Toshiba Satellite A500 1du

[11am]

Hey everyone,

I'm a first-timer with hackintosh, so first of all thanks for this great forum and of course, the great wiki as well.

 

I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on this machine, which has the following hardware:

CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo Prozessor T6600 2,2Ghz (SSE, SSE2, SSE3 supported)
Chipset: Intel GM45 Express
RAM: 4.096 (2.048 + 2.048) MB DDR3 RAM (1.066 MHz) 
Network: Realtek 8191SE Wireless LAN 802.1n PCI-E NIC
GFX: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 230M

 

I've got the Hazard-distri as well as SnowOSX 3.6, which both first stopped working at the well-known "Still waiting for root device...", but i fixed that typing in rd=disk0/rd=disk0s1 which both work fine, until i get to another error:

nfs_boot: networking is not initalized
panic(cpu 0 caller ): nfs_boot_init failed with 6
...

here is a full screenshot:

http://i34.tinypic.com/m7q9n6.jpg

 

 

When you panic at nfs_boot_init, it is because no valid root partition to start up from is found (so as a last resort it tries to do a network file system boot, but that doesn't work). It's kind of strange that it doesn't go back to using the partition it is currently booting from (on the CD) -- it seems to be distracted by other HFS partitions on other disks.

at least that's what archi386 said here

 

is this true? how can i fix it? i can't change the hardware easily because it's a laptop...

 

oh, and yes: SATA is set to AHCI, didn't find an option named "ACPI" in my bios, although some say it needs to be switched as well.

 

so long, thank's for your help everyone, i really appreciate that.

[11am]

so, here is an update:

i got snow leopard working pretty fine out of the box using iAtkos s3, webcam and wireless lan don't work, but that's alright i guess.

if anyone's intrested i can post the kexts i installed.

[niv2mac]

so, here is an update:

i got snow leopard working pretty fine out of the box using iAtkos s3, webcam and wireless lan don't work, but that's alright i guess.

if anyone's intrested i can post the kexts i installed.

 

 

please do,thanks