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…
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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?
Edit -
Note that my primary HD is now IDE, secondary is SATA and dvd reader is also SATA.
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maybe try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDU-knkxJrw ↗
@SportsGuymaybe 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.
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?
depending on your sb i'd try sata disks with ahci enabled or disabled. try both. one should work
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.
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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| @Naatan | Primary Author | 4 | 2010-01-19 → 2010-01-21 |
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| @pederb | Contributor | 1 | 2010-03-01 |
| @majka | Contributor | 1 | 2010-03-12 |