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ry60003333

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I've just upgraded my Hackintosh running Lion to Mountain Lion, I have a Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3-F3 motherboard. The upgrade went perfectly and I booted into Mountain Lion using Unibeast, however after installing ONLY audio drives with the latest Multibeast, the system hangs on "Still waiting for root device" from both the bootloader on the computer and Unibeast with the same options that it booted with before. I have tried changing GraphicsEnabler, PCIRootUID, -f, -x, and UseKernalCache and none of them seemed to do anything. So I did a completely clean install and it resulted in the same problem; the system installed and booted, but after using Multibeast to install the DSDT and power fix for my Core i5, the system hung on "Still waiting for root device".

Is this a problem with Multibeast or am I doing something wrong?
 
ry60003333 said:
I've just upgraded my Hackintosh running Lion to Mountain Lion, I have a Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3-F3 motherboard. The upgrade went perfectly and I booted into Mountain Lion using Unibeast, however after installing ONLY audio drives with the latest Multibeast, the system hangs on "Still waiting for root device" from both the bootloader on the computer and Unibeast with the same options that it booted with before. I have tried changing GraphicsEnabler, PCIRootUID, -f, -x, and UseKernalCache and none of them seemed to do anything. So I did a completely clean install and it resulted in the same problem; the system installed and booted, but after using Multibeast to install the DSDT and power fix for my Core i5, the system hung on "Still waiting for root device".

Is this a problem with Multibeast or am I doing something wrong?
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Do you own a gigabyte board? There seems to be a timing bug in the 10.8 ACHI drivers. You can either use appleahciport and ioahcifamilly from 10.7, or by running BCC9's patch on the current 10.8 ACHI driver here - http://bit.ly/QCQvVy

The patch works perfectly on my system, and I've not had the issue reappear since it was installed. Good luck!
 
scorcho said:
Do you own a gigabyte board? There seems to be a timing bug in the 10.8 ACHI drivers. You can either use appleahciport and ioahcifamilly from 10.7, or by running BCC9's patch on the current 10.8 ACHI driver here - http://www.insanely-mac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=280062&st=20&p=1834431&#entry1834431

The patch works perfectly on my system, and I've not had the issue reappear since it was installed. Good luck!
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I do have a Gigabyte board. What confuses me is that the system boots just fine without running Multibeast, and I'm using it right now. If this was the issue wouldn't the system just not boot at all?
 
nope. it's likely the timing issue may or may not be triggered by a cold boot or a restart from a working OSX instance. i am able to boot 10.8 off an ESATA drive without needing the patch or Lion drivers, and once there, can reboot to chameleon and select the a 'clean' 10.8 install without seeing the 'root device' error. however if i start from shutdown and try to boot that same internal 10.8 install, i'll always see the 'root device' error.

after installing, how many times did you test booting into 10.8 before turning to multibeast? i reckon you'd see the error message eventually regardless of using multibeast to install your audio drivers.
 
scorcho said:
nope. it's likely the timing issue may or may not be triggered by a cold boot or a restart from a working OSX instance. i am able to boot 10.8 off an ESATA drive without needing the patch or Lion drivers, and once there, can reboot to chameleon and select the a 'clean' 10.8 install without seeing the 'root device' error. however if i start from shutdown and try to boot that same internal 10.8 install, i'll always see the 'root device' error.

after installing, how many times did you test booting into 10.8 before turning to multibeast? i reckon you'd see the error message eventually regardless of using multibeast to install your audio drivers.
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Oh okay, I booted each install twice after reformatting the computer. After the first boot I had to use KextBeast to reinstall the ATI6xxx kext that I removed from the installer (which was a fix on another thread for a white screen at install), and then I rebooted and had full graphics support. Then I did Multibeast, rebooted, and got the error. But I'm actually using the computer now and haven't rebooted the third time on this install, so I'll try apply patch that was posted here, reboot, and if it boots, try Multibeast and hope that it works!

I'll post my results soon!
 
I just confirmed that the patch worked! Thank you guys!
 
I'm getting this issue when trying to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard, and after installing the combo update, then multibeast and restart... I would like to try this patch but i'm not sure how to do it.... I downloaded the most recent version attached to the first post in that thread on insanelymac, and when I double click it, it just opens a text script file... Sorry if this is a noob question :oops:

PS, I ideally want to install past snow leopard, but I have to start here to get the Mac App Downloads...
 
well I used the first version of the patch in that link just to try it. Wasn't sure when to run the script so i did it before installing the combo update, rebooted and it seemed ok, although I don't know what the script did, it opened a terminal and all it said after entering my password was logout, and thats it. Anyway, I also ran it after running multibeast figuring in case it was tweaking something multibeast writes perhaps I should do it after... Anyway, it did not work, I still have the "still waiting for root device" error. I realize this patch says its for ML, but i figured since i have the same problem in SL, I'd give it a try...

Does anyone have any tips for me?
 
mhunkler said:
well I used the first version of the patch in that link just to try it. Wasn't sure when to run the script so i did it before installing the combo update, rebooted and it seemed ok, although I don't know what the script did, it opened a terminal and all it said after entering my password was logout, and thats it. Anyway, I also ran it after running multibeast figuring in case it was tweaking something multibeast writes perhaps I should do it after... Anyway, it did not work, I still have the "still waiting for root device" error. I realize this patch says its for ML, but i figured since i have the same problem in SL, I'd give it a try...

Does anyone have any tips for me?
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Start your own thread in SL support if you are having trouble installing SL AND put your hardware in your profile or create a sig if you expect to get help. It is impossible to diagnose problems without info on hardware.
 
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