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Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 4.0.4 |
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Guest type: | OSX Server | Host type: | Windows |
Description
What does “Still waiting for root device” means? Its very simple, it means that the source from which you’re booting is not detected properly in other way it can be explained as the operating.
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- VBox.log (75.6 KB) - added by wproxym8 years ago.
- virtualbox log
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Mac Still Waiting For Root Device
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by grahamperrin
Changed 8 years ago by wproxym
- attachmentVBox.log added
Mac Os Virtualbox Still Waiting For Root Device
comment:4follow-up:↓ 5 Changed 8 years ago by wproxym
Last edited 8 years ago by wproxym (previous) (diff)
Still Waiting On Root
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 8 years ago by Hachiman
- Solve Error: still waiting for root device: حل مشكلة How to Fix Still Waiting for Root Device in Hackintosh Do you want to fix the still waiting for root d.
- Get a IDE Hard Disk (you can attach the IDE hard disk, but still install the OS on the SATA drive. It just helps to get past the 'still waiting for root device error'.) If accompanied by a CMOS checksum bad error at boot, reload BIOS optimised defaults, change to AHCI and HPET to 64-bit mode. (Post them if it is not listed).
comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by frank
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
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.
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.
Mac Still Waiting For Root Device Macbook Pro
Apr 10, 2006 9:03 AM