"still waiting for root device" error during boot

[bern]

I am trying to boot OSX from an external USB2 drive (IBM GXP60 in hard drive enclosure), but it seems I am having USB-related problems.

 

[with USB 2.0 enabled]

I get "unable to initialize UIM" and "unable to halt within 100ms" [see " with_usb2_enabled.JPG" attachment]

It then keeps on saying at approx 1 min intervals : "still waiting for root device"

 

[when disabling the USB 2.0 controller]

I get "bdevvp failed: open/invalid frame pointer" error when I boot [see "with_usb2_disabled.JPG" attachment].

 

Has anyone encoutenred this problem?

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks!

 

Bern

 

 

Athlon 64 3200+, 1Gb RAM, Asus A8V Deluxe Rev 1011, Sapphire ATI 9800 Pro, and (ironically) a 20" Apple Cinema Display

[bern]

btw, i used -v (verbose mode) to get the above screenshots, of course.

 

without -v, i get the attached. The square image in the middle appears on top of the apple logo after about a couple of minutes.

 

(i also tried safe mode + verbose -x -v but i get the same thing)

[qianjizhao]

i was have the same problem

but i have fix it now

 

my HD is a sata HD

 

you need add a extra command before ./ditto -rsrc /Volumes/Untitled /

 

try enter the following :

cp -RLv /mnt/System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext /Volumes/Untitled/System/Library/Extensions

[bern]

i  was have the same problem

but i have fix it now

 

my HD is a sata HD

 

you need add a extra command before ./ditto -rsrc /Volumes/Untitled /

 

try enter the following :

cp -RLv /mnt/System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext /Volumes/Untitled/System/Library/Extensions

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

you mean i should type that with the -v command?

[qianjizhao]

you mean i should type that with the -v command?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

no

 

on the following install guide link

http://www.xplodenet.com/?p=guide

at stage 9

 

 

cp -RLv /mnt/System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext /Volumes/Untitled/System/Library/Extensions(make sure you are add this line)

./ditto -rsrc /Volumes/Untitled / (after typing this take a little break as this will install mac on darwin may take upto 30mins)

cd ..

DiskUtil repairPermissions /

mv /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb.bad

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone (do not worry if this gives you an error)

reboot

[juuni]

here's what made me pass the 'still waiting for root device' (you can see more details in my other post here http://www.360hacker.net/forums/viewtopic....=asc&start=30):

 

- need to boot in platform=X86PC

- need to disable my IDE1 channel (got 2 HDs there, one of them being my XP bootable)

- need to have AppleTPMACPI.kext !!! --> I used to delete this, but it seems like i need to have it to fix this issue.

 

Hope that'll work for some of you as well!

[juuni]

Check out http://www.360hacker.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=173&start=45

Everything is working fine for me now.

 

That should be the case for anyone with an nForce3 mobo I would think.

[bern]

Thanks for all your replies.

 

I started by trying to vary the root device boot parameter - rd=diskXsY, and got different messages with different combinations of X and Y.

 

Something different happened with rd=disk2s1 (probably because the external drive on which I have the image is registered as the 3rd disk, with disk0 and disk1 being the other HDD's I have.) I could see "got boot device" followed by the name of the hard drive "IC35L060" [as in attachment]. This is the same error I got when I had disabled USB2, probably because darwin did recognise my disk automatically on USB1.

 

This time ,as you can see, it threw a panic error message ("bdevvp failed: open").

 

Is anyone familiar with this message? Could anyone tell me if this really means I got through the "still waiting for boot device problem"?

 

Bern

[asdorel]

Yes, you got past the root device error. I got past it too by using rd=disk0s1, however now I'm stuck with the same exact error that you have got: kdp_poll: no debugger device.

 

I wonder what's causing this.

[qianjizhao]

Yes, you got past the root device error. I got past it too by using rd=disk0s1, however now I'm stuck with the same exact error that you have got: kdp_poll: no debugger device.

 

I wonder what's causing this.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

i was got it before

but i forgot how to fix it

[bern]

Yes, you got past the root device error. I got past it too by using rd=disk0s1, however now I'm stuck with the same exact error that you have got: kdp_poll: no debugger device.

 

I wonder what's causing this.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

i believe "kdp_poll: no debugger device." comes up whenever you have a panic error. The real error message is "bdevvp failed: open" as you can see from my photo. Did you also get that message?

 

bern

[tomtom]

got the same error as Bern - any solution?

[Guest timepassx]

(I'm not "timepassx", just using a BugMeNot Account.)

 

Are you using a USB HD to boot? I got the same error and people on other boards claim that you can't use some USB disks to boot off from. I'll try to install the image on my built-in HD.