ll5 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I recently installed leo4all and after the installation it gets "Still waiting for root device" error I have: AMD Athlon 64 6000+ ~3.01GHz ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe nForce 570 SLI NVIDIA 8600GT I am dual-booting with XP on a seperate hard drive Please help im out of ideas Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141750-still-waiting-for-root-device-after-successful-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
boba899 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 This is OS X telling you it can't quite find your hard drive. So it could be one of a few problems, one I know of being that you chose the wrong controller driver when installing OS X from the DVD. Check out what controller chipset your motherboard has, and compare with the DVD options. You can look at other solutions here[.url]. Some of those solutions are for problems with booting from the DVD, but the reasoning is the same. All of them don't require a new re-install, whereas choosing new controller drivers would. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141750-still-waiting-for-root-device-after-successful-installation/#findComment-1006514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipps Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 I am having kinda the same problem. I have a extra Hdd (300 gig) that I am trying to install OSX on, everytime I go to try to install it I says "Still waiting for root" I have went as far as physically disconnecting the other Hdd ( windows ) where all i have connected it the 300 gig sata drive and the dvd drive (IDE) and still get the error message. Anyone have any ideas for me. Kevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141750-still-waiting-for-root-device-after-successful-installation/#findComment-1008032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 If you are using SATA drive set it to AHCI mode. IDE mode is not supported in 10.5.6. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141750-still-waiting-for-root-device-after-successful-installation/#findComment-1008158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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