Cheburashka Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Since a lot of people are having this issue -- and its getting lost and confused in a lot of the threads -- I thought to make a consolidator thread. To sum up what the issue is (and isn't, so as to keep the topic focused): Many people with non-IDE hard drives (e.g., SATA or SCSI) are unable to boot OS X natively, and get an error "Still waiting for root" every few minutes on boot. They can, however, boot OS X in VM Ware. Some people with nForce 3 and 4 SATA cards have been able to solve the problem by modifying .kext device driver files, as posted in a variety of threads around this site. These modifications were included in the most recent sets of installer DVD (myz etc.) so such patching is no longer required. Many people with SATA on the motherboard (is it on non-Intel motherboards only?), however, have not yet found any solution, and are unable to boot natively. I think it would also help to make a chart of SATA device ID's and whether a solution exists. The SATA device ID can be found in the "Details" pane of the device properties in the Windows Device Manager, and consists of the 4 digits following "DEV_" followed by the 4 digits following "VEN_". To begin, mine: ATI Motherboard 43761002 IDE fix at http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...546entry61546 works for some people 43791002 No solution for SATA (IDE fix at http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...546entry61546 ) Asrock 939 Dual 528910B9 AppleVIAATA.kext fix ( http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=89805 ) 2360197B AppleVIAATA.kext fix ( http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=89805 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liooil Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 For AsRock 939Dual SATA2 folks: Editing AppleVIAATA.kext with this SATA: 0x528910B9 SATAII: 0x2360197B Allow OSx to recognize the SATA drives. Would be great to boot natively from DVD. Reference post: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=&showtopic=2188&view=findpost&p=89805 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foyaeman Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Okay, trying to install, I get to darwin, run with -v, and get the "Still waiting for root device message". I know alot of people posted about this, but I couldnt fix it! My DVD drive is set as a slave, HD is set as a master. Thank's In Advance for the help, --Abdullah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foyaeman Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Woop's, fixed the problem, now I get "SAM multimedia: Read Or Write Failed Asc= 0x11 Ascq = 0x05" and after that "disk0s3:I/O error" Anyone got this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedopefishlives Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 Woop's, fixed the problem, now I get "SAM multimedia: Read Or Write Failed Asc= 0x11 Ascq = 0x05" and after that "disk0s3:I/O error" Anyone got this before? Yes. In my case, it was caused by my DVD being too warm. Shutting down the PC and letting the drive/disc cool for a few seconds before booting from it solved the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Woop's, fixed the problem, now I get "SAM multimedia: Read Or Write Failed Asc= 0x11 Ascq = 0x05" and after that "disk0s3:I/O error" Anyone got this before? How did you fixed the problem mate? Share it please:) Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gato_shin Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I'm using a laptop with AMD Turion 64 and ATI Xpress 200M board, can I get a fix to solve this problem? And how? You should know that with this problem I cannot even Install this OS into my computer..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2000rick Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Ive got my HD as primary master, and my DVD as primary slave. OSX booted up once normally, but now it only works with -x (safemode) otherwise i get "Still waiting for rot device" anyone had something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheburashka Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 It takes so little time for a threat to get hijacked by folks who won't bother to read either the thread introduction or do a search of the forums... This is why these damn forums are so useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2000rick Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 These forums would have more structure if the search function didnt suck so much. Searching almost always gives you results that have nothing to do with what your looking for. If only you could use quotes and key words like AND and NOT to constrain your search. oh and if it automatically ignored words like 'a' and 'the'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonBOY Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 ....funny, that search function is what got me onto a thread the sole purpose of which was to amalgamate the variety of fixes to my very problem. Seems to work ok for me but yeah, talk about a hijacked thread, two posts of actual fixes (including the original post) and it was all downhill from there. Unfortunate, this thread had potential to be relevant to a lot of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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