Whitefang Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Upon trying to boot from the DVD IDeneb 10.5.8 on my system below I get the still waiting for root device. I have successfully installed this one my newer machine with all Sata HD and DVD with enabling the AHCI option in bios. Here's my PC specs ECS MCP61PM-AM 2GB DDR2 ram Geforce 7500 LE Amd athlon 5400+ 2.6 ghz Here's what I've tried. 1. 3 different HD's (All IDE, don't have any Sata) 2. 3 different DVD's (1 Sata 2 IDE) 3. ALL jumper configurations + Cable select options. And I mean ALL. 4. I have tried S.M.A.R.T option in bios and booting with rd-disk0s1 and cpus=1, no luck. Please help, I'm desperate! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224272-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 You'll see "Still waiting for root device" when OS X can't talk to your drive controller, either because you haven't installed the right driver for it, because your PATA drives are jumpered/cabled wrong, your drives are attached to an unsupported controller (then you're out of luck), or SATA is not set to AHCI mode in the BIOS. Most modern motherboards have a secondary SATA controller from JMicron, Silicon Image or Marvell. The SATA ports of the secondary controller are normally colored differently (white or orange) than those of the primary controller (usually red). Check your motherboard manual to see which ports belong to which controller. There are drivers for OS X for the most common secondary controllers, but the main controller (Intel ICHx or Nvidia nForce) is usually the more compatible since Apple use Intel ICHx and nForce as well. If you have problems with drives not being recognized, either plug them into a port on the main drive controller, or find and install drivers for the "off-chipset" drive controller. For PATA (IDE) drives, try a different jumper setting and/or cable position, and make sure you're using 80 conductor cables. If you have two IDE ports, put each device at the end of it's own cable and jumper it as master device. There's very limited support for PATA drives in OS X (IIRC no modern Macs have PATA devices?) so you'll probably need a community provided driver to get your PATA drives running. Again Intel and Nvidia are the easiest to get working. The Chameleon bootloader official download includes some injector or "legacy" kexts for many common PATA and SATA controllers. If your board has a Marvell 6xxx controller, you need AppleVIAATA or SuperVIAATA.kext. There are also nForceATA and ATIATA kexts out there. Older Intel boards with ICH5 might need a patched AppleIntelPIIATA.kext. Intel ICHx or nForce SATA controllers in AHCI mode (set in the BIOS) are the most compatible and easiest to get working. Gringo Vermelho Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224272-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1506894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 I only have one IDE spot on my motherboard and it's blue. My motherboard supports Sata (4 sata connectors) So it only has one IDE connector on the motherboard. I don't have AHCI in my bios. I've noticed that if I connect both the IDE HDD and the IDE dvd and put them both as master the PC fails to do anything. the welcome screen (Press F2 to go into bios or F10 to go to boot menu) Are the only options I see and they don't work. The PC hangs there forever. I have managed to get the HDD as master and the DVD as master using a SATA DVD rom and using cable select (Using jumpers still fails) and connecting the Primary cable to the HDD. but the boot still hangs at waiting for root device. Guess I'm really out of luck, so my only option is to get a Sata Hard drive? This is a stupid question, but do you have to have a previous install of windows / mac to get a bootloader before trying to install IDeneb? My hard drive is completely formatted and clean. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224272-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1506909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/dua...-os-x-snow.html [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] / [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] not work for amd just follow the dual boot tutorial try with SATA HD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224272-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1506940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arifpaan Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 try booting with busratio=13 or busratio=20 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224272-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1506951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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