Still Waiting For Root Device After Installation

[ThunderKICK]

Hi guys! I Have a problem with any version of Leopard. After successful installation my OS X not boot! Тhe last line with error "still waiting for root device" I have a 3 partitions. In First is a Windows XP i need it! In second is HFS+ Journaled with MAC OS X. In Third is my MEDIA-All my data is in him.

 

After any MAC OS X Installation,Windows is booting directly! And I'm forced to use Empire EFI to run with OS X Partition! I Run It,But Not Boot ? Display: Still waiting for root device

 

sorry for my bad English but I am from Bulgaria

 

what may be the main reason for this problem?

 

Here are some pictures of my hardware:

 

HP D530 Desktop PC

 

Processor: Intel Celeron 2.00 GH/Z SSE,SSE2 Instructions

Video: Ati Radeon 9600 256MB

RAM: 1256MB

HDD: 80GB

 

This is screenshots from Everest!

 

1:Device Manager

2:Motherboard

3:Chipset1

4:Chipset2

5:Chipset3

6:Video

7:Processor

8:Memory

9:BIOS

[MaLd0n]

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

[ThunderKICK]

With "XxX OS x86 10.4.11 Install Disc Rev2" - I don't have problem with installation and launch and worked fine! But I want to install Leopard now,it's pretty good!