Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.2 from retail DVD failure

Dandriv25 · Aug 14, 2014

Hi

Apologies in advance if this problem has been dealt with before. This is probably a dumb question as I'm using a Pentium processor....anyway.

I'm new to this and am trying to install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 from purchased retail DVD onto the following components:

Gigabyte H61M-DS2 DVI board
Intel Pentium G2130 CPU
Kingston 4GB HyperX DDR3 1333MHz
Western Digital AV-GP 500GB HDD

I'm trying to install OS onto system using iBoot Legacy 2.7.2 and am following the guide from Tonymacx86. I've loaded optimized defaults for my system and set everything according to guide. The only option that I'm missing from my BIOS is to set HPET to 64-bit mode, which isn't available....

After I swap out the iBoot CD for the installation DVD I get as far as the installation test screen and get the message that Mac OSx cannot be installed on this computer. I can open Disk Utility and create a partition for the OS but can't get to installation.

It's probably that my CPU that isn't compatible, but any help anyone might have would be very much appreciated by this newbie.

Thanks.

Going Bald · Aug 15, 2014

Dandriv25 said:
Hi

Apologies in advance if this problem has been dealt with before. This is probably a dumb question as I'm using a Pentium processor....anyway.

I'm new to this and am trying to install Snow Leopard 10.6.2 from purchased retail DVD onto the following components:

Gigabyte H61M-DS2 DVI board
Intel Pentium G2130 CPU
Kingston 4GB HyperX DDR3 1333MHz
Western Digital AV-GP 500GB HDD

I'm trying to install OS onto system using iBoot Legacy 2.7.2 and am following the guide from Tonymacx86. I've loaded optimized defaults for my system and set everything according to guide. The only option that I'm missing from my BIOS is to set HPET to 64-bit mode, which isn't available....

After I swap out the iBoot CD for the installation DVD I get as far as the installation test screen and get the message that Mac OSx cannot be installed on this computer. I can open Disk Utility and create a partition for the OS but can't get to installation.

It's probably that my CPU that isn't compatible, but any help anyone might have would be very much appreciated by this newbie.

Thanks.

retail DVD's of 10.6 were 10.6.0 and 10.6.3. Is your DVD grey or white with pic of snow leopard on it?

Dandriv25 · Aug 18, 2014

Hi. I have an installation disc of 10.6.2, just plain grey with text on it. It was supplied with Mac Mini I purchased in 2010.

Going Bald · Aug 18, 2014

Dandriv25 said:
Hi. I have an installation disc of 10.6.2, just plain grey with text on it. It was supplied with Mac Mini I purchased in 2010.

This grey disc is a recovery disc for the mac Mini and will not work to install OS X with iBoot. You need the retail DVD:

totenkopf4 · Aug 21, 2014

Dandriv25 said:
Hi. I have an installation disc of 10.6.2, just plain grey with text on it. It was supplied with Mac Mini I purchased in 2010.

Dan..

As Going Bald has pointed out your restore CD will not work.

You can purchase the full copy of the DVD from apple here -

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

But you may want to do some research on your hardware as to compatibility as well.

Suggest a CPU replacement - used CPU due to compatibility w Snow Leo.
research Audio and Network Chip components - most of these inexpensive motherboard do not use the top line chipsets.

I think it has a Realtek AL887 sound chip which is good
Not sure of what the Network is.
Better safe that sorry...

Dandriv25 · Aug 27, 2014

Thanks for the replay and information. Will try to get one.

Dandriv25 · Aug 27, 2014

totenkopf4 said:
Dan..

As Going Bald has pointed out your restore CD will not work.

You can purchase the full copy of the DVD from apple here -

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

But you may want to do some research on your hardware as to compatibility as well.

Suggest a CPU replacement - used CPU due to compatibility w Snow Leo.
research Audio and Network Chip components - most of these inexpensive motherboard do not use the top line chipsets.

I think it has a Realtek AL887 sound chip which is good
Not sure of what the Network is.
Better safe that sorry...

Thanks to both of you for the information. It's actually my brother that asked me to try installing OSx on his PC; he bought the parts not really intending to install Mac, so the choice of components was a bit muddled. Thanks again for helpful info.

Going Bald · Aug 28, 2014

Dandriv25 said:
Thanks to both of you for the information. It's actually my brother that asked me to try installing OSx on his PC; he bought the parts not really intending to install Mac, so the choice of components was a bit muddled. Thanks again for helpful info.

Nothing wrong with the hardware - Ivy CPU on a Sandy Bridge board will work, but he needs a supported GPU because the on-CPU HD gfx is unsupported in OS X and will not work. Might also need a BIOS update due to the Ivy CPU on the Sandy board - CPU might not be supported by the BIOS - check the Gigabyte site for compatibility of CPU on the board.

totenkopf4 · Aug 28, 2014

Dandrive

I am not a fan of using mixed chipsets H61M (Sandy) w different CPU's (Ivy)

Others who have tried this w OSX have had issues with installs.

Now this pentium is newer and it may support Sandy Birdge chipsets like the one your using but the BIOS needs to match as GB has stated.

Even though MS WinBlows supports this situation.

We have the question which iBOOT do you use ... sandy or Ivy...

This may not be a turn key operation... you maybe in for some Pain....

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