dsalsa Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Can you install SL from DVDRW SATA drive? Every time I boot from my SL DVD installer I get "Still waiting for root device". Is it because I'm using a DVDRW SATA drive? How can I make a bootable USB SL installer? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265123-amd-athlon-ii-x2-240-28ghz-am3-processor/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightInDark Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I'm also looking for help with an AMD Athlon II 64bit roughly the same processor, 2.6GHz AM3. I've tried almost all variations of distro's, JaS Leopard, iATKOS v7 Leopard, iATKOS v2 S3 Snow Leopard, Leo4All Leopard (which I heard is the most supportive for AMD) iDeneb (major fail there) and Kalyway.. no luck with any of them.. Considered buying a retail but not sure yet. I'd prefer to have a Hackintosh. Hope someone can help us out with AMD ): I think the main issue is that most AMD guides only have AMD processors but not AMD chipsets and by chipsets i mean most seem to have nForce and such. My laptop is a complete AMD motherboard, CPU, Chipset, Graphics only thing that isnt is the DVD Drive, HDD and Networking adapter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265123-amd-athlon-ii-x2-240-28ghz-am3-processor/#findComment-1732473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsalsa Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 I'm also looking for help with an AMD Athlon II 64bit roughly the same processor, 2.6GHz AM3. I've tried almost all variations of distro's, JaS Leopard, iATKOS v7 Leopard, iATKOS v2 S3 Snow Leopard, Leo4All Leopard (which I heard is the most supportive for AMD) iDeneb (major fail there) and Kalyway.. no luck with any of them.. Considered buying a retail but not sure yet. I'd prefer to have a Hackintosh. Hope someone can help us out with AMD ): I think the main issue is that most AMD guides only have AMD processors but not AMD chipsets and by chipsets i mean most seem to have nForce and such. My laptop is a complete AMD motherboard, CPU, Chipset, Graphics only thing that isnt is the DVD Drive, HDD and Networking adapter. I've only tried iATKOS v7 Leopard and iATKOS v2 S3 Snow Leopard and as you know non of them worked. Is your DVDRW drive SATA or IDE? I can't believe it if you're interested you could try installing it in VMWare, it actually works. I've tried to install it so many times and it always use to install successfully but was never able to get it to boot after the successful installation. Today I decided to try another thing in VMWare not being very optimistic but it actually worked. Ok it's not perfect it does have two problems for me, no audio and I can't get it to fill up my screen (1680 X 1050) but I'm optimistic that I will be able to solve those problems. I'm willing to use SL virtually until we can figure out how to get it to run natively which is the way I would prefer. What would be ideal would be if we could get to install Lion natively (maybe some day). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265123-amd-athlon-ii-x2-240-28ghz-am3-processor/#findComment-1732541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightInDark Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Yeah I have a working installation in VirtualBox but it has its limitations and doesnt work well if you want it as your daily use OS. my DVD drive is SATA but has an IDE mode in the BIOS. Sadly I could only get Leopard to install in VB and that was with Leo4all, all the others failed after installation. My main problem is with ACPI I think, gets stuck at ACPI System State S0 S1 S3 (S3) and the DVD drive stops.. Hangs there. Cant find any kexts for AppleACPI from 10.4.8 ): Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265123-amd-athlon-ii-x2-240-28ghz-am3-processor/#findComment-1732961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 @ All I recommend that you initially install OS X Leopard using a AMD compatible Install DVD distro such as: LawlessPPC-10.5.4-Phenom-AMD iATKOS 4a AMD Leo4Allv4.1 AMD iPC 10.5.6 iDeneb V1.4 10.5.6 etc. to set up two OS X volumes on your HDD and then install Leopard on one of the volumes to figure out exactly what you need to do boot and run OS X Leopard on your system......and then use Leopard to help you install OS X Snow Leopard on your second HDD volume...........also, see this AMD Retail Snow Leopard install guide............ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/265123-amd-athlon-ii-x2-240-28ghz-am3-processor/#findComment-1734736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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