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Still waiting for root device, Still waiting for root device. 3 Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:32 pm. Can i install Mac os x DP4 on PearPC? 11 Fri May 11, 2012 9:55 am. Newbie needs help. 7 Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:50 am. Windows 7 and Mac OS X Tiger, prohibitory sign on PearPC. 2 Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:05 pm. Custom Config Generator. 7 Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:49 pm. Commonly Asked Questions Q: What are the solutions to the 'Still waiting for root device' messageA: The most common solution is making your OSX drive the primary IDE. Try disconnecting all the other hard drives, make the OSX drive IDE0, using either cable-select or Master jumper settings. In Verbose mode it crashes half way, a 'no entry' icon pops up and the last text says 'Still waiting for root device'. I followed all the instructions one by one. I tried it in multiple USB drives and different ports; tried creating the installation drive with Unibeast and Terminal. This entry was posted in Hackintosh, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks and tagged IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext, Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8, Still waiting for root device by Vahan. Bookmark the permalink. 23 thoughts on “ Fix for “Still waiting for root device” on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion ”.
Hi and thanks for any help you can offer,
My Mac has been working at 10.10.2 and previous versions with a Crucial CT480M500SSD1 SSD for seven+ months until I updated to 10.10.3 (which may be coincidental). Now, I cannot boot from the drive with the eventual message 'Still waiting for root device'.
Things I've tried:
- Firstly the error I had was a grey screen with a mouse pointer I could move on it but nothing else would happen. Because I have a bluetooth keyboard I couldn't boot to safe mode or reset the PRAM directly, so I took out the SSD drive and booted to the time machine partition. From there I used e.g. nvram boot-args='-x -v' to boot to safe mode, which worked and I rebooted immediately, subsequent boots would not work at all, even to safe mode.
- Still without a USB keyboard I used the Time Machine partition (pulled the SSD out to boot to it) to reset PRAM (via boot-args), NVRAM, didn't work.
- I brought a USB keyboard home and used it to boot to TM and restore a 10.10.2 version of the SSD from before the update. Same problem. I have even restored versions from December with the same result, as above.
- I have a previous SSD laying around with Mavericks on it, it boots fine.
- I have run bless --folder /Volumes/Beep Beep/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi
Any other ideas or can anyone give an explanation of how the root device is determined and found? I've read some things about needing to have kexts that read from the drive, but it doesn't seem like
Thanks, Dan.
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OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
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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. 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/ integrated USB hub)
- Buffalo AirStation WLI2-PCI-G54S (recognized as Third Party Wireless Card)
What you may try
Unplug external USB drives and devices
Unplug other internal drives
- Instead of Rebooting:
Shutdown
and wait a couple of secs before manually turning your HackMac on again - Enable
AHCI
inBIOS
for your drives (in case you see drive icons in orange, apply kexts included with the binaries’ release of Chameleon 2) - Try to boot into
Safe Mode
with-x
(see more Darwin flags here) andRepair Permissions
from within theDisk Utility.app
- Remove the
Extensions.mkext
and rebuild it (cf. OSX86Project)myMek: rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
myMek: kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions/
myMek: kextcache -L -N -e
Mac Os X Virtualbox Still Waiting For Root Device
About our test environment
This is based on the approach to install from the original unmodified retail DVD. Buy it, please. And also go and buy a MacBook (Pro) aswell, you will need it anyway as your HackMac will need special treatments once in a while. A HackMac can never be intended for productive environment. Don’t forget this. No matter what a clone manufacturer or a USB dongle merchant says.
Anyway as we are quite conservative with running systems we don’t feel we need to change to often ways. That’s why we’re still using our own EPOS I. (download here) approach, which is based on Munky’s (more info here) findings.
Mac Os X Install Still Waiting For Root Device
Good Luck! And don’t forget to buy a Mac :-)