ave10 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hello all! I got out my old Inspiron 6000 the other day and was having trouble getting Snow Leopard installed. Hopefully you guys can help. Here's my situation so far: I have successfully installed Leopard 10.5.5 using this guide. I searched these forums and google to see if snow leopard was possible but didn't see any solutions so I decided to be a pioneer, haha. I have tried both iAtkos s3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 by Hazard. I was able to boot into the installer just fine on both. The iAtkos refused to install. Hazard installed but, I get a kernel panic when trying to boot (below). I'm not sure if the problem is hardware compatibility, choosing the wrong install options from the customization menu, or something completely different. Here are my specs: CPU: Pentium M 740 @ 2.13 GHz Graphics: Intel 910/915 Ram: 2GB Hard Drive: Hitachi HTSS41040G9AT00 CD/DVD: TSSTcorpCD-RW/DVD-ROM TSL462C Sound: Sigmatel something (not showing on system profiler) (If there's anything else you need, let me know.) Kernel Panic: panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a7e57): Kernel trap at 0x2f541148, type 13=general protection, registers: CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x303fd000, CR3: 0x00101000, CR4: 0x000006e0 EAX: 0x2f546ec0, EBX: 0x05be9580, ECX: 0x00000300, EDX: 0x00360038 CR2: 0x35682d94, EBP: 0x35682da8, ESI: 0x05ba8f00, EDI: 0x00000001 EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x2f541148, CS: 0x00000004: DS: 0x051e000c Error code: 0x00000000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 i'd stick with leopard with that old machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ave10 Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 Alright. I was afraid that might be the only solution. Thanks anyway though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerastez Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 I also have an Inspiron 6000 that has run 10.5.8 beautifully for 2 years. I have also tried to install 10.6.3 with no success. It seems as though the issue occurs when the hard drive is being unmounted, either when I am erasing the hard drive or beginning the system installation. Like the first poster said, everything starts out fine. I can get the installation disk to begin the installation process but once it gets to the unmounting step, the blue progress bar churns away but nothing further happens. Any idea about how I can get past unmount? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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