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01-11-2009, 07:14 AM
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iPC on SB400 "waiting for root device"
I tried everything I could to get the install to start but always gets stuck at "waiting for root device.
I even unplugged all my SATA drives so there's only the IDE HDD on IDE 1 as master and the dvd drive on IDE 2 as master. I've tried -v -f -x flags with rd=discXsY with all combinations of 0 and 1 for X and Y (since I only have 1 dvd drive and 1 hard disk). Nothing seems to work. Should I give up or is there anything else I need to do? Also would any other release (other than iPC) work better for my chipset? OSx86 noob here so detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated. Desktop: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ MSI RS482M2 Motherboard 2GB DDR400 RAM 1x 80 GB IDE HDD 2x 120GB SATA HDDs Creative Audigy Sound Card GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card Laptop: CPU AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor, Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Motherboard Quanta 30B7 Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150 Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP Memory 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM Sound Conexant HD Audio 
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01-12-2009, 07:03 AM
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I would either switch the devices around (DVD to master and HD to slave) or set DVD to IDE master and install to a SATA drive. Have you checked your BIOS options for AHCI? try enabling this if it already isn't... this will give you some hurdles with any windows systems you have installed already.
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01-12-2009, 07:06 AM
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Make sure to install the SBX00 chipset package...
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (9L30) | Chameleon 2.0 RC3 | Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB HyperThread 1MB L2 cache SSE3 1MB L2 cache works, cosmetic display of 512KB L2 cache | Asus P4V8X-MX VIA Chipset, VIA-VT8237 Southbridge | AC97 VIA8237 | Dual 1GB 333Mhz DDR SDRAM | nVidia PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB 8x AGP DVI/TV-Out/VGA [NVinject 0.2.1; QE/CI/QuartzGL/Rotation] | Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Sun Jun 14 20:48:28 IST 2009; Voodoo 2.0 Intel alpha3 :xnu-1228.12.14/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386
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01-12-2009, 07:39 AM
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Thanks. Will try switching the drives around and see what happens.
And how do I install the sbx00 chipset package before the install runs? (apologies if this is a noob question) Desktop: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ MSI RS482M2 Motherboard 2GB DDR400 RAM 1x 80 GB IDE HDD 2x 120GB SATA HDDs Creative Audigy Sound Card GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card Laptop: CPU AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor, Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Motherboard Quanta 30B7 Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150 Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP Memory 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM Sound Conexant HD Audio
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01-12-2009, 07:39 AM
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Thanks. Will try switching the drives around and see what happens.
And how do I install the sbx00 chipset package before the install runs? (apologies if this is a noob question) Desktop: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ MSI RS482M2 Motherboard 2GB DDR400 RAM 1x 80 GB IDE HDD 2x 120GB SATA HDDs Creative Audigy Sound Card GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card Laptop: CPU AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor, Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Motherboard Quanta 30B7 Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150 Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP Memory 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM Sound Conexant HD Audio
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01-12-2009, 12:40 PM
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Tried switching drives every which way there was. Still no luck. Any suggestions?
Desktop: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ MSI RS482M2 Motherboard 2GB DDR400 RAM 1x 80 GB IDE HDD 2x 120GB SATA HDDs Creative Audigy Sound Card GeForce 8500GT PCI-e Card Laptop: CPU AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 (Socket S1 638), Codename: Taylor, Cores: 2, Instructions: MMX, 3DNow, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Motherboard Quanta 30B7 Chipset: Nvidia GeForce 6150 Southbridge: Nvidia nForce 410/430 MCP Memory 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM Sound Conexant HD Audio
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#7
01-12-2009, 12:47 PM
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Did you install the SBx00 driver?
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 (9L30) | Chameleon 2.0 RC3 | Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB HyperThread 1MB L2 cache SSE3 1MB L2 cache works, cosmetic display of 512KB L2 cache | Asus P4V8X-MX VIA Chipset, VIA-VT8237 Southbridge | AC97 VIA8237 | Dual 1GB 333Mhz DDR SDRAM | nVidia PNY GeForce 7600GS 512MB 8x AGP DVI/TV-Out/VGA [NVinject 0.2.1; QE/CI/QuartzGL/Rotation] | Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Sun Jun 14 20:48:28 IST 2009; Voodoo 2.0 Intel alpha3 :xnu-1228.12.14/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386
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