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Installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a Intel Celeron 4xx


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HOW TO INSTALL SNOW LEOPARD ON A CELERON 4xx

OK so after so many attempted installs I've decided to make a thread about installing 10.6 on a Celeron 4xx so people don't have to go through the hassle I did. I've learned that the vanilla kernel simply will not work for Celeron 4xx's past 10.6.1 so your stuck on there unless you upgrade your CPU.

The distro that worked the best for me was using SnowLeo and then installing the 10.6.1 update manually.

Make sure to find out what sound card your using & your network driver before you use this...

These were my specifications (Updated to a Core 2 Duo)

Intel Celeron 450 2.2 GHz (LGA775)

4GB of DDR3

AMD Radeon 6450 (If somebody knows a working kext for this PLEASE tell me)

The above were on a Intel G41 chipset motherboard.

Installation

1.Choose your own distro of Snow Leopard (***DO NOT USE [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] IT WILL NOT WORK***)

2.In your BIOS make sure you have ACHI set, XD Enabled and make the default to boot from your DVD drive.

3.Boot from your Snow Leopard distro and wait until it gets to the install screen.

4.Click next accept etc... until you get to the menu where it asks you where to install it.

5.Go to Utilities>Disk Utility and go to your hard drive. Click erase and format it as "Snow Leopard" with a GUID partition table. (Name does not matter.

6.Close Disk Utility and in your installer choose the hard drive and in then next menu choose "Customize".

7. Choose your sound & network driver and make sure to uncheck every update to Mac OS X unless its 10.6.1

8.Click next and wait for your install to complete

9.When you reboot your system IT WILL MOST Likely give you kernel panic.

10.IF it does not then your lucky but if it does during boot up in the bootloader type in -v -f

11.It should now work but if it dosent continue to try different distros.

My Experience with certain distributions

Hazard-Kernel panic

iAktos S3 v2-after troubleshooting works

SnowLeo-works

Universal-after troubleshooting works

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