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Lawless ppc 10.5.6 still waiting for root device

This seemed like the best of all the forums to come to my troubles with so nice to meet everyone. I have read countless posts about ktexts and things like that but I still don't quite understand how to utilize them. I have installed ppc…

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@Believeinjake Published 2010-03-09
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Software, Drivers & Kexts
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6,653 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2010-03-09 – 2010-12-19
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@Believeinjake@SaCleoCheater

This seemed like the best of all the forums to come to my troubles with so nice to meet everyone. I have read countless posts about ktexts and things like that but I still don't quite understand how to utilize them. I have installed ppc just fine but when i try to boot it i get still waiting for root device? any idea's my hardware is as follows

ASRock N68-S
AMD Phenom X4 940 3.0 Quad
Nvidia Geforce 210 Video Card 512 MB
Nvidia Geforce 7025/ nForce 630a Chipset
1066 DDR2 Ram 2 Gb
VIA VT 1708S/ VT1705 Audio Codec

Thanks,
Jake

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1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @SaCleoCheater 2010-12-19

Be sure your SATA Devices are set to AHCI mode. (Can be done in BIOS)
There can be all kinds of reasons as to why you might get this error, and believe me I've tried a ton of stuff to get past it on My machine (see sig.) and I can never get past loading install DVDs.

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@BelieveinjakePrimary Author12010-03-09
@SaCleoCheaterContributor12010-12-19