Jonny202003 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 for some reason every time i hook up my sata hardrive and try to install the software, it freezes at the bsd subsystem software or whatever, so what i did was hook up the sata drive to my usb port using an adaptor, and it installed fine. But now im having a different issue, i get the darwin osx86 screen then it boots with all the text, etc. and it just keeps saying "Still waiting for root device", i havent gotten to enter my info or anything yet. Im using the jaS 10.4.8 AMD intel sse2 sse3 software. One thing i dont understand is how to do the thing at the end of the install, it says "Installing JaS 10.4.8 AMD SSE2/SSE3 With Semthex's 8.8.1 Kernel. After the install press f* (im guessing it means f8) and at the prompt type -v -s and at the next prompt type ./patcher 10.4.8.AMD.CPUID.txt" I dont know if thats what i have to do to fix it, so thats why im here. heres my system info, using CPU-Z Processors Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Processor 1 (ID = 0) Number of cores 1 (max 1) Number of threads 1 (max 1) Name AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Codename Venice Specification AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3800+ Package Socket 939 CPUID F.F.0 Extended CPUID F.2F Brand ID 4 Core Stepping DH-E3 Technology 90 nm Core Speed 2412.5 MHz (12.0 x 201.0 MHz) HT Link speed 1005.2 MHz Stock frequency 2400 MHz Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Chipset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Northbridge NVIDIA nForce4 rev. A3 Southbridge NVIDIA nForce4 MCP rev. A3 Graphic Interface PCI-Express PCI-E Link Width x16 PCI-E Max Link Width x16 Memory Type DDR Memory Size 2048 MBytes Channels Dual Memory Frequency 201.0 MHz (CPU/12) CAS# 2.5 RAS# to CAS# 3 RAS# Precharge 3 Cycle Time (tRAS) 5 Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 11 DRAM Idle Timer 16 Command Rate 2T Video card is a GTX 7800 nVidia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny202003 Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 I forgot to mention, the hardrive im trying install it on is a western digital 80gb. Could someone possibly tell me if a different release would produce different results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
121fred Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hey Jonny I'm getting the same Still waiting for root device message trying to install brazilmac 10.5. Come on guys there must be an answer to this thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 @search the forum b4 you ask should be the problem of the order of your drive, make your hfs+ partition's jumper master Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny202003 Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 what should i search for? Cause i cant find anything related to my problem using the search feature. I've spent 3 days wasted on this problem, at least tell me what to search for or link me to a guide on how to change the jumper master. Would it be easier to just get an IDE hardrive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ongeloof Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 never had this problem, but i do now... Think Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 i think just search "still waiting for boot device" would help, cus i have seen many ppl have asked about this type of questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob356 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Try this Attempt 1: "-x" Attempt 2: "-F mach_kernel -v" other than that, I don't know Best of Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny202003 Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 Try thisAttempt 1: "-x" Attempt 2: "-F mach_kernel -v" other than that, I don't know Best of Luck! what i did is, I bought an IDE hardrive and it gets past that "still waiting for root device" message, but now i get what looks like a kernel panic message :/ But i can boot into osx by use safe boot ( typing -x) , but i want to get rid of that kernel panic thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny202003 Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 heres a pic of what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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