xFlux Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Hello, Iv'e been tampering with the idea of running OSX on my PC for some time now, and have researched a little on compatible hardware, so I downloaded OSX10.4.3.8F1111 from the torrent sites. I proceeded to burn the dvd after formatting a native HFS Partition to my HDA1(Samsung SATA SP1614C). After the DVD boot the OSX Install screen appears with a generated error, stating the install can not continue(I should have written the message down, but the message was a basic "hey something is up with your {censored}, fix it" message) My specs are as follows: Intel 915GAV Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 CPU (3.00GHz) with HT Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection Intel HD Audio SATA/150 Samsung SATA SP1614C(HDA0) SATA/150 Samsung SATA SP1614C(HDA1) SATA/150 Samsung SATA SP1614C(HDA2) NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (PCIe x 16) IOMEGA DVDRW4216INP-A TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-H492A ---------- Anything else of necessity that I forgot let me know. I have read something about disabling legacy usb support, but still no luck of it booting. Any tips or a small guide of how you installed using this image would be greatly appreciated. If its a hardware compatibility issue, have they been addressed in a later patched version? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xFlux Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 To iterate a little more, I passed the -v arguments and did a little reasearch. Iv'e been getting the HFS_MOUNTROOT FAILED: 5 error I have 3 SATA HardDrives and 2 IDE CDRoms SATA 0 - WindowsXP SATA 1 - My unformatted Active partition for OSX SATA 2 - NTFS IDE0 - DVDRom IDE1 - DVDRW I have already tried to disconnect everything except for SATA 1 and IDE0, still getting the dreaded "Waiting for root device" error. Any suggestions, excluding finding an IDE HardDrive would greatly be appreciated. Also if this has been resolved in a further release, let me know Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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