Installing on eMachines ER1401

[MondayRiot]

Hi everyone, I have tried installing iAtkos v7, and various iDeneb Leopard distros onto this little machine and the furthest I can get to is the Apple logo on the screen (before install options) and the a circle with a cross through it appears. In verbose mode, it shows that the computer is waiting for the boot device with UUID blah blah

 

This is the spec:

 

eMachines ER1401

AMD Athlon™ II Dual Core K325

NVIDIA® nForce® 9200 Chipset (according to Speccy, it is an nForce 720a)

2GB DDR3 RAM

 

If anyone could point me to a distro that would work, or the cause of the problem, I would be very grateful. I'm assuming Snow Leopard is a bit annoying (or impossible?) to install onto AMD systems so I have only been trying with Leopard.

 

Thank you everyone.

[verdant]

Hi everyone, I have tried installing iAtkos v7, and various iDeneb Leopard distros onto this little machine and the furthest I can get to is the Apple logo on the screen (before install options) and the a circle with a cross through it appears. In verbose mode, it shows that the computer is waiting for the boot device with UUID blah blah

 

This is the spec:

 

eMachines ER1401

AMD Athlon™ II Dual Core K325

NVIDIA® nForce® 9200 Chipset (according to Speccy, it is an nForce 720a)

2GB DDR3 RAM

 

If anyone could point me to a distro that would work, or the cause of the problem, I would be very grateful. I'm assuming Snow Leopard is a bit annoying (or impossible?) to install onto AMD systems so I have only been trying with Leopard.

 

Thank you everyone.

 

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............