Steve-o Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Im not sure how to start, so I’ll just start from the beginning. I installed kalyway leopard 10.5.1 on a brand new formatted sata drive no other operating system on it, everything works fine boots up properly. Update it with 5.2 then patch the kexts. Everything still working smoothly. After several several reboots I was confident that it was going to work for good. BTW I installed on a GUID not MBR. I hook up my xp hard drive to the slave sata. I changed the IDE configuration so xp would work then I booted up and pressed F8 selected my xp drive and all was well. Until I went and changed the BIOS IDE configuration back to so leopard would boot up and I get the terrible “Still waiting for Root device” message. I followed this guide when first starting out my hardware is pretty much identical. I just don’t understand how booting into xp could change leopard when its on a completely different hard drive and the bios setting are the same as when it was working perfectly before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 mostly only two AHCI and IDE ports are recognized, you need appropriate drivers. one is DVD, second is HD. ( look in the hardware driver section) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-o Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 mostly only two AHCI and IDE ports are recognized, you need appropriate drivers.one is DVD, second is HD. ( look in the hardware driver section) Im sorry but could you expain what you mean in more detail. I don't have any IDE devices connected. Im not sure what to look for in the hardware section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I always got that error message when I had only SATA drives installed, but as soon as I plugged in an IDE drive it booted from the DVD perfectly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-o Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 I always got that error message when I had only SATA drives installed, but as soon as I plugged in an IDE drive it booted from the DVD perfectly... I know that you have to change some bios setting to boot. but thats not my problem, i had everything working perfectly. able to restart whenever and everything was good. til i booted into my xp drive (sata slave) and then my leopard install never booted again. i have a feeling that it's something small, seeing that i didnt change anything, just booted into my slave hard drive using the F8 button. the attached pic is the setting for my mobo to get the error message to go away originally, but it doesn't work anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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