73grandam Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Hey guys, I have a DC5750 small form factor by hp and i want to run snow leopard on it. I have had no luck getting past the "still waiting for root device" on iAtkos s3 v2 and i have managed to get to a cutomize screen using Snowleopard universal PC but everytime i install and reboot it goes to kernal panic. Is there any way to install snow leopard on this machine? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaker Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 can you be more specific?? boot using -v and tell us where it hangs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1806492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 do you mean the installed OS? or when i try to install Iatkos? because iAtkos hangs at 'still waiting for root device' and in the PCuniversal install, ill post a picture of where it hangs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaker Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 as far as i know the "still waiting for root device" means that the system can't see your HD, if you have SATA controller try to change it to AHCI mode in bios options. attach the pic where it hangs for the PCuniversal install. the specs of your machine should help too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Here is a guy with an AMD HP DC5750 with some hints: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=206032 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 I saw that post and i cant find the guide he is using and the specs are Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ processor 2.1 GHz 1 MB L2 cache 2000 MHz front side bus chipset: ATI Radeon® XPRESS 1150 RAM: 2 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Graphics: Integrated ATI Radeon X300 graphics with VGA and DVI-D Hard Drive: 80 GB 7200 rpm RAID SATA 3.0 Gb/s Network: Integrated Broadcom 5755 Gigabit Ethernet Audio: Integrated High Definition audio with Realtek 2 channel ALC260 codec (all ports are stereo) I think thats everything. I dont have AHCI support on this motherboard. I don't know if that means i can't do it This is what i get in verbose from PCUniversal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 SuperVIAATA.kext is loading for your hardware but it's obviously not cutting it. Use an install method that uses ATIATA.kext or SB700.kext instead of SuperVIAATA.kext for your hard drive controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 How would i go about doing this? sorry im kind of a noob. all my otherr installs work right away Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Use the retail Snow Leopard 10.6.3 DVD and build your own Chameleon boot CD that has ATIATA.kext or SB700.kext on it. Or track down one that has it. To learn how to make your own Chameleon boot CD, go to the VoodooProjects forum, find a post by me and follow the link in my signature. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 Ok thank you, ill be sure to post back if it works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) On your page http://forum.voodoop...x.php/topic,649 I cannot find the link to your chameleon 2.1 archive. Also will this reboot if not in AHCI? because i dont have that support Edited March 21, 2012 by Gringo Vermelho Fixed botched link Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Like here on IM and almost every other on-line forum in existance, you need to be logged in to download attachments. All I know is that ATIATA.kext and SB700.kext are for ATI Southbridges, that's all I can say. Try each one and see which one works for you. If you don't feel like doing your experimenting, then use the search or google to find what other users with the same hardware have done. I can't be more specific because I have never installed OS X on anything with ATI chipset. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I saw that post and i cant find the guide he is using You are trying to install on an AMD machine. The guide to which he was referring was the AMD 10.6.8 guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=253767 Just as Gringo Vermelho said, it starts with 10.6.3. Use Gringo's hints in setting up your boot CD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1807549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 I tried setting up my Boot Disk but it wont burn correctly. I cant install the right kext packages to get it to boot with ATIATA.kext. How would i go about putting that into a disk and being able to select it when it comes time to install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1808700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 1. Get your boot disk to boot properly 2. Get your boot disk to boot the install DVD 3. Install 4. Use the same boot disk to boot the installation 5. Fix up your running installation by adding/deleting what is needed. (like ATIATA.kext and Chameleon and whatever) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1808721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Ok so im starting fresh with a new boot cd, but are there any packages or patches i need to add for an amd computer? if so how do i do this? i havent seen anything on the internet or google for it. And if not i just boot with the retail boot cd correct? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1808905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 An AMD machine cannot boot the vanilla kernel, only a legacy kernel. The version of the kernel has to match the version of OSX you are going to boot. You are also going to need a driver for your hard drive system so you will need ATIATA.kext or SB700.kext. You need a bootloader which is some version of Chameleon. And you may need other things that are not provided by the installation DVD. Google: amd boot cd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1808934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 alright i got the whole system to work using snow leopard universal cd but i can only boot into safe mode using -x, when i dont i get a kernal panic, ill keep messing with it but in safe mode i cant get it to read my usb to install the ATIATA.kext or SB700.kext that i have Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1808983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 What does the kernel panic say (use -v)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1809008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 when i type -v i get a bunch of backtrace errors. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1809107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I'm sorry, there is no information there that gives me a clue as to your problem. If you really want to, you can try to modify the iAtkos install DVD. The reason it is waiting for root device is that OSX cannot find a usable driver to boot the dvd. Drivers are stored in /System/Library/Extensions directory. But to speed things up, a compressed version is kept which is called Extensions.mkext. It is stored in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext. The process to modify the DVD is to convert it to a read/write image. Grab the Extensions.mkext and expand it. Modify it to add needed drivers. Compress it and put it back into the read/write image. Then create a DVD from the modified read/write image. Here is a guide to help with some of it: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=67713 Other than that, I have nothing more to offer you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1809119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
73grandam Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 Thanks RLF for trying but the guide didn't help. Ill just go down to 10.5.8 till i can find a way to do it or until someone posts how they did it at a later time Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/277029-please-help/#findComment-1809259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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