Mantrid Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 First, some backstory on my sad, sad tale. I tried installing JaS 10.4.8 on my Toshiba Satellite A130-ST1313, but it wouldn't recognize my laptop's hard drive. Uphuck 10.4.9 would, but it wouldn't boot after I installed it, but it could at least see the hard drive. (JaS 10.4.7 didn't work on my system). So I hook up an external hard drive (via USB) and install it like that, just to make sure my hardware could actually run OS X. This works. I then boot up uphuck 10.4.9, and do a disk restore onto the OS X partition of my laptop hard drive. I attempt to boot OS X (using the Windows Vista bootloader and chain0), but it still stops at "Still waiting for root". I have tried all the different boot flags on the Technical FAQ of the OSx86 wiki. My drive is partitioned as follows: 1.5 GB unpartitioned space (this is where the Toshiba Tools partition was), 48 GB NTFS (Windows Vista), and finally 6 GB HFS+ (OS X). Suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58745-still-waiting-for-root/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
boinkytwo Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 make the osx drive active and try if it will boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58745-still-waiting-for-root/#findComment-419306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitan Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 actually, what is the kosher way of setting a drive active. I put my drives active by flagging them bootable in gparted. I assume it is the same thing as being active (b/c qtparted flags my bootable drive as "active"), but maybe I am wrong? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58745-still-waiting-for-root/#findComment-419434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantrid Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 make the osx drive active and try if it will boot. Nope, no dice. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58745-still-waiting-for-root/#findComment-419600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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