The title basically says it all.

This is the THIRD forum that I'm posting this problem to, because I found that the other two are no good when it comes to asking for help about installation problems. I'm hoping here would be a lot better.

I originally tried to install OSx86 on my laptop. I was told Kalyway and iDeneb were very good distros. I tried them, and neither of them work. Kalyway freezes before the gray Apple screen and reboots my computer, and iDeneb freezes at the gray Apple screen. The spinning loading thing is [u]nowhere to be found[u] and it just hangs there forever. It doesn't load into the installation screen. My DVD drive spins down and everything just stops. I tried iPC and Hazard as well, when I realized this was happening. iPC gives me some kind of bogus kernel panic, and Hazard does the same thing Kalyway did.I'm thinking it's something with the bootloader. If theres someone who can help me with that I would greatly appreciate it. Which brings me to my second problem


Finding out that nothing was working on my laptop, I decided to see if it would work on one of my old Desktops. I tried first with my IBM NetVista. Something with the graphics card wasn't working and it looked like my monitor was broken. iDeneb installed but after it restarted, Darwin would boot and then my computer would restart. I tried -x, -s and nothing worked. Then, I tried iAtkos 5i on my other desktop, a HP Media Center, and the graphics worked fine, it was just the same thing happened with iDeneb on my other desktop. It would install but then it wont boot into the OS, it would just restart.


Laptop:
Acer Aspire 5251
AMD V-Series V120 Processor 2.2GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4250 Graphics

Desktop 1:
IBM (Lenovo) NetVista 8310
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Intel 845G Graphics

Desktop 2
HP Media Center 863n
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
GeForce4-MX420 Graphics

If I can actually get some kind of direction or help, it would be greatly appreciated. I'd really like some help with putting it on my laptop. I'm a newbie when it comes to this so some direction on how to tell if it's the bootloader, how to change something so it would work with my graphics card, etc. would be appreciated.

Did you install the any custom kexts in the iDeneb installer?
You need to research if your hardware even works, the database at http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page should help, if the installer works it seems that you neglected to install the right things.

Also your cpu probably doesn't work with the vanilla kernel, try the voodoo kernel or the anv kernel.

Which kernel did you select to install snow leopard on your amd system?

It would also god to know which bootflags you have tried to boot, because for normal (if you change nothing) the bootloader will try to boot into 64 bit kernel mode.

For AMD laptop you need to boot with a modcd i used nawcom because you need a recent legacy kernel otherwise will not boot (freeze or kernel panic) .
Or you can use Virtualbox on windows7 and install retail 10.6 booting from bootcd1.6 .

For an old hp desktop i've used ipc 10.5.8 , plenty of option kernel and kext .
See if yours are listed here http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/in...0.5.8/Desktops

I didn't. I'm still a noob when it comes to the whole thing and didn't realize how much is involved.

I checked the OSx86 wiki and my laptop isnt compatible with anything (I checked the AMD website too, and found out my processor is very bare-bones.) My HP desktop is compatible though. I have the info to do the ktexts, so my main thing would be getting the OS to boot. Unless I have to do a ktext during installation so it would stop rebooting.

My question is, kernel? I know what it is and I know that there's different types. Does it give me an option to use a different one on the installation DVD? I'm guessing it is.


Sorry about all the questions. I'm trying to soak up all the knowledge I can so I wont run into another problem. >.>