sparkythewondersquid Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 I recently got an HP Envy 17 i7 sandy bridge, ATI 6850M 8GB RAM I cannot seem to get anything to work I have tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], andyboot, boot prompts (busratio=12, cpus=1, maxmem=4096 etc) I even installed snow on a hard drive put it in a HDD mounter installed sandy bridge kernel and boot with -v it gets to ATI POSTed and stops with various boot prompts I get the dreaded "still waiting for root device" any ideas would be appreciated Than you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258191-any-ideas-for-hp-envy-17-3d/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
yannisvesse Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Hi, I have a HP Envy 17 SB (i7-2630qm, hd6850m, 4gb ram, HDD 1tb) and I can not install mac on it. I just managed to start the USB installation Lion and gives me an kernel panic. Thank you for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258191-any-ideas-for-hp-envy-17-3d/#findComment-1728821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkythewondersquid Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 I took mine back and got an Asus G73Sw the HP also had BIOS whitelisting so I could not change the wireless card unacceptable! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258191-any-ideas-for-hp-envy-17-3d/#findComment-1728830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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