applehacker Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Hello. I have an IBM thinkpad T30 that I would like to get OS X on. I have tried many distros, but some do not boot and the ones that do, fail during install and/or starting diskutil. The crashes are random, and hard to pinpoint. I will list specs below. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Pentium 4-m 1.8ghz processor (sse2 only) 512 mb ddr ram ICH3-m 845mp chipset 40gb hard drive (ide) The only way i can get os x on this machine is by installing on another one first, then swapping drives. the issue is that os x lasts 9 seconds before crashing. I have tried voodoo kernel and StageXNU Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139777-install-help-needed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
applehacker Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 bump. nobody has any ideas or previous experiences? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139777-install-help-needed/#findComment-990354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammie300 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 To be honest I don't think Mac OS X will run smoothly on a P4 and 512Mb of RAM You could only run the basic OS. When you install type -v and see what it hangs on and write back here James Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139777-install-help-needed/#findComment-990863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
applehacker Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 see thats the thing. it boots to install fine. debug=0x100 gives the error when it freezes. however, these errors are random. verbose mode reports nothing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139777-install-help-needed/#findComment-991206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammie300 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Have you tried ruling out items like Graphics Cards and Hard Drives to pinpoint where exactly the problem may be lying James Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139777-install-help-needed/#findComment-991890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
applehacker Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 well the other computer i use to swap hdds on is a IBM Thinkpad T40. It is pentium m centrino, but it has the same graphics card and it installs fine. The hdd is swapped between the two, so they are both IDE. one is a centrino chipset, the other is not. I have heard of T30 success stories, but mine is not joining those... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139777-install-help-needed/#findComment-992259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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