Lordadmiral Drake Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 From one day to the other my 10.9.1 install suddenly won't boot anymore. I'm getting 3 lines of "Radeon Sensors: Waiting for Accelerator to start..." Then it shows "Still waiting for root device. I didn't change any config or kexts or anything (manually) The only thing I did on the system the last time was merely updating HWSensors app and the corresponding FakeSMC plugins I can't boot the system whatsoever no matter what settings I try in Clover. I can't even get into the single user console. What could possibly cause this? (I did check the HDDs Smart values - all green) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted February 27, 2014 Author Share Posted February 27, 2014 I managed too boot again, using rd=diskXsY at the Clover menu. But It wouldn't boot without that even after a successful startup. Now this would seem like an easy fix by just putting it into Clovers config.plist But I have 2 HDDs in my Laptop which aren't always detected in the same order. So sometimes my OS X disk is disk0 and sometimes it's disk1 Any suggestions on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted March 3, 2014 Author Share Posted March 3, 2014 So I now put rd=disk0s2 into clover.plist to make it boot without having to type it manually each boot and the system works. However, I found more weird behavior: When I go to "About this Mac" and then to Harddisks it shows my system partition as "Untitled" and all used space as "Other". When typing "diskutil list" in terminal I get the following output: /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Microsoft Basic Data 499.8 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk1 1: Windows_NTFS System-reserviert 367.0 MB disk1s1 2: Windows_NTFS Seneca 749.8 GB disk1s2 As you see disk0s2 is flagged as "Microsoft Basic Data" where it should be Apple HFS+ As I said the system works despite of that as long as boot argument rd=disk0s2 is used. But how would I correct this error without having to repartition and reinstalling everything? EDIT: I found the solution. Using GPT fdisk (gdisk) I was able to correct the partition type ID in the GPT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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