Dokosatchii Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 So I have a Dell Studio Core 2 Duo T5750 with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 sereis and PM965 intel chipset. I have been trying various distros to boot, but they all go to boot1: /boot, or cdboot: done and don't move from there. I don't get any farther than that, no vader, no command line, nothing. Can anyone give me an idea what the problem is and how to fix it? It goes Dell logo...CD tries to load up, "CDboot: done" then freezes help would be much appreciated. I have tried IAtoski, empire EFI and IDeneb and none of them boot up to get to the installer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajas Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 go into BIOS and disable the multiple core support first. you have to install the osx on single core mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1363518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokosatchii Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 This is what I get when I load in Empire on single core setup cdboot: init cdboot: filesize: 0004C8C0 cdboot: reading sectors: 0000009A cdboot: loading............... cdboot: done for iPC 10.5.6 and iAtoski v5 i get a blinking "_" same error Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1363527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajas Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 whats the model number of your dell studio Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1363539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokosatchii Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 whats the model number of your dell studio I believe its Model No.: PP33L I believe its Model No.: PP33L this is the spec sheet http://www.sale24.ee/PDF/505060.pdf I have the Core 2 Duo, Mobility Radeon HD 3450, 4 GB, PM965 chipset Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1363577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokosatchii Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 Help anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1364029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokosatchii Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 bump.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1364828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajas Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 that spec is for Dell Studio 1535.. is that what you have? have you look at this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182815 and: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...les#Studio_1535 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1365595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I managed to install osx to an older Dell Optiplex (2xx something) desktop and I had to setup bios for memory single channel, with dual channel it would KP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1365658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokosatchii Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 that spec is for Dell Studio 1535.. is that what you have? have you look at this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182815 and: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...les#Studio_1535 Neither distro boots up, its just a constant blinking "_", wtf is wrong with this laptop. They boot up on my desktop though... I managed to install osx to an older Dell Optiplex (2xx something) desktop and I had to setup bios for memory single channel, with dual channel it would KP. And I can't change the memory to single channel, dell locks that in the Bios Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202992-help-nothing-boots/#findComment-1367081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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