10.4.6 Native Boot Error

[jdazzle34]

Apparently this is a pretty common error, but i've been unable to solve it so far. Forgive me if this ends up being a really simple solution that i've just overlooked. Anyway, I've installed OS X using VMware to install from the 10.4.6 image. Everything went fine on the install, and I even booted the OS successfully using VMware. In installation, I installed OS X to its own IDE drive on my computer. After restarting my PC and trying to boot OS X natively, I kept getting the "Still waiting for root device". The lines above it in the log say something about looking for UUID...and then a bunch of numbers. I'm assuming that's the name for my IDE drive. I did install OS X to the physical drive using VMware and also made it independent. The root error has me stumped completely, and I'd appreciate any insight from you guys. Here are my system specs, in case they could be effecting this:

 

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mobo

Conroe e6300 cpu

1gb PC6400 RAM

7300GT nVidia gpu

Western Digital 250gb HDD (SATA) (windows install)

Western Digital 20gb HDD (IDE) (OS X installed here)

 

I've tried things like running in safe mode, using the fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 method to ensure the disk is active, etc. I've read a few comments about IDE problems, and am wondering if this is something I could solve through VMware and would then be able to boot natively. I'd appreciate any help you guys can give.

[gcs272]

Apparently this is a pretty common error, but i've been unable to solve it so far. Forgive me if this ends up being a really simple solution that i've just overlooked. Anyway, I've installed OS X using VMware to install from the 10.4.6 image. Everything went fine on the install, and I even booted the OS successfully using VMware. In installation, I installed OS X to its own IDE drive on my computer. After restarting my PC and trying to boot OS X natively, I kept getting the "Still waiting for root device". The lines above it in the log say something about looking for UUID...and then a bunch of numbers. I'm assuming that's the name for my IDE drive. I did install OS X to the physical drive using VMware and also made it independent. The root error has me stumped completely, and I'd appreciate any insight from you guys. Here are my system specs, in case they could be effecting this:

 

Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mobo

Conroe e6300 cpu

1gb PC6400 RAM

7300GT nVidia gpu

Western Digital 250gb HDD (SATA) (windows install)

Western Digital 20gb HDD (IDE) (OS X installed here)

 

I've tried things like running in safe mode, using the fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 method to ensure the disk is active, etc. I've read a few comments about IDE problems, and am wondering if this is something I could solve through VMware and would then be able to boot natively. I'd appreciate any help you guys can give.

Hey - first post, so forgive any obvious mistakes, but I ran into the same general problem. I fixed it by editing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and adding rd=disk0s1 to the <string> element under the kernel flags key. Theoretically, this should also work when initially booting (boot: -v rd=disk0s1). Of course, your actual disk may change (maybe just 'disk0' in your case).

Note that I'm not entirely sure how this will effect things as I've just (as in 5 min ago) successfully gotten into Aqua. For the record, hardware is as follows:

 

Biostar 965PT (flashed to P965 Deluxe)

Conroe 6400

2gb G.Skill ddr2 800

1x500 GB Seagate SATA2 (OSX86 + NTFS Extended)

1x250 GB Seagate SATA2 (NTFS WinXP)

1x200 GB WD IDE (Nothing)

Sapphire ATI x1900

 

Running 10.4.6 (JaS)

 

 

-Graham