The infamous waiting for root problem ..

[Naatan]

Hi, I'm trying to get iatkos v7 running on my HP Pavilion a6500f without luck so far.

I thought I was getting the error due to my PC only having SATA disks so I got an IDE disk from work to check if that worked. I installed it and it does seem to detect a driver but right after it just shows the waiting for root error..

Attatched are screenshots of my boot screen and the error, I was hoping anyone could give me any ideas on what I might do to resolve this problem?

I've already tried the following:


rd=disk0
rd=disk0s0
platform=x86pc
platform=ACPI
-v -x -f
And mixtures of the above (also tried disk1, disk2 etc)

Anyway, any ideas?

Thanks!

Edit -

Note that my primary HD is now IDE, secondary is SATA and dvd reader is also SATA.

[SportsGuy]

maybe try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU-knkxJrw

[Naatan]

maybe try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU-knkxJrw

Thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow (bedtime here :))

I am already using my IDE as master boot so that definitely isn't it, I'll give the kext a try.

[Naatan]

Just noticed, the video assumes that you already managed to install MacOS, I can't even get into the installation - I get the error when trying to boot the dvd.

Any more ideas?

[SportsGuy]

Maybe try Hazard's Snow Leopard disto.

[tham50]

depending on your sb i'd try sata disks with ahci enabled or disabled. try both. one should work

[Naatan]

Unfortunately my bios doesn't let me configure anything =\ I got another IDE disk today (the one I had seemed to have some problems) - hopefully this one will work.. will try tonight. Only 40gb but I only need it to actually get into the installation screen.

[pederb]

Were you able to solve your issue? I have the same problem with HP dv5040 laptop

Cheers

Peder

[majka]

I had the problem and ahci enabled fixed it...if you don't have that option there might be another way to change it.