[GUIDE] Install Snow Leopard from USB stick/Drive (Updated 12/11/09)

[zod1988]

Hey Snow,

since you use the same mainboard as I do: how did you enable sound?
I used a 64Bit version of VoodooHDA.kext and I'm now able to change the volume and the Sound preferencepane shows several outputs, but none of them work.

Am I missing something?

[Snow]

Originally Posted by zod1988 Hey Snow, since you use the same mainboard as I do: how did you enable sound? I used a 64Bit version of VoodooHDA.kext and I'm now able to change the volume and the Sound preferencepane shows several outputs, but none of them work. Am I missing something?

Hi m8

I'm using my Firewire Presonus Inspire 1394 for now since its recognized from the first boot. I have the onboard disabled and will wait for KX Driver 64bit support. If the ALC889a would support analogue 5.1 sound then I would consider switching though.

[jtillwick]

I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R and am currently running 10.5.8 without any issues. I tried installing a retail Snow Leopard I received today and I too get a kernel panic on first boot immediately after loading of extensions. Have also tried on my GA-P35-DS3L with the same result.

I installed my retail copy from the DVD while booted into my Leopard install by running the OSIntaller.mpkg from Terminal. Afterward I installed Chameleon 2.0 RC1 using the EFI HFS method and replaced the boot file with EFI 10.1. I have a dsdt.aml with the RTC fix in Extra/ and the kexts I have in the Extra/Extensions folder are (all 64 bit versions):

• dsmos
• IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
• NullCPUPowerManagement
• OpenHaltRestart
• PlatformUUID (with my drive's uuid)
• SleepEnabler

Anyone know why I am getting a kernel panic on boot? Anyone want to help point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

[updatelee]

im using chameleon v1 w/pcefi v9, the one your using should work though, but if worse comes to worse, try what works for others I guess.

I loaded all my kext into /S/L/E I dont know much about how the kext in /E/E work. but with my case I'll tell you you MUST rebuild your kextcache or it wont load the new kext and therfore you'll get a KP 0x000002 right away. you cant rebuild the cache unless permissions are set correctly so ensure that.

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/*
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/*

now everyone except myself seem to be able to rebuild the kextcache from within Leopard, this never worked for me, so I always had to boot the SL dvd from my macbook and rebuild the cache from there (usbhdd)

kextcache -v 1 -ltm /Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions

maybe my syntax is wrong for Leopard, if anyone can correct it that would be great.

Im also using fakesmc insted of dmos

Originally Posted by jtillwick I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R and am currently running 10.5.8 without any issues. I tried installing a retail Snow Leopard I received today and I too get a kernel panic on first boot immediately after loading of extensions. Have also tried on my GA-P35-DS3L with the same result. I installed my retail copy from the DVD while booted into my Leopard install by running the OSIntaller.mpkg from Terminal. Afterward I installed Chameleon 2.0 RC1 using the EFI HFS method and replaced the boot file with EFI 10.1. I have a dsdt.aml with the RTC fix in Extra/ and the kexts I have in the Extra/Extensions folder are (all 64 bit versions): dsmos IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector NullCPUPowerManagement OpenHaltRestart PlatformUUID (with my drive's uuid) SleepEnabler Anyone know why I am getting a kernel panic on boot? Anyone want to help point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

[maya77]

Originally Posted by Snow I had an AMD rig once but it was too much trouble everytime I had to install or update so I switched to Intel.

I have no problems with AMD and Leopard. I'm installing from retail DVD, updating with no problems, and it's stable.

My next rig will be Intel-based too.

[macdan]

Can somebody upload the file
"com.apple.Boot.plist (http://www.mediafire.com/?zmyzng3m5hj)"
agian.
Download does not work.

Thanks

[taylorsyn]

Hi Snow,

It would be great if you could post your DSDT.aml for your board. Curious what Bios revision your on? You might not be aware but recently Gigabyte came out with an F6 updated bios that improves the boot time considerably in the BIOS!

I have the Gigabyte EP-35DS3P rev2.1 board...

Thanks for your guide,
Taylor

[aryajuanda]

maybe u can use this step maya77 for your AMD.. its work for me..
http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/amd-s...install-t3727/

[schwinn555]

Where do we get the SMBIOS file to edit? I don't see one in your files to download. I did get one in another package elsewhere but it listed the Brand and model of MOBO in the txt when I looked at the file. Should I just change that info to match mine? thanks

[Snow]

I have update my guide with UUID method and provided template smbios & comappleboot plist files.

Hope that gets you further in the process m8, good luck!

@Jtillwick

I do not recommend installing this way and thats exactly why I built this guide m8, to avoid all those issues.