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Hi,

 

I've just downloaded the Kalyway DVD, and am trying to get it to work on my Compaq Presario V2000 laptop with an AMD Processor.

 

Specifications:

Processor AMD Sempron™ Processor Model 3000+ (1.8GHz)

Operating system Microsoft® Windows® XP Home

Memory 2GB

Cache 128KB Level-2 Cache

Hard drive 40GB (4200 rpm)

Optical drive Dual Layer DVD±RW/±R

Graphics ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M (up to 32MB shared with 256MB system memory)

 

When I run the disk it seems to be going well, shows grey screen with apple logo and spinning indicator, but after a minute a circle with a cross through it appears of the apple sign. My guess is this is apples way of saying that it aint gunna work?

Do I need to do something before loading the disc e.g. type something other than -x?

Do I need to adjust the BIOS? If not I don't know how to get to bios settings?

 

please help I'm so keen to try out leopard.

 

Jono

Instead of typing -x, type -v. So boot the install dvd and then press F8 and the type -v. This way you can find out what it's getting stuck at.

Does that Semperon support SSSE2 or SSE3? You might be hard pressed to install Leopard on that notebook.

 

 

Chevy

Thanks for fast reply guys. How long did you wait skyper? i left it for half an hour and it didn't move anywhere?

i've checked the processor, It does support SSSE2 and SSE3.

 

I ran it as -v, the line it got stuck on says: Still waiting for root device

If you ever find a way, let me know... I've got a V2312us. Booting off the Install DVD, I always got stuck "Waiting for root device" - never got past it. OSx86 hates the controller for the optical drive and it drops out mid-boot.

 

The only way I ever got close was:

- I used another computer and installed Zephy to a 2.5" USB hard drive.

- Once the install was complete, I removed the nvidia .kexts just in case.

- I plugged the external drive into my V2312 and booted from it.

- I booted into safe mode.

- It gave me a "no keyboard error" - I plugged in a USB keyboard / mouse to continue.

- I got through the Inital Setup (the onboard LAN is an RTL8139, it and the Broadcom Wireless are natively supported... easiest to plug in an ethernet cable - it'll connect to the Internet) and into the Desktop.

- With working Internet, I could get the Wireless configured and download "SB600_SATA_ATA" - that got my internal HD recognized, but still NOT the optical drive.

- I also tried to add the "ApplePS2Controller.kext" - maybe I didn't do it right (used "kext Helper") but I never could get the laptop keyboard working.

- Didn't even try the Synaptics Touchpad...

- USB & Firewire worked right off the bat.

- The onboard x200 (200m) graphics worked at 1028x768x32 (not 1280x800 native rez) - NO QE/CI - and resolution was not changable. I found that the graphics chip would never be supported properly.

 

I gave up fairly quickly:

No keyboard

No optical drive

No touchpad (not that big a deal - I hate touchpads...)

No mem card reader

PCMCIA slot not recognized

Poor graphics support - didn't sound like this would ever be worked out (else I might have tried harder)

 

Oh well...

 

V2312us specs:

AMD/ATi chipset - socket 754

Turion64 MT37 single core (original ML28)

PATA 2.5" 100GB 5400RPM HD (original 60GB 4200RPM)

Realtek RTL 8139 wired LAN

Broadcom Wireless

Keyboard shows as PS2

TI IEEE1394 controller

  • 10 months later...

I have a problem also. Whenever I load the DVD into the drive in Windows (the DVD drive is primary boot) and restart, it just goes to a boot loop after about 3-5 minutes. The error/last thing that comes up is way too fast for a human eye to catch. Is there a problem with my config?

 

----SPECS----

AMD Athlon XP 1500+ 1.33 GHz

1.5 GB RAM

160 GB HD with two(2) partitions, each 80 GB

Windows XP Home

Connect 3d Radeon 9600 Series

 

 

If there is anything else you need to know, or if you know what's wrong, please reply ASAP!! :)

:) ----------> :angel:

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