ZeR888 Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Ok here's the problem; I own a Dell X1 ultra-portable Notebook. There is no CD/DVD drive so I had to use an external USB drive. When I try to install 1.0.4.3 wisley's pached DVD natively using my external drive, everything goes OK: i get the darwin boot options showing up, I press enter and I see the grey apple background. From there I have to wait 10 mins seeng the spinning black dots untill my PC shuts down and restarts. Althernative method used: I installed the DVD using VMWARE on a different PC, everything went OK from the start to the end. I took the VMWARE image and copied it to my laptop. I booted on my laptop using a Linux Live CD, made a primary 9Gb AF type partition. Rebooted in XP and started VMware. For this method I created a FreeBSD virtual machine. Used my phisical HDD as hardrive , added the vmware image of OSX previousely created as a secondary HDD. Booted VMware with my Linux Live CD. DD my OSX virtual drive to my 9GB AF HDD partition. Installed acronis boot manager. Boot OSX and get a HSF Partition error... HSF error work arround: Booted with the MacOS DVD hoping it'll detect my OSX partition, this time I get a blue background but freeses there... My guess: As I don't have a DVD embeded in my laptop I wanted to take my HDD off it and connect it on my PC using a laptop HDD adapter to standard IDE connection. Unfortunately The Dell Latitude X1 uses a verry special and thinny HDD (not the standard notebook HDD). Meaning my adapter don't work on it. Is it possible those special ultra light HDD's uses different HDD controllers? Nor PATA nor SATA? This whole thing's driving me crasy, I can't count how many hours I already tried to make it work... Should I use a different DVD image? Should I use a pre-made Image? or whatever? Any hint? any sugestions? Any link? Any file names to hunt/spy for? These are the specs of the X1: Intel Pentium M processor 733 (1.1GHz ULV) combined with the Intel 915GMS chipset (no SSE3 but SSE2 OK) Internal spinning media drives HDD Hard disk model Toshiba MK6006GAH Hard disk capacity 60 GB Hard disk rotation speed 4200 rpm Hard disk interface Ultra-ATA/100 Hard disk controller Ultra-ATA/100 Best regards ZeR Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9615-dell-latitude-x1-installation-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Am i mistaken or does that look like the serial number of an iPod HDD. Suggestion find friend with laptop. Load OSX on so called friends laptop. Make ghost....etc image of OSX partition. Restore image. As for the VMware->HDD partition tutorials, there are quite a lot many floating on the wiki/forum/web. BTW somebody did make a iPod HDD -> IDE converter. Read about it on a lot of sites Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9615-dell-latitude-x1-installation-problem/#findComment-59848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 dell x1 don't work... forget it.. the cpu is not compatable Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9615-dell-latitude-x1-installation-problem/#findComment-59856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeR888 Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 Thank you for your quick reply. Ill go for a linux dist ... :=) I'll wait to find a Intell 9xx gfx card mobo and try again at that moment I own a Mac G4 titanium laptop anyway Best regards ZeR Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9615-dell-latitude-x1-installation-problem/#findComment-60515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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