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5,845 reads · 2009-08-29 – 2009-11-17
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SL working on EP35C-DS3R no KP

Here's how I got SL working with no KP after about a week of trying different methods… I ran the installer from within leopard (the whole 8gb USB drive didn't work for me as it didn't list my drives no matter what I did).. via the…

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@josef19 Published 2009-08-29
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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5,845 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2009-08-29 – 2009-11-17
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@josef19@docemmet

Here's how I got SL working with no KP after about a week of trying different methods…

I ran the installer from within leopard (the whole 8gb USB drive didn't work for me as it didn't list my drives no matter what I did).. via the X58_Mobo_Patch_Installer_Tool modified to work for SL found here: sno wx86.com/downloads/X58_Mobo_Patch_Installer_BETA_muzzle.nl.zip
I chose the old bootloader listed and installed via the dvd image, after step 1-7 was done I added the extensions folder to extra and inserted: AppleGenericPCATA.kext and fakesmc.kext only, rebooted and did the following :

-x32 -s

When you are in the console, type this:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mnt -uw /
kextcache -v 1 -t -m /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions/

Now I was in SL, but I had KP like crazy, so I booted up again -x 32
and installed the Base System package from the SL dvd image in theory removing my admin right of the machine so I rebooted and re-ran the initial setup.
-s
mount -uw /
cd /private/var/db/netinfo
mv local.nidb local.old
rm ../.AppleSetupDone
exit

Now Disk Utility works perfectly and I've been running SL for 2 days with no KP!, reboot, shutdown, oc, handbrake using h264 (doesn't work in Leo for me), QT… you name it.

Got started with: muz zle.nl/osx86-installation/3016-snowleopard-10-6-build-10a432-gigabyte-ga-ex58-ud5.html

And used the GA-P35-DS3X guide package 10.5.4 to get my sata controller working, sound works out of the box with the initial tool.

Now if I could get my wireless to work constantly (Dlink 542) it would be perfect.

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @docemmet 2009-11-17

How did you do that

"and installed the Base System package from the SL dvd image in theory removing my admin right of the machine so I rebooted and re-ran the initial setup."

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@josef19Primary Author12009-08-29
@docemmetContributor12009-11-17