Snow Leopard on Lenovo Thinkstation D20
Hey everybody, I finally got my new computer, and I need some help getting Snow installed :\ Specs: Intel 5520 Motherboard (Lenovo D20) Two Intel Xeon E5504 Quad Core @ 2.00GHz Each 4GB RAM DDR3 (getting 4 more later) nVidia Quadro FX 580…
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- @MoC Published 2009-11-27
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- Snow Leopard 10.6
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- 6,992 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2009-11-27 – 2009-11-30
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- @MoC (2)@scififan68
Hey everybody, I finally got my new computer, and I need some help getting Snow installed :\
Specs
Intel 5520 Motherboard (Lenovo D20)
Two Intel Xeon E5504 Quad Core @ 2.00GHz Each
4GB RAM DDR3 (getting 4 more later)
nVidia Quadro FX 580
Two 250GB HDDs SATA, not on RAID controller, using Intel ICH
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It's been so long since I've done this that things have completely changed. I don't know which way to start. I heard that you're supposed to make a Chameleon flash drive then load it up with kexts but I don't know where to start because there are so many methods out there now. KEXTs are hard to find for this thing too, I know it's a challenge but I'm sure it'll pay off.
~MoC
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I tried to boot using SnowOSX, and no luck, it either instantly reboots or stalls with a green stripe on my screen, no KP either, just boom and pow.
I tried with the following switches: cpus=1 platform=ACPI platform=X86PC -x86 -x -v -s -f
No luck.
Regular Leopard discs hang later on while booting =(
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1 technical responses curated from 3 original dispatches
Use this kernel too boot snowy media fire.com/download.php?kmd2dtgumyd and boot with cpus=15 -v and if it still wont boot then we will have to try something else.
Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #4819)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @MoC | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-11-27 → 2009-11-28 |
| @scififan68 | Contributor | 1 | 2009-11-30 |