T.J. Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Hello, I'm new to this forum and am looking for some help from all of you who have more experience in this than I do. I've been working for months trying to get OSx86 installed on my HP Pavilipn dv6338se laptop. I have a 600MHz iBook G3, but I already have OS X on that, so that's no fun. I really want to run Leopard on my HP laptop and prove to my college professor that it CAN be done. I've downloaded almost a half a dozen OSx86 installation ISOs. None of the 10.4 installations recognize my SATA drive, and I have no idea how to patch a DVD to add a kext to make it recognize them, if any kexts even exist. So, upon my first 10.5 download, I ran the install (each DVD boots into the install interface just fine!), and the 10.5 installation recognized my SATA hard drives! Too bad when I tried to begin installation, it gave me an error stating that it cannot write to my hard drive. I've formatted it under Windows, and then even attempted to format it in the OSx86 installation using Disk Utility, and still it refuses to do any I/O activity with my hard drive. I know the chipset is an nForce 430. Can someone please help me?! Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116158-trying-to-install-leopard-1052-on-my-hp-laptop-with-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricki Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 amd or intel? and i will say GOOD LUCK mate, hp not very good with osx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116158-trying-to-install-leopard-1052-on-my-hp-laptop-with-sata/#findComment-822334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenn0X Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 change sata mode in bios to ide and try again. might either be that or disable sata native mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116158-trying-to-install-leopard-1052-on-my-hp-laptop-with-sata/#findComment-822801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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