The system specs are:

Base processor
Phenom-9500 (A) 2.2 GHz (95W) (this is tri-core AMD processor)
2000 MHz HyperTransport 1.0
Socket AM2+

Chipset
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

Motherboard
Manufacturer: ECS
Motherboard Name: MCP61PM-HM
HP/Compaq motherboard name: Nettle3-GL8E

Memory Installed 3 GB


Hard drive
720 GB (2 x 360) SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec)
7200 rpm

16X DVD(+/-)R/RW 12X RAM (+/-)R DL LightScribe SATA drive

Video Graphics
GeForce 8500GT
256 MB GDDR2 memory
I/O Ports: HDMI, dual-link DVI , S-video

Sound/Audio
High Definition 8-channel audio
ALC 888S chipset

Network (LAN)
Integrated 10/100 Base-T (I believe it's broadcom)


I am currently downloading leo4all version 5 I believe. I hope to get to try it tonight, is there a better version for me to get? Will OSX work with a tri-core computer?

Thank you

Try with Lawless or Kalyway, anyway try with leo4all and report back your progress, you should check the HCL to know if there any HP Desktop with AMD

Okay, so I have leo4all v3 and Kalyway 10.5.2 for AMD/INTEL. I have tried both of them and they froze up when trying to boot with out any options.

I can get them both to boot with -v -x cpus=1 but both of them will start loading the kexts files then after abit throw a;

EBIOS device timed out (and give some block/sector information)

I have tried booting BOTH distro in my Laptop which is a dell Insipron B120 using a celeron processor, and had luck loading all the kexts files. But the laptop would freeze on this screen where it's saying something about apple.com. It did however say something to the degree of it successfully loaded the files, before throwing the error.

I'm not to concerned about the laptop booting it, I really just wanted to make sure the DVDs themselves weren't burned wrong, and I would think if I got that far on my laptop it wouldn't be the case.

I did get the leo4all distro to load the kexts files for awhile, but at the end it just rebooted, without throwing an error to the screen. Or if it did throw an error it was too fast for me to catch it before it rebooted.

Thanks in advance.


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I am currently getting LawlessPPC 10.5.4 Phenom/AMD I've seen posts where people have claimed success with that distro.

Oh btw, apprently my processor is quad core... even though it said it was tri-core on the box and my case.

Did you try using AHCI support?

I tried to find that in my BIOS settings, but the only thing I found was the ability to turn off and on my SATA support. And when I do that, it stops my HDD and DVD from working, as they are both SATA. lol

My BIOS seems to be pretty plain jane when it comes to settings. I turned off all my onload stuff such as LAN and anything else I could find. Didn't seem to help at all.

I have done quiet a bit of research with my Processor type and motherboard... and it seems like LawlessPPC is my best option in the end. So I am hoping that it will just work. Later this evening I will try to take screen shots of my BIOS screens and post them, maybe I'm just over looking the setting you're asking about.

-Thanks

Check the screenshots of my BIOS, the link is my signature, about how to install in my HP System, should be similar

Okay, I have tried the LawlessPPC distro and it went really well, up until it tried to detect my IDE devices and said 0 found. Then it waiting a couple more seconds and reboot, I assume this is due to the fact that I cannot set my SATA Controller to AHCI because there is no option in my BIOS. I am using a nForce 430 motherboard, and after some research got the general idea that my mobo wouldn't support the AHCI.

So my question now is, if I install a IDE HDD in this computer, and leave my SATA HDDs in, will I be able to just install Lawless on that IDE drive and it fix the problem?

If not, then will I have to buy a external USB HDD to do it on?

It didnt appear on disk utility?

I couldn't get into the OSX installer if you're talking about that disk utility, and if you're talking about my BIOS I looked through every page at every option and even searched for how to enable AHCI for my motherboard with no luck.

I found a post that showed how to install OSX on VM ware, then enable SATA support in that install, and copy the image of that install to a partition... but I couldn't get the VM install to work, it kept saying something about waiting for root device.

The only posts I've found where someone successfully installed OSX with my motherboard was through a external HDD.

The error message I was getting in concern to IDE found 0, was during the boot process to get to the installer, using -v boot option. It would give the error message about not finding the IDE devices, and then reboot the computer.

Maybe this PC is incompatible, HP Bios is damn close, try asking on irc man, maybe nawcom can help ya, irc.osx86.hu #hackint0sh, post back if you get any progress