May 14, 2006 i had the still waiting root device, and just changed the HD where osx was installed to IDE1, and in bios i changed the first boot device to the Second HD, where xp is so os selector would appear. Share this post. 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 command; tried the latest and previous Clover EFI bootloaders.
- What does “Still waiting for root device” means? It means that a driver/kext for the source from which you are booting is not detected properly by the mac operating system (USB kext not detected or loaded) Mac OS released prebuilt with the latest drivers that supports SATA out of.
- Topic says it.can't install due to 'still waiting for root device'. I've taken a Mac OS X 10.6 Server DVD, created a cdr image of it in OS X (due to the fact that the DVD is dual layer, and the Windows machine here has only a single layer DVD), and attached it to IDE Primary.
- I copied both kexts from active line then permissions fixed reboot and still waiting for root device. And remove any extra usb or external drives.
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.
OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
Mac Os Usb Still Waiting For Root Devices
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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
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.
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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.
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Good Luck! And don’t forget to buy a Mac :-)