jgauthier Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 I upgraded from 10.8.2 to 10.8.5 (app store) last night, and since my Dell e6510 would not boot. I discovered the cause was the "npci=0x02000" flag. Once I was able to supply boot flags I removed it, and it stopped hanging at the PCI scan. All was well, so I thought. I got up this morning, to a machine that won't wake from sleep (I think.. not important right now) and when I boot it, it just sits at "No interncal dound for . using 8000000", which is the last thing I see. However, a few lines up I see it's most likely waiting for the root device. Waiting on ... boot-uuid-media The crazy thing is, I can get it to boot sometimes. I'm not sure yet HOW I've done it. I keep trying a mixture of flags, coupled with peripherals in and out (usb mouse/keyboard). I will get it to boot, then reboot and it will revert back to this scenario. I have tried many boot flag combination with PCIRootUID, and always boot with -v. I don't seem to be able to make any headway into the scenario in which it does boot successfully. Any tips? ----------------------------------------- Update: Well, I reinstalled. Everything was working. I ran through software updates to which it reported "None of the selected software was able to be installed." Upon rebooting, I am waiting for the root device again. Puzzling. ------------------------------------------ Another Update: I reinstalled again. I applied the update for 10.8.5. This is definitely related to the upgrade to 10.8.5. Maybe I shouldn't do it, but I hate having updates that I cannot apply I am still trying to figure out if I can get passed the root device issue. I'm reading through this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278075-about-still-waiting-for-root-device/ But haven't figured out what do yet. ------------------------------------------------- Update: I stumbled into this interesting tidbit: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291822-1085-out/page-5 I went ahead and pulled the kexts mentioned from 10.8.2. That did not help. I removed npci=0x2000 from the kernel options. 10.8.5 really doesn't like that, and hangs at PCI configuration (it doesn't like 0x3000 either) I booted with -v -x and it's sitting at PCI configuration. There seems to be no winning this war Perhaps I need to stick with 10.8.2 for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1gdadd1 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 looks like you double-posted. can you please continue with your first one, and just delete this? i'll reply on your first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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