samsample Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 I've been trying for a while now to get Snow Leopard to work on my system, but things haven't been going my way. The farthest I've been able to get is a kernel panic on bootup. Currently, however, my hazard install simply restarts the computer about 45 seconds into loading. I've tried a lot of things, and none of them have worked so far. Can anyone help me to get Snow Leopard working on my old hardware? My build is as follows. ASUS P5LD2-VM (no AHCI support, is that a deal breaker?) Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz single core processor 2GB DDR2 RAM 667 SATA DVD drive SATA 250GB HDD nVidia 8400gs Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258025-leopard-on-legacy-hardware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 ASUS P5LD2-VM (no AHCI support, is that a deal breaker?) Not at all, this is a myth, you just need to use the right drivers. For Intel ICHx this is AppleIntelPIIATA.kext. There are also a PATA mode ICHx injector that come with the Chameleon bootloader. ATAInjector.kext or something. For Marvell controllers there AppleVIAATA.kext or SuperVIAATA.kext. The latter has 64-bit support. For nforce chipsets, no idea. Look for Verdant's nforce guides. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258025-leopard-on-legacy-hardware/#findComment-1689856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Also, using a 8400 GS you can get it to work without extra drivers using chameleons "Graphics Enabler". Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258025-leopard-on-legacy-hardware/#findComment-1689861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Also, using a 8400 GS you can get it to work without extra drivers using chameleons "Graphics Enabler". Depending on the Brand of card, my Galaxy 8400GS 512 DVI/VGA for instance, found that I had to add the Vendor & Device ID to NVDANV50Hal.kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258025-leopard-on-legacy-hardware/#findComment-1689866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 I have a Galaxy 256MB DVI/VGA and it works with no modifications. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258025-leopard-on-legacy-hardware/#findComment-1689873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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