jcafaro10 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I have a good feeling about this. I have an Inspiron 1420 and an external hard drive. I'm going to try with Leo4All v3 and iAtkos v5. I'll post my step by step instructions and hopefully it will work. Feel free to try the same and feel free to give help. As I said I have an Inspiron 1420 with integrated video so there's nothing out of the ordinary going on with this laptop. I've tried previously with Kalway and iAtkos 1 to get this to work, but neither worked. Perhaps you'll save yourself some trouble. Track my results below. Please offer any advice to speed this up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176425-installing-osx-on-a-usb-drive-for-my-inspiron-1420/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 Trial 1 Distro: IAtkos v5i Result: Failure, OS X installed correctly but did not boot with -v -x Bootloader: PC EFI v9 (instead of Chameleon) Decryptor: AppleDecrypt (instead of DSMOS) SMBIOS: SMBIOS Enablers (instead of x86) Kernel: 9.5.0 Voodoo (instead of 9.5.0 fassl or 9.2.0 TOH) ACPI: Stock ACPI (instead of x86 acpi) SATA: Intel Sata (instead of intel ahci sata) Disabler Did not use RemoveThermal or RemovePowerManagement Included X3100 driver Thoughts: I used Intel SATA instead of Intel AHCI SATA but my bios was set to AHCI so I'll try the AHCI setting even though I'm using an external drive. Trial 2 Distro: IAtkos v5i Result: Would not boot after successful installation Bootloader: PC EFI v9 (instead of Chameleon) Decryptor: AppleDecrypt (instead of DSMOS) SMBIOS: SMBIOS Enablers (instead of x86) Kernel: 9.5.0 Voodoo (instead of 9.5.0 fassl or 9.2.0 TOH) ACPI: Stock ACPI (instead of x86 acpi) SATA: Intel AHCI SATA (instead of Intel SATA) Disabler Did not use RemoveThermal or RemovePowerManagement Included X3100 driver Thoughts: This time I used the Intel AHCI SATA driver. After it didn't work I went to the bios to turn AHCI to regular ATA but I got a warning that it might require an OS reinstall and I didn't want to mess up my XP installation so I didn't change it to ATA. I'll try switching kernels this time Trial 3 Distro: IAtkos v5i Result: I could have sworn it booted. It looked like it failed when I came back so I hit the power button and the screen came to life and I was presented with a mac screen that said I needed a keyboard. I can't get it to do that again! Bootloader: PC EFI v9 (instead of Chameleon) Decryptor: AppleDecrypt (instead of DSMOS) SMBIOS: SMBIOS Enablers (instead of x86) Kernel: 9.2.0 TOH (instead of 9.5.0 fassl or 9.5.0 Voodoo) ACPI: Stock ACPI (instead of x86 acpi) SATA: Intel AHCI SATA (instead of Intel SATA) Disabler Did not use RemoveThermal or RemovePowerManagement Included X3100 driver Thoughts: This time I used the Intel AHCI SATA driver. After it didn't work I went to the bios to turn AHCI to regular ATA but I got a warning that it might require an OS reinstall and I didn't want to mess up my XP installation so I didn't change it to ATA. I'll try switching kernels this time Trial 4 Distro: Leo4All v3 Install CD didn't even boot Thoughts: FML Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176425-installing-osx-on-a-usb-drive-for-my-inspiron-1420/#findComment-1208533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 I feel like it's really close. I boot with x f and v flags and no errors but it gets to the blue screen and then just goes black after a second. The HD is still showing activity though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176425-installing-osx-on-a-usb-drive-for-my-inspiron-1420/#findComment-1208840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 I got it to boot to the plug in a keyboard screen. I had my bluetooth dongle plugged in though so I was able to control my mouse and I clicked OK, and it just sat there with the spinning wheel. So close though. Any thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176425-installing-osx-on-a-usb-drive-for-my-inspiron-1420/#findComment-1209634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 26, 2009 Author Share Posted July 26, 2009 I got it to skip the keyboard screen and go to a Voice Over Control screen I think? Either way, it hung at spinning wheel when I tried to go to the next screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176425-installing-osx-on-a-usb-drive-for-my-inspiron-1420/#findComment-1209711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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