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OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Installation fails.

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Update: I just dug out an old HDD that came with one of my old macBooks that has Snow Leopard on it. It took awhile but I got it booted with Clover using a number of settings. I was able to boot using my gt210, and the first boot was with nv_disable=1. You may be able to boot and load your SL disk using a clover USB bootloader which will give you many options as opposed to iBoot. I'm writing this from my Pentium G3258 with GT210 in Snow Leopard with my High Sierra SSD as my boot drive. It has the latest clover in UEFI mode so it is possible to boot into SL with Clover.

I used clover settings.

Boot arg. dart=0 cpus=1
ACPI drop tables= Drop ALL OEM
CPU tuning = halt enabler, pstates, Cstates C2, C4
Graphics = Inject Nvidia
Binaries = CPU Fake ID 0x106E0, kernel pm, appleintelpm, AppleRT, DellSymbios

I have wifi (TPlink N900 Atheros 9380), Graphics have support GT210.

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Maybe if you use boot arg. PCIRootUID=0 and nv_disable=1 you may get past graphics error.
I will try with my RX 460 to reboot using these settings and update this post.
Where did you get your clover boot loader? I see the Clover configurator on the tonymacx86 downloads but not specific versions.
 
Not trying to sound like an idiot or anything, but I cant get the straight ISO image off of the website. It downloads as a .lzma File. I have tried the installer also, but it downloads as PKG and MD5 files which cannot be burned to a usb drive.
 
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So here is what I got so far, It doesn't look like it supports snow leopard so I think I'm stuck here now. (Farthest is Lion)
 
@JaymanHD
Use iBoot Haswell and boot-args -v nv_disable=1 and see if that gets you to the installer.
 
Hey, I know I am re=opening a buried thread but, I have a new development. I recently acquired a gtx 950 and I tried to install 10.6.6 onto it with the boot argument GraphicsEnabler=NO. It actually worked for some reason and I was able to use disk utility to change disk sizes and stuff. I didn't have a disk I was willing to format, so I shut it down and put another HDD in for osx specifically. I couldn't reproduce the previous success which was the actual boot. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I can send verbose logs if you want.
 
Hey, I know I am re=opening a buried thread but, I have a new development. I recently acquired a gtx 950 and I tried to install 10.6.6 onto it with the boot argument GraphicsEnabler=NO. It actually worked for some reason and I was able to use disk utility to change disk sizes and stuff. I didn't have a disk I was willing to format, so I shut it down and put another HDD in for osx specifically. I couldn't reproduce the previous success which was the actual boot. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I can send verbose logs if you want.

Let’s see them.
 
I tried to install 10.6.6 onto it with the boot argument GraphicsEnabler=NO
Boot flags are case sensitive and if you get them wrong then they have no effect.
GraphicsEnabler=NO should be GraphicsEnabler=No.
 
Thanks for pointing that out P1LGRIM, but sadly it didn't change anything... Anyway here is the verbose log. I am too stupid to understand what is going on here.(If these are too blurry, let me know and ill take a different set of pictures.)
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