Hmmm.
I'm obviously missing something.
I have managed to get a minimal retail install of Leo up and ready to upgrade, However:
1. If I run the SL installer, it gets as far as copying all the files to the hard drive and then reboots - back to square one.
2. If I run the terminal command to open the hidden installer.mkpg - I get an error message that SL cannot be installed on the drive running the OS.
Confused again

Burn the dmg, or open the dmg but don't recover it to a other harddisk. When opening the OSInstall.mpkg, just select the right volume where you can want it to be installed! But before that, you have to Partition it yourself in Diskutility.

The idea is that you install Snow leo, from within a running normal Leo system. But offcourse you have to select a different drive to install snow leo to than the current one on which leopard is running. I'f you don't have enough harddisk, and have to do all with the same harddisk it gets cumbersome because the bootloader from snow leo may interrupt viceversa with you normal leo.

@CEE
how do you do the install ?

Walterav: Could my harddrive issue be related to pcefi?
I used the one supplied in the guide on page 1. "Bootloader Chameleon_v1012"

Netkas wrote :
"known issues: sata ports 5-6 doesnt work, so I disabled scanning of those."
on his post about PC EFI V10.2 beta.

are the other sata ports working for everybody else?

@Renira

I basically installed it like its described in the guide.
- I installed from my working 10.5.8 with a usb stick (I previously restored 10A432 to)
- moved all the kexts as described in the guide
-repaired permissions on my Snow Leo drive via disc utility from my working 10.5.8
- I had to change sata ports to get it to boot -otherwise I would get errors and it wont boot
- I had to boot with -x -v and let kextutility do its thing.

(I also installed fakesmc and voodoohda64 (got it from kexts.com)

Now I would really like to solve my Harddrive issue


P.S I also experience Mouse skips when booting with -x64 - even though I installed the disabler.kext from my leopard partition (which takes care of the mouse skips on 8800GT and other GPU´s)

Hello, I read all your posts many-many times, and finally my SnowLeo is working. But one thing do not workiing.. its network.

Can you help me with it? I try all kext, but its not working..
I have Asus p5k-E Delux/Wifi

AppleYukon2Injector.kext is some ok for me. Ethernet connected, but internet its offline.. Maybe need some settings..

its my screenshot
http://imageshost.ru/links/369e28c82...e4e2898d21e642
Modem in a router mode, all settings I take from Leopard.

thank you. Sorry for english.

Can you ping your modem from the terminal.app?
ping 192.168.1.1

is anybody successfully repairing permissions via disc utility ? It always fails for me.

p5k q6600 8g ram all Sata

try reinstalling the bsd.pkg from the install dvd

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[HACK P5K]
ASUS P5K Deluxe/Wifi [ Q9650 / 8GB OCZ / EVGA 8800 GTX ]
Windows Se7en 500GB SATA
OSX 10.6.4 (vanilla-EFI) 500GB SATA
[HACK EP43]
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L [ E6700 / 8GB OCZ / PNY 250 GTS ]
Windows Vista 64bit 250 SATA
OSX 10.6.4 (vanilla-EFI) 160GB SATA

seems like that did the trick

Big thanks!