aBall Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Ok so i am trying to install this on my alienware laptop its old and i dont use it anymore so if i catch it on fire in the process no biggie. Its a Alienware m5790 17" with Intel Core 2 T7200 2.0ghz Ati X1800 2gb RAM. Mother board is according to Intel's utility Intel 945GM/GMS/940GML or Intel 945GT express which seems rather vague but oh well. anyway i followed lifehacker's guide to install from a flash drive well at work i didnt have a flash drive used a 8gb CF card so that may be my problem i may retry it with a flash drive. I have a snow leapord disk and i downloaded and followed the instructions everything seemed to work on my iMac that i was doing the preparations on. so i go to edit bios, and alienware saw fit to supply me with pheonix bios system which sucks and i cant change anything. I changed it to boot from the flash card and said operating system not found. but i was not able to change any of the SATA AHCI settings. i am still looking for a solution for that. I have some DL DVD's so is there another way to install this that will get me around that. or does anyone have any suggestions on how to change this on a pheonix system i dont really care about the functionality if everyhting will work the laptop sat in a closet for two years. I just want to try this because i am interested in maybe doing it to another system i might build as a media center. I use all mac for everything and i despise windows very existence (too many bad experiences) i am having a hard time trying to move forward with this, there are soooo many different ways to do stuff i cannot find a definitive answer or solution to what i need to do or what tutorial i should follow. the information is over whelming ive searched and searched but cant seem to find what i am looking for. i will likely try this again from the begining with a flash drive to double check any mistkes i might have made but i feel the root of my problem is not being able to modify the bios appropriately. not the files being on the drive. which is why i am wondering if booting from a DVD will be a way around this. my system currently runs windows vista and once i get OSX on it i will likely delete it. unless you think i should to that before hand. thanks for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aBall Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 so i am trying to install this again in a different way and this one says i should uses these older versions of chameleon and pc efi. why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aBall Posted April 29, 2010 Author Share Posted April 29, 2010 i need a way to boot with about being able to control my AHCI stuff. I cant change this on my system and i found a guide telling me how to do this but it seems like it was written by a chimpanzee. this guy skips whole steps and explains nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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