SquirrelsOfTomorrow Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I tried looking up your motherboard for your Compaq CQ60... but there are a few different mobo's used... but if you say that something you found says nVidia chipset... (as is normal for MOST AMD)... iPC should support the vast majority of nvidia chipsets... it may be your southbridge... i'll keep looking stuff on your type of laptop.. and letcha know if i find anything. Did you try booting with busratio in iPC? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196687-complete-noob-needs-help/page/2/#findComment-1329257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteyHHR Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 ya, I tried busratio and I also tried -x which got me further in Kalyway... no so much with IPC. Does anyone know what drivers this thing tries to load and in what order? If I knew what the second thing it tries to load it, I could investigate trying to get the proper mkext on the dvd, but it doesn't tell me. It just says it's trying to load an mkext and hangs there... I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed. I didn't buy this machine for this specific purpose, but I was planning on doing this since I bought it. It's a good little machine, but I'm finding that with Vista, this machine is slower then my older desktop that has an old AMD64 and 1gb of memory... So i figured that with MAC OS, it would run much smoother. Also, looking at my hardware, it seems to be all pretty generic stuff that the OS should all just support. That being said, I know that HP (Compaq) uses custom BIOS'. When I go in there, there is very little I can change. I have a feeling this is my issue. In any case, thanks again for the help everyone. If you can think of something, let me know. I'd really like to be able to get this running. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196687-complete-noob-needs-help/page/2/#findComment-1329642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirrelsOfTomorrow Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 The mkext trying to load SHOULD be Extensions.mkext (since thats really the only mkext...). the .kext files you can find around the net to add to the iso, you actually add into the Extensions.mkext. So if its hanging at Extensions.mkext, then you are missing some kind of kext, and i've yet to find a way to find out which kext. I know that with iPC, i was hanging at Extension.mkext for a while, and what I had to do was go into the BIOS and set storage mode to AHCI and turn off ACPI 2.0. Either way, you may unfortunately have to just keep trying various distro's... cuz each system is different. See if you can find someone else who specifically has the same AMD laptop as you, and see what they did? :/ Other than that, idk how much more I can help... remember, i don't even have a successful install yet myself either, just wanted to help if i could. Hope you get it figured out man. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196687-complete-noob-needs-help/page/2/#findComment-1329655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 This topic is so far off track I'm going to take the step of closing it for your own good: Best advice is to forget everything written here & start researching your issue from scratch. In any case an AMD laptop is the absolute worst place for a beginner to start. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196687-complete-noob-needs-help/page/2/#findComment-1329666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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