How to Install OS X 10.6 (10A432) on P5 series mobo.

svitale75 · #1 08-17-2009, 06:34 AM

OK, so 10A432 is most likely the last 10.6 update, at least this is the last one that SU delivered to my machines.
Here is a quick guide how to get it going in less than 15 minutes. This guide assumes that you have a running 10.5 and a spare disk.

Configuration:
MOBO = Asus P5K-Deluxe (any P5 will do)
Video card = Nvidea GT8600 512MB

Files for grab:
Archive.zip

How to:
Get your drive ready by creating 2 partitions GUID; one will be named "install" the other one "os".

1. Mount your 10A432 image on you desktop.
2. Open Terminal and run the following commands:

Code:

sudo -s

type your password and then type:

Code:

chown 0:0 /Volume/os

3. Open Disk Utility and select Restore, source: your 10A432 image and destination: install
4. When DU is done with the restore, go back on a new Terminal windows and type:

Code:

open /Volume/os/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg

5. You should have a splash installer in front of you by now...start the installation and make sure you select "os" as destination hard disk.
6. When the installation is successfully completed do not reboot.
7. Install Bootloader2 and replace the Boot file in the root of os with the one included (color blue).
8. Put the dsmos.kext into /Volume/os/System/Library/Extensions
9. Repair your disk permission by running this code in Terminal:

Code:

sundo -s
chown -R root:wheel /Volume/os/System/Library/Extensions/*
chmod -R 755 Volume/os/System/Library/Extensions/*

10. Reboot and be ready to hit tab to enter the following:

Code:

-x -v

11. Enter safe mode finish the registration and open KextUtility and wait for full service for os.
12. Reboot without any argument on Kernel, you are good to go...and in 64bit

OG-Phantom · #2 08-17-2009, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by svitale75

OK, so 10A432 is most likely the last 10.6 update, at least this is the last one that SU delivered to my machines.
Here is a quick guide how to get it going in less than 15 minutes. This guide assumes that you have a running 10.5 and a spare disk.

Configuration:
MOBO = Asus P5K-Deluxe (any P5 will do)
Video card = Nvidea GT8600 512MB

Files for grab:
Archive.zip

How to:
Get your drive ready by creating 2 partitions GUID; one will be named "install" the other one "os".

1. Mount your 10A432 image on you desktop.
2. Open Terminal and run the following commands:

Code:

sudo -s

type your password and then type:

Code:

chown 0:0 /Volume/os

3. Open Disk Utility and select Restore, source: your 10A432 image and destination: install
4. When DU is done with the restore, go back on a new Terminal windows and type:

Code:

open /Volume/os/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg

5. You should have a splash installer in front of you by now...start the installation and make sure you select "os" as destination hard disk.
6. When the installation is successfully completed do not reboot.
7. Install Bootloader2 and replace the Boot file in the root of os with the one included (color blue).
8. Put the dsmos.kext into /Volume/os/System/Library/Extensions
9. Repair your disk permission by running this code in Terminal:

Code:

sundo -s
chown -R root:wheel /Volume/os/System/Library/Extensions/*
chmod -R 755 Volume/os/System/Library/Extensions/*

10. Reboot and be ready to hit tab to enter the following:

Code:

-x -v

11. Enter safe mode finish the registration and open KextUtility and wait for full service for os.
12. Reboot without any argument on Kernel, you are good to go...and in 64bit

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A few things,

I noticed that you have your HD as a folder on the desktop, and also in your archive you don't have an update jmicron64bit kext or a achiplist injector. I can provide those to you if you want to add them (those will fix your hd as a folder issue i believe), also, if you try to repair disk premissions, I can almost guarantee it will fail. For a "perfect" install, after doing your walkthrough, from within snow leo, install snow leo onto another HD. When you install Snow Leo from within Leopard, the installer craps out on alot of the scripts, causing a bunch of issues. I also have DSDT instructions and TheKing made a kext for our audio (plist) that will give you audio on first boot. I can point (or email) you to them. Excellent walkthrough otherwise. I only found the answers to somethings through ALOT of trial and error.

Tristano · #3 08-19-2009, 11:01 PM

Hi
I have asus p5k, my hardisk sata2 not know.
ide hd yes its works
I used ich fix by netkas its not work for me plase help me.

Tris

Pigna145 · #4 08-21-2009, 09:56 PM

@OG-Phantom Don't know if you already shared files with svitale75 but otherwise could you post them to this thread. Would be nice to have good document for P5x boards.

Hmmm now I still have to find a solution for the ATI 3870 videocard that apparently is currently not supported.

svitale75 · #5 08-24-2009, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OG-Phantom

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A few things,

I noticed that you have your HD as a folder on the desktop,

Thanks for your notes.

Look close, that is an Alias not a folder.
On finder preferences you can now choose not to display your HDs on desktop and that is what I did.

No kexts are needed form my mobo to show the HD with proper icons. The only issue is restart and shutdown as far as I can tell. Minimum kexts mods is what I am looking for, this prove that SL is indeed open to regular PCs with the exception of DSMOS

As far as permissions, I have no problem there, I fixed my receipts and you can see the captures for more details:

schwinn555 · #6 08-24-2009, 08:17 AM

Thanks for the straight forward install with easy to follow info. My install doesn't boot and I have a couple of questions.
I wasn't able to repair permissions. Yes I made sure I changed the name to match my hard drive. Message I see in verbose mode that I have no idea how to fix nor why it appears.
"Mac OS version: Not yet set"
thanks

rsilves · #7 08-26-2009, 09:27 PM

I followed the guide, but there's no place to hit tab, it just boots and gets stuck in the grey apple logo with the spinning wheel.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rodrigo

Chrisb27 · #8 08-26-2009, 09:44 PM

Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist with property list editor add "Timeout" and "10" for a value, that should give you the delay to add switches. It should be in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

rsilves · #9 08-27-2009, 12:49 AM

Thanks!
I tried booting with another chamaleon bootloader in a usb stick (from this post) and then tried the com.apple.Boot.plist edit, and both lead the boot to almost the same point.

When I tried with the other chamaleon usb stick, the boot stuck in a line that started in AppleYukon2, then I don't remember what it said, and ended in "nothing received, soft reset of chip". After a long time (~15min) that message was repeated three times.

Now, loading with the bootloader from the drive (from this guide) the boot is stuck in "dsmos: Hook and decryption contexts set!".

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rodrigo

winnipc · #10 08-31-2009, 07:00 PM

archive.zip link don´t work !!!