Juerujin Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I have a standard Dell Optiplex GX280: 512MB ram Pentium Processor Everything else standard I installed OSX on a 40 GB IDE Drive (One of two in the system the other being a 80GB SATA Drive) It installed fine. According to the instructions i only selected 1 of each driver. (as far as i can remember Intel GMA 900 for graphics, broadcom driver en0 for network, AC97 for sound) After installing and rebooting i get the apple screen with the spinning cursor, but after a while i get the error symbol. I rebooted with F8 and typed in "-v" and this is what i got among other things: AppleUSBEHCI: unable to initialize UIM (about three times) Still waiting for root device (where it hangs) I tried disabling the USB but the "AppleUSBEHCI: unable to initialize UIM" still shows and after Enabling Legacy sata support it still hangs. Any ideas? thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177013-problems-with-gx280-ideneb-1056-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 You can try these files, my machine is working 99.9% http://www.mediafire.com/?eyqmwm0jjzw I get the NIC working with no MAC address so Ive disabled it and put a USB Wireless in.. SticMAC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177013-problems-with-gx280-ideneb-1056-install/#findComment-1211447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juerujin Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 You can try these files, my machine is working 99.9% http://www.mediafire.com/?eyqmwm0jjzw I get the NIC working with no MAC address so Ive disabled it and put a USB Wireless in.. SticMAC Hey thanks for the reply. Could you tell me where i am to put these files and also if possible what options you selected during your install? Thank you very much again ... thanks to you i am one step further. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177013-problems-with-gx280-ideneb-1056-install/#findComment-1211694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juerujin Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 Well i still can't figure out how to use those kexts if i can't boot into the os and i can't seem to get beyond waiting for root device. Any ideas. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177013-problems-with-gx280-ideneb-1056-install/#findComment-1211747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juerujin Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 Gah, i've tried just about everything to get past that waiting for root device message. So far: Unplugging all media (extra harddrive, DVD drive) Setting the harddrive as master Disabling network Enabling sata compatibility in the bios All end in "waiting for root device". I'm on the verge of giving up as i've exhausted all ideas and i can't find a solid solution that will work for this machine. Does anyone at all have any answers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/177013-problems-with-gx280-ideneb-1056-install/#findComment-1211784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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