Shadowed Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 First of all sorry for my bad english... ok...this is my hardware: DELL DIMENSION E520 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Ram: 2Gb Ddr2 Motherboard: Model: DELL 0WG864 Chipset:Intel P965/G965 + ICH8 storage controller Hard Disk: SATA 300Gb (with two partitions first for xp..second for osx...i hope) Optical Drive: SATA DVD+-RW Video: Ati Radeon X1300 Pro 256Mb Audio: SigmaTel STAC9227 Ethernet: Intel 10/100 pro NOw...I downloaded this iso "JaS 10.4.8 AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2.iso"...i tried to install it in native mode...but it says to me... STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE so.. I installed it via vmware on the real partition...and all works fine...osx loads in vmware and i configured the dual boot... But.. When i boot up in native mode it says always.. STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE ok.. I tryed to reboot on winxp..start osx in vmware..and installed this patch for ICH8 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...42317&st=40 from the chinese site posted by Bruce Wang... but always still waiting for blablablablabla what other can i try to solve this problem? Is there any other user with Dell Dimension E520 with same hw configuration that can run osx? Sorry again for my bad english Thank you Giuseppe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
newtrax Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 I have the same Dell at work, and have tried all of the same processes. But "Still waiting for root bla bla bla" too! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-348612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowed Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 so now we are two...anyone can help us? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-348838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willamlholla Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I would Say we are 4 Cuz i got a E521 which i got for a cheap price..just to do this...but wit an AMD chip tho Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-350245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 i also have an E520, and waiting for a boot device *argh* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-358908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caute Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I installed osx on my work e520 computer. It worked, but no sound or network. Everything else seemed to work just fine. Remember thoug that there was something you should think of to get around the waiting for oot device thingy. A tip, search the forum. If any of you get it working, you could maybe post the results here? cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-362169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobOki Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 I had to make the harddrive the other option besides the LSI driver... then mine worked like a champ. Now to get the nic to work... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-363337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
karidadeloy Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Try http://www.sabrsoft.com/randomstuff/ds3-4pack.1.2.dmg DELL DIMENSION E520 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 :-) Only external USB CD-DVD Jas 10.4.8 and external USB hard disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-379587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caute Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 what was that package for? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-379607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinjja Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Could using a SATA to USB cable like this on my dvd and hard drive fix the "Still waiting..." error? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-382602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caute Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 it probably will be very slow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-384473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 @justinjja have a look at http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=402572 it seems like this could be the answer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-424262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
godsdice97 Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 you guys need to change the drive operation setting from raid to auto/sata in your bios by hitting F2 after poweron and you wont wait for device anymore on the e520 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-548190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 you guys need to change the drive operation setting from raid to auto/sata in your bios by hitting F2 after poweronand you wont wait for device anymore on the e520 Actually, that is bad advice. E520 works nicely in raid mode. In Tiger, Macdotnub and Kalyway boot out of the box. In Leopard, I understand Kalyway boots oob, but not others. I have not tried this personally. I posted how to patch Leopard to enable ICH8R here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=511085 And I posted a guide for patching Leopard install DVD here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=510839 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-548553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjoe Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 "Actually, that is bad advice. E520 works nicely in raid mode. In Tiger, Macdotnub and Kalyway boot out of the box. In Leopard, I understand Kalyway boots oob, but not others. I have not tried this personally." -wmarsh And so they do. And after install, it doesn't work to boot off of the partition you installed to. At least for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-548595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 And so they do. And after install, it doesn't work to boot off of the partition you installed to. At least for me. Well, I've been able to boot every one of those distribs from the partition I installed to. Are you using pc_efi? Before pc_efi, the only way I could get installed partitions to boot was to install onto 2nd HDD, then use BIOS to boot off 2nd HDD. pc_efi has made it easy. You install boot_v8 onto your Linux partition into /boot Then add item to grub boot menu: title Mac OSX Leopard root (hd?,?) (replace with same values grub uses for Linux partition, not ones for OSX partition) kernel /boot/boot_v8 boot I am certain other people use other bootloaders. So if you don't want to use grub, then you can research more. Now there are issues with some installs. For instance, in Kalyway 10.4.10, if you install the so called "kool patch" for Dell E520, you won't be able to boot your installed partition. I think it was for people who changed the BIOS setting. Macdotnub was easiest install. Be sure you install both SATA patch and ICH8R patch. E520 is actually a very nice platform for Leopard. Sound works with Taruga's kext for Tiger, his Leopard patcher doesn't work for us yet. Onboard ethernet doesn't work, but I use a Linksys100tx pci card with tulip.kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-548704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
godsdice97 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 thats not bad advice .. you set yours to raid on , but admitted to not even setting your drives up as raid in the raid bios , so whats the point? so it will load the {censored} ahci loader and never use it? just to say you have raid? the e520 will boot and work with way less problems by using auto/sata , theres no point in enabling raid with one hard drive.. its meant for 2 or more disks not one hdd and one dvd, thats not a raid . so until you set up 2 drives , then setup raid0 (striped) and optimize it for performance , then you can come back and tell me I gave bad advice .. until then zip it. Your just going by what Dell has plastered in the bios screen and because it comes shipped like that , and in a junk windows environment maybe thats a great solution but we're not .. ps. nicely isn't a word. Actually, that is bad advice. E520 works nicely in raid mode. In Tiger, Macdotnub and Kalyway boot out of the box. In Leopard, I understand Kalyway boots oob, but not others. I have not tried this personally. I posted how to patch Leopard to enable ICH8R here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=511085 And I posted a guide for patching Leopard install DVD here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=510839 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-577174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggyworld Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 ps. nicely isn't a word. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nicely Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-580131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsogoo Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 If you have "stiil waiting for boot ..." error, try to change boot order on setup /F2/. Make Sata disks at first. I have changed boot order and no more that error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48661-dell-dimension-e520/#findComment-1225646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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