rounak Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 While installing Leopard from DVD I get the error "still waiting for root device" I know the first thing you would say is there exist topics discussing this issue. I have gone through more than 15 articles from different forums discussing this issue but all of them talk about SATA, IDE , master, slave, some switches l ke -x -v etc etc I have an Intel G33 original motherboard, Intel core 2 duo 2.33, 2 GB Ram (single ram). I have tried all of these combinations for installing Leopard : 1. BIOS setting: SATA as AHCI Hardware used: DVD-RW (IDE) (no other IDE devices, not even a floppy drive) one SATA hard-disk 2. BIOS setting: SATA as IDE Hardware used: DVD-RW (IDE) (no other IDE devices, not even a floppy drive) one SATA hard-disk 3. BIOS setting: IDE harddisk as master Hardware used: DVD-RW (IDE) one IDE harddisk 4. BIOS setting: IDE harddisk as slave Hardware used: DVD-RW (IDE) one IDE harddisk In all the cases, I get the same result: "Still waiting for root device" I have tried all this: 1. kept the hard-disk totally unpartitioned (i.e. raw) 2. partitioned it completely 3. partitoned the first drive I have tried a flat-image install------started it from windows XP on a blank (raw) SATA (& then IDE when it failed) harddisk In all the cases, I get the same result: "Still waiting for root device" I tried most of all this even for Tiger and i get the same result: "Still waiting for root device" Someone plz tell me how long will i have to wait for this "root device"? Will I ever be able to install MacOSX tiger or leopard on my PC? THanks in advance!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98371-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 This is the APPLE Section of this forum so no answers to osx on pc here, post in the osx86 section Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98371-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-702795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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