Another Still waiting for root device

[SweexNL]

After many research i dindt found anything for this!

 

I've tried all the stuff thats on the net , USB Keyboard , Change in bios , Other versions ( Kalyway 10.5.2 , iPC 10.5.6 , xXx 10.5.2 / 10.5.6 , iATKOS_v7 , and other versions ) Install on diffrent HD's , Other DVD player , And they all dont work!

 

But the weardes part , i've installed Kalyway 10.5.2 like 3 months ago and it did work ( Everything ! )

 

Here are my Pc specs , hopefully somebody could help me out

 

Motherboard : Asus M2A-MVP

Processor : AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ , 2,4 GHz

Ram : 2 Gig

Video Card : Ati Radeon HD 3850

Hard Disk(s) : Sata 300 gig , Sata 160 gig , USB IDE 80 gig

Disk Drive : Pioneer DVD - RW DVR-106D

Other : USB Mouse , Ps2 Keyboard and usb keyboard

[Lanceomni]

Still waiting for root device

This is generally one of three things:

1. If you are using PATA (The old IDE Ribbon Cable Drives) you will want to make sure that the drive you are installing to is set to MASTER via the jumpers and the actual drive itself. Id also recommend that you have the drive on the cable's first connector.

 

2. If you are using SATA drives try going into the BIOS and changing the SATA Mode from AHCI to IDE.

 

3. Chipset related. If your booting the install disk and are getting this issue and the first two do not fix the problem its probably chipset related. In the case of SATA, some motherboards have more than one SATA control and so one or the other may be compatible. You can check your user manual or online to see if this is the case and then plug into the appropriate connector.

 

Boot-Flags

Ideally you should boot in Verbose Mode until you have your machine running the way you want. This can be done by using the -v boot-flag. When you start the computer up you will see the Darwin bootloader screen. This screen will count down and by pressing the requested key will give you a prompt to enter these boot-options. Now instead of getting a gray screen with Apple logo, you will get useful information about the boot process and see at which line it hangs on.

 

Other useful boot-flags are:

-f which will load your kexts (drivers) individually instead of from the cache file.

-x which will boot you into Safe Mode loading only the basics