I believe i may have done something wrong and have not tried since because of school. I plan on trying it out this weekend so l will let you know how it turns out. In my case i may my drives in my system so i am going to have really play around.

Edit

How should i format my drive hsf guide what.
Here is what i did that may have effiected my install process.
1.pluged in my usb drive
2. erased it but in dos fat
3formated the drive

I guess my question should be how should i formated the drives hfs guid, jounaled etc

hello there,

interesting method, i have tried booting snow leopard retail but it says it cant find mach_kernel pls help.

cheers

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got bored so made a video... watch it on Youtube or for better quality download link via mediafire

sorry for the crappy iPhone video

Nice little tutorial but unfortunately I couldn't get it working. Once the Chameleon Bootloader initally loads it just hangs once you press any key. It seems that the new PC EFI is at fault since if you use 10.1 then it works fine but you can't see the Retail Install DVD

FYI, Here are my Specs
Gigabyte P35-DS3P Mobo and Intel C2D E6550 Processor
Pioneer SATA DVD Drive
2 x 500GB WD HDD's

I would try the Image Restore method but my Second Harddrive has some large files and is nearly filled so can't restore anything on to it and I don't have any other drives capable of handling 6+ GB

Lets hope this gets working soon

Thanks for the guide anyways

Followed this guide exactly and got snow leopard installed. Once installed, I installed Chamelon to the EFI HFS and rebooted without the USB stick.

Got a kernel panic saying "CPU1 has no HPET assigned to it" relating to AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext

Anyways, rebooted again using the USB stick, deleted AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and it boots up fine now. Not sure what issues I might run into, but if anyone has a better solution than just deleting AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext let me know.

Also, how do you get the 883 onboard audio and GMA3100 video card working with QE?

thanks!

-chronus

Put the vanilla AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext back and use NullCPUPowerManagament.kext.

Been a while since I've checked the first page but I'm sure the kext is listed in Skinheads guide.

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 Snow Leopard 10.6.7  Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P  Intel Q6600 @ 3Ghz  Corsair CM2X2048-6400DHX  Gigabyte HD5770 Silent Cell  Samsung SyncMaster 2494SW  ALC889a  Creative T5400 5.1  Maxtor 380215AS  Pioneer DVR-215D  Presonus Inspire 1394  KRK Rokit 5  Wacom Bamboo One 
 SL USB Guide => http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide...k-drive-t3705/ 

Thanks I'll give it a shot, any ideas about the 883 onboard audio and Intel GMA3100 video card with QE?

How do i find the EFI strings?

First, thanks for the guide. Has anyone gotten the SL dvd to show up in chameleon with a IDE dvd-rom? I tried using PC EFI 10.3 but can't get my dvd to show up in the boot screen.

Hmmm. I have this exact mobo, and followed your steps exactly except for updating to Chameleon RC3 and EFI 10.3, but when I get to the disk selection screen, I don't see the SL retail DVD. (I see my USB drive, but I can't boot from that since it doesn't have an OS on it.)