Evostance Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 So i've got OSX 10.5.6 Retail and BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY. Disable 1394 and the JSata (think thats what its called) Popped in Boot 132 and let it load Swapped the disc to OSX Typed "-v -f cpus=1" Typed it again Hit F8 And then I get stuck with "Still waiting for root device" I've searched and searched and it seems that it isn't recognising my SATA controller even though I thought it was packaged with the BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY package. I have 2x 150gb SATA HDD's in RAID0 and an IDE DVD drive My rig is in my signature. Anyone who can help, thank you. I did post this before but I cant find the topic now :/ Also, can a mod move this to the Leopard category, not the Snow Leopard one..Sorry! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 So i've got OSX 10.5.6 Retail and BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY. Disable 1394 and the JSata (think thats what its called) Popped in Boot 132 and let it load Swapped the disc to OSX Typed "-v -f cpus=1" Typed it again Hit F8 And then I get stuck with "Still waiting for root device" I've searched and searched and it seems that it isn't recognising my SATA controller even though I thought it was packaged with the BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY package. I have 2x 150gb SATA HDD's in RAID0 and an IDE DVD drive My rig is in my signature. Anyone who can help, thank you. I did post this before but I cant find the topic now :/ Also, can a mod move this to the Leopard category, not the Snow Leopard one..Sorry! This might or might not help, but worth a shot. Are you sure that your soft RAID is supported by OSX? Try booting with the RAID option disable in the BIOS. If the system boots, OSX does not like your RAID setup. I recently added a RAID option on my Windows XP x64 server and had to install a special driver using a floppy drive. OpenSUSE 11.1 complained but installed fine, and 11.2 did not complain at all. If the problem is indeed RAID related, you might find an OSX driver. I have my server in a RAID 1 configuration that guarantees data recovery in case of loss of one HDD. What advantage do you gain from a RAID 0 apart from higher HDD access speed? Here's Wikipedia's description of a RAID 0: RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across multiple disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is neither parity nor mirroring. In this regard, RAID 0 is somewhat of a misnomer, in that RAID 0 is non-redundant. A RAID 0 array requires a minimum of two drives. Just my $0.02! Good luck and I hope this helps. IJ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1377725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 This might or might not help, but worth a shot. Are you sure that your soft RAID is supported by OSX? Try booting with the RAID option disable in the BIOS. If the system boots, OSX does not like your RAID setup. I recently added a RAID option on my Windows XP x64 server and had to install a special driver using a floppy drive. OpenSUSE 11.1 complained but installed fine, and 11.2 did not complain at all. If the problem is indeed RAID related, you might find an OSX driver.I have my server in a RAID 1 configuration that guarantees data recovery in case of loss of one HDD. What advantage do you gain from a RAID 0 apart from higher HDD access speed? Here's Wikipedia's description of a RAID 0: RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across multiple disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is neither parity nor mirroring. In this regard, RAID 0 is somewhat of a misnomer, in that RAID 0 is non-redundant. A RAID 0 array requires a minimum of two drives. Just my $0.02! Good luck and I hope this helps. IJ Ok, so I found myself a 40gb laptop HDD which was the old PS3 HDD. I unhooked my existing drives and put the 40gb into SATA 1. Went into my BIOS, disabled my RAID configuration. I then disabled the JMicron SATA Controller and 1394. I still get the same error "Still waiting for root device" I have searched and searched, tried using different install commands but to no avail and I cannot for the life of me figure this one out. Anyone care to help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1377996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobross Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Are you in AHCI mode? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Are you in AHCI mode? I cant find the option in my BIOS :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobross Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I cant find the option in my BIOS :/ Well I think that is a huge problem, as-in it's not going to work. Then again I'm no expert... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Hmm, wonder why the hell it isnt there. Perhaps its been removed from the BIOS or something. Theres lots of people with a P5N-E that seem to have had success though :/ EDIT: Does AHCI need to be enabled or disabled? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Found this link that suggests that the AHCI option was removed during a bios revision. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=74726 You could either roll back your bios and try. However my googling for information on your motherboard suggests that AHCI is enabled by default and requires the right drivers. Where you find the OSX drivers is a good question and one that I can't answer. Hope this helps! IJ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evostance Posted January 7, 2010 Author Share Posted January 7, 2010 Thanks for the reply. Hopefully someone with the same board will be able to help on where I can get the OSX drivers for my board Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev1972 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 So i've got OSX 10.5.6 Retail and BOOT-KABYL-BUMBY. Disable 1394 and the JSata (think thats what its called) Popped in Boot 132 and let it load Swapped the disc to OSX Typed "-v -f cpus=1" Typed it again Hit F8 And then I get stuck with "Still waiting for root device" This is a long shot, but I remember going through this when did my installation with boot 123 disk. So you popped in the boot 123 and let it load... *PRESS ENTER* Then swap out the disk for the OSX disk - let it spin up, until the read light goes out and then; press enter again. I was smashing my head against a wall for ages with this one, and I got no help here- I think many on here are so talented that they take deatails like this for granted which is why they ignore noob questions. Hopefully you shouldn't need the cpu flags or the need to turn off firewire in bios. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205908-still-waiting-for-root-device-again-any-ideas/#findComment-1378755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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