thokasen Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Hello, Just want to say that this is an awesome forum, lots of great information and really helpful. So here's my story: Before I burned iDeneb 10.5 to my DVD+R, I confirmed that the MD5 checksum was a match, which it was. I booted it in my Compaq laptop, it went fine and I got into the installation process where in Disk Utility I chose some portion of my HDD for OS X in the extended journal type format, and the rest was unallocated to install Windows on later. The installation process went fine and I crossed for the correct drivers except there was no AMD chipset to choose, so I left the chipset blank. When the installation was finished, I rebooted and then the "Still waiting for root device" appeared. I went into some research on the web and found out that I wasn't the only one with the problem What I know is that my HDD is S-ATA, and there's no HDD options in BIOS except checking for errors. It's an AMD CPU and AMD chipset. It supports SSE2 and SSE3 When I installed OS X the HDD had Windows on it. I tried to boot the Windows CD and delete the partion, changing the whole disk back to unallocated, but that didn't work. I also tried booting Parted Magic and creating a new primary active partition, didn't work either. I now stand before thee, hoping to be aided in finding a way to fix it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146484-getting-the-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianxxx Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Hello, Just want to say that this is an awesome forum, lots of great information and really helpful. So here's my story: Before I burned iDeneb 10.5 to my DVD+R, I confirmed that the MD5 checksum was a match, which it was. I booted it in my Compaq laptop, it went fine and I got into the installation process where in Disk Utility I chose some portion of my HDD for OS X in the extended journal type format, and the rest was unallocated to install Windows on later. The installation process went fine and I crossed for the correct drivers except there was no AMD chipset to choose, so I left the chipset blank. When the installation was finished, I rebooted and then the "Still waiting for root device" appeared. I went into some research on the web and found out that I wasn't the only one with the problem What I know is that my HDD is S-ATA, and there's no HDD options in BIOS except checking for errors. It's an AMD CPU and AMD chipset. It supports SSE2 and SSE3 When I installed OS X the HDD had Windows on it. I tried to boot the Windows CD and delete the partion, changing the whole disk back to unallocated, but that didn't work. I also tried booting Parted Magic and creating a new primary active partition, didn't work either. I now stand before thee, hoping to be aided in finding a way to fix it. Still waiting for root device is usually caused by not having a kext loaded that supports your sata controller, I've never used an amd chipset board but I'm guessing that the installer on the dvd loads the correct kext but for some reason hasn't installed it. First thing to do is to check that whatever distro you use supports your chipset, might be good to ask advice on distros at http://www.infinitemac.com/ as there are a lot of amd users Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146484-getting-the-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1038742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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