iPC Noob on Dell X300
I installed iPC 10.5.6 on my Dell X300 laptop. It's about 5 years old, and didn't have any issues taking the installation. I keep getting kernel panics and don't know how to get around them. I did a -v and tried -legacy and nothing works.…
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I installed iPC 10.5.6 on my Dell X300 laptop. It's about 5 years old, and didn't have any issues taking the installation. I keep getting kernel panics and don't know how to get around them. I did a -v and tried -legacy and nothing works. The line it freezes at is:
"using 5898 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers"
It's an Intel Centrino @ 1.2GHz, 1 GB RAM, 120GB HDD. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
DKV
Update: I've tried reinstalling several times using different Kernels and so far I still get the same thing with each kernel. I've tried doing a bland install with no drivers and same thing. Maybe it's my laptop? Not sure.
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Well, I got past that issue by searching on the InsanelyMac forums, but a new issue has cropped up. I followed the instructions here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15… ↗.
I get to the grey boot screen, and it just stops. I've searched and searched and can't seem to find a solution to get past this. I've modified the instructions above numerous times and still can't get past that screen. Solutions or ideas anyone?
Wow, no responses. I figured out the issues anyway. Versions of OS X above 10.4.11 don't work on Dell Latitude X300s. I was able to install 10.4.6 and am installing 10.4.8 right now to see if it'll work too.
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I've tried 10.4.8 in dual boot...fail
No USB, No ethernet, No Wifi in 10.4.8. HFS+ partition error. I can boot the harddrive only if i use my dvd rom.
10.5.6
This guy succeed to install iPC10.5.6 in his dell x300.
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| @Darkvette | Primary Author | 4 | 2009-02-19 → 2009-02-23 |
| @bt_fans | Contributor | 2 | 2009-09-17 |