albert_sn Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 same proplem here same specs !?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixlNinja Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 I have a Sony IDE DVD RW and A WD 160GB SATA HDD, on intel DG33 Mother Board with Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU I also have the same problem. and Stuck at "Waiting for root device" . Please PM me if anyone found a solution so that I can also try it on my PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dying4004 Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 i think new intel chipsets got some probs with leopard. leopard cant detect the sata/ide drives or doesnt load kexts for ide with intel 965 ry and dg33fb. i am currently using gigabyte ga-945gcmx board and it works like a charm. then i bought 4 gb ram to support ram i bought intel 965 ry and i got waiting for root device and durng install i found that leopard loaded appleviaatadriver which isnt logical since its intel original chipset not cheap via chipset. then i exchanged 965 board with intel dg33fb and same prob. u can try taking dev ids of sata/ide drives and making kexts and putting in install dvd and try though i tried with dg33fb and it dint work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonker Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 I used iATKOS.r3 for my install. I did get the still waiting for root device. What I had to do was to connect BOTH an IDE DVD and an IDE HDD. I booted the install disk from the IDE DVD and installed just fine. I installed to my SATA HDD. I did not have to install to the IDE drive. I only had to have both devices connected. After install I shut down and removed the IDE devices and booted to the SATA HDD just fine. There is a minor issue of the SATA DVD seeming to "fall asleep" after mounting an image (but I'll figure that out by reading through the forum). By having BOTH IDE devices connected, I only had to boot the install disk with -v. I did not have to disable any cores or boot to safe or single user mode. -v was it just to track errors (which there were none with both IDE's connected) I am running 10.5.2 with both cores active and SATA's with full read/write. Maybe this will help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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