can u post a picture of your KP so we can know what kind of KP do you have....

thanks 4 a great. I tried it on a friends laptop(AMD Turionx64). it works gr8. Just need to get Wifi/lan/sound working. :)

've got my SLeo working ...
now the only problem is. ALC662, getting choppy Output. How to fix that. m running in 32 bit/. using-x32 switch.
and Sleep problem ( mabe that would be solved using some new kernel ).

i got my sleep fix with place my LPC PCI Id in AppleLPC.kext and use sleepenabler.kext for snow leopard... sleep and wake is working....

Just Update iTunes 9 ... working great...

10.6.1 Update
 

Updated to 10.6.1

All still working...

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/998...90911at509.jpg

Tried it on my machine few times, but it never worked. Keeps rebooting after loading all kexts files.

are u sure u have change the kernel.. the vanilla kernel make reboot om AMD.

u can also use chameleon 2 rc 3 to replace the boot file. install chameleon2 rc 2 and change the boot file with rc3

Kernel source codes already are, will be for us a new kernel?

Got it working. Now trying to win with the gfx card, but she's not giving up easily ( not that she did in leopard... ;) ).

EDIT : Ok, she lost already ;) Have it up and running with everything working just fine. Gonna test it for a while to see if it's usable.

Anyway, thanks for the guide - that's the only one which actually worked for my machine.

Worked around it for now by adding memsize=4096 to the startup parameter. Any idea why my system doesn't link >4Gb ? Could it be a limitation of the modbin kernel? I am hoping there will be a source patched kernel for non-supported CPUs soon and that it will help this problem disappear.

I guess this kernel is 32bit only right now, so no >4Gb yet. But i might be wrong.

glad to hear its work on your system...

yes this is a 32 bit kernel only.. but you can try to boot kernel n kext in 64 bit mode (use -64_bit on boot arg) but is not working for me :D..

we have to wait for a new patched kernel to enable 64 bit mode.. i hope some one has start try to build it with latest xnu source..

Actually im waiting for new kernel, cause on this one - dual core bug is present ( mouse starts to jump over the screen, and sound gets distorted after around 2 hourd ), just like the early days of Leopard =) but for now cpus=1 fix the problem.

How do I go about installing drivers for nVidia Geforce 9500 GT 512 MB the Efi Strings method results me in getting a boolean error via OSX86 Tools. I am going insane in trying to find a working method to get my card working in some way or the other.

u can use your 10.5 VGA driver on 32 bit 10.6..

How to go about it, I have no idea how to make a .plist or whatever in order to get my card running via EFI Studio I was so fed up that I installed the 8600 GT one and using that for the time being. Any information will be highly welcomed.

still waiting for root device error
 

first, thanks for the giude, it's straightforward and easy to understand. i managed to install the new kitty, and it seems to boot just fine with the modbin kernel, but i got the damn still waiting for root device error. i only got that error with some early leopard distros, and now with snow.

what i did:
i have 2 sata drives, and they both have a partition for osx. i use one partition for leopard on a day-to-day basis, and the other one from the second drive to test new stuff on osx, like updates, etc.
if i need to boot from teh second drive, i use F8 at boot time to select the boot drive. i found this easier than to mess with the boot loader. each drive has it's own bootloader installed. (chameleon)
now i wanted to try out snow, so i formatted the second drive, followed the guide (again, thanks), and got in intalled.
i tried to boot from teh second drive, no kernel panics, no errors, except the dreaded still waiting for root device.
i tried to disable ata in bios, i set the sata to only sata0, removed the first drive, so the only drive in the system was the one with snow, and set up bios to boot from this drive first, so i don't have to use F8, but still the same error.
i even tried with the newer boot file from chameleon rc3, with no luck.

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

@lemn - You have to add Your chipset support kext to the system before You can boot into it. If You had working leopard earlier - and have it now, cause You needed it - copy AppleVIA / AppleATA/VIAATA kexts from leopard Extension folder, to Snow Leopard Extensions folder. Make permissions and boot with -f. You should go through the error now.

thanks a lot
 

taisto, man, thank you, it works, i can't believe i was so stupid to forget to copy the chipset kext. live and learn, i guess :)

only one problem, and i think others have it too: why is the internet so slow? is this because of installing it to a foreign architecture, or is it a bug?

No problem mate. We all learn here. As for the internet - how do You connect ? Wifi, Eth ? Try disabling FireWire port, it sometimes makes it laggy. And check if it's slow just on Safari or every browser.

same with firefox. problem is i have lots of lost packets, and the response time to my dns server has increased from 1ms in leopard to about 15 ms or more in snow.
when starting up, i get lots of error on screen about my network chipset, realtek 8139, something about error and then restarting.

after some searching, i found a solution for the internet speed problem:

replace the original kext with the one found here:
http://cid-8b65993ef55cf014.skydrive.live.com/home.aspx

also replace realtek kext inside IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins

the solution was found here:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=181856

i hope it's ok to post links to other forums, if not then please let me know so i can edit my post. thanks.

thanks for the sollution.. it will help for other user with a same problem..
i dont have this problem on my system.... :D

of course the solution was available on this forum also, here:
http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/rtl81...n-64bit-t3917/

i guess i should read the forum first, and ask stupid questions later. i was probably too excited about the new kitty :)

I am trying to follow your guide, but I have the below problem. I can't restore the image that I have downloaded. Whenever I try to scan the image for restore I get one of the following messages:

Unable to scan "imagename.dmg". (Invalid Argument) or Unable to scan "imagename.dmg". (Resource temporarily unavailable).

What is wrong. I have trying both with mounted and unmounted image but the result is the same. I am running Leopard 10.5.5 and the disk is MBR formated.

Any solution?

Successful upgrade
 

AMD Athlon X2 6000+
Biostar nforce4 mobo
geforce8600 GT
4gigs of ram

Upgraded to Snow Leopard on a second disk. Everything worked flawlessly, wifi,audio,video etc. No issues and the Kernel panics I used to have under 10.5.x with the applenforceata driver are no more. I can finally use all of my 4gigs of ram.

I have patched spotlight prefpane yet it still crashes when I click the privacy tab, is there any work around for this?

If i try to patch the cpuid´s i get the error message: WARNING! Unable to determine encrypted files to patch -- Stopping.

Have anybody an idea?

Select the last option and patch the /System folder and it will work =)

THX :) It works

can u mount the dmg file...if you cannot mount it maybe your installer is corrupted.

The image can be mounted and the installer starts, but it returns the message that I can't install to that drive or something similar.

How can I change the OSInstall.mpkg and perform the install, is there any other way?

Try converting the DMG to read/write ISO in Disk Utility. Dont know if it isn't protected against it, but it's worth a try.

you can restore the installer to a partition in your usb drive or hdd and change the osinstall.mpkg for mbr hdd.. so you will need 2 empty partition 1 for installer and 1 for snow

Actually I have downloaded the image in .cdr format and I have convert it to dmg with DMGConverter with read/write permissions.
I will try to convert with disk utility to Iso as you write and I will post back.

I have that ready, but I can't restore the image to the empty drive.

What's the error that it's giving ? Maybe You have to Verify the image ?

But when I try to scan the image is that I get the errors. The errors that I have are mentioned on my initial message.

"Unable to scan "imagename.dmg". (Invalid Argument) or Unable to scan "imagename.dmg". (Resource temporarily unavailable)."

depending if the dmg is mounted or not.

have u try to restore it without convert it to dmg?

Yes and it returns the same errors.

kernel works fine on intel Pentium 4 531 )
Motherboard: Asus P5LD2,GeForce 6600....
sleep not work.........

anyone has any idea about getting the mic to work on adi1988 using voodoohda? i get an error "couldn't set recording source to microphone" when starting up.
it worked perfectly on leopard with taruga driver, but i get a kp in sl, so i'm trying voodoohda.
also, does anyone know a good applenforceata kext? the one i'm using(same as in leopard) halts for about 30 seconds at applenforceata: found 0 units.
thanks.

Source codes are for a long time already, there will be a new kernel?:)

well even if I convert the cdr image with disk utility I can't scan the image in order to restore it to the HD.
When the image is not mounted I get the "invalid argument" error and when it is mounted I get the "Resource temporarily unavailable" error.

Any other solution? I am open to suggestions.

why do you want to restore the image to a hd? do you have 2 disks, one with leopard and another one where you want to install snow? if so, you don't need to restore the image, you can just mount the dmg image and follow exactly the steps from the first post of this thread, and it should work.

I have mbr partition so I have to restore it in order to change the OSInstal.mpkg.

Hmm, how about going through the 10.5 install again and creating GUID partition table ? It has some advantages over MBR ( check Wiki ) and it would save You some problems with 10.6. Well, You might consider that i guess =)

Anyway, if You can't do this - any reasons - here's edited file :

http://rapidshare.com/files/27016921...stall.mpkg.zip

If You can't restore the image, You could try at least modifying it and replacing the original one with this one.

But I have the file, but I can't replace it without restoring the image. I can't open the image to edit the files.

do you have anything that you need on the drive you want to install snow onto? if not, it might be easier for you to just repartition the drive again with diskutil, and create uuid partitions.

This is what I am tying to avoid, because I have a Windows partition in the same HD and I don't want to loose the data.