sabersoul Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I can't seem to find the answer after hours of searching on Google and in these forums. I've got a Dell XPS M1330 and I'm trying to install iATKOS v7 on a spare, blank drive with no luck. I boot to my DVD with the cpus=1 flag (it panics if I don't) and then the install hangs after that. It never completely boots to the DVD so I can start installing. The HDD light doesn't blink, DVD spins down and it just sits. I've tried it with no partitions on the drive and one partition unformatted and set active. I let it sit for 20 minutes and it never moved. I'm trying to download iDeneb, but it's going slow... Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried both AHCI and ATA settings in the BIOS without any luck. I don't have the exact part it hangs on yet with the -v switch as I have to switch drives every time I have to install and forgot to write it down.... Here's the hardware I've got in my system: XPS M1330 Core 2 Duo T5750 4GB RAM GeForce 8400M BLANK Hitachi 120GB HDD (this is what I'm trying to install to, my Windows drive is a WD Scorpio Black 320GB) *Edit: I tried it again so I could take a screen shot and get the last things on screen...Here's the last 3 lines: MAC Framework successfully Initialized using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tienneke Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I can't seem to find the answer after hours of searching on Google and in these forums. I've got a Dell XPS M1330 and I'm trying to install iATKOS v7 on a spare, blank drive with no luck. I boot to my DVD with the cpus=1 flag (it panics if I don't) and then the install hangs after that. It never completely boots to the DVD so I can start installing. The HDD light doesn't blink, DVD spins down and it just sits. I've tried it with no partitions on the drive and one partition unformatted and set active. I let it sit for 20 minutes and it never moved. I'm trying to download iDeneb, but it's going slow... Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried both AHCI and ATA settings in the BIOS without any luck. I don't have the exact part it hangs on yet with the -v switch as I have to switch drives every time I have to install and forgot to write it down.... Here's the hardware I've got in my system: XPS M1330 Core 2 Duo T5750 4GB RAM GeForce 8400M BLANK Hitachi 120GB HDD (this is what I'm trying to install to, my Windows drive is a WD Scorpio Black 320GB) Well, you probably hang at 'Waiting for boot device'. This means no driver for your sata controller is loaded. Probably the safest is to use another distro indeed. I've never failed when I used iDeneb, so that's a good choice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1242451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 We'll see if that works after it's done downloading.... In the mean time I uploaded a picture and the text from where it hangs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1242530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tienneke Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 We'll see if that works after it's done downloading.... In the mean time I uploaded a picture and the text from where it hangs. This is a well known error. Try searching the forum for it. I come on this, first hit: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=86298 Try what is suggested in that thread, it'll probably help you (read the last post too, and number 12 may be the best for you..) (since you get it when booting the install dvd, you'll need a dvd with the correct stuff) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1242543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 Now if only the torrent would have worked.... Damned .iso was corrupt after I spent all day getting the torrent.... I'm trying to download Kalyway right now and re-downloading iDeneb, hopefully it won't be hosed this time... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1243339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 I'm about ready to give up... I'm no further than Saturday or Sunday... I've tried several boot options (-x -f, cpus=1, mach_970), and NOTHING. Still just hung on IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23. I get the same with iDeneb 1.5 and iATKOS v7 with no luck.... I'm going to try Kalyway after I get home tonight, but I really just don't think it's going to work. Does anyone have any ideas that can help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1244843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 OK, nothing has worked so far. I've tried 3 different distros with no luck. All of them hang. I've tried disabling speedstep as was suggested in another thread, tried again with the SATA controller set to ATA instead of AHCI, turned off wireless and bluetooth, searched Google for ages with no luck. Nothing in the other thread was of any use and neither was this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=174496 with no luck... This sucks... I really wanna learn Mac, but I don't have the $ to buy an actual Mac, not to mention I don't wanna buy one when I'm not sure I'll like it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1245320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Try iPC 10.5.6 final or JaS 10.5.4 Client/Server. Those will boot on systems that normally need a DSDT fix, which seems to be your problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1245341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 I got iPC downloaded finally tonight, but for some reason my laptop didn't want to read the DVD that I burned from my desktop (sees it as blank) so I'm copying it over to my laptop to see if that works properly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1245381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted September 1, 2009 Author Share Posted September 1, 2009 No go with iPC either. I've disabled everything I can in the BIOS with no luck. Set my drive to ATA, and nothing. I really am stumped. I really don't want to keep downloading different distros just to have the same problems. I've turned off speedstep, dynamic accelleration, USB, Bluetooth, Firewire/Media card reader, NIC, Wireless, everything.... 4 different distros, same errors.... I'm at a loss. I might try it on my Latitude D630 and see if that works, then swap the drive in to my M1330 since they're both the same hardware platform.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1246380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabersoul Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 Any more advice from anyone?? I've tried busratio=12 (the ratio of my processor) cpus=1 mach_970 -v -x. I've hunted on Google for days, tried iPC 10.5.6, iDeneb 1.5, iATKOS v7 and Kalyway 10.5.2. No matter what switches I've set, what BIOS settings I've tried, nothing has worked. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? Just to try, I'm downloading iATKOS v5 and iDeneb 1.3, but has anyone successfully installed this on an XPS M1330 with BIOS A15? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1247021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Try this method: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=127330&hl= It's a vanilla install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/182844-need-help-installing-on-dell-xps-m1330/#findComment-1247542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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