krzysztofc10 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Hello! I'm trying to reach the installation of OS X 10.11 DP. But I'm ending on Still waiting for root device and error occured. My laptop Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2,8Ghz, 6MB Cache4Gb DDR2 800MHz160GB HDDNvidia Quadro NVS 160m 256mbDisplay 1440x900 resDell Wirelles 1510 card I format my pendrive to GUID OSX Journaled. Then restore basesystem.dmg. Delete Package alias in the System/Installation and replace with the Packages folder. Copy Payload and Basesystem.chunklist to root of my bootable USB. Install Clover Clover_v2.3k_SpecialEdition from InsanelyMac and copy my board id folder to /EFI/CLOVER/OEM. Then Im trying to boot osx but it gives me the error "Still waiting for root device" and screen flicker. Any suggestions ? I tried to run it with only fakesmc but the same error. 0X574R.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 9, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 9, 2015 El Capitan DP was only released last night. Give people a little more time before asking for support. No-one's probably even had time to work out a validated installation procedure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krzysztofc10 Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 Okey, I've only started the topic for preapering to install OSX. I will wait for help but I will also trying to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted June 9, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 9, 2015 i used clover other folder to install. not a numbered one also some dsdt injections will not let osx boot. you can try booting without DSDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krzysztofc10 Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 I just paste all of my kext to Clover Kexts/Other and didn't use dsdt. Runing installation in -v, now it hang on FireWire..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted June 11, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 11, 2015 You may need to use the very recent version that was published with apparent support for 10.11. v3224 if I'm not mistaken. Hasn't worked for me yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpatpandp Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Creating an OS X 10.11 El Capitan Beta 1 USB Install is verbatim identical to Yosemite save the one extra step: copying over the "Payloads" folder along with the invisible BaseSystem.dmg & BaseSystem.chunklist files...thats it. Not very encouraged with the E6400 and OS X 10.11 as I mentioned on my Yosemite guides, I figured out Yosemite right from the get go and it was relatively straight forward. This is not making much sense as I have gotten Clover v r3215 to boot this release on my Mac Pro 2,1 which also requires a legacy boot. I would say it is the Nvidia Quatro NVS 160M though any graphic card capable of running Yosemite is also supposed to be compatible with El Capitan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpatpandp Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Decided to ditch creating the installer and instead installed OS X El Capitan Beta 1 on a real mac. Installed Clover via the exact same method (in the "ESP") in the EFI partition using all same kexts as Yosemite (EXCEPT upgrading the FakeSMC.kext to the very latest). Used the same config.plist as well and doing it this way presented no issues whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wern Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Hello! I'm trying to reach the installation of OS X 10.11 DP. But I'm ending on Still waiting for root device and error occured. My laptop Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2,8Ghz, 6MB Cache 4Gb DDR2 800MHz 160GB HDD Nvidia Quadro NVS 160m 256mb Display 1440x900 res Dell Wirelles 1510 card I format my pendrive to GUID OSX Journaled. Then restore basesystem.dmg. Delete Package alias in the System/Installation and replace with the Packages folder. Copy Payload and Basesystem.chunklist to root of my bootable USB. Install Clover Clover_v2.3k_SpecialEdition from InsanelyMac and copy my board id folder to /EFI/CLOVER/OEM. Then Im trying to boot osx but it gives me the error "Still waiting for root device" and screen flicker. Any suggestions ? I tried to run it with only fakesmc but the same error. Copy your "kext/10.10" folder and rename it to "10.11", or copy the files to "other" folder, then edit your dsdt, search for EHCI and replace wit EHC1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpatpandp Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 This is the working solution. The panic/circle with a line in the middle was occurring due to the fact that the USB Installer was losing its connection as the E6400 has no working USB ports in OS X 10.11 El Capitan without making this edit in your dsdt.aml. Once the edit is made, the Installer will boot and the E6400 works just as well in El Capitan as it does in Yosemite. PS. Renaming the Kext folder is unnecessary and using Clover v2.3 r3215 is sufficient also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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