Help! Trying to install Mac OS X on my Laptop

[ckirkp79]

So I have been trying to install any form of OS X on my laptops. I've been at this for 5 plus years and I have reached a boiling point. My daughters laptop is compatible with it, but I don't want to mess her system up. My laptop is newer, and I've tried IAtkos, Ideneb, Leo4all, Hazzard, Kalyway...no success at all.

 

My specs are below:

 

Toshiba Satellite L675D-S7049

AMD Turion II Dual Core 2.4ghz P540

4 GB DDR3 Memory

500 GB Samsung Hard Drive

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250

 

I have AHCI enabled in the Bios. Still no luck. I've even tried reg Leopard, no luck. I usually get to the following after booting -v : ACPI: Early EC Access Region Detected.

 

I know the discs work because they work in my daughter's HP laptop..I get all the way to the install but I cancel it out so I don't mess anything up.

 

Snow Leopard works under VMWare, which I thought since it worked there it should work with my laptop...I just put ubuntu on it last week...so I'm going to try again and see if maybe the disc will see another partition open for it to install...but I don't see that going well.

 

Can anyone please help me. Macbuntu on Ubuntu isn't enough to satisfy my thirst for any OS X after I've played with it on VMWARE.

 

If it's not possible to install on my machine-can someone tell me how I can make it like a real machine in VMWare and be able to allocate all my memory and resources to the Virtual Mac?

 

Thanks in advance, hopefully

[Foxic]

have you tried a genuine SL disk and a bootloader like Nawcom's modCD?

[ckirkp79]

Yes, I have tried Nawcoms modcd and it didn't work. I don't have a "genuine" snow leopard disc, but I was able to get the 10a432 iso and that didn't even work.

 

Funny thing is, I just tried Iatkos s3 v2 in vmware with a fresh install (which Hazzard or others would never load) but this one did load and I have a fresh install of Iatkos running in Workstation 7. Burned the Iatkos disk and no joy when I tried to install natively.

 

Thing is when I installed Iatkos, under the kernels there were 3 diff kernels for AMD processors and I selected them all so I don't even know which one is the one working. I'm happy it's working in vmware but I'd like to figure out how to free up resources in windows 7 so my snow leopard could take it all.

 

have you tried a genuine SL disk and a bootloader like Nawcom's modCD?

[leonicdragon]

Have you read this? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...&pid=757321

 

Your biggest problem is going to be that you have an AMD processor, so nothing is going to run stock since Macs looks for intel. That said, you need to get the vendor IDs of your components and search the "Hardware Compatibility List" for each thing in order to see what is needed (if possible) to make it work. You said there were 3 different kernels and you selected them all. Wy not try each one separately and see which one worked? You say you've been trying for 5 years and you've reached a boiling point? In this 5 years time why have you not bothered to read the basics of OSx86, googled your error, or just gotten another more compatible computer set up.

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...0.6.8/Portables

 

It isn't there, so unless you search the hardware database with the info obtained from CPUZ and find the required steps to make each individual component work, and then compile them all together, you will never get OSX working on that laptop. As all the stickies have said, it's best to build a desktop made from compatible hardware or buy one of the laptops that have been tested to work if you must have one. Otherwise, you are really on your own as far as research.

[ckirkp79]

Thank you for all the links...I will def read into them..and I have been reading for 5 plus years now...when I owned my daughters HP Pavilion G62, which was back in 2009-it wasn't compatible with anything at all...I tried for about a year on that (and lo and behold it can now boot up a snow leopard install) but that's her laptop now...so before that one I had another toshiba that it didn't work on and even the Dell I first had wasn't compatible but it is now.

 

I know that as the months/years move, the older hardware becomes compatible for some form of Mac OS X. And as my newest laptop was a birthday present-I didn't have a say on what should be bought. I know AMD processors are hell, but I have the hint of glimmer since snow leopard runs in VMWare, that it can also run natively.

 

Qpootz (don't know if I spelled it right) Kernel 1.3.0 is the one I am using now...I did a fresh reinstall of Iatkos under Workstation...and this time only selected that kernel this time.

 

I believe I will take apart the iso and put one together for my laptop based on what is running in vmware and my hardware...At least if someone else happens to have the same kind of laptop I do, and ends up wanting to tinker with Snow Leopard, they will have this thread to look at and get a start.

 

And another side note, I have googled the {censored} out of google concerning my laptop and snow leopard. No one out there has even tried putting OS X on my laptop...and my laptop dates back in 2010 which is very odd..

 

Have you read this? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...&pid=757321

 

Your biggest problem is going to be that you have an AMD processor, so nothing is going to run stock since Macs looks for intel. That said, you need to get the vendor IDs of your components and search the "Hardware Compatibility List" for each thing in order to see what is needed (if possible) to make it work. You said there were 3 different kernels and you selected them all. Wy not try each one separately and see which one worked? You say you've been trying for 5 years and you've reached a boiling point? In this 5 years time why have you not bothered to read the basics of OSx86, googled your error, or just gotten another more compatible computer set up.

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...0.6.8/Portables

 

It isn't there, so unless you search the hardware database with the info obtained from CPUZ and find the required steps to make each individual component work, and then compile them all together, you will never get OSX working on that laptop. As all the stickies have said, it's best to build a desktop made from compatible hardware or buy one of the laptops that have been tested to work if you must have one. Otherwise, you are really on your own as far as research.

[leonicdragon]

Yeah, I'm not surprised there. There are TONS of laptops out there so it's best to check the compatibility of each component, compile all the necessary kexts, and then trial and error the results. I was looking at the proven compatible notebooks, and I'm not a fan of any of them, so that's what I'm going to have to do. I don't see the Turion II even mentioned on the database, so you'l probably have to search the forums or just see if it works. It looks like your GPU is actually an HD 3450, so this should work http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t264908.html That's why you have to search those by Device ID.

 

That covers the CPU and GPU. Now you need to find out what touchpad and you have, if your USB ports work, media drive, card readers, sound, motherboard, webcam, wifi (most likely not) bluetooth, and ethernet ports are compatible. Just check all the device IDs and you'll find it if it's available.

If you DO get it up and running, then please start a thread on it or add it to the database and wiki. Best of Luck!

 

You can also download this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=235523 and it will check your configuration and auto patch your DSDT. Since your model isn't listed, select "not present?" at the top and submit your DSDT and they will patch it.

[ckirkp79]

You have given me a glimmer of hope! Yeah I'm working on trying to install now using -v -f -x and i keep stopping at the ACPI: System State [s0 s3 s4 s5] (s3) but it moves further than any other distro so I know one day after researching and building the install to suit my laptop I will be up and running. But thank you so very much on the links you provided! I can't wait to see what else I can dig up. And I will most definitely start a new thread with everything I had to do, plus if I have to build from scratch..I'll put everything I used on here as well-I know there has to be someone out there who'd like everything they've done in one spot...thank you again.

 

Yeah, I'm not surprised there. There are TONS of laptops out there so it's best to check the compatibility of each component, compile all the necessary kexts, and then trial and error the results. I was looking at the proven compatible notebooks, and I'm not a fan of any of them, so that's what I'm going to have to do. I don't see the Turion II even mentioned on the database, so you'l probably have to search the forums or just see if it works. It looks like your GPU is actually an HD 3450, so this should work http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofiversi...hp/t264908.html That's why you have to search those by Device ID.

 

That covers the CPU and GPU. Now you need to find out what touchpad and you have, if your USB ports work, media drive, card readers, sound, motherboard, webcam, wifi (most likely not) bluetooth, and ethernet ports are compatible. Just check all the device IDs and you'll find it if it's available.

If you DO get it up and running, then please start a thread on it or add it to the database and wiki. Best of Luck!

 

You can also download this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=235523 and it will check your configuration and auto patch your DSDT. Since your model isn't listed, select "not present?" at the top and submit your DSDT and they will patch it.

[ckirkp79]

Just an update-I'm still trying to "create" a custom disc to install snow leopard with. So far haven't been successful and I'm running out of dvds:( If I could find a way to burn it all to my 16gb flash drive it would help because unetbootin nor lili live usb will actually work. Restoring from a virtual mac doesn't work either as I have tried to restore an image on my virtual one and it always fails...but I remember actually being successful one time...it may have been with leopard virtualized and not snow.