Silfer Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Other people on this forum told me to set my HD as primary master. So I did, Unfortunatly to set it as primary master I had to buy a new IDE HD this was because my two IDE DVD's were on primary master and primary slave and my two SATA HD's were on third and fourth master. so to be able to set an HD to primary master i had to plug my two IDE DVD's to secondary master and slave and plug my brand new IDE HD to primary master. I looked in my bios and it showed that my New HD was primary master. So, anyways i try'd to boot the Mac osx leopard AMD64 installation disc and it gave me this ERROR: unable to determine firewire security mode : defaulting to full-secure. and then, after a minut: STILL WAITING FOR: ROOT DEVICE Now when try it with the flags -v -x it gave me this error several times with sometimes a different block number: EBIOS read error: device timeout block 7012760 sectors 64 This sucks because my new HD costed me 75 euro's and thats alot for a 14 year old Do you maybe think I should try an other release like the new one from uphuck? I would be soooooo glad if you guys could help me with this. p.s. sorry if I made a mistype my English is pretty good ,but not my native language wich is DUTCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Set the HD to master and puit it on the primary ide master. Then take one of your dvd drives and set it slave and put on the same primary ide and it will be a slave. You should now be able to boot the disc. If you have sata drives then just hook up one dvd drive to be the master and put it the primary ide. Good luck, Chevy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 It could be that the disc you are booting with does not have hardware support for your IDE/SATA controller in your computer, which could mean that there is nothing wrong with your hard disks at all. A little information about the type of computer you are trying this with along with the Mac OS disc you are using would be helpful as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silfer Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 two SATA HD's and one IDE HD two IDE DVD-roms Graphic card: Nvidea gforce 7600 GT from MSI Mobo: MSI Processor AMD athlon 64 3700+ 2.21 GHZ sound: SB audigy and Live! 24bit MOBO: MSI K8n........... I couldnt find the booklet but if you want the MOBO name i'm going to search harder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jart Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 two SATA HD's and one IDE HDtwo IDE DVD-roms Graphic card: Nvidea gforce 7600 GT from MSI Mobo: MSI Processor AMD athlon 64 3700+ 2.21 GHZ sound: SB audigy and Live! 24bit MOBO: MSI K8n........... I couldnt find the booklet but if you want the MOBO name i'm going to search harder your rig sounds similar to mine and im also gettin the exact same problem im runnin: K8n Neo4-F Motherboard AMD 3500+ nVidia 6600GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmtdude Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Try disabling usb mouse in bios and use ps/2 mouse instead. If your already using ps/2 mouse try disabling usb mouse in bios anyway, it woked for me hopefully it'll work for you. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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