Ok folks, my Dell XPS 410 shipped tonight and should be here in a few days. I am kinda excited about my new purchase although a little sick at actually spending money on a Dell. But hey... the price was right. I would have bought another iMac (like my wife's) but Apple didn't want to give my 18 months no interest. So I am purchasing from the enemy.

I have been compiling information about this system in an attempt to ease the pain of others who might want to purchase a XPS 410 and run OsX86 on their new toy. Of course, I won't actually know anything concrete about installing/running OsX86 on it until it actually arrives at my house. Anyone else with a XPS 410 please feel free to join in the fray.

To start off let me link to the technical information and known factual information.

Service Manual - View in new Window

The CPU in my unit is a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz. I have read mixed reviews of the core 2 duos working properly with both cores under OsX86. I'll not know until my new system arrives. It's a shame the Dell isn't down with overclocking, the E6600 is supposed to be a overclocking beast.

The system is glued together by the Intel P965 Express Chipset. The new 965 chipset does not contain native support for standard ATA IDE interfaces. This means that the DVD-RW (as well as the hard drive) in my new system will be SATA II. Installing a fresh Install on this machine might be impossible without adding additional hardware. Some white box main boards will have 3rd party ATA IDE controller chip installed for ATA/IDE support, but this is known to not work with OsX86. The XPS 410 does not have a 3rd party ATA/IDE chipset on the board.

The hard drive and DVD-RW model and brand are unknown at this point. I'll fill in the blanks later.

This system ships with a PCI-e Geforce 7300LE video card. I am replacing it with my trusty Sapphire Radeon x1600Pro PCI-e card. The Geforce 7300le will be set aside for now and not used. The monitor my system comes with is the 1907FPC which has both analogue VGA and DVI hookups. It looks like a good midrange 19inch 4:3 ratio LCD. I couldn't afford the 20 inch wide screen Hopefully I should be good with the monitor supporting both display inputs.

The network is an Integrated Intel 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection, which to the best of my knowledge is NOT supported by OsX86. I didn't see anything in the wiki about it, but I have a feeling it's not going to work.

The Audio is driven by the Sigmatel 9227 audio codec, which also is not supported by OsX86 (yet). From what I understand progress is being made. Good luck to those working on it. I have a USB Sound Blaster I will be using in the meantime. Please Correct me if i am wrong about this not working.

Update: 02-08-2007 - Audio is now working for 10.4.8 / kernel 8.8.1 users.
Use the linux Sigmatel 9227 dump (located here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry295155 )
along with the AppleHDA Patcher (located here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...859&hl=9227 ) and it will work. I also have been told you NEED the latest DaemonES Kernel 8.8.1 for the 1.13 patcher to work. YMMV.

I am adding another 250GB hard drive to compliment the 250GB it comes with. The XPS 410 chassis seems to have 2 bays for SATA II Hard Drives. I am filling them both with 250GB drives for a total of 500GB.

I am also adding my PCI linksys broadcom-based wireless card. I know it works because I am using it right now.

Update: 02-08-2007 - My PCI linksys broadcom-based wireless card worked under 10.4.7 but not under 10.4.8/kernel 8.8.1 . Oh well. No wireless for me.

My unit comes stock with one GB of DDR2 667Mhz ram. 2 out of 4 slots free. I'll be adding more ram as soon as I can.

Again, At this point all I can say is that something is either known or not known to work. I'll have the full run down when my new system arrives.

So hopefully I'll get my new toy and everything will 'just work' with OsX86. If not I'll put the Geforce 7300le back in and it'll be one hell of a linux box.

Please forgive my typos and errors . As always, Comments welcome.

Update: 12-12-2006 - I am working on the Guide for this system. At this point I don't have everything working. Since I am getting symbol errors form the newer kernels on a varity of kext drivers it is becoming incresingly difficult to make things work. In hindsight buying a premade non-Apple system for a Mac/Hackintosh was probably not the best idea. But, as they say, the show must go on...

Future updates will be in this thread and referenced to in this first post.

Interesting Links I may or may not have used.
965 Install DVD Patch - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34938

From what Dell's website says it should be delivered tomorrow.

I'll have a full hardware review and all the information I can cram into a text box shortly thereafter.

slave-zeo, I see in your sig that you now have 10.4.8-is this the new kernel and was it a clean install? I am considering getting an XPS410 just like this one and was wondering what all hardware I would have to buy with it to get it 100% working with a fresh install of the new kernel 10.4.8. It looks like at least a sound card and network card? Would I need a firewire card also?

Thanks

I'm in the same boat too. I'm thinking of getting a new Dell and was looking for feedback for a OSX compatible machine.

I was told either this machine, or a e520.

slave-zeo is putting together a how-to for this machine and will post it along with some benchmarks as soon as he gets them done.
I'm hoping it will work with the new 10.4.8 JAS install with the new kernel without too many patches or extra hardware.

great! i'll look forward to seeing the guide.

Well, we know that sound and lan aren't going to work. Also, the ICH8 chipset isn't completely supported as of yet, so installation would need to be done using a usb dvd drive, as the ide ports do not work.

Actually, I couldn't even get it to install on a USB hard Drive and there are NO ide ports at all on the XPS410. The VMware method was not so fruitful either.

I had to do some hardware swapping to get it to initially install. But after the trouble was over it was SO worth it. It's fast as hell.

Guide forthcoming. Sit tight.

may i ask what you had to swap out for hardware?

yeh, i really want to get this accomplished and to my dismay there were no ide ports and compatibility for the hardware yet.

well 10.4.8 didnt give me the waiting for root devices error like other disc images. I get it installed but when i load up the software does not recognize keyboard or mouse.

Ok mouse and keyboard work dont install usb patch. now to figure out the sound network.

thanks for the updates!

Hi!
I've been struggling to get past "waiting for root device" on a Dell Dimension E520 Core2Duo.

Every install disk I've tried (myzar 10.4.5, goatsecx 10.4.6 and even JaS 10.4.8 reseed with latest kernel) , native, or through vmware has failed to get even to the installation screen!

I have three SSE2 machines at home running various OSX86 versions without major problems, and I honestly thought this SSE3 PC would be simple with latest kernel and possible NATIT support of the ATI x1300 (I HOPE?? ).

I have an id=af partition all ready for OSX once it gets past the root device wait, but I have not followed any of the guide in this thread yet, as it's a work PC, and changing the raid and/or swapping sata ports is risky if I end up messing up the XP install!

So will following the guide in post1 of this thread help me?
Do I need to get some sort of usb->sata convertor?

I would really appreciate any advice or guidance, once I get to the install screen i'll be fine...

Thanks in advance.
NewTrax

There is no guide in the first post (yet), just a commentary on the hardware and its compatibility.

Try putting your IDE hard drive and IDE DVD drive on the same cable with the hard drive set to master and the DVD drive set to slave using jumpers, not cable select.

If that fails, then try the VMWare method to install to your hard drive for native booting: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314

Thanks for your reply Rammjet.

I actually meant to link to the first post of THIS thread:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...20root%20device

Not really sure what the motherboard in this Dell actually is, but both the HD & DVD are SATA ONLY, and I thought maybe swapping them to different ports or colors might help?

Do SATA devices still have master/slave jumpers?

I have already tried the VMWARE guide, but still "waiting for root device" unfortunately.
I thought that as both the HD and DVD are emulated as IDE within vmware, that would side-step the SATA only issue?

Next things I might try...
1. Reset BIOS SATA from RAID/AUTO to AUTO (I don't think RAID is being used as there is only one harddrive anyway)
2. Swap SATA ports around.
3. Buy a real Mac ?!?!?

Any more advice is welcome!

I am still working on the guide BUT I have opened another can of worms with network drivers.

It looks like a WHOLE LOT of unresolved symbol errors form the 8.8.1 kernel on both my broadcom/ralink PCI wireless and my recently working 3com 905c PCI.

fun fun fun.

I guess I can cut this into smaller chunks and eventually make a whole guide out of it.

To get this installed on my Dell XPS 410 I had to physically take the included hard drive out or the system and connect it to another system for the installation. I hooked it to an Intel 945 chipset main board, but anything that is known working for OSX86 will do.

I used a PS2 connected Mouse and Keyboard to avoid any post installation USB woes (the XPS 410 DOES NOT have and PS2 ports for mice adn keyboards, only USB). My Harddrive was connected to the SATA 0 on the Intel 945 based board. Upon booting the Newer Jas 10.4.8 install DVD from an ATA connected DVD-ROM drive (jumppered master on the secondary ATA channel) I was able to load the installer and complete the install without a hitch. For installation I made the following choices from the installation screen. Wording on the packages might be little off since I am going from memory. I'll get proper wording on my next install.

- JaS.10.4.8.Combo.Update
- INTEL.SSE3.mifki
- INTEL.ICH8.SATA.Support
- USB soundblaster support

I had to choose the mifki Kernel because the included semthex would go tits up on boot. I also DID NOT isntall the USB support patch.

I installed the great driver pack for the Gigabyte GA-965P boards, being made for a 965 based board it shares a lot with our XPS 410s. I didn't install the whole thing, only the USB and ICH8 SATA stuff. You can download it below and dont forget to thank Pion for it.
http://rapidshare.com/files/3117240/gigaby...3-4pack.1.2.dmg

I also installed Natit for full video support on my included PCIe 16x GeForce 7300 video card. I later upgraded the 7300 to a 7900 GS and it still works fine. Natit can be found below.
http://dm.freeflux.net/projects/natit/

After getting it ready on the Intel 945 baord I was ready to move the hard drive back ot its home in my XPS 410.

More on this later...

Thanks a lot for your detailed instructions, but I'm really not going to be able to connect the drive to another SATA capable OSX system.

Is there NO way to get past my "waiting for root device" by swapping SATA ports or using VMWARE ????

What about if I get a SATA->USB adapter or another PATA HD connect using a SATA->PATA adapter?

Truthfully I Never did get the VMWare method to work on this machine, not under windows or linux OR with version 10.4.7 or 10.4.8. I could boot to the DVD from a USB connected DVD-ROM drive BUT the SATA channels do not show up without the ICH8 patch installed, SO there was no hard drive to physically install to from my USB connected DVD drive. IF someone could make an Install DVD with ICH8 support from the get go you could probably pop in the disc and install just fine (when booting form a USB connected DVD-ROM drive, that is).

Also, I don't think the Sound or LAN will ever work on the XPS 410.

I am working on the second part of the how-to right now and should have it online this evening.

On a side note, on the way to work this morning I got the bright idea to make a dd image of a CLEAN/PATCHED OS X 10.4.8 w/8.8.1 kernel to make a linux based install DVD to act as a XPS410 restore disc of sorts. I am going to look into it more tonight when i get home from work. dd is a great tool and should be able to get the job done with minimal manual coding (aside form a few shell scripts to write the image back to an hard drive from a restore DVD) on my part. I was planing on including only the needed patches and since everyone XPS410 is pretty much the same it should work across the board. Any Thoughts?

Thanks for explaining the "root" cause of my problem - ICH8 support only happens AFTER installation, but is needed IMMEDIATELY to even get to the install screen.

I haven't had any problems booting off directly off my SATA DVD, I just can't get as far as the GUI install screen, because of "waiting for root device".

The disk image copying method would be cool (or even a vmware image with the ICH8 patch maybe?), but ideally a bootable DVD with the native ICH8 support would be best.

thanks again, but without LAN support it's sounding pointless for my work office needs (vmware would do though).

Working on that now. I can't get VMware to work for me BUT I can provide a raw DD image of the partition. You can use what ever other OS you have to DD the image back to a hard drive of your choosing. I'll make the image and test it tonight, It should only work on XPS410 systems though.



I was able to get Network access by putting my 3COM 905c card back in the bottom PCI slot, disabling the onboard NIC, and playing with the IONetworkfamily.kext's permissions. I was getting the 'different subclass' error (or something like that) initially with the onboard NIC enabled. DIsabling seemed to make a difference.

And Speaking of Networking, I can't wait for ralink drivers to become working again. Prasysis is working on the USB and PCI, see http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=33896

I also updated the Kernel to the 'latest build' using Praysis's update script located at http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=33039

Another issue I am having is the audio from the onboard (sigmatel 9227). I am fully aware it won't work BUT it does show up in the preference pane's sound settings and in the audio and midi device application in the Utilities folder. I just get no output form it. I tried all ports on the back and the two on the front with no luck. drat. In the meantime i an using my trusty Soundblaster external USB adapter. It works great but I hate having to us a USB port for it.

yea doesnt look good for audio or network. i broke down and bought a cheap usb sound card and the netgear ga311 gigabit nic card - total of 20 bucks. i am hoping sum drivers will arise for the 9227 so i dont have to jack anymore. but on a good note windows is my secondary os.

Has anyone made any progress? I've been watching this thread with high hopes...

nope onboard nic and sound still a no go. i dont think there will ever be a fix for it. if sum1 out there is working on it please post a note on this thread to give some hope .

I am reloading XPS 410 tongiht with the new install DVD form demonoid to see what has changed. I'll let you know what's up when I get finished tonight.

There ARE reports of the Sigmatel 9227 working with Taruga's audio driver thingie.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry295155
I'll make the needed linux dump file and post it here if it works for our systems. In the meantime there is a dump file attached to the above post. You can try it first.

I am shooting for dual head video too. Again, I'll let you know how that goes.

The only thing left burning my ass is the onboard ethernet. It's looking most grim for it's well being.

IT WORKED!

We now have audio from the built in Sigmatel 9227 audio chip on our Dell XPS 410 systems. No more need for external sounds cards, USB or otherwise.

Use the linux Sigmatel 9227 dump (located here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry295155 )
along with the AppleHDA Patcher (located here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...859&hl=9227 ) and it will work.

Sound Glorious Sound.

Now we need to tackle the Network issue.

haha woot i just found out about 5 minutes ago {censored} my pants! thought id post it on here but ya beat me . no only to get the 82566 to work. btw slave may i ask how you ended up installing osx. only dvd that would boot up for me is the 10.4.8 intel sse3 only dvd. hit me back on pm or on here.

Nice, very nice. I've only loaded OSx86 on my old computer which went smoothly. I tried to do the same with the XPS 410 with the latest JAS I found at the time. Needless to say, it did not work. Can you please post which version of the install was used. Also did you use a USB DVD-ROM or did you use a SATA to IDE adapter?

One more thing, I have two 250GB drives striped. Will I be able to load OSx86 with this configuration?

Thanks

jas 10.4.8 sse3 intel only dvd booted up and installs fine for me i am curious how others have done this. check your bios and make sure its not set to only raid - prevents xp pro from loading dont know bout osx.

I just got my XPS 410 and am really excited about getting OS X to run on it, Let keep this thread going.

Things I have found:
1. Booting from the internal DVD drive yields root device "error". Once I get that, I move the DVD to my external USB DVD drive and the boot continues (try doing that in windows installer). Then OS X Installer launches, however, it sees no drives! This is with JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3.iso

2. Doing the above, but w/ an iso that is patched w/ http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=42317 I get an error right away about how it was unable to load the main menu or something like that. I'm pretty sure i don't have this patched all correctly and am looking for things I missed.

3. When I try to boot in VM, I can't just point the cd-rom to the iso file, I have to burn it to a disk and then point the cd-rom to the physical dvd drive I have in. It boots up completely from there in the VM. I perform the install (with the unpatched JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 iso), which competes, but upon bootup after installation I receive a kernel panic "unable to find driver for this platform: "ACPI"". I haven't begun digging for this one yet. FYI, I also added a scsi drive to see if it would show up in the installer, it doesn't.

xplizid, I am trying to get the 10.4.8 sse3 intel only iso, but it's slow going and it looks like I may have it done by tomorrow. Did you have to patch it at all or was it no issues from start to finish?

Thanks for the info!

boots up great for me in both my cd and dvd drive. when your in the menu and it doesnt show your hd's go to the menu bar and select disk utility select your drive or partition and select erase to mac extended journaled, that will mount your hd for install. not sure if you did that or not. but i dont think i patched the dvd. if i did it was the jmicrom ide patch (once again i dont think i did). gl.

Regarding the Disk Util, yes, I had ran it and no discs were there. Again, this was for the other iso that you aren't using, I am still d/ling the Intel only iso.

I got my VM installation a little further, I did not know you had to go in and select packages. Now the machine boots up, sits and churns at the gray screen for about 5-10 minutes then hangs. I read about it on one of the threads, I have about 20 tabs up right now, just need to figure out which one it was.

If that doesn't work, the Intel only iso has me fairly optimistic. I'll reply with what I find.

-drew

Well, I finally got JaS.10.4.8.SSE3.Intel.Only.iso. However, when booting off of it in the VM it goes directly to a gray apple screen and freezes. When I boot off of it w/ my physical machine it goes to the gray apple screen, circle spins and then 30 seconds later i get a circle w/ a slash through it, a big C.B.

Any ideas?

Is this after install or on boot up of dvd? if you press f8 be4 after selecting boot dvd put it into verbose mode, -v. i am all most certain you got a waiting for root devices. i have one idea you can try going into your bios (f2 at start up of computer) - performance - and select multicore support off. other than that i am out of ideas, why is it the dvd only boots for me??? Whats your drives are they the same as mine?
alot of good info on waiting for root devices
set hdd to primary master seems to have done the trick for a lotor remove a kext that skips the check all together ima read further and try this out on other install disks c if any of it worx.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...or+root+devices

Ok, The other image I was using was doing -v by default apparently. You were right, waiting for root device. Put the cd in my USB dvd and it finished booting. Installer came up but still no drives visible in the disk utility.

I remembered reading a thread about disabling RAID in the bios. I'm not using raid so I didn't think it would really matter. I changed the RAID option in the bios from ON to Auto and it booted completely right from the internal dvd drive! And of course all my sata drives are visible in the disk utility now. I'm not sure how windows will react if I boot up and not be on the RAID controller now. It may update the drivers, it may blue screen, I'll save that one for later after I get OS X up and running.

I'm going to clear the drive I have set aside for OS X and try installing.

Incidently, not that it especially matters at this point, drive configuration is DVD-Rom, DVD-RW, 500 GB Sata, 300 GB Sata (Had previous to system), 160 Gb Sata (Had previous to system).

Thanks!

yea i have mine set to auto as well. because the windows that came with dell was media edition, so i removed it and put a clean version of xp pro on which only would work with auto detect ata and raid. glad to see it worx for ya now.

I seem to be having a similar issue I had w/ the VM on the other image. The install completed, when it boots back up the HD grinds for about 5 minutes and then appears to hang. Have you ehard of this before?

So close...

Ok, i did -v when it was booting up, post install. I see a few things that may be relevant:

1. kextd_watch_volumes: coulnd't set up diskarb sessions
2. diskarb isn't ready yet, we'll try it again soon

This repeats a few times, then a couple items launch (loginwindow and Direcotry Service), and then it's done. It even appears to power down the HDs due to idle. If i push the power button the HD revs up again and the system is put into sleep/suspend mode.

Damn, it's just one issue after another....

I got past the previous problem. I re-installed and unchecked hardware drivers I did not need (ATI) and did not use Semthex, use Mifki. Originally I checked everything (rememebr, I'm totally new to all this ).

Now I get past the Welcome screen, but it does not see my keyboard or mouse. I think the thread started also said he did not use the USB patch. I am going to try the install again, w/out USB patch.

It works!@!@@!##@!

Unchecking the USB patch was the final part. Now I've just got to learn a completely new OS....

What are you guys doing for the NIC? I added a PCI card (3COM 3c905) in after the install. Are there drivers on there for it? Or do i have to do some sort of scan for it to see it properly?

Is there anything I can do for the video? Sometimes it gets a little squirrelly and does not redraw correctly.

Thanks,
Drew

hmm my post didnt work. again lol. only patches on install needed is 10.4.8 update, semthex kernel, ICH8 patch, and 10.4.8 window optional.
All info needed is in our signatures.
No solution for onboard NIC.

Hey, thanks a lot for everyone's help. The last few fixes made it possible to actually switch over full time to OS X. I think I'll play in this world for a while.

Incidentally, I never got the 3com NIC to work, most things I found said there were no unix based drivers for it. I ended up getting a Linksys USB NIC that I have laying around for emergencies to work.

-drew

Sorry for my multiple posts on this issue.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=42873

This board, for some reason, didn't come up with this thread. "G965 Express" is what I should have searched -- "doh" says this newbee.

I get that apple plist not found error and in dire straits -- I need this system running!!

Anyhoo, this is where I am with my dell e520, which sould alot like this other dell being discussed:
* Intel® G965 Express Chipset
* 256MB PCI ExpressTM NVIDIA® GeForce® 7300LE TurboCache7
* ATI X1300 Pro 256MB
* Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 (Intel® GMA X3000)
* Intel® G965 Express Chipset
* Intel® Pentium® D 805 with Dual-Core Technology (2.66GHz, 533FSB)

Are the specs. 2 gig memory, and an internal, unformated 250 sata -- which bios does see.

I've tried turning off one processor, I changed in BIOS something about speed boot -- NADA -- no boot.

I've seen many plist posts, but not one that fixes the thing. I can create an editable disk image in disk utility. If I did so, could I fix the install plist?

My bios has few options -- if I try and make my external a boot, nada, even though it is a SuperDuper! copy of Jas 1.047.

I have a G4 mac as current sytem, to make the Dell Windows run -- I'll do it if I must -- but I want to make a mac only system, and install parallels -- and copy the entire drive to be safe!

I am awaiting 10.48 downloads, I killed all my older downloads -- I have days to go -- and will seed for days once I have it. I have a 10.47, will turn of raid, and try.

Any suggestions, please let me know. I'm using the internal drive but:

I get that apple plist not found error -- so I'm turning of raid, burning a new 10.47. Wish me luck. I'm a single dad, need a new mid range mac -- and $1500 isn't on my budget. Apple and their crap, unupgradeable, low end systems with mini-drives and built in screens --WTF?!!

So please help! Please! Kids get G4 out this, not a G3 their age.

Please let me know if there is an install guide -- with what torrent. If need be, I'll buy an external USB CD rom. My system is SATA, and has cables that go into mother board -- gods only know the set-up. I'll check over the next few days of this next install fails.

you know i have a brand new similarly spec Dimension 9200 which i believe is the same as the XPS 410 with a different name.

I haven't been able to get the inatller to load properly, and this whole time i'm assuming that OSx86 cannot find my SATA HD. however, the above quote leads me to believe that what is causing these "waiting for foot device" messages seems to be the SATA DVD-Ram drive.

meanwhile i've had had an external DVD-Ram drive 3 feet away from me up until 2 hours ago and it never once occurred to me to try it out. of course, it sounds like even when the installer program finally does boot properly, the SATA HD is having trouble being recognized. still, i am so excited by what i read in this thread that i sort of glossed over all the basics.

tomorrow i will move the external DVD drive back onto my desk and try it out. havnt partitioned my HD yet so i am in no way ready to install osx -- but at this point i can't even get to the installer -- so i figure i still have a good deal of work to do.

meanwhile, a PC w\ out a working ethernet NIC is pretty useless to me so until we can get the Intel 82566 to work -- but this is progress. i funny thing is i only found this thread after doing a search for the 82566 NIC. i wish i'd found it one week sooner.

thanks again for this very useful information.

i wish you lots of luck getting everything to work on yr systems.

CMM.

cmm3, try going into the bios and changing the RAID from Always ON to Auto. More than likely this will get you past the waiting for root device error. And to me it's worth running out and getting a USB nic to play in OS X. Make sure whatever you pick up has drivers for OS X.

Also, what iso are you using? xplizid and i had great luck the the intel only iso, you just have to select the correct options when installing.

-drew

so i noticed just the other day that my superdrive which is the TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-H553A does not burn cd's in itunes. any1 else have this problem or do you guys have a different one because i got dual drives.

xplizid, i am unable to burn anything at all w/ my internal drive. my external usb drive, however, works great. i was going to ask you how you got yours to work or if it was a problem because of the number of drives i have in the system (2 dvd, 3 hd). if yours does work in other things, did you have to do anything special?

-drew

Also, i was having a problem w/ my clock going way to fast (15-20 minutes fast every hr). The fix was to set kernel flags in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist. You need to set fsb frequency, which is 1/4 of fsb speed.

i set:
fsb=266

my clock appears to be functioning normally now!

i connected my external (USB) DVD-burner and was able to get into the installer without the dreaded "waiting for root device" error; howver, the osx86 installer would not recognize my HD. the only drive in Disk Utility was the external DVD-burner (i disabled the internal one in bios b/c i was worried that it wouldnt boot the DVD off of the external drive if i left the internal one operational)

how do i get my HD recognized? someone recomended i try VM Ware which i am in the process of downloading. i'm tired of registering for free trials so i figure i have to find this program somewhere else. but if there is a better method (besides ripping out my HD and installing it into another PC, then transfering it back to my PC, please let me know.

i am using the Jas 1048 AMD/INTEL iso or whatever its called + ppf 1.

i never downloaded the intel only iso since back when it was released i had an sse2-only PC and i was told that u needed an sse3 PC to run it -- i just got the Dimension 9200 just weeks ago.

i will eventually get a supported PCI Ethernet card but that will have to wait until i can acually load the program on my PC.

thanks again for your help with this.

CMM.

hmm dvds and cd's burn fine with toast or any 3rd party burning program. my sony cd-r burner burns within itunes fine. also there is a patch you can download called patchburn you can see if that helps, just google it. Didnt work for me but it now says in hardware information supported instead of unsupported.

as for vmware why dont you just download it from a torrent tracker with it cracked with the serial?

cmm3 its still available on OiNK.