Freeze after "How Do You Connect?" screen

[Tard Farmer]

I am installing JAS 10.4.8 on a Dell 700m laptop. According to the HCL, this is a compatible system, with a Centrino 1.4GHz processor, 1.2 Gigs of ram, and a pre-partitioned 60 gig hard drive.

 

I'm trying to install this as a dual boot. XP was already installed, and I cut a 20gig free partition to install to.

 

Installation went without a hitch; I installed the supplemental drivers, Intel SSE2 support, etc. When I boot, things take a long time, -v shows no problems, and it goes into the initial installation dialogue. I choose the keyboard, no transfer of settings, etc.

 

Then it asks, "How do you connect?" I've tried every option, including cable, dsl,ethernet, and no connect. With no connect, the pinwheel starts, and I've let it sit for hours, and nothing happens. On the others, there's the DHCP and DNS config screen, but after those, I get the endless pinwheel.

 

How can I diagnose what's going wrong at this point? What do I do to hop past this hurdle and get the thing running?

 

Thanks.

[Tard Farmer]

Just my luck that I found a problem nobody can help me with.

 

A single bump for the day crew. If nobody can help me, I'll just try a re-install.

[mourngrym1969]

The first thing I would do is change your install. Go find (check bittorrent sites, plenty of seeders for this) Uphuck OSX 10.4.9 Ver. 1.3

 

This has fixed a number of laptop related issues (ACPI, speed step, etc) in addition to having a number of extra patches. Once you have that, try your install again. If you get a similar result, boot back off the CD and instead of installing, choose the 'Terminal' from the Utilities menu (same menu at the top as the Disk Utility). When the terminal opens, do the following:

• mkdir /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/backup
  • remember, at this point your drive is not mounted as root since you are booting off the DVD, so you need to include the full path, everything under the name of your drive is the same
    

  [*]mv /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/System/Library/Extensions/IOPCINetworkingFamily.kext/Content/Plugins/*

  /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/backup

  • you are moving all the kext drivers for all network cards to your backup directory to see if they are causing your problem
    

  [*]touch /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/System/Library/Extensions

  [*]rm /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/System/Library/Extensions.mkext

  [*]rm /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/System/Library/Extensions.kextcache

  [*]kextcache -k /Volumes/YourMacDriveName/System/Library/Extensions

  [*]reboot

I suspect OSX saw your ethernet card, goes to configure something to do with it and the driver hangs. By removing all the drivers you should bypass that. Make sure to pick 'My Computer Does Not Connect to the Internet' when you get there next time.

 

Once you get to the desktop, you can start figuring out what went wrong.

 

Good luck!

 

Mourngrym

 

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