teeching Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 i bought a new DG33FB intel Motherboard. Got 3 SATA HDD on it . I had an ide DVD-RW . i had kalyway 10.5 dvd uphuck first release also . i downloaded 10.5.1 Kalyway now i tried my ide (pata) DVDRW to install leo on one of my HDD and got still waiting for root device error . i read that jmicron and ich9 has problems so i bought an ASUS SATA DVDRW and when i try now i got error like system/configuration/com.apple.boot.plist not found error. i tried to switch of my hdd and put an old 20GB Pata drive ..stilll waiting for root device error. i read that i can use an ide to usb connector - which is impossible for me to find - now dunno what to do if u comment and try to help ill be happy my specs : DG33FB intel motherboard Core2Duo E4500 2.2 ghx processor X1600pro 512 mb ati radeon 250gb mestern digital sata 250gb samsung sata 120gb samsung sata sata and ide DVDRW 20gb pata samsung Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
illustrator Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I'm having similar probs with a PATA drive... In the BIOS, it appears on IDE Bus 4... apparently the others are reserved for SATA drives. In other reading, it seems that the fix for getting PATA drives to run on newer boards might be to buy an IDE to SATA converter, which causes it to end up on a lower bus number. I'll let ya know if this fixes my problem as soon as I can make a trip out to Fry's. -Illustrator Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-632508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Are you plugging your sata burner into a "slave" sata port? On my board (P5K) if I plug the burner into one of the ICH9R ports (red ones on my board) it won't work right, but if I plug it into one of the black (jmicron) ports it works fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-632518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeching Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 i changed my sata drive to other three sata ports also i got same error .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-632522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
foureyes Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Copy from another thread: Had this problem too several times with Kalyway. You should check your BIOS-settings first: AHCI / IDE / SATA such stuff. AHCI is recommended, but sometimes I had to switch back to IDE and the problem was gone. Kalyways DVD has also a problem with spaces in the volume name. So if you named the partition "Mac 1" rename it to "Mac1" as an example. Last possible reason: is your DVD-drive connected via IDE? If so, check if the drive is configured as SLAVE. If so, change the jumper(s) to MASTER - this could also help. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-632524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Strange... sorry I can't be more help but I don't know that board. This may help: http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3431 Maybe your new board has this new bios? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-632528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeching Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 gonna try and tell that bios ..and thx for the fast reply guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-632856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeching Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Hi everyone helps .. The bios number 0326 12/6/2007 BIOS Update 0326 [DPP3510J.86A ] (2635KB) helps to boot and install from sata dvdrw ..but gives some ebios error sometime .. i think that is caused by some i/o error .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88649-an-old-member-seeking-help-for-gods-sake/#findComment-633602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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