The challenges of installing Snow Leopard on an AMD laptop
So, I have 3 partitions on my laptop: Win 7, Leopard, and one for Snow Leopard. Windows 7 installed without issue, and I used the ideneb 1.3 distro for Leopard (which only boots with these flags: -v maxmem=2048 cpus=1 busratio=20 noapic).…
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So, I have 3 partitions on my laptop: Win 7, Leopard, and one for Snow Leopard.
Windows 7 installed without issue, and I used the ideneb 1.3 distro for Leopard (which only boots with these flags: -v maxmem=2048 cpus=1 busratio=20 noapic).
Now I've moved on to the challenge of installing Snow Leopard. I used the Taranfx Guide (tar anfx.com/install-snow-leopard-on-amd) where everything installed as it should have. I have Easy BCD setup so that I can boot into Win 7 or Chameleon. Unfortunately, Chameleon loads a ton of files and then goes to a black screen. The last few things it loads are:
"Patched DMI table"
"Loaded HFS+ file: DSDT.aml"
"Patched ACPI version 2 DSDT"
"Starting Darwin x86"
then a black screen.
I'm using the Snow Leopard retail disk.
My system ↗:
Processor: 2.20 GHz AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile Processor M500
Memory: 4 GB
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Graphics
Please, if you have any ideas, let me know.
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