'Still waiting for root device'. When booting from USB means that there is a problem finding a valid System folder to start up from on your USB flash drive. This is usually because the flash drive is in a USB3 port. If this is the case move it to a USB2 port, if it is already in a USB2 port move it to another and try again. Dec 13, 2015 I am stuck in the installation of Yosemite 10.10.1 on a HP Elitebook 8560p, after booting into the Yosemite Zone installation. After loading the voodooPS2 trackpad kext there comes a respons with No interval found for. Using 800000, after a while the line Still waiting for root device shows up w.
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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 installedSnow Leopard Still Waiting For Root Device
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. . .
![]() [edit] Other Problems
Likely problems:
SATA Hard drive not set as Primary Master Incompatible hardware CMOS Checksum Bad Error
Jul 08, 2011 How to Create a Bootable Mac OS X Lion Installation USB Drive. We’re going to assume you already have Mac OS X Lion downloaded from the App Store, if you don’t, do that first. If you have anything stored on the USB flash drive you’re going to lose it, so be prepared for that and back it up. Mar 30, 2020 Starting with OS X Lion, Apple did away with DVDs and other media as a method of installing software and switched to a download model instead.Even so, it's still easy to create a USB installation disk for OS X Lion if you want to install Lion on a freshly formatted hard drive, if you're in an emergency booting situation, or if you need to repair your Mac's hard drive. To create an Apple Mountain Lion bootable USB Installation you will need PowerISO and an Apple OS X installation in ISO format. Download And install PowerISO; Create a Mountain Lion bootable USB installation. Open PowerISO and continue unregistered. Click on the Tools Menu and select “Create Bootable USB Drive” Select Source image file. How to create bootable usb for mac os x lion. Mar 12, 2020 After creating the bootable installer, follow these steps to use it: Plug the bootable installer into a compatible Mac. Use Startup Manager or Startup Disk preferences to select the bootable installer as the startup disk, then start up from it. Your Mac will start up to macOS Recovery.
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.
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' Mac Os X Install Still Waiting For Root Device
Disscussions:
OSX86 Forum OSX86 Wiki 7 single lines
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. . . .
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