[buzz47]

Hi, I'm having a problem with the Snow Leopard installation I'm following the guide by MechDrew: NetbookInstaller 2: USB Mac Installation via Any Operating System | Guides | OS X | mechdrew.

I have got to the start of the installation guide part: I select the "Mac OS X Install DVD" icon and press Enter and then it comes up with "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button until it turns off, then press the Power button again".

Is there any way to get around this? / Have I done something wrong?

NOTE: There's a workaround in the following thread with a post from "IDKwutName" (half way down the page) http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/gene...ini-10v-9.html but I have not got another Mac like he says so I cannot use the solution.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards,
Rob

[AoBfrost]

I got this just last night when hackintoshing my personal mini. The issue in the end was a bad NBI write on the USB. It booted and ran fine, but it caused the same error seconds after choosing the Mac OSX install DVD icon.

I restored my DVD to my thumb drive 2-3 times and still had the error, restored NBI to my other thumb drive just to try, and it worked. Typing from it right now.

[sureloss]

I am having the same problem. I have reloaded both the NBI and OSX to their respective flash drives a couple of times and it always comes up with "Need to restart your computer screen" after the Apple screen.

If it helps when booting up with -v the installation hangs up on System uptime in nanoseconds: 6976795995

[ben9105]

I seem to have this problem as well.

[flipgeek]

I'm having the same problem.

[mrdent]

Hi,

I had the same problem, too. The mechdrew guide is great work, but finally this forum helped me, to get it done...

I used TransMac (format with iso-image) to prepare the USB stick containing the InstallationDVD... and it worked at the first try.

Regards,
mr.dent

[sureloss]

I finally managed to get past this error.

I followed the Linux instructions to load the Mac OSX dvd to flash disk and the installation worked.

After searching the forums it seems the Windows methods do not always work for some reason

[flipgeek]

Originally Posted by mrdent

Hi,

I had the same problem, too. The mechdrew guide is great work, but finally this forum helped me, to get it done...

I used TransMac (format with iso-image) to prepare the USB stick containing the InstallationDVD... and it worked at the first try.

Regards,
mr.dent

mr.dent, I'm going to try the TransMac way, I'm hoping that I get the same result as you did. Thanks for this tip.

[AoBfrost]

Transmac was very slow for me. It took 1 hour 40 minutes on a extremly high speed USB thumb drive. On the same thumb drive using the windows dd.exe method, it took me less than 15 minutes and worked.

[moshymoshy]

Originally Posted by AoBfrost

I got this just last night when hackintoshing my personal mini. The issue in the end was a bad NBI write on the USB. It booted and ran fine, but it caused the same error seconds after choosing the Mac OSX install DVD icon.

I restored my DVD to my thumb drive 2-3 times and still had the error, restored NBI to my other thumb drive just to try, and it worked. Typing from it right now.

That is my experience too, exactly.

Unsupported CPU kernel panic in AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-90

Reflashing my boot stick solved it.