The "Unofficial" Empire EFI Support Thread

[RevisionZero]

Originally Posted by Keagi I have a dell 435MT with 4850 Radeon card; I believe It probably has a Jmicron SATA inside of it because I get "Still waiting for root device" error; I've tried changing the ports around and still nothing :S Any reccomendation on what to do? I can install Leopard off iAtkos 7 distro for some reason but this doesn't work :/

Are you running your drives in AHCI Mode? Instead of IDE.

[Keagi]

Originally Posted by RevisionZero Are you running your drives in AHCI Mode? Instead of IDE.

The bios has no AHCI options whatsoever :/ I think it's prob. stuck in IDE.

[aatkco]

i burned empire efi and snow leopard retail dvd and started installing but i got install failed , i tried again and i got the same message :

I am installing into a usb hdd ( it's an internal hdd and connected with ide to usb connecter ) , active , primart and formatted to one guid partition .
I don't know what is the proplem , so i took a screenshot from the installer log which describe the error it may help :

Thanks

[BigBadBen]

stops loading on "still waiting for root device" just after the firewire error.

[ULTIMATI]

Originally Posted by prasys I really need someone with AMD to test me out , if you're willing to lend the PC in ense that I can control it remotely , let me know. I need to gather few things from AMD , especially a dsdt table InteliMacPro , i really need your dsdt and your video bios dump if possible. I am on 8600GT and pentium d. So I am playing guessing game , as I am assuming few things are constant Plus mysql table is giving me problems. I am looking for someone whos good in mysql as well. I am working on another build of AMD , dont worry

Prasys..i would like to lend my my lappy for your test...remotely

[MNG]

Originally Posted by BigBadBen stops loading on "still waiting for root device" just after the firewire error.

i too have the same problem, even left it running for an hour, and i still kept getting the same message.. played around with the BIOS settings, changed the sata mode to AHCI and yet it didn't work.. can anyone help us?

EDIT: even tried using all the flags (-v, -s, -x, -f) but still, nothing

[prasys]

Originally Posted by aatkco i burned empire efi and snow leopard retail dvd and started installing but i got install failed , i tried again and i got the same message : I am installing into a usb hdd ( it's an internal hdd and connected with ide to usb connecter ) , active , primart and formatted to one guid partition . I don't know what is the proplem , so i took a screenshot from the installer log which describe the error it may help : Thanks

Well , did it install. Select the right options without anything i.e printers. The installation would generally fail , its normal. Make sure it installed 100%. Its because OSX can't bless the drive

MNG , whats your controller. If jMicron I'm sorta out of luck. I'll see what I can do. Please do let me know your controller

[macusers]

Hi Prasys,

I use your boot132 cd to install SL, but i need to add other kexts for my onboard Intel gma950 and audio alc 883 to the E/E folder then rebuilt the extensions.mkext but it didn't work. so what is a proper way to do that. Thank you for your time and knowledge.

[aatkco]

I got install failed @ ALMOST 60% , not all files were copied , I tried normal , legacy and ( lined ) ICH9R/M users version as i have ICH9R Contoller and intel G33 Chipset , Asus IPIBL-LB Motherboard .
I choosed only base system and additional fonts .
When i restared ( after install was failed ) i booted from the usb hard disk ( which i am installing snow leopard to ) and i got nothing just black screen , when i inserted empire efi cd i didn't see my hfs+ partition .
Note Again : I am installing to iternal hard disk connected via ide-to-usb connecter .
I posted a full summary of my computer by everest ultimate and attached it , it maybe useful .

[MNG]

@prasys IDE controller

EDIT: i've downloaded other versions of the EFI, i found that the legacy EFI v1.08 works for me