"Still waiting for root Device"

[ZeDz]

I've a same problem in boot: -V "Failed to load nv30hal.... Still waiting for root device..." My HD MASTER(IDE1 PRIMARY), and DVD MASTER(IDE1 SECUNDARY). My motherboard is a ASUS P4S800-DX(Shipset SIS655FX). How i make to resolve this problem? Thanks!

 

My config:

 

Motherboard ASUS P4S800-DX (SIS655FX)

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0 GHZ Prescot (SSE2,SSE3...)

2X 512MB DDR

SATA 120 GB Seagate

DVD LG GSA-4163B

NVIDIA Geforce 256MB FX 5200 128 Bits

 

I had a similar problem, basically, in order for the os to recognize your root device (dvd-rom), you must connect it as the slave on the primary ide. This is kindof annoying, but that's the way to fix it. If you don't wanto do that, then u gotta use a firewire or usb dvd-rom...

[bren]

I made my dvd rom the slave on the primary ide, and made my hd the master on the primary as well. i'm still waiting for root device

I've also tried it vice versa. and i've tried having the hd: master, primary and the dvd master on the secondary. none of these seem to work. because i'm still waiting for root device

[mickoes]

and you will always get it on a sis chipset, it's not supported at all

 

*SIGHT*

 

Any fixes yet?

[WillyDavidK]

Just to add on to this conversation, I'm currently trying to boot my maching with the same problem, here's my details...

 

MSI K8n Neo2 Platinum mobo with Nvidia nForce 3 chipset (shouldn't be the prob)

Ati-gecube Radeon 9550, reported to work fine in the wiki

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice, also reported to work fine in the wiki

 

I have 2 SATA hard drives, one contains only documents (no os) and the other contains windows. There is 10 gb at the end that I am trying to install to (I've done all the partition magic and diskpart stuff)

The one with the os and space is on SATA1

I have a DVD-RW/CD-R combo drive, and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, both IDE. The one that's NOT a dvd burner is Aopen and really crappy, and I've never been able to get any dvd to boot fromthis. It's normally set to master. The other is a sony drive and is wonderful, and I've tried booting from this. It's normally slave. Both are on IDE1 (there's no IDE0 on the board, just ide1 and ide2). I tried changing the dvd to primary and booting from it based on an earlier post, but with no luck.

 

Anyone able to cast any new light on this? I'm using the Jas image of 10.4.6

 

EDIT: also, I'm using the following boot parameters: -v -x platform=X86PC

[WillyDavidK]

hahaha!! OK, I'm a bit excitednow, I've gotten past the error by pure luck, just hitting random settings. By this point I'd pretty much given up.

 

Anyways, I got past it by hard setting my dvd drive to master (changing jumper), hooking the cable up as master, and disconnecting the other cd and hard drive.

[shimq1]

Would the problem be fixed if no DVD drive is installed at all?

[bubugugu]

and you will always get it on a sis chipset, it's not supported at all

 

in some previous discussions stated that the waiting for root device error is cause by unsupported SiS sATA controller, however i dont have sATA for my motherboard.

 

I have swapped harddrives and dvd drives and changing jumper settings so many times and i eventually gave up. I really hope SiS chipsets will work someday.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=23566&hl=

[.NetRolller 3D]

I also have the same problem (SiS, too, mine is a 645DX), but for me, none of the drive configs work (I'm trying to install from DVD directly to the native hardware, without VMware). It is not SATA, as it has no SATA controller at all. DVD is an LG 4163B (probably that's not the problem since 4167B is reported to work). I'm trying to use the JaS 10.4.7 image, but then "Still waiting to root device". Is it possible that adding an IDE expansion card and attaching the drive to that will work?

[st0ne]

Let me guess you probably have a board witth the ATI Southbridge. ATI xpress 200 chipset. I don't want to sound negative but you can give up if thats the case. No one on here has been able to make osx work with the ATI chipsets, Not even genious' on here. I guess it's just to hard to get it to work.

 

Peace out,

HooKed

i just got 10.4.7 with exactly that chipset running.

 

i have a RS482M4 - ILD (ati chipset with a xpress 200 graphics card, 1 x dvi and 1 x vga) and it definitivly works with JaS 10.4.7 DVD

resolution 1024x768, no other setting possible, maybe with drivers?

onboard network doesn't work but with a realtec pci gigabit card works

firewire not yet tested

azalia onboard sound dosn't work out of the box; maybe with drivers?

 

regards

[OPTiK]

I don't think it matters that much if you have a SiS chipset or not. I get root device errors following Extension "com.apple.iokit.IOUsbMassStorageClass" Has no kernal dependancy, with an Intel chipset and JaS 10.4.8. Check my sig for hardware details. Any help would be great BTW.

[Riccard]

I have a Abit KN8 Ultra Motherboard (says on wiki it works with 10.4.8 (JaS) )

with both SATA on my HD and DVD-ROM. Does this mean that I'm screwed installing Mac OS X atm?

[Sailfish]

I just finished a project with an Intel 945GNTLKR board with a SATA HD and an IDE DVD and a dual core CPU. I found that setting the BIOS to Single Core only was the only way to get the isntallation to proceed. Then change back afterwards. Seems like the "root device" issue can be a multitude of things that only trial and error will overcome.

[nightwalker]

someone figured out how to do it with the p4s800 board

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...20&start=20

 

can someone confirm this???

[phatronic]

Hi all!

 

I also get the "Still waiting for root device"-error. I would urgently need to run OSX on my PC for my studies....

 

My configuration is:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2,4 Ghz

Asus P5B (P965)

2 GB Ram

Gigabyte Geforce 7900 GT/GTO

500 GB S-ATA Samsung Hard Disk

400 GB S-ATA Samsung Hard Disk

LG GSA-H62N S-ATA DVD-Recorder

LG GSA-H10N IDE DVD-Recorder

Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

 

I tried the Versions JAS 10.4.8

Tubgirl 10.4.8

UPHUCK 10.4.9

Tubgirl 10.4.10

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thx!

[the_root]

Hi all!

 

I also get the "Still waiting for root device"-error. I would urgently need to run OSX on my PC for my studies....

 

My configuration is:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2,4 Ghz

Asus P5B (P965)

2 GB Ram

Gigabyte Geforce 7900 GT/GTO

500 GB S-ATA Samsung Hard Disk

400 GB S-ATA Samsung Hard Disk

LG GSA-H62N S-ATA DVD-Recorder

LG GSA-H10N IDE DVD-Recorder

Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

 

I tried the Versions JAS 10.4.8

Tubgirl 10.4.8

UPHUCK 10.4.9

Tubgirl 10.4.10

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thx!

 

You have 4 SATA connectors on your MB, so , connect one of the harddrives to SATA-1 connector, after that connect LG GSA-H62N to SATA-2 connector, restart and log in to BIOS , then configure SATA to be in IDE mode. That shoud help .

[mainetality]

Asus P5b fully working osx Tiger or Leopard! no more waiting for root device!

 

Hi guys im so excited i got my mac working!

its been weeks and weeks trying to fix it, ja pain in the you know where

flashing bioses trying diff bios settings everything out there but nothing worked!

but there is so much to say i'm not gonna even start!

This is my first time so i dont know this post stuff works pls bare with me.

 

Specs: core2duo e6300 @ 3.12ghz

Asus P5b standard (bios 1803)

8600gts 256mb

4gig ram

250gig, 250gig, 160gig all sata2 + 80gig ide

asus sata dvdrw

 

now i'm not gonna waste your time if you getting error "still waiting for root Device"

do this. iam using Iatkos btw but that doesnt matter its a error with any osx dvd.

 

1.get osx dvd Leo or Tiger or whatever.

3. Sata dvdrw and plug it into sata (ahci) port 2. Thats the bottm

left slot in your motherboard see you have 4 ports in your board normally.

Top left =sata1

bottom left =sata2

top right =sata3

bottom right =sata4

4. 2. go into your bios and change all ide settings to ACHI whereever you see (there's two in mine)

5.restart and boot with your mac dvd

 

your hard drive must be in top right (sata1 port)

and your dvdrw must be in the port underneath that, bottom left (sata2 port)

if its like that that means they are in one channel same as two ide

drives in 1 ide cable if you know what i mean.

now your mac will boot.

i installed my mac in the ide but thats up to you.

 

My Iatkos dosnt wanna boot after install witout the disk still in the dvdrw will

post a fix soon as i find one.

Everything works with my iatkos dvd ex drivers for my 8600gts i got those elsewhere

let me know if you need the link. or search "NVInstallerV.41.pkg"

later.

[Blacksheepx]

hi,

 

I have this same msg when tried to instal osx86 in my pc

 

my config is:

Intel core2quad 2,5 q9300

Mobo E-vga 790i ultra sli

1 hd Sata2 320g seagate ntfs with Vista ultimate x86

1 hd Sata2 500g Seagate FAT32 empty

DvD-RW Pionner Sata

 

in my mobo setup dont have the option to set sata drivers to ide,

its have on option that is "jmicron AHCI = Disable/Enable"

 

 

can anyone help me?

[DONNYTEN]

Blacksheepx:

 

Not an advanced OSX86 tech support specialist but:

 

Maybe it has something to do with SATA, Something in your BIOS that needs switchin, or perhaps you could try installing from a different dvd rom drive.

 

I got the error and switching drives got rid of it.

[greensonu]

I've a same problem

[stanleyhalim]

I've a same problem

 

mee too... but i installing from my notebook HD external... how can i fixed that?

[oldtopman]

Please don't make a habit of replying to year-old threads, make your own. Also, we can't help you if we don't have system specs, installer distro, etc.

[Beerkex'd]

Tried and true solutions for "still waiting for root device"

 

http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/05/still...oot-device.html

http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/11/still...-device-ii.html

[Mleo]

I've a same problem in boot: -V "Failed to load nv30hal.... Still waiting for root device..." My HD MASTER(IDE1 PRIMARY), and DVD MASTER(IDE1 SECUNDARY). My motherboard is a ASUS P4S800-DX(Shipset SIS655FX). How i make to resolve this problem? Thanks!

 

My config:

 

Motherboard ASUS P4S800-DX (SIS655FX)

Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.0 GHZ Prescot (SSE2,SSE3...)

2X 512MB DDR

SATA 120 GB Seagate

DVD LG GSA-4163B

NVIDIA Geforce 256MB FX 5200 128 Bits

 

Hola siento no poder expresarme en ingles, pero espero alguien pueda traducir lo que escribo.

 

He de decir que yo también tengo una Motherboard Asus PS800-DX(SIS655FX)

CPU P4 HT 3.0 GHz

con 4GB Ram PC2700(400Mhz)

NViDIA GForce 6600GT con 128MB

2 HD ID, de 160GB, conectados a un adaptador from IDE to USB, asi que van como externos

2 HD SATA, de 200GB, conectados a un adaptador de SATA a USB, quedando como externos.s

Es decir todos los HD están conectados a los puertos USB, de 2 tarjeta PCI de 5 puertos cada una.

Ademas tengo 1 DVD-RW IDE y un DVD, ambos conectados atraves de IDE.

 

Tengo instalado iAtkos V7,en el ordenador cuyas caracteristicas detallo en las lineas de arriba, pero con las mismas condiciones instale Tiger, si bien fue en un portatil, Asus X51RL.

Para la instalación conecte la regrabadora IDE a una adaptador de IDE A USB, de modo que pareciese externa.

Ya instalado Mac Os Leopard, reincide en modo vervose(F8 y -v ) tengo todo a pleno rendimiento, gráficos con aceleración gráfica, audio, ethernet y sistema actualizable, desde el actualizador de software del sistema. Lo único que no va es la wifi, pero conecto una D-Link y G120 y listo.

Entonces pongo la regaladora interna y el HD con el sistema sigue como usb, de ese modo no existe el problema de STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE, ni antes ni después de la instalación.

El poner como esclavo o maestro los dispositivos, no cambia nada, al menos en mi caso, en diversas instalaciones con Tiger y Leopard, he tenido esa experiencia.

Ejemplo, con Tiger sobre disco duro interno(SATA O IDE) EL INSTALADOR SE QUEDABA EN STILL WAITING FOR……….

Ponia los discos Regrabador y HD externos(mediante los adaptadores a USB)

y la instalación era exitosa.

Vale la pena probarlo todo, experimentar tiene como resultado que al final las cosas salen.

Espero sirva de ayuda.