Dell Latitude E5500 - ACPI Error

[sk93]

Hi Guys,

 

After reading quite a lot of guides, I thought I'd give this a crack on a couple of the laptops I own, but am getting next to nowhere

 

 

As seems to be the norm, I'll start by listing as much of my computer's specs as possible:

 

Model: Dell Latitude E5500

RAM: 3GB

CPU: Intel Core2 Duo T7250 @ 2.00ghz

HDD: WD SATA 80GB (Model: MHZ2080BH G2)

GPU: Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

 

DVD Drive: HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GT10N ATA Device

LAN Card: Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller

WiFi Card: Intel® WiFi Link 5100 AGN

 

 

These are the initial steps I followed:

 

Burned [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.2.0 to single-layer DVD using MagicISO

Turned on ACHI mode in the BIOS, but didn't adjust anything else, as it was already set to boot from cd/dvd first, and I'm not sure that anything else needs to be changed? (I'll try and screenshot all BIOS screens in a few minutes)

Inserted [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] dvd, turned laptop on and waited for [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] to load

Once I had the "[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]" disk icon on screen, I ejected the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disk, stuck in my Leopard disk and waited for it to spin up - then pressed F5

Made sure the Leopard disk was selected and pressed enter

 

I then get a black screen with the error

 

can't find mach_kernel

 

 

I can press enter at this point, and it returns to the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] "select your boot device icon thingy" screen.

 

 

Initially I thought I'd got myself a dodgy burn of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], so tried another copy using Nero, burned with a different laptop, but got the same result.

 

 

I then tried "[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] legacy", which got me a BIT further (i think).

Following the same steps as above with the legacy disk, produces the following error:

 

 

unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".

 

 

 

From there, I started searching in and around these forums for things to try.

The boot switches (things you enter at the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] screen) I tried were as follows:

• PCIRootUID=1
  
• PCIRootUID=1 -x
  
• -x
  
• acpi=off
  
• ACPI=off
  

 

All of which produced the same results each and every time.

 

 

 

I then went on to try booting with the "OSX ModCD", which produced the same results as the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Legacy disk...

 

 

Here's a photo of the panic:

 

 

 

And here's a few of the BIOS:

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone have any clues as to what I'm doing wrong - or what I need to change to get a bit further?

 

Cheers in advance

[LatinMcG]

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...p;fileid=409659

 

A16 bios.. u have A06

thats an UEFI bios not a standard.. likely will work. seen any guides for it ?

 

sucks that the video is intel 4500 = not properly supported.

[sk93]

brilliant - I'll try the latest BIOS and see what's what

 

Yeah :/ I've read about the gfx card... it'll still "work" tho won't it, I just wont get decent performance from it?

 

 

 

(ps- thanks for the reply!)

[LatinMcG]

no Qe/ci = no dvd player.. no hardware graphics acceleration