EtherealRemnant Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Anyone else have this machine that can shine some light? I'm using Hazard's 10.6.1-10.6.2 build that is for Intel and AMD both and its just hanging... I just PPF'd it with the patches he released and I'm going to try again but it looks like there is no support for the MCP79 ATA controller? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203024-alienware-m17x-hanging-on-boot-it-appears-to-be-looking-for-the-dvd-but-the-entire-system-freezes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 Anyone else have this machine that can shine some light? I'm using Hazard's 10.6.1-10.6.2 build that is for Intel and AMD both and its just hanging... I just PPF'd it with the patches he released and I'm going to try again but it looks like there is no support for the MCP79 ATA controller? So I downloaded a second release... and it seems like it might be a media issue... MD5s check out... I've switched from using the DVD-RW I was using for all my linux installs and its still not working... I hit F8 and type -v and it quickly goes back to the countdown with an error message that goes so quick I can't see anything but "not found" and sometimes it errors saying it can't find /Libraries/*/com.apple.Boot.plist... Its totally random. I've tried AHCI, ATA, and AHCI native... the furthest it ever got was AHCI native but even then, it was FUBAR... Just took about 5 seconds before it dropped me back to the Darwin screen. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203024-alienware-m17x-hanging-on-boot-it-appears-to-be-looking-for-the-dvd-but-the-entire-system-freezes/#findComment-1363882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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