lateralusman Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I'm getting the Still Waiting For Root Drive message when trying to install the v10.4.8 JAS AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 incl. PPF1. EDIT: REMOVED screenshot see Post #5 My specs as follows: AMD ATHLON X2 6000+ Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H Patriot 2x1GB PC6400 DDR2-800 Ati Connect3D Radeon X1900GT Creative Audigy 2ZS Pro Light-On 18X DVD Burner SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB SATA 16MB Seagate Barracuda 80GB ATA/100 8MB I've read that 10.4.8 JAS is a good place to start for noobs...so we'll see. Been trying to get this working for three days and I've spent hours on this forum... Any help would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 That is actually very strange because i get that message however eventually it moves on and my device reacts... a good idea might be to check your settings that VMware isn't blocking out the drive by chance... It might also be a good idea to get Mac OS X JaS 10.4.8 with PPF2 as well.. Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 How could VMWare be blocking the drive if Windows isn't even booted up? Maybe I should clarify that I'm trying to boot from the ISO not trying to install via VMWare. I've already installed JaS 10.4.8 on VMWare and it installed okay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycar Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 "IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device...etc" seems to me that its having issues with your external USB DVD drive. I assume you are using an external DVD Drive? Perhaps trying another version such as 10.4.9 (Uphuck 1.3) will give you more luck. If you can get your hands on another DVD drive, that would be a good idea to test with too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Opps actually thats my printer that was on USB. I've attached a new pic when the printer isn't hooked up. yes I do have an IDE dvd drive although it's at a friends house... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reveeen Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I have a ASUS board here with a ATI/AMD chipset that behaves in the same way. What is going on is the installer looses the IDE controller. As to why, I don't have a clue, maybe a conflict with another device/driver, maybe simply plain incompatable chipset. While "fooling" with mine I discovered that it will boot a "vanilla" pre-install I had on a hardrive, so my solution is going to be a "specific" install on another computer, and swapping the drive over after install, but before final boot. I'm sorry I can't be of more help, maybe digging around on the main page with your specific chipset/install version will be of some benefit, maybe searching the forum for NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP installs will help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludvig M Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Try Tubgirls 10.4.10, it worked for me. I hade exactly same problem before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Reveeen what exactly do you mean by "specific" ? And thanks caapz I'll try that if I can find it on rapidshare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Update: I've downloaded and tried the upchuck 10.4.9 Universal Dvd v1.3 iso as per happycar's suggestion and I still get the same Still Waiting For Root Device. (See attachment) I've enclosed some screenshots of my Bios settings too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lag0matic Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 The only time I've ever gotten "Still waiting on root device" was when I had an IDE dvd rom that was not set to master drive. I had to set the hard drive to primary master, and the dvd to secondary master. I see you have both SATA drives and IDE devices in the system. I would suggest trying an IDE DVD drive, instead of a SATA drive. Also, try the tubgirl 10.4.10 or the Zephyroth 10.5.1 release. Both of thoes seem to be a bit newer than what you are using, and will probally support a wider range of hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 I figured the SATA dvd drive was giving me problems! I'll get my old IDE drive. I'll try Tubgirl 10.4.10 also. Thanks lag0matic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuc_byron Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I fixed the same prob on my computer! Because OSX86 is always a complicated issue, I'll explain it with details. I have to hard disks. One is SATA 160G, the other is IDE 6G. And my Windows is on the SATA one I set the IDE disk a slave. So my system would automatically boot into Windows Then I installed JaS 10.4.8 on the IDE disk by vmware. I could boot in the system in vmware, but I got your prob when I restarted and booted into my IDE disk. I thought the prob is caused by vmware. In vmware my IDE disk is a master disk, without the SATA one. But when I rebooted the IDE disk was actually a slave, so Darwin couldn't find the master IDE disk......So it kept saying "Still waiting for root device" Then I just set my IDE as a master disk by jumper, I got the guide of jumper on the surface of the disk. Then I booted into Mac OS~~~but It's even slower than the one in my vmware....I think JaS 10.4.8 doesn't contain a good IDE driver. I'm trying to install JaS 10.4.8 onto my SATA disk now ~~~ It's harder but I'll try my best~~~ Good luck to all you guys~~~nothing is impossible~~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Thanks! Actually I got it to boot I tried my IDE dvd drive and it boots to the mac language install screen, but my mouse and keyboard don't work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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