gehrc Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Hello, I know this has been posted numerous times, but I need some help specifically for my situation. I am a noob to Macs, I've only ever done network-based maintenance on them before. I'm on a Dell Latitude D830 Laptop with Windows Vista, a 120GB HD, a 2.23GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Chip, and 4 GB of RAM. I've just shrank the Vista Partition to 75GB and allocated the remaining 36.1GB to my OSX install. I've partitioned the drive and formatted it in Windows. I have a copy of SnowOSX 10.6 that I've burned to a DVD. When I ran it, I could successfully get to the installer. I formatted the partition created as a Mac OSX (Journalled). I ran the installer successfully and rebooted. When I tried to load the Mac OSX partition on the Darwin Bootloader, it loaded it's files, and then gave me the Apple Logo. Not a second after that came up did a gray screen pop up and tell me to power off. Running the loader with -v gave me a seemingly infamous Kernal Panic error. I don't have a pic, but it looks exactly like the others I've seen. My drive is in regular ATA mode. I don't quite understand what's going on here, but any help is greatly appreciated. What can I do to make this work? I don't have any other Macs, which is the purpose of doing this - because I want to gain a tolerance for Macs . On another note - is it possible to use the Windows Boot Loader with the Darwin one? If so, how? That's only if you're not going to suggest me to use another loader, but I'd still like to use Windows so I know how to customize it. Thanks so much! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehrc Posted October 4, 2009 Author Share Posted October 4, 2009 Hello, I know this has been posted numerous times, but I need some help specifically for my situation. I am a noob to Macs, I've only ever done network-based maintenance on them before. I'm on a Dell Latitude D830 Laptop with Windows Vista, a 120GB HD, a 2.23GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Chip, and 4 GB of RAM. I've just shrank the Vista Partition to 75GB and allocated the remaining 36.1GB to my OSX install. I've partitioned the drive and formatted it in Windows. I have a copy of SnowOSX 10.6 that I've burned to a DVD. When I ran it, I could successfully get to the installer. I formatted the partition created as a Mac OSX (Journalled). I ran the installer successfully and rebooted. When I tried to load the Mac OSX partition on the Darwin Bootloader, it loaded it's files, and then gave me the Apple Logo. Not a second after that came up did a gray screen pop up and tell me to power off. Running the loader with -v gave me a seemingly infamous Kernal Panic error. I don't have a pic, but it looks exactly like the others I've seen. My drive is in regular ATA mode. I don't quite understand what's going on here, but any help is greatly appreciated. What can I do to make this work? I don't have any other Macs, which is the purpose of doing this - because I want to gain a tolerance for Macs :censored2: . On another note - is it possible to use the Windows Boot Loader with the Darwin one? If so, how? That's only if you're not going to suggest me to use another loader, but I'd still like to use Windows so I know how to customize it. Thanks so much! One other thing - the error code given is 0x00000000. The thread is kernel_task. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/#findComment-1289027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelkhan Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Had similar issues with Inspiron 1525 - solution was to remove the SL IOATAFamily kext and replace it with the Leo one and then force it to boot into 32 bit mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/#findComment-1290022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonsat Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Try to boot with these arguments: cpus=1 -v Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/#findComment-1290322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehrc Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 Try to boot with these arguments: cpus=1 -v I tried that one with no luck just now. I should also note that I've changed my drive mode to AHCI, and I've tried the install again - still nothing... still the same error and everything. Any other ideas? Had similar issues with Inspiron 1525 - solution was to remove the SL IOATAFamily kext and replace it with the Leo one and then force it to boot into 32 bit mode. Where was that kext located on the DVD? And did you just download a 10.5 version of it to get it to work? I've also tried using Kalyway, but the DVD just hangs after it begins loading with no error. I think maybe it was a bad image, but I'm open to pretty much anything at this point. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/#findComment-1290336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehrc Posted October 5, 2009 Author Share Posted October 5, 2009 I tried that one with no luck just now. I should also note that I've changed my drive mode to AHCI, and I've tried the install again - still nothing... still the same error and everything. Any other ideas? Where was that kext located on the DVD? And did you just download a 10.5 version of it to get it to work? I've also tried using Kalyway, but the DVD just hangs after it begins loading with no error. I think maybe it was a bad image, but I'm open to pretty much anything at this point. Would putting the modded OSINSTALL.mpkg file for Mbr in the packages folder of the SnowOSX iso do it? I don't think the bootloader is the issue because I can get as far as the apple logo. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/#findComment-1290447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehrc Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 I tried iATKOS 5i. It worked mostly. I no longer get the kernel Panic error. However, when I tried to boot into Leopard, it came up with the No Symbol, circle with a line through it (/). I tried the Fdisk method in terminal, but that had not worked. It also botched my Windows install pretty well, but I managed to get that to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190389-kernel-panic-error-on-dell-latitude-d830/#findComment-1292400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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