Still waiting for root device

[vanackera]

Hey guys,

The past couple of days, I've tried to turn my windows 7 PC into a hackintosch.
Now I keep hitting the same road block 'still waiting for root device'.
I have tried everything suggested on these forums, but nothing seems to work.
I tried -x -v -f npci=0x2000/1000/3000 usekernelcache=yes/no PCIRootUID=0/1/2 GraphicsEnabler=YES/NO
I then found it might have been because my integrated graphics are not supported, so I bought a graphics card.
But still nothing works.

My system consist of:
GA-H57M-USB3 rev 2.0
Intel i3-540 CPU (not overclocked)
1x4GB of Kingston valueram DDR3 1333mhz pc3-10600
1TB seagate barracuda 7200rpm
En de net aangeschafte Radeon HD6450

Bios settings are as recommended.
I have also tried connecting the hard drive to different sata ports.
I have no DVD drive, so i can only use the unibeast method.
I use a LaCie cookey 8GB

Can anyone please help me, I don't want to get back to using that win7 as my iTunes server...

Thanks in advance...

Arne

 

[Minituff]

Well, I had this issue on my normal hackintosh a few time, and the problem always was a storage issue in the BIOS, make sure everything is set to AHCI, it is different on every BIOS, it is mostly related to "Sata Control Mode" or "Marvel Sata Controller", just make sure they are set to SATA and NOT IDE. You may have changed this before, but for some reason it can switch back, so you need to double check, I don't know what causes it to switch, but it can. I hope this works for you.

 

[vanackera]

I solved it by searching this forum for problems that appeared before it said: still waiting for root device.
It appears my graphics were the problem. Typing this helped: AtiConfig=Vervet
My only problem now is that I have to add that boot flag every time I boot which is a bit of a problem since I want to use it as a headless machine.
Is there a way to make chimera always add that boot flag, if so, how?

Arne

 

[vanackera]

Sorry for posting my question too soon.
I fixed it by editing the org.chameleon.Boot.plist file and adding

<key>AtiConfig</key>
<string>Vervet</string>

Arne