erickphilips Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Has anyone tried instaling snow leopard on a latitude x300? I've just got one lying around. I tried using the original leppy method however I don't have a flash drive large enough to use that method yet however I have ordered one. Pretty much wanted to know people's thoughts/I don't mind being a tester if it would be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickphilips Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 Pants. Sorry just thought this should probably be in the alternative hardware forum. It is a latitude though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 7, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 7, 2011 heh.. no worries.. give it a try and let us know if it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickphilips Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Whilst waiting for the flash drive I've taken down the specs. It has a pentium m 1.4 processor. (sticker on case says centrino) Intel 1394 wireless Intel 82852/82855 graphics and apparently 640mb ram....... Ok what DSDT do we think would be most compatible? Or do you suggest pulling one from a linux instal? How about Kexts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 8, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2011 start by the standard leppy install.. its fail safe in many cases... if that works.. great.. if not... move down to 10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 8, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2011 Just did a inspirion 8600 over the weekend with some similarities to your laptop setup and the only thing that worked for me was Leopard (ipc 10.5.4) using voodoo_kernal but it kp alot even with seatbelt fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickphilips Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 Tried the Leppy instal disk. Mannaged to get to chameleon prompt and put the snow leopard cd in. It found the cd but as soon as I hit enter it resets and goes back to dell loading screen. I'll try it with the usb asap.. I'm afraid I don't have a leopard disk. I've only recently got into hackintoshes. I'll let you know if there is any progress. I'll try it with and without it's docking station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 9, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 9, 2011 Had the endless boot also it was chameleon Rc5... try with Rc4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickphilips Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 Ok this is strange. Using Chameleon v2 rc5 it does nothing except gives me a black screen with the words boot0: done and a flashing cursor. I guess this is possibly a BIOS problem as it won't get to chameleon prompt from the flash drive. However it would with the leppy disk. However I'm not sure which version of chameleon that was using. Also do you know where I can get the chameleon v2 rc4 from? I'll post back with any more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 11, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 11, 2011 try hitting F12 while booting and having the thumbdrive in and see if usb shows as a boot device if not check bios to see if it allows usb boot... link to chameleon: http://chameleon.osx86.hu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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