Trying to Dual Boot OS X and Vista on HP Pavillion a6500f

[mjw0912]

I want to install OS X on my HP Pavillion a6500f. I have tried iATKOS v5i and when booting the cd i get stuck at

MAC Framework successfully initialized

Using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

IOAPIC: version 0x20 Vectors 0:23

ACPI: System State [s0 s3 s4 s5] (s3)

Extension com.apple.driver.applePCIconfigurator has immediate depndencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only style.

Mbinit: done

Security auditing service present

bSM auditing present

From path: uuid,

Waiting for boot volume with UUID 804603d3-83e9-36b8-ab8e-11501d1805d6

Waiting on <dict ID=0>IOProviderClass</Key><string ID=1>IOResources</sting><key>IOresource

Match</key><string ID=2>boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

or something similar... i actually copied this from somewhere else but it seems to be exactly the same as what i was getting except the numbers after UUID were different.

These are the specs of my comp:

Product number KQ495AA Introduction date 08-May-2008 Country/region sold in:

• United States
  
• Canada
  

Hardware Base processor Pentium E2220 © 2.4 GHz (65W)

• 800 MHz front side bus
  
• Socket 775
  

Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i Motherboard

• Manufacturer: Foxconn
  
• Motherboard Name: MCP73M01H1
  
• HP/Compaq motherboard name: Napa-GL8E
  

Memory Component Attributes Memory Installed 4 GB Maximum allowed 4 GB* (2 x 2 GB)

 

*Actual available memory may be less Speed supported PC2-6400 MB/sec Type 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM Hard drive

• 500 GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec)
  
• 7200 rpm
  

16X DVD(+/-)R/RW 12X RAM (+/-)R DL LightScribe SATA drive

• Must use Double-Layer media discs in order to take advantage of the DL technology
  
• Must use LightScribe-enabled media discs and supporting software in order to take advantage of the LightScribe technology
  

Function Maximum speed DVD-RAM Up to 12X DVD-R DL Write Once Up to 8X DVD+R DL Write Once Up to 8X DVD+R Write Once Up to 16X DVD+RW Rewritable Up to 8X DVD-R Write Once Up to 16X DVD-RW Rewritable Up to 6X DVD ROM Read Up to 16X CD-R Write Once Up to 40X CD-RW Rewritable Up to 32X CD-ROM Read Up to 40X Modem 56K bps data/fax modem Video Graphics Integrated graphics Sound/Audio High Definition 8-channel audio

• ALC 888S chipset
  

Network (LAN) Integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface Memory card reader

• Supports the following cards:
  • Compact Flash I
    
  • Compact Flash II
    
  • IBM Microdrive
    
  • Secure Digital (SD)
    
  • mini-SD
    
  • MultiMediaCard (MMC)
    
  • Reduced size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC)
    
  • MultiMediaCard Plus (MMC plus)
    
  • MultiMediaCard Mobile (MMC mobile)
    
  • Memory Stick
    
  • Memory Stick Pro
    
  • Memory Stick Duo
    
  • Memory Stick Pro Duo
    
  • SmartMedia
    
  • xD Picture Card (xD = extreme digital)
    

Any help is much appreciated.... thanks in advance.

[heels23carolina]

mjw0912, ihave the same exact problem and also have an HP a6500f.

I have tried like 5 dvds (kalyway, ideneb, jas).

the only one i ever got to work was Jas 10.4.8 and that was on a virtual machine in VMware

if anybody knows a solution to our problem it would be very appreciated.

[heels23carolina]

Can someone please help! I check this page every day and noone replies