The FreeBird Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Hello, today I tried installing OSX on my PC (iATKOS v7) and I used the following flag: -v -f maxmem=2048 I also tried many other flags too. But nothing worked, I only saw the black screen with annoying white text and at the bottom it says: Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device I have a SATA harddisk and there is no option to turn it to ACHI in BIOS... PLEASE HELP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Is there is any distro which won't give me this sucking error? My System Config: HP Pavilion Slimline 3130.sc AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 4400+ ~2.3GHz 4096MB (4GB) DDR2 RAM NVIDIA GeForce 7500LE 256M 320GB SATA HDD ANY HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! Edit: This post should be closed. I got it working, actual guide is here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=202342 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Do a forum search.This issue is very common! Very! Esp. with MBs for AMD CPUs. In general there are several main reasons why it can happen: If both DVD and disk drives are connected inappropriately If ACHI mode is not enabled (not the case) If there are no appropriate chipset driver present on the install DVD (most likely the case) If a DVD drive is IDE and HHD is SATA (this combination is known not to work on some MBs; this might also be the case) So do yourself a favour, and do a forum search by the chipset the MB has. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1325830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinosOSX Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Hello to everyone!! I am glad to found you! I have the same problem with ToH RC2 Leopard. My System Config: AMD Phenom II 965 ASUS M4A79T Deluxe 8GB DDR3 RAM ATI HD 4350 2TB SATA HDD DVD-RW SATA Thank you very much in advance for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1325844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinosOSX Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 I finally made it!! I put the HDD to the first SATA of my motherboard and changed from the bios the IDE option to ACHI. But now i can't boot to Windows 7 or Mac OS X Leopard without the Chameleon boot cd. Is there a solution for this (to have dual boot, Windows 7 and Mac OS X Leopard)? I also don't have internet with the motherboard network card and the resolution is fixed to 1024X768. Thank you very much!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1326055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mondial Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Do a forum search.This issue is very common! Very! Esp. with MBs for AMD CPUs. ..... So do yourself a favour, and do a forum search by the chipset the MB has. A forum search doesn't work ... don't know why and how to contact an forumadmin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1326598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZMikey Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Hi, Im trying to install 10.5.6 on my laptop, which is an hp pailion zv5000, and the only thing in the list above that i can see why i get the "Still waitin for root device" in -v mode, is because of the chipset. Problem is, i done a search for it, and cat find anything about it? The only info i can get from CPUID is that the chipset is ATI. (My CPU is an Intel® Pentium® ) Anyone know how i would be able to fix this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1326619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The FreeBird Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hello to everyone!! I am glad to found you! I have the same problem with ToH RC2 Leopard. My System Config: AMD Phenom II 965 ASUS M4A79T Deluxe 8GB DDR3 RAM ATI HD 4350 2TB SATA HDD DVD-RW SATA Thank you very much in advance for your help! ITS FINALLY WORKING. I wrote the guide here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=202342 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1359402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The FreeBird Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Here is a guide to avoid this error: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=202342 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196830-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1359897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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