Whoopysnorp Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 OK, after many attempts I finally got OSX installed onto a partition on my Dell Inspiron 1526's internal SATA hard drive. My next challenge is getting the proper graphics driver. I am using the JaS 10.4.8 PPF1 image, and I used this thread as a guide to get me past the SATA hurdles. That guide recommends using the Callisto build 003 kexts, but I can't seem to get those to work. I've tried a couple of different builds, always substituting the original device ID for my own (0x0791f1002) and doing the usual permission repair/kextcache delete, but I get kernel panics on reboot every time, at the stage where the kernel is attempting to load the Callisto extension. Does anybody know of an alternate graphics kext I can try? For reference, the Inspirion 1526 specs are as follows: AMD Turion TL60 ATI Radeon Xpress X1270 2 GB RAM ATI SATA controller I have the 250 GB hard drive partitioned into ~200 GB for Windows XP and the rest for OSX, dual booting using OSX's bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottath Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Have you tried installing 10.5.2? My laptop is similar and i cannot get to the installer wouldn't one of the "nject" drivers work for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopysnorp Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Haven't tried Leopard yet...I've heard too many bad things about it. Still haven't figured anything out yet; any input anybody might have would be welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopysnorp Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Tried Natit without success...I can see from the boot messages that the driver recognizes my hardware, but I get a black screen when it's time for the login window to load. I read that the driver isn't necessarily designed for laptops so I plugged a second monitor in, but that wasn't getting any signal either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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