Waiting For Root Device Mac

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Long time no see to this old friend called 'Still waiting for root device'. But with 10.5.7 the time had come again. Synology ip camera license keygen. As some of the tipps we compiled below helped us there is no warranty that it will help you. As the reasons for this funky brother are too indifferent. Used Hardware Gigabyte GA EP35 DS3 Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 7600 GT 256MB (Device ID 0x0391) HP w2207 TFT (w/ integra. The Mac Mini's HD will be mounted as an external HD in the non-corrupted computer. Find and save your valuable data. Afterwards, making a Clean Install is the usual and fastest way of solving this issue. 'Still waiting for root device' on a macbook pro mid 2009 with osx 10.11.6.

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A major problem preventing lots of users from using OSX86 on their pc.

[edit] nForce SATA

[edit] No detection of SATA at boot in nForce3 once MacOS 10.4.6 is installed

After installing OS X 10.4.6 native with VMware with any of the method listed in the installation guides, the first boot was OK, configure the OSX with keyboard, personal info, etc..But when you turn it off and on again, it freezes in the holy 'Still waiting for root device'.My solution was, start OSX with the -v -x flags, for my surprise it recognize the SATA disk and start in safe mode. Then i went to Terminal, entered as root and typed the following..(extracted from 'AppleVIAATA.kext' Method)

Then rebooted and everything worked fine..

Seems like reloading the extensions cause OSX load the SATA driver correctly at boot. If someone know why, you are welcome :) .reply for why does this happen-----when i was installing osx with windows installed,i by mistakely deleted the windows partition which became in red coloured text...i thin something important file was deleted ...

[edit] You can use chroot to run this from the installer disc

Note that you can operate on an already-installed copy of Mac OS X from the install disc by accessing the Terminal utility. kextcache will crash, however, as it doesnt have write access to /tmp (as its mounted to a location on the read-only optical disc). You can work around this by running another instance of bash inside of chroot.. type chroot /Volumes/MyOSXInstall bash and the new bash shell will have a root path set to the root path of your installed volume. kextcache will work correctly. . .

Mac Still Waiting For Root Device

[edit] Other Problems

Still Waiting For Root Device Mac

Likely problems:
SATA
Hard drive not set as Primary Master
Incompatible hardware
CMOS Checksum Bad Error

Solutions:
'AppleVIAATA.kext' Method
Make Hard drive Primary Master hd 1
If you are using a SATA disk, make sure it is set for IDE legacy mode in the PC BIOS and not 'enhanced'
Get a IDE Hard Disk(you can attach the IDE hard disk, but still install the OS on the SATA drive. It just helps to get past the 'still waiting for root device error'.)
If accompanied by a CMOS checksum bad error at boot, reload BIOS optimised defaults, change to AHCI and HPET to 64-bit mode.(Post them if it is not listed)
Unplug all drives from the motherboard (CD/DVD) except the install drive and install via a USB DVD drive. It seems that OSX86 tries to install to a DVD drive on occasion. This worked for me on 7 different machines with this issue. You may reconnect after the install.

Ive managed to install all of the drivers except one and I cant identify the one I need. In device manager under 'Other Devices' it says 'Base System Device' with the yellow exclamation mark, but neither Windows Update nor Vaio Care/Update have helped. Windows 10 drivers for sony vaio download. Download and Installation Instructions. Download the EP.exe file to a directory on your computer, and make note of this directory for reference.; Go to the directory where the file was downloaded and double-click the EP.exe file to begin the installation.; At the User Account Control screen, click Yes.; At the Please wait while Windows configures VAIO Care screen, please. VJZ13B., VJZ131. 'Realtek Card Reader Driver Ver. 10.0.6 (for Windows 10) update program VJZ13B., VJZ131. 'Intel (R) Wireless LAN Driver Ver. 19.2.0.1 (For Windows 10.

BootLoader
Sometimes the version of the BootLoader is too old or too buggy that it can't detect the Hard-diskso Try to update the boot loader version manually voodooprojects.org
or using any Automatic Tool Like 'Chameleon Wizard' or 'Champlist'

Disscussions:
OSX86 Forum
OSX86 Wiki
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p.s. if you have the problem don't cry, there are a lot of things that cause this problem. Many of us out there are also experiencing this problem. . . .