Please Help Installing OS X on HP Pavilion dv6609wm
 

I have been trying to install any distro of OS X on my laptop. It uses the MCP67/nForce560 chipset, for refrence.

If anyone has any ideas as to what I can do to get it to install, and *recommened* be able to see the full size of my partition for the OS please, any help will be appreciated.

Lappy Specs:
Proc: AMD 64 x2 TL-55
Chipset: MCP67 / nForce 560
HDD: 160Gb (SATA)
Video: nForce 7150m
WIFI: Broadcom 4311 8011b/g
Mem: 2.5 Gb
Audio: nForce HDA Audio
CardReader: Rioch (don't really use anyway)

If you need anything else please let me know, I also have the full list of Device ID's for the lappy too.

Thanx in advance if you have any ideas, or tips or strategies.

make sure you ALWAYS select Voodoo kernel. its all AMD and P4(and -) can use.

If I ever get that far :D All the distros don't see my HD until I do a kext injection, then when it does, it messes things up during format (White diagonal lines on screen and sys is frozen), or my partition is shown as the wrong size (ie I have 20Gb partition showing as approx 6.5 Gb in Disk Utility)

I just wish I could, but I will definatley, do that when I get there, THANX! :D:D

Hi. Post more info. How did you create the 20 gb partition. What other os is installed. I have a pavillion dv6 with vista, 10.5.8 and snow installed. All working well. I created 20gb partion for each osx in vista. Left it as raw. Used partedmagic disc and formatted the partitions using xfs format. Booted with osx disc (ideneb 1.4). Used disk utilty and erase disc using journal extended. Then installed selecting only basic drivers. Hope this helps. All partions show correct size.

Sorry bout not posting that info, guess I should have, didn't know though.

I created the 20Gb partition using Driver Manager in Vista (Home Premium, that's pre-installed on my laptop),

Partitions on the laptop:
1.) Vista Home Premium 121 Gb ---Formatted NTFS
2.) --For OS X -- 20 Gb -- Formatted ------- Journal Extened
3.) Recovery Partition for Vista/HP laptop approx 10 Gb --- Formatted NTFS

I finally succeeded on getting the OS Disc to see my HD, and show correct size by adding my Device ID's to the info.plist of the correct set of kext's (AppleNForceATA.kext, and AppleVIAATA.kext. It finally formatted correctly too! :D

My final problem, is getting it to quit locking up during loading screen (With APPLE and pinwheel thingy)

What I selected:
Mem/CPU: (I think that's what this is for as it relates to my BUS speed) SMBIOS667
Chipset: AppleNForceATA (I also tried MCP67)
Video: NVidiaGO (internal card has 128 Mb mem)
Ethernet: NForceEthernet
Wifi: Broadcom
Audio: AppleAzalia (my sound is really MCP67 nVidia High Defination Audio.
Kernel: 9.5.0 Voodoo (didn't know which one is correct to select, but xXrkidXx recommended that I do since it's for AMD, so I did)

OtherPKGs:
Chameleon v2 as boot loader
idlehaltfix (some of the descriptions for these are very confusing ... ie "can don't select" so I didn't know)

VoodooBattery selected.

If ANY of these are wrong, or there are better ones to select please don't hesitate to make a suggestion, ANY thing to get me up and going.

I also injected those into iDeneb 10.5.7, I think it's version 1.5, I could be wrong on the version part.

the less things you select the less chance you have to fail the installation. forget the Audio and wifi. you can install kexts later.

Boot osx with -v for verbose boot. What's the last line before it freezes or stops loading. This should give you a clue of what's causing the stall. Also try and boot with cpus=1. See if it works. When you install osx only select minimum kexts. i.e. voodoo kernel for amd. Correct kexts for your mouse and keyboard. Also google for osx86 install guides for AMD CPUs. Audio, Video, network kexts can be installed later.

Thanx xXrkidXx, I agree, never thought of it that way though! ^_^

your welcome, also do what yazz2020 said above your post, it will help ALOT.

Sorry, I forgot to say thanx for your help! I appreciate it and will do! :D