dydx Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 I tried both 10.4.4 and 10.4.3. I burned them on DVD and they are bootable. but before it enters the installation it shows a No sign. and I tried to boot it with -v and various parameters. none of that worked.. system: Laptop Acer LC3002 Athlom Sempron 2800+ 512MB DDR333 40GB HDD thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aPpLeFrEaKpEePs Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hey, I guess your laptop has the SisM760GX chipset for which no SATA/PATA driver support exists as of now in OSx86. That is the source of the problem according to me.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-67306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shedt Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 i have the same problem with a regular ata drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-67688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Not all ATA chipsets are recognized and used correctly by OS X. There are some that perform double-duty, can do either/or, and these are notorious for being incompatible with OS X. Thank Apple for their fine efforts locking down their OS...! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-67692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikola Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 OS X 10.4.3 worked, but I installed windows vista and now I get tis message "still waiting for root device" when I try to boot OS X (in verbose mode), if I try to boot normally, after oine minute, a forbidden logo apeats on the apple logo. Any idea? Vista also changed the dual boot menu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-69084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeshond Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Copy the chain0 file from you MacOSX DVD to you C-drive. Then add c:\chain0="Mac OSX" to your boot.ini. Maybe that works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-69087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikola Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Thanks for your answer, i am going to try this... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10728-another-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-69098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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