Help Needed with Dell Inspiron E1505

Atoli · #1 02-26-2009, 06:34 AM

I'm trying to get Mac OS X to run on my Dell Inspiron E1505. I tried installing Kalyway 10.5.2 on her and the installer runs beautifully but when I reboot and try to boot OS X, after the grey apple logo I just get a screen with black and white lines going down the front. Anyone have an idea on how to solve this or what other distro I should try? Here's my system specs:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83Ghz
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
Motherboard: Dell Inc. OXD720, Chipset: Intel i945PM
RAM: 2Gb DDR2 Dual Channel 266.0Mhz
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
NIC: Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller
W-NIC: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Sound: SigmaTel High Definition Audio

Any info or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Taisto · #2 02-26-2009, 07:38 PM

Have you tried to boot with -x ? And did u select any video drivers during the installation ? If so, boot with -s and remove them. I`d start with those two things.

Atoli · #3 02-26-2009, 11:37 PM

Well I tried with -x and that cleared the line problem but now it keeps rebooting. Any thoughts for that?

Taisto · #4 02-27-2009, 12:08 AM

ok, type -x -v and say when it does reboot.

Atoli · #5 02-27-2009, 01:25 AM

It'll get to these lines:

BSD Root: disk0s1, Major 14, Minor 1
Unknown SIGFPE, code 1, subcode 0
Synching disks.....Killing all processes

continuing
done
MACH reboot

After that there's an Error line but it flashes so fast that I can't catch what it says before the computer reboots.

Taisto · #6 02-27-2009, 01:38 AM

Hmm, ive found a whole, nice tutorial for you :

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...9&#entry561279

Your problem was meant there so there`s a solution aswell. But still, i think it would be faster and less painful to try newer distro like leo4all v4 or iPC 10.5.6.

Atoli · #7 02-27-2009, 01:42 AM

Thanks for your help. I'll look into it. I'm dowloading iPC OS 10.5.6 now just incase it doesn't work.