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Kernal Panic While Installation

Im unable to install snow leopard. When I select the "Install Mac OS X" in Chameleon Bootloader I get the attached screen. I have tried to install in 32bit and 64bit. Both I get the same error. Please Help me out with this.

Im using G31M-ES2L V1.x mobo.
iAtkos Leopard 10.5.7.

http://i36.tinypic.com/2mepsnk.jpg

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Originally Posted by sk1nhd33t (Post 36526)

you dont need PleaseSleep because manual and automatic sleep is working for you.. lucky you :)

care to share the rest of your specs?

Yep, PleaseSleep is not running (I do have it installed however) and the normal sleep functions for me. Though sometimes it wakes up by itself. It seems that it may be tied to some program running. It's strange sometimes it'll sleep fine, and sometimes it won't auto sleep and wakes up (in a minute or so) if manual slept. That is why I installed PleaseSleep to see if it would fix this issue, which it did not.

My specs:
GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 1.1
Intel Pentium E5200
Asus 9600 GSO Video Card
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S
Asus WL-138G V2 PCI Wireless card
1 TB Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 HD

Question: I cannot get my CPU temp to display with iStatMenus. It only shows the HD temp. Has anyone gotten CPU temp to display using any app?

I have everything as in the first post and automatic sleep works for me without PleaseSleep as well. 32 and 64 bit both.

Only difference is I don't have a bonjour fix. Weird thing though, if you set Display and Computer to sleep after, say 2 minutes of inactivity, display will sleep at that time but it takes a couple of minutes after that before computer sleeps too.

1 sata drive, apple pro usb keyboard, 7300gt, firewire pci, picopsu.

OK, tested a bit more and it seems to just work now and again :-)

Don't upgrade your bios, I upgraded to F10 and now my ethernet does not work, even with the ethernetbuiltin put in the boot.plist

Edit: Help, Everything worked fine with the Beta F9 Bios, but now ethernet does not work even when I downgrade to F9 (final) bios. Im going to try the F8 bios, but does anyone know if theres any solution?

Quote:

Originally Posted by simsim (Post 36588)

Weird thing though, if you set Display and Computer to sleep after, say 2 minutes of inactivity, display will sleep at that time but it takes a couple of minutes after that before computer sleeps too.

I see this too. It's almost like the sleep timer for computer starts after the Display goes to sleep. So say if you have 2 minutes set for sleep for both Display and Computer, Computer will go to sleep after 4 minutes. This is just a theory, not totally positive on this.

hey guys,
looking into buying the board, but i'm not really sure if 5.1 multichannel audio is working?!

I read that S/pdif is not working, but what about analog multichannel?

thx,
lazy
ps: awesome guide, thx so much!!

Audio for ES2L v2.x board

Quote:

Originally Posted by L8nitehackin (Post 34452)

@sk1nhd33t

I did verify HDEF is listed in DSDT. Now as to whether or not that means I'm ok just because I see it remains to be seen. But I did use the one I got from the first page of this thread with no modifications.. perhaps that's my issue? I've read where you can patch it... but need to research further and see if that would help? I even tried to generate EFI string for HDEF and put in my com.apple.Boot.plist... but still nothing.

Anyway... I'm at a loss as I did go through all your steps and don't seem to be any closer to hearing music?! As I mentioned, sound works flawlessly in 10.5.8.. but I cannot select any device in System preferences / Sound in my SL install. Arrgh..

I've even managed to successfully install 10.5.8 on my Nvidia chipset system which was much more difficult than the gigabyte 10.5.8. ( but haven't tried to put SL on that board yet )

Just as a side note... I have a USB speaker system from Logitech that I decided to plug in just for the heck of it.. and of course it shows up immediately in sound preferences and works great. Now, something else that I haven't tried that may be a possible conflict is I do have a creativesound card installed in one of my PCI slots. I use it when I boot from XP as it's full blown surround for games, movies, etc... perhaps that may be causing some conflicts with my onboard sound? But again.. no issues in 10.5.8.

It's time to take a break for awhile and maybe jump back with a clear mind later. Thnx for everyone's input....

hi L8nitehackin

I also have the version 2.x of the board and I was having the exact same problem: everything working (with a separate NIC, not using the onboard LAN) except SL can't see onboard audio.

the problem I was having was I was using Chameleon 2RC2...i switched to RC3 and used the kexts and DSDT.aml posted by sk1nhd33t and voila! WE GOTZ AUDIO LOLZ!

to recap:

- use the kexts provided by sk1nhd33t
- use the DSDT.aml (patched with HDEF already) by sk1nhd33t
- use Chameleon 2.0 RC3

all three are crucial to have on board audio working for ES2L v2.x boards

Hope this helps!!

infinitemac community rules! sk1nhd33t's guide is awesome! i would have never managed to build my Hackint0sh without his guide! Ayos ka talaga, tsong! (translation: You're alright, brother!) :-)

I need some help, I installed snow leopard using a lifehacker guide, but cant install any kexts using Osx86 Tools.

I don't get any sound, i dont see any output device in sound preferences.

Using 10.5.8 i was able to install sound kext but why isnt working in snow leopard.

what tool do i use to install kexts?

Installation on G31M-ES2L with geforce 7300 GS - success

Hi,
Using a bought copy of the upgrade disk I managed to use your tutorial to upgrade a working ideneb install to snow leopard! Thank you SO MUCH, you are the greatest!!

Some things:
1. adding EFI means adding a long list of digits to the com.apple.Boot.plist and it is based on your graphics card. I used "EFIStudio" , entered my EFI in the file (which you later copy from the USB to the HD in /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist)
2. the UUID of my computer (you can find it in "apple->about this mac->more info->hardware under "hardware UUID") was already in the plist when I opened it, which brings us to:

3. I did not do exactly as written here. this tutorial is for a new install and I upgraded a current install, somehow it worked (maybe because I was based on ideneb to begin with?), after installing from USB I booted from the USB again but chose the HD I upgraded. the OS started ok (no video :-( ) but could not install chameleon for some reason. I didn't get it installing until now.. but I can boot from the HD now (after copying all of the Extra/ and boot files and changing as written in first post) and now the OS works.. so I don't know what was that chameleon failed to install all about.

Anyway, thank you so much for the howto, I really admire all you people taking the time to make this possible!!

my sound output/input are showing no devices - any help? Thanks