Here, I edited it to be a little better to read and a little more informative.
Well, I'm using the "HOTiSO" download [it's just the GM version and that's the guy that put it up, don't ask me where to get it]. I wasn't doing this by myself, I was loosely following a guide.
The method I decided to use involves the dmg [not IMG, I do mean DMG] of the disc on the harddrive. This does not allow for direct install over your existing Leopard 10.5.X partition [which is ill advised]. I used DiskUtility and converted the dmg to Read/Write. There's a button on top section of DiskUtility that reads "Convert" simply click that and select the dmg. There's a drop down in a window that comes up after you select your dmg, in this window is where you select "Read/Write", then it'll do the job.
Now with the dmg ready, I replaced the the OSInstall.pkg with a modified one [I believe it was modified to allow it to be used right off the HDD]. During the install I selected the button labled "Customize..." and removed all printers from the install procedure. I've found that leaving the printers selected cause the installer to read "Install Failed" at the end, which left me a little paranoid and set me up for another install :P I then installed the chameleon loader from the "PC EFI 10.1.pkg" file. Now it's at this point that I realized I should have looked into the DSDT.aml thing. So I remembered from my iPC install there was a DSDT folder, and found a tool with a GUI that would make it for me based on my system, hooray! So I did that and placed the DSDT.aml in the root of my Snow Leopard partition and in the /Extra folder of that drive [I didn't know where the loader wanted it]. I had a package from that guide I was following and this had several kexts that should be used...and they were
I put these kexts in /Extra/Extensions and edited them as I needed. These only required adding the partitions UUID to certain kexts and adding an EFI string for my video card.
Now I was ready to boot for the first time. Hovering over the Snow Leopard drive I had to type "-v -x32", but I added "-f" to have "-v -f -x32" [without quotes of course]. Waited for it begin the first boot process, and found I got the error "Still waiting for root device", so I copied the ATA kexts from my Leopard 10.5.7 install using this terminal command [from inside Leopard]:
Code:
cp -pr /System/Library/Extensions/*ATA* /Volumes/MacHD/System/Library/Extensions
Please note the space between the *ATA* and /Volumes, also replace "MacHD" with the
name of your Snow Leopard harddrive name.
Then, after fixing that error, I rushed through the set up process as I had a kernel panic the first time through. I Got to the desktop and went straight to settings to stop Spot Light from indexing my harddrives, as advised from another [it causes a kernel panic if you don't]. Got KextUtility from the package the guide had and used it to rebuild the kextcache, then rebooted. Back on the desktop again [booting with "-v -f -x32" again, -x32 is required for our initial set up to keep it in 32-bit mode] I checked if my drives could be indexed without kernel panic...with success
Found I had no networking and got angry, lol, so I went looking and found a link to a 32/64-bit nForceLAN.kext that worked on my board . I backed up my Extensions folder with this command:
Code:
cp -r /System/Library/Extensions /System/Library/Extensions.backup
Copied the nForceLAN.kext to the extensions folder and used KextUtility to rebuild the kextcache and rebooted again with "-v -f -x32". Found that the OS detected network settings and set itself up on boot and both my NIC's on the board were detected correctly. Now I still had no sound or proper visuals. My video card was not detected correctly [it was detected as "PCI DVI-out"] and it only was finding 32MB of vRAM. Then I screwed things up by trying the same fix that worked in Leopard to my Snow Leopard install...didn't work.
Well, thats' what I did to get my Snow Leopard install working until I screwed things up [lol]. If you have any questions for me, go ahead and ask. My system configuration is in my signature. Ask me about specifics if you feel so inclined
