Hi!

I know that there are several similar threads to this one, but I have checked the
most of them and none of them leaves clear answers.

I have been trying to install Zephyroth Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI-Rev2
on my AMD machine, but it gets an error after trying to do something with the Firewire, if relevant I can check what it states exactly.

I dont know exactly what info you need from my hardware to help me out,
but I have Everest so I can grab pretty much info if needed.

What I want to do is to install OSX on a IDE HDD with the capacity of 150 GB.
I would like to run dual boot so I could have both OSX and Win Vista.

If posible I could run Vista on another HDD that is a SATA and have multiple
OSX installations on the IDE HDD, so I could make images which I could load
up in case one of the installations crash.

So I have read lots and lots of guides but all of them requires pretty much of basic knowlige if everything does not work out of the box which is not my case.

So I have read about kexts, EFI and some other stuff but I really could not find a good and decent beginners manual that requires no basic knowlige.
Which results in that I do not know when to apply which method.

I have burned the boot disc with Nero on the slowest possible speed which was 4x I think and I burned it on a DVD+R.

My computer can read it and I get the loading window but it hangs after some time.
If i run the boot cd with the commands -f -v -x I can see that it gets an ERROR that has something to do with firewire, why I don't know since I don't use any firewire for my installation since the HDD is mounted in my computer and not in an external rack.

After the error it states that it is waiting for root device or maybe root service.

If read some common problems and it said something about replacing some kext files. What kext files, where do I find them and where do I put them?

Also can I have missed something else in maybe bios configurations or something else?

There seems to be like 1 million factors that needs to be considered and that is why I ask for some help!

Sorry for any misspellings or so, this is my first post!

HARDWARE:

PROCESSOR: DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 3000 MHz (15 x 200) 6000+

MOTHERBOARD: ECS KA3 MVP
Id: 10/24/2006-RD580-SB600-6A66800GC-00

BRIDGES:
North Bridge: AMD RD580

North Bridge: AMD Hammer DDR2 IMC

South Bridge: ATI SB600

GRAPHICCARD: Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro
Chiptype: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x7280)
Memory Size: 512 mb


HDD's:

HDD1 IDE - WDC WD1600JB-98GVC0 (149 GB) (FOR OSX)
HDD2 SATA - Maxtor 6L200M0 (189 GB) (For Vista and storage)
HDD3 SATA - Maxtor 6L200M0 (189 GB) (For storage)

Search "SB600"
Enable AHCI if possible.
Try Leo4all v4.1 for AMD?

The firewire "error" you're seeing, isn't generally a problem. Most of us see it - and it doesn't stop OSx86 from running. "Still waiting for root..." usually means your motherboard chipset isn't properly supported. Read up on the SB600 - lots of posts. It can be done usually, I've been installing OSx86 on SB600 and SB700 chipsets for several months.

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Running both 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 on my stinking AMD/ATi machine...

I have searched for this "SB600". As I understand it is a chipset?
As usual the information is spread on like 1 million threads and it is really hard to
find out which facts I should use.

I am trying to install OSX on a IDE HDD. So I have tried to make the IDE HDD master.
I have it now running master and the Dvd is running slave.

I still can't get past the still waiting for root.

I tried to find anything about AHCI in my bios but I found nothing.

The still waiting for root message comes up after the ERROR firewire... message, if that is to any help.

Regarding to the SB600 some people talks about injecting kext into the boot dvd, some talk about
removing kext from the boot dvd, some talk about editing some kext files and some
talk about adding some ID's into the kext?

It is really not easy to sort out all the information here. I can't say that I am bad on computers,
actually I am pretty good, but I can't seem to fully understand this.

I think that the main reason is that there are no good manuals and all people say "this is the way to go".
But the problem is that everybody seems to have their own way of doing it.

So could someone please tell me how to solve this problem? *confused*

Thanks cgsheen for your answer.
Btw, If the motherboard chipset is not properly supported what do I do to solve the problem?

/ Duane

'waiting for root device' can also be caused by the way your drives are setup. I had the same problem a couple of years ago.

To fix i had to first move both the DVD and IDE HDD to the same cable on channel 0 and set the dvd drive as Primary master and hard disk to slave. I think it's something to do with how real macs are setup.

Unfortunately this seems change on different hardware, so it might be worth trying a few combinations.

You could always give another more recent release a go as they will have better driver support. As cgsheen suggested try Leo4All4.1 or LawlessPPC.