10.6 on Dell Inspiron 531 help
Can anyone help me install Snow Leopard onto my Dell Inspiron 531 Desktop (AMD Athlon X2 64). I have tried several install discs, but always get the "still waiting for root device" error before the installer loads. After browsing around I…
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Can anyone help me install Snow Leopard onto my Dell Inspiron 531 Desktop (AMD Athlon X2 64). I have tried several install discs, but always get the "still waiting for root device" error before the installer loads. After browsing around I notice that this seems to be a problem with my SATA HDD (I have tried all BIOS configs possible). I have come across a guide "Modbin's Snow AMD Kernel - EFI USB Install" which is i hackintosh.com/2009/09/install-snow-leopard-106-on-amd-pc-hackintosh/. Can anyone tell me if it is possible for me to do this on a USB external hard drive and boot my dell like this. If not, can anyone provide a better way to do this as this seems to be a tough machine to get OS X installed on! Although I see some people are running snow leopard on a dell inspiron 531 so it must be possible.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
James
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Edit : I tried this and it doesnt work, the chameleon linked on that site doesn't install so I had to try an earlier chameleon and now when booting my PC all i get is the darwin x86 boot screen and then it loops back to the Dell splash screen. I officialy give up, I don't believe its possible to install os x on a dell inspiron 531…someone please prove me wrong!
Erm... I have Leo4allv4.1 working on an Inspiron 531, Specs are as followed:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.80GHz
Nvidia 8600GT 256MB
2GB DDR2 RAM
Realtek HD Audio ALC888
TBH Pal i'm in the same boat, the ONLY Distro to work on my Inspiron 531 is Leo4allv3/v4.1 and is annoying the F*** out of me as I want SL on my Machine >:(
How can It be possible people have it working on an Inspiron 530/530s but not an Inspiron 531!
Install using a retail method(I used 8GB usb stick + my kexts (media fire.com/?ydmrgaw4dyj) i compiled) works best on the Inpsiron 531.
Hmmm not trying to be negative nor nooby but 2 questions:
1) how can it be possible to install a retail copy of L/SL on an AMD Machine?
2) can i have some link(s) to a tutorial?
sure: maci verse.com/install-os-x-snow-leopard-from-usb-flash-drive.html follow this but after its restored use my kext pack copy kernel to root of usb installer. and copy all extra into root of usb/Extra then install chamloen from a package http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20… ↗, then reboot booting the usb flash drive boot with -v and install and when its done using the bootloder off the usb installer and select the installed partition and boot with verbose and posts any errors you encounter.
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| @jameski | Primary Author | 2 | 2010-03-09 |
| @Lone Wolf | Contributor | 2 | 2010-08-22 |
| @scififan68 | Contributor | 2 | 2010-08-22 → 2010-08-24 |