Snow Leopard (was Mavericks) on a Motion LE 1700?

[tornol]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

Thanks for the help Rehabman, there's an old thread mentioning the lack of support for 945 GMA Graphics in newer OSX 64 bit versions. The only official 945 drivers are available in 32bit 10.6.

Snow Leopard Leopard is quite old, but I'll try it and report back.

 

[RehabMan]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

Thanks for the help Rehabman, there's an old thread mentioning the lack of support for 945 GMA Graphics in newer OSX 64 bit versions. The only official 945 drivers are available in 32bit 10.6.

Snow Leopard Leopard is quite old, but I'll try it and report back.

Lion 32-bit may still have the support. But after with ML and newer, OSX went 64-bit only.

 

[tornol]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

Lion 32-bit may still have the support. But after with ML and newer, OSX went 64-bit only.

I restored the retail 10.6 DVD in a USB, loaded Chimera 4.0.1 into same drive.

After the usual verbose lines, the computer hangs here:



Debugger called: <panic>
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
System model name: MacbookPro4,1.

Flags used:

-v -f cpus=1 arch=i386 PCIRoot=1

There are reports of success with 10.6.7, should I get that version instead or Chimera might be too modern for 10.6?

 

[RehabMan]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

I restored the retail 10.6 DVD in a USB, loaded Chimera 4.0.1 into same drive.

After the usual verbose lines, the computer hangs here:

View attachment 134737

Debugger called: <panic>
Mac OS version:
Not yet set
System model name: MacbookPro4,1.

Flags used:

-v -f cpus=1 arch=i386 PCIRoot=1

There are reports of success with 10.6.7, should I get that version instead or Chimera might be too modern for 10.6?

Is your SATA in AHCI mode?

 

[tornol]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

Is your SATA in AHCI mode?

The Bios lacks that option.

 

[RehabMan]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

The Bios lacks that option.

So it is in IDE mode by default, with no option to change? That's a tough spot to be in. Mavericks requires AHCI.

 

[tornol]

Mavericks on a Motion LE 1700?

So it is in IDE mode by default, with no option to change? That's a tough spot to be in. Mavericks requires AHCI.

I will try with 10.6.7 now, that seems to be the working OS X for this particular computer.

Note that I tried with 10.6 in the previous post, not Mavericks.

 

[RehabMan]

I will try with 10.6.7 now, that seems to be the working OS X for this particular computer.

Note that I tried with 10.6 in the previous post, not Mavericks.

Moved to Snow Leopard laptop support. Modified thread title to reflect.