Mitta_Kong Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Alright so I have been working for the past month to get any version of OS X onto my Dell 4550, no clue what motherboard, Pentium 4 2.53Ghz, Nvidia P73 64mb video ram, and 768mb RAM. I have tried, Kalyway 10.5.1, Kalyway 10.5.2, iATKOS v1.0i, as well as iATKOS 2.0. The furthest that I have gotten is installed Leopard successfully on iATKOS 2.0, but then when it tried to boot from the HDD, I press enter and nothing happens. If I repeatedly press enter I can vaguely make out a "cannot find mach_kernel" error that sometime flashes up for a fraction of a second. Any help would be appreciated, I am about to go back to XP which would definitely be a drag. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 On installing, are you selecting all the kernels? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitta_Kong Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 I'm pretty sure I only chose ToH 9.2.0 I think? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Try installing with all kernels selected, because it's trying to load a kernel you haven't installed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitta_Kong Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 ok I'm in the process of installing again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 okay, good luck with it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitta_Kong Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 I installed everything offered and still unable to boot with a successful install then a "cannot find mach_kernel" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlbrown23 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 With a P4 & less than 1GB of RAM, the system sounds like it could be a little underpowered. A lot of the Leo releases require you to jump through a couple of hoops if you don't have at least a Core Duo, and if you have a P4 I am guessing the motherboard is a little old too. Have you considered putting OSX 10.4 on it? JaS's 10.4.8 release seems to be as universally stable a release as their has been. It's not Leo, but it is a mile better than XP. And it will let you know if you can install osx86 at all on your machine. It took me a while to get Leo working well on my Hackintosh, but Tiger worked on the initial install... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-772810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Does it let you press enter or anything to edit boot options? If so, try typing in 'Sleep_kernel' and hitting enter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-773204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticus C* Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 make sure to use kalyway 10.5.2 and check the sse2 patches section... you have most likely sse2 cpu, it should help... any osx you try, make sure to check sse2 patched kernels... also dont forget to boot with -v -x cpus=1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108986-ready-to-abandon-osx86/#findComment-773207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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