zorro23 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 I had 3 hard disks in hackintosh with 10.7.4 installed. It was working OK since 10.7. One of hard disk was dying (S.M.A.R.T. failure). This one wasn't with 10.7.4 installed on it. I took it out. After that computer can't boot. In verbose booting I see message "Still waiting for root device". Help, how can I fix it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280550-removed-one-hard-disk-now-i-got-message-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 sounds like removing drive changed the BSD naming order. try booting using rd=diskxsy where x=OSX disk # and y=OSX partition #, as to what those numbers are, disk will be 0 or 1 and partition is probably 1 or 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280550-removed-one-hard-disk-now-i-got-message-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1833274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorro23 Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 I have tried tried leaving only this hard drive, and also booting with rd=disk0s1 through rd=disk2s2 options, but it doesn't help. All lines in verbose mode while loading kexts are begining with: Reading HFS+ file: [hd(0,2)/System/Library.... And two last lines in verbose mode are: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: E23C68BF-5F68-3568-BRE7-4317E7ADE4D5 Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string></key>IOResourcesMatch</key></string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280550-removed-one-hard-disk-now-i-got-message-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1833705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 add -f too rd=disk0s2 -f u can also try alt syntax rd=/dev/diskXsY Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280550-removed-one-hard-disk-now-i-got-message-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1833707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorro23 Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Doesn't help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280550-removed-one-hard-disk-now-i-got-message-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1833749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorro23 Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 I solved it. It had to do something with boot flag. I used GParted-live cd to boot, and it showed that first partition /dev/sda1/ has bootable flag, but there was also warning sign with message that it is can't be mounted - no such file or directory (it is 200MB FAT32 partition). I turned off/on boot flag and after that that partition became readable. After reset hackintosh booted up OK. Thanks anyway eep357 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280550-removed-one-hard-disk-now-i-got-message-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-1833825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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