joaquinmik Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 hi, im having troubles installing snow leopard, i have spent a lot of hours/days trying to install on my pc but always get errors, or problems. first my specs are: EP45-UD3P, i have readed that is almost perfect mobo for OSX, anyway i cant even install it core2quad Q9400 2.66mhz, 4gb ram ddr2 800, nvidia 7300 256mb ( ) and well i have a IDE DVD drive, and a SATA HDD, also an external USB DVD drive i followed a lot of tutorials to install leopard, but none worked for me The most common guide uses a 8gb thumb drive, witch i dont have, so i cant use that guide the alternative way was using a bootloader CD to boot from it and then load de Snowleopard install CD, but on the bootloader i press F5 it get struck reading the DVD and then gives "EBIOS Read Error: device timeout, block 0x0 sectors 0" The last chance was installing and leopard distro and install from leopard, snow leopard on another partition. i tried this but i cant boot the snow leopard installation, since i use ONE hard disk, i have Leopard and Snow Leopard on the same disk, so it boots LEOPARD instead of SNOW LEOPARD. even if i try too boot the SL partition from darwin bootloader i get an errror saying it can boot the OS please excuse my redaction, im not english speaker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215897-how-i-can-install-snow-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
realb00mer Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 hi, im having troubles installing snow leopard, i have spent a lot of hours/days trying to install on my pc but always get errors, or problems. first my specs are: EP45-UD3P, i have readed that is almost perfect mobo for OSX, anyway i cant even install it core2quad Q9400 2.66mhz, 4gb ram ddr2 800, nvidia 7300 256mb ( ) and well i have a IDE DVD drive, and a SATA HDD, also an external USB DVD drive i followed a lot of tutorials to install leopard, but none worked for me The most common guide uses a 8gb thumb drive, witch i dont have, so i cant use that guide the alternative way was using a bootloader CD to boot from it and then load de Snowleopard install CD, but on the bootloader i press F5 it get struck reading the DVD and then gives "EBIOS Read Error: device timeout, block 0x0 sectors 0" The last chance was installing and leopard distro and install from leopard, snow leopard on another partition. i tried this but i cant boot the snow leopard installation, since i use ONE hard disk, i have Leopard and Snow Leopard on the same disk, so it boots LEOPARD instead of SNOW LEOPARD. even if i try too boot the SL partition from darwin bootloader i get an errror saying it can boot the OS please excuse my redaction, im not english speaker Hi Guess you have the same problem i have... No SATA DVD Drive Setting the SATA to AHCI doesn't help either... Most boot iso's i burner to try install the retail Snow Leopard, don't boot or give errors, crc whatever... The only boot cd that i have that works seems to not have the magic mach_kernel.voodoo (i cant recall what boot.is it is, because i downloaded a bunch of different boot.iso's) Any one stop me if i am saying nonsense.. The iso that works for me i used to install MacOSX 10.6.1 10.6.2 from Hazard with success... No go for 10.6 retail So far the only solution i think of, is getting a SATA DVD drive or a IDE to SATA converter for my IDE DVD drive I would be cool if some of the more experience guys in this brilliant forum could help Thanks EDIT 1: My rig Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Intel Core i7 920 (not clocked) Corsair 3x2GB DDR3 1600 MHz 2 SATA HD (SATA1 - MAXTOR 300GB and SATA 2 - SEAGATE 1TB) 2 IDE DVD Drives (MASTER - Samsung DVD Drive and SLAVE - NEC DVD+RW Burner) EDIT 2: Found a post in here talking about using a IDE to SATA converter menoob 1 year agoTry the grub-dfe.iso instead of generic.iso. http://www.mediafire.com/?l0wizjmfymn In BIOS, select AHCI for SATA interface. DVD drive should also be SATA. Use an IDE to SATA converter if you don't have one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215897-how-i-can-install-snow-leopard/#findComment-1452200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 hi, im having troubles installing snow leopard, i have spent a lot of hours/days trying to install on my pc but always get errors, or problems. first my specs are: EP45-UD3P, i have readed that is almost perfect mobo for OSX, anyway i cant even install it core2quad Q9400 2.66mhz, 4gb ram ddr2 800, nvidia 7300 256mb ( ) and well i have a IDE DVD drive, and a SATA HDD, also an external USB DVD drive i followed a lot of tutorials to install leopard, but none worked for me The most common guide uses a 8gb thumb drive, witch i dont have, so i cant use that guide the alternative way was using a bootloader CD to boot from it and then load de Snowleopard install CD, but on the bootloader i press F5 it get struck reading the DVD and then gives "EBIOS Read Error: device timeout, block 0x0 sectors 0" The last chance was installing and leopard distro and install from leopard, snow leopard on another partition. i tried this but i cant boot the snow leopard installation, since i use ONE hard disk, i have Leopard and Snow Leopard on the same disk, so it boots LEOPARD instead of SNOW LEOPARD. even if i try too boot the SL partition from darwin bootloader i get an errror saying it can boot the OS please excuse my redaction, im not english speaker I would like to suggest that you try using Kakewalk loader for Snow Leopard. It does support your motherboard. Kakewalk can do it in 2 ways. Use an ISO - CD to boot up and then load the Snow Leopard RETAIL DVD or that 8 GB USB flash drive loaded with an image of the Snow Leopard disk and the Kakewalk Kexts, extras. I tried using the CD boot version but could never get back to loading the boot file on the disk after loading the Snow Leopard DVD. I then loaded up the USB flash and it worked perfectly. All you need to do is removed the Flash drive and reboot. I loaded 10.6.3 updater and everything works on my EX58-UD5 MoBoard. Here is the site http://puru.se/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215897-how-i-can-install-snow-leopard/#findComment-1452496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
realb00mer Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 I would like to suggest that you try using Kakewalk loader for Snow Leopard. It does support your motherboard.Kakewalk can do it in 2 ways. Use an ISO - CD to boot up and then load the Snow Leopard RETAIL DVD or that 8 GB USB flash drive loaded with an image of the Snow Leopard disk and the Kakewalk Kexts, extras. I tried using the CD boot version but could never get back to loading the boot file on the disk after loading the Snow Leopard DVD. I then loaded up the USB flash and it worked perfectly. All you need to do is removed the Flash drive and reboot. I loaded 10.6.3 updater and everything works on my EX58-UD5 MoBoard. Here is the site http://puru.se/ I'll try it and see... So far my Hazard MacOSX install is working flawlessly... Even updated to 10.6.3... Had only to remove the SleepEnabler.kext Still need to figure out how the hell i fix the sound card (AD2000b) not showing in IOreg dispite the fact that it is working with AppleHDA.kext Thank you so much Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/215897-how-i-can-install-snow-leopard/#findComment-1452839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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