HELP! 10.6 Snow Leopard on HP Pavilion DV5 (DV5-1017nr)

[David Waybright]

I've downloaded, from torrent, the Universal 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD (which has chameleon rc2). The DVD boots correctly and I tried accessing the tools to check that the disk was good and everything was.

 

I took out my 320 GB SATA drive and put in a 80 GB SATA drive to install Mac OS on.

 

When I installed Snow Leopard it said successful, so I removed the CD and rebooted. At this point I see HP BIOS screen, then Chameleon EFI screen then the grey Mac OS screen.

 

I then rebooted and when Chameleon came up told it to use the -v boot option, when I did it brought up the kernel messages and said EBIOS Read time-out error.

 

My questions are:

 

1. do I need to update to Chameleon rc3 to make this work, if so can I put the updated files on a USB-Stick and boot the DVD again and use terminal to copy the files where they need to go.

 

2. If the DVD boots right then what's wrong with the Installed OS.

 

3. for this notebook should I use GUID Partition, Apple Partition, or MBR Partition to boot OSX.

 

4. Any suggestions!

[David Waybright]

Can anyone help!, Please!

 

I've downloaded, from torrent, the Universal 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD (which has chameleon rc2). The DVD boots correctly and I tried accessing the tools to check that the disk was good and everything was.

 

I took out my 320 GB SATA drive and put in a 80 GB SATA drive to install Mac OS on.

 

When I installed Snow Leopard it said successful, so I removed the CD and rebooted. At this point I see HP BIOS screen, then Chameleon EFI screen then the grey Mac OS screen.

 

I then rebooted and when Chameleon came up told it to use the -v boot option, when I did it brought up the kernel messages and said EBIOS Read time-out error.

 

My questions are:

 

1. do I need to update to Chameleon rc3 to make this work, if so can I put the updated files on a USB-Stick and boot the DVD again and use terminal to copy the files where they need to go.

 

2. If the DVD boots right then what's wrong with the Installed OS.

 

3. for this notebook should I use GUID Partition, Apple Partition, or MBR Partition to boot OSX.

 

4. Any suggestions!

[David Waybright]

Well, I just deleted my big post so REDO:

 

-80GB - FRIED!!!! (Can't rememeber past history anyway)

 

-Booted Vista from stock 320GB drive with 80GB on eSATA

 

-Ran MacOSx from 80GB from within vmWare under Vista

 

-MacOSx gave EBIOS error along with vmWare giving a Read Error and crashing

 

-Bit the bullet, Shrunk stock Vista and installed MacOSx 10.6 Snow Universal (mentioned already) in free space

 

-Chameleon booted, MacOSx's Welcome screen came up but without Keyboard, mouse, (FORGOT PS/2 option) or sound support (other support UNKNOWN)

 

-Left now, RE-install with PS/2 option and install kEXT files for other unsupported hardware (or screw it and install iDENEB 10.5.x until they release a 10.6, I just want OSx to WORK!)

 

 

**QUESTION**:

 

I got the HOW but WHERE can I find a vast list of supported hardware and their kEXT files so I can install my Hardware?

 

 

FYI:

 

Vista boots from the Chameleon loader that was installed, I'm leaving it that way because I just want things to WORK!

 

I've downloaded, from torrent, the Universal 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD (which has chameleon rc2). The DVD boots correctly and I tried accessing the tools to check that the disk was good and everything was.

 

I took out my 320 GB SATA drive and put in a 80 GB SATA drive to install Mac OS on.

 

When I installed Snow Leopard it said successful, so I removed the CD and rebooted. At this point I see HP BIOS screen, then Chameleon EFI screen then the grey Mac OS screen.

 

I then rebooted and when Chameleon came up told it to use the -v boot option, when I did it brought up the kernel messages and said EBIOS Read time-out error.

 

My questions are:

 

1. do I need to update to Chameleon rc3 to make this work, if so can I put the updated files on a USB-Stick and boot the DVD again and use terminal to copy the files where they need to go.

 

2. If the DVD boots right then what's wrong with the Installed OS.

 

3. for this notebook should I use GUID Partition, Apple Partition, or MBR Partition to boot OSX.

 

4. Any suggestions!