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…
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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?
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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.
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.
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…?
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might be of some help?
maybe its your Southbridge? make sure your installing the right drivers for eveything
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @Undead Surfer | Primary Author | 4 | 2009-06-11 |
| @xXrkidXx | Core Contributor | 3 | 2009-06-11 |