Need Help Installing Mac OS X

[Eric2009]

Im a noob and in need of desperate help im sorry I want to install Mac OS X on my Hp Pavilion DV6609wm laptop but I have had no luck ive tried Kalyway 10.5.2 it boots up to the installation screen but does not detect any hard drives what so ever only detects the dvd does not show up in disk utility either. I have partitioned my hard drives and I want to Install this on an Internal Hard Drive

 

My hard drive is a: FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL ATA Device

 

here are so specs i got using CPU-Z

 

Processor

Name - AMD Turion 64 Mobile TK-55

Code Name - Tyler Brand ID - 3

Package - Socket S1 (638)

 

Specification - AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55

Instructions - MMX (+), 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64

 

Motherboard

Manufacturer - Quanta

Model - 30CF

Chipset - NVIDIA - nForce 560 - Rev - A2

Southbridge - NVIDIA - nForce 560

 

BIOS

Brand - Hewlett-Packard

Version - F.25

Date - 11/29/2007

i need update dont know how to do it the version is at F.32 now

 

Memory

Type - DDR2 Channels # - Dual

Size - 1024 MBytes

 

Graphics

GPU

Name - NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M

- Revision - A1

 

hope this is enough information please help me

[srs5694]

Im a noob and in need of desperate help im sorry I want to install Mac OS X on my Hp Pavilion DV6609wm laptop but I have had no luck ive tried Kalyway 10.5.2 it boots up to the installation screen but does not detect any hard drives what so ever only detects the dvd does not show up in disk utility either. I have partitioned my hard drives and I want to Install this on an Internal Hard Drive

 

My hard drive is a: FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL ATA Device

 

here are so specs i got using CPU-Z

 

Processor

Name - AMD Turion 64 Mobile TK-55

 

AMD-based systems are often tricky to begin with. They aren't impossible to install to, but they tend to pose more problems than do Intel-based systems.

 

Chipset - NVIDIA - nForce 560 - Rev - A2

Southbridge - NVIDIA - nForce 560

 

nVidia chipsets are also less-than-ideal from an OSx86 perspective. I'm not positive, but I suspect this is your real problem. It's been a while since I installed OS X on my eMachines desktop with nVidia chipset and AMD CPU, but I vaguely recall that Kalyway hung during the installation. I ultimately switched to iPC, which includes the necessary patches and drivers for this machine. It's got a different nVidia chipset, though, so I can't promise that it'll work on your system. Another advantage of iPC is that it's based on MacOS 10.5.6 rather than the somewhat older 10.5.2.

[Eric2009]

Thanks so much for your answer ill try downloading iPC now, what version should i get? and I hope it works

[Eric2009]

ok i searched on the net and i found this and im download this one

 

iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Final PPF5

 

do you think that one will work for my pc??

[srs5694]

ok i searched on the net and i found this and im download this one

 

iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Final PPF5

 

do you think that one will work for my pc??

 

There's only one way of knowing: Try it!

[Eric2009]

well im downloading it now but i have no more dvd's would i be able to use my 8gb internal storage drive on my phone to boot the iso image if not ill just have to go buy some more and hopefully it works thanks

[Eric2009]

UPDATE!!!!!!!!

 

I downloaded iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Final PPF5 and burn't it to a dvd ran it and this is what i got wont boot

 

This picture below me is when i press enter before i press f8

 

 

stays stuck at that screen ^^^^^^^^^^

 

and this picture is when i pressed f8 and did the -v code

 

 

stays stuck at that screen^^^^^^^

please help i have no idea what to do.

[Eric2009]

please somebody help me

[srs5694]

That's a kernel panic. It means some bad incompatibility between the kernel and your hardware. I'm afraid I'm not an expert at working around them, except to try another kernel. I don't know offhand if iPC offers other kernels on the boot DVD. If not, iPC might have been a dead end. If so, I'm sorry I sent you down that path. Consider it a learning experience: You're trying to do something that's unsupported, and you will go down some dead ends in the process.

[nenitosoyyo]

Why don't you give Kalyway 10.5.2 it supports AMD, and there are a couple other ones out there too, I never liked iPC because I always get problems with that one, and I have a intel, but yeah try out Kalyway, it won't hurt.

 

EDIT: Never mind didn't see that you have used kalyway sorry, just look into the other ones like iDeneb or iAtkos(not sure if it supports AMD though.... i know iDeneb does)

[Eric2009]

yeah i have tried Kalyway still wont work although it did boot up to the apple screen when i went to install it my hard drive doesnt show up i need help with that if im going to use Kalyway please help

[Eric2009]

I NEED HELP ANYBODY

[srs5694]

I NEED HELP ANYBODY

 

You've been given advice. Installing OS X on non-Apple hardware is not something you can do by following a script and being guaranteed results; the OS was written for a very limited range of hardware, and the hack procedures and distributions try to expand that range, with variable success depending on the hardware involved. You'll just have to experiment and figure a certain amount out for yourself. As we've said, you may need to try other distributions in a hit-or-miss way. Even after you do that, there's no guarantee of success -- it could be that no existing OSx86 hack will work on your hardware.

[nenitosoyyo]

Sorry to say but Rod Smith is 100% right, where all on are own. Believe me, If i knew what would work on your computer I'll tell you everything you need to know, but unfortunately, all I can do really is say good luck and just recommend other os x's out there, because I don't know swap about your hardware. Just do a some more research on your cpu since its a AMD there harder to get os x on it, check it out in google. I know there are other osx86 sites out there, have you tried those ones.

 

See my laptop is suppose to be compatible enough that it shouldn't be hard, but hey it took me a long time to figure and learn things, I just managed to get everything working just about a week ago, people can only help so much, so just do some more research. I am pretty sure you'll be able to figure out if your computer is compatible or not.Good luck

[dynamicj]

First off try to disable some basic features in the bios. Serial ports, firewire, parallel ports. Still having a issue? Disable the usb 2.0 controller to run in 1.1. I used a Kalaway disk for my mac install on my asus board M2n-SLI nvidia chipset and it works perfectly.

[srs5694]

Just do a some more research on your cpu since its a AMD there harder to get os x on it, check it out in google.

 

Old AMD CPUs can cause problems, as can old Intel CPUs. Mac OS relies on features that have only been common in CPUs for the last few years. Although I'm not intimately familiar with every model in AMD's line, Eric's CPU sounds reasonably modern -- it's a dual-core 64-bit CPU with SSE3 support. Thus, I'm skeptical that the CPU is the problem, at least for any distribution that supports AMD CPUs, as iPC and Kalyway both do.

 

IMHO, a more likely cause is the motherboard chipset. Eric specified an nVidia nForce 560. Again, I'm not intimately familiar with nVidia's chipsets, but I know that I've got a more recent nForce chipset in one of my computers (an nForce 615, IIRC), and it works OK. As the nForce 560 is (presumably) older, it's conceivable it's unsupported by the drivers used in iPC.

 

There could also be something entirely different going on -- for instance, a completely unrelated driver could be probing for the presence of its matched hardware in a way that causes something in the affected computer to seize up. This sort of problem was common in the Windows 9x installers.