homers Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Hi I have Mac OS X 10.4.8 JAS version DVD. I have a S-ATA II 320GB HD with 2 partitions on with Vista and one with nothing. I have 2 IDE DVD Drives and one brand new Lite on SATA DVDRW Drive. Before I recieved my new optical drive(the SATA one) I had the problem 'Still waiting for root device' when I booted into my DVD. I read that this occured when you Hard drive and your DVD drive were not on the same channel or something like that. As a result I bought this S-ATA DVD drive and connected it to S-aTA channel 2 and my Hard Drive on Channel 1. I booted into me DVD and the same problem occurs. I un plugged all my IDE devices and then had my SATA DVD drive connected to S-ATA channel 1 and the HD connected to channel 2 and the 'Still waiting for root device' error occurs. What can I possibly do to boot into this DVD? Here is a photo of my diagnostics screen: Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Oh and the DVD boots fine on my other Dell computer so it is not the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 try disconnecting all PATA devices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 Is that my other DVD Drives that are not SATA. If so I have already done that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I would say only have your SATA hard drive and SATA DVD drive connected. Disconnect whatever other drives there may be. I had this problem and it fixed it for me. Your situation may be different though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 I have done that and it did not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 is this a dell? if so, VMWare is probably the fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 It is a custom build. The DVD works on my Dell but that has a poor spec and has no Internet access. I need it on my main build. My Spec is: CPU - Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo GPU - NVidia EN8800GTX M/board - ABIT IB9 Sound card - Creative X-FI X-Treme Music DVD DRIVES - 1. Sony DVD-ROM IDE 2. Pioneer DVD RW IDE 3. Lite-on DVD RW S-ATA HDD - Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB HDD 2 - Maxtor 160GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Can anyone help? I tried it on my Dell Computer and it has installed ok but when I try and boot all I get is a "-" that keeps blinking. Can you help with that aswell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Hi Ok I have had this problem with this PC for about 5 months. I think I might give up on this PC + Mac. I have OS X installed on my Dell GX260 but when I power the PC it just displays that blinking line "-". It ran 10.4.6 ok but not 10.4.8. What Can I do to fix that. If I get it working would it be good at running OS X. Would it be just as powerful as some of Apples new macs out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Hello??? Someone must be able to help me with this blinking line problem??? I have re-intalled but the same happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Can no one help???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted June 30, 2007 Author Share Posted June 30, 2007 Anyone????????????????????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure360 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 I am having the same problem with my Dell 9200. I just cannot get past the "Still waiting for root device" error which constantly appears. I have done everything in the guides correctly, so I don't know what to do now:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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