[krbarnes]

Before I get flamed, I searched the forums and could not find an answer that I could understand to this problem.

I am trying to install OSX on my mini. I used the new "Method 1: Single USB Drive (Mac-only)" instructions with the following hardware/software:

Dell Mini9 with 2GB RAM and 8GB STEC SSD disk
external USB 40GB disk drive
Retail OSX 10.5.0 install DVD
DellEFIBootMaker_0.3.3
DellEFI_1.2_alpha_5

I created the image on the external USB drive and ran DellEFIBootMaker app, then copied DellEFI1.2a5 app to the USB drive. This all seemed to work fine.

When I try to boot from the USB drive, it hangs after:

"AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initilization complete"

and then I get a repeating:

"Still waiting for root device"

I booted with the -x -v options, and I can get to the install screen, but that's not how it should work.

Any ideas?? Thanks in advance.

[krbarnes]

Got it! I was trying to install this over my Ubuntu partion, and it didn't like that. I used my LiveCD (USB thumbdrive), booted the mini into Ubuntu, used Partion Manager and re-partioned the SSD drive to Fat32. OSX install worked fine after that.