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Member #22,401 · 2010-01-19 → 2010-01-22
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@Naatan

InfiniteMac community contributor with 7 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (19,760 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 19,760 historical readers.

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Lead Dossiers 3 6,587 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #22,401 Joined 2010-01-19
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#1,133 of 6,691 by Dispatches (7 notes) · #563 of 3,454 by Author Readership (19,760 reads across 3 dossiers) · #3,717 by Thread Reach (19,760 cumulative reads)
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Member #22,401 · Joined 2010-01-19
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Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
7 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Naatan (3)

19,760 cumulative reads on threads started by @Naatan

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
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…
Leopard 10.58,962 reads
2010-01-19 · 9 notes
nfs_boot_init failed with 6
Well I finally got past the waiting for root problem (The infamous waiting for root problem ..). Now I'm stuck with the error noted in the subject (check attatchment for more debug info). I booted with "rd=disk0 -v" and any kind of…
Leopard 10.56,154 reads
2010-01-22 · 2 notes
iatkos v7 - installation running - SATA disk not showing
I finally got into the installation but only my IDE disk is showing in disk utility.. sata is no where to be seen. Anyone know what I can do? I;m on a HP Pavilion a6500f
Leopard 10.54,644 reads
2010-01-22 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @Naatan contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
The infamous waiting for root problem ..
“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 in…”
Leopard 10.52010-01-21
8,962 dossier reads
The infamous waiting for root problem ..
“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?”
Leopard 10.52010-01-20
8,962 dossier reads
The infamous waiting for root problem ..
“maybe try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU-knkxJrw 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.”
Leopard 10.52010-01-20
8,962 dossier reads
nfs_boot_init failed with 6
“Got past it by using an IDE dvd reader Now on to the next problem”
Leopard 10.52010-01-22
6,154 dossier reads