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Hello, I am trying (and DEFINITELY not succeeding) in installing OSx86 on mt Toshiba Qosmio x505-Q893. I tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] legacy with both a 10.5.1 Retail Install DVD and a 10.6 Retail Install DVD and both fail at the DVD loading. I tried -V for verbose and -X for safe mode and ALL it does is reboot the computer. It happens so quick I can't even see what went wrong. Kalyway and iDeneb DVDs both do the same thing. I have found some articles online regarding x505 Laptops but none regarding this specific model and following those instructions HAVE NOT worked for me ;) . Please help me. PLEASEEEEEE! Below are tech specs for this laptop. Also attached is a file output of my Laptop's FULL FULL tech specs from CPU-Z.

 

 

• Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor3 and Graphics4

• Intel® Core™ i5-460M Processor

o 2.53 GHz (2.80 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology), 3MB L3

Cache

• Mobile Intel® PM55 Express Chipset

• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M with 1.5GB GDDR5 discrete graphics

memory

Memory5

• Configured with 4GB DDR3 1066MHz (max 8GB)

• 2 main memory slots. Both slots occupied.

Storage Drive6

• 500GB (7200 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive

• TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor)

Fixed Optical Disk Drive7

• DVD SuperMulti drive supporting 11 formats

o Maximum Read speed and compatibility: CD-ROM (24x), CD-R

(24x), CD-RW (24x), DVD-ROM (8x), DVD-R (8x), DVD-R DL

(8x), DVD-RW (8x), DVD+R (8x), DVD+R DL (8x), DVD+RW

(8x), DVD-RAM (5x)

Display8

• 18.4” diagonal widescreen TruBrite® TFT LCD display at 1680 x 945

native resolution (HD+)

o Native support for 720p content

o 16:9 aspect ratio

Sound

• Built-in harman/kardon® stereo speakers

• Dolby® Home Theater®

Input Devices

• Flat Matte Backlit Keyboard with 10-Keypad

• TouchPad™ pointing device with multi-touch control

• TouchPad™ Enable/Disable button

• Media Control Buttons:

o TOSHIBA eco utility™ (Energy-saving mode)

o Mute

o Media

o CD/DVD control buttons

o Volume up, volume down

Communications

• Webcam and microphone

• 10/100/1000 Ethernet

• Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n)9

Expandability

• ExpressCard™ slot (ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54)

• Memory Card Reader

o Secure Digital, Secure Digital High Capacity, Memory Stick™,

Memory Stick PRO™, Multi Media Card [shared slot]

Ports

• Video

o RGB (monitor) output port

o HDMI-CEC (REGZA LINK™)

• Audio

o S/P DIF output port (shared with headphone port)

o Microphone input port

o Headphone output port

• Data

o i.LINK™ IEEE-1394

o 4 USB v2.0 ports (3 USB + 1 eSATA/USB combo with USB

Sleep and Charge10)

o RJ-45 LAN port.

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Its not easy to get this running on this machine and I don't know why this process works exactly, but this is how I did.

 

You'll need 3 Discs

 

nawDoCom boot disc

Hazard 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Distro

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Disc

 

You'll also want to download a few files ahead of time

 

Chameleon Boot Loader

10.6.7 Combo Update

Tonymacx86 Graphics Update

and a new version of VoodooBattery

 

Use the nawDoCom boot disc

 

Once it starts up, insert the Hazard distro

 

Install OS X onto the system.

 

You're going to run into a KP here because there are a few kexts that dont work. You need to find a way to remove the FireWire kexts from the system

 

I can't provide a good way to do this, I used a program called MacDrive 8 that I installed on a Windows PC and removed them by deleting them through the explorer.

 

You'll also want to remove the VoodooBattery kext as well

 

Once thats done, don't try boot normally yet.

 

Insert the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc and boot using the verbose option, it should boot.

 

Update it to 10.6.7

 

You'll need to remove the SleepEnabler kext that is added through this update before the system will boot again. Use the same method that you used to remove the Firewire kexts

 

Use the tonymac update to get your gfx card working

 

Use the system preferences and change the audio to speaks to get the speakers working

 

Reinstall voodoobattery

 

Viola. Now, this is unstable unfortuanetly. It will freeze after about 20 - 30 mins and I dont know why, but other than that, it's not too bad. You probably want to buy another wireless card that works with snow leo too. If you find one, let me know

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Its not easy to get this running on this machine and I don't know why this process works exactly, but this is how I did.

 

You'll need 3 Discs

 

nawDoCom boot disc

Hazard 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Distro

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Disc

 

You'll also want to download a few files ahead of time

 

Chameleon Boot Loader

10.6.7 Combo Update

Tonymacx86 Graphics Update

and a new version of VoodooBattery

 

Use the nawDoCom boot disc

 

Once it starts up, insert the Hazard distro

 

Install OS X onto the system.

 

You're going to run into a KP here because there are a few kexts that dont work. You need to find a way to remove the FireWire kexts from the system

 

I can't provide a good way to do this, I used a program called MacDrive 8 that I installed on a Windows PC and removed them by deleting them through the explorer.

 

You'll also want to remove the VoodooBattery kext as well

 

Once thats done, don't try boot normally yet.

 

Insert the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc and boot using the verbose option, it should boot.

 

Update it to 10.6.7

 

You'll need to remove the SleepEnabler kext that is added through this update before the system will boot again. Use the same method that you used to remove the Firewire kexts

 

Use the tonymac update to get your gfx card working

 

Use the system preferences and change the audio to speaks to get the speakers working

 

Reinstall voodoobattery

 

Viola. Now, this is unstable unfortuanetly. It will freeze after about 20 - 30 mins and I dont know why, but other than that, it's not too bad. You probably want to buy another wireless card that works with snow leo too. If you find one, let me know

 

First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for the reply! I really appreciate it. And I apologize that this reply is coming so late. Before I saw that you had posted this, I went about it with another method that I figured out on my own. I download a retail 10.6.0 (NOT 10.6.3) DVD and stripped out (AppleFWAudio*,IOAudioFamily*,IOFireWire*,AppleMultitouchDriver*,Audio*) Ketxts inside /System/Library/Extensions from the DMG file and burned it to a dual layer DVD. I downloaded a copy of the latest Nawcom ModCD and booted Snow Leopard using it WITHOUT A SINGLE PROBLEM (very good boot cd) and installed Snow Leopard to a partition that I made. Everything went fine except that Nawcom ModCD adds chameleon bootloader which fails to boot up the new install. So I popped the Boot CD back in and booted using it. The install works FINE. No Audio because I removed some Audio Kexts and resolution isn't full, full, full, but it's acceptable. Then I began to follow the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]+[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] instructions at (http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-install-mac-os-x-on.html). However, at the end of the 10.6.7 combo update install, my system KERNEL PANICS and it is unrecoverable. I'm going to have to reinstall from scratch for the third time now. I'm going to try those same steps in a few minutes with 10.6.3 instead. Let me know if you have a way to install 10.6.7 combo update without a problem. Thanj you.

 

Also, this way is EXTREMELY stable. I used it for about 3 and a half hours installing all kinds of things and I even installed steam and played some games ONLINE and there was never a problem. No freezing or ANYTHING. I wish the synaptics touchpad worked with multitouch though. Like two finger scrolling.

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First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for the reply! I really appreciate it. And I apologize that this reply is coming so late. Before I saw that you had posted this, I went about it with another method that I figured out on my own. I download a retail 10.6.0 (NOT 10.6.3) DVD and stripped out (AppleFWAudio*,IOAudioFamily*,IOFireWire*,AppleMultitouchDriver*,Audio*) Ketxts inside /System/Library/Extensions from the DMG file and burned it to a dual layer DVD. I downloaded a copy of the latest Nawcom ModCD and booted Snow Leopard using it WITHOUT A SINGLE PROBLEM (very good boot cd) and installed Snow Leopard to a partition that I made. Everything went fine except that Nawcom ModCD adds chameleon bootloader which fails to boot up the new install. So I popped the Boot CD back in and booted using it. The install works FINE. No Audio because I removed some Audio Kexts and resolution isn't full, full, full, but it's acceptable. Then I began to follow the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]+[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] instructions at (http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-install-mac-os-x-on.html). However, at the end of the 10.6.7 combo update install, my system KERNEL PANICS and it is unrecoverable. I'm going to have to reinstall from scratch for the third time now. I'm going to try those same steps in a few minutes with 10.6.3 instead. Let me know if you have a way to install 10.6.7 combo update without a problem. Thanj you.

 

Also, this way is EXTREMELY stable. I used it for about 3 and a half hours installing all kinds of things and I even installed steam and played some games ONLINE and there was never a problem. No freezing or ANYTHING. I wish the synaptics touchpad worked with multitouch though. Like two finger scrolling.

 

The 10.6.7 Update adds a SleepEnabler kext. That is what's causing the KP's. If you can find a way to remove it, Your system should boot

 

 

Also, heres the kext to get your audio working as well. Use Kext Helper to install it.

Working_VoodooHDA.zip

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The 10.6.7 Update adds a SleepEnabler kext. That is what's causing the KP's. If you can find a way to remove it, Your system should boot

 

 

Also, heres the kext to get your audio working as well. Use Kext Helper to install it.

 

AWESOME! But.... the Karnel Panic happens BEFORE the installation of 10.6.7 completes. I'd say it keeps happening at about 95% completetion. So I have to hold the power button and power cycle the laptop. Even if I were to use something such as Macdrive 8 to access the HFS+ partition, wouldn't it be a broken install because it never completed? If not then I know how to remove the SleepEnabler kext easily.

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Just to follow up, the sleep enabler kext was never installed. I used MacDrive to access the HFS+ partition and went to the kexts folder and there was nothing there. But the install wont reboot. It freezes while booting in verbose mode. Not even the ModCD can boot it and if I try with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], the computer reboots itself while booting OS X in verbose mode.

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