GazaIan Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 hello to all at InsanelyMac. i have an HP Pavilion dv6-3019wm notebook, and i was wondering what distro should i use to install, since Leo4all seems to stop loading after the Darwin bootloader. Here are the specs according to CPU-Z and GPU-Z Please note, i have a recovery partition that i dont want to lose, and my computer also came with Splashtop Linux [ HP QuickWeb and HP calls it ], and i really want to keep both. if i have to lose Splashtop, fine, but i NEED the recovery partition. So what distro should i use? i DO have the Original Snow Leopard disc so if anyone wants to throw in instructions for that, thats fine. Also i must mention, i can only boot from a USB. if i absolutely need to use the DVD discs, fine, but as of now im only working with an 8 Gig USB Flash drive. I must also mention, i have tried Leo4all v4 and iDeneb 10.5.6. Both seem to fail at bootup. iDeneb tells me i need to restart as soon as the Apple logo came, so i supposed it had a kernel panic. also i tried Leo4all, and i ended up going to verbose mode where the system hanged from there. all it showed was the _ and that was it. So again, what distro is the best for me ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewiee Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 I'm not too up on all this yet, but for the cost of a new drive I'd be tempted to do a fresh install on one. Keep the old drive if it's that important - unless you want to be able to still access those partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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