geking Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Hello and thanks for taking the time to read this! I have a Dell SX280 Ultra small form factor pc with a P4 630 and a 160gb WD hdd. According to my research, this should be pretty vanilla as far as install with the broadcom 57XX NIC being the most troublesome. The problem is, using a vanilla kernal, intel ICHx drivers and GMA 915 graphics I can not get the computer to boot after install. I am using Ideneb 10.5.7 1.5.1. I have also tried Ikaos (SP) 1.5.5 and that does the same thing. I know nothing is wrong with the system as I pulled a working win 7 install to try OSX86; also I have installed OSx86 before, but that hdd died on me and I have no idea how I got it working/ it was using 10.4 Thanks again in advance! Rob Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243518-help-with-osx-on-dell-sx280/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Hello and thanks for taking the time to read this! I have a Dell SX280 Ultra small form factor pc with a P4 630 and a 160gb WD hdd. According to my research, this should be pretty vanilla as far as install with the broadcom 57XX NIC being the most troublesome. The problem is, using a vanilla kernal, intel ICHx drivers and GMA 915 graphics I can not get the computer to boot after install. I am using Ideneb 10.5.7 1.5.1. I have also tried Ikaos (SP) 1.5.5 and that does the same thing. I know nothing is wrong with the system as I pulled a working win 7 install to try OSX86; also I have installed OSx86 before, but that hdd died on me and I have no idea how I got it working/ it was using 10.4 Thanks again in advance! Rob Sorry you need to do more research. P4 on dell needs patched kernel (voodoo kernel for Leopard, legacy kernel for snow). Broadcom 57XX NIC works in leopard & SL. Audio is AC97. Video could be strange, because this Dell did not know if it wanted to be a laptop or a desktop so device & revision ID is going to be important as how you get the video hardware acceleration working. And " I can not get the computer to boot after install" tells people trying to help you nothing. What happens? reboot? Kernel panic? Do you get to a chameleon or some other boot-loader screen? Can you boot in Verbose mode and post a picture of the error Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243518-help-with-osx-on-dell-sx280/#findComment-1623174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
geking Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Sorry you need to do more research. P4 on dell needs patched kernel (voodoo kernel for Leopard, legacy kernel for snow). Broadcom 57XX NIC works in leopard & SL. Audio is AC97. Video could be strange, because this Dell did not know if it wanted to be a laptop or a desktop so device & revision ID is going to be important as how you get the video hardware acceleration working.And " I can not get the computer to boot after install" tells people trying to help you nothing. What happens? reboot? Kernel panic? Do you get to a chameleon or some other boot-loader screen? Can you boot in Verbose mode and post a picture of the error Sorry for not being clear. It loads Chameleon, does its slider bar countdown, HDD crunches for a few seconds then the computer reboots. I put it in verbose mode but the text before the reboot is only up for a fraction of a second so I can not read it. I will try installing again with the voodoo kernel. What more do I need to research? (is it patches, kexts, kernels...) (I looked up the device ID and it is a standard desktop 915) Thanks again! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243518-help-with-osx-on-dell-sx280/#findComment-1623182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 OK try a different kernel. If you still have reboot problems try a search like this http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&...mp;aql=&oq= And for Video http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&...mp;aql=&oq= Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243518-help-with-osx-on-dell-sx280/#findComment-1623193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
geking Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Thank you for that information. I got it running on the Voodoo kernal. Sound works, video works, I just have one problem left. The system will hang on bootup if the NIC is enabled. I get a dumppanic[47] Error getting a reference to IODeviceTree:/option. Looking in Extensions the Kext for the 5751 is highlighted in blue as are the other ones I selected. I did some searching and I found some people talking about disabling the NIC, booting up, repairing permissions, then rebooting with the NIC enabled. I did that and I got the computer to go out of verbose mode just into the GUI (mouse in the corner before it loads the wallpaper) and it hung there. Rebooting after that with the NIC enabled went right back to the dumppanic[47] It seems as though I am making this harder than it should be. PS. I did some looking and in Ideneb 10.6.7 it does not have the patches and applications in http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t206658.html so I am at a loss. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243518-help-with-osx-on-dell-sx280/#findComment-1624696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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