jedikalex Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 I tried installing OSX natively using a 10.4.4/4.5 dvd I got from the bay and it would always return an IO error when I partitiooned the disk.. So I installed to the hdd in vmware and it worked. But whenever I boot natively it stalls at Still Waiting for Root Device.. I have tried replacing the AppleOnboardPCATA.kext with one that is supposed to work with CK8S ata and it hasn't fixed my problem. Can anyone help me out here? My specs are: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (venice) MSI K8N Neo4 SLI 2gb Corsair XMS SATA 250gb hdd ATA 40gb hdd ps: I installed OSX onto the PATA drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14042-still-waiting-for-root-device-with-nforce4/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedikalex Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 I finally got it to work, I had to put my pata in slave on my dvd burner's primary ata channel. Now though for some reason my dvd burner isn't being picked up..Going to have to check its jumper settings.. but I now have 10.4.4 with working sound, lan, (hopefully soon video).. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14042-still-waiting-for-root-device-with-nforce4/#findComment-89577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Thanks for the update, jedikalex. Let us know how it goes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14042-still-waiting-for-root-device-with-nforce4/#findComment-89583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedikalex Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Well I guess the reason my dvd drive didn't pick up is my mobo must be buggy.. It now detects the drive about 3 out of 4 boots.. Now I just need to get my onboard Soundblaster Live to work as my PCI soundblaster really sucks lol. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14042-still-waiting-for-root-device-with-nforce4/#findComment-89615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-jordn- Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Well I guess the reason my dvd drive didn't pick up is my mobo must be buggy.. It now detects the drive about 3 out of 4 boots.. Now I just need to get my onboard Soundblaster Live to work as my PCI soundblaster really sucks lol. hey, thanx man, your post allowed me to be able to boot into OSX natively, as i was also experiencing the same problems as you with the Nforce 4 chipset... Now, to get my 2nd hard disk recognised.... jordn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14042-still-waiting-for-root-device-with-nforce4/#findComment-98405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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