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Thank you Kari and LadyPinkTomato. :)

Today I'm a bit worried about a packet i sent to USA on Tuesday. It should be express, meaning air transport, but tracking the shipment shows it's been "in transportation to destination country" over 48 hours now, from 10:20 AM Wednesday (it's 10:40 AM Friday now here).

I didn't know DHL uses "Charles Lindbergh Air Cargo" and its original planes to their overseas shipments...

Americano said:

Well as of today I am an official Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit user.

Welcome to the world of Windows 7 and to the forum.

WAS going to go out on the lake this morning, but it's raining, it's about 45 degrees, and there's 10-25mph winds...........so much for that.
Guess i'll just be hanging out inside where it's dry.

Today I'm trying to figure out how to solve the "Still waiting for root device" error when installing OS X on my laptop. Apparently it means it's not seeing my hard drive. I didn't have time to check whether I have an IDE or SATA drive, but I think it's SATA. Also, I tried fiddling around with AHCI in the BIOS, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get the OS X disc to bootwhen I turned it off (Kalyway 10.5.2 Leopard). I've tried everything I can think of and nothing works. More testing when I get home.

Product FRED said:

Today I'm trying to figure out how to solve the "Still waiting for root device" error when installing OS X on my laptop. Apparently it means it's not seeing my hard drive. I didn't have time to check whether I have an IDE or SATA drive, but I think it's SATA. Also, I tried fiddling around with AHCI in the BIOS, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get the OS X disc to bootwhen I turned it off (Kalyway 10.5.2 Leopard). I've tried everything I can think of and nothing works. More testing when I get home.

Try making sure you are using the correct chipset kext during installation. I personally suggest using iDeneb v1.4 or 1.5 (not 1.6).

Alright, I'll give it a shot. I mean, I can run Snow Leopard because my laptop has a Core i5 and Intel GMA HD like the Macbooks, but I'm aiming for compatibility.

Product FRED said:

Alright, I'll give it a shot. I mean, I can run Snow Leopard because my laptop has a Core i5 and Intel GMA HD like the Macbooks, but I'm aiming for compatibility.

Oh, I see. You should try running a Vanilla installation then.

Try finding yourself an untouched copy of Snow Leopard, put it on USB (if possible) or DVD+DL.

Then get a copy of Empire EFI, burn that to a CD/DVD. Boot Empire first, put the USB or DVD+DL of Snow Leopard in. Wait 20 seconds (skip if its USB). Press F5 and select the DVD/USB on the screen.

That should get you to be able to boot the installer for Snow Leopard (without all the cracks). When installing it, make sure you customize the install so it only installs the essentials (uncheck everything like printer stuff, language packs, Rosetta is fine.)

I have dmg which I can burn with TransMac, but it's about 6.5GB, so I'd need to find an actual disc. I have a copy of Empire EFI for Intel GMA HD chipsets, but yeah, I'd need an actual Snow Leopard disc. So I guess I'll have to go with iDeneb.