Toshiba Satellite 2450

[reddrag0n]

I have a laptop here that i want to try to get OS X on it, but i am kind of walking into a wall. I got several discs from Vaz that are the hackintosh installer discs but each time i try to use them, they hang. Meaning they show some of the darwin code and then stop, or they show the apple logo on boot with the spinning wheel and that's it. I do believe they are all 10.5, so i don't know if that would make a difference.

The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2450
Cpu is a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz with MMX and SSE1, 2 strings.
Video is a Geforce4 420 Go 32 MB
Has a new 120 GB hard drive
Has a new Pioneer DVR-K16 DVD burner drive
Installed are two 1 GB sticks of PC-2700

I am currently trying to get the Jas 10.4 installer discs, but i don't know if that is going to give me the same issue as with my other discs.

if you guys know something about why this isn't working right, please let me know.
Thanks again.

[aquamac]

Reddragon,

If you press -v just before the disk boots, you should get some info as to why there is a crash. Post it back here.

[ginz111]

I recently struggled for weeks with a desktop using a 2.8ghz single core similar to yours. Tried various flavors of OSX all would install and then fail after reboot. tried -v -f cpus=1 and always would crash and hang. luckily this was a LG775 board so I popped in a core 2 duo and plugged in one of the drives that I had previously done installs on and voila it booted. So i tried some of the other installs and all worked. Guess the support for single core cpus is not what they say.

[reddrag0n]

Well, this is an older style P4 chip. Socket 478. As for aquas quetion, they all seem to be related to the media type
disk1s2 error. Either that's the drive itself or maybe the actual disks, who knows. I have tried the pioneer drive and an actual apple combo drive and get the same thing.

[aquamac]

I also think this is most likely to be a CPU problem. Either that or a SATA/IDE one where the bus or drive is not being properly recognised. Sometimes a USB DVD drive can eliminate the latter problem.

[reddrag0n]

Well, since it's an older laptop (2003 era thereabouts) and both chains are IDE, that could be the issue. As for a USB cd rom, if this could boot from one, i would definitely give it a shot, but the bios doesn't allow for USB booting. I think the best bet would be to stick with linux for right now. Since XP and Vista are sluggish on the outdated video card.