Toshiba Satellite L510

[Satellite_L510]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have been for many years an owner and supporter of Apple gear, but with my kids wanting their own laptops I found it too hard to not buy TWO new Toshiba Satellite L510 laptops for the price of the cheapest Apple notebook offering.

 

But, with Windows being as it is, I really would prefer the safety and security of OSX for my kids. So it is I find myself here trying to follow the Noob instructions on using Vanilla 10.5 installs.

 

For the Super-Noobs (as I am) following in my footsteps, here are the absolute basics that I did, using my MacBook Pro as the instrument of DVD creation:

 

1) Download the Noob Boot-132 ISO image listed in this Post:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=113288

This is the direct link:

http://redirectingat.com/?id=292X457&u...F%3Fuwd9dtttjfk

 

2) Using the Disk Utility, load the ISO and burn it to a DVD.

 

3) Insert that DVD into the Toshy and reboot, making sure you hit F12 to make it boot from DVD.

 

4) After the Boot-132 DVD loads up, it sits there at the "boot:" prompt. It is at this time that you SWAP that DVD for your retail OSX Leopard DVD. THEN you hit Enter.

 

5) It then prompts you to enter a "Typical boot device" in Hex. It gives you options of 80 for first HD, etc. and I thought I needed to enter in 80 since that is where I would be installing OSX, right? Not so. If you do enter 80, it presents you with the option of starting up off the HD as per normal and thus will start up Windows again. Grrr.

 

Instead, at this prompt, just hit the Enter key again to accept the default of "fe" which it kindly puts in [] for you.

 

6) Now, it will offer you the option of Pressing Any Key to start the Installer as a Mac user would normally (wait for a nice GUI to appear and click a couple of buttons and wait 20 mins) or hit F8 for Startup options. Well if you just let it go, I was most elated to see the grey Apple logo and the spinning clock hands, but after a short while I would get a Circle With Line Through graphic appear, and then nothing more.

 

7) After figuring out that I probably need to get "ugly" and see what the unix stuff under the GUI was doing, at the prompt above, go ahead and hit the F8 key. The BOOT-132 boot: screen comes up again and this time you can enter -v and then Enter to see what is going on...

 

And this my good folks is where my Ultra-Noob guide for Satellite L510 owners comes to an end, as I am not sure how to proceed from here. And if anyone here could give me pointers as to what to do next, I would obviously greatly appreciate your helping hand.

 

This is the gist of what the verbose boot log had in it:

 

It seems to be loading everything up pretty well, all the way down to "MAC Framework successfully initialized" and even "SMBIOSEnabler: started" but immediately after that line it has this:

 

Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleACPIplatform" has immediate dependancies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style

can't determine immediate dependancies for extension org.tgwbd.driver.ACPIPSNub

...

Waiting for boot volume with UUID C71B1D31-CD17-36E5-A60E-B4555F0708F8

Waiting on ... (some really long string with IOProviderClass & IOResouces in it)

AppleRTL8169Ethernet: Unknown hardware version ID (24800000)

USBF: 0.901 EHCI controller unable to take control from BIOS

USBF: 0.901 AppleUSBEHCI unable to obtain ownership

USBF: 0.903 AppleUSBEHCI unable to initialize UIM

Still waiting for root device (repeated endlessly)

 

I did notice that during the startup of the BOOT-132 cd that a quick error flashed up saying:

System config file '/com.apple.boot.S/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found

I wonder if I was supposed to edit the BOOT-132 ISO image???

 

I will keep scouring this forum as I have seem other posts about the "Circle with Line" graphic so I'm not the first to get only that far. It is still early days yet, and by the looks of many posts in here that there is enough pasison out there to make it work.

 

Thanks in advance to all those that want to help a fellow OSX lover out.

 

Cheers,

Mark

 

Oh, I nearly forget to give you all the Specs I can for the Toshy L510:

 

Processor: Celeron Dual-Core T3000 @ 1.8Ghz

Display Adapter: Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset

Network: Realtek RTL8102/8103 Family PCI-E FE NIC

WiFi: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless USB 2.0

Sound: Realtek Hi Def Audio

USB: Intel ICH9 Family

Touchpad: Synaptics PS/2 Port

DVD: TSSTcorp TS-L633A

4Gb RAM

 

Hope that helps with getting drivers together.

 

Cheers,

Mark

[DralucardliosX]

i have the same laptop of yours, i already installed Leopard 10.5.7 ideneb, yeah i made it work, but the problem is, still until today, there is no driver for video GM4500, and also the wireless driver it still can't work, but i have some lead on how to make it work, but im not pretty sure if things will work out. use ideneb 10.5.7 or contact me.