Jonathan Ryan Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 and am using Deadmoo's image. I cannot boot natively. I get "still waiting on root deviece" no matter what flags I use. OSx86 is the only thing on the disk. I can make any changes you think are necessary to the disk itself, because I ahve an adapter to plug it into my desktop. I've seen people with dual-boot success with this laptop, but none of them mentioned ever having to work around this problem. I tried a fix that involved copying several kext's from the Darwin CD, but it made no difference. Also, what is the difference between the mach_kernel and mach_kernel.old files? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3042-inspiron-5100-trouble/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
grockk Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 I seem to recall a number of people having problems booting from USB on the 5100. I couldn't get it to work on my i5100, so i installed on a seperate partition on the same boot drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3042-inspiron-5100-trouble/#findComment-19757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Ryan Posted September 29, 2005 Author Share Posted September 29, 2005 I seem to recall a number of people having problems booting from USB on the 5100. I couldn't get it to work on my i5100, so i installed on a seperate partition on the same boot drive. I'm not trying to boot off of USB. I placed the internal hard drive into my desktop with an ATA adapter to do the imaging, so OSX is on the first partition. What image did you use? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3042-inspiron-5100-trouble/#findComment-19806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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