requiem78 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Hi.I managed to install snow leopard 10.6.3 on my dell latitude e5500 and work almost perfect.Unfortunately I made many tries to install Mountain Lion using myhack but the installer does not see any hard disk.I put the disk in an hp laptop and I managed to install ML but when I put the disk back I got the "Still waiting for root device" message.As soon as Snow leopard work why I can't install ML? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 28, 2013 Administrators Share Posted October 28, 2013 Try to play with some of those Chameleon options: PCIRoot=, npci=, ahcidisk=1, etc. You may have to add the IOATAFamily kext to /E/E of your USB installer too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted October 28, 2013 Administrators Share Posted October 28, 2013 you need to look at what driver s are loading in your snow working drive and then add them to you non working install extra folder like jmicron or similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requiem78 Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 I added IOATAFAMILY from snow Leo but it didn't work.How can I find what drivers are loaad in snow leopard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted October 28, 2013 Administrators Share Posted October 28, 2013 type kextstat in terminal it should list all your running kexts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requiem78 Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Thanks a lot.I will try it and I hope to have good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requiem78 Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 I run kextstat and I got a lot of "files".Which kexts I have to notice because I am getting iokit,drives and many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requiem78 Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 I found what kexts are being loaded on Snow Leo I copied to myhack E/E folder run muFix but I didn't succeed to passed "Still waiting for root device".My mobo has intel ch9m chipset.I can't understand why snow Leo works perfect and ML can't even install.As soon as concern Mavericks the installer stucks at "USBMSC identifier non unique ".I would be very happy if I could install ML or MAV and not to stay at SnowLeo.Another thing I thought is to compare the 2 installers and find their differences,Is that right or I am thinking wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted November 7, 2013 Administrators Share Posted November 7, 2013 is your sata settings in bios in ahci mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requiem78 Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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