Saphiresurf Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I tried doing a retail install of snow leopard but i get stuck at still waiting for root device when booting the cd in verbose. I installed snow leopard using hazards installation a little before that and it installed but i booted into verbose and it does the sae thing. I use the flags -v cpus=1 busratio=20 Specs: Model: Dell Studio 540 Ram:3 GB Processor:intel core 2 quad Q8200 2.33 GHZ Video Card: Nvidia Gforce 9800 GT Sound Card: Intel HDA Thanks for any help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/214077-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 It means OS X fails to communicate with your hard drive controller. It's a driver or BIOS configuration issue. Try google, paste this in the search field: site:insanelymac.com "still waiting for root device" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/214077-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1437133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iOSX86_iATKOS Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 check your BIOS and see if there's a setting to configure your SATA drives as AHCI, which should resolve your current issue. but, if your Dell is like my Inspiron 530S (desktop) and its BIOS doesn't have the AHCI option, set it at IDE and you must install IOATAFamily.kext (search at kexts.com). having said that, do NOT update to 10.6.3 if you have to use the IOATAFamily.kext because this is leaving my HD with the root device error. The system booted and worked fine with 10.6, 10.6.1, and 10.6.2. I tried doing a retail install of snow leopard but i get stuck at still waiting for root device when booting the cd in verbose. I installed snow leopard using hazards installation a little before that and it installed but i booted into verbose and it does the sae thing. I use the flags -v cpus=1 busratio=20 Specs: Model: Dell Studio 540 Ram:3 GB Processor:intel core 2 quad Q8200 2.33 GHZ Video Card: Nvidia Gforce 9800 GT Sound Card: Intel HDA Thanks for any help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/214077-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1437948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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