MacPhreek Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 OK, I had Uphuck 10.4.9 running on my old PC with specs as follows: ASuSTeK P4R800-VM w/ ATI Xpress 200 chipset Intel Pentium 4 CPU @ 2.66gHz Silicon Tech 1024MB PC3200 DDR 128MB ATI Radeon 9200 Video Card Western Digital 40GB HDD (Windows) Western Digital 160GB HDD (Macintosh) Belkin F5D7000 ver 5000 Wireless-G PCI Card Dual Booting: Uphuck OS X 10.4.9 & Windows XP SP2 Now, I upgraded my PC last night. It now consists of: ASuSTeK P5K-VM w/ Intel chipset Intel P4 Core 2 Duo E4500 CPU @ 2.2gHz Corsair 2048MB PC26400 DDR2 128MB Nvidia Video Card 16x PCI-E Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD (Windows/Mac) Western Digital 160GB HDD (Storage) Belkin F5D7000 ver 5000 Wireless-G PCI Card So, I'd like to install Uphuck OS X 10.4.9 v 1.4i R3. I made a partition of 45GB on the 250GB primary SATA drive. Formatted it as FAT 32, primary partition, and rebooted into Darwin x86. I tried just booting it up and I got the "no smoking" sign again in the middle of the screen, without the cigarette. From past experiences, I know this means that it was "waiting for root device." So, I tried again, only this time I pressed F8 and did the boot with a -v and got the "Still waiting for root device." So then, I tried again with -x -s and got the same thing. Can anyone shed a littler light on this for me please? I'm a little lost at this point and I REALLY would like to get this thing set up NOW. Thanks in advance guys.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacPhreek Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 *bump* Come on guys, I need some help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Why don't you just stay with what you already had? Chevy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Have you tried experimenting with the drive settings in your bios? Perhaps trying IDE mode, AHCI mode or SATA mode (whichever it's not in currently) to see if that makes a difference? I'm not sure from your post whether you are having this problem during the installation process or if OSX86 is already installed and you just can't access the system now that it's installed. What kind of 128mb nVidia card are we talking about? Is it the same one that was in your other system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacPhreek Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Why don't you just stay with what you already had? Chevy Because it was slow. SATA>IDE in my opinion. Also, I needed more than the whopping 40GB C:\ drive I had. So what the hell, spend a little money, make it faster, bam! Have you tried experimenting with the drive settings in your bios? Perhaps trying IDE mode, AHCI mode or SATA mode (whichever it's not in currently) to see if that makes a difference? I'm not sure from your post whether you are having this problem during the installation process or if OSX86 is already installed and you just can't access the system now that it's installed. What kind of 128mb nVidia card are we talking about? Is it the same one that was in your other system? I have tried experimenting with the BIOS. Initially it was set as "IDE, Enhanced." I changed it to "AHCI, Compatible" and still nothing. I have not installed OS X, I am TRYING to install it so I can then use it. It looks like this: 250GB SATA (split into 2 partitions, 200GB for Windows and 50GB for Mac) 160GB EIDE (storage drive for music, pictures, documents, movies, etc...) Also, no the video card is not the same one as my old system, because my old one was an ATI AGP 8x, and this new one is Nvidia PCI-E 16x. The full name of it is: EVGA e-GeForce 7200GS Yes, I know it's not very high end at all, but I don't do gaming so no worries. Also, I have tried Jas OS X 10.4.8, Uphuck 10.4.9 v1.4i R3, and Kalyway 10.4.10 (SSE3 ONLY). I'm at my wit's end here, they ALL say waiting for root device when I boot Darwinx86 with the -v switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSD_GPx Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Seems like the bootloader is not founding your DVD unit. Make shure it is in the First IDE channel, and preferible configured as "Master" (you will have to move the jumper in the rear of your DVD unit). You can check the current status in the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacPhreek Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 My DVD drive is SATA, as is my HDD. I do have my storage drive plugged into the lone EIDE bus on my new mobo. I want to install the MacOS on the SATA drive, not my IDE storage drive. Before I went to work this morning I tried to plug in my old DVD writer as master on the IDE chain with the IDE HDD set as slave. Also, I told the BIOS to treat the SATA as AHCI, on the recommendation of some other members here. Tried to boot up again into Darwinx86, and same thing: Waiting for root device I would be most grateful if someone could help me with this. I want my Hackintosh back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davejb Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Why don't you just stay with what you already had? Chevy If I followed that logic I'd still be running an 8086 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 My DVD drive is SATA, as is my HDD. I do have my storage drive plugged into the lone EIDE bus on my new mobo. I want to install the MacOS on the SATA drive, not my IDE storage drive. Before I went to work this morning I tried to plug in my old DVD writer as master on the IDE chain with the IDE HDD set as slave. Also, I told the BIOS to treat the SATA as AHCI, on the recommendation of some other members here. Tried to boot up again into Darwinx86, and same thing: Waiting for root device I would be most grateful if someone could help me with this. I want my Hackintosh back! Try an ATA DVD. ROM. And perhaps you need to rethink and do an install on the IDE storage drive as sata doesn't seem to be working for you.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacPhreek Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 I may try this when I get home, and see what kind of results I get. I have a spare 20GB drive that I may be able to set up the Mac on. Anyone else have any ideas? Try an ATA DVD. ROM.And perhaps you need to rethink and do an install on the IDE storage drive as sata doesn't seem to be working for you.... I tried an IDE-ATAPI DVD-ROM this morning before work and it didnt work. Who knows though, I'll screw around with it over the next few days and let you all know what happens unless someone else has more ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacPhreek Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 OK tried all the things suggested, anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacPhreek Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 *bump* for the evening crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Mac doesnt use FAT32 it uses HFS+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 vcab, you have to first format it as FAT32 for Disk Utility for OS X to recognize the partition and THEN you format it as HFS+ later using Disk Utility. Stop confusing people Just a joke pcwiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 vcab, you have to first format it as FAT32 for Disk Utility for OS X to recognize the partition and THEN you format it as HFS+ later using Disk Utility. Stop confusing people Just a joke pcwiz I never have, i use gparted live cd and make unallocated unformatted space and disk utility recognizes it and formats it fine. sometimes i dont even use gparted and partition straight from disk utility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Oh I mean if you have an existing partition you format it as fat32. You are talking about unallocated space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Oh I mean if you have an existing partition you format it as fat32. You are talking about unallocated space. ohh i c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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