The infamous waiting for root problem ..
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…
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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?
Edit -
Note that my primary HD is now IDE, secondary is SATA and dvd reader is also SATA.
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@SportsGuymaybe 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.
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?
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.
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maybe try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU-knkxJrw ↗
depending on your sb i'd try sata disks with ahci enabled or disabled. try both. one should work
I had the problem and ahci enabled fixed it...if you don't have that option there might be another way to change it.
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| @Naatan | Primary Author | 4 | 2010-01-19 → 2010-01-21 |
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| @tham50 | Contributor | 1 | 2010-01-21 |
| @pederb | Contributor | 1 | 2010-03-01 |
| @majka | Contributor | 1 | 2010-03-12 |