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Installing Lion on a Dell Dimension e520 troubles


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Hello!

 

Yesterday I installed OS X 10.7.0 (and then updated) on my Dell XPS M1530 laptop. It was a big learning curve for me being my first hackintosh but things went fairly well. I even managed to get wireless working via USB adapter by ROSEWILL model RNX-N180UB. It works great under all windows and OS X (10.4,10.5,10.6,10.7). There were only drivers for 10.6 on the Rosewill website but upon installing them I've found they work fine in lion and my USB adapter that I paid $10 for gets 30 Mbps download / 5 Mbps upload 30 feet and one floor away from my router! The only thing that is not working yet is sleep mode, the computer will sleep but not wake up. This however is not the purpose of my post!

 

I am writing this post to help my friend get LION installed on his Dell Dimension e520.

 

We tried using the guide on this site

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=263912

 

However when I get to the part where it wants me to type: sudo mkboot "/Volumes/USBINSTALLER/" it gives me a bash error stating that "sudo: mkboot: Command not found.

 

I am not sure why it says that....

 

so we decided instead to try installing using the iATKOS L2 dvd

 

It installed just fine but after installing (when it went to reboot the first time) it just hangs after a while...

 

using the -v boot switch shows that it is still waiting on root device. Basically OSX can't see the hard drive.

 

We tried all the boot flags (-v -s -x -f) and rd=disk0 (every combination as well) and it still hangs.

 

There is no where in this bios to set AHCI mode for the SATA drives.... his bios is currently 2.2.1 and we are updating it to 2.4.0 but I dont think this was the issue.

 

 

I am attaching a screen shot of the terminal windows as well as pictures taken with my andriod phone of the waiting on root screen and an ADIA64 system report.

 

Report.txt is the one from ADIA64 Extreme... the other is from a utility on the hiren boot cd. Did both just incase.

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Report.txt

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