Dan BR Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Hi guys! First of all, sorry about my English... I am brazilian so my english is not that good. Now we can go to the problem I have this Portable Computer HP zv5000, in a few words it is an Pentium 4 (SSE2), 40GB, ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility, 512MB (128 for videocard). I am trying to install Mac Os X 10.4.5 on it, in fact i have downloaded two diferent versions (Myz and another one) and both gives me the same "strange error", which you can see in this two photos: Full picture: http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/7977/dsc007553wz.jpg Error in detail: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3012/dsc007566ln.jpg My method was the most simple one: I downloaded the .iso and burn it in a blank DVD. After this o booted and it simply gives me that error. I thought it was because of the corrupted iso or something, then I downloaded another one, but happens the same. I do not know what is happening, as I know my notebook is compatible, like this wiki says: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...Pavilion_zv5000 Can anyone help me with this? I have searched all the forum, there is a guy that, with the same notebook, was sucessfull, but he does not inform what did he do. Thanks and sorry by my English Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
euphoricreality Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Try pressing F8 at the Darwin boot text and then booting with the -V option so we can see what's going on behind the apple logo. Cheers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-103972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 27, 2006 Author Share Posted April 27, 2006 Try pressing F8 at the Darwin boot text and then booting with the -V option so we can see what's going on behind the apple logo.Cheers. All right! I have done this This is what happens: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1976/dsc007582yz.jpg Or, in words, the message "Still waiting for root device" repeats, and repeats, and repeats... Anyone can help me? Tks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 27, 2006 Author Share Posted April 27, 2006 By the way, my notebook is this: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/generic...=reg_R1002_USEN please help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lkr Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 hmm...I think that error means your hardware isn't compatible with OS X, but I may be wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac OSX Coder Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 did u install the patch? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 did u install the patch? How can I do this? As I know, the patch would be installed in the instalations of the system, isn't it? My Notebook is compatible, as you can see in the wiki page I know that my question is a kind of newbie's one, but i really want to use a mac os. Tks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elRey Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 try first cpuz to check if you laptop matches the requirements try to install 10.4.3 witch you can get by the if this will work you can upgrade to 10.4.5 i have done this way all the time Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 I was seen on the wiki page and it says that I need a processor with SSE3 suppot, but I have a Pentium 4 2.8 just with SSE2 support, is this the problem? I have heard people with SSE2 runing os x, why i can not? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 28, 2006 Author Share Posted April 28, 2006 I was reading in another foruns and they say that the partition needs to be primary. In my case, I am using winXP SP2 in a 5gb partition and I let 35GB for Mac Os, which is blanked FAT32 right now. Can be this my problem? Do I hve to format all disk and let it all for Mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan BR Posted April 29, 2006 Author Share Posted April 29, 2006 Forget it... I give it up... When this kind of thing became easy, I try again... Thanks everyone! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-104639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
username931 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 your sys is compatible. Just use vmware to install and use the ati soutbridge patch and search the forum for drivers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16169-strange-error-in-a-hp-notebook/#findComment-166390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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