Booting help please
I got zephyroth 10.5.2 installed onto a Primary Master 40gb IDE HDD. I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit on a SATA. I got both showing on MBR, and I can boot to both, however I get the infamous "Waiting for root device". I have tried about…
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I got zephyroth 10.5.2 installed onto a Primary Master 40gb IDE HDD. I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit on a SATA.
I got both showing on MBR, and I can boot to both, however I get the infamous "Waiting for root device". I have tried about every HDD combination and all the "-x -v platform=X86PC"
I read that this could be a chipset issue can anyone confirm this?
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Okay got it up and running, just gotta find gfx/audio drivers
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| @Retell | Primary Author | 2 | 2008-03-09 |