applebender Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 EDIT: at the end I decided to do a new install on another disk, mounted both and pulled the data over to save them. _________________ Hello guys, do you have a suggestion for my crashed install ? The joy was premature. Without any disruptive action like upgrade etc. just on restart which worked normally before, I am coming back with this problem: after the very first screen, while on the next one which is headed with this line Intel Matrix Storage manager option ROM v 7.6.1.1001 ICH9R and where usually below this line it was my HD listed and the system just quickly changed to the next screen with the Chameleon boot, I am getting now stuck with this info: boot 0: MBR boot 0: done boot 1: startupfile_ with the underscore blinking. The hard drive is WD6400AAKS, during the iAtkos install, I used Disk Utility to erase the disk and make one GUID partition and the install option was with BIOS in RAID setting and correspondingly I picked Intel AHCI SATA option in the install settings. The install has been working well for a week. I tried to repair permissions from the iAtkos install disk Disk Utility but this has not helped. The only thing I am thinking to do is to use the iAtkos install disk and uncheck everything except the Intel SATA option in the System section to reinstall the drivers, but I am not sure this is the problem and maybe it would screw the hard drive completely. I have been just in process of transcribing files from external HD to this disk and intended to do a backup after that, hence I would prefer to save the hard drives files . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77371-dell-xps-420-help/page/4/#findComment-1082565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcmint415 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Hi I'm hoping someone might be able to help me figure out what I'm missing. I have a XPS 420 as well and I've installed OSX 10.5.5 to a USB Hard Drive and it works fine, I've managed to get most everything working, but I noticed that I don't have any of my SATA drives(HDD, DVD/CD) when I boot with RAID Mode on. When I boot with Raid Mode set to Auto/ATA, I have my SATA drives and it works(but windows won't boot up.) From what I understand using the Auto/ATA mode is IDE whereas using the Raid Mode on is AHCI right? I'd really like a point in the right direction to get my AHCI working properly. I'll explain how I set everything up: 1. I booted iDeneb 10.5.5 from my DVD drive. 2. I formatted my USB HDD using a GUID partition. 3. I selected ICHx Fixed under the Chipset options. 4. I didn't select any Audio, Ethernet or Video options. 5. After the installation, I booted into safe mode with -v -x. 6. I installed the kext for my ATI 3870, as the ones that installed with iDeneb didn't work. 7. My wireless card worked with the Vanilla Kernel. 8. I patched my Audio using the AppleHDAPatcher(1.2 and 1.16... I have restart issue) Everything is working really well(minus the 9227 audio problem and my missing SATA drives). Does anyone have an ideas of why my drives aren't showing up? I checked and I have the following kexts: AppleAHCIPort.kext IOAHCIFamily.kext IOATAFamily.kext I know people have both modes working. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks for your time. Ennova P.S. Here are my specs: Dell XPS 420 CPU: Q9450 (2.66ghz all cores working) Ram: 4x1GB (800mhz) GPU: ATI3870 HDD: 750GB(Vista) External USB 120GB(OSX). Hi, my XPS 420 is configured just like yours. However, I keep getting the "Still waiting for root device" error. I've searched and also changed all suggested BIOS settings as well. I'm totally stumped. Is there anything else you did in your steps that maybe you forgot to mention? It's a very nice thorough write up but I just can't get it to work. BTW, where did you get the kext for the 3870 and how exactly did you install it? I would be so happy just to get as far as you did and not get stuck everytime w/the "Still waiting for root device" error. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77371-dell-xps-420-help/page/4/#findComment-1126507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanknight Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 i also got the same error "Still Waiting for root device" on my XPS 420. My case is with iPC. Here's my post link iPC on XPS 420 One memeber from this forum is helping me out as well. Hope we can solve it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77371-dell-xps-420-help/page/4/#findComment-1126712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJServer Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Hi there, I was just wondering if anyone could help me out with getting Parallels to run on my XPS 420 Hackintosh. The Hackintosh seems to work fairly flawlessly, I have virtulisation turned on in the BIOS and don't know what else I need to do to get it to even start the installation of an OS. Once I have completed the config of the new virtual machine the XPS makes a beep noise and parallels hangs. Thanks in advance for any replies! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77371-dell-xps-420-help/page/4/#findComment-1140004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcmint415 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1392683 I got 10.5.6 working great on my XPS 420! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77371-dell-xps-420-help/page/4/#findComment-1393421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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