Fixed HFS errors, now new issues on E1505 Dell (c2duo, x1400 mobility)

[CaptDistraction]

When my system boots, I get the darwin loader, then the grey apple screen, and finally a screen of vertical lines (white and black, lower resolution) which persist for maybe 1 minute, followed by black for about the same, and then repeating. I hadn't tested more than that (plug in an external monitor, etc) mainly because I was due for sleep and lack of availability of a monitor until friday (when I return home from working).

 

Just wanted to see if anyone had any advice on what to check to get the internal display of my laptop to work, or to check to see if its even booting correctly and this is just a video issue.

 

Right now, I have a E1505 laptop, core2duo, 1gig ram, ati x1400, and dell wireless/bt

 

I have read a lot, but so far I've just worked on fixing a dual boot with vista (currently with acronis, but I may get the vista bootloader to take that job, since acronis required me to use the xp bootloader as an intermediate to detect vista). Was getting HFS partition errors

 

My only other modification was the boot.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Boot Graphics</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1680x1050x32</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>platform=X86PC cpus=1</string>

</dict>

</plist>

[joe75]

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=247328

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34068

 

Add to your boot plist: Timeout20

 

You should also add -v to kernel flags so you see whats loading and spot any problems. You can remove platform=X86PC if you want.

Edited February 15, 2007 by joe75

[CaptDistraction]

cleaned up the boot.plist, fixed the redundant entries, but now it just gives me the lines in higher resolution. Doing a bit more research, it seems to get through the text portion of the boot without issue. I still need to get to an external monitor to see if its booting ok and just outputting to the external port.

[CaptDistraction]

reinstalled again, no options, and now it works. Seems the added in driver stuff wasn't flying.

 

Getting further, but it is pig slow. I had to shutdown while doing the initial computer config for wireless, etc, because it was so slow. Maybe that's a sideeffect of having both cores going? I'll re-edit my boot.plist and try again.

 

woot, successful, posting from within mac at 1680x1050. Not sure if I have QE/CI yet.

 

woot, successful, posting from within mac at 1680x1050. Not sure if I have QE/CI yet.

[joe75]

You have to disable one core until someone finds a fix

Edited February 16, 2007 by joe75

[amfilohije]

So you have the native 1680x1050 resolution on your Dell? I've got the (almost exactly the same) Inspiron 6400 Core Duo, but can't get the resolution working. It's locked at 1400x1050 now, after editing the boot.plist.

[CaptDistraction]

I just checked, you're right. I posted right before getting some sleep.

 

so I am at 1400x1050. Getting there, still need to edit the ATI kext.