Hello,

I have installed a version of leopard on my pc but upon boot I get the apple window and the eventually a stop logo/waiting for root device

Using Ducky-OSX86-10.5.4-AMD_ONLY right now

Specs:

ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1013, 4/7/2006
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core - 4400+
Total Physical Memory: 4,096.00 MB
NVIDIA nForce 4 Parallel ATA Controller
NVIDIA nForce4 ADMA Controller
CDROM: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1213S
SOUND: Realtek AC'97 Audio
VIDEO: Radeon X1800 Series
Onboard Networking: [00000008] NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Disk: WDC WD3000JS-22PDB0


Have anyone installed on a similar system or have any tips on troubleshooting this issue? I have tried booting into safe mode with no luck while also trying to press F8 while in this boot process with no luck.

I have installed this on a Sata Drive with no problems booting into the boot sector, it's upon boot and after waiting 2-3 minutes I will see the stop sign/waiting for root device.

Any help would be appreciated.

Troubleshooting is a lot easier if you can see where it's hanging. Booting with the -v flag will give you verbose mode.

If it is 'Still waiting for root device', make sure you've installed support for your Nforce4. Off the top of my head, I think the driver is called NforceATA.

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 Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse

 MacBook Pro || 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo || 200Gb HD || 2Gb Ram || NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

 iPhone 4 || 16Gb

Best option is to install retail Leopard using BOOT-132 method.
It works perfect with Chameleon 2 and Voodoo kernel.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=140683

Hi Voyn1x,

NforceATA would sound right, I notice that the Waiting for device appears right after the uuid parameter for the sata harddrive by the looks of it.

I'm rather new to this but thought that the NforceATA would have been included in the release I installed, I guess i'll need to somehow get the driver loaded onto the partition with bootloader?

Thanks, but unfortunately this guide seems to be for a mac and not a pc and I don't have a retail disc... From what the guide states you have to have this.

Thanks for trying, nice info....

It's guide to install Leopard on PC.

All you need is Leopard DVD and BOOT-132 CD.
You can download this both from the internet.

nForce and AC97 drivers are easy to find too.