Administrators Syonagar Posted August 6, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 6, 2012 Dear jdc, Try to boot with the generic bootpack from myhack. We can add specific device kext like metwork and sound later when we can get the os x to at least boot up. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 I start the machine press F10 to select the USB drive and press enter. Then the gray apple logo appears with a spinning gear below it. Let is sit for almost an hour. Still nothing. What should I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted August 7, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 7, 2012 when you are in chameleon you can enter text as a option... type: -v and hit enter - that will boot in verbose mode so that you can see what errors etc. you are getting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 I booted with -v and the last line says: BootCacheControl ; Unable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist ; 2 No such file or directory Bug: launchctl.c:2400 (24957) :30: (dbfd = open (g_job_overrides_db_path, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR| S_IWUSR)) !=1 Note: after -v keyboard works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted August 7, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 7, 2012 did you install Lion or Mountain Lion ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 Lion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 Ok so it has been a few days and I have tried a few things I found from a quick Google search of the error above. From the searches it seems the issue is related to a kext that I am missing. At this point I am not sure where to go. I think I will try to install mountain lion instead of lion as the previous post seems to indicate it makes a difference. If anyone know how to fix the error I am having your imput is welcomed t Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 Ok so I stayed up late tonight and made a new USB installer with OSX10.8. I tried to install and got a gray circle with a line. Booted with -v and got Still waiting for root device. I then googled the error and found this is a common problem. I used the disk utility to identify the disk type (disk2s1). Booted with rd=disk2s1. same error. Then tried several variation disk2, disk1, disk3s1, and so on still. no luck. Tried to boot with npci=0x2000, npci=0x3000, and UseKernelCache=No, same error. The hard drive is sata and I can not change the settings in the bios Things from google I did not try because I do not know how: Install ML. replace the AppleACPIPlatform and IOPCI Family remove orangeiconfix.kext change the install location Please help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 Have tried everything I can find to fix the "still wait for root device" error. The hard drive currently has a windows vista installed. I want install over it but it is not working. Does the hard drive need to be reformatted for mac (journaled?) before I can install on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted August 10, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 10, 2012 try npci0x2000 pciRoot=1 -f -v flags at chameleon boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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