LordSte Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I'm trying to get some version of Snow Leopard to work on my Gateway MT6728 laptop. I tried a DVD by Hazard, but it hangs when booting the disc. iATKOS S3 v2 boots up and installs without a problem. However, when OS X boots up (after it's installed) I sometimes get a kernel panic and sometimes I don't. Sometimes it drops to the black verbose screen with tons of memory dumps and errors (which are never the same), and then sometimes it shows the standard kernel panic screen with the large picture of the power button. It's completely random, but after lots of experimenting it seems like it's a 1 in 5 chance to get it to boot without a kernel panic. I said to myself, "Fine, I don't mind turning it off and on about 5 times as long as it works eventually". Everything within OS X works great.....at least until I was writing something up in LaTeX and got a kernel panic then. Nothing too important was lost, but I knew that in the future I need to do my work on a stable system. I've must've installed the darn thing at least 25 times with different installation options (patches, drivers, modified kernels, etc.), but it still boils down to the same random crashes. Once, I thought I had it by ditching some desired 32-bit drivers to force it to run in 64-bit mode, but I eventually got a panic on boot. The randomness is really annoying to work with and troubleshoot. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this. Maybe I'm missing something here? Or, is there another way to get Snow Leopard working on this machine that maybe I don't know about? Thanks for your time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259545-random-kernel-panics-after-installing-iatkos-s3-v2/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Give us your specs. And try formatting your text lol my eyes hurt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259545-random-kernel-panics-after-installing-iatkos-s3-v2/#findComment-1699142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordSte Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Give us your specs.And try formatting your text lol my eyes hurt. I already linked my specs in the original post. Just click where it says "Gateway MT6728 laptop". I'll edit the post and try to split it into paragraphs, sorry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259545-random-kernel-panics-after-installing-iatkos-s3-v2/#findComment-1699790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordSte Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 While surfing, I accidentally found a newer version of Snow Leopard by Hazard (10.6.6) which boots fine and works without random crashes. So yea, I guess that "fixed" it. I wish I knew about that before I wasted my time thinking the iATKOS S2 was the only Snow Leopard option that I had to work with. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/259545-random-kernel-panics-after-installing-iatkos-s3-v2/#findComment-1701060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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