bern Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bern Posted August 20, 2005 Author Share Posted August 20, 2005 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) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qianjizhao Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bern Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 i was have the same problembut 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qianjizhao Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
juuni Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4829 Share on other sites More sharing options...
juuni Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bern Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdorel Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qianjizhao Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bern Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-4911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtom Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 got the same error as Bern - any solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-10755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest timepassx Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 (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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/692-still-waiting-for-root-device-error-during-boot/#findComment-18624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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