Hi I just downloaded and patched the iPC Install DVD with PPF1 & PPF2.
Booted up into darwin, pressed F8, and tried to run setup with "-v maxmem=2048" and I just get stuck at waiting for root device.
I tried to add "rd=disc2s0" but still no luck.
I have Vista on a IDE HDD and XP on the first SATA and blank FAT32 on the second SATA.

A few questions:
1. With the rd=discXsY, am I trying to boot into the DVD for install or the hard disk where I want to install OSX(SATA2)?
2. Is there a way I can verify which disks and partitions are where (that is the X and Ys in the rd=discXsY?
3. I am pretty sure I patched my ISO properly but checking with MD5 shows that it does not match any of the MD5 codes from the iPC website for plain, PPF1 or PPF2. Is this something I need to worry about right now?
4. Is there anything else I need to change/do?

Thanks.

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Desktop:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
MSI RS482M2 Motherboard
2GB DDR400 RAM
1x 80 GB IDE HDD
2x 120GB SATA HDDs
Creative Audigy Sound Card
GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card

Laptop:
CPU
AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor,
Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard
Quanta 30B7
Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150
Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP
Memory
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM
Sound
Conexant HD Audio

what is your southbridge chipset though?

it might not be supported.

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Vanilla Retail)  Processor: Intel Dual Core E2200  Mobo: MSI P35 Neo2-FR, ICH9, ALC888 (5.1)  RAM: 4x 1G 800MHz DDR2-SDRAM  Graphics: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR3 RAM  Wireless: Third Party Airport (Broadcom 4318) 

Chipset is SB400.
Also, I'm using a SATA DVD drive to boot the Install DVD. Could that cause any problems?

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Desktop:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
MSI RS482M2 Motherboard
2GB DDR400 RAM
1x 80 GB IDE HDD
2x 120GB SATA HDDs
Creative Audigy Sound Card
GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card

Laptop:
CPU
AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor,
Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard
Quanta 30B7
Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150
Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP
Memory
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM
Sound
Conexant HD Audio

Until I bought the right AMD board I could only use a IDE DVD and IDE hard drive so that may be your problem. Try installing on the IDE drive.

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Rig: Home Brewed OSs: Vista SP1 & 10.5.0 Retail updated to 10.5.7
CPU: Intel E8400 Core 2 Duo
Ram: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800
Mobo: Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
Graphics: 8800GT 512MB- CI/QE Full Res enabled with NVkush
Wireless: Motorola WPC1810G Detected as Airport OTB
Onboad Audio:
HDD: HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 500GB SATA + 400GB SATA + 74gb SATA Raptor
DVD: Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-116D IDE + Lite-On DH401S SATA Blu-Ray drive

Check your BIOS SATA ACHI settings.

If that doesn't work, make sure you installed a chipset driver. Even though it's in the notes you agree to when installing, most people still forget to do so and get that error.

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