Mike86738 Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) has anyone had any luck installing the latest image (JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3) onto an HP Pavilion ZX5000 laptop? I burned a bootable DVD image and am presented with Darwin upon boot, but I get stuck on "Still waiting for root device". I have tried the following flags at the boot prompt: platform=x86pc -v -x -f First, I'm looking to see if there have been any successes on the ZX5000 laptop. (I checked the osx86 wiki and there were none on the success page.) Second, I'm trying to uncover my problem and create a solution. Thanks, Mike P.S. Here's my Registers Dump from CPU-Z to give all my machine's details (attached as a text file). P.P.S. kevinosx: thanks for the tip to attach as a text file; I removed that litany I had on here before and attached a txt file.) zx5000.txt Edited February 7, 2007 by Mike86738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinosx Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Sounds to me like you burned the image too fast, reburn it at the slowest possible speed your burning utility allows. I ran into this problem tons of times until I figured that out!! now I burn all my images at 2x FYI: might be good for future knowledge to include debug, information etc in a .txt file and attach it to a message I don't see why you should have a problem, your system isn't that uncommon! And WELCOME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike86738 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 (edited) Sounds to me like you burned the image too fast, reburn it at the slowest possible speed your burning utility allows. I ran into this problem tons of times until I figured that out!! now I burn all my images at 2xFYI: might be good for future knowledge to include debug, information etc in a .txt file and attach it to a message I don't see why you should have a problem, your system isn't that uncommon! And WELCOME! OK, I used Nero to burn the DVD image and the slowest burning speed offered to me was 4x. I also ticked the "Verify written data" checkbox. After loading the new DVD image into the drive and restarting, I got the same thing as before: no joy. Attached is a picture of my screen after using the -v bootflag. Thoughts based on that pic? (It should be noted that the very next line in the pic will read "Still waiting for root device" and that's where the endless wait begins--the system can never seem to "find" the root device.) Edited February 7, 2007 by Mike86738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 OK, I used Nero to burn the DVD image and the slowest burning speed offered to me was 4x. I also ticked the "Verify written data" checkbox. After loading the new DVD image into the drive and restarting, I got the same thing as before: no joy. Attached is a picture of my screen after using the -v bootflag. Thoughts based on that pic? (It should be noted that the very next line in the pic will read "Still waiting for root device" and that's where the endless wait begins--the system can never seem to "find" the root device.) first off, was the image saved on a fat32 harddrive? - I, personally, have had some problems with images not fully extracting to fat32 partitions. (had to extract it onto either ntfs or ext2/3 partition to burn properly) It has to do with filesize limitations. second, did you try booting with "-v platform=x86pc" ? - looks like you're booting with apic, not x86pc option by default... wouldn't hurt to try. You can also try some other boot options like "-v -f" etc etc (search around the forums for "boot option" last but not least, try reinstalling. select custom. pick different options perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike86738 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 first off, was the image saved on a fat32 harddrive? - I, personally, have had some problems with images not fully extracting to fat32 partitions. (had to extract it onto either ntfs or ext2/3 partition to burn properly) It has to do with filesize limitations. second, did you try booting with "-v platform=x86pc" ? - looks like you're booting with apic, not x86pc option by default... wouldn't hurt to try. You can also try some other boot options like "-v -f" etc etc (search around the forums for "boot option" last but not least, try reinstalling. select custom. pick different options perhaps. 1. All of my drives have always been NTFS. 2. I've tried the following (both as individual switches and combined in several different ways: -v, -F, -x, -legacy, platform=X86PC, platform=APIC, rd=disk0s1. 3. Reinstalling my Windows OS? I actually just did that two days ago, formatting all my drives with NTFS. Since I am stuck on the "still waiting for root device," can anyone shed some light on what device Darwin is waiting for and perhaps from there we can figure out why? Thanks, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinosx Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Like Kiko mentioned in another post, after it pauses in that portion could he type "exit" and hit enter to cancel that specific kernel function? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike86738 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Like Kiko mentioned in another post, after it pauses in that portion could he type "exit" and hit enter to cancel that specific kernel function? Kevin: I tried that but unfortunately I cannot type anything at all, even though there is a cursor there on the screen. The computer's not frozen because the longer I sit there, the more I see the "Still waiting for root device" message... so I know the computer hasn't froze. Maybe root device is my hard drive and Darwin cannot find it for some reason? I'm using a laptop with only one internal IDE hard drive (60GB). Connected via USB (among other things such as the printer and wireless keyboard/mouse), I have an external 80GB HDD and an external DVD Writer. Has USB-connected devices during install been the source of problems for anyone, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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