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06-11-2009, 03:10 AM
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Cannot Boot From USB Hard Drive
As my specs in my signature show, my motherboard is the P6N Diamond.
My retail installation sits on a SATA hard drive. I never been able to get my IDE to work whatsoever. Recently, I've been trying to do an installation on an external USB drive. This is a USB hard drive enclosure with an IDE hard drive inside of it. The installation is usually successful but when I try to boot from the USB drive, I get a:- "Still waiting for root device". Anyone have any insight into why I can't boot from the USB drive? Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 (Retail) Motherboard: MSI P6N Diamond Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Video Card: MSI NX 6600 TD256E (CI QE Dual Displays) Memory: Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX 4GB DDR2 
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#2
06-11-2009, 03:22 AM
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Computer: Gateway 838GM | 9.5.0 Vodoo Kernel |2.0 RC4 Chameleon Bootloader | Processor:Intel Pentium 4 630 / 3 GHz | RAM: 512MB | OS: Windows 7 32BIT, OSx86 iPC 10.5.6 | Mainboard Chipset: Intel 915G Express | Graphics Card:Integrated Intel GMA 900 | Video Memory: Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 | Audio:ALC 860 |Card Reader:8 in 1 Integrated| Hard Drives:1x 200GB SATA(Win 7), 1x 320GB SATA(OS X) Both Internal
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#3
06-11-2009, 03:33 AM
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Nope.
I think it's a driver issue. After posting the question, I imaged my iATKOS 5i DVD onto the USB drive and was able to boot it as the installer. The question now is which driver is it. Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 (Retail) Motherboard: MSI P6N Diamond Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Video Card: MSI NX 6600 TD256E (CI QE Dual Displays) Memory: Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX 4GB DDR2
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#4
06-11-2009, 03:37 AM
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maybe its your Southbridge? make sure your installing the right drivers for eveything
 Computer: Gateway 838GM | 9.5.0 Vodoo Kernel |2.0 RC4 Chameleon Bootloader | Processor:Intel Pentium 4 630 / 3 GHz | RAM: 512MB | OS: Windows 7 32BIT, OSx86 iPC 10.5.6 | Mainboard Chipset: Intel 915G Express | Graphics Card:Integrated Intel GMA 900 | Video Memory: Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 | Audio:ALC 860 |Card Reader:8 in 1 Integrated| Hard Drives:1x 200GB SATA(Win 7), 1x 320GB SATA(OS X) Both Internal
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#5
06-11-2009, 03:39 AM
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These drivers should just be for allowing me to boot from a USB device. I extracted the drivers from the Extensions.mkext on the iATKOS 5i DVD. I'm going to sift through and see if I find the right one.
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 (Retail) Motherboard: MSI P6N Diamond Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Video Card: MSI NX 6600 TD256E (CI QE Dual Displays) Memory: Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX 4GB DDR2
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#6
06-11-2009, 03:54 AM
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LOL! that sounds like its gonna take awhile xD lol
Computer: Gateway 838GM | 9.5.0 Vodoo Kernel |2.0 RC4 Chameleon Bootloader | Processor:Intel Pentium 4 630 / 3 GHz | RAM: 512MB | OS: Windows 7 32BIT, OSx86 iPC 10.5.6 | Mainboard Chipset: Intel 915G Express | Graphics Card:Integrated Intel GMA 900 | Video Memory: Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 | Audio:ALC 860 |Card Reader:8 in 1 Integrated| Hard Drives:1x 200GB SATA(Win 7), 1x 320GB SATA(OS X) Both Internal
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#7
06-11-2009, 02:16 PM
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There was a difference of about 87-89 kernel extensions. I copied all of them in and it was able to boot to the GUI.
I'm currently using a non-standard USB keyboard so I got to the dialog box of Leopard telling me that it wants to detect my keyboard. It seems to have crashed as I'm only getting the beach ball when I click on ok. Where do I go from here........? 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7 (Retail) Motherboard: MSI P6N Diamond Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Video Card: MSI NX 6600 TD256E (CI QE Dual Displays) Memory: Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX 4GB DDR2
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