I had in my collection the following DVD’s – all written at 2x Speed:
1. iAktos 1.0 / 1.02
2. Kalyway 10.5.1
3. Leo4All V3 (Final).
While I may have a few machines at home – at work I have a good collection of desktops which are in need of rebuilding, these range from AMD, P4 (various range’s), Core 2 Duo. The motherboards cover all sorts of different ones with various types of connectors, for example some have SATA and so forth. My plan was simple enough, over a long period of time, I would in the background go through each machine until one worked with OS X. This is a two part test:
1. Does the DVD get to the pat of letting your Install the OS etc..
2. If it does install, does it reboot afterwards and work.
Half of the machines failed at the first hurdle – Kernel Panic or various other errors – this is fine as at least we have not wasted much time. The next lot would boot, let me format the drive and pick what to install – this part took ages and upon finishing, it would reboot. It would start to load and I would get stuck at the “Waiting for Root Device” over and over. I checked and set the HD as Master and disabled as much as I could (SATA for example) – but to this day – nothing worked.
As Proven by the Dell GX620 machine, while that worked 3 times in a row – further times failed big style, with the very same DVD. I still feel that OS X has a long way to go to just working for most or even just working every single time.
