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I am not very impressed. I downloaded and tried 3 differents types of Leopard. First I tried the Brazil Mac directions. It just didn't work. I had too many problems. Next I tried the flat image, I later found out that I needed Tiger already, and then I tried ToH, the most successful of the 3. But I still got no where. After install completes, I get the message "Still waiting for root device." I read the FAQ and don't really understand what is wrong. Something with IDE??? Anyways, I am willing to pay someone personally throught Paypal to help me in realtime and give me steps by step help. Very indepth help. I am completely new. This is cool and I really want a crack at it. I will pay only if I get a successful install of Leopard running. Hardware compatibility is another situation. Here are my specs:

 

 

-Rocketfish 700W RF-700WPS PSU.

-ASUS P5LP-LE (Leonite).

-Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 @ 2.13GHz + Stock CPU Fan.

-2GB Samsung PC2-4300 DDR2-533.

-BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB.

-2 x Seagate 7200 320GB = 640GB.

-TS-H653L DL 16X DVD+/-RW.

-Realtek HD Audio + Altec Lansing VS4142 2.1.

-HP w2207 22" Widescreen LCD (VGA-DVI).

-Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. (SP1 Soon)

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You can install the flat image from Windows. In fact, the contents of the zip file are Windows exclusive. =S

 

Are you telling me this cause it worked for you. Cause everyone told me different thigns and I tried them all. None worked. Or I am retarted. I am trying to follow http://osx86.thefreesuite.com/leo_intel.php because I have hope in ToH. But now My ISO and DVD suddenly disappeared. What else can go wrong? :wacko:

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Still waiting for root device.

 

- Make sure that the partition is set 'active' (step 5 of the guide)

- Try to install to another had disk

- Read: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...for+root+device

 

Sorry for the short answer, but I gotta go now, if your problem is not solved this eveneing, reply and I'll do some more research. All I know atm is that you can fix the roor device error by messing with your hard disks, partitions or putting the install disk in another dvd player....

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Have you enabled all the PATA/SATA channels from within your BIOS settings?

 

It could be related to SATA/MOBO compability too so search for users that has the same hardware spec as you (and maybe send a pm to them)

 

Good luck!

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I am not very impressed. I downloaded and tried 3 differents types of Leopard. First I tried the Brazil Mac directions. It just didn't work. I had too many problems. Next I tried the flat image, I later found out that I needed Tiger already, and then I tried ToH, the most successful of the 3. But I still got no where. After install completes, I get the message "Still waiting for root device." I read the FAQ and don't really understand what is wrong. Something with IDE??? Anyways, I am willing to pay someone personally throught Paypal to help me in realtime and give me steps by step help. Very indepth help. I am completely new. This is cool and I really want a crack at it. I will pay only if I get a successful install of Leopard running. Hardware compatibility is another situation. Here are my specs:

-Rocketfish 700W RF-700WPS PSU.

-ASUS P5LP-LE (Leonite).

-Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 @ 2.13GHz + Stock CPU Fan.

-2GB Samsung PC2-4300 DDR2-533.

-BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB.

-2 x Seagate 7200 320GB = 640GB.

-TS-H653L DL 16X DVD+/-RW.

-Realtek HD Audio + Altec Lansing VS4142 2.1.

-HP w2207 22" Widescreen LCD (VGA-DVI).

-Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. (SP1 Soon)

 

Is your cd drive or hdd ide? If so, make sure it's set as 'Master' on the pins.

 

-Stell

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Thanks. I will look into this ;)

 

Edit: Just got another copy of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard ToH OSX86 9A581 RC2 disc and I followed these steps:

 

http://www.osx86.thefreesuite.com/leo_intel.php

I got to where it says

5. In the command window, type:

 

>> List disk

>> Select disk [disk #]

>> List partition

>> create partition primary id=af

>> active

 

I did the first 3 parts but at

>> create partition primary id=af

>> active

I was lost. I just skipped those and followed to next steps:

 

6. Insert the Leopard install disk (if you don't have it, search for a ToH RC2 disk on the usual places...) and reboot your computer.If it doesn't boot up your Leopard disk you may have to change your BIOS settings to allow booting from a DVD.

 

That was fine. I told my BIOS (using ESC) to boot from DVD. The Darwin Bootloader stared. I typed in "-v-x" and clicked ENTER. The installation started with lots of words and text. I was patient and waited till it looked like it was done. Then it said:

 

Extension "com.apple.driver.itunesphonedriver" has no explicit kernel dependency; using version 6.0

 

Then

 

ERROR: FireWire unable to determine security-mode; defaulting to full secure

 

Then this stays forever and keeps repeating

 

"Still waiting for root device."

 

I just want to know exactly what to do. Stellarola above tells me to change my pins on my optical drives to Master. Any other options if that doesn't work? Thanks!

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Is your cd drive or hdd ide? If so, make sure it's set as 'Master' on the pins.

 

-Stell

 

Actually, sadly both my HDD and Optical Drive at IDE (I checked in Vista's hardware manager under enumerator)

So I switch my HDD to slave?? Master?? Or both my Optical and HDD to Master. Not every good at this stuff but know how to do it. Thanks. :lol:

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Hey Badie05, I'm guessing you got Leopard successfully installed on your computer. I was wondering if your are using 10.5.2 or where able to upgrade to something newer. I have the same mobo you have and when I tried to upgrade to 10.5.3 I just got errors and had to restore it back to 10.5.2. Also, are your front audio ports working? I never got mine to work.

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