Hi everyone!

I try to install Kalyway 10.5.2 on my Intel-PC. Here are the specs:

Mainboard Biostar/ECS GF7100PVT-M3
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200 / 2,2 GHz ( 800 MHz ) - LGA775 | now running @ 3 GHz
2 GB RAM DDR II
160 GB SATA HDD
16x DVD-ROM SATA
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512MB

On my first attempts I always got the famous "waiting for root device"-error. I couldn't solve it, so I plugged in my old IDE DVD-ROM drive and tried to install from it.

On my next attempts I got several read-errors from my old DVD-Drive and had to restart many times but finally managed to start the installation GUI.

Now after the language selection I have to select a hard drive to install. But there are no hard drives at all.

I think there is a problem with my S-ATA Drives. I read in several forums, that I have to do something with the AHCI Support, but I can't find this option in my Award BIOS.

Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?

Greets,
Sebastian

P.S.: I hope you are able to understand my posting cause my native language is German.

Hi there,

sorry for the double posting.

I found the APIC option in BIOS and deactivated it. Now there is no "waiting for root device", but the screen freezes when it displays:

Code:

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
darwin kernel version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 ...

see the screenshot:

Hi,

I solved my problem.

ACPI was activated for the SATA-drives, but the boot order was incorrect.

I had to replace "CD-ROM" by my DVD-Rom-Drive (in my case something like "Toshiba DVD").

Now the installation works perfect on several distributions