PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error - Page 2

Undiscovered · #1 04-20-2010, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Imkantus

K. Is there another device beeing connected to the same cable?
40-Pin IDE cable can connect a master and a slave device at a time - which one of them is beeing used as which is configured using a jumper you'll find on the back of any IDE device:

(1 = Master, 2=Slave)

Be sure to have the IDE device beeing connected to the outer-port, beeing jumped as Master & the one beeing connected to the inner-port beeing jumped as Slave.

I am running nForce 4 mainboard myself and expired my IDE configuration not to work properly on OS X without having it beeing seted up this way, although it worked fine on other OS with my previous configuration...
I hope this will gonna work in your case too.

Do I need to worry about this if there is only 1 device that's connected through the IDE cable?

Imkantus · #2 04-20-2010, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Undiscovered

Do I need to worry about this if there is only 1 device that's connected through the IDE cable?

If your DVD drive is the only IDE device you are currently using, I would try to set it up as Master - maybe it will work, maybe not - but apart from using an SATA or USB DVD drive, I think this is currently the best option you can try out.

Undiscovered · #3 04-18-2010, 01:56 AM

Graphics acceleration? Does that mean I can't do anything at all with it? My current situation prevents me from upgrading or buying a new PC.

Imkantus · #4 04-18-2010, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Undiscovered

Graphics acceleration? Does that mean I can't do anything at all with it? My current situation prevents me from upgrading or buying a new PC.

Well the OS itself should work but graphics will just be VESA, you will miss some stuff like Coverflow on iTunes or VLC will not be showing video.... If you just want to do stuff like textprocessing on OpenOffice, surf the web & watch some videos on YouTube you won't miss it that much I would guess.
You can compare this with running Windows without proper graphic driver.

Apart a 7000-Series GeForce can be baught for about 15€ or even cheaper on eBay.de (I dunno what country you are from - situation might be different.)

Undiscovered · #5 04-18-2010, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Imkantus

You can compare this with running Windows without proper graphic driver.

Ouch.. So I'd assume playing online games is out of the question?

EDIT: Do you know if this graphics card would work properly?
http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Nvidia-GeFor...item5881d8aaf5

This is the third card I found, not sure if you noticed or not. I'm positive that this is the best deal I can find.

Imkantus · #6 04-18-2010, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Undiscovered

EDIT: Do you know if this graphics card would work properly?
http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Nvidia-GeFor...item5881d8aaf5

Yep. It should work fine just with bootloader provided inject & without any further tweaking.

But maybe it's a good idea to make the rest of OS X to work, once before buying additional hardware - ain't it?
So how's the situation at the frontline?

Undiscovered · #7 04-18-2010, 07:22 PM

I finished patching the OSX. Now all I need to do is burn it to a DVD and try installing it again.

Undiscovered · #8 04-19-2010, 02:29 AM

Still no luck, I'm afraid. After patching the OS, I tried to burn it using Windows Disk Image Burner but it said it wasn't a valid file. I tried burning it with CDBurnerXP and it didn't detect the disk when I booted up the computer.

Undiscovered · #9 05-06-2010, 01:01 AM

Tried it.. didn't work

Is there anything else you know that I could try? Preferably with no cost

Imkantus · #10 05-06-2010, 09:23 AM

You could of course try a more recent OSx86 Leopard image like iAtkos v7 or to install Snow Leopard using EmpireEFI CD for AMD + Retail DVD...
Maybe one of those will work better for you as I still could imagine your iPC PPF applied to be to old to support nForce...