As i said in my post chameleon wouldn't install, this is what happened. Do a quick search for a pkg of the RC3 of chameleon and use that instead, all the other steps are the same.

Hi

First thanks for this guide, almost everything works fine for me, except that i have a kernel panic each time i try to boot with -x32 flag, but i think it is not a problem if everything is fine in 64 bits mode, is it ?

There is something else, SL is installed on a USB hard drive, i have a sata too with win7 partition in first and a hfs partition which i want be used as chameleon boot partition, please, somebody can help me to do that. (actually i choose usb hd in boot menu to launch a chameleon rc2 which seem working fine actually)

thanks for all and i hope my english is good

Hi,

I'll just be a little bit off topic here but your answers are going to be important. I hope it is ok.

Do you experience VERY SLOW boot from USB in G31m-ES2L rev 1.x?

I boot from Snow Leopard USB installer and it takes 12 minutes to see the 1st installer screen. Using the same external hard drive, it boots into my laptop in only 2 minutes.

Booting from DVD is way faster than booting from USB.

This is my second motherboard. I had it replaced thinking that the slow boot is caused by a faulty mobo. Now that I got a new, sealed mobo, it has the exact same problem. My older Gigabyte P35-DS3L mobo does not have this problem.

I'm on F9i bios. Tried other non beta bios and it is still slow.

Btw, thanks for this guide. It is really awesome.

I'm enjoying Snow Leopard now!

Odd, I've got a rev 1.x board and mine boots the usb stick installer within a couple of mins - much quicker than a DVD.

Where are you plugging in the usb stick? If it's through an Apple keyboard for instance, it will only read at USB 1.0 speeds. My board is using the original bios shipped with it (F7).

Also dsdt is bios and mobo specific - you may find the dsdt in this guide is for a different bios version. Imho you should always make your own DSDT than use someone elses.

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 Mac OS X 10.6.4 Retail || Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66GHz || Gigabyte G31M-ES2L || GeForce 6600 GT 128MB || Realtek ALC883 Audio || Realtek RTL8169 LAN || Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD || Sony Dual Layer IDE DVD RW DW-D22A || Apple Aluminium Keyboard || Mighty Mouse

 MacBook Pro || 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo || 200Gb HD || 2Gb Ram || NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

 iPhone 4 || 16Gb

Yeah, it is really weird. Hmmm, I'm just plugging it at the back USB ports. I tried switching ports and I they are the same. I just discovered something new (just now), when I disable USB 2.0 in BIOS, the slow boot speeds are identical with it Enabled. I disabled USB 2.0 in my other gigabyte motherboard (not G31m-eS2L) and now it is identical with the slow boot speed as my G31m-ES2L Enabled. I'm guessing that USB 2.0 is not working properly in the boot process.

However, If I'm inside the OSX (installed in the USB), its super fast. It's just the boot process.

BTW, thanks for confirming that you're not having this problem. I have to talk to Gigabyte regarding this issue.

EDIT:

Oh I forgot to mention that it is not DSDT related. I also have an external Windows 7 and XP USB installers. They all boot slow compared to a cd or dvd.

Anyone else getting random kernel panics.

It would say that the app has caused the kernel panic (usually happens after half an hour of use or so)


e.g pages, adium, mail etc etc.

It only happens when booted with -x32 (i would use -x64 but then I have no sound)

Can anyone shed some light on this situation?

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Hack Pro - G31M-ES2L, Core 2 Duo E4600, 4GB Kingston DDR2-800, Gigabyte 8600GT, 2x 160GB WD SATA, Sony SATA DVD Burner.
OS: Snow Leopard 10A380 (Vanilla), Windows 7 RC1

MacBook: Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz, 2GB Sodimm, 160GB WD SATA, GMA 950.
OS: Snow Leopard 10A380

Hack Serve: Intel Desktop Board, Intel Pentium 4 (3.06Ghz), 1.5GB DDR, 1x 640GB WD SATA, 1x 1TB WD SATA
OS: Leopard Server 10.5.6

updated the guide to include automatic sleep fix (link at page 1) and netkas PC EFI 10.3 (pls get it at netkas blog)..

finally automatic time sleep, tested it a few times and so far so good. Thanks zeddys for sharing the fix it's been a long wait but on my end automatic sleep cease to function from 10.5.7-10.6.1 until today..

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case: G4 Quicksilver ● Snow 10.6.2● Gigabyte G31M-ES2L rev1 F10 Bios ● Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 ● XFX 9600GT Extreme Ed ● 4GB TeamElite Xtreeme 1066Mhz ● PCI 3port Firewire 400 ● PCI Linksys WMP300N v1 ● Apple Magic Mouse ● Apple Aluminum Keyboard ● 23inch Apple HD Cinema Display ● uMacbook Pro 2.4 ● MacMini 1.8 HT ● White 24 iMac 2.16 ●

Can anyone help me?

I have this little issue.

On the boot.plist file on my USB I have the -x32 flag set and when I boot into OS X via the USB it works fine.

But with the charmeleon installed on my HDD it always boots into the 64 bit kernal. I have tried editing the boot.plist file on my HDD and using the -x32 flag before booting into OS X and neither work.

Anyone know why this is happening?

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Hack Pro - G31M-ES2L, Core 2 Duo E4600, 4GB Kingston DDR2-800, Gigabyte 8600GT, 2x 160GB WD SATA, Sony SATA DVD Burner.
OS: Snow Leopard 10A380 (Vanilla), Windows 7 RC1

MacBook: Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz, 2GB Sodimm, 160GB WD SATA, GMA 950.
OS: Snow Leopard 10A380

Hack Serve: Intel Desktop Board, Intel Pentium 4 (3.06Ghz), 1.5GB DDR, 1x 640GB WD SATA, 1x 1TB WD SATA
OS: Leopard Server 10.5.6

use
arch=i386 on boot or in your boot.plist

to boot in 32bit kernel

Chameleon = arch=i386
PC EFI = -x32
new PC EFI v10.3 = -x32 or arch=i386, both of them work

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case: G4 Quicksilver ● Snow 10.6.2● Gigabyte G31M-ES2L rev1 F10 Bios ● Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 ● XFX 9600GT Extreme Ed ● 4GB TeamElite Xtreeme 1066Mhz ● PCI 3port Firewire 400 ● PCI Linksys WMP300N v1 ● Apple Magic Mouse ● Apple Aluminum Keyboard ● 23inch Apple HD Cinema Display ● uMacbook Pro 2.4 ● MacMini 1.8 HT ● White 24 iMac 2.16 ●