bpopilek Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Ok, I am getting frustrated and have decided to seek some help! Hehe... I have been reading and trying things for 2 days now without any luck. What I am trying to do is install the OSX 10.6 retail DVD onto an HP TC4400 tablet PC. I have used boot loaders like [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and the osx86svboot ISO. The problem is once I boot off of either of these CD's and then insert the Snow Leopard disc, I am almost instantly greeted by the OSX error screen telling me to power down my PC. I have even tried using a retail 10.5 DVD and that one just causes the laptop to instantly reboot itself. I have checked the BIOS and tried turning different choices on and off, but no luck. I am not sure what I could be missing to make it work. I even attempted to install it from a USB hard drive. I followed a tutorial on restoring the DMG image to the USB drive, and that failed to work as well. I was able to get Kalyway 10.5.1 to install, but then it got hung up in the welcome screen loop. I have it re-installing as I type to see if some different selections make any difference. And in the meantime I am downloading iATKOS S3 v2 to see if that will work. My main goal however would be to get my retail 10.6 DVD to install with the vanilla kernel. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have 10.5 running in a VM Ware PC that I can use if I need a Mac to make a special install or USB device again. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/222888-hp-tc4400-tablet-osx-106/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Storeytime Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 The welcome loop requires a file removed in -S mode - can't remem what but you do - or a code added Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/222888-hp-tc4400-tablet-osx-106/#findComment-1499393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpopilek Posted June 27, 2010 Author Share Posted June 27, 2010 The welcome loop requires a file removed in -S mode - can't remem what but you do - or a code added I have found the fix that you speak of for the "Welcome Loop" already. However the problem I have is that I cannot boot the PC without the installation DVD inserted into the drive. If I do, I get a HFS+ error. I am not sure what to do to get into single user mode on the hard drive install. When I attempt to do it from the DVD, it boots from the DVD installation in single user mode instead of off of the hard drive. Just to clear things up on how my hard drive is setup currently. I have a 320gb WD SATA drive. I have Windows 7 Pro installed and it has 3 partitions. 1. System Reserved (Windows) 2. Windows 7 Pro 3. OSx86 Right now I can't even boot back into windows install without a Chameleon boot CD. I have to then select the Windows 7 Reserved partition and it loads up fine. I would be OK to just get OSX 10.5.x installed on this, but I would really prefer to use Snow Leopard. Unfortunately I am still stuck. No matter which boot CD I have tried, when I pop in my retail copy it give me the shut down this PC error almost instantly. I did get a copy of iATKOS S3 v2 downloaded and burnt off to DVD. While it starts to boot from the DVD for quite a while, it eventually hangs at the Apple logo screen with the spinning symbol at the bottom frozen. Does anyone have any other suggestions that I can try? I haven't had a machine running OSX in a few years and I have been missing some of the features that I can't do from within Windows. Thanks for reading! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/222888-hp-tc4400-tablet-osx-106/#findComment-1499792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
binjch Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I have found the fix that you speak of for the "Welcome Loop" already. However the problem I have is that I cannot boot the PC without the installation DVD inserted into the drive. If I do, I get a HFS+ error. I am not sure what to do to get into single user mode on the hard drive install. When I attempt to do it from the DVD, it boots from the DVD installation in single user mode instead of off of the hard drive. Just to clear things up on how my hard drive is setup currently. I have a 320gb WD SATA drive. I have Windows 7 Pro installed and it has 3 partitions. 1. System Reserved (Windows) 2. Windows 7 Pro 3. OSx86 Right now I can't even boot back into windows install without a Chameleon boot CD. I have to then select the Windows 7 Reserved partition and it loads up fine. I would be OK to just get OSX 10.5.x installed on this, but I would really prefer to use Snow Leopard. Unfortunately I am still stuck. No matter which boot CD I have tried, when I pop in my retail copy it give me the shut down this PC error almost instantly. I did get a copy of iATKOS S3 v2 downloaded and burnt off to DVD. While it starts to boot from the DVD for quite a while, it eventually hangs at the Apple logo screen with the spinning symbol at the bottom frozen. Does anyone have any other suggestions that I can try? I haven't had a machine running OSX in a few years and I have been missing some of the features that I can't do from within Windows. Thanks for reading! To be able to boot Windows again, you just have to load Partmagic, use the Partition utility to flag the windows partition to boot, then you restart your computer, boot on the Windows7 dvd install and select repair, select your Windows7 partition and it should work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/222888-hp-tc4400-tablet-osx-106/#findComment-1603884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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