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Why? I don't understand "Still root device"

Last week I installed Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI Rev.1 in my PC. After many tests Leopard launched with Vista on same HDD. But I wanted to fix my bootloader and it didn't work. So I formtted my HDD, reinstalled Leopard then Vista, but now when…

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@poilpoil Published 2008-03-11
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Leopard 10.5
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2,581 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2008-03-11 – 2008-03-12
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Last week I installed Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI Rev.1 in my PC.
After many tests Leopard launched with Vista on same HDD.

But I wanted to fix my bootloader and it didn't work. So I formtted my HDD, reinstalled Leopard then Vista, but now when I want to start Leopard I have the error with root device ?
I don't understand because before this new installation Leo worked perfectly ! (I d'on't change my hardware between this two installations)

Can you explain me why and how to ?

Thanks very much

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Author Update #1 @poilpoil 2008-03-12

Yes I looked this wiki.

Do you think if I installed Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI Rev.2 I will the same error ?

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