[Guide] SNOW on Asus A8N-Sli Premium 64 bit

[dragonspeed]

(UPDATED) July 27, 2010

A8N-SLI Premium 4GB with Opteron 165 working like a charm including SLEEP and wake on bluetooth.

This installation is full 64 bits except for the KERNEL by now.

• Boot from a good Leo/Snow pc.
• attach a drive (sata, ata, usb.. as you like)
• do a Chameleon 2 RC4 setup on the above storage
• perform a Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD setup, mounting the iso, with the doubleclick in the OSINSTALL.Mpkg
• Choose these AD HOC custom installs:
DO NOT INSTALL Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2 (didn't tested it)
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
Graphics: your choice ( I got NVenabler for my 7600GS 256)
Chipset: ANV64bit nforceata avoid Supernforceata. (use kext from zip)
Audio: ALC850-AC97 (use kext from zip) Sound works in 64 bits- By now for me requires PS2 keyboard attached.
Network: Skge (use kext from zip)
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix

Patches:
Fakesmc (now using this new version http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1206)
IOATAFamily_Fix
SMBIOSResolver
UUID
SLEEPENABLER (Select your Version) (use kext from zip)
EVOREBOOT (use kext from zip)
Dont use* Cmos Reset: ElliottForceLegacyRTC
DONT USE nForceLAN, gives problems with SLEEP"
CHECK MY DSDT FILE ADDED!!!!

Some kexts/installers included in attached file.

And one last jewel:

BIOS SETTINGS key to get good performance and avoid the spinning pizza wheel.
Peg Link mode: disabled
Peg Root Control:disabled
Peg Buffer Length: Auto.

[eMatoS]

Dragonspeed, can you run 32bit apps in 64bit mode? I thought it was not possible yet.

[jzhang18]

I cannot boot into 64-bit mode, only 32-bit?
"This installation is full 64 bits except for the KERNEL by now." -- Did you mean the same thing? if not, how did you get 64-bit KERNEL working?
Please advise -- thanks a lot ... :-d

-Jack

[jzhang18]

Hi dragonspeed,

Thanks for the guide,

I am not sure I can use your DSDT file.


• Boot Snow Leopard Client-Server (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=205956&pid=1509719&mode=threaded&start=#) 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD - DVD
• Choose custom installs:
- DO NOT INSTALL Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
Boot loader: Chameleon 2 RC4
Graphics: your choice ( I got NVenabler for my Zotac 9500 GT)
Chipset: NforeceATA
Audio: ALC850-AC97
Network: Skge
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix
Cmos Reset: ElliottForceLegacyRTC
Patches:
FAkesmc
IOATAFamily_Fix
SMBIOSResolver
UUID

WORKS for me

A8n32 -SLI DELUXE X2 3800+ OC to 2.6 GHz
4GB DDR400
Zotac 9500GT 512MB
WD 640 GB Black Ed

[jzhang18]

xbench -- 118 to 121

[jzhang18]

• Boot Snow Leopard Client-Server (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=205956&pid=1509719&mode=threaded&start=#) 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD - DVD
• Choose custom installs:
- DO NOT INSTALL Snow Leopard Server 10.6.2
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
Boot loader: Chameleon 2 RC4
Graphics: your choice ( NVenabler works for my Zotac 9500 GT, 1600x900)
Chipset: NforeceATA
Audio: ALC850-AC97
Network: Skge
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix
Cmos Reset: ElliottForceLegacyRTC
Patches:
FAkesmc
IOATAFamily_Fix
SMBIOSResolver (do not select this one, using /Extra/smbois.plist)^_^
UUID

Booting speed improved. No random KP, System Profiler becomes more accurate!!!

A8n32 -SLI DELUXE X2 3800+ OC to 2.6 GHz
4GB DDR400
Zotac 9500GT 512MB
WD 640 GB Black Ed

[eMatoS]

If you use the latest chameleon you won't need the UUID kext and with a little dsdt mod you can delete elliottforcelegacyrtc too.

Right now I'm using:
AppleAC97Audio
AppleACPIPS2Nub
VoodooPS2Controller
AppleNForceATA
EvOreboot
FakeSMC with plugins (for temp volt and fan)
nForceLAN

[jzhang18]

Hi eMatoS,
You are right, UUID is not necessary when I use Chameleon 2.0-RC4. I do not know how to edit DSDT.aml for A8n32-SLI Deluxe (Bios:12.5) . I guess I need Linux to be installed first.
Will it be the same as yours? (A8N-SLI ?) if that's the case -- Could you post your DSDT file or I just need to modify it with simple steps?

[eMatoS]

You can try with this (http://www.osx86.es/?p=610) dsdt editor, just extract the DSDT and apply a couple of thoes hacks, like the Snow Leopard CMOS fix, its quite easy to follow.
Once you apply the patches compile the DSDT and a window will popup and tell you if there are any errors or warnings. Some of the errors are listed in the DSDT fix list, so when you fix all the errors you can finally install it, it could be on the root or extra folder, depends on your chameleon's config. To check if it's been loaded you can start chameleon with "Wait=Yes" and check if it's been loaded. You can also specify the DSDT.aml path with something like this on the com.apple.boot.plist:

<key>DSDT</key>
<string>/Extra/dsdt.aml</string>

[dragonspeed]

Hi ematos,
I had big problems with nforce lan and Sleep. I recomend you to use skge,
Have you tried it?

[dragonspeed]

Please Everybody check my new dsdt.
Sleep is fantastic (be careful with nforce lan, skge is workign perfect)
Regards.!

[eMatoS]

I don't really use the sleep function, and so far nforcelan is working great, perhaps we could get it's developer to fix that issue.

EDIT: I've read about the SKGE kext but apparently it does not apply to my motherboard, only to the premium model with marvell chip.

[jzhang18]

Hi eMatoS,
Thank you for the information, it makes me feel a little bit confident on creating my own dsdt file. Definitely I need to learn how to patch, fix compiling error etc. I think I can achieve that goal by reading other people's post. I just assembly a new machine - i5 750 with GA-P55-USB3, 8GB RAM. I want 10.6.4 64-bit vanilla kernel running it.
thanks again,

[jzhang18]

Hi dragonspeed,
Thank you for your post with attached dsdt. I will compare yours with mine (A8n32 -SLI Deluxe). using yours as some kind of baseline and template.

[Ubersasuke]

ok I have an a8n32 sli deluxe mobo w/ ath fx60, 3g mem, 250gb sata2 hdd. and a Nvidia quadro fx4500 512

i Cant get Snow10.6.2 working for the life of me and i would like to point out im a total newb at this. i just want the OS to work... i got a bootable dvd and i can boot fine, from it wipe hdd, and choose customize on the install. NOT all if the things you listed to select are thwere but i did select allot of what i could. but in the end i only get a black screen on reboot ( starts up darwin then black screen) i have gotten 10.5.5 working perfectly fine but i cant figure out how to atleast get it to 10.5.8. so yeahhhhh.....so i seen osx86 run on my comp just cant get anything with 10.6.

options that aint there are :
Kernel: Legacy_kernel_10.2.0
AppleACPIPS2Nub
VoodooPS2Controller
SATA_ATA_Fix: IOATAFamily_SATA_Fix
I Have 2 flavors of camil rc4
also have an rc5
i have a AMD Fix at very bottom. (i didn't select it cuz it wasn't listed here)

Here is what i selected.

Legacy_kernel_10.6.2
AppleAC97Audio
AppleNForceATA
EvOreboot
FakeSMC
nForceLAN
Yukon one i dont remeber the exact name but i know my mobo has a marvell/yukon as well as an nforcelan. but as i said i get nothing but a black screen after reboot..

thanks

[Ubersasuke]

Hi Im a total Newb.This guide makes no sense to me. I just want to get 10.6.2 working on my a8n32 sli deluxe. I dont even have the slightest clue how to install the kext files in the zip.. so yeah help please!