Jump to content

Leopard on Intel G33 Express Chipset / ICH9R

mmmrks

By mmmrks,
in Hardware Components and Drivers

 Share
22 posts in this topic

Recommended Posts

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
Posted

Hello everyone!

 

Hit a roadbump in installation, and I'm curious if anyone can figure this one out.

 

When booting into Darwin, I use -x -v platform=X86PC. Eventually, it will get to a point where it will say "Still waiting on root device" over and over again.

 

I am assuming this has everything to do with not recognizing my SATA controller, which is linked to the PATA controller because of ICH9R. If I unplug SATA altogether and just boot using EIDE/PATA devices, same message applies.

 

The funny thing is, it gives this message even though it BOOTED from either of the SATA or PATA drives.

 

Hardware:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Intel DG33TL Motherboard (G33 Express chipset / 82801IR I/O Controller ICH9R)

2 GB RAM

1x 320GB SATA

1x 200GB EIDE / PATA - Jumpered to Slave

1X DVD-RW EIDE / PATA - Jumpered to Master

 

I have used the following methods with the same outcome:

-Boot from BrazilMAC DVD

-Boot from fresh Leopard flat file DD'd to a fresh format on the 200GB EIDE / PATA

 

I've done these things to prepare:

-Enabled single core mode

-Enabled HPET

-IDE mode set to Legacy

 

 

I have Ubuntu installed, which has read/write support for HFS+, so I can modify kexts and whatnot (though I have no experience with this yet).

 

Help a 'noob out if you've got any tips. Thank you!

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
  • Author
Posted

Here's the image at boot:

boot.jpg

 

Thanks for the response. :D Hrm, MacWrite for XP, nor Ubuntu's HFS+ tools would let me write to the partition, just read. I'd love to modify kexts, files, permissions... but I've no idea how to do so. Go find a Mac and get an ide -> usb dongle to muck about files with? A bit rare where I am.

 

How does access/modify HFS+ files without Mac OS? Thank you!

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
  • Author
Posted
I believe that you should be able to put the kext onto a usb flash drive and then boot up using the Leopard DVD

 

Unfortunately it won't boot from DVD or mounted partition... it only hangs on the above messages. With the DVD, no HPET message, just "Still waiting on root device". So there's no way for me to get to a terminal or OS X disk utilities... Thanks for the good idea, though.

  • 1 month later...
crazyJAT
crazyJAT
Posted
Posted

Still waiting on root device mean a couple of things:

 

When booting from dvd it means that the system cannot access the dvd volume.

When booting from hard drive it means the system cannot access the drive volume.

I have had this issue with my board in the past when my dvd drive was plugged into sata ( i have an ide->sata adapter ). Plugging my dvd drive into the ide immediately solved this problem.The lesson here is that if you get this error message while trying to boot from a serial ata device it probably means that your sata isn't supported in boot. I have a motherboard that will read drives in OS X plugged into my sata raid ports but will not boot from them and this seems common in a lot of boards. Again, if you get this message while booting from and IDE device than your IDE isn't boot supported in OS X either.

 

So, if you were trying to boot off of a sata dvd drive try booting off of a ide dvd drive and vice versa if it was ide.

 

Also, overclocking has also been known to cause this error message. Make sure you cpu/ram is not overclocked.

 

Hope this helps

omniron
omniron
Posted
Posted

I have the same problem as the OP (i'm guessing you're a retail employee too :) ).

 

Anyway, just trying to bump this thread, hoping someone has a good answer.

 

Another question, if anyone sees this, is what boot loader works best? Using Vista Bootloader, it seems it'll randomly boot to either of the 2 OS X partitions I have (may partition map is- leopard-flat : Vista : ToH boot ).

 

Edit, this problem persists as well when booting from a USB drive.

 

I'm guessing it might be the IO controller problem.

 

Does anyone know how to set permissions as far as chmod 755 and root:wheel from Vista? Or can I just copy those files in the linked thread as-is (i still have a few days left on the MacDrive demo...)?

  • 1 month later...
sandukan
sandukan
Posted
Posted

Connect the DVD drive to a usb-to-ide adapter.

Boot with that DVD drive connected to the usb, it will allow you to install.

 

My problem is, after I get it to install :-

1. I reboot and patch - get some errors of files not existing

2. I reboot and follow bootable instructions - fails on the last command "bless ..."

3. I remove the DVD and reboot - it starts to load and gets to a message "Hold down the Power button to shut-down the system or press the reset button..."

 

Hope you are more successful

  • 2 weeks later...
omniron
omniron
Posted
Posted
Connect the DVD drive to a usb-to-ide adapter.

Boot with that DVD drive connected to the usb, it will allow you to install.

 

My problem is, after I get it to install :-

1. I reboot and patch - get some errors of files not existing

2. I reboot and follow bootable instructions - fails on the last command "bless ..."

3. I remove the DVD and reboot - it starts to load and gets to a message "Hold down the Power button to shut-down the system or press the reset button..."

 

Hope you are more successful

 

How are you even getting it to boot at all? Do you have a DG33Tl board?

 

I've tried T0H, Kalyway, and the flat file, and no method boots, with any bios config I do.

 

The only thing I can figure is that I need a seperate GPU, because i've seen elsewhere this does the trick.

 

I've also tried an IDE, SATA and USB drive to boot as well, and neither work.

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
  • Author
Posted
How are you even getting it to boot at all? Do you have a DG33Tl board?

 

I am indeed using a DG33TL. I'm guessing they didn't make a lot of these; mine is the only one I've seen in circulation and I got it open box. I'm about to try Kalway though. Woo, this thread is now over 3 months old.

omniron
omniron
Posted
Posted

Well, I got kalyway to boot.

 

Apparently you MUST have a seperate GPU installed.

 

I had some problems at first because I was using NVinject, which currently doesn't support the geforece 8800. Once I deleted that, it worked.

 

But nothing else works. No onboard internet (OS X detected a USB adapter, and i'm connected to the net with that through my Powerbook), no audio, and no gpu.

 

Does anyone know of any drivers for this ethernet?

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
  • Author
Posted
Also, System Profiler doesn't work, it crashes on launch.

 

And VLC player crashes whenever I try to play a video. Anyone know what the deal is with these?

 

Sounds like you don't have a proper video driver. I got NVInstaller to work, now everything plays back beautifully. (Kalyway 10.5.1.)

omniron
omniron
Posted
Posted
Sounds like you don't have a proper video driver. I got NVInstaller to work, now everything plays back beautifully. (Kalyway 10.5.1.)

 

Actually, VLC started working for me.

 

System Profiler STILL doesn't launch.

 

What is NVinstaller? I have used the NVInject for the 8800GT g92 based card.

omniron
omniron
Posted
Posted
A very dreamy auto-installer. http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=18

 

I already have 10.5.2 installed and working with the nvidia drivers> What will this do differently?

 

I'm assuming you have the DG33TL board, does your Apple System Profiler work?

 

I guess it won't hurt to try that installer you linked, but this install of OS X seems so fragile, i'm paranoid it'll break something...

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
  • Author
Posted
I'm assuming you have the DG33TL board, does your Apple System Profiler work?

 

 

Works just fine. Reports things kind of incorrectly, but everything can be found in one location or another. For example, I'm using a PCI ethernet card, and it thinks I have no PCI cards installed, but under Networks it shows all the ethernet information.

Arse
Arse
Posted
Posted

i was a retail employee and in my bios, i have configure sata as AHCI. the installer booted without any problems once i enabled that. however, after i installed OS X and played around before restarting for the first time, i got the still waiting for root device error on the first restart (i was restarting with -v option). i tried restarting without the -v option and it booted into OS X and i am currently (since yesterday) running vista and OS X.

 

 

 

if that solves your problems, please help me out, i have tried shopping around for a working ethernet card. i bought the dlink 530-TX+ today and the box said H\w Ver: f3 but the card board says F2, im not sure whats important but the card will not work under OS X.

 

im using the DG33tl board and i tried downloading the dlink drivers from dlink's website.

mmmrks
mmmrks
Posted
  • Author
Posted

Hi guys,

 

Yes, I got everything to work using Kalyway 10.5.1. I had to give up on IDE. I posted on another thread, but there's a correction when it comes to the PCI network card I'm using, the D-Link DFE-530TX+. I'm using the manufacturer's drivers from D-Link's support pages.

 

DG33TL (Using the files linked from the OS X 86 HCL for the G33 chipset board there)

Q6600 Core2Quad

BFG GeForce 8600 GTS OC (NVInstaller v.33, even though it's for 10.5.2)

4x 1 GB G.Skill 800 MHz DDR2

Pioneer SATA DVD-RW on SATA0

Maxtor 320GB SATA HDD on SATA1

SATA drives configured to AHCI (For initial install, boots disabled thereafter)

PCI D-Link DFE-530TX+ Ethernet adapter (from D-Link's support downloads)

 

ronpaul saved the day on this one. When you boot the Kalyway 10.5.1 install, go into disk tools, wipe everything, and then go into partitions. It is at this point, creating a partition, when you can select MBR or GUID. Once you select MBR here, you must also select MBR in the installation configuration. They have to match. Mine didn't and I got errors like "b0 error" and "System config file '/com.Apple.Boot.plist' not found" after what I thought was a successful installation.

 

I have it triple booted with Vista and Ubuntu.

 

Also, I think occasionally the kexts I installed to try and get my DFE-530TX+ working are conflicting occasionally with the official manufacturer's driver. If I reboot, things tend to work. It's pretty consistent now. *shrug*

 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...