dandeloy Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I go and try to stat up and it get hung at apple screen with no symbol. In verbose it says still waiting for root device. Its like the hard drive wont show up at all. I used ideneb 1.3. And then used sleep kernal by atkos. help please Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Welcome to InsanelyMac! Please provide us with some specifications about your system (CPU, Motherboard, Graphics & Model Number if applicable). Adding more specific information allows us to respond quickly with more precise answers. Chipset, LAN, Audio & If your Graphics are integrated or not, are excellent additions. You can also place this information in your "Signature". It will then appear on every post you make. This can be done via My Controls: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...rCP&CODE=00 Please follow the rules described in this thread (Most importantly keeping your signature to no more than 5 lines of normal text: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;hl=signatures 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1264344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandeloy Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 ok i added some stuff to my sig. I tried changing some of the sata options but it didn't work. It weird becasue it will start up but then get hung on the Apple grey screen. The hdd light wont show activity. I have tried 3 different kernals. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1264750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 ok i added some stuff to my sig. I tried changing some of the sata options but it didn't work. It weird becasue it will start up but then get hung on the Apple grey screen. The hdd lgith wont show activity. You will want to boot using the boot flag -v so that you will see useful information during the boot process. You can then post as to which line it hangs on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1264757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandeloy Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 You will want to boot using the boot flag -v so that you will see useful information during the boot process. You can then post as to which line it hangs on. Waiting for boot volume with UUID A5FA0AA9-AEB7-3322-411E0040CE5E Wauting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProvderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourcesMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict> Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device (and will continue on) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1264805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Waiting for boot volume with UUID A5FA0AA9-AEB7-3322-411E0040CE5EWauting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProvderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourcesMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict> Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device (and will continue on) This youtube video should give you hope as someone else is running osx on your hardware. You should try the following boot flags options -v -f -v -x -v platform=x86pc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1265028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandeloy Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 sorry i didnt reply sooner. but i tried that last one where i type in the platformx86 and it started going but still froze. But i found it saying there is no version of osx set yet? strange. What do i do to fix it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1274578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandeloy Posted September 26, 2009 Author Share Posted September 26, 2009 sorry i didnt reply sooner. but i tried that last one where i type in the platformx86 and it started going but still froze. But i found it saying there is no version of osx set yet? strange. What do i do to fix it? bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1281275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandeloy Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 bump cmon someone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1286061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...php/t87028.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/186179-stuck-at-startup-with-the-no-symbol/#findComment-1286092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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