"Still waiting for root device" Cant launch installer

[sweebez]

How would i go about disabling the SATA ports?
I use a SATA drive to boot XP and an IDE drive to boot OSX.
Will disabling the SATA ports essentially disable my XP drive?
Is there a way around that?

[eddie11c]

Yes disable the XP drive while you install and get OSX up and running. Once you get everything setup you can turn your XP drive back on.

[christurner]

[cite] eddie11c:[/cite] [cite] christurner:[/cite]ok, great. How do I know what chipset I have? with CPU-Z? if all i have to do is install a newer version of AppleNForceATA.kext then why did Zeph just not update it in the image that he sent out himeslf.... Zephyroth has made his install as universal as he could, but there is no way of adding every single combination of hardware. By looking at your motherboard info, yours should be supported as your vendor ID 03f610de is included in his AppleNforceATA.kext. Try disabling any extra SATA and IDE ports you don't need for the installation.

understandable i was not trying to be rude, i just thought that it was something he forgot to do... but i guess not.

so, i did this what the "known Issues site" said to do, still unable to load (O with \), also tried with the original disc per disabling drivers not needed. it still did not work

took a photo of the error (see pic)

and the code it spits is
It says that at first it finds the drive and that it is a SATA - MCP 61

AppleNForceATA: found 1 units.
then
(CMD 0x9f0, CTR 0xbf0, IRQ 23, BM 0xec00)
(CMD 0x9f0, CTR 0xbf0, IRQ 23, BM 0xec08)
then
Still waiting for root devices

have anything else for me to try?

[nfinity]

[cite] pokertamz:[/cite]I Inserted the DVD, and pressed enter to install. But it just says, "Still waiting for root device"? ... Thanks

I had "Still waiting for Root device until i swapped my SATA DVD-ROM for a IDE one, Connected to Primary Master,
Disabled the second IDE Controller aswell as the Secondary Device on Primary IDE and I am Using a 500GB SATA HDD,
connected to SATA Master 1. The Other SATA Ports are disabled. Setup is now running, Disk Utility Shows my 500GB
SATA Harddisk and now i'm about to continue installation... We'll see if it works out at the end.

So in fact, the Problem seems to come from the Drive containing the Source Disk, as it says, waiting for root device, imo
the root device during a setup process is the disc drive, therefore the NforceATA Driver seems to cause the problems.

Weird thing tho that the Harddrive works connected to SATA but not the DVD.

Well i anyways prefer swapping of DVD Drives then cloning discs or whatever

Hope this helps


Keep up the great work Zeph!

[Protocol82]

What people forget is we all dont have spare ide dvd drives lying about. Ive only got my Plextor sata one which cost me a fortune. There is NO physical way I can plug anything IDE in my computer.
Im having the exact same problem waiting for root device, but the above linked wiki didnt help because I dont have a clue what a kext is and where to put the commands it states.

[cgsheen]

[cite] Protocol82:[/cite]What people forget is we all dont have spare ide dvd drives lying about. Ive only got my Plextor sata one which cost me a fortune. There is NO physical way I can plug anything IDE in my computer. Im having the exact same problem waiting for root device, but the above linked wiki didnt help because I dont have a clue what a kext is and where to put the commands it states.

I don't think most forget (or fail to realize) that not everyone has extra hardware and/or spare computers... But what you need to realize is that: if that's YOUR situation, YOU are going to have to put in EXTRA time and effort learning to make things work (or at least those things that WILL work).

OSx86 simply IS NOT guaranteed to work on all PC hardware... Hell, it's not supposed to work on PC hardware at all... I still only have it running successfully on 3 of the 8 computers I've tried.

If you're serious about it running on yours: "get a clue" about what a .kext is - and learn "where to put the commands". There's tons of information here, on the Wiki and on the other OSx86 Forums.