Comments on: Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.0 on a Dell Dimension 9200 / DXP061 http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Moz http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-2/#comment-644 Moz Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:44:19 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-644 @Martin - this sounds really strange. When you get to the installer, run the Terminal and what is the output from <strong>diskutil list</strong> ? I'm going to give Lion at go at some point - to be honest with you, the Dell is currently sitting in a box waiting to be setup as a testing machine. I've now got a tiny Samsung NC10 running Snow Leopard - I love it, as well as one of those new Macbook Air's running Lion. Let me know how you get on. <em>Also</em>, a quick note, it might be worth trying to get newer versions of the AppleAHCIPort & AppleIntelPIIXATA kexts, plus the latest version of Chameleon. @Martin – this sounds really strange.

When you get to the installer, run the Terminal and what is the output from diskutil list ?

I’m going to give Lion at go at some point – to be honest with you, the Dell is currently sitting in a box waiting to be setup as a testing machine. I’ve now got a tiny Samsung NC10 running Snow Leopard – I love it, as well as one of those new Macbook Air’s running Lion.

Let me know how you get on.

Also, a quick note, it might be worth trying to get newer versions of the AppleAHCIPort & AppleIntelPIIXATA kexts, plus the latest version of Chameleon.

]]> By: Martin http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Martin Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:32:02 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-642 @Moz - thanks for the quick reply. I did try to swap around the SATA cables and did another round doing this just now. No matter which ports are being used (SATA-0 to SATA-5), the OS X installer never sees any of the two drives, or the two DVD-ROM units. Obviously I've tried unplugging them and leaving one drive, etc. Booting into Linux I am able to see everything (no big surprise there). Really puzzling that it should be so difficult to set this up, but I am partly blaming the lobotimized Dell-BIOS for it. Still--it would be nice to just be able to insert the kext's after the thing has booted up, but for some reason it just throws this security error. I'll keep trying for a bit, but I am wondering if the added effort is worth it--especially if there would be more twiddling required post-installation (I am, ironically, setting this up for a non-technical family member who likes Macs!) Still haven't got the keyboard to function properly on a different laptop where I did get it installed ('@' in particular is located next to enter) I have tried using a USB-caddy to image the installed drive over to one of the internal ones on the Dell system, but I have yet been able to detect any of them even using this method. This working system died after installing the Chameleon bootloader earlier today. (Even when reinstalling it completely the OS X installer apparently left the bootblock alone!) Btw. -- you haven't by any chance been brave enough to attempt upgrading/reinstalling the Dimension9200 with Lion, have you? ;-) @Moz – thanks for the quick reply. I did try to swap around the SATA cables and did another round doing this just now.

No matter which ports are being used (SATA-0 to SATA-5), the OS X installer never sees any of the two drives, or the two DVD-ROM units. Obviously I’ve tried unplugging them and leaving one drive, etc.

Booting into Linux I am able to see everything (no big surprise there).

Really puzzling that it should be so difficult to set this up, but I am partly blaming the lobotimized Dell-BIOS for it.

Still–it would be nice to just be able to insert the kext’s after the thing has booted up, but for some reason it just throws this security error.

I’ll keep trying for a bit, but I am wondering if the added effort is worth it–especially if there would be more twiddling required post-installation (I am, ironically, setting this up for a non-technical family member who likes Macs!)

Still haven’t got the keyboard to function properly on a different laptop where I did get it installed (‘@’ in particular is located next to enter)

I have tried using a USB-caddy to image the installed drive over to one of the internal ones on the Dell system, but I have yet been able to detect any of them even using this method.

This working system died after installing the Chameleon bootloader earlier today. (Even when reinstalling it completely the OS X installer apparently left the bootblock alone!)

Btw. — you haven’t by any chance been brave enough to attempt upgrading/reinstalling the Dimension9200 with Lion, have you? ;-)

]]> By: Moz http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Moz Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:41:48 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-641 @Martin - sounds like you know what you're doing, which is great. Have you tried opening up your box and running the hard drives on different SATA ports? I think this just involves swapping the cables over. Otherwise, you could try using an external disk drive over USB and seeing if that's picked up. Then you could install to that, boot from it and hope that full blown OS X picks up your internal drives. Then use a tool like <a href="http://www.bombich.com/" rel="nofollow">Carbon Copy Cloner</a> to copy over. Might be worth a try. I'm sorry I can't be of more help - fingers crossed you get it working. @Martin – sounds like you know what you’re doing, which is great. Have you tried opening up your box and running the hard drives on different SATA ports? I think this just involves swapping the cables over.
Otherwise, you could try using an external disk drive over USB and seeing if that’s picked up. Then you could install to that, boot from it and hope that full blown OS X picks up your internal drives. Then use a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner to copy over. Might be worth a try.
I’m sorry I can’t be of more help – fingers crossed you get it working.

]]> By: Martin http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Martin Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:31:56 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-640 Truly excellent guide, Moz--thanks. However, I still can't for the life of me figure out how to get that idiotic MacOS X installer to see my SATA drives. I followed your instructions down to a tee; BIOS set to disable RAID (the 'RAID Autodetect ATA' setting), placed the extra kexts under /Extra/Extensions with the right perms set. Still only see the USB drive when booting and running Disk Utility. I've tried different port settings for the drive(s) (experimented with 1 & 2 drives + DVD-ROM), but to no avail. Also tried manually loading the relevant kernel extensions in a terminal window after booting the installer, but it refuses to do so and just throws a 'failed to load (libkern/kext) authentication failure (file ownership permissions); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8)' 'kextutil' I believe is not present on the Install DVD. (at least I couldn't locate it with "find") All the permissions are set to root:wheel with rwxrwxrwx (777) perms from /Extra and all subdirs. Really at a loss here as I've been trying to get the Dimension 9200 up and running for days now. I'm almost tempted to try the Lion installer instead; but have a feeling it would be even harder than the Snow Leopard installer. ;) Truly excellent guide, Moz–thanks. However, I still can’t for the life of me figure out how to get that idiotic MacOS X installer to see my SATA drives.

I followed your instructions down to a tee; BIOS set to disable RAID (the ‘RAID Autodetect ATA’ setting), placed the extra kexts under /Extra/Extensions with the right perms set.

Still only see the USB drive when booting and running Disk Utility.

I’ve tried different port settings for the drive(s) (experimented with 1 & 2 drives + DVD-ROM), but to no avail.

Also tried manually loading the relevant kernel extensions in a terminal window after booting the installer, but it refuses to do so and just throws a

‘failed to load (libkern/kext) authentication failure (file ownership permissions); check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8)’

‘kextutil’ I believe is not present on the Install DVD. (at least I couldn’t locate it with “find”)

All the permissions are set to root:wheel with rwxrwxrwx (777) perms from /Extra and all subdirs.

Really at a loss here as I’ve been trying to get the Dimension 9200 up and running for days now. I’m almost tempted to try the Lion installer instead; but have a feeling it would be even harder than the Snow Leopard installer. ;)

]]> By: jjc6676 http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-422 jjc6676 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:03:27 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-422 I wanted to note that it must be a retail DVD that you use I wanted to note that it must be a retail DVD that you use

]]> By: Kirk http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Kirk Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:42:32 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-406 Extra steps I took: 1) Install Leo4All *ATA*.kexts to the USB drive before the booting from USB drive for the install 2) After the install, install the Leo4All ATA kexts to the SnowLeopard drive 3) Used MultiBeast to get things booting from the hard drive. Thanks for the guide! Extra steps I took:
1) Install Leo4All *ATA*.kexts to the USB drive before the booting from USB drive for the install
2) After the install, install the Leo4All ATA kexts to the SnowLeopard drive
3) Used MultiBeast to get things booting from the hard drive.

Thanks for the guide!

]]> By: Kirk http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Kirk Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:22:32 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-403 Glad to find this page! I've been trying to get SL installed and have Dell Dimension 9200. :) I get iPC 10.5.6 installed and follow the directions above. iPC requires me to install the 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel, Intel ICHx Sata Drivers and Chameleon 1.0.11 with SMBIOS/DSDT. When I boot from the USB drive, Disk Utility is showing only the USB drive. I do not see my hard drive. So I'm stuck. Any ideas would be appreciated. Glad to find this page! I’ve been trying to get SL installed and have Dell Dimension 9200. :) I get iPC 10.5.6 installed and follow the directions above.

iPC requires me to install the 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel, Intel ICHx Sata Drivers and Chameleon 1.0.11 with SMBIOS/DSDT.

When I boot from the USB drive, Disk Utility is showing only the USB drive. I do not see my hard drive. So I’m stuck.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

]]> By: Franzel http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Franzel Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:28:05 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-402 Forgot to mention that it's dual dvi Forgot to mention that it’s dual dvi

]]> By: Franzel http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Franzel Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:26:15 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-401 I followed your guide and worked great except for the 9400 PNY Verto 512Mb graphics card for dual monitor. The screen always goes blank. So, I tried the following: - installing nvenabler, but the primary screen goes blank after it boots. - adding Graphics Enabler to the com.apple.boot and that too didn't work. - update the DSDT in your package using DSTDSE, but that came up with 7 errors using this guide ( http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/01/advanced-dsdt-fixes-nvidia-graphics.html ) Any help would be appreciated. I followed your guide and worked great except for the 9400 PNY Verto 512Mb graphics card for dual monitor. The screen always goes blank. So, I tried the following:
- installing nvenabler, but the primary screen goes blank after it boots.
- adding Graphics Enabler to the com.apple.boot and that too didn’t work.
- update the DSDT in your package using DSTDSE, but that came up with 7 errors using this guide ( http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/01/advanced-dsdt-fixes-nvidia-graphics.html )

Any help would be appreciated.

]]> By: Diggi http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-0-on-a-dell-dimension-9200-dxp061/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Diggi Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:00:58 +0000 http://earthview.co.uk/?p=17#comment-400 Maz, I think the info you provided in this tutorial is priceless. I cannot thank you enough. NOW, if I could just get my ATI HD 4650 graphics card working, I'd be really really happy! Any chance I could pay you to help me get it working? I am a total NOOB, but have gotten my machine to run OSX Snow Leopard, and have already updated to 10.6.4! Please? Diggi Maz, I think the info you provided in this tutorial is priceless. I cannot thank you enough. NOW, if I could just get my ATI HD 4650 graphics card working, I’d be really really happy!

Any chance I could pay you to help me get it working? I am a total NOOB, but have gotten my machine to run OSX Snow Leopard, and have already updated to 10.6.4!

Please?

Diggi

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