Thanx! , Now I feel like a first timer n00b! :D%-) LOL

lmao u shouldn't... we all gotta start somehwere. i was lucky enough to have a close friend who was very good in the area so he helped me A LOT. and now I kno a ton about this. but deffently not like some of the the other people lol

Here's the update:

I tried different things to get past "still waiting for root device". I even tried installing to the full HDD, just to make sure that it was the only thing on there, and still a no go. :(
So I wonder, if there is something else, in some other kext that is causing a "mixup" of communications. I am not sure...

Just for reference, I used the -x -v idlehalt=0, platform=ACPI and platform=X86, -s, -f (to reload all kexts) rd=disk5s2 (yes my HDD is #5, and this is when I did a partition, and after that, on full HDD, I did rd=disk5s1 ) even set the flags as active.

I even tried a different kernel to see if that was the problem (kernel done at boot).

So if there is any thing else you guys suggest I try, I will be more than willing to give it a shot! :)
(Oh I am sorry if I sound a bit frustrated in the above lines)

Thanx!

***I have been writing everything down that I do, so at least it's all documentated, if/when I do get it up and running I can at least help others in some direction of the troubles I am going through and provide some help***

Hey sorry to hear you still having a problem. Check this thread out. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t126095.html
has a similar laptop to yours and manged to install. I think it's to do with the chipset kexts. See if it helps.

Thanx for the link! That's where I got past my HDD reading problem when I first started. I just wish I could get his Extensions.mkext and try it, but it's not download-able. :(

I had a thought today, I was wondering if my boot order (as listed in BIOS) could have anything to do with it?, I think my order goes (DVD, USB, WIFI, Ethernet, HDD) or ethernet could be last, I am not sure, but do know the first 3 are those
and HDD is in there somewhere after that.

So culd this also help by changing the order? Or not really a factor?

I doubt it but you could try changing the boot order. It's very difficult troubleshooting this issue as I have never come across it before with all the installs I have done.

Current Update:

I finally got rid of the "still waiting for root" error.

I realized, that the new kext's didn't copy over, so using MacDrive, I copied them over and whammo - it detects it! :)

Now I get a new error or errors depending on what I do

if I use " -f -v idlehalt=0 " at boot (in Chameleon, yes, I am using iDeneb 10.5.7 ), it does finally detect my HDD, but I get a new error this way

<quote> localhost mDNSResponder[21]: couldn't read user-specified
[two types of this]
Computer Name;
or
local hostname; using default bMacPro-001a73d8e3BAb instead;
local hostname; using default bMacPro-001A73D8E3BA instead;
</quote>

or even this error, don't know this one, some error relating to Spotlight needs recovery

Then if I thow in the " -legacy" or even an "platform=" (either ACPI, or X86PC ) I get this error:

<quote> ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin:: start - wait for Service(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagem ent)) timed out
</quote>

What suggestions do you have? or what can I do to continue on from here??

Thanx in advance! :)

Anyone wanna try to help here? Please??

I am getting closer, any suggestions??

New update:

OS X Server instlalls/run perfect, with exception to NO DVD, Sound, or updates. So far this is the only one I can get running, but what good is an OS if DVD don't work

so I decided to give another head shot to the other distros. Anyone have any info that might be of use, please suggest, willing to try anything!!

How you are able to detect HDD by mac distro
 

HI,
Can you tell me what you did to get your hard drive recognize by mac osx installer,you told you have done some kext injection ,I am completely new bee to this field and know nothing about it.......plz tell me how did you do that.?