Well, I've searched high and low, on many different occasions, and over a long period of time with no good/working answer to this one. I have a MacBook Pro (so real Apple hardware) with Boot Camp (Windows 7) installed on it, and I have been trying to basically do what VMWare Fusion does in reverse, but with VirtualBox (i.e. run my Mac in a VM from Windows 7). It used to work just fine with Snow Leopard, but then Apple 'updated' to Lion, and no more. I have read so many people suggesting KEXT fixes, SATA fixes, USB fixes, etc., etc. and NONE of them have worked for me. My understanding is that apparently the new OS X flavors now detect that the HD is 'locked' somehow (by Windows I assume), and will not allow access to it, even though OS X is on a different partition. So no matter what I try, I cannot access my RAW Mac disk partition with Virtualbox and OS X at the moment.
What does 'Still waiting for root device' means? It means that a driver/kext for the source from which you are booting is not detected properly by the mac operating system (USB kext not detected or loaded) Mac OS released prebuilt with the latest drivers that supports SATA out of. Fixed still waiting for root device Hackintosh 2018, All Required Files Are Provided,Follow The Finks. Link Here: Links Under Video Detail: https://amdsoftwa. I am trying to do a fresh install of High Sierra 10.13.3 on my XPS 13 (9350) but I am having issues booting the installation. In Verbose mode it crashes half way, a 'no entry' icon pops up and the last text says 'Still waiting for root device'. I followed all the instructions one by one. Macで動くアプリを作るのに真っさらなMac環境が必要だったのでVirtualboxでMacが動かないか格闘中。 'Still waiting for root device'とひたすら出続けるだけで上手く行きませんな。ググッても出てくるのはWindowsでMacを動かそう系ばっかりなのでやり方が違うのかも？. Update: After upgrading to the latest version of VirtualBox and following the first answer at Install OS X in VirtualBox on iMac?, I am now getting the Still waiting for root device.If I follow the answer about the extra data, I get an Apple logo and a spinning wheel, then I get a crossed-out circle and a spinning wheel.
Out of sheer frustration with not being able to run my native Mac in a Windows window the way I used to, I finally decided to install Mountain Lion (no, I have not 'upgraded' to Mavericks yet) to a USB drive and run that in a Windows window via Virtualbox (and if you have to ask why on Earth I would want to run my Mac in a Windows window in a VM, you either should not be reading this or should go and reboot your Mac 100 times in succession and report back as to how fun that was). It installed and ran without a hitch … until today, when, for the first time, I re-fired up the Mac Virtual machine. Guess what I was so privileged to see? Yep! That good ol' 'still waiting for root device' message again. I just about burst a blood vessel!
Flash player firefox for mac. Knowing what I had learned thus far, I thought, 'hey, maybe because Windows had grabbed that drive (it had a drive letter), OS X can't get at it, just like my internal HD'. So I first ejected it from Windows, which was pretty stupid, because then Virtualbox could not see the drive either. So I plugged it back in, and then simply told Virtualbox that it could have it exclusively via right-clicking on the USB devices icon and then clicking the checked line shown below in the photo (accessed via a right-click of the mouse on the icon, and then a left-click on the checked line (which will currently be unchecked)). Voila! My Mac VM booted! I have not read of this being the solution anywhere online, so I thought I'd post about it.
Unfortunately I don't believe there is a similar way in Virtualbox to tell it that the RAW device partition that I have assigned to my Mac Virtualbox VM, can be exclusively for Virtualbox, as I believe that would also solve my internal HD Mac booting woes. So why/how did this work in Snow Leopard? I have no idea. Oh well, at least I have a work-around for the interim…
P.S. In order to make my mouse work, since 'VirtualBox does not provide Guest Additions for Mac OS X at this time', I had to do the same thing with the mouse and allow VB to have it exclusively (which made it really fun trying to get the mouse back into Windows – host key + 'home' key, and then use the keyboard and select it again from the menu). Something else that was handy was increasing the Mac screen size in VB.
A major problem preventing lots of users from using OSX86 on their pc.
A major problem preventing lots of users from using OSX86 on their pc.
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Mac Os X Virtualbox Still Waiting For Root Device
[edit] nForce SATA
[edit] No detection of SATA at boot in nForce3 once MacOS 10.4.6 is installed
After installing OS X 10.4.6 native with VMware with any of the method listed in the installation guides, the first boot was OK, configure the OSX with keyboard, personal info, etc..But when you turn it off and on again, it freezes in the holy 'Still waiting for root device'.My solution was, start OSX with the -v -x flags, for my surprise it recognize the SATA disk and start in safe mode. Then i went to Terminal, entered as root and typed the following..(extracted from 'AppleVIAATA.kext' Method)
Then rebooted and everything worked fine..
Seems like reloading the extensions cause OSX load the SATA driver correctly at boot. If someone know why, you are welcome :) .reply for why does this happen-----when i was installing osx with windows installed,i by mistakely deleted the windows partition which became in red coloured text...i thin something important file was deleted ...
[edit] You can use chroot to run this from the installer disc
Note that you can operate on an already-installed copy of Mac OS X from the install disc by accessing the Terminal utility. kextcache will crash, however, as it doesnt have write access to /tmp (as its mounted to a location on the read-only optical disc). You can work around this by running another instance of bash inside of chroot.. type chroot /Volumes/MyOSXInstall bash and the new bash shell will have a root path set to the root path of your installed volume. kextcache will work correctly. . .
[edit] Other Problems
Likely problems:
SATA
Hard drive not set as Primary Master
Incompatible hardware
CMOS Checksum Bad Error
Still Waiting On Root
Solutions:
'AppleVIAATA.kext' Method
Make Hard drive Primary Master hd 1
If you are using a SATA disk, make sure it is set for IDE legacy mode in the PC BIOS and not 'enhanced'
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)
Unplug all drives from the motherboard (CD/DVD) except the install drive and install via a USB DVD drive. It seems that OSX86 tries to install to a DVD drive on occasion. This worked for me on 7 different machines with this issue. You may reconnect after the install.
BootLoader
Sometimes the version of the BootLoader is too old or too buggy that it can't detect the Hard-diskso Try to update the boot loader version manually voodooprojects.org
or using any Automatic Tool Like 'Chameleon Wizard' or 'Champlist'
Still Waiting For Root Device Virtualbox
Disscussions:
OSX86 Forum
OSX86 Wiki
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p.s. if you have the problem don't cry, there are a lot of things that cause this problem. Many of us out there are also experiencing this problem. . . .
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