This laptop has been a bit complicated with getting osx booting without a usb stick or cd boot loader... (and not sure if this makes a difference, but I'm currently dual booting with win7)
I've tried the ancient dell efi bootloader (would freeze on boot, yet would boot fine from type 11 bootloader cd)
I've tried the chameleon rc2 bootloader packaged in the famous netbookinstaller 0.8.2 (would make it a little farther into boot but screen would turn black/ would freeze/ kernal panic screen on boot)
The chameleon rc2 bootloader standalone installer got it booting without the need for cd. Excellent and a big step in the right direction. The problem now is that the screen resolution has been forced to 1024x576, there are no other options (in system prefs>display), adding the "Graphics Mode"="1024x600x32" to com.apple.boot.plist (both of them) didn't change anything, nor did typing it in at the boot screen.
The only thing I can think of is maybe it using an outdated kext (since early latitude 2100s came with a 1024x576 resolution) and my latitude is for sure 1024x600. Weird thing, is that in the little menu thing (boot, boot in verbose, etc.) under video info, 1024x576 and 800x600 are in the list, but 1024x600 is nowhere to be found. I thought this was info taken from the video bios, in which case it should be impossible for me to be using it in 1024x600, but that's not the case (before installing chameleon rc2, osx was in that resolution, and the other boot [win7] is working fine in 1024x600). Does anyone have any idea of what I can/should do to fix this? Thanks.