install Snow Leopard along existing Linux installation?

[cgorac]

I'm trying to put OS X on my HP EliteBook 8530w notebook. I'm pretty much newbie in this whole OSX86 stuff, but I tried first with installing in VirtualBox, and that went fine; still, the end system is rather slow, so I thought I may try to install it natively. Basically, I'm following this set of instructions, in the hope that I could use retail SL DVD for the installation. However, after booting from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] CDROM, and then switching to SL install DVD, I'm greeted with infamous "still waiting for root device" message (same happens when I try with "-x" boot option). Now, seems like there exist million of possible causes for this error message, but as I'm dealing with notebook machine here so that I cannot fiddle much with connectors, I tried to check all the relevant BIOS options and I seem to be fine there, so as DVD drive seems to be working (after all, some stuff is read from the installation DVD before this error message appears), I'm suspecting to my disk configuration at the moment. Basically, I have existing Linux installation on this disk, with root (ext4) and swap partitions, and I have around 50GB empty at the end of the disk. I tried both with starting SL installation this way (with the empty disk space at the end of the disk), and also with creating "af" type partition there using fdisk under Linux before starting SL installation, but to no avail. I tried also to read about OS X preferences regarding partitioning, but to be honest I don't fully understand this whole MBR vs. GPT stuff. So I guess my first question is: is it possible at all install SL this way - along with existing Linux installation, and with MBR partition scheme on given disk? And then: could it be possible that my current configuration is the reason for above error reported upon starting SL installation?

 

Thanks.