iDeneb 10.5.5 installation: trying to resolve the "Still waiting on root device error"

[unshavenyak]

Hi all,

 

I've been trying to install a variety of distributions for some time now and have not had much luck. After a few solutions, it looks like I'm running out of ideas. I'll outline my setup and problem below:

 

ASUS P5LD2-VM DH ACPI BIOS Revision 0501 (American Megatrends)

 

Intel Core 2 e6300

 

nVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

 

Chaintech AV-710

 

BenQ DW1640-DD-DW1 (SATA)

 

DVDSKorea DVD ROM (IDE)

 

WD 80 GB (SATA)

 

WD 250 GB (SATA)

 

WD 250 GB (SATA: HFS+ partition is here)

 

Maxtor 120 GB (IDE)

 

USB mouse, PS2 keyboard

 

 

1. My first try at getting this to work was just popping the disk into the Benq DW1640 and I repeatedly got the error "Still waiting on root device.".

 

 

2. I then switched the disk into the DVDSKorea DVD-ROM and tried the following boot parameters and received the following messages:

 

 

 

 

 

AHCI enabled for all drives

 

platform=ACPI -v

 

 

Still waiting for root device

 

disk3s3: i/o error

 

SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03 ASC = 0X11, ASCQ = 0x00

 

Jettisoning kernel linker.

 

Resetting IOCatologue.

 

kextd[47]: root filesystem is read-only; skipping kernel link data generation

 

localhost DirectoryService[53]:Launched version 5.0 (v514)

 

disk s3s3: I/O error.

 

SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03 ASC = 0X11, ASCQ = 0x00

 

localhost DirectoryService[53]:Launched version 5.0 (v514): Couldn't find root user. Sleeping and trying again.

 

 

3. I then disabled AHCI and tried again from the DVDSKorea as the Benq would always give "Still waiting on root device" errors:

 

platform=ACPI -v

 

This resulted in loading like before and then a restart.

Does anyone have suggestions on what I could try next?

 

Thank you.