SandyG3 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Ok; a little background, had jas 10.4.8 with 10.4.10 patched lan/audio working great with intel 915pbl + p4 cpu system. Picked up today an intel dg33fb with a quad core q6600 cpu. Swapped out mainboard+cpu in place of older one. Of course the load bombs out due to kext differences to the new board. When I try booting to same hdd load as old system it shows apple logo, spinning icon at bottom; then a circle with a X through it on the apple logo. Easy I thought; I'll just boot to boot cd and install again. Upon doing so it starts loading and then stops at this step, "still waiting on root device" ide hdd is on master; dvd drive is on slave (same ide bus) same setup as older board/cpu combo, but new one has problems. Any ideas? I've got a sata drive hooked up to which I am trying to install too, but I can not get the dvd to boot. Much thanks for the many months of great information I have gotten from everyone here. Thank You in Advance. Little more information; same thing happens if I remove ide hdd completely and set dvd drive to master and just has sata hdd connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondogrosso Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 i had a problem a bit different, but i had to unplug the HD and put it in a PC to delete partition, then format (FAT) and relaunch installation of MACOS, during install > HD utilities > format > MAC system (something like that) and installation worked fine.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denja Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 My specs are: Mobo = intel DG33FB (ON board graphic and sound) Processor Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2331 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) HDD WD 200GB Sata (native mode as IDE) File System = Running xp64 and vista64 as ntfs. As i am new to mac, can with this specs i install patched leo 10.5...? Thanks. EDIT: When switching IDE to AHCI mode, it is not working and i can boot. Any solution for that.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 You said you are using SATA, the SATA functionality may not be working for that board. You could try an IDE HDD< test out some SATA kexts that might work, ghost the drive to the sata drive and then you might be good to go. Who knows though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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