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. 'Still waiting for root device' If the output from verbose mode specifically stops at a line saying 'Still waiting for root device', you probably have a hard drive or USB drive issue. This may happen if your motherboard's BIOS or UEFI isn't set to AHCI mode; double-check this, just in case your BIOS/UEFI was accidentally reset recently.

1. Still Waiting For Root Device Macbook Pro
2. Mac Still Waiting For Root Device
3. Macbook Pro Still Waiting For Root Device

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• The Mac Mini's HD will be mounted as an external HD in the non-corrupted computer. Find and save your valuable data. Afterwards, making a Clean Install is the usual and fastest way of solving this issue. “Still waiting for root device” on a macbook pro mid 2009 with osx 10.11.6.
• 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).

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