Hi all,

Just transferred from Insanelymac. Had a thread there for days on this subject with no response whatsoever.

I booted the iPC 10.5.6 dvd, detected my sata & ide drives just fine (ide dvd drive) and i was able to partition AND install to that drive.

However when rebooting, waiting for root device........

Tried rd=disk1s2 (my drive / parttion) but no luck. Also tried getting mac drive since my IDE drive has vista on it, copying my sata controllers PCI id into applenforceata.kext info.plist and still nothing.

Any ideas? Am I missing something? How does the kernel on the dvd support it, but not the installed one? (Voodoo)

I tried two installations, one with each of the nforce driver choices.

Check your BIOS settings. I'm not familiar with nForce chipsets, only VIA and Intel, so I apologize if I can't be of more help. One of the most common problems is the mode your SATA controller is in. Take a look, switch it around to IDE mode if it's in AHCI mode and see if that does the trick (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't).

That's as best as I can personally offer, as I said.

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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

Yeah i have them in AHCI mode now. I tried IDE, and that produced the same results with it being detected just fine by the DVD, but waiting for root device after install.

Is it controlled by the applenforceata.kext or appleviaata.kext? I see via ata loading when the DVD is booting, and it sais "VIA SATA", but that kext doesn't seem to ever load on the boot from the drive despite my having selected it during the install.

Well, you can't have VIA on an nForce board. If you selected VIA reinstall without it and only using the nForce chipset drivers and/or fixes that are available.

What is your exact hardware? I need model numbers, please.

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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

First of all thanks for helping me mate, and if you have a donation link for your release let me know.

My system is a Shuttle SN68SG2. Uses an Nforce630a / GeForce 7025 video (MCP68) chipset. My other details are in the first post, like how i'm not using the onboard video due to lack of acceleration, etc.

I know it isn't a VIA chip, so thats why it seemed strange that the only difference in the bootup text of your iPC dvd, and booting from my sata drive up untill it stops is the presence of that kext. That is just my guessing at work

I know the nforce drivers included in the release were good up to MCP67, but since i'm MCP68 i feel that may be the issue. I saw a couple success stories (literally a couple) on the 10.5.2 HCL for this chipset, but none were using SATA.

Going to try this now:
http://pcwizcomputer.com/ipcosx86/?p...=2#comment-879

Well I tried the above PPF, matched the MD5, burned & installed with NO via driver this time (but with the NEW nforceataTEST.kext that wasn't there before) and WOW did it install faster.
I'd say at least 40-50% faster then the pre-ppf'd disc in the exact same configuration.

Sadly however, no combination of rd= or other flagging can get past the waiting for root device again on boot from the sata HD...

Still no solution on this yet. Any ideas guys? Evidently something changed in the new KEXT because the install was so much faster and that was the only thing different.

I have tried nearly everything I can to figure this out, but with my limited knowledge of how to compare what i'm installing, versus what the DVD contains when it boots is keeping me from determining the root cause.

For some strange reason I think that possibly the sata controller on this particular motherboard is a VIA chip due to the presence of a VIA SATA kext load when the DVD boots that is not present when the system boots from the HD. I even tried installing with this kext, but that didn't help. Still it seems strange.

Any assistance in this comparison or the issue in general would be fantastic

you need to make sure

1) not installing from a DVD-ROM drive (must be writable somehow cdr or dvdr)
2) install the nforceata driver in the iolibrary on the dvd disc