Fate:
I think for our purposes those two discs are the same (meaning I think that the OSInstall.mpkg is the same on both). I used the upgrade disc to do a full install.

Jay:
so everything works but video right?

It also looks like Ethernet is not being detected. Haven't tried installing VoodooHDA for the audio yet. Figured I'd work on one thing at a time.

EDIT: Also a little info about the video: In Chameleon if I go to video info, it'll list a few resolutions - the highest being 1600x900x32. I set that in boot.plist and it displays it fine. If I set 1920x1080x32, it defaults down to 1280x1024x32. I'm guessing this would just be another driver issue since Chameleon is using the kexts in the /Extra folder, correct?

Try my dsdt file (attached) and see what happens. Ethernet should work and it should be setup to receive voodoohda (it's not patched for hdef, when you patch for hdef voodoohda stops working).

If ethernet doesn't work then read through the file that airwalk directed me towards for patching hdef and lan, you might find something there

Thanks a bunch. I'll try it as soon as I get home.

Your dsdt didn't work so I figured I'd try making my own. I finally got iasl to re-create the aml from dsl. Still doesn't work with my dsdt. Gonna try and do that patch you mentioned.

Okay, so that patch got audio installed, whereas before it said no device installed. Unfortunately, still not getting any sound. Gonna try the full document tomorrow and see if I can get both working. Too tired now.

EDIT: Okay, because I got tired of moving back and forth between my MacBook, I burned a copy of Psystar's Rebel-EFI and am using that as a temporary "mac installation" to do all the things I normally do from my MacBook. Anyway, as soon as I booted into that partition, it had ethernet ready to go. I looked at it loading in -v mode and it said it was loading RealtekR1000. I googled it and downloaded that network driver from Psystar's site and installed with Kext Utility. I'm still not getting ethernet on my installed drive. Here's the picture of that psystar drive with ethernet ready to go. Sorry for the camera shot, for some reason I couldn't cmd+shift+4 the screen.

EDIT2: After looking at that .pdf, it looks like I forgot to change the AZAL to HDEF in this line of code:
I'm pretty convinced that's what's stopping it from actually outputting sound.

do you have the correct voodoohda installed by kext utility in /s/l/e?

Also, in system prefs->sound->output make sure you have the right device selected.

I couldn't get voodoohda to work after I patched my DSDT for hdef. I left AZAL in and installed and got "no audio devices found" in system profile but my sound works.

I never installed Voodoo. That guide said you had to remove it anyway when you patch the dsdt.

There are two working audio options that we have. First is to port the 10.5 applehda.kext to SL (which airwalk did) and patch DSDT with the HDEF stuff. This method will only work in 32-bit mode.

The other option is voodoohda. Works 32-bit and 64-bit so that's why I am using it until something better comes along.

dude finally got 64 bit mode with stock applehda working in 10.6.2

take a look at port 67

http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/guide...981/page7.html

BTW and luck with Sleep on this mobo ?

thats the only remaining task on my list.

airwalk you are the man we are one step away

confirming that airwalks new 64-bit method works

Couldn't get the 32 or 64 bit legacyHDA working. Guess my dsdt is different from your guys.

Audio works with Voodoo, though.

I also got my GTX295 working. :D

Still need to get ethernet working, but I'll have to wait on that. My ethernet died on my system board, so I'm going to have to RMA it. What's strange is I was trying all kinds of different ethernet kexts and then I booted back into Windows and had nothing. I wonder if one of those kexts somehow killed it.

if anyone interested ful ntfs support in sl 64 bit

1st remove any 3rd party ntfs drivers you installed already (like paragon ntfs check there website for uninstall instructions)


2nd enable 64 bit mode again by removing arch=-i386 from the com.apple.boot.plist in /extra folder

3rd install NTFS-3G_2009.4.4-catacombae BE sure to select customize when installing an UNCHECK MacFUSE. DONT RESTART right now
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cat...mg?use_mirror=


4.install MacFUSE2.1.7 http://groups.google.com/group/macfu...e55623e8b8f57?

reboot

My evga x58 sli mobo both ethernet ports work OOB...Well somewhat you need a dsdt.aml

try mine if you want to

this should get your legacyhda to work also

Did anyone ever get the JMicron working? I've got my data raid on there, and it'd be nice to access the files while in OS X.

So this will allow writing to ntfs as well as normal reading?

Thanks. I'll give it a shot when my motherboard gets here.

yes RW access to any NTFS drive/partition in 32 bit and 64 bit mode.

regarding your jmicron I do have jmicron working but I dont use RAID only set the bios to AHCI+ IDE and I have the following visible in system profile

try the attached kext in /extra/extentions and rebuild mkext

airwalk how did u update to 10.6.2? i messed up my install after i updated

nvm i just did a fresh install and updated to 10.6.2, everything works and thank you very much for finding how to work the audio airwalk.


im going to edit this tutorial as soon as i have time. maybe tomorrow afternoon or nxt week

did you remove sleepenabler.kext? It'll cause panic with the new kernel...other than that you should be good

xxxslayeriiixxx

As JaE-V pointed out no need to do a reinstall. just boo int safe mode and replaced the effected kext with the new ones your issues is mostlikely the sleepenabler.


On a side note I have been getting many PM's asking for my /extra folder and dsdt.aml file.

This is from my system which is
EVGA x58 SLI MOBO
2 EVGA 9800 GTX+
6 gig OSZ platinum 1600 ram
1 Western Digi black 1TB
1 Seagate 500 gig 7200.11

here they are, however before you just copy and paste this into your system please chnage the UUID in the platformID.kext and rebuild mkext and also change UUID in smbios.plist.

Add your gfx string in com.apple.boot.plist in /extra

If you use this extra folder and dsdt.aml you "should" have a system that runs 100 % vanilla in /system/lib/extensions ( in my case none of the files in /s/l/e are modded) this makes for a cleaner install and helps reduce issues when updating.

Good luck hope this helps

**UPDATED** i think the installation process is pretty straight forward now. much less hassle. thank you very much for the files airwalk.

Slayer
couple notes:
1st dont need busratio =20 (this is only used in 10.5.6 and earlier because voodoo kernel was required. if you use the com.apple.boot and smbios in the extra zip I uploaded it has the correct config.

2nd dsdt.aml is usually placed in the root path "/" and you can hide it with this command in terminal chflags -R hidden /dsdt.aml (if you want to unhide use hflags -R nohidden /dsdt.aml" actually you should be able to hide extra folder also.)

3rd in some cases I found that addeding -x32 or -x64 doesn't work. you may want to try arch=i386 or arch=i386-x64

4th In some cases you need your 1st network adapter to show as "en0" and "built-in" specifically when using netflix watch it now. so you might want to use efi studio to combine your graphics and ethernet string

Have fun and good luck nice tutorial btw :)

thanks

Those kexts you gave me got my eSata working, but not the RAID ports. Like you said, it's probably because I've got a RAID setup.

Also, I'm still waiting for my motherboard to get here, so I don't know if that dsdt you gave me got ethernet working, but it didn't get audio working in 32/64 when I installed the AppleHDA and Legacy kexts.

Thanks for the help so far!

JaysFreaky

are you running 10.6.2 ? or 10.6.1 ?

thanks

Actually, 10.6. Didn't want to update until I got most of the devices working.

Are some of these only going to work in 10.6.1+?

I would update to 10.6.2, that should clear up the sound issue because it seems that the applehda has changed from 10.6 to 10.6.2 or you can try to install the applehda from 10.6.2 and see if that makes a difference

i actually have a problem now. my final cut pro and imovie 09 quits while importing videos from my sony AVCHD cam. its connected through usb and its a HDD camera.

I grabbed that from my 10.6.2 MacBook. Think updating it from the machine would do it, though?

yeah I did the samething from my macbook pro and used it on my evga mobo machine and it worked

on another note I did a fresh install today on another machine I am building for a friend (same parts) and it worked on 10.6.0 and also after updating to 10.6.2

are you sure you have voodoo hda removed and any other audio kexts (that are not modded removed )

I remember reading that I had to change that line too, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't have it in my DSDT file. DSDTs created differently? I feel like you keep running into issues that other people aren't so maybe that's why, I don't know

**NOTE

upgrading to 10.6.2 if you use Final Cut Pro 7
unexpectedly quiting using the Log and Transfer problems with Cameras and iMovie camcorder import. AVCHD


UPDATE

Nvm, i found out the problem. Transfering AVCHD files, you need an intel-based mac, so you just need to edit your smbios.plist to the right specifications in order for it to work.

Intel-based mac SMBIOS.plist

Yeah, I'm almost positive it's all gone. I just installed my motherboard, so I'm going to do a fresh install just to be sure.

Yeah, I didn't see it in my DSDT either, so there goes that theory. lol I guess I'll just keep trying and seeing if I get it.



........great, now I've got that showtunes song in my head from Land of the Lost.
"God, I hope I get it. I hope I get it. How many people does he need?" :-/

All places in the dst.dsl that read AZAL need to change to HDEF

For now SL 10.6.2, which sound kexts should we use for 32 and 64 bits? Can anyone help me out?

Sound works natively with Airwalk's dsdt.aml and LegacyHDA.kext located in the EXTRA folder that is provided. Also you must have 10.6.2

thanks
 

thanks for this guide everything worked smoothly except for Ethernet but i managed to get that working with the kext that someone mentioned. all i have to do now is get my 9800 GX2 working probably at the moment im using it using a EFI string for a 8800gt. if anyone has any ideas they would be greatly appreciated.

First I have to thank you for this guide, because it is awesome and I now have a working Snow Leopard installation on a separate HD.

My current issue is trying to get this HD and my prior Windows 7 HD installation dual booting. I used a separate PC with a Leopard installation to follow this guide and setup a stand alone 500GB SL installation. It is formatted to GPT and has Chameleon installed. If I only have this HD installed in my machine it boots into SL and works great. As soon as I reconnect my Win 7 MBR HD, Chameleon doesn't come up and it boots into Windows 7.

I've tried various things, but I'm apparently missing something or doing something wrong.

I've tried putting my Win 7 MBR HD in my Leopard PC and installing Chameleon on that using the manual instructions, but I quickly ran into an issue where there is already a Boot directory, which conflicted with me putting the boot file on the disk. It's possible this has left me in a bad state, however, I did use the Win 7 DVD to repair after that failed to startup.

I've tried using easyBCD to create a mac entry in my windows 7 boot loader, but that failed to load my second HD. The current version doesn't apparently let you specify which disk it is on and assumes it is on C:\? :( I'm guessing that could be the issue here.

I've tried putting bootthink on my window 7 drive. It starts up, but fails to recognize my SL drive. I'm not certain why this is.

Next, I read that simply marking the MBR inactive might let Chameleon boot up, so I used GParted Live to mark MBR non-boot, but that resulted in :

boot0: testing
boot0: testing
boot0: error

For now, I'm probably going to go back into GParted and mark the MBR bootable again just to fix my windows 7 disk, but I would really like to get this working with both drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

you could use another HD with a copy of your SL installation (w/o windows) to boot from and select a startup drive, thats what i do for that issue

Well, it seems my problem was related to the actual hardware setup. I had the SL HD plugged into the red sockets and the Win 7 HD plugged into the black. I moved both to the red sockets and once I got the order correct so that drive 0 was SL and drive 1 was Win 7, things were much happier.

any luck with sleep guys.

thats the only thing not working for me right now

yeah i hope someones working on sleep i was for a few days but i havent really gotten anywhere, my log messages never changed (something like "system WILL sleep" is the last message I get everytime) and i wasn't able to narrow down the issue at all.

i been trying to work on sleep but no luck at all

Is there any way to test and debug sleeping issues without having to restart our computers and check our logs everytime that we try something?

Stuck
 

I've been bouncing around all night trying to find the answer to this so maybe one of you guys can help me. Im trying to follow your guide and i've been able to do everything, with the exception of the chameleon boot loader. I've been able to run the auto installer for v2 and change out the boot file but that doesn't work (no chameleon boot shows). When I do it the manual way, whenever I get to the "dd if=boot1h" part of the method, i keep getting the "resource busy" message. If i unmount the drive, it goes corrupt, for all intents and purpose. I'm gettin no love from the Snow kitty. Any thoughts? I'm doing the install from within Kalyway

BTW: Your guide looks to be one of the most well put together in all these forums. Great work!

This is a small issue I noticed but wanted to see if anyone knew anything about it: when I have a cd in my cd drive I can only eject through the OS, pressing the eject button on the drive does nothing. Anyone else have this issue?