Snow Leopard First Impressions

[LawlessPPC]

just recently installed snow leopard gonna redo tommorow. Will share my reactions as more of my hardware is supported out of the box. Longtime since I've posted but thought it was only worth posting now as had nothing new to share till now

[lanceomni]

Hey man, I have just recently had a few moments the last few evenings to pick up my projects. Im finally ironing out the bugs in my retail install and trying to put together a little guide for Retail install on older nForce chipsets. I think then I will look into DSDT and maybe a USB thumb drive retail install which works on my AMD and also on my MacPros and iMacs at work. My other projects just take too much time and until the market gets better im going to have to focus on making some money.

I upgraded our machines at work to Snow Leopard.. all but my PPC G5 Tower of course. Though that baby chugs along, Ive manage to stave off the future and keep an old Tiger machine running.

Im impressed with the slimmed down applications and the fact that the default display gamma has been changed to 2.2 but thats where it ends. I have a long list of aggravations and disappointments.

I have the retail disk on my desk but Im content with getting my 10.5 rig solid.

[LawlessPPC]

most impressive fact was all i needed to boot a retail was kernel and fakemc.kext

[Imkantus]

most impressive fact was all i needed to boot a retail was kernel and fakemc.kext
Are you using the rig from your sig?
So SB600 would support AHCI?

[LawlessPPC]

Are you using the rig from your sig?
So SB600 would support AHCI?

yes I am and yes it is. All i made allowances for was the sil3132 card (as its booting of this) and wasnt concentrating on the sb600 sata but it picks it up on its own. it doesnt detect the PATA/IDE but was impressed that it drove the sata. Like I've posted countless times before only add what you need to to get the os on the drive do the available updates then check what hardware is working before adding kexts or patching

[diskeeper]

most impressive fact was all i needed to boot a retail was kernel and fakemc.kext

Same here + AppleYukon2Injector.kext for Onboard network controller + IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext.

[00010]

I am doing a retail install of Snow leopard as I type this, One problem I had with a retail install before is that no matter where I put my .kext files (like in the Extensions folder or in the Extra folder) they don't respond, Is there something I am not doing right?

D.M

[LawlessPPC]

I am doing a retail install of Snow leopard as I type this, One problem I had with a retail install before is that no matter where I put my .kext files (like in the Extensions folder or in the Extra folder) they don't respond, Is there something I am not doing right?

D.M

are you repairing permissions on the kexts once they have been added or are you just copying them also try booting with -v -f

[00010]

No?, What is the proper placement of the kexts?, I wanted them to go to the "Extra" folder, do I need to make a folder in the "Extra" folder called "Extensions" also?

Before when I tried to install my LAN kext file, I used the installer package it came with and that dident work, I know it worked when I used the prepatched install, also when I used kext utility it dident work.

I have been on the OSx86 project for about 3-4 years now, I know I am missing something obvious I just dont know what, I am new to the whole "Retail Install" idea, When I first Installed OSx86 You had to compile your own prepatched DVD's.

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[LawlessPPC]

alright experiences not good..... well they are but it appears i have forgot so much or taken too much for granted. So heres the biggie there is no such thing as retail install on amd of snow leopard. Yes that right you read it correctly. I did the retail "INSTALL" as i would do normally only needed fakesmc.kext and sil3132.kext dropped in /extras folder but it will support SB600 SATA (AHCI) if you boot from the installer instead of running osxinstall.mpkg from an existing osx system. It all installs a treat. Used graphics enabler from Chameleon to get my new 9600gt working (boy that was easy) thanx Chameleon crew). So wheres the issue you ask? why not retail???? Well after many weird (no text) iTunes errors and 2 fresh installs after trying DSDT fixes and running in safe mode its turns out thats there is no Snow Leopard CPUID patching kernel for AMD. So to cut a long story short for it to run as it should you have to break out the old MARVIN's patcher. eg= patched snow install not retail. But the most amazing thing is unlike Leopard 10.5 you dont have to patch with marvins any of the install disk. Even tho i havent done much in SNOW on AMD I only really had a problem with iTunes which leads me to believe that Apple are moving away from the whole CPUID situation. Its just that iTunes I guess will retain alot of old code (CPUID dependent stuff). Will post more when Ive done more. None of this is gospel just my thought and findings If you KNOW different then say but if you THINK different then please share your thoughts


L8rs LawlessPPC

[LawlessPPC]

No?, What is the proper placement of the kexts?, I wanted them to go to the "Extra" folder, do I need to make a folder in the "Extra" folder called "Extensions" also?

Before when I tried to install my LAN kext file, I used the installer package it came with and that dident work, I know it worked when I used the prepatched install, also when I used kext utility it dident work.

I have been on the OSx86 project for about 3-4 years now, I know I am missing something obvious I just dont know what, I am new to the whole "Retail Install" idea, When I first Installed OSx86 You had to compile your own prepatched DVD's.

00010

the only kext i would use is the one to get your drives functioning (for the install) put this in either s/l/e or the extra folder for chameleon to pick up on. But once you have done this you need to repair permissions on the extensions you have added. When booting if using chameleon 2 at the OS selector screen type -v -f -x then choose the drive you want to boot from. -V displays whats happening in text (verbose mode) -f (forces loading of all kexts to find matching hardware) dev_id's) and -x will run in say mode so any bad kexts wont be loaded.

Youll find this info in more places than you can type numbers. the permissions repair and -v -f -x are the same for all versions of OSX

[00010]

So basically I just unzip my kext files to a folder then just copy all of them I need to the "Extra" folder then type these boot options (-v -f -x) and it should install my new kext files?

00010

[LawlessPPC]

So basically I just unzip my kext files to a folder then just copy all of them I need to the "Extra" folder then type these boot options (-v -f -x) and it should install my new kext files?

00010
you need to copy them over as you say but then you need to repair the permissions of the kexts other wise they wont load correctly so you need to search on google how to repair permissions. Im not really going to explain the repair permissions procedure as its going off topic and its the one thing in the unix world you need to know how to do from a command shell otherwise it will cause problem after problem

[LawlessPPC]

Ok had enough of AMD Snow Leopard and I'm afraid today I'm going to the darkside.......... Yep thats right INTEL. Had issues with marvin and really strange issues with itunes (text fields missing). Its runs a treat on my girlfriends laptop. Heres whats going in the box Intel Core i7 860, 4GB DDR3 1600 and a Gigabyte GA-P55-US3. Will Post later on tomorow to tell you how I went on

[LawlessPPC]

ok finaly built my new system and so far so good just need to build new sig but adding xbench to appropriate thread