Suddenly getting "still waiting for root device" issue

[kcarbone927]

Hi all,

I can't seem to figure out what's going on here. I've been running 10.7.2 on my GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 for a while now. Installed via UniBeast and CustomBeast. Everything runs smooth as silk with no problems whatsoever... until suddenly after a restart, it won't boot. It just hangs. Booting with -v reveals "still waiting for root device". I have no idea what happened. I didn't change anything.

I managed to get it to boot using an old iBoot cd with the mach_kernel flag. Tried re-running CustomBeast, no luck. Any other ideas?

 

[arikstress]

Hi all,

I can't seem to figure out what's going on here. I've been running 10.7.2 on my GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 for a while now. Installed via UniBeast and CustomBeast. Everything runs smooth as silk with no problems whatsoever... until suddenly after a restart, it won't boot. It just hangs. Booting with -v reveals "still waiting for root device". I have no idea what happened. I didn't change anything.

I managed to get it to boot using an old iBoot cd with the mach_kernel flag. Tried re-running CustomBeast, no luck. Any other ideas?

hmm i never try custom beast, but usually if using chimera, you can always try
UseKernelCache=Yes flag and lets see can you boot into your system or not.

 

[eelhead]

Waiting for root device means that it is not reading the drive you have Lion & your bootloader on.
Check your bios to make sure something didn't inadvertently revert to another drive or something as the boot order.

 

[kcarbone927]

you can always try
UseKernelCache=Yes flag and lets see can you boot into your system or not.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately no luck

Check your bios to make sure something didn't inadvertently revert to another drive or something as the boot order.

Hmm... I can't find anything amiss in the bios. I even tried disconnecting all the drives except for the one with Lion and rerunning CustomBeast. Shouldn't rerunning CustomBeast fix these kinds of issues since it reinstalls Chimera? Or am I misunderstanding your comment?