pkmgarf Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Well, I've begun my quest for OSx86. I have my drive partitioned and Vista Ultimate and OS X installed. If Vista is marked as the active partition it boots fine. However, if I try to boot OS X, I get the wonderful error message below. Here are the specs of my laptop: Toshiba C2D (T7300), ATI HD2400 (128mb), 2gb RAM. Sorry for the bad picture quality, it was done with my cell phone. Help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61580-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrus02 Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 This error is caused of the installer cannot find or recognize the boot device (DVD drive) you use to install OSx86... There is another way to install by using VMWare Native installation... but you gonna need Windows to do that... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61580-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-436869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkmgarf Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 However, the installer for OS X ran and installed it to the second partition (HFS+). This error comes up when I try to boot into the install (with OS X's partition marked as "active"). I know I read about SATA drives being a problem (which my HD is), but it's in a laptop, so there is no way around that. Disk Utility (when I boot off of the DVD) recognizes the hard drive and sees both partitions. Also, when you click on "info" it says that the partition that OS X is on is bootable.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61580-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-437008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gedebukk Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I had this problem before, the solution for my problem was to set my IDE harddrive (with OSX installed) to master, and my cd/dvd-rw to slave. Might give it a try? Edit: Forget about it, since you got an laptop it'll probably be quit difficult to change the master/slave setting. Anyway, I forgot that you aren't able to select such things with SATA-drives. Btw. I solved another problem on my laptop by setting a BIOS setting named SATA-support (can't remember the exact name) to IDE (instead of SATA). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61580-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-437142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkmgarf Posted August 29, 2007 Author Share Posted August 29, 2007 ^^^No such setting in my BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61580-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-437492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xdeadbeef Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Have you installed the Intel ICH chipset drivers? I dunno if your laptop uses them, but I have a Toshiba P200 and it does. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61580-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-449274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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