Jart Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 My Rig: MSI K8N Neo4 Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3500+ nVidia GeForce 6600GT Graphics Card here's what's happening... I got the Zephyroth 10.5.1 disk, and everything was going well... until the screen showed, "SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC = 0x08, ASCQ = 0x01" it showed that 15 times with a minute in between each message after that... it showed, "Still waiting for root device" it's still doing it... (appearing 15 times so far) which root device is it talkin about? wut do i need to tweak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adeebm Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Still waiting for root device mmeans its having trouble acessing someting. Check your dvd drive and hd to make sure they are jumper set to the right position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jart Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Still waiting for root device mmeans its having trouble acessing someting. Check your dvd drive and hd to make sure they are jumper set to the right position.ok i'll try that i should post a pic of my BIOS configuration so someone could tell me what to fix... ok here it is...im gonna wanna put the OS X on the WD300BBthe WD800JD is my winXP hdany ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jart Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 problem's still happenin i tried different combos of master, slave, etc and all of them produce identical results help please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 "SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x04, ASC = 0x08, ASCQ = 0x01"it showed that 15 times with a minute in between each message Most often that's caused by a bad DVD burn. Burn the .iso again at the slowest speed possible and /or check to make sure your download was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jart Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 could it also be because my DVD drive isn't on the right jumper setting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Gray Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 No. It has nothing to do with your drive's jumpers. It has everything to do with three things: 1) the DVD you're using, 2) your DVD drive, and/or 3) your motherboard (and BIOS settings). In my case I received this message until I changed the RAID setting in my BIOS from "autodetect" to "always on," which in turn cause my DVD drive to act like a SATA DVD drive instead of a standard IDE drive. In your case, it may be (as cgsheen mentioned) a bad burn, an unsupported DVD drive, or an unsupoorted MB chipset. Take a look at the HCL to try and find your hardware there and what other users have done with (even similar) hardware to get it to boot: Components: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.1 Laptops: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...0.5.1/Portables Desktops: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...10.5.1/Desktops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jart Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 checked all of those things... my motherboard is fully compatable (although it seems more stable in 10.4.8, which i also tried and got identical results) and i tried burning the DVD at various speeds, multiple times my RAID settings were sorta weird though... i enabled RAID and in the RAID settings, it only showed my 2 hard drives... and not my DVD drive u want a pic of that also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_7 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 @jart do you oc ur computer?if u did then try to switch off the oc and try to boot again.i had this experience b4.turn off the oc and my computer can boot the dvd.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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