sk93 Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk93 Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 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!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 no Qe/ci = no dvd player.. no hardware graphics acceleration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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