And even if you had the nf4 chipset, from this store info, the Averatec 2260-EH1 has a PATA (ultra-ata) drive, so you wouldn't have the sata/osx/nf4 problem. So your case doesn't apply to his specific problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I have the same sata problem, nf410.. Just a quick question though, If I were to use a PCI Sata Controller card would that work? I don't need it for installing but to actually get my 2 sata drives working with OS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ichijoe Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 dang it, now i dont know what to do then, i want a hackintosh Dang it better go all Intel then... Heres a thought ever thought about Dell?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 If i had the money to buy a dell, i would just buy an external hard drive, or a 3.5" enclosure as i have 4 3.5" ide hard drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 ok i got an external hard drive. i installed once and got BADMBR. What is that exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoolNerds Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 the problem with installing on EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES is that the DARWIN BOOTLOADER doesnt get installed... so you either get a HFS partition error or you get that BAD MBR record, which means there is NO INFO for your Computer to keep booting off of... this is what you have to do when you get an external HDD, you need to install MAC OS X on a INTERNAL HDD and then COPY it using GHOST or whatever onto the EXTERNAL HDD... this will make sure it copies the Boot information also... SUCKS HUH! but thats MAC for ya, seems APPLE cant keep up with DARWINs theory of EVOLUTION... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irtehun Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 can someone direct me to where i find how to install on an external hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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