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XPS 420 Not Booting - Stop Sign on Apple Screen


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Installed ML on a Dell XPS 420, using myHack.

 

The installer worked fine. After the first "Solo" boot, I hit the "Stop / Prohibitory Sign" -

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I'm pretty sure it relates to the AHCI / SATA setup which is not available on the Dell BIOS Setup.

Any chance of setting this straight ?

 

thanks

RB

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Can you please list your specs of that machine? CPU, chipset, graphics card, RAM, HDD, LAN, wireless, etc.

 

You don't necessarily require AHCI setup to install and run ML (or OS X). Eg: Latitude D620 or many other systems that do not have specific SATA AHCI enabling facility in the BIOS, yet run ML without problem. What options do you have in BIOS, if anything at all? If you have RAID, you can try to use that instead (without creating any array of course).

 

Did you try and boot your installation with Chameleon boot flag -v to see where it hangs?

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Thanks.

Here's my Setup:

Mobo: Dell XPS420, BIOS A07

Processor: Intel Core2  Quad 2.4GHz

Memory: 2GB DDR2 667mhz, ML (in progress)

Drives: System Drive: WD 2TB (Partitioned to 2)

Video Card: Asus (not sure which)

Network - on-board ethernet.

-v hangs in "Still Waiting for Root Device"

 

Boot Options - BIOS - I have "Sata Operation" with

RAID Autodetect / ATA or RAID on

 

The weird thing is that even though on the boot sequence I can see my internal drive - and I could also install ML on it.

But now for some weird reason if I boot using myHack, the internal drive is not showing,

can't see the drive in Disk Utility / myHack utility.

 

thanks !

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You really need to identify that video card model, it's important in Mac OS X as it may or may not be supported and that totally impacts usability of the system. If the card proved to be unsupported, forget OS X until you replace it with a supported model.

 

Did you try booting with option PciRoot=1/2/3/4 ? Did you try setting your SATA operation to RAID=On ?

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Updates ! Updates !

OK. managed to get the sleeping beauty to wake up.

I had a little AHCI-kext bonanaza. Also added a dsdt.

 

HOWEVER -

Video is 1024

No ethernet.

 

Any ideas ?

 

Will yank the video card and see - however this machine was a functional SL machine 3 years ago,

until someone bricked it with a careless system update. So I know the video card worked fine.

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Here you go chef

Last login: Tue Jan  7 12:43:15 on console
eggfactorys-Mac-Pro:~ eggfactory$ lspci -nn
pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored.
pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored.
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29e0]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Primary PCI Express Bridge [8086:29e1]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82X38/X48 Express Host-Secondary PCI Express Bridge [8086:29e9]
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2916] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA Controller [RAID mode] [8086:2822] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be3] (rev a1)
04:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx] [104c:8023]
eggfactorys-Mac-Pro:~ eggfactory$
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Ok, that confirms GeForce G210 graphics card, for which the boot option mentioned above should trigger full support natively. If not, post a copy of your DSDT + saved IORegistryExplorer output and we'll get the card injected into the DSDT.

 

I don't see any Ethernet controller listed, it's probably disabled in BIOS...

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