[damengual]

Originally Posted by damengual

Not Booting after post 10.5.7 DellEFI

I had everything going smooth, ran DellEFI again in safe mode after the 10.5.7 update, now all i get is the Apple boot screen with an endlessly spinning circle.

can't boot into any other modes.

=(

fixed using netbookboot instead of dell efi. i highly reccomend it. thanks drew for having a very useful site!

[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by treeswithteeth

2 days without my hackintosh and spirits are low. Somehow my system wasn't being recognized as having an intel processor (which it used to) so I decided to tinker with the delefi util to fix it. Well, not sure exactly what I did but I hosed something and now OSX hangs on boot (circle just keeps spinning). I've tried a bunch of stuff but chameleon seems to be hanging me up because I have dual boot setup (OSX/Ubuntu). I can't get it to boot into safe mode or anything. I tried recreating my setup/boot disks so I could boot with a usb drive to run the delefi util but even that doesn't want to cooperate. I go through the steps and get stuck on the bootmaker which starts then automatically terminates before giving me any options. Any ideas would be much appreciated. If I could just get into safe mode I think I'd be all set. Thanks in advance.

Switch to NetbookBootMaker (instead of DellEFIBootMaker) and then boot into the Mac OS X Installer. Under the Utilities menu you will find NetbookInstaller..., use that to reinstall the bootloader on your machine. Link in signature.

[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by griffter47

Hi there,
First of all, many thanks for the guide, its been a great help
I've installed leopard on two mini 9's with the exact same specification, but sometimes they will freeze up, then after a forced restart, the commandline comes up with 'no operating system found'. I then go through the install process again and when I go into disk utility, the partition has disappeared. They both have 32gb Crucial SSDs.
Is this to be expected or are the SSDs faulty? How can I prevent this.
-t

No idea. I've never heard of a disappearing partition, and I can't vouch for the validity of Crucial SSDs. Sorry.

[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by Faloopa

I think I'm going to try tomorrow: has anyone tried yet? Does the DellEFI patch work with 10.6?

I'm using a Vostro A90 with the stock 16GB SSD, 1GB RAM (for now - I'm going to order the 2GB upgrade this weekend), and BIOS A04. I'm running 10.5.6 right now with no problems, but I wonder what 10.6 will do?

I'm definately going to do a full TM backup first in case I have to go back to Leopard, but does anyone have any tips?

Thanks!

The only advice I can give you is to look at the Snow Leopard subforum, they have many threads there for installing Snow Leopard, but it's not easy at the moment. I will be checking into SL once I get my Windows-only install guide finished.

[Faloopa]

Like an idiot I accidentally turned on Mirroring for the second monitor on my Vostro A90 - dumb! - and now I can't fit it. I know that I can reset the PRAM/NVRAM by holding option+command+P+R during start up on my iMac but it doesn't work on my mini.

Anyone else make this mistake......and fix it? Is there a Terminal command to reset the NVRAM or at least reset the monitor settings to stock? Or (even better) a way to get mirroring to work on the Dells?

I wouldn't even do this if I didn't need to run a ProPresenter show and I'd really like to use my Mini instead of lugging my iMac all across town.

Dang - do I need to reinstall OS X.......again?


Vostro A90, 1GB RAM, stock 16GB SSD, BIOS A04, OS X 10.5.6


********UPDATE 9/1***********
Nevermind the above: I got it. Through a little research I found that Hackintosh's don't USE NVRAM so you can't reset it. I fixed the monitor problem by using the Mirror Displays app (http://www.fabiancanas.com/Projects/MirrorDisplays/) - it took me a bit but I figured out that I had to position my cursor over the app icon, plug in the second monitor (screwing up the picture on both) and then blindly double click. Now Extended Desktop - and ProPresenter - work great.

I think tomorrow I'm going to do a clean install anyway using the NetbookBootMaker so I can run 10.5.8 easily.

Thanks!

[mbim]

When I try to choose my USB key with the iso file (using http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/oldguide.shtml with Windows only) I get a kernel panic error. How can I begin to figure out what is going wrong?

using 10.5.7 with miniboot123v8.02b1

Just a bit more detail - I can get into the bootloader, up the step where I choose 81 for the USB Key, and then it happens.

If I choose to just boot straight to the USB key it says

boot0:testing
boot0:error

in case that helps.

[darkhunter139]

I using a dell mini 9, I used the 10.5.6 CDs to install OS X and it is running pretty slow and will not create the dsdt.aml file with dellefi1. Any idea what this could be? I am using dellEFI1.2A5


EDIT: Ok I got it to install but its still running kind of slow. Any idea what the problem could be?

[OakMan]

Hi
I just created my DellMini 9 Mac.
The creation went very well and I am very please with it

One small issue: I just updated my OS to 10.5.8 using the "software update" utility. Now I have no audio. I think I had audio in 10.5.7 but can't prove it.

Am I suppose to reinstall the DellEFI after each update or what do I need to do here? If so where in the Guide V3 do I start?

Sorry to ask here but I just signed up for the forum and can not figure out how to create an original post.

Thanks
Oak

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[damengual]

DEllEFI is outdated/buggy

use Netbookinstaller.

find tutorials/files here:

OS X | mechdrew

Originally Posted by OakMan

Hi
I just created my DellMini 9 Mac.
The creation went very well and I am very please with it

One small issue: I just updated my OS to 10.5.8 using the "software update" utility. Now I have no audio. I think I had audio in 10.5.7 but can't prove it.

Am I suppose to reinstall the DellEFI after each update or what do I need to do here? If so where in the Guide V3 do I start?

Sorry to ask here but I just signed up for the forum and can not figure out how to create an original post.

Thanks
Oak

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[RazorsEdge]

Originally Posted by OakMan

Hi
I just created my DellMini 9 Mac.
The creation went very well and I am very please with it

One small issue: I just updated my OS to 10.5.8 using the "software update" utility. Now I have no audio. I think I had audio in 10.5.7 but can't prove it.

Am I suppose to reinstall the DellEFI after each update or what do I need to do here? If so where in the Guide V3 do I start?

Sorry to ask here but I just signed up for the forum and can not figure out how to create an original post.

Thanks
Oak

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Try reinstalling os 10.5.8 combo pkg.