LoL.Moose Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Hey guys! So I've been running into a problem when trying to boot up into iATKOS S3 v2 (See my system specs in my sig) using the ISO Image I burned onto a DVD. But I keep getting "Still waiting for root device" I even tried booting up using "-v rd=disk0", still no luck. Any idea how to fix this? Probably something to do with AppleNForceATA kext? Thanks! Screenshot: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274259-iatkos-s3-v2-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreoPL Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 I think, you must enable ACHI mode on bios Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274259-iatkos-s3-v2-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1783705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoL.Moose Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 I think, you must enable ACHI mode on bios My bios doesn't have that option :/ I pretty much tried every flag and bios setting, even turning off firewire. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274259-iatkos-s3-v2-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1783719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PisToV Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 i was have same problem with ASUS M2N and iatkos leopard , board dosent have AHCI option u can fix it by intalling leohazard 10.6.0 , only this distro was working on ASUS M2N motherboard also aways boot with -v busratio=20 cpus=1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274259-iatkos-s3-v2-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1784594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rrrrrrrrrrr Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 This works (also nForce): I've had a hard time getting past that ''Still waiting for root device''. It seems to be a problem with some AMD chipsets, specifically the 7xx. Almost all the OSX distros I used resulted in the same message. After a lot of time spent getting past that message, I finally bumped into something on the internet. A boot CD called Hack OS X boot, made by a brazilian OSX86 team for use with AMD (and Atom). All you have to do is burn it on a disk and boot into it. You will end up at a bootloader. This is where you swap your Hack OS X boot cd with a Snow Leopard retail (or something like iAtkos, but I don't recommend that as it might produce another problem, namely: getting stuck at PCI configuration begin). Now press F5 to refresh the bootloader and boot the Snow Leopard retail disk. Here the (direct) link to the Bootcd: hackosx.com.br. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274259-iatkos-s3-v2-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1786783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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