gehrc Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Hello, I know this has been posted numerous times, but I need some help specifically for my situation. I am a noob to Macs, I've only ever done network-based maintenance on them before. I'm on a Dell Latitude D830 Laptop with Windows Vista, a 120GB HD, a 2.23GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Chip, and 4 GB of RAM. I've just shrank the Vista Partition to 75GB and allocated the remaining 36.1GB to my OSX install. I've partitioned the drive and formatted it in Windows. I have a copy of SnowOSX 10.6 that I've burned to a DVD. When I ran it, I could successfully get to the installer. I formatted the partition created as a Mac OSX (Journalled). I ran the installer successfully and rebooted. When I tried to load the Mac OSX partition on the Darwin Bootloader, it loaded it's files, and then gave me the Apple Logo. Not a second after that came up did a gray screen pop up and tell me to power off. Running the loader with -v gave me a seemingly infamous Kernal Panic error. I don't have a pic, but it looks exactly like the others I've seen. My drive is in regular ATA mode. I don't quite understand what's going on here, but any help is greatly appreciated. What can I do to make this work? I don't have any other Macs, which is the purpose of doing this - because I want to gain a tolerance for Macs . On another note - is it possible to use the Windows Boot Loader with the Darwin one? If so, how? That's only if you're not going to suggest me to use another loader, but I'd still like to use Windows so I know how to customize it. Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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