CharredPC Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I thought I'd ask advice, or at least warn everyone against trying to install ANY flavor of OSX86 on an HP dv5116nr. After spending several hours per day on it for the past ten days, I'm ready to give up. Yeah, I know, some laptops just plain aren't compatible- what irritates me is mine IS. I've seen it! Here's the lowdown... My specs: HP Pavilion dv5000 (dv5116nr) 2.0 GHz Mobile AMD SempronTM Processor 3300+ 512MB 333MHz DDR System Memory (2 Dimm) ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M IGP Video Memory 128MB DDR (shared) I downloaded and tried: Leo4allv3 JaS 10.5.2 Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI (Zephyroth v1) Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI (Zephyroth v2) Due to my x200 chipset, most of the installs hung on the "still waiting for root device," unable to figure out the IDE controller. Ironically, Zephyroth v1 has SB200_400 drivers built in (recognizes my chipset as SB450 IIRC), but not v2... so only Zephyroth v1 would get past that error. "Hooray!" I thought ...but no. This is where the nightmare begins. I partitioned off half the hard drive in XP using Partition Magic, just as I did on my Acer Extensa 5620's successful dual boot XP/OSX (Kalaway) system. I booted into the OSX install, formatted the new partition, and installed OSX to it with the optional SB drivers. All went smoothly. Upon restarting, I booted a live linux cd and made sure that the OSX partition was active. Reboot once more... and I'm met with a blinking cursor, no disk activity at all. Okaaay, I thought... I flagged the XP partition active, and tried using chain0 to boot into the OSX partition, as I do on my Acer. I was greeted with the wonderful chain booting error. I refused to give up. I followed the Zephroth PDF guide exactly (it does exist, if you dig around enough), blowing away my XP completely and partitioning/formatting everything exactly as shown. This time in the installer, I selected the EFI MBR. Ah ha, thought I, this must have been the problem all along! And maybe it was... but every time I select either the GUID or MBR options in the installer, it gets 98% done then locks up on "about two minutes remaining." Completely dead, even left it eight hours overnight on each to make sure it wasn't just lingering. Grrr! So, I can only complete the OSX install if I skip checking the bootup options- figured I'd go from there. I installed it completely, no errors, then rebooted with the install DVD in the drive. It went into OSX! Excitedly I entered all the info, then started surfing the web... yes, my wifi card was detected automatically and worked 100%. I even started playing with different drivers to get proper resolution (1280x800 instead of 1024x768). The happiness didn't last, however, after trying to reboot without the DVD; that's right, it wouldn't boot. Blinking cursor. At this point I feel like I'm 99% of the way there- I mean, I was in OSX, browsing the web natively on my sleek black HP! I try using every repair /rebuild command on the MBR I can find. I reinstall XP and try using chain0 again (same results). I got paranoid about my 60GB hd maybe being bad, so I yanked it and installed a tested 40GB drive. Nothing improved. Rinse and repeat. I now have XP SP3 and OS X installed on the 40GB drive. I can boot into OSX using VMWare. If I blow everything away again, maybe I can use the install DVD to boot... but that doesn't always seem to work anymore, after trying to install the GUID and MBR options. I burned the Zephyrothv1 DVD again at the slowest speed in case my original had an error- no change. I'm ready to give up, but thought I would post in case someone has an idea they think I should try. Anyone else have this model, or run into this wacky situation? Would a third party bootloader help, or is the chipset completely incompatible with everything? Is there yet another install version which might be better? I know a lot of people post begging for help, but hopefully with my long ramblings you can see I've tried some troubleshooting on my own. I've started from scratch and been through both OS installs several dozen times now. Any help is appreciated, even if it's to verify that this model is officially impossible... though I was browsing these forums natively on it for an hour TIA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112781-hp-dv5116nr-nightmare-advice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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