kmkarim Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 hey guys... first leme run you guys through specs: JaS 10.4.8 im using a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 EVGA680i 2 SATA hardrives Maxtor usb external hardrive powerd through AC power. im trying to isntall mac osx to a external usb hardrive, ive followed the steps on wiki but once put the cd in and reboot i get the following message this is b4 the mac interface comes up to install Extension "com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass has no kernel dependency" After this i get the "amazing" message "Still waiting for root device" Can an1 help me? Thank You Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 which 1 you used uphuck or JaS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/#findComment-452919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmkarim Posted September 22, 2007 Author Share Posted September 22, 2007 JaS because i have an EVGA 680i Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/#findComment-452935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 press f8 after you boot then type this cpus=1 platform=X86PC -v Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/#findComment-453249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmkarim Posted September 23, 2007 Author Share Posted September 23, 2007 okay..i donloaded uphucks and it worked..i went to vista made the disk a master boot record and rebooted, now i select the hardrive to boot from and it just freezes at CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 04 4B 09 A4 12 GUID 1E8AA21A-064B-0400-0000-000000000000 then DHCP.... it continues producing dots ten sexits the NVIDIA Boot Agent because "No boot finename recieved" Help would be greatly accpreciated Thank You! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/#findComment-453609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacknight Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 need ScreenShot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/#findComment-453685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmkarim Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 okay...something happened, i installed it to a old IDe hardrive,, it finished installation forze at MACH reboot so i rebooted the computer and to boot up mac i need the disk in, boot from disk and say rd=disk2s1, is this normal ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64025-installing-to-external-usb-hardrive/#findComment-454611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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