Still Waiting For Root Device
So I downloaded and patched the iDeneb 10.5.5 Install to run on nForce chipsets and I got stuck at "still waiting for root device". I'm using a Abit AN52V Motherboard with a AMD Athlon x2 4000 CPU I was wondering if someone could shed some…
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- @Disengage Published 2009-02-14
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So I downloaded and patched the iDeneb 10.5.5 Install to run on nForce chipsets and I got stuck at "still waiting for root device".
I'm using a Abit AN52V Motherboard with a AMD Athlon x2 4000 CPU I was wondering if someone could shed some like on how to get rid of this error either with another patch or something. I dont have the money to buy a new Motherboard right now either.
My Full system specs are
AMD Athlon x2 4000 2.1 GHZ (SSE3 Compatable)
Abit AN52V Motherboard nForce Chipset
160GB HDD
80GB HDD
6GB DDR2 Ram
Nvidia Geforce 8600GT Graphics Card
Broadcom 802.11G Wireless Adaptor
All help on helping me set this is greatly appreciated.
I typed rd=disk0s1 and I got a kernel panic so I tried rd=disk1s1 -v and I also got "still waiting for root device.
Update: I'm going to download this ( iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 → ) and see if I have some better luck V_v but the download speed is HORRIBLE.
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Ok so I downloaded and patched the iPC osx86 10.5.6 with the PPF file and i'm burning it to a disk now. I'll update with any changes IE sucessfull or not.
(sorry if double posting is banned)
Update: No luck still got "waiting for root device.
Another Update
I read online that it may be a SATA drive issue so I plugged in a old hard drive of mine (IDE) and I could boot into the install I'll edit this postif sucsessfull
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