Dell Inspiron 2200

[Larry Flynt]

Hey all, I'm looking for a bit of help, and hope someone here might be able to see what it is I'm doing wrong. I've been playing around with a few different incarnations of OS X :

 

1) iATKOS 5i - installed the easiest, but I never could get DVD playback to work.

2) XXX 10.5.6 - DVD playback worked, but wasn't very smooth. Took forever to find right combo in configuration to run.

3) iPC 10.5.6 - After XXX, this one was relatively a breeze to get going. And DVD playback worked great!

 

Having settled on iPC, mostly because it worked the best out of the three versions I tried, I of course went to doing online updates. Having been warned by previous posts about updates, I did all the available updates *other* than the 10.5.7. All went in fine without issue. Of course the moment I tried doing the official update, I hosed my install. Not a problem I thought, I wrote down all the settings I used for the install (a lesson learnt the hard way let me tell you!), got everything back up and going to the same point again, but this time I tried the iDeneb 10.5.7 update, thinking it would do the trick.

 

Same result, hosed Inspiron

 

I suspect the issue is one of the options I've chosen on install, or one I've not selected. However, reading the release notes of these 'unofficial' releases, I'm a little confused as to what I might be doing wrong, especially when it comes to SMBIOS/EFI options.

 

From reading various posts here and other sites, not to mention almost an entire weekend of install attempts, I came up with these configuration options for the Inspiron 2200 that I installed with (I'm also sharing them so other possible Inspiron users might be able to save themselves a few hours of pain from my efforts )

 

Kernel

-9.5.0 Voodoo

 

Drivers

-Video Drivers

--Intel

---Intel GMA900

 

-Chipset Support

--LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA

 

-Audio Drivers

--Other Audio Drivers

---AC97 Audio

 

-Wireless Drivers

--Broadcom Driver

 

-USB Drivers

--Patched USB Drivers

 

-Power Management

--AppleACPIBatteryManager

 

-Fixes And Patches

--ACPI Fix

--CPUS=1

--Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5

--UUID Error Fix

--PS/2 Device Support

---PS/2 Keyboard Fix

 

Having got these written down now, I don't mind having to reinstall OS X if I mess it up. But I would like to be up to date, and that means figuring out how to get 10.5.7 in. When I did the iDeneb update, I just rebooted once the install was done. Was there something else I needed to do before rebooting? Was the update attempt doomed before I even began it, because I missed something during the initial install? I appreciate any help or tips people might have. Thanks!

 

L.F

[BuXb]

Here's my complete "10.5.8 on Dell Inspiron 2200 package & guide" (scroll down a bit on that page) for this lil close-to-perfect HackBook (4.5MB)

 

EDIT 2012-05-06: reuploaded & refreshed link

[Allcoast]

I cant seem to be able to open this file, from this link you sent.

[Allcoast]

Hey all, I'm looking for a bit of help, and hope someone here might be able to see what it is I'm doing wrong. I've been playing around with a few different incarnations of OS X :

 

1) iATKOS 5i - installed the easiest, but I never could get DVD playback to work.

2) XXX 10.5.6 - DVD playback worked, but wasn't very smooth. Took forever to find right combo in configuration to run.

3) iPC 10.5.6 - After XXX, this one was relatively a breeze to get going. And DVD playback worked great!

 

Having settled on iPC, mostly because it worked the best out of the three versions I tried, I of course went to doing online updates. Having been warned by previous posts about updates, I did all the available updates *other* than the 10.5.7. All went in fine without issue. Of course the moment I tried doing the official update, I hosed my install. Not a problem I thought, I wrote down all the settings I used for the install (a lesson learnt the hard way let me tell you!), got everything back up and going to the same point again, but this time I tried the iDeneb 10.5.7 update, thinking it would do the trick.

 

Same result, hosed Inspiron

 

I suspect the issue is one of the options I've chosen on install, or one I've not selected. However, reading the release notes of these 'unofficial' releases, I'm a little confused as to what I might be doing wrong, especially when it comes to SMBIOS/EFI options.

 

From reading various posts here and other sites, not to mention almost an entire weekend of install attempts, I came up with these configuration options for the Inspiron 2200 that I installed with (I'm also sharing them so other possible Inspiron users might be able to save themselves a few hours of pain from my efforts )

 

Kernel

-9.5.0 Voodoo

 

Drivers

-Video Drivers

--Intel

---Intel GMA900

 

-Chipset Support

--LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA

 

-Audio Drivers

--Other Audio Drivers

---AC97 Audio

 

-Wireless Drivers

--Broadcom Driver

 

-USB Drivers

--Patched USB Drivers

 

-Power Management

--AppleACPIBatteryManager

 

-Fixes And Patches

--ACPI Fix

--CPUS=1

--Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5

--UUID Error Fix

--PS/2 Device Support

---PS/2 Keyboard Fix

 

Having got these written down now, I don't mind having to reinstall OS X if I mess it up. But I would like to be up to date, and that means figuring out how to get 10.5.7 in. When I did the iDeneb update, I just rebooted once the install was done. Was there something else I needed to do before rebooting? Was the update attempt doomed before I even began it, because I missed something during the initial install? I appreciate any help or tips people might have. Thanks!

 

L.F

 

 

I have tried to get this to even start to load, but it hangs to a blue screen and does nothing else. Any ideas what i might try?

[newbie2mac]

I cant seem to be able to open this file, from this link you sent.

 

Me neither... Anyone have this for re-linking?

[BuXb]

link updated