Os X Still Waiting For Root Device

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Oct 15, 2012 then 'still waiting on root device' repeating over and over. This problem appears to be somewhat random (i.e. Restarting over and over, at some point it won't appear). Also I did just have good luck fixing this by removing 3 of 4 sticks of ram, perhaps good to try. Jan 12, 2013 Before 'Still waiting for root device', it have 'No interval found for. Using 8000000' on both Dell XPS and the Lenovo laptop. A copy of a macOS/Mac OS X.

See if you can start up in Safe Mode. This will take awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
If this works you will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, try to restart normally, and go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar, and repair permissions on it.
If you can't start up in Safe Mode, maybe something in this Apple Knowledge Base article will help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805
Or it may be time to invest in a disk utility such as DiskWarrior.
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Student Driver

Joined: Wed May 09, 2012 2:53 am
Posts: 10
I tried to install Mac OS X 10.4 under PearPC, but the emulated computer will never even boot into the Mac OS X Install DVD successfully (always a prohibitory sign). After some attempts to install Mac OS X 10.4 under PearPC, which all only failed with a prohibitory sign before the Installer loads, I set prom_env_machargs to '-v', and this was the output of the emulated kernel on the next boot:
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 28055 free pages
mig_table_max_displ = 70
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Using 327 buffer headers and 327 cluster IO buffer headers
Warning: AppleMacIO self test fails
Extension 'com.apple.driver.CMD646ATA' has no kernel dependency.
ADB present:c
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
disabled
rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen:8ABB5AFF-FC7A-310A-9BfE-8A263F654562
Waiting on <dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string>boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
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Is there any way to get past the infinite loop of 'Still waiting for root device'?


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Expert User

Joined: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:59 am
Posts: 4904
Location: Sittard, The Netherlands
Hi,
Would try a different hard disk file. I'm assuming your current file isn't formatted correctly.
Did you download a compressed one, llike this: http://www.emaculation.com/pearpc/macosx_6gb.rar
Best,
Cat_7


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Student Driver

Joined: Wed May 09, 2012 2:53 am
Posts: 10
I extracted the blank hard disk image from http://www.emaculation.com/pearpc/macosx_6gb.rar and set this in the cfg file:
pci_ide0_master_installed = 1
pci_ide0_master_type = 'hd'
pci_ide0_master_image = 'macosx_6gb.img'
pci_ide0_slave_installed ='1'
pci_ide0_slave_type = 'cdrom'
pci_ide0_slave_image = 'Mac OS X Install DVD.iso'

The problem when PearPC tries to boot from the Mac OS X Install DVD does not seem to be because of the hard drive.


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Post subject:Re: Still waiting for root device, Still waiting for root de
Expert User

Joined: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:59 am
Posts: 4904
Location: Sittard, The Netherlands
Ah,
Dvd's are not/badly supported. You should be on the lookout for the 4 cd variant of the OSX 10.4 PowerPC version.
Best,
Cat_7


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