Brandeeno Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Today I received my retail copy of OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 from Apple. I used a Nawcom AMD kernels for his ModCD seeing I have an AMD Processor. Everything else is practically Nvidia on my desktop pc. So I inserted the cd, booted just fine. Swapped and refreshed and selected the retail disc. Booted into Mac OS X Installer then get the error that the Mac OS X Install cannot read the disc that it may be dirty to clean it and try to install again. I got this error when I was working on waiting for the official copy when I downloaded the retail version a few days ago and burned to disc and got the same error. Even when burning the 2 discs I tried at a slower speed 2x which was the slowest I could go. I don't have any issues with installing iAtkos V3 10.6.3 but I wanted to use a retail copy. There is nothing wrong with my CD drive that I can think of. Its been reading other CD's that I have burned trying to upgrade to 10.6.8 (which is a whole different story) long story short I loose my Ethernet connection and I backup kexts and still doesn't work so I end up having to rewipe and go back to 10.6.3. Any suggestions, cause I have read online that the retail copy should work just not for me I guess...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Why don't you install 10.6.3 again with iAtkos, update it to 10.6.7 (only to get the App Store) and then download and install Mavericks? It now works on AMD machines, even using nVidia graphics (as long as it's not onboard graphics). All the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandeeno Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Why don't you install 10.6.3 again with iAtkos, update it to 10.6.7 (only to get the App Store) and then download and install Mavericks? It now works on AMD machines, even using nVidia graphics (as long as it's not onboard graphics). All the best! That's an idea, however I have somewhat of an older pc. Not sure if Mavericks would even work on it. I know when I looked into Niresh Mountain Lion I couldn't get it to boot into the installer. Maybe I missed something ?? My Specs Acer Aspire X3200 CPU: Tripple core AMD Phenon X3 8400 2100 MHZ (10.5x200) Mboard: Acer Aspire X3200 Chipset Nvidia Geforce 9200, AMD K10 Display: Video Adapter-Nvidia GeForce 8200 3D Accelerator-Nivida GeForce 9200 Multimedia: Audio Adapter Nvidia HDMI MCP78 Storage: IDE Controller: Standard ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Network: Nvidia nForce Networking Controller Modem: Agere PCI SV92EX Soft Modem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Yeah, I think graphics would be a problem, even with Snow Leo: not much because of the older HW - but indeed these nVidia adapters look suspect - as because of the fact it's a laptop. You can always partition your disk - so you keep at least one working OS as a safeguard - and try anyway... All the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandeeno Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 I'll give it a shot. Wouldn't hurt especially if I partition. Happen to know why I got the error with the retail disc? I have googled and can't really find any remedy for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theconnactic Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I think it cannot read your MBR disk, since real Macs' startup disks are always GPT. But make sure you set SATA mode as AHCI in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandeeno Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Already changed the settings that I could in BIOS ACHI and boot order: CD then HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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