James06041982 Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I've tried numerous times now to get SL 10.6 installed on my computer. First, the specs: AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ at 3.2 GHz Abit KN9-SLI GeForce 9600 GT 4GB DDR2 800 HDD- 160GB Sata I HDD 500GB SATA II HDD 500GB SATA II HDD 280GB SATA II LG GH20LS10 DVD DL Now...I've tried a few tutorials out there...and they all seemt o fail on generating a DSDT.aml file... I think it's because I am doing this all through a VM. Here are the tools at my disposal: Snow Leopard retail DVD 10.5 image for VM (successfully running in VMWare...that was a download ) USB drive 16GB USB drive 4GB blank CDR's and time. I've tried many tutorials, mainly centered around needing a Mac...which I could possibly borrow my roommates, but she's in school for a Psych degree and everythign on her computer is confidential so getting her to let me borrow it would be a feat in itself. I remember at one time, that I got Leopard installed on this computer once upon a tme ago, but I lost the DVD and the ISO image I had...so... I dunno if that helps. Where should I look??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James06041982 Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 Alright, So, I now have a Mac OSX 09 box set, with Snow Leopard, iWork and iLife. Got a small discount through work and I also downloaded "Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2]". My reasoning is to be able to boot into atleast Tiger. Now, as opposed to the other 10.4 disc I downloaded, I guess I selected the wrong post-install hacks and it would only get to a blue screen and hang. With the JaS disc, I get to a grey background, with the apple logo, and after 1-2 minutes, my screen stops with a message that I need to restart. Nothing else, no description as to why. What I did was follow this toturial, in conjunction with this one. Now, everything works great! I install, it reboots into Tiger just fine, then I reset, change from SATA1 to IDE0 as mty boot device, and it looks like it's about to till I get the error to reboot. If I could get a screenshot, I would but I have no means to at the moment. Again, the error just says I need to restart. I touched on everything I can about my hardware... except maye that I use a PS/2 keyboard, pretty simple, no extra switches or buttong, and a simple two button mouse with a scroll wheel on USB. Is there something else I need to look out for. I know the AMD platform is going to be tough going in my quest to eventually boot into Snow Leopard, but I just don't have the money to spend on a whole new system. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James06041982 Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Alright, getting a little further on this... Still working with the 10.4.8 JaS disc... I reboot and boot off the partition and for startup options, I plug in '-v' to get an idea where it may be failing. Some things I could read and copy down that stood out are: ApplePS2Mouse: Probe failed (this could be because my mouse is currently plugged in as USB...I will be buying an adapter as soon as I have $$$) Kextd[25]: Kextd_watch_volumes: couldn't setup diskarb sessions Kextd[25]: diskarb isn't ready yet; we'll try again soon. (followed by a line that says login window application started) Kextd-parent[24]: IOKitWaitQuiet() timed out and then it stops right there. I try to log in to single use rmode...nope. I try to login in safe mode...nope. Again, this is all in trying to get a working Mac OS X working, and I have gathered so far that I would have luck using the 10.4.8 install as a stepping stone to get to 10.6. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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