Recent content by JamoG

Its the Sleep Enabler kext I believe, seems to be common but I cant seem to get to the command line to disable it GB. Tried going in from a windows pc using HFSExplorer but there's no option to delete and the drive is not visible in windows explorer. When I boot with iBoot F5 > switch to the...

Same i'm afraid. J

Ok progress! But then... Almost directly after reboot following install.

Update... Apparently changing to raid in some dell bios will set SATA ahci to on. Original problem persists. Still waiting for root device.. J

Ok problem appears to be no AHCI mode in SATA bios config even after updating to latest version available 1.015 So that's it then for this system I guess. I will look for a solution but not hopeful. Thanks for for your help. J

Hi GB... have read that but using a DVD/CD drive to boot iBoot. Ill try iBoot on a USB drive and report back with results. Thanks again. J :banghead:

Finally got back to this Cleaned off the hard disk 64 gig by writing zeros and started over using iboot and official snow leopard disk which took an age to arrive. Now in verbose mode I get "still waiting for root device" Tried disk=0 disk=1 disk=2 Anyone? J

Thanks for this Going Bald :) I'll go forth with renew optimism to wrestle with the lion one more time. Let you know how it goes. Jimmy

Hello, my first post here. Been reading for a while to try and gen up on things as much as I can but obviously not well enough. Hoping someone can advise on my systems comparability most details below (CPU-Z images) after a few failed installs of Snow Leopard 10.6.6 on my Dell Vostro 400 (60Gb...