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Dell Inspiron 9300 10.4.8 Dual Boot Guide w/ GeForce Go 6800


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This is the start to finish guide to get OSX 10.4.8 dual booting from a clean XP install on a Dell 9300 with the GeForce Go 6800 video card.

Special thanks for helping figure this out on my own

Dense

CPngN

Sportman

GimmeRed

Osxgus

And anyone else I forgot. Thank you.

 

Obtain the following:

Ultimate boot cd - search for it and burn the iso. its free.

Acronis Boot Selector – Part of the Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 – Obtain but don't install yet.

Partition Magic – Install this.

JaS.Mac.OS.X.10.4. 8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.S SE3.PPF.1.Defiant. diskutil.biker880. ich7-R.patch.Integrated iso

AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext – Get from here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;&do=findComment&comment=269312

 

Intel Pro 2200 wireless doesn't work but they are working on a driver here

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36976

Optional- I purchased a Dell Truemobile 1450 on the internet for $15. At the end I will include instructions on how I got this to work as well.

Get the IONetworkingFamily kext and the IOPciFamily kext from 10.4.3 from here for the Truemobile to work.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;&do=findComment&comment=245294

 

 

1st Step - Partition the Hard Drive

 

Start partition Magic

>> Click on ‘Resize/Move Partition

>> Move the slider to make the partition smaller and hit OK

>> Click on ‘Apply’

>> Close Partition Magic

 

4. Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

 

3. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

 

list disk

select disk [the number of your disk

create partition primary id=af

 

5. Close the command window.

 

Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

 

6. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

 

list disk

select disk [the number of your disk]

list partition

select partition [the number of your osx partition]

active (if this doesn’t work, try ’set active’ without quotes)

2nd step - Reboot and install Jas Installation Disk

 

once the install screen comes up... click on the top menu and find disk utility. click erase and on your new partiton you created and format it to mac journaled. Once it is done close the disk utility.

Pick the intel option, pick the nvidia drivers one, powermanagement, login 10.4.4 window, and biker880. Not exactly sure which customizable ones I needed but these worked for me.

 

Once it installs reboot.

 

3rd step - Getting rid of the grey error screen and getting your GeForce Go to work

 

on the reboot process where it says dell in big letters hit f8 over and over to bring up the screen.

 

move down and highlight your new osx drive

 

type -s and hit enter

 

it will do lots of things and then once it stops type what it tells you to. there should be 3 separate lines. type exactly what it says and then hit enter between each line.

the last line is /sbin/mount -uw /

that mounts the drive so it can be written to.

 

type this now:

cd /System/Library

sudo rm -rf Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache

 

cd Extensions

 

sudo nano NVDAResMan.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

(scroll down to where it says string <string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff ... </string>

 

erase it down to <string>0x00c810de</string>

(-- press Control-O to save)

(-- press <Enter> to accept file name)

(-- press Control-X to exit)

 

sudo nano NVDANV40Hal.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

(scroll down to where it says string <string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff ... </string>

 

erase it down to <string>0x00c810de</string>

(-- press Control-O to save)

(-- press <Enter> to accept file name)

(-- press Control-X to exit)

sudo nano GeForce.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

(scroll down to where it says string <string>0x000010de&0x0000ffff ... </string>

 

erase it down to <string>0x00c810de</string>

(-- press Control-O to save)

(-- press <Enter> to accept file name)

(-- press Control-X to exit)

 

 

sudo chown -Rf root:wheel GeForce* NVDA* Titan*

sudo chmod -Rf 755 GeForce* NVDA* Titan*

diskutil repairPermissions /

 

reboot your computer.

 

4th step – Get Ethernet working

Browse to /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/plugins

 

and delete AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext

Enter Password.

 

Drag the new AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext back into the Plugins folder.

Click Authenticate.

Enter Password.

 

Open Disk Utility and Click repair permissions.

 

reboot and you should be set to go.

 

5th Step– Installing the Boot Selector

boot into windows by pressing f8 at dell words at startup over and over.

if it won't come up pop in the ultimate boot cd and press f3 and then 3. choose the windows partition and hit enter.

 

install acronis boot selector and reboot.

it should detect and set up to boot both partitions.

 

Dell TrueMobile 1450 Airport Card

Browse to

 

System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAirPortBrcm4311.kext/Contents

 

Highlight and copy the Info.plist to the desktop.

After it is copied to the desktop, delete the info.plist

Enter password.

Open the Info.plist on the desktop with Textedit.

Scroll down to where it says

 

<string>pci14e4,4311</string>

<string>pci14e4,4318</string>

<string>pci14e4,4320</string>

 

Add this line in.

<string>pci14e4,4324</string>

 

File Save.

File Quit.

Drag Info.plist back into the Contents folder.

Click Authenticate.

Enter Password.

 

Browse to

System/Library/Extensions/

Place the new IONetworkingFamily kext and the IOPciFamily kext here.

Click Authenticate.

Enter Password.

Go to

Library/Preferences/SystemsConfigurations and drag your networkingInterfaces.plist

to your desktop and edit it with textedit.

Change to match all of the en0 to en1.

 

<key>BSD Name</key>

<string>en1</string>

<key>IOBuiltin</key>

<false/>

<key>IOInterfaceType</key>

<integer>6</integer>

<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>

<integer>1</integer>

<key>IOLocation</key>

<string></string>

<key>IOMACAddress</key>

<data>

ABSl2foI

</data>

<key>IOPathMatch</key>

<string>IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/PCIE@1E/IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci14e4,4319@3/AirPort_Brcm43xx/IO80211Interface</string>

</dict>

 

After you edit it drag your old .plist to the trashbin and drag the new one to it's place Authenticate

Open Disk Utility and Click repair permissions.

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  • 4 weeks later...

HEEEEEELP!!!

 

I'm try by d*mnist to use this guide to finish my OSx86 install using image listed above-

 

Here's my issue:

 

When i reboot in safe mode and begin to edit NVDAResMan.kext/Contents/Info.plist I can not find the string mentioned.

 

I've scrolled completely through the document and have found the field with string entries but it doesn't start with 0x000010de&0x0000ffff

 

I've tried to just edit the strings to <string>0x00c810de</string> but I still can not boot. (Grey screen then the Kernel panic)

 

So my questions are- HOW DO I DO THIS! Sorry just getting frustrated and it's my 4 night working on this. BTW 10.4.? runs fine, but i really want to test QE/CI

 

Dell 9300

Pentium M 1.6Ghz

1.5Gb Ram

GeForce Go 6800

80GB 5400rpm HD

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-I figured it out.

 

downloaded latest titan

 

copied the magic three kexts to the right folder (ResMan, HAL40 & GeForce)

 

changed dev id left the &0x0000ffff portion of the string intact

 

sudo chown -Rf root:wheel GeForce* NVDA* Titan*

sudo chmod -Rf 755 GeForce* NVDA* Titan*

 

repaired permissions

 

reboot

 

volia!

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Hi. I'm in need of help. No matter what I do, my resolution is stuck at 1024x768. This looks really bad on my inspiron 9300. I've edited the NVDAResman.kext, GeForce.kext and NVDANV40Hal.kext and the results are the same. When I check my mac info it says that core image is not supported and quartz extreme is not supported. My video card is a go 6800 and I'm using Natit video driver. If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

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You can chose screen resolution by force.

Edit your "com.apple.boot.plist".

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>

 

ATTENTION:

If your video card is using VESA 2.0 drivers, leave out the "@85" part as it only works on VESA 3.0 will cause the system to reset before getting anywhere.

 

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024x32</string>

 

 

Use your desired resolutionexample 1280x900x60 or something that 100% works on your screen.

Dont try something that doesent work cose you ll lose installation.

Before restart "Repair Disk Permisions" with "Disk Utility".

(it fixes resolution to desired level but it doesent solve the problem with CI and QE)

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Oracle thanks for the advice. I just tried it but my screen resolution is still not at what it's capable of. My native resolution on my i9300 is 1920x1200. Your advice did help out a bit. I put 1920x1200 in the com.apple.Boot.plist but my resolution is now at 1280x1024. It's a jump from 1024x768 but it's still not native res. Once again, thanks for you help.

 

Edit: Problem was solved. I followed the instructions here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=37231 and it just worked for me. Thanks for everyone's help!

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you have to find the device id for your graphics card. you can do it from windows in the device manager. The one I used for mine was and the code i told you to type in in the guide was for the geforce go 6800. if you have a different one, than you will have to put the correct device id in. you can also find it in about this mac - more info screen. click on your graphics/displays.

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