vikas2010 Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 installed ipc 10.5.6 and ideneb 1.4 10.5.6 both the time installation went fine and after the restart it shows "still waiting for root device" . I changed bios settings disabled jmicron, firewire(1394) parallel port etc.... i tried booting with the command -x / -v -f but still the same. please any body can help me to solve this problem. please help My Computer configuration Motherboard Specification Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Chipset Intel® Q35 / ICH9DO support Intel® Active Management Technology Onboard Video Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 (Intel® GMA 3100) integrated Serial ATA with RAID SATA x 2 with RAID 0, 1, JBOD Storage Southbridge 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports Support RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 JMicron® JMB368 PATA controller 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices Audio Realtek® ALC883, 8-channel High-Definition Audio CODEC LAN Intel® 82566DM PCIe Gigabit LAN controller IEEE 1394 Agree® 1394 controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports BIOS 32 Mb Flash ROM, AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 2.0a Intel® vPro technology support CPU CORE 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz 2GB Kingstin 800 mhz Rama 160GB Samsung Hard disk Edit: I managed to come out of this problem i need to change some bios settings i.e.: sata to achci and disabled parallel, serial ports and acpi to s3 and it simply booted fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204034-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weishauptus Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 you should chec out this link. It is a lot to read but worth it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/204034-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1370593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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