Chipstik Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I have continued my thread in this new one, as a new problem has arised, and it will benefit others by the information being here rather than at the bottom of an irrelevant thread. Old thread here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=203218 So anyway, onwards. I have installed iDeneb, without any drivers so that I would be able to load it without it locking up. If I boot into it, after about 10 minutes I get a "NO" sign through the apple logo, if I boot with verbose -v, it gets stuck at repeting "still waiting for root device". Since looking at this problem on here, I have swapped the HDD to Primary master (IDE Drive), but still have no luck. Any more suggestions? Thanks. :mellow: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203309-stop-sign-over-apple-logo-on-boot-still-waiting-for-root-device-in-verbose-mode/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chipstik Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 Bump. Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203309-stop-sign-over-apple-logo-on-boot-still-waiting-for-root-device-in-verbose-mode/#findComment-1366463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Reinstall and this time pick a driver for your PATA controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203309-stop-sign-over-apple-logo-on-boot-still-waiting-for-root-device-in-verbose-mode/#findComment-1366847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chipstik Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 If only it was that easy.. The DVD is very tempremental when it coems to booting it.Most of the time it just doesn't happen.. And I have burnt about 3 dvds to make sure that it was the disc. Any Ideas? Right, I reinstalled, selected a few ata drivers, but still getting waiting for root device. Is there anything I need to do for active partitions, or not because ts on a seperate hdd? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203309-stop-sign-over-apple-logo-on-boot-still-waiting-for-root-device-in-verbose-mode/#findComment-1367273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 No, it's a hardware (configuration) issue. Still waiting for root device means either there's no driver loaded for the drive controller or the BIOS settings are wrong (SATA not set to AHCI mode, doesn't apply in your case since you're using a PATA drive). for PATA devices you can try jumpering it as master and placing it at the end of the cable with no slave device connected. Make sure you're using a 80-conductor cable. If your burn is flakey, try different burning software. imgburn and Nero works for me. Always burn using high quality media and at the lowest speeds supported by the drive. Don't randomly select multiple drivers for the same hardware, that will only make it worse! If a particular driver name like "AppleIntelPIIATA.kext" or "AppleVIAATA.kext" doesn't mean anything to you, google it and find out which devices they support, or seach by your PATA controller's make and model to find the right driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203309-stop-sign-over-apple-logo-on-boot-still-waiting-for-root-device-in-verbose-mode/#findComment-1367777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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