landgrendesign Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 Hi! I just made a clean install of Ideneb and updated it to 10.5.8 on my laptop. I've always have had trouble with slow boots on OS X but this is the first time i get a "still waiting for root device" error. What's weird is that it sits for a while on the grey apple screen with a circle that has a line through it but after awhile it jumps into the OS and starts. I've tried to change SATA to AHCI MODE, disabled USB Legacy. I've always have suffered from slow boot (1 min) but now when I have the still waiting for root device it's even slower. I've booted with -v but I don't really know what to look at in the diagnostic messages. My graphic card is working and have QE/CI and so on so the graphics card is not faulty. edit: I noticed that my harddisk is not showing up under "System preferences/Startup disk". Might it be so that the computer is looking for a networkstart and when it can't find it it finally starts with the HD? How can I manually add my harddisk to startup disks? The harddisk is formated as Journaled Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/194129-os-x-starts-but-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Try installing modified AppleIntelPIIXATA which will work for IDE disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/194129-os-x-starts-but-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1310529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
landgrendesign Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 Try installing modified AppleIntelPIIXATA which will work for IDE disk. Thanks for your reply! Installing the .kext didn't solve my problem. I've rechecked the command lines booting in verbose but I don't see anything unusually faulty. I think I will try to install IPC 10.5.6 instead as I understand that it's very difficult to pinpoint this problem. Well, the computer starts it just takes a while for the boot to get past "waiting for root device". I've been reading that people have got they're OS X installs to boot as fast as a real mac. Tips are always appreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/194129-os-x-starts-but-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1310663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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