OK I have os x 10.5.8 zooming along on a q6600 quad, G31M-ES2L. Audio, nVidia 7300gt, all apps seem normal. When I boot from Chameleon I get the Logo and the spinning spokes, the the blue screen and mouse pointer appear and then the curtain of doom descends "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the Restart button."

I can boot via the boot132cd, choose 80 for primary disk and Darwin launches into my installation. Its probably obvious and simple but I don't seem to see a way out just yet.

Great tutorial BTW.
yabadabadol

Thanks for the guide. After setup of keyboard and at the 'transfer files 1st thru 3rd choices, with 4th 'not at this time' .........hangs and eventually reboots to welcome screen.
Any help much appreciated. Thanks

Did you try to do this in safe mode? You have to boot with -x option from chamilion or boot-132.

Regards

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Desktop: MB GA-G31M-ES2L, RAM 4GB, CPU Core2Duo E6550, GPU XFX Nvidia 8600GTS XXX (Leopard work in progress)
Netbook: Dell Mini 10v with Leopard 10.5.8

I can now boot to one of 2 sata hdds. I used uinstaller and chose the PC_EFI v9 Chameleon edition 1.0.12, had no luck with Chameleon v2.0. My usb hdd and 2nd sata drive aren't shown as boot options. Any ideas?

Thank you very much swhya! I have been trying to get sound working on my Gigabyte GA-G31M-E2SL Rev. 2 under Snow Leopard for some time now and your method finally got it running. Decompiling your .aml file and comparing it with mine made me notice a "Device (AZAL)" section was still remaining in mine. After commenting the AZAL device out, I was able to boot with audio using my patched dsdt and your HDA.kext in /Extra/Extensions. Next there were some sound assertion failures to fix. They all disappeared when I disabled Azaila audio in the BIOS.

All of my references to "patched dsdt" refer to using http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=143697

On a side note, I was not able to get audio working without resorting to dsdt patching. Maybe removing Device (AZAL) or disabling it in the BIOS is the minimum requirement to just use kexts?

I've got the system working great with this tutorial, but my only problem is that I'll convert high definition video, and such and also it serves as a VPN server / iTunes / AppleTV server, etc etc. and if I try to do like converting a video and watching a movie on my AppleTV it will have a kernel panic, is there anyway to see what's wrong?

Thanks,
Andrew

Hey everybody, I'm new to this forum and have this mobo (GA-G31M-ES2L) which I just got up and running on Snow Leopard thanks to this tutorial link (http://lifehacker.com/5351485/how-to...tart-to-finish), however, audio isn't working.

Do you all have any tips for any things to try? I've tried VoodooHDA and it doesn't seem to work (unless I'm doing it wrong).

When I open the Sound control panel, it shows no input or output devices.

When I go to System Profiler > Audio, I see:

Device ID: 0x1458A002
Audio ID: 12
Available Devices:
Line Out: Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
External Microphone: Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
External Microphone: Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Headphone: Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
S/P-DIF Out: Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack

I also tried to launch Audio MIDI Setup but only the Audio Devices page comes up and it says "No Devices Found". (MIDI devices don't show up at all...weird...is that something else broken?)

I actually don't need built-in audio to work, and would prefer to use a third-party soundcard (Tascam US-1641). I googled for US-1641 drivers and did find drivers specifically written for Snow Leopard, so downloaded and installed them. But the US-1641 isn't seen by the OS nor by the Tascam controller application.

I'm new to the OSx86 world so please be gentle. Any pointers to places to research or basic things to try would be really appreciated. Thanks!

Just a head's up..........seems that I finally was able to install 10.5.2 with dual boot vista. Not much else happening though after .............

17. When you are at the desktop, copy the OSX_Tools folder to your desktop (via CD, external drive, etc)
18. Open the OSX_Tools folder, open the Chameleon folder, and install Chameleon.
19. If you have one of the motherboards listed in the DSDT folder, copy the corresponding dsdt.aml file to the root of your hard drive. If not, go to the next step.
20. Open the DSDTPatcher Folder in the OSX_Tools folder. Launch the App in there
21. Select: New HPET Option, and Apply DSDT Patch to: on the right side. Select your OSX Hard Drive from the dropdown menu and click 'Run DSDT Patcher'

You will be prompted for your admin password. Enter it. This will generate the DSDT file that is needed for your motherboard. When it is done:

22. Quit the DSDT Patcher ................


All the above are not working or it appears not. I am able to use 'boot 132 disc' to get into either vista or osx after entering '80' at boot. Also the vista option shows 'windows ntfs' which prior to installing the Chamelon dsdt package only had hd(0,1). Sorry to go in such detail but it has been difficult getting any of this working. I noticed my first post was on 9/9/09, so I'm making headway. Again appreciate any help.

Hello everyone ! I posted this in the v2.0 thread, but tought i'D post it in here too since you guys seem to reallly know what you are talking about !

First, I would like to thank every member of the community for being so active and helpful.
i'm pretty active myself on the osx86 scene, but since I rarely get desperate (I always end up finding an answer to my problems) I rarely post. So i will try to keep the story short.

The story started a couple months ago when i stumbled across a guide to install mosX on a gygabite P35C-DS3R ( my media center) and since then, i'm trying (with a lot of succes!) to install osX on all sort of configurations.

Last week, after a friend gave me a buggy dell server he had, i realised I had all the hardware i'd need to build another hackintosh except for a motherboard:

-Pentrium D dual core @ 2.8 ghz
-1x 2gig OCZ ddr2-800 ram
-2x 80 gig sata drives
-1x IDE or SATA optical combo drives
-1x decent psu

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I tough i'd give myself a break and go buy the legendary g31m-es2l board from a local store. its the rev 2.0 but i have a realtek 8139 NIC laying arround. Well... i've never had as much trouble trying to install osX on a machine

I post because (even tho i'm not a pro) i'm running out of options to try. I have the feeling its something really stupid, so here I am asking for help.

Motherboard G31m-es2l v2.0 with bios FC.
I really want to try the retail install methos on this board but i can't even getthe osx retail disk to boot, so for now i'll skip that part and tell you what else i tried.

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The problems is that after every installation i do (and the installation goes fine) the comp enters into a reboot loop. I'll try to explain where it reboots in my own words. When, after you get into the chameleon logo, you boot with -v for example. the computer starts looading a couple files then switches video mode (it seems, at least to me) That's where my comp reboots. It also happens with the 132boot method. I pop the boot CD in, see the lunix bootloader, eject it, put the Leopard retail disk, boot on it, and it does the same thing. starts loading then tries to switch video mode and reboots.

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What i tried so far:

-Partition using GUID and MRB, tried both
-BIOS settings : sata in all modes (enhanced, auto, combined, etc) disabled/enabled the onboard lan, HPET in 32 ans 64 bits mode, ACPI S1 and S3, soft off (instant off), SMART enabled and disabled, Disabled onboard IDE and enabled it... tried to looad default and optimised settings...
-tried my 7800gtx witch i know is working on osX (used in other setups) to bypass the onboard video i was using for a while (didnt mind to be stuck in 1024 for now, but tought it might be the problem)
-tried installing from an IDE AND sata optical drive(ideneb 1.5.1 and iatkos v7 for now since 132 method reboots.
-tried another PSU just in case
-in iatkos and/or iÐeneb, I keep the default kernel, but i tried to install with and without the realtek drivers for my 8139 based NIC, with and without the x3100 video drivers, tried with and without the cpus=1 boot and patch from the installation, tried with and without an intel ICHXX chipset driver, tried with and without every audio drivers... No matter what I try, it always reboots at the exact same spot.
-tried to boot with -v, with "CPUS=1", forcing the resolution to 1024, alouette !!!

I think i did all i could, and read sooo many threads hoping to find what i did wrong...
i now admit my defeat (for now!) and turn to you guys and girls for a little help.

gave a lot of details, i know, but i tought it would be better than not enough.
My goal is to practive my retail install skill with with board (10.5 and SL), that's why i'm posting here.

I also speak french if you are more comfortable giving advices in french!

thanks alot in advance !

Guillaume

Is this also the way to make a nice vanilla snow leopard install?