manmal Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Hi, is there anyone who succeded installing Snow Leopard on Toshiba M400 tablet laptop ? It's a bit old (core duo 1.83 ghz) and its bios is quite {censored} , and if you want to enter bios you must press esc , then F1.... similar to Toshiba M200 laptop, Tecra M5 laptop and many others... Using Boot-132 method , chameleon boot loader fails to load and it locks up before chameleon starts. I don't know any other method for installing snow leopard or perhaps some modified boot-132 is needed to let it work on these "older" toshiba laptops. I tried everything, but it still locks up before chameleon starts. I even tried to load a snow leopard installed harddrive that works fine and load fine on a Toshiba A100-017 (one of the most compatible vanilla-notebook i've ever seen) but trying to boot it from m400, kernel panics (also with cpus=1 , arch=i386 -v options and so on). Any help, please? Thanks! Mal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207455-toshiba-m400-or-other-toshiba-snow-leopard-retail-installation-who-succeded-in-it/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougHogue Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Hi,is there anyone who succeded installing Snow Leopard on Toshiba M400 tablet laptop ? It's a bit old (core duo 1.83 ghz) and its bios is quite {censored} . Using Boot-132 method it fails to load chameleon and it locks up before chameleon starts. I don't know any other method for installing snow leopard or perhaps some modified boot.132 is needed to let it work on "older" toshiba laptops. I tried everything, but it still locks up before chameleon starts. Any help? Thanks! Mal I have made several attemps to install SL on my Toshiba Satellite P105 S6024. I use the Empire EFI boot loader and everything starts just fine. I put the efi disk in, switch to SL and the verbose install starts. Install runs for 5 minutes or so and then goes in to a GUI interface. That is where I have problems. The screen turns white with nothing else on it and the installation contiues. after a couple minutes the dvd stops and i have hit the enter key and the install continues. I have no idea what its doing because nithing is diplayed on the screen. I am still searching for answers... Doug Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207455-toshiba-m400-or-other-toshiba-snow-leopard-retail-installation-who-succeded-in-it/#findComment-1386270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manmal Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Hi, any news on installing snow leopard on Toshiba M400 tablet ? I am having error in firewire (unable to get device memory) then kernel panic trying to install from retail installation dvd. I tried both multicore enabled or disabled in bios. it's not possible to disable firewire (and i need it... in leopard it works well). thanks! mal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207455-toshiba-m400-or-other-toshiba-snow-leopard-retail-installation-who-succeded-in-it/#findComment-1392887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonislune Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I have made several attemps to install SL on my Toshiba Satellite P105 S6024. I use the Empire EFI boot loader and everything starts just fine. I put the efi disk in, switch to SL and the verbose install starts. Install runs for 5 minutes or so and then goes in to a GUI interface. That is where I have problems. The screen turns white with nothing else on it and the installation contiues. after a couple minutes the dvd stops and i have hit the enter key and the install continues. I have no idea what its doing because nithing is diplayed on the screen. I am still searching for answers... Doug When you are at the Chameleon boot loader, press the FN function key and F5 to cycle through all the display out modes. I usually press FN + F5 3 or 4 times and then boot with graphics into Snow Leopard. Your screen will work. I believe I also installed the 10.4.8 framebuffer to enable quartz extreme and hardware acceleration. Hi,is there anyone who succeded installing Snow Leopard on Toshiba M400 tablet laptop ? It's a bit old (core duo 1.83 ghz) and its bios is quite {censored} , and if you want to enter bios you must press esc , then F1.... similar to Toshiba M200 laptop, Tecra M5 laptop and many others... Using Boot-132 method , chameleon boot loader fails to load and it locks up before chameleon starts. I don't know any other method for installing snow leopard or perhaps some modified boot-132 is needed to let it work on these "older" toshiba laptops. I tried everything, but it still locks up before chameleon starts. I even tried to load a snow leopard installed harddrive that works fine and load fine on a Toshiba A100-017 (one of the most compatible vanilla-notebook i've ever seen) but trying to boot it from m400, kernel panics (also with cpus=1 , arch=i386 -v options and so on). Any help, please? Thanks! Mal Use Empire EFI (legacy) disk and Snow Leopard retail. Be sure to do the video FN+F5 trick I described above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207455-toshiba-m400-or-other-toshiba-snow-leopard-retail-installation-who-succeded-in-it/#findComment-1394194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manmal Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 hi, i did a successfull installation on snow leopard in m400 using your suggestions. Now i have 2 problems : 1) video does not work : black screen internal display whileit works perfectly on external display (through vga connector) 2) i cannot boot without removing iofirewire* kexts and ioatafamily.kext . With them inside SLE the system cannot boot and it gives me kp. Does anyone know how to solve such problems ? Thanks! Mal When you are at the Chameleon boot loader, press the FN function key and F5 to cycle through all the display out modes. I usually press FN + F5 3 or 4 times and then boot with graphics into Snow Leopard. Your screen will work. I believe I also installed the 10.4.8 framebuffer to enable quartz extreme and hardware acceleration. Use Empire EFI (legacy) disk and Snow Leopard retail. Be sure to do the video FN+F5 trick I described above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207455-toshiba-m400-or-other-toshiba-snow-leopard-retail-installation-who-succeded-in-it/#findComment-1403126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonislune Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Sorry for late reply. Did you get your M400 video to work? I didn't have your #2. What model M400? What bios? Did it come with XP or Vista? hi, i did a successfull installation on snow leopard in m400 using your suggestions. Now i have 2 problems : 1) video does not work : black screen internal display whileit works perfectly on external display (through vga connector) 2) i cannot boot without removing iofirewire* kexts and ioatafamily.kext . With them inside SLE the system cannot boot and it gives me kp. Does anyone know how to solve such problems ? Thanks! Mal [/quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207455-toshiba-m400-or-other-toshiba-snow-leopard-retail-installation-who-succeded-in-it/#findComment-1476824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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