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Old 01-20-2010, 12:56 AM
Naatan Naatan is offline
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The infamous waiting for root problem ..

Hi, I'm trying to get iatkos v7 running on my HP Pavilion a6500f without luck so far.

I thought I was getting the error due to my PC only having SATA disks so I got an IDE disk from work to check if that worked. I installed it and it does seem to detect a driver but right after it just shows the waiting for root error..

Attatched are screenshots of my boot screen and the error, I was hoping anyone could give me any ideas on what I might do to resolve this problem?

I've already tried the following:
  • rd=disk0
  • rd=disk0s0
  • platform=x86pc
  • platform=ACPI
  • -v -x -f
  • And mixtures of the above (also tried disk1, disk2 etc)
Anyway, any ideas?

Thanks!

Edit -

Note that my primary HD is now IDE, secondary is SATA and dvd reader is also SATA.
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Old 01-20-2010, 02:06 AM
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maybe try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU-knkxJrw

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Old 01-20-2010, 05:15 AM
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Quote:
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Thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow (bedtime here )

I am already using my IDE as master boot so that definitely isn't it, I'll give the kext a try.
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Old 01-21-2010, 12:29 AM
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Just noticed, the video assumes that you already managed to install MacOS, I can't even get into the installation - I get the error when trying to boot the dvd.

Any more ideas?
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Old 01-21-2010, 03:18 AM
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Maybe try Hazard's Snow Leopard disto.

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Old 01-21-2010, 04:27 AM
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depending on your sb i'd try sata disks with ahci enabled or disabled. try both. one should work
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Old 01-21-2010, 08:50 PM
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Unfortunately my bios doesn't let me configure anything =\ I got another IDE disk today (the one I had seemed to have some problems) - hopefully this one will work.. will try tonight. Only 40gb but I only need it to actually get into the installation screen.
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:24 PM
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Were you able to solve your issue? I have the same problem with HP dv5040 laptop

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Old 03-12-2010, 09:49 PM
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I had the problem and ahci enabled fixed it...if you don't have that option there might be another way to change it.



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