"waiting for root disc" 75% of time

[jimbo19]

I have installed Kalyway 10.5.1 on my Asrock Conroe 945g DVI

I have 2 sata drives one with windows XP the other MAC OSX , 75% of the time the mac os wont boot

It says waiting for root drive because it thinks the ide chan is disabled , but its clearly not it just seems to be a timing issue

Is there a fix for this ?

 

Thanks

[jimbo19]

This problem only occurs when using 2 sata drives , i.e. winxp and osx 10.5.1

If I use one sata (win xp) and IDE OSX 10.5.1 then it works completely fine !

I would really like to use both sata drives if possible and not have to use one IDE one SATA , has anyone got any ideas ???

[jimbo19]

Take it nobody has experienced similar issue with this ?

[Beerkex'd]

Use the forum search.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=88335

[jimbo19]

Thats shows its for 10.5.2 , I'm using 10.5.1

[Beerkex'd]

I would ask in the thread, maybe someone has installed it on 10.5.1, you never know.

 

If you're on a Kalyway 10.5.1 install, updating to 10.5.2 should be safe if you use the Kalyway updates.

 

There's a "Kalyway 10.5.2 combo update" that updates the system, and a seperate "Kalyway 10.5.2 kernels" package that has a Vanilla kernel and a AMD/intel SSE3 kernel to choose from. Both are available at the usual dodgy places.

 

After updating you might want to try one of macdotnubs AppleSMBIOS:

http://my.macdotnub.info/content/view/19/26/