fcastro Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Hi everyone , I have been reading on the forums for about a week now and still can't get past my current road block. As the headline says I am getting a "waiting for root device" after installing iDeneb 10.5.5 and rebooting. Forum suggests thats in a controller issue but I can't seem to side step it. System Quick Specs: - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - Chipsets (North Bridge=Intel P45; South Bridge=Intel ICH10R) - GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:(1. 1 x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices) - Audio Chipset = Realtek ALC889A - Q9300 quad core processor I have 1 PATA/IDE hard drive connected and 1 IDE-DVD-ROM. Based on my reading I have tried setting the hard drive to master and slave and vice versa with the dvdrom. I have also tried just having just the hard drive connected but still get the "waiting for root device". Anyone have any other suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
perpetuity Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I just did an install with the same board, but with sata drive for for HD and DVD, I am ok except trying to patch audio right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1005528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcastro Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 perpetuity which install did you use? There is one other person sam who did the install and he also had a sata drive hd and dvd. PS did you use the purple sata slots on the motherboard or the yellow? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1005592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
etherbunny2 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 May be an issue with IDE. Is your bios set to achi? Might try Kalyway install disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1006054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcastro Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Hi thanks for the suggestion. I tried kalyway 10.5.2 last night as well. It actually got stuck toward the end of the install which I found odd. I tried setting the bios to achi and not still same result. I am going to try again since it was so late last night and I made so many changes. I'll repost in a few. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1006398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Did you ever get this solved? I have the same hardware and same install disk, except I am using all SATA drives. I get "still waiting for root device." Also, the installer sees my 300gb SATA drive as 128.0gb instead of 300gb... the old barrier... hmm why is this? I have not had this problem on my old AMD system and large HDDs. What are some common solutions to this (these) problem(s)? Thanks guys. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1038882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcastro Posted January 13, 2009 Author Share Posted January 13, 2009 I got the problem solved by using a sata drive and hooking it up into the yellow sata drives on the board. Make sure then when you initially format the drive with the apple disk utility that you pick GUID format. I have read on the boards that you can install on IDE I was just never able to get it done. Hard drive yellow sata 0 and cdrom/dvd 2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1039191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
etherbunny2 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I have a GB EP45-DS3L mobo and had the same problem. I solved it by using an external USB DVD drive to do the install and setting the bios to ACHI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1040274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahualin Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Me too。 EP45-DS3L + HD3870 iDeneb V1.3 same problem. I also use usb dvd-rom and ACHI to on. can into the system. but HD3870 can't QE/CI on. reinstall now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1042144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahualin Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I finish install. HD3870 work the driver ATI_Radeon_HD_-_10.5.x_-_10.5.5_kexts.zip sound 888 work at EP45_DS3L___Sound_Patch_Files.dmg only problem is can't update 10.5.6 . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1042252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcastro Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 dahualin could you just recap the problem you had for the rest of the people reading this thread? I am not understanding what you original problem was. thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1042532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I got everything work on my motherboard by using the new iPC 10.5.6 release. Connect SATA devices to yellow SATA connector and set to AHCI in BIOS. iPC has ICH10R SATA driver support for chipset, as well as drivers for the audio and LAN (though I didn't get the audio to work, luckily I have an external SB Live. I would try installing with no audio driver since I hear this is the default driver used by macs). Vanilla kernel. I had to use the Shut down/restart fix for mine. Seems to run perfect so far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1048923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcastro Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 dsc106, thanks for posting a follow up. Did you write down what options you selected? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1049821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpyBoyCH Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Check this topic. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=131791 there are links to instructions for a 100% retail install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141773-gigabyte-ga-ep45-ud3p-ideneb-1055-install-waiting-for-root-device-on-reboot/#findComment-1052172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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