iProCr4ftr Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Hello, I have a motherboard (ASUS M4N68TM_LE_V2) which has the nForce 630a chipset (for AMD processors). As is the theme with nForce chipset motherboards, there is no option to select AHCI, only the default IDE mode or RAID, as seen in the following image: http://i.imgur.com/hsoGtdo.jpg I know that RAID implies AHCI, however, no matter if I am in the default or RAID mode, I still can't get to the Mac OS X Mountain Lion Installer, due to the "Still waiting for root device error". This image shows the error that I see: http://i.imgur.com/xY1qe0r.jpg The boot flags which I use are: -x -v npci=0x3000 (I use npci=0x3000 in order to get around the [PCI Configuration Begin] error) No matter if I run it using -x or not, it still won't work. I have tried 5/6 different nForce ATA kexts, to no avail, and tried Verdant's Support Pack, which didn't seem work for me either. What would you suggest? What do you think is the problem? Also to note, I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion on a USB drive, using Andy Vandjick's 10.8.2 AMD kernel. I am using Chameleon the bootloader. Thank you. Edited March 7, 2013 by iProCr4ftr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Look for IM topics dealing with the nForce MCP67 chipset as it is probably fully AHCI compliant and so does not work with the AppleNForceATA.kext.............see here............. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 Look for IM topics dealing with the nForce MCP67 chipset as it is probably fully AHCI compliant and so does not work with the AppleNForceATA.kext.............see here............. Is IntelAHCISata a kext? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Yes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 Yes Where can I obtain it from? (I apologise for the incomplexity of my questions!) From what I've seen (correct me if I'm wrong), they all show machines that have Mac OS X installed. I can't even get to the installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 For background info. on "Still waiting for root device" see here....... Your OS X Installer (either USB or DVD) will need to have the appropriate kext in either the /Extra/Extensions and/or /System/Library/Extensions folder that it is booting from to get you to the OS X Installer app Desktop..... If you want to run OS X ML, then you will need a 64bit kext for the 630a chipset. However, the kexts that were referred to in my previous posts relating to OS X Leopard will probably be 32bit only kexts....e.g. see the kexts here...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 It's strange because when I use a 64-bit NForce ATA kext, before it gets to "Still Waiting For Root Device", the hard drive and optical drive start (can see via the HDD LED indicator and the optical drive spin sound), but still doesn't work. If I don't use the kext, there is no disk activity etc. It says: IOATAController device blocking bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 For ML, the kext needs to be the appropriate kext for the Southbridge chipset as well as being 64 bit capable. Try installing OS X ML on an external HDD in a USB enclosure if your PC allows USB booting to find out which ATA kexts works for your MOBO, and then use OS X Disk Utility to prepare the internal HDD for installing OS X onto to it via the USB HDD...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 For ML, the kext needs to be the appropriate kext for the Southbridge chipset as well as being 64 bit capable. Try installing OS X ML on an external HDD in a USB enclosure if your PC allows USB booting to find out which ATA kexts works for your MOBO, and then use OS X Disk Utility to prepare the internal HDD for installing OS X onto to it via the USB HDD...... I'm going to try this now Thank you so much for your support, I highly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Still can't manage to get it working, just stuck on: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded com.appple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded Still waiting for a root device The USB drive which I installed OS X on worked on another machine (with an AMD chipset), but cannot get it to run on my nForce machine. I guess I'll be purchasing a new motherboard soon in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 It all depends on what OS X version you want to run on the nForce AMD PC. If you are happy to stick with Snow Leopard so that you can run the kernel in 32bit mode, while still able to run 64 bit apps, then you have a better chance of finding the correct kext...... If you do not wish to give up just yet, to save your time, I recommend that you initially install OS X Leopard using a AMD compatible Install DVD distro such as: LawlessPPC-10.5.4-Phenom-AMD iATKOS 4a AMD Leo4Allv4.1 AMD iPC 10.5.6 iDeneb V1.4 10.5.6 etc. to set up two OS X volumes on your HDD and then install Leopard on one of the volumes to figure out exactly what you need to do boot and run OS X Leopard on your system......and then use Leopard to help you install OS X Snow Leopard on your second HDD volume, and so on.........see this AMD Retail Snow Leopard install guide...........as you no doubt know, you will also need patched kernels for installing OS X Lion and Mountain Lion on AMD..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Okay, I will try that. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Sorry for the late response to my thread, just began trying to get it working again! I tried disabling the SATA on the motherboard, and still ran into the same "Still Waiting for Root Device" error, so this leads me to believe that something else is causing the error. Could someone confirm what this actually means?: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string> etc etc. com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded Could this be causing the error? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspartam Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 (edited) Hello, I have a motherboard (ASUS M4N68TM_LE_V2) which has the nForce 630a chipset (for AMD processors). As is the theme with nForce chipset motherboards, there is no option to select AHCI, only the default IDE mode or RAID, as seen in the following image: http://i.imgur.com/hsoGtdo.jpg I know that RAID implies AHCI, however, no matter if I am in the default or RAID mode, I still can't get to the Mac OS X Mountain Lion Installer, due to the "Still waiting for root device error". This image shows the error that I see: http://i.imgur.com/xY1qe0r.jpg The boot flags which I use are: -x -v npci=0x3000 (I use npci=0x3000 in order to get around the [PCI Configuration Begin] error) No matter if I run it using -x or not, it still won't work. I have tried 5/6 different nForce ATA kexts, to no avail, and tried Verdant's Support Pack, which didn't seem work for me either. What would you suggest? What do you think is the problem? Also to note, I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion on a USB drive, using Andy Vandjick's 10.8.2 AMD kernel. I am using Chameleon the bootloader. Thank you. Hi! As I see, you have the same chipset as my motherboard. I will tell you what I did and where I am now. First of all I needed a running Mac system. In BIOS there is no option for AHCI, only IDE or RAID. Only method what was work to me is Downloaded boot-kabyl-bumby.zip, and booted in to hazard installation dvd with "-v -busratio=11 maxmem=4096". My cpu is AMD Phenom X4 9550 it works on 2200 MHz, the bus speed is 200 MHz, so the multiplier (busratio) is 11. I think the kernel which is on dvd does not recognizes more then 4 GB RAM. So booted in to install and selected: Modbin_Kernel NVInject AppleAzaliaAudio RTL8139_Ethernet AppleRTC LegacyAppleRTC SATA_ATA_Fix AMD Patch After install finished, I booted up the system and found out, almost nothing works. Only LAN and sound works for me. So I started reading verdant's tutorial. My system does not recognized non USB devices I attached (The solution was to turn off Legacy USB in BIOS. If you turn off this, then USB keyboard and mouse won't work until you get in OS. In Chameleon neither works.) so I managed to use an old internal hard disk. Downloaded the support files in download section. Got the InstallESD.dmg. From "Part B", "3. Preparing the USB flash drive as a Mac bootable device volume" I did everything what is written. In 4. step I get the GeForce kexts and copied where verdant said to copy (I renamed GeForce.kext to GeForce.kext_ORIG and GeForceGA.plugin to GeForceGA.plugin_ORIG because my GTS 450 would boot up only with "-x" and then I do not have LAN nor sound. With this renaming I can boot up without flags but I don't have graphics acceleration YET). in verdant's support files I found "Extra Folder.pkg", installed it on the disk. Copied: AHCIPortInjector.kext AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext ApplePS2Controller.kext ApplePS2Keyboard.kext ApplePS2Mouse.kext ATAPortInjector.kext JMicron36xATA.kext JMicron36xSATA.kext OpenHaltRestart.kext to Extra/Extensions/ and: AppleNForceATA.imk64bit.kext AppleRTC.MLion.Patched.kext EvOreboot.kext FakeSMC.kext nForceLAN.0.64.5.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext VoodooHDA.kext to System/Library/Extensions/ directory on disk. And did the terminal stuff. The kernel I used is from here. After install I had to boot back to install hard disk. Then copy kexts listed above and kernel on the installed system. Reboot and boot into installed system, then install chameleon. I did not tried to install from usb. Maybe if I add to org.chameleon.Boot.plist wait time would work, but not tried YET. The DVD method don't works for me. I burned 20 different DVD's non works. What is working now: LAN network Sound (mic doesn't works) with "GraphicsEnabler=Yes" I can change resolution but no graphics acceleration USB devices works if Legacy USB is disabled in BIOS (USBBusFix=Yes not works) or booting with "USBLegacyOff=Yes" sleep wake not works, to be honest I don't like when my machine goes to sleep. I bought my PC to be power on all the time. DVD-RW rom doesn't works. If I put a DVD in the drive, after 5 minutes says I put a blank DVD in the drive. I'll try to make USB installer Sorry for bad english Edited March 5, 2013 by Aspartam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iProCr4ftr Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 Wow, thank you very much for that write up, I appreciate it! Does this work with Mountain Lion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi! I suggest you ask help in the appropriate subforum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285760-help-with-installations-on-amd/ Additionally, join IRC at the server chat.osx86.hu, chatroom #legacykernel. Best regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspartam Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Yes. I installed 10.8.2 with verdant's tutorial. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspartam Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 (edited) Hi! I suggest you ask help in the appropriate subforum: http://www.insanelym...lations-on-amd/ Additionally, join IRC at the server chat.osx86.hu, chatroom #legacykernel. Best regards. When everything will work, I will post the steps to your thread "AMD working Builds", how I get it stable on my PC. Before one year I had fully stable system with Mac OS X 10.6.8, but only 32-bit was work because then I had problems with nForceATA kext and 64-bit. My specs was: Motherboard: MSI K9N Neo V3 CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ Brisbane GPU: MSI Geforce 8600 GT 512MB RAM: 2GB KIngston 800MHz DDR2 Edited March 4, 2013 by Aspartam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspartam Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 It is hard to find people who have NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a chipset in this community. Maybe if you rename or move the thread "nForce 630a without AHCI" or something we would find more people with same problems and together would find out what will work for our chipsets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2k4u Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 When everything will work, I will post the steps to your thread "AMD working Builds", how I get it stable on my PC. Were you able to get everything (or part of) to work? If so, could you please post the steps. I also have the nForce 630a and having great difficulty getting Lion and Mountain Lion to work due to "Waiting for root device" error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matěj Bob Nevlud Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Hello guys! I also have the nForce 630a motherboard and I'm trying to install any Hackintosh distro on my PC. Every time, i got some error(panic, waiting for device...). I tried distors like iAtkos, HAZARD, Modcd but every time i got same result. Error screen. I would be very happy if could some one help me. Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2k4u Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Hello guys! I also have the nForce 630a motherboard and I'm trying to install any Hackintosh distro on my PC. Every time, i got some error(panic, waiting for device...). I tried distors like iAtkos, HAZARD, Modcd but every time i got same result. Error screen. I would be very happy if could some one help me. Thank you in advance. Do the steps in post #14. To recap: 1. Boot with CD from boot-kabyl-bumby.zip image. 2. Swap the CD in step #1 with Hazard's 10.6 DVD with boot flags "-v npci=0x3000 busratio=16 maxmem=4096". Note: busratio depends on your CPU speed & board bus speed. Disk swapping can be tricky. You have to press <enter> at the right places when prompted at the end of step #1 to properly swap DVD. 3. Install Hazard OSX and choose the install options mentioned in post #14. 4. After Hazard finishes install and reboot, use the following boot flags: "-v npci=0x3000 busratio=16 maxmem=4096 USBLegacyOff= Yes". Note: You have to install and boot Chameleon or equivalent prior to step #4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgndm Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 I also have an nForce 630a MOBO (Asrock M4N68T-M), with a AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2GHz, with 4GB DDR3 and a GeForce 8600GT GPU, and can't even get to the setup screen, no matter which distro I use and no matter bootloader I choose. Either I get KPs or the computer just reboots the second it gets to the Apple logo. Tried a number of bootflags and combinations, and still nothing. Any suggestions? Does anyone have a detailed step-by-step guide on how to install ML or Mavericks on this machine? I don't have any IDE's, just SATA hard drives, and don't have AHCI support visible, although I do have two disks in RAID0... EDIT: I've also tried the boot-kabyl-bumby.zip image, no success...C'mon, I really need this to work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2k4u Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I am happy to report that both ML and the latest Mavericks work on my GeForce 7025/nForce630a MSI board with AMD Phenom II X4 840. Happy Hackintoshing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgndm Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Would you care to make a tutorial on how you were able to ou install OSX on your hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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