Still Waiting for Root Device.

[Marc Connor]

"Still Waiting for Root Device."

I get this when Installing.

Please help. (It shows a "NO" icon)

[gwprod12]

Did you do a search? (this question has been answered as many times as I have cells)

[x4v]

then can someone enlighten us? maybe with a sticky? I'm having the same problem and can't find a satisfactory answer amongst all the other threads which carry mention of the issue but no solution...

[gwprod12]

the first thing you have to do is determine if your hard drive is primary master, and your CDRom primary slave.

[Rammjet]

Waiting root device means that the system is being confused about where the boot drive is. If you have extra external drives plugged in, unplug them. If you have a flash drive plugged in, unplug it. Make the drive system as simple as possible - only the target hard drive and the source DVD drive. Disconnect all others. SATA can also be a problem. And as gwprod12 said, make the hard drive primary master and the DVD drive primary slave.

[thatcrazylaxdude]

I always get this when I install on my laptop. to get around it, i threw a dvd burner in a usb external enclosure i have, let the system boot until the "waiting for root device" message to show, then eject the dvd, but it in the external drive, and viola! I am unaware why this happens to me, I am assuming it is either my internal drive, or my chipset, but i am willing to bet it is my chipset.