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/ integra. 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 the box but you may face this issue If you. 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'.
Mac Os Waiting For Root Device Dev Mmcblk0p2
I put the disc in, and during installation a hell of alot of writing just flies by as it loads then, it changes to a smaller font, and brings up a screen that always gets stuck at the same part with the last 2 messages being:
'Firewire unable to determine decurity mode; defaulting to full secure'
'Waiting for root device'
'Still waiting for root device'
Ive seen some posts about it on the net already and tried the solutions but nothing was possible.
Anyone have any idea's?