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Dell Inspiron 9300 10.4.8 Dual Boot Guide w/ GeForce Go 6800


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This is the start to finish guide to get OSX 10.4.8 dual booting from a clean XP install on a Dell 9300 with the GeForce Go 6800 video card.

Special thanks for helping figure this out on my own

Dense

CPngN

Sportman

GimmeRed

Osxgus

And anyone else I forgot. Thank you.

 

Obtain the following:

Ultimate boot cd - search for it and burn the iso. its free.

Acronis Boot Selector – Part of the Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 – Obtain but don't install yet.

Partition Magic – Install this.

JaS.Mac.OS.X.10.4. 8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.S SE3.PPF.1.Defiant. diskutil.biker880. ich7-R.patch.Integrated iso

AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext – Get from here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;&do=findComment&comment=269312

 

Intel Pro 2200 wireless doesn't work but they are working on a driver here

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36976

Optional- I purchased a Dell Truemobile 1450 on the internet for $15. At the end I will include instructions on how I got this to work as well.

Get the IONetworkingFamily kext and the IOPciFamily kext from 10.4.3 from here for the Truemobile to work.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;&do=findComment&comment=245294

 

 

1st Step - Partition the Hard Drive

 

Start partition Magic

>> Click on ‘Resize/Move Partition

>> Move the slider to make the partition smaller and hit OK

>> Click on ‘Apply’

>> Close Partition Magic

 

4. Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

 

3. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

 

list disk

select disk [the number of your disk

create partition primary id=af

 

5. Close the command window.

 

Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

 

6. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

 

list disk

select disk [the number of your disk]

list partition

select partition [the number of your osx partition]

active (if this doesn’t work, try ’set active’ without quotes)

2nd step - Reboot and install Jas Installation Disk

 

once the install screen comes up... click on the top menu and find disk utility. click erase and on your new partiton you created and format it to mac journaled. Once it is done close the disk utility.

Pick the intel option, pick the nvidia drivers one, powermanagement, login 10.4.4 window, and biker880. Not exactly sure which customizable ones I needed but these worked for me.

 

Once it installs reboot.

 

3rd step - Getting rid of the grey error screen and getting your GeForce Go to work

 

on the reboot process where it says dell in big letters hit f8 over and over to bring up the screen.

 

move down and highlight your new osx drive

 

type -s and hit enter

 

it will do lots of things and then once it stops type what it tells you to. there should be 3 separate lines. type exactly what it says and then hit enter between each line.

the last line is /sbin/mount -uw /

that mounts the drive so it can be written to.

 

type this now:

cd /System/Library

sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

 

cd Extensions

 

sudo nano NVDAResMan.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

(scroll down to where it says string <string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff ... </string>

 

erase it down to <string>0x00c810de</string>

(-- press Control-O to save)

(-- press <Enter> to accept file name)

(-- press Control-X to exit)

 

sudo nano NVDANV40Hal.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

(scroll down to where it says string <string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff ... </string>

 

erase it down to <string>0x00c810de</string>

(-- press Control-O to save)

(-- press <Enter> to accept file name)

(-- press Control-X to exit)

sudo nano GeForce.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

(scroll down to where it says string <string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff ... </string>

 

erase it down to <string>0x00c810de</string>

(-- press Control-O to save)

(-- press <Enter> to accept file name)

(-- press Control-X to exit)

 

 

sudo chown -Rf root:wheel GeForce* NVDA* Titan*

sudo chmod -Rf 755 GeForce* NVDA* Titan*

diskutil repairPermissions /

 

reboot your computer.

 

4th step – Get Ethernet working

Browse to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/plugins

 

and delete AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext

Enter Password.

 

Drag the new AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext back into the Plugins folder.

Click Authenticate.

Enter Password.

 

Open Disk Utility and Click repair permissions.

 

reboot and you should be set to go.

 

5th Step– Installing the Boot Selector

boot into windows by pressing f8 at dell words at startup over and over.

if it won't come up pop in the ultimate boot cd and press f3 and then 3. choose the windows partition and hit enter.

 

install acronis boot selector and reboot.

it should detect and set up to boot both partitions.

 

Dell TrueMobile 1450 Airport Card

Browse to

 

System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents

 

Highlight and copy the Info.plist to the desktop.

After it is copied to the desktop, delete the info.plist

Enter password.

Open the Info.plist on the desktop with Textedit.

Scroll down to where it says

 

<string>pci14e4,4311</string>

<string>pci14e4,4318</string>

<string>pci14e4,4320</string>

 

Add this line in.

<string>pci14e4,4324</string>

 

File Save.

File Quit.

Drag Info.plist back into the Contents folder.

Click Authenticate.

Enter Password.

 

Browse to

System/Library/Extensions/

Place the new IONetworkingFamily kext and the IOPciFamily kext here.

Click Authenticate.

Enter Password.

Go to

Library/Preferences/SystemsConfigurations and drag your networkingInterfaces.plist

to your desktop and edit it with textedit.

Change to match all of the en0 to en1.

 

<key>BSD Name</key>

<string>en1</string>

<key>IOBuiltin</key>

<false/>

<key>IOInterfaceType</key>

<integer>6</integer>

<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>

<integer>1</integer>

<key>IOLocation</key>

<string></string>

<key>IOMACAddress</key>

<data>

ABSl2foI

</data>

<key>IOPathMatch</key>

<string>IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/PCIE@1E/IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci14e4,4319@3/AirPort_Brcm43xx/IO80211Interface</string>

</dict>

 

After you edit it drag your old .plist to the trashbin and drag the new one to it's place Authenticate

Open Disk Utility and Click repair permissions.

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