Problem installing SL on 4530s

[Metalsonic20]

Okay Rehabman, time for me to bug you again . I needed to redo my hard drive, as I could no longer access my Ubuntu and OS X partitions from your Lion Multi-Boot guide. However, I realized that I had lost my Unibeast drive!!! I tried to install Unibeast on another 8gb flash drive, but the installation always failed. I used my iBoot CD and Snow Leopard DVD to follow your guide. I have SL bootable via iBoot and Windows booting fine. But following this guide, the 10.6.8 Combo installer always fails. It doesn't hang or crash my computer, but says "Installation Failed". I have used UpdateHelper, but the Combo Update still fails.
Any ideas?

 

[RehabMan]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

Okay Rehabman, time for me to bug you again . I needed to redo my hard drive, as I could no longer access my Ubuntu and OS X partitions from your Lion Multi-Boot guide. However, I realized that I had lost my Unibeast drive!!! I tried to install Unibeast on another 8gb flash drive, but the installation always failed. I used my iBoot CD and Snow Leopard DVD to follow your guide. I have SL bootable via iBoot and Windows booting fine. But following this guide, the 10.6.8 Combo installer always fails. It doesn't hang or crash my computer, but says "Installation Failed". I have used UpdateHelper, but the Combo Update still fails.
Any ideas?

Check your install.log. Make sure you're using genuine Snow Leopard DVD from the Apple Store.

 

[Metalsonic20]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

The DVD's install log, or one from that installer?
{EDIT} I retried the installer and read its log. It seems that when it gets to "About 3 Minutes Left", it fails to read something that looks like "osx subasesystem". It says it is in an unknown format or unreadable or something like that.

 

[RehabMan]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

The DVD's install log, or one from that installer?
{EDIT} I retried the installer and read its log. It seems that when it gets to "About 3 Minutes Left", it fails to read something that looks like "osx subasesystem". It says it is in an unknown format or unreadable or something like that.

I thought your failure was in the combo update, not initial SL DVD install?

 

[Metalsonic20]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

It was from the Combo Update. As it turns out, when I copied the DMG for the combo update to my flash drive, it had been corrupted/screwed up somehow. I downloaded a fresh copy of the DMG on Windows, and copied it over onto my SL drive. It worked perfectly. However, everytime that I use the ProBook installer, I can't boot into SL. I chose the support kexts for 10.6.8 and the Chameleon bootloader. It gets past the Apple Logo and goes to a blank grey screen. When I boot verbose, it goes from the scrolling text to a blank black screen.

 

[RehabMan]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

It was from the Combo Update. As it turns out, when I copied the DMG for the combo update to my flash drive, it had been corrupted/screwed up somehow. I downloaded a fresh copy of the DMG on Windows, and copied it over onto my SL drive. It worked perfectly. However, everytime that I use the ProBook installer, I can't boot into SL. I chose the support kexts for 10.6.8 and the Chameleon bootloader. It gets past the Apple Logo and goes to a blank grey screen. When I boot verbose, it goes from the scrolling text to a blank black screen.

Did you do DSDT patches? They are necessary... Follow the guide step-by-step and it should work.

Also, system definition, SSDT, etc. Read the guide... it has instructions for all of this.

 

[Metalsonic20]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

Should I install the dsdt after I install everything else? I only have 4gb of ram.

 

[RehabMan]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

Should I install the dsdt after I install everything else? I only have 4gb of ram.

With only 4gb of RAM you can do it at the outset. But it doesn't really matter...

FYI: F09 BIOS is pretty old. I doubt that is the issue, but I'm not sure why you haven't upgraded...

 

[Metalsonic20]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

I installed the DSDT at the same time as all the other stuff from the ProBook Installer, and I get a KP upon booting with no flags, and it gives me the black screen after booting with boot flags (-v included). Also, I have F09 still because I don't want to update and I don't know how to.

 

[RehabMan]

Guide to Installing Snow Leopard on HP Probook

I installed the DSDT at the same time as all the other stuff from the ProBook Installer, and I get a KP upon booting with no flags, and it gives me the black screen after booting with boot flags (-v included). Also, I have F09 still because I don't want to update and I don't know how to.

What was the KP? Take a quality photo of the entire screen...

Perhaps you forgot SSDT?

Updating BIOS is easy and is described at HP.COM where you download it.