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5,464 reads · 2008-12-06
Note Leopard 10.5 Gigabyte G31M / P35

Can't Boot Kalyway or Leo4All 10.5.2

Okay. I have a GA-EP45-DS3L MOBO 300GB Hitachi SATA HDD Samsung Lightscribe IDE DVD-RW 2GB 1066MHz DDR2 I cannot boot into either Kalyway or Leo4All. It runs a bunch of lines with JMicronATA and then 5 lines of SAM Multimedia: Read or…

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@nateman06 Published 2008-12-06
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Leopard 10.5
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5,464 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2008-12-06
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@nateman06@Aydinz

Okay. I have a GA-EP45-DS3L MOBO
300GB Hitachi SATA HDD
Samsung Lightscribe IDE DVD-RW
2GB 1066MHz DDR2

I cannot boot into either Kalyway or Leo4All. It runs a bunch of lines with JMicronATA and then 5 lines of SAM Multimedia: Read or Write failed; SENSE_KEY =
followed by Still Waiting for root device

I have no idea how to get it to boot. I have the BIOS set exactly as other places have said and I am thinking that my IDE DVD drive may be to blame. I need all the help I can get. Anything would be awesome. Thanks!

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @Aydinz 2008-12-06

search here and in insanelymac for Waiting for root device i think you will find your answer

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@nateman06Primary Author12008-12-06
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