genx82 Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Hi, Do you think OSx86 will run ok on this machine? Specs seem pretty similar to the MBP SR, so maybe there won't we a lot of tweaking with drivers necesarry. Just wondering if someone has got some experience with this combo or could shed some light on this topic... Any input appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrapato Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 I´ll try to install the Mac OSX for the first time in a Dell Inspiron 1420, I think is the same as the 1520 but only 14.1" display. My laptop will arrive in 10 days so I have to wait I´ll be following this post, hope someone can install the OSX before my Dell arrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genx82 Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 Yeah, well the things is that I am doubting between a MBP and this Dell Inspiron 1520. The Dell is of course less expensive. I work a lot in Windows as well, but wanna use OS X for my DAW activities. It would help if I would know for sure that osx86 works well on this Dell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stncttr908 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 I'm thinking about a 1420. It looks promising considering the specs are nearly identical to the Macbook aside from the 8400 instead of the 8600. I'm hoping the driver development comes through there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
got no name Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Anyone tried installing OSX on the 1520 or 1420 in the meantime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0ne Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 got my 1520 today, will make a fresh install of vista then try to install osx uphuk 10.4.9 I will post back here when I'm done. I've got the 8600 gt card and the dell integrated wireless wich I think is a broadcom 4311. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0ne Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 ok, no succes with the uphuk universal 1.3 release, I think it is the same problem with APIC then people reported on the official tread. I'm currently trying the jas 10.4.8 and if that succeed will then try to upgrade to a more recent kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
got no name Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 I think about buying a Dell Laptop in the next days, so it would be very nice if you can post again after you tried some more ways to get it work. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 in uphuck there are couple of kernel flavors,.... somewhere read, to remove powermanagment,... maybe some ACPI S1, S3 settings in bios,.. love to see some results, including the graphics card working,... for testing, without messing up the work/windows ,... use a external usb drive, and disconnect the internal drive,.. thinking of the dell vostro 1700, since it has dual drive bays, where I can keep one disk for windows and work, and the other drive for osx only,... and can you list the chipsets ,... from the hardware device manager ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrapato Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Ok, so I receive my Dell Inspiron 1420 yesterday and I started to mess with it. I wanted a dual boot (XP Pro/OSX) (I am following this tutorial: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Simple_Dual_Boot & http://tgrounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/osx86-on-pc.html) First I tried to format the disk and install XP Pro (I needed for the office) and then install the OSX86. The first problem was that XP didn´t reconized the HD, It was so frustrating, I erased some partitions, make other ones, format, etc. but nothing works so I had to read some forums.... Today I found the problem, in the bios you have to change the configuration of you HD from SATA to ATA... Go to the bios by pressing F2 (doh) and turn off "flash card module" in the Onboard Devices>Flash Card Module and then change the SATA for ATA under Onboard Devices>SATA Operation. Then you can install XP like usual. No here comes important part, installing the OSX86 for my first time... and I can´t do it I have the same problem as geOne... the installation stucks in IOAPIC part... I am using JAS 10.4.8... I remove, in the bios, all wireless devices, the speed step off, multicore off, powermanagment off and nothing works.... I think it´s time to read more Can someone sucessfully install the OSX86 in the new inspiron dells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 a better chance is, to have a osx install on another machine to a usb drive,... can even use carbon copy cloner, (don't forget to donate for the shareware) test it out so it boot from that machine from the usb drive,... then boot the dell 1520, 1420 or dell vostro 1400 1500 1700 from the usb drive,.... now at least not dependant from the install disk, and should be much easier, to boot with -v or -v -s and remove the problem kext, most likly the powermanagment, can you list the hardware ID's from you laptop, and chipset names, that will help debug it, cpu single/ booth cores active ? graphics card in laptop ? ID, chipset disk in machine, ID , model, wireless, make model, ID, interface (pci or express) ethernet chipset, ID sound chipset, ID touchpad , ID, model ? think all the ID's you get from control panel device manager, the chipset , probaly from the driver notes , currently looking at the dell 1720 or dell vostro 1700 with nvidia 8400m or 8600m possible also on the safe side just intel X3100, what can handle 1920x1200 VLC playback too, keep it posted Ok, so I receive my Dell Inspiron 1420 yesterday and I started to mess with it. I wanted a dual boot (XP Pro/OSX) (I am following this tutorial: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Simple_Dual_Boot & http://tgrounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/osx86-on-pc.html) First I tried to format the disk and install XP Pro (I needed for the office) and then install the OSX86. The first problem was that XP didn´t reconized the HD, It was so frustrating, I erased some partitions, make other ones, format, etc. but nothing works so I had to read some forums.... Today I found the problem, in the bios you have to change the configuration of you HD from SATA to ATA... Go to the bios by pressing F2 (doh) and turn off "flash card module" in the Onboard Devices>Flash Card Module and then change the SATA for ATA under Onboard Devices>SATA Operation. Then you can install XP like usual. No here comes important part, installing the OSX86 for my first time... and I can´t do it I have the same problem as geOne... the installation stucks in IOAPIC part... I am using JAS 10.4.8... I remove, in the bios, all wireless devices, the speed step off, multicore off, powermanagment off and nothing works.... I think it´s time to read more Can someone sucessfully install the OSX86 in the new inspiron dells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrapato Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Thank you for your help rschultz101. Ok, I am having some problems with the hardware in XP (nothing new here)... the 1420 comes with Vista and there is not to much support for XP in Dell site, so I am looking the drivers in some sites. One HUGE problem is that I don´t have another machine right now to install the OSX. Ok, here it is the info of my machine: Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz) /ID 06FD/--- I checked with CPUz and this use SSE2 & SSE3 1GB Share Dual Channel DDR2@667MHz (2 dimms) Video: Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Audio: Sigmatel 9228 Wireless: Intel Pro 3945 ABG LAN: Broadcom Netlink Fast Ethernet Modem: Conexant HDA D330 MDC HD: Toshiba MK80 3765X (80Gb) DVD: TSST Corp. DVD+-RW TS-LG32D I hope this info will be ok so you can help me , thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Roth Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Has anyone had success with this yet? I'm wanting a 1520, but would hate to get it and be stuck without OS x86. Thanks for help and replies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0ne Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I've been able to sucessfully installed jas 10.4.8 and jas combo update but did not started to tweek anything yet. wireless, ethernet and sound should be easy to fix. graphis and accelaration are not yet available but i'm confident it will be soon. especially with 8600m since mac book pro are using it. strange that you where not able to install with a 1420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrapato Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Hi ge0ne, its good to hear that you installed the OSX in you Dell, this news give me hope. Its strange that I can´t install it in my 1420, can you please tell me you hardware configuration and the JAS release that you used? (there is one with PPF1 and PPF2). Do you have any advice for my problem? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
got no name Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 @ge0ne - Do you have both cores enabled? - Your wireless controller is NOT the "Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g", isn´t it? Here in europe@dell you only can choose between "Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g" and "Intel® Wireless-N". I don´t really know what´s better regarding osx86 compatibility. Any ideas? I want to place my order tomorrow, but i´m not sure about the wireless thing. Thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0ne Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 ok, i've got good news, just installed with the uphuk v1.4i works pretty good. I've installed only the base system no patches at all almost everything works out of the box! ok the 8600m gt is not yet supported, no one have been able to make it work yet I think, BUT both core are working, wireless is working with 1390 sound is not working will try later to fix that sigmatel 9205 chipset, ethernet is not working but should be easy to fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axet Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 great news ! thanks for keeping us informed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
got no name Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 @ge0ne Very nice :censored2: Has your 1520 got the new centrino-generation(santa rosa) platform? I´m not sure if the 1520/1420 is available with and without santa rosa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0ne Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 yes it is santa rosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Mario Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 thanks ge0ne...im getting a vostro 1400 delivered soon...and hopefully there will be a solution for the 8400gs/8600gt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultrapato Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I am very angry, I tried to install the OSX in my 1420 with 3 different versions: Jas 10.4.8 for Intel, Jas 10.4.8 for intel with ppf and Uphunk 10.4.9 v1.3.... alll of this hang in the second black screen in the line IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23... I don´t know what to do, in the bios I select only one core and disable speedstep... Does anybody knows what can I do? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 ultrapato,.... try from an usb dvd drive,... or take sata disk out, and install from a desktop pc,... at install, when no disk is available, use diskutil and in options select mbr, or partition in windows, and convert with diskutil, the graphics worry me, since I could not get x3100 resolution changeon gigabyte motherboard, and the 8600m is questionable to work with natit,.... guess it's to new, anybody out there with a dell vostro 1500, 1520, 1700, 1720, 1400, 1420 ? please post, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ge0ne Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 ultrapotato, try with uphuck v1.4i, installed fine on my 1520, the v1.3 would not install either. good luck. as far as I know the 8600m is not working yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadteck Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I am attempting the install on my Vostro 1400 now. I was disappointed because the first disk I burned gave me an error and would not continue. But having been through this a few times before, I decided to try another. Make sure that you use conservative settings to burn your install disk. Also, I have had better luck with DVD+R's and OSX86. I don't know if it's just been a coincidence that the drives in my notebooks have worked better with them, or if it has something to do with the kernel used for the installer. Whatever the cause: 16x DVD-R burned @ 16x = fail within 10 seconds. 16x DVD+R burned @ 8x = going through the install now and will see how it turns out. Try re-burning on the opposite type of media (like I said, I've had better luck with +R's) with conservative burn speed for the media, and good luck. I have burned tons of DVD-Rs on this drive at 16x and have never had an issue besides OSX86 installs. Edit: Install finished just fine with similar results to ge0ne: Ethernet, Wireless, Sound, Video are not working "out of the box". The Webcam and Bluetooth are working though. The only thing I tried to get working so far was the wireless (Intel Wireless N). I found http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/ which seems to be the only option for a driver for the 4965, and it doesn't seem to fully work, although I still need to mess with it more. Edit 2: I've read numerous times that OSX86 won't work on a Logical partition but I have it working with no problems. This might be an issue only with older versions, or it could be that certain hardware/bios combos don't allow it to work properly, but I was able to get it working using Vista to shrink the original OS partition and diskpart to create an extended partition and a logical partition with id=af. I didn't feel like wiping out the Dell recovery partition yet, so I gave it a shot and it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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