Best OSX install to use with a Dell E1705? UPDATE: Booting, but black screen! Laptop Nvidia driver support to blame?

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I've been doing some reading, and while I realize that regardless of what version and/or install I will have to do, that there will be a dual-core issue and some other items. That said, which version and creater of a Tiger OSX ISO installer do you recommend for a Dell E1705? I'm tempted to use Uphuck because of the popularity it has. And I'd like to be able to install a recent release (10.4.9) is possible, but the most important thing is a nice, usable system.

 

I have a copy of Uphuck's 10.4.9 v1.4i Revision3 ISO.

 

Thank you for your help everyone! Glad to become a member!

 

- Amy

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Well, after getting no responses, I proceeded to install v1.4i R3. I followed this tutorial word-for-word. Everything worked exactly as it should UNTIL the installation was finished. At the point of finishing, it said it needed to restart, and I did so, assuming that it would boot to the Mac OS as the tutorial said it would. When the E1705 restarted, I got the normal dell boot screen and then a "Missing Operating System Error". I'm not sure why, since the OSx partition is active, right?

 

Anyhow, I went and reset the Vista partition to active, installed chain0, and set up the bootloader as instructed in the tutorial. Now when I go to boot the computer, I get the Vista Bootloader screen with Vista and OS X as options. Vista works fine, but OS X results in a "chain booting error".

 

Now clearly the (1) failed reboot after installation and (2) chain booting error are related. Any advice? Is the partition somehow not bootable?

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I've done some research on the forum, but can't find an answer. Can someone please help me?

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Hmmm... thats strange. I used mac.nub's 10.4.10 r5 installation and it worked like a charm. Maybe you should try that (i have a inspiron e1505 basically the same system but smaller screen (15 inches vs 17 inches)).

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Thanks for the suggestion, not I just need to find that install. Did you have any video or audio driver issues? I was able to get it booting, by the way.

 

After getting that error, I decided to boot "-s" and then use fdisk to flag the partition. Then upon rebooting it would work, although I had to "repair" the windows partitionboot using the Vista installation disk.

 

Now the both boot fine, BUT...........

 

When I boot to OSX, I get the normal grey apple and spinner at the bottom, but then what it appears that the OS is loaded I get a completely blackscreen. I suspect this has to do with the video drivers. I was reading about Laptop Geforce Go - I have a 7800 - cards havin this problem.