Larry Flynt Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Hey all, I'm looking for a bit of help, and hope someone here might be able to see what it is I'm doing wrong. I've been playing around with a few different incarnations of OS X : 1) iATKOS 5i - installed the easiest, but I never could get DVD playback to work. 2) XXX 10.5.6 - DVD playback worked, but wasn't very smooth. Took forever to find right combo in configuration to run. 3) iPC 10.5.6 - After XXX, this one was relatively a breeze to get going. And DVD playback worked great! Having settled on iPC, mostly because it worked the best out of the three versions I tried, I of course went to doing online updates. Having been warned by previous posts about updates, I did all the available updates *other* than the 10.5.7. All went in fine without issue. Of course the moment I tried doing the official update, I hosed my install. Not a problem I thought, I wrote down all the settings I used for the install (a lesson learnt the hard way let me tell you!), got everything back up and going to the same point again, but this time I tried the iDeneb 10.5.7 update, thinking it would do the trick. Same result, hosed Inspiron I suspect the issue is one of the options I've chosen on install, or one I've not selected. However, reading the release notes of these 'unofficial' releases, I'm a little confused as to what I might be doing wrong, especially when it comes to SMBIOS/EFI options. From reading various posts here and other sites, not to mention almost an entire weekend of install attempts, I came up with these configuration options for the Inspiron 2200 that I installed with (I'm also sharing them so other possible Inspiron users might be able to save themselves a few hours of pain from my efforts ) Kernel -9.5.0 Voodoo Drivers -Video Drivers --Intel ---Intel GMA900 -Chipset Support --LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA -Audio Drivers --Other Audio Drivers ---AC97 Audio -Wireless Drivers --Broadcom Driver -USB Drivers --Patched USB Drivers -Power Management --AppleACPIBatteryManager -Fixes And Patches --ACPI Fix --CPUS=1 --Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5 --UUID Error Fix --PS/2 Device Support ---PS/2 Keyboard Fix Having got these written down now, I don't mind having to reinstall OS X if I mess it up. But I would like to be up to date, and that means figuring out how to get 10.5.7 in. When I did the iDeneb update, I just rebooted once the install was done. Was there something else I needed to do before rebooting? Was the update attempt doomed before I even began it, because I missed something during the initial install? I appreciate any help or tips people might have. Thanks! L.F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 Here's my complete "10.5.8 on Dell Inspiron 2200 package & guide" (scroll down a bit on that page) for this lil close-to-perfect HackBook (4.5MB) EDIT 2012-05-06: reuploaded & refreshed link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allcoast Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 I cant seem to be able to open this file, from this link you sent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allcoast Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Hey all, I'm looking for a bit of help, and hope someone here might be able to see what it is I'm doing wrong. I've been playing around with a few different incarnations of OS X : 1) iATKOS 5i - installed the easiest, but I never could get DVD playback to work. 2) XXX 10.5.6 - DVD playback worked, but wasn't very smooth. Took forever to find right combo in configuration to run. 3) iPC 10.5.6 - After XXX, this one was relatively a breeze to get going. And DVD playback worked great! Having settled on iPC, mostly because it worked the best out of the three versions I tried, I of course went to doing online updates. Having been warned by previous posts about updates, I did all the available updates *other* than the 10.5.7. All went in fine without issue. Of course the moment I tried doing the official update, I hosed my install. Not a problem I thought, I wrote down all the settings I used for the install (a lesson learnt the hard way let me tell you!), got everything back up and going to the same point again, but this time I tried the iDeneb 10.5.7 update, thinking it would do the trick. Same result, hosed Inspiron I suspect the issue is one of the options I've chosen on install, or one I've not selected. However, reading the release notes of these 'unofficial' releases, I'm a little confused as to what I might be doing wrong, especially when it comes to SMBIOS/EFI options. From reading various posts here and other sites, not to mention almost an entire weekend of install attempts, I came up with these configuration options for the Inspiron 2200 that I installed with (I'm also sharing them so other possible Inspiron users might be able to save themselves a few hours of pain from my efforts ) Kernel -9.5.0 Voodoo Drivers -Video Drivers --Intel ---Intel GMA900 -Chipset Support --LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA -Audio Drivers --Other Audio Drivers ---AC97 Audio -Wireless Drivers --Broadcom Driver -USB Drivers --Patched USB Drivers -Power Management --AppleACPIBatteryManager -Fixes And Patches --ACPI Fix --CPUS=1 --Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5 --UUID Error Fix --PS/2 Device Support ---PS/2 Keyboard Fix Having got these written down now, I don't mind having to reinstall OS X if I mess it up. But I would like to be up to date, and that means figuring out how to get 10.5.7 in. When I did the iDeneb update, I just rebooted once the install was done. Was there something else I needed to do before rebooting? Was the update attempt doomed before I even began it, because I missed something during the initial install? I appreciate any help or tips people might have. Thanks! L.F I have tried to get this to even start to load, but it hangs to a blue screen and does nothing else. Any ideas what i might try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie2mac Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 I cant seem to be able to open this file, from this link you sent. Me neither... Anyone have this for re-linking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted May 7, 2012 Share Posted May 7, 2012 link updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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