Gallen1 Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 hi i have a HP dv6809wm im trying to install any osx on it.the problem i have is once reaching disk utilies to format the hard drive it doesnt detect the hard drive.Every distro ive tried gives me waiting for root device or doesnt detect the hard drive.ive tried a majority of the distros and none work. ive googled,youtubed found 4 threads on here about a guy who did it but wont tell anyone how he did it -.- Amd Turion 64 x2 tl-60 2.0ghz 3 gigs of ram hard drive: toshiba mk2555gsx ATA dvd drive: optiarc dvd rw ad-7600a ATA nforce 630m/7150 geforce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Watthanaphand Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 hi i have a HP dv6809wm im trying to install any osx on it.the problem i have is once reaching disk utilies to format the hard drive it doesnt detect the hard drive.Every distro ive tried gives me waiting for root device or doesnt detect the hard drive.ive tried a majority of the distros and none work. ive googled,youtubed found 4 threads on here about a guy who did it but wont tell anyone how he did it -.- Amd Turion 64 x2 tl-60 2.0ghz 3 gigs of ram hard drive: toshiba mk2555gsx ATA dvd drive: optiarc dvd rw ad-7600a ATA nforce 630m/7150 geforce It's probably too late, but i can help you.. I used Kalyway 10.5.2 I bought an External SATA adapter.. put my laptop hard drive in that, and booted up. After i formated with HFS+ Journaled i installed booted up with "speedstep -x", otherwise, immeadiate crash Be sure to hold down the space bar if the boot spinner doesn't work Then i got error messages, so i got another hard drive and put windows on it, and booted my laptop up with it. I installed TransMac and opened the external mac drive and patched the Extensions.mkext (here tylerwatt12.com/hackintosh/Extensions.mkext) i put that in /system/library/. i booted up and Mac OS X and i would get a "Do you already own a mac?" loop, so i used this fix (http://www.freewebs.com/bass-2k7/installingiatkosv10i.htm see step 26) and i got past the install bug. Next for me to get this working is NVidia kexts, Atheros Kexts and such.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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