glaxosmithkline Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hello. I successfully installed Ideneb v1.3 10.5.5, but when I boot it it just restarts after a few seconds with the Mac Loading screen. (Grey one with the bar). However, when I installed it I chose the drivers completely (almost) by hunch, so I guess I shouldn't expect it to work. I have an Dell XPS 1710, here are some specs: Dell XPS M1710 Core Duo 2,00 ghz 17" display 1920X1200 2048 mb ram 300 gb hardisk Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512 mb ram Broadcom 57XX Gigabit ethernet Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG Sigmatel 92XX audio card My question is, what drivers should I choose in the iDeneb v1.3 installation for it to work best with my specs? Every suggestion is extremely appreciated! I really want this to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147104-ideneb-v13-configuration-for-dell-xps-m1710/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 You need to use the boot-flag -v on startup. This will display useful information during the boot process instead of the apple logo. Reply back with the line that it hangs on (Give it some time). You can also use -v -f -x and see if you can get into OSX. It is a great deal easier to fix problems from inside the OS. If you are reinstalling you only want to select what you know will work. This is especially true with graphics drivers. I would recommend not choosing any drivers at all for graphics. This will still give you default 1024x768 and you can install drivers once inside of OSX. Installing the wrong one or multiple graphics drivers will almost certainly cause problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147104-ideneb-v13-configuration-for-dell-xps-m1710/#findComment-1042484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaxosmithkline Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Thanks for your reply! Ok, I tried to reboot like that to see the error message, but it's way too fast for me to read. It is like it's loading something and then loads this bit in a haste and reboots. The last part of the text only flashes for a millisecond. Is there any command like /p in DOS so that I can pause the booting and see what it says? Or should I just reinstall? I know I did choose many drivers that I wasn't sure of. You wouldn't know which drivers I should choose (could choose)? The reason I'm asking this is that I have about... 1% idea of what will work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147104-ideneb-v13-configuration-for-dell-xps-m1710/#findComment-1042572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sra7 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Thanks for your reply! Ok, I tried to reboot like that to see the error message, but it's way too fast for me to read. It is like it's loading something and then loads this bit in a haste and reboots. The last part of the text only flashes for a millisecond. Is there any command like /p in DOS so that I can pause the booting and see what it says? Or should I just reinstall? I know I did choose many drivers that I wasn't sure of. You wouldn't know which drivers I should choose (could choose)? The reason I'm asking this is that I have about... 1% idea of what will work. Hey I made my xps 1710 work.. more or less... let me know if you made yours work all the way or not. Or if you want some help getting it to work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147104-ideneb-v13-configuration-for-dell-xps-m1710/#findComment-1241656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Thanks for your reply! Ok, I tried to reboot like that to see the error message, but it's way too fast for me to read. It is like it's loading something and then loads this bit in a haste and reboots. The last part of the text only flashes for a millisecond. Is there any command like /p in DOS so that I can pause the booting and see what it says? Or should I just reinstall? I know I did choose many drivers that I wasn't sure of. You wouldn't know which drivers I should choose (could choose)? The reason I'm asking this is that I have about... 1% idea of what will work. Its a bit late but when you install I prefer to take a minimalist approach in that I only select options which I KNOW will work and my goal is to get into the OSX GUI as it is much easier to fix things there than at a command prompt. You can then look at each issue and fix them one by one. Graphics - Don't choose anything, you will get 1024x768 VESA graphics. Which is better than not being able to boot due to the wrong graphics drivers. Chipset - If you are not sure you are okay to choose all of them but the ones that conflict. So only one nForce, one VIA ... Now this can get tricky but most of these distros have comment fields to describe them. Kernel - If you are running AMD you are going to want to choose Voodoo kernel as it does patching on the fly and makes like much easier. misc - Don't choose anything. You can always take care of it later. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147104-ideneb-v13-configuration-for-dell-xps-m1710/#findComment-1242028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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