dying4004 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 guyz i am a super noob. so at 1st i am saying sorry for asking old answered questions again. i just started with MAC today. a friend of fine gave me a bootable dvd of kalyway 10.5.1. my system spec: Pentium D 3.0 Ghz MSI P4M900M2 MOBO 2 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 XFX Geforce 8400 GS 256 MB VIA HD AUDIO VIA NIC ADMTEK NIC Hitachi 250 GB SATA Maxtor 80 GB ATA Liteon DVD Writer SATA PROB: i have my XP in SATA HDD. i booted pc with kalyway dvd in the DVD writer. then pressed F flag. it was loading the extensions. then at 1 point it showed AppleVIAATADriver: VIA Unknown then it waited for 30-40 secs and showed Still waiting for root device. after that i booted in pc searched the google and this forum. found lots of answers. but as its my 1st attempt at MAC many things i cant understand. what i got is that i need to use AppleVIAATA.kext to get my installation done. but i dont know how to patch my dvd. do i need to make an iso from the dvd and then patch it?? could any 1 please put me on the rite way so that i can start working. BTW my ATA HDD is on Primary Master. cheerz guyz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dying4004 Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 any1 plz....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_fantasma Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hey!! Look what a google search turned up! http://www.google.com/search?q=still+waiti...lient=firefox-a *wink* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dying4004 Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 thnx for the reply the_fantasma. i have been searching google and this forum for last 24 hrs. i more or less know what is causing my prob. the 1st thing i have to do to solve my prob is add AppleViaAta.kext in the dvd. but i cant fnd how to make image of the bootable dvd , then add the files in the iso and then re-write the dvd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dying4004 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 no1?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dying4004 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 this ebios error is driving me crazy. doesnt matter how many times i re-burn, how many tyoes of media i use every time it shows same error. btw guyz, 1 thing. how do u make iso from the mac dvd?? caz my friend sent me a dvd which boots well but it shows still waiting for device as my mobo is via chipset based. so i ripped the dvd with nero and patched it my modified ktext. but it can be that my rip procedure wasnt good and so the iso is corrupted. isnt it?? so cud any1 plz tell me which software u sue to make the iso from dvd?? cheerz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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