SeriousSam Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Hello! I have read the forum rules and introduced myself in the appropriate thread Now I'm having some troubles and I hope you can help me with this. On my Laptop (specifics in my signature) i have tried to install some versions of MacOS X, wich are: iATKOS S3 (Snow Leopard 10.6.3), iDeneb 1.4 (Leopard 10.5.6), iDeneb 1.5.1 (Leopard 10.5.7). The first one completes the install (the default one, nothing personalized) but when loading the system in graphics mode I get a kernel panic, I think, it is a circle with an oblique bar in it like access denied or something.. in verbose mode I get a MACH Reboot (I don't remember it exactly) and the system restarts after a few seconds. By installing it with the kernel Qoopz it seems to load but after a few mins of waiting the screen starts to make some dots, slowly covering the entire screen - all while the system seems to freeze (no HD activity). The second one can't even boot from DVD, a lot of "failed to load" messages (they show so fast I can't even read..) The third one completes the installation but after restarting, when loading system it returns a "still waiting for root device" error message. By reading in the forum it is a kext thing, I need some drivers to make it work on my system. The problem is that I don't know anything about this, and this is why I'm here. Can you please tell me wich kext file I need and where to get them? And another thing: how do I know if my CPU is SSE2 or SSE3 ? For any information you may need just ask me. Thankyou in advance p.s. I have read this discussion: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38269 but I can't find anywhere to get JaS 10.4.7 or iATKOS V2... or maybe I did not correctly understood what to search for... p.p.s. I have tried to install iDeneb 1.5.1 with the ICH drivers but it doesn't work.. EDIT I forgot to say that I've tried to install those versions in VMWare but I always get this error message: "A Virtual CPU has entered the shutdown state" and I can't get it to work... Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooSee Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Welcome to the Jungle, IMHO your Hardware is really Old and you'll never get the real Performance of Leopard and it's a waste of time,too !!! please look here: other Option ! you should try this Version of Elive Linux ! EliveCD ! it's free ( only in Live Mode ), if you want to install, it costs 15 $, but it's a really nice Version of Linux and you get 3D Desktop, too !!! good Luck CooSee ' Ya Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/#findComment-1579772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeriousSam Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Thanks for reply No actually I'm not interested in performances, just on functionalities. I want o see if this os gives me the same things I use on Windows and if it's better for what I do, maybe it has products better than the ones on windows... you know, things like this. Linux I have tried it in many versions (starting from Ubuntu to Slackware) and it works but I don't really like it... it's a bit too un-user-friendly. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/#findComment-1579792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 even if you're after functionality, with an old hardware, you can't just cram in a new OS in... try putting a 10.4 in it. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/#findComment-1579830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeriousSam Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Jus to know, for my chipset (Intel ICH6) there is no kext ? I have tried one wich was made for all ICH chipsets (ICH 0-10 ) but it didn't worked. Now from the DVD of iDeneb 1.5.1 (while waiting the download to complete for another versino of MacOS x86) I have selected all chipset drivers and something seems to be changed. When loading it seems the hard drive is found and the booting starts but where it returned before the message "still waiting for root devie" it now returns twice this error message: disk0s1: ioctl(_IOR,'d',76,4) is unsupported What can I do? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/#findComment-1580304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeriousSam Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 I've tried many ways but with those versions of macosx86 it's not working. could you give me some links for other versions ? i can't find any other.. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/#findComment-1582164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 Jus to know, for my chipset (Intel ICH6) there is no kext ? I have tried one wich was made for all ICH chipsets (ICH 0-10 ) but it didn't worked. AppleIntelPIIATA.kext. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/236668-kext-for-my-hardware/#findComment-1582343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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