Comments on: Install Snow Leopard on PC [USB]

By: samsa

samsa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:14:17 +0000

Hi taran,

first of all, thanks for your guide. Looks easier as anything i've found so far. Still, i need your help.

I prepared my thumb drive as described above and when i boot from it, i get the darwin loader screen. But shortly after I get a kernel panic, just the same as alexannic got: 'Should have 2 threads but only found 3 for Die…'

Now I wonder if – like in his case- my processor isn't supported. I do have an intel core 2 quad q9300 boxed. I thought this one actually was supported by SnowLeo. But please tell me if i'm wrong about that

My other hardware:
- MSI P45 Neo-F
- 4GB DDR2 RAM
- ATI Radeon HD 4870

Thanks a lot, I appreciate any help I can get!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:13:24 +0000

Agreed

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:01:57 +0000

Almost exact same on mine. IBM Thinkpad T60p. any fix?

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:55 +0000

something about processor 1 not reaching the something…i forgot. but yes it was a kernel panic. any way to fix? ibm thinkpad t60p

By: eric

eric — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:38:03 +0000

All,

I think there is a safe/safer approach to testing if your hardware is compatible with OSX.
Install Vmware workstation on your windows box and install a virtual OSX. That should be telling if it will work at all.

Tomorrow Im getting a pc, first time in years, to try and install OSX on it, or run ESX4 on it so I can then run a virtual OSX at least.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:02:22 +0000

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4254/img0057...

I've followed this guide but when i try to boot the thumbdrive i get this error :< whats wrong :

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:13 +0000

did you ever get an answer to this? I have the exact same problem.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:09:05 +0000

Learn to spell.

By: mikekliem

mikekliem — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:01:26 +0000

I tried this method
Its not working for me the install fails with this message
"the installer could not copy the necessary support files"

Snow Leopard 106.0 retail DVD
gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR
geforce 7400GS
sata HDD
4 GB ddr3

By: mikekliem

mikekliem — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:52:03 +0000

I followed these indtructions but get an install error saying some files could not be copied?

By: gmick

gmick — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:44:49 +0000

wait is there a way to install leopard on the usb drive so you can have a portable copy of snow leopard

By: Mat

Mat — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:42:41 +0000

I think it depends on the BIOS spec of the PC/notebook. I've got the same behaviour on my HP 8530p, I did the same thing as you and I still can't boot by the USB thumb drive. Anyone could help please???

By: Kev

Kev — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:29:05 +0000

question.. before i even attempt this will Mac work on my AMD Phenom II Quad base system?

System

2x AMD Phenom II x4 965
6gb DDR3 2GHZ

Dual XFX ATI 5780 Toxics
2x1tb Sata HDD

By: Hyder

Hyder — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:12:26 +0000

first,download iatkos or ideneb
dat allows u to install mac on pc widout use of an oder mac laptop
den to format USB,make image n use d patch
use iatkos or ideneb(whichever one u installed)

By: Hyder

Hyder — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:11:02 +0000

plz answer my question send me reply @ hyder7nh@gmail.com
i use EasyBCD to dual boot my Windows 7 and Leopard(iatkos v7)
can i do d same for dis?
if i can,which option do i select in OS Type under mac tab
do i select Generic x86 pc or d oder one?
or what oder method do i hav to do to dual boot windows 7 wid snow

By: cky1billion

cky1billion — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:38 +0000

mount the image first, once you see it under the image name, then drag the little sub image thing to the restore tab. Sorry I cant be more specific, play with it you will see.

By: cky1billion

cky1billion — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:58:01 +0000

I also experienced this, the processor is running slow as molasses, which is why the cursor jumps, not to mention the inordinate amount of time to get to that point. I believe it has to do with the bootloader, but I could be wrong about this. I used the magic package in conjunction with some leopard disks and also experienced the dreadfully slow bootup which is what leads me to think its the bootloader, and no leopard distro did this on my dell studio 15 laptop before either. I am looking for flags that tackle this, theres a ratio flag I have seen but dont know if that will work, but leads me to think it will.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:25:07 +0000

Hello there, great guide, EXCEPT…I have a school laptop. I have 4 partitions on it.

1: Windows XP (Required for school)
2: Backup (Stuff for school, also an account is linked to this drive)
3: iPC OSx86 (just small partition for iPC)
4: Snow Leopard (largest partition, awaiting Snow Leopard install!!)

So I absolutely CANNOT format the entire hard drive, I need it! Is there any way at all to set it to GUID Partition Table, but just for the Snow Leopard partition, and NOT by formatting the entire hard drive???

GREATLY appreciated if you can help!!!

Christian

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:22:16 +0000

Hey, I have a school laptop with 4 partitions on it. One for Windows XP… (need that one for school) one that's just backup files FOR school (need that one too, because one of my accounts is linked to it), one for iPC OSx86 and one for Snow Leopard (blank). So I CANNOT format the entire hard drive. I need the stuff. So, is there any way to make the Snow Leopard partition GUID WITHOUT formatting the entire hard drive??

GREATLY appreciated if anyone can help!

Christian

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:33:38 +0000

i have this same exact issue 75.1/60 HZ out of range… any ideas?

By: eldhosegeorge

eldhosegeorge — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:17:21 +0000

MAC snow leopard doesn't support Pentium D processors. u will have to upgrade it to Core2Duo.

I hope this clears ur doubts

By: fldkasdjfoij

fldkasdjfoij — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:13:37 +0000

Me too! Anything I could do?

By: timesheep

timesheep — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:02:25 +0000

Well, you might need administrator privileges, but i always forget them, since I am the administrator, and have turned off UAC. So i don't notice it.Try right-clicking Computer Management, and run with administrative privileges.
Besides you can always try using the full access recovery admin account built-in. This is a pretty dangerous way to gain administrator access though. Give it a google, i forgot how to enable it.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:29:24 +0000

For a reason or another, when I switch DVD (like said in the post) I get this:

You should eject this CD and insert an OSX disc
Do you want to continue....

Anyone an idea??

By: Xzar

Xzar — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:54:19 +0000

This option is greyed out for me. And windows treats my Ext. HDD as 3 partition(one of them not used). Where would be the problem?

By: alex

alex — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:41:16 +0000

i'm just interested to know why my hard drive isn't shown when i open the disk utility ???
all steps before were successful.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:03:33 +0000

Hi,
I just followed the steps, but no drives appears just after the language selection.
I will try to format a partition in hfs+ and see what happens after that.

By: sensimeon

sensimeon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:07:58 +0000

i followed the lifehacker guide and this and everything works great except for shut down/restart/sleep.

but the weirdest problem is that when i click "about this mac" it goes to a blue screen, and seems to reluanch finder and im staring at my desktop again...

evga 9500gt
ep45-ud3p
intel duo core 3.0ghz

any ideas?!?!?

By: migento

migento — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:59:46 +0000

Same here any solution?

By: DoctorT

DoctorT — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:16:12 +0000

Can this method also be used for Leopard (10.5.)

By: Louis

Louis — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:53:25 +0000

I would like to do the same thing. Did you get an answer to that question? I would like to be able to dual boot between my Windows 7 partition and the Mac OSX partition. Did you succeed modifying the boot entry with bcdedit?

Thanks!

By: tay187

tay187 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:56:40 +0000

If you still have your disc, rip it as a .dmg file… i had to do the same and mine worked with a .dmg but not with a .iso… try that out?

By: tay187

tay187 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:22:07 +0000

if you open the OSX installer from the USB/Hard Drive you made, I deleted the DMCT or whatever file from under the Extra's folder and it now can boot to the installer screen, but now I have the problem of it not seeing my hard drive

By: samuelon25

samuelon25 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:25:49 +0000

hello

hi well i right now dont have a usb that has 8 or 16 gb but instead i tried restoring on a partition and then i installed the EP45UD3P and it worked fined
after that i reboot it then chameleon boots up and then i see the partition where i put the mac os x image file so i click on that partition but then my mouse and my keyboard for some reason dont work
i see the installation screen but my mouse barely moves and besides it moves to the opposite side and my keyboard doesnt seeem to be working plz help i want mac os x snow leopard really bad
my current specs are
dell inspiron 6400
i have mac os x leopard 10.5.7
2 gb of ram 667 mhz
intel duo core running at 1.9 ghz
nvidia gforce go 7300
plz help me
Any suggestion will be appreciated

intel core 2 duo

By: JohnnyPlaid

JohnnyPlaid — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:38:01 +0000

I have a kinda the same problem, I have made an iso of my real install disk with Toast and partitioned my 16gb usb the way told but when I go to Restore to the iso image it gives me the following error. It tells me that it cannot restore the image because my iso needs to be imagescanned so I try to do that with disk utility but it either says 'resources temp unavailable' (Something like that) or “Unable to scan “Mac OS X Install DVD.iso (Invalid argument).” I don't know what to do…I cannot figure it out. Thank you so much for your help.

By: DoctorT

DoctorT — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:30:39 +0000

I solved the “input not supported” by downloading a newer version of ep45ud3p v3.
Found it using Google

By: bebgsurg

bebgsurg — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:59 +0000

Hello,
I have formatted a 16 Gb USB drive with GUID partitioning system. I have made a Mac OS X Install DVD disk image from a legally bought SnowLeopard DVD. However when I try to use DiskUtility to restore the mounted Mac OS X Install DVD to the USB drive, by dragging the image in the left column over to the Source: field, it won't “stick” and so I cant do it. I feel foolish but what can I do? Thanks

By: DoctorT

DoctorT — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:34:25 +0000

I tried to install from USB but got a blank screen showing input mode not supported.
On that screen which appeared right after the boot I typed “Graphics Mode”=”1024×768x32″ enter (I couldn't see what I was writing so it is important to get i right) Then installation started

By: DoctorT

DoctorT — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:57:25 +0000

I have problems with “out of range” graphic signal. How can I change the boot loader on the USB stick to start using a lower frequency?

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By: Yupipi

Yupipi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:12:46 +0000

I've got exactly the same problem , sure everything is well configured , bios , usb boot SL , the patching…. but I dont know whats wrong… damn I hate this kind of dumb stupid situations were nothings works fine!! hahaha well I'll keep trying!!

By: tay187

tay187 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:57:18 +0000

USB wont be seen on windows because windows doesn't recognize the mac format you formatted your USB to

By: tay187

tay187 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:55:37 +0000

You ever find a solution to this?? Mine is doing the exact same thing no matter what BIOS settings I try…

By: timesheep

timesheep — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:06:09 +0000

When i choose to boot from my USB stick (i haven't even installed it yet) nothing happens, exept there is a blinking underscore. It stays there for a long time, so i don't assume it's supposed to do that…

By: timesheep

timesheep — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:06:27 +0000

In windows you go:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Storage > Disk Management.

Choose your disk, right click the partition, and click mark partition as active

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By: Street

Street — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:34:32 +0000

hi i dont have a usb stick with 8 gb or more so can u please tell me how to make a boot through an external hard drive

By: alexannic

alexannic — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:23:21 +0000

Hello,

I cannot get SL to boot the first time, shortly after Darwin loads I get a kernel panic message:
'Should have 2 threads but only found 3 for Die...'
http://it.tinypic.com/r/25gzdwl/6

Notes:
- I have tried booting with -cpus=1, arch=i386 and -x but with no luck.
- BIOS Settings: AHCI set, ACPI: S3(STR)

Strange, but when i enter the -cpus=1 setting I get exactly the same error message (2 threads but only found 3) as if nothing happened. But if I disable the 2nd core through BIOS, the message changes, and says: 'should have 1 thread but only found 2'! Link:
http://it.tinypic.com/r/oqkiuh/6

My Desktop PC setup:
-Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6Ghz
- Foxconn MB P43A01 with P45/P43 RevA3 chipset
- 2GB RAM DDR2 400MHz
- ATI Radeon HD 4770

Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it!
Alex

By: Jal

Jal — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:58:28 +0000

Hi Guys, I am trying to install Snow Leopard on my External USB HD using alienware m17X, which has Intel Core 2 Extreme Q9300 @ 2.53GHz, Dual GeForce GTX280m sli, 8GB RAM, GeForce 9400, and 500GB of SSD with RAID0 configuration. I am using win 7 64bit. But after i try to boot from prepared usb, nothing happens. it just stops.
One more thing, I have installed snow leopard on my another extarnal hd 160GB by using dell mini 9, which worked perfectly by dell123 boot thing. And now i am able to use xp on internal hd and mac on usb hd on dell mini 9.
I don know what problem i am getting on m17x. But please help me with this. I really want to use snow leopard on m17x. Thank You.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:13:09 +0000

Using this guide. If I wanted to dual boot windows 7 which I already have installed.
Would installing Osx as per this guide on a sepperate partition work? Would i still use guid partition table when i format the disk or should i use MBR if i want to dual boot.
If so let me just make sure I know what i am doing before I attempt.
After Os x I then have to boot with windows 7 CD and repair installation then add OSX entry with Easy BCD. Am I right?

Thnx so much