Snow Problems (Installing on a Gateway 838GM with 512 Mb of RAM)
 

Well today was a very exciting day. For the first time I was able to boot into the Snow leopard installer Via USB. Well fail, it got all the way to select your language, I chose English, and then it loads and says the disk could not be read or something. Please clean it off and try again. I cant clean a flash drive.. Please help!!!!

Ok well i was in a rush to try something my friend suggested...

heres a run down..
I can boot.
I cant continue the Install.
I can do everything else.

and something I noticed, None of my drives are showing up in System Profiler or Disk Utility... What going on?? It says No SATA Devices are detected... and ive never had to switch from IDE to ACHI or anything like that before... its always been straight forward and easy to boot.

...bump.. Guys seriously, i need some help with this... Googles got nothing.

Ok are you booting off usb or a dvd with boot 1-2-3? u need to replace the original ioatafamily.kext in /volumes/(name of installer)/System/Library/Extensions/ with the one i attached and your sata should now be seen.

im booting using Chameleon 2 RC3, and Netkas PCEFI 10.4, no boot 132... USB

thanks, ill give it a go.

nope... no change :( still only showing booting flashdrive, and the install is messed up.

ok you need to repair perms by going to /Volumes/(installer)/System/Library
then do sudo -s type your pass, then chown -R root:wheel Extensions/* and chmod -R 755 Extensions/* and boot the installer with -v -f, is it working?

im downl... purchasing a new DVD.. ive heard lots of people on REAL macs that got cruddy discs so im gonna see if the "apple store" can give me a deal.

ill make sure i try all this stuff tommorrow... thanks for all your help :)

wtf? i got my new DVD and when I boot it from a flashdrive, even with patched OSInstalls(both) it will say i don't meet the RAM requirements.. what am i doing wrong?

bump...? anybody???