panic on battery boot

[lukefox]

Hello. I have a very interesting issue. My Dell Inspiron 600m is working quite well with Leopard, except that it gives a panic on boot when you are running only on battery power. the fsck message, something like that.

 

Here is what is crazy: If I boot into Windows XP first (I have two partitions set up), then restart from there, still on battery, then Leopard boots perfect as if nothing was wrong. But the panic always comes up from a cold boot. Does that make any sense to anyone?

 

Mostly, I am wondering if there is a way that I simulate whatever the heck Windows is doing in its boot sequence that seems to put OS X at ease, so that I can solve my problem. Obviously, it is something very minor. Even in my head, I have imagined creating a tiny partition with a boot program that runs a script and sends me into OS X. But it is only a dream, I don't really know where to start.

 

Anyone have any ideas? I think this is a very curious problem, and probably not too difficult to solve.

 

[[more about my system: Kalway 10.5.2 install, speedstep kernel w/ sse2 patch, iwi2200 drivers, power management bundle, no video drivers--i have useless mobility 9000]]

 

p.s. I have tried disabling SpeedStep in BIOS, but that seems to have nothing to do with it. Also of note, if I boot using sleepkernel, I get all the way to desktop, but then the system hangs with the spinning color wheel.

[silencer88]

For those of you with the battery boot kernel panic/hang problem, try this:

 

In the BIOS settings I turned off the modem (which I don't think fixed the problem), and changed the boot tests from QUICK to THOROUGH. I have yet to have a hang with these new settings. Give it a shot!

 

note: I used the Kalyway 10.5.1 install disc. Finder used to hang when I booted from the battery on my 600m.

[harbot]

I have the same problem with X31 im still doing testing on this, any progress from your side?