In the case where the nonlinearity term is allowed to change sign, we study the nonresonance semipositone singular Dirichlet boundary value problem (BVP)
where
λ>0 is a parameter,
ρ>0 is a constant. We derive an interval of
λ such that for any
λ lying in this interval, the
semipositone BVP has at least one positive solution if
f is
superlinear or sublinear. The results obtained improve and extend many recent results. Our approach is based on Krasnaselskii’s fixed point theorem in cones.