Eleo Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Yeah I had the same problem. I installed via vmware fine, but when I reboot I once again get the gray apple screen endlessly. This made sense when I was merely trying to install natively, I figured that the installation process could not see or was having trouble reaching my (SATA) hard drive. But the fact that I installed via vmware and then rebooted natively and the "Still waiting for root device" problem persisted... Well, that's baffling. Obviously for the gray apple logo to start up, that means that some data on the partition I installed OSX is being accessed, right? So now what's stopping the OS from just loading? The only thing I can think of is this: In vmware, you set your IDE hard drive as device (0:0) or something, while your CD-Rom is (1:0), am I right? At least on my computer, when I go to the Bios setup, it seems like my DVD drives are listed above my hard drives, and there's no way to change this. My DVD drives are on the same IDE Channel, while my hard drive is SATA. This could mean that my DVD drives are ordered (0:0) and (0:1), while my hard drive (being listed as secondary channel in the bios) would be (1:0). This is all conjecture though. I'm just trying to make the most educated guess as possible. Either OS X doesn't like the hard drive in (1:0) because it's not set up to install that way, or because when I installed it via vmware it is told my hard drive is in the (0:0) position and OSX no longer sees it there when I boot natively. Well that's all I know. I personally have given up on installing this. Not only has it been two days of frustration, but I don't like the idea of running OSX in a hackish state anyway, where nothing is guaranteed to work. I hope sometime in the future Apple just releases an official version of this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-231124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don456 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I got the same Problem with my system. "still waitinf for root device". At the moment I have no idea for a solution. Even vmware isn't able to boot. Does anyone have a idea to solve the Problem? In addition I would like to know how I can change the Kernel? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-235031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
anibalin Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 same here boys. e6400 and asus p5ld2-se , tried pata and sata. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-236111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheels2040 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 on my Gigabyte DQ6, the only way I could get it to boot the DVD is to get an SATA to IDE adapter for the DVD drive, plug the DVD drive into one of the ICH8 SATA ports, plug the SATA hard drive into one of the ICH8 SATA ports, and in the BIOS, set the ports to AHCI. It boots slower than molasses, but it does boot. Once it boots, the install seems to go at a fairly decent speed. Hope this helps somebody. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-236127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandiztxu Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Same problem here too, I will try tomorrow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-236288 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehkain Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I am having the same issue with "still waiting for root device". Would this have anything to do with using a nforce board with Sata hooked up but not going to be used(i will be installing on my IDE drive)? Also I tried Vmware but got the /com.apple.boot.plist error and I dont know how I would go about stopping that from happening. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-237918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo971 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 hi ! try this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=31409&hl= if it doesn't work search trough the Genius bar. There is a lot of informations about the "Still waiting for root device" http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=17421&hl= http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...ic=7283&hl= Try to connect your IDE hd in primary ide slot and DVD in the same cable in slave Burn your DVD in slow speed Check if your IDE cable is a 52 pins cable. (generaly CDROM cable have 40 ) Check out this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...;hl=root+device bye Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-238023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 HELLO...iam getting this still waiting for root device device error..i read in articles in here that its a jumper issue...but its not...all my jumpers are set correct...im currently installing osx on a pentium 4..2.8ghz 1.5ghz ram.....motherboard is ASUSp4v8x-x..the installation went through just fine...but when it boots up after installation is comes up with still waiting for boot device in verbose mode...you HAVE ANY IDEA?? HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SHINO Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-280968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrepazleal Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Im havin too the same error have done all theres possible, have tried change the jumpers, change the cable, set the sata drive to compatibly, but nothing works if theres a light in the end, come on experts try fix that for us, i think that this and other threads must be in the attention of those guys, my cpiu, p4 531, d101ggc intel, hd 160 sata maxtor... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-285502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrepazleal Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 just to count, my hdd is a sata not a ide... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-285510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomoir_III Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Hey guys, I'm still getting the "still waiting for root device" message during installation. Now, first I had these messages about some kinda USB problem during the installation, and then it said "still waiting for root device". I unplugged all my USB devices, including my USB mouse, and all the USB warning were gone from installation, and it went straight to "still waiting for root device" repeating that message about every 2 minutes. I'm really lost and I can't find any help anywhere online. I've also tried -v and -x to no avail. I also tried "platform=x86pc" and "platform=acpi" and still no improvement. I'm using JaS's OSx86 10.4.6 from the Pirate Bay. One possible problem could be that when the Torrent finished (BTW, I'm using Fedora Core 6 (linux) and used the bittorent-gui for the torrent), I got some message about how the file didn't hashish, er, hash properly. This is probably the cause but at 20KB/second, I'm not very excited about redownloading a 4.3GB DVD image. Before installing, put in a new HD(let's call it HDX), created a Linux partition over the whole HDX, shut down, took out my system HD (with linux and everything) and started the OSx86 installation. So basically I'm installing OSx86 on a completely new HD. Oh, and before all that, I tried installing it on a non-partitioned HDX with all of its space unpartitioned, and still got "still waiting for root device". Now I must stress this point, I'm getting "still waiting for root device" during installation. Any help would greatly be appreciated, and one last final note to make sure you people don't think I'm a stiffly stifferson; I can't believe it's not a hyperlink! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-287651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddax2 Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 HELLO...iam getting this "still waiting for root device" I've installed uphuck 10.4.9 v1.4i r2 from VMware in Windows XP on my real hdd partition. I wrote this post from Mac OSX this is amazing... system so fast. Try it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-715053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huy Ngo Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I meet the same problem with Leo, I use ideneb 10.5.7 for hp dv5 P8400. Could you please help me to fix it Thanks ! I have the same problem. People keep telling me to use various procedures during installation but I don't get to install anything.. Here's what happens: 1. I put the DVD (JaS's 10.4.8 iso) in the master DVD drive. 2. I reboot 3. If I don't enter "-v" I get the gray apple screen; after a while I get the circle-with-a-slash-through it like in XP1's post. If I did use "-v" I eventually get "Still waiting for root device." Again, this is BEFORE ANYTHING IS INSTALLED. I have already made a partition for OS X and it is FAT32 and it is a primary partition. I even tried setting it as the active partition before trying to install. Nothing has worked so far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32290-1048-still-waiting-for-root-device/page/2/#findComment-1439348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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