Dell XPS 410 Issues

[jake Mandel]

I am new to this as I do not know much about what I am doing and this is my first time. I have followed guides on a few websites that all said the same thing. I have a dell xps 410 and I installed everything correctly and installer finished. I get this message when trying to start the os operating system: still waiting for root device. On the osx86 website it says, :

 

Dell Dimension 9200 / XPS 410

Used iPC 1.4 (iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Final PPF5 ) Options to select at install:

Kernel: 9.5.0 voodoo Kernel

Video Drivers: GeForce 7300LE 128meg. DON'T INSTALL ANY DRIVERS FOR THIS GRAPHICS CARD. WE WILL USE EFI STUDIO TO WRITE STRINGS IN A COUPLE OF CLICKS

Chipset Drivers: Intel ICHx SATA Drivers

Audio Drivers: Sigmatel 9227

Ethernet Drivers: Intel 82566MM/DC

Fixes and Paches: (included in options) Seatbelt.Kext 10.5.5 And USBMassStorage

Applications: ALL of them. EFI Studio and/or OSx86 Tools will be used to select video card. This will help with "Quartz Extreme" to be active)

To avoid the "Still waiting for root device" error after install, you'll need to modify the AppleAHCIPort.kext file. Make sure you have the following entry in it.

<key>ICH8RAHCI</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort</string>

<key>Chipset Name</key>

<string>ICH8-R AHCI</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>AppleAHCI</string>

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>

<string>0x28218086 0x28228086</string>

<key>IOProbeScore</key>

<integer>2000</integer>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOPCIDevice</string>

<key>Vendor Name</key>

<string>Intel</string>

</dict>

You may need to boot with install disk and open a terminal window to modify the file.

After you make that change, on next reboot type -v -f then push enter.

Once you have gone through all of the initial setup account etc, go to applications folder and launch EFI studio select nVidia 7300LE 128mb and click "add device" then from the popup choose "write to com.apple.boot.plist".

Then, once written successfully, quit EFI Studio and restart computer.

Once computer is restarted, go to applications, utilities and launch "Disk Utility" and repair permissions on your installed partition.

Restart once more and your good to go with 10.5.6 perfectly stable with quartz extreme, LAN, sleep, restart, shutdown and sound working crash free.

 

I have done everything right and have got up to the part where I need to modify the kext file. The only problem is that I have no idea how to do this. I spent 4 hours today looking it up, going into terminal from the boot dvd and trying many different things, nothing is working. Can someone please help me on how to fix this. Thank you in advance. (I did a clean install and named the install on drive: Leopard)

[DeezNotes]

I have done everything right and have got up to the part where I need to modify the kext file. The only problem is that I have no idea how to do this. I spent 4 hours today looking it up, going into terminal from the boot dvd and trying many different things, nothing is working. Can someone please help me on how to fix this. Thank you in advance. (I did a clean install and named the install on drive: Leopard)

 

I'm new here, so forgive me if this question has been answered. I decided to give this a go this weekend and I ran into the same issue as described. What I did was use the VI editor to modify the file.

 

For this example, I will use "Dell" as the name of volume which OS X is installed:

 

- Boot to OSx86 DVD

- Open Terminal

- cd /Volumes/Dell/usr/bin/

- ./vi /Volumes/Dell/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAHCIPort.kext/Contents/Info.plist

- Press enter to edit file

 

From here, just use the typical VI commands to edit (the "x" key to delete, the "i" key to insert text, ":wq" to write the file and quit, etc). There are plenty of online manuals for VI commands.

 

After I did this, I was able to boot and install the proper graphics "driver" as instructed. But now I can only boot when putting in the options "-v -f" at boot. I tried editing the com.apple.Boot.plist file as described here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...he_boot_options but it didn't work. Actually, I updated iTunes (and something else... NOT OSX), so whatever 2 updates I ran probably broke something. Off to investigate the fix...