[help] Dell Inspiron 15r (N5010) SL install problems

[Akutsito]

Hello, I was wondering if anybody could provide some help or insight into getting Snow Leopard to run on this laptop. The spec is as follows:

 

Dell Inspiron 15r (N5010)

 

CPU: Core i3 370M (2.4ghz, busratio=18 according to http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=49020 )

RAM: 3GB DDR3 Shared Dual Channel Memory (2gb + 1gb, some of it dedicated to graphics)

HDD: 320GB 5400RPM Sata HDD (AHCI in the BIOS)

Chipset: Mobile Intel® 5 Series Express Chipset (HM57, http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=43177 )

Graphics: Intel GMA HD, 1366x768

Wireless: Dell Wireless 1501 802.11 g/n (I assume this is a bcm43xx card)

Bluetooth: Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Internal (2.1+EDR) mini-card

Ethernet: I've determined that this is RTL8103e

 

What I've tried:

 

I first tried booting from the latest tonymac [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (2.7 I believe), which would boot just fine, and allows me to complete the install of 10.6.3 (retail dvd).

 

After the install, I booted the HDD install using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] again, and got to a desktop with the following:

 

working -

sound (presumably with voodoohda from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url])

 

not working -

keyboard

trackpad

ethernet (not recognised at all)

wifi (not recognised at all)

bluetooth (not working, but it's visible under USB hubs on the system profiler)

video (only had 1024x768 as an option)

 

So I figured it might just need tonymac's [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to get most of the bits working, but first I tried to install the 10.6.6 combo update.

 

During the install of 10.6.6 (last 2-3 minutes of install) it crashed and gave me a "Please restart your computer" screen. After this, the HDD install wasn't bootable, so I played around a bit more with reinstalling using tonymac, but kept coming up against this problem, so gave up with that.

 

I also tried all sorts of combinations to specify the arch, busratio, legacy, -x, -f, -v, etc.

 

Next I tried nawcom's CD (3.1), which again let me boot the retail dvd, but this time it apparently picked up wireless/wired/sound and pre-patched the installer so I could select kexts.

 

As this is 10.6.3 installing and there isn't any i3 support until 10.6.4/10.6.5, nawcom also suggested the 'legacy_kernel' package, but I had issues with this failing the installer, so after a couple of tries decided not to use it.

 

When I got the installer to eventually succeed, and booted the HDD install again using nawcom (and selecting the legacy_kernel from the boot cd), I had the following:

 

working -

keyboard (voodoops2)

trackpad (voodoops2)

sound (voodoohda)

 

not working -

ethernet (listed as a device, and recognised presence of ethernet cable, but didn't function at all)

wifi (not recognised at all)

bluetooth (not working, but it's visible under USB hubs on the system profiler)

video (only had 1024x768 as an option)

 

nawcom automatically installed kexts and things to /Extra/

 

so I tried updating to 10.6.6, as I was running on legacy_kernal and wanted some mach_kernel, the installer for 10.6.6 went fine, so I rebooted

 

was unable to boot the installation after this, even with the nawcom cd, I had issues with the boot freezing around DSMOS, and constantly got stuck at this message:

 

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

 

even though I had a NullPowerManagement.kext in /Extra/Extensions/

 

I also tried all sorts of combinations to specify the arch, busratio, legacy, -x, -f, -v, etc.

 

 

So I'm not sure what I'm missing here. This laptop seems like it should be able to run Snow Leopard easily. I've previously successfully Hackintoshed a Dell Inspiron 1525 with everything working, and I'm writing this from a custom i5 Hackintosh build that I setup. So I'm clueless.

[PhunkMaZ]

Sounds like you intel graphics is making some troubles. You could try to remove AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext and AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext from /System/Library/Extensions and see if you can boot into osx (boot with -v -f). But make a backup of the 2 kext's before! These IntelHD kext's came with the combo update. Typical symptom: kernel panic before the combo update has finished -> "Please restart your computer"

[sultangetin]

Hello, I was wondering if anybody could provide some help or insight into getting Snow Leopard to run on this laptop. The spec is as follows:

 

Dell Inspiron 15r (N5010)

 

CPU: Core i3 370M (2.4ghz, busratio=18 according to http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=49020 )

RAM: 3GB DDR3 Shared Dual Channel Memory (2gb + 1gb, some of it dedicated to graphics)

HDD: 320GB 5400RPM Sata HDD (AHCI in the BIOS)

Chipset: Mobile Intel® 5 Series Express Chipset (HM57, http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=43177 )

Graphics: Intel GMA HD, 1366x768

Wireless: Dell Wireless 1501 802.11 g/n (I assume this is a bcm43xx card)

Bluetooth: Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Internal (2.1+EDR) mini-card

Ethernet: I've determined that this is RTL8103e

 

What I've tried:

 

I first tried booting from the latest tonymac [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] (2.7 I believe), which would boot just fine, and allows me to complete the install of 10.6.3 (retail dvd).

 

After the install, I booted the HDD install using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] again, and got to a desktop with the following:

 

working -

sound (presumably with voodoohda from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url])

 

not working -

keyboard

trackpad

ethernet (not recognised at all)

wifi (not recognised at all)

bluetooth (not working, but it's visible under USB hubs on the system profiler)

video (only had 1024x768 as an option)

 

So I figured it might just need tonymac's [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to get most of the bits working, but first I tried to install the 10.6.6 combo update.

 

During the install of 10.6.6 (last 2-3 minutes of install) it crashed and gave me a "Please restart your computer" screen. After this, the HDD install wasn't bootable, so I played around a bit more with reinstalling using tonymac, but kept coming up against this problem, so gave up with that.

 

I also tried all sorts of combinations to specify the arch, busratio, legacy, -x, -f, -v, etc.

 

Next I tried nawcom's CD (3.1), which again let me boot the retail dvd, but this time it apparently picked up wireless/wired/sound and pre-patched the installer so I could select kexts.

 

As this is 10.6.3 installing and there isn't any i3 support until 10.6.4/10.6.5, nawcom also suggested the 'legacy_kernel' package, but I had issues with this failing the installer, so after a couple of tries decided not to use it.

 

When I got the installer to eventually succeed, and booted the HDD install again using nawcom (and selecting the legacy_kernel from the boot cd), I had the following:

 

working -

keyboard (voodoops2)

trackpad (voodoops2)

sound (voodoohda)

 

not working -

ethernet (listed as a device, and recognised presence of ethernet cable, but didn't function at all)

wifi (not recognised at all)

bluetooth (not working, but it's visible under USB hubs on the system profiler)

video (only had 1024x768 as an option)

 

nawcom automatically installed kexts and things to /Extra/

 

so I tried updating to 10.6.6, as I was running on legacy_kernal and wanted some mach_kernel, the installer for 10.6.6 went fine, so I rebooted

 

was unable to boot the installation after this, even with the nawcom cd, I had issues with the boot freezing around DSMOS, and constantly got stuck at this message:

 

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

 

even though I had a NullPowerManagement.kext in /Extra/Extensions/

 

I also tried all sorts of combinations to specify the arch, busratio, legacy, -x, -f, -v, etc.

 

 

So I'm not sure what I'm missing here. This laptop seems like it should be able to run Snow Leopard easily. I've previously successfully Hackintoshed a Dell Inspiron 1525 with everything working, and I'm writing this from a custom i5 Hackintosh build that I setup. So I'm clueless.

 

 

on which partition type u have installed MBR or GUID????

i m able to install iAtkos s3 v2 but not retail 10.6.0 on my MBR partition,

[chirionutz]

Look here for a successful tutorial: hhttp://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=18307

 

The update from 10.6.3 to 10.6.7 can be made from a cloned partition! Good luck!