[AMD] Snow Leopard 10A432 Install

[RetroRen]

Originally Posted by chrisamanko Yes mate im in the same boat as you and by the looks of it you have the same motherboard as me. I have 10.5.8 running fine at the moment but i cant for love nor money get 10.6 to work! I have tried everything like yourself. GUID install MBR install with retail disc resorted to usb stick and the osinstall modified put on it Installed to 2nd partition hard drive Installed other kexts removed them Booted with everyflag combo known And i either get a crash at Jmicron OR i get a kernal panic and when i reset my pc all my bios settings have gone to defaults so i guess for now ill stick with 10.5.8 till 10.6 is made more viable.

I'm on a perfectly working 10.5.5.right now, even sleep works great for me.
So, I'm really not in a hurry to get SL working to have a OSX on PC expirience, but it would be nice to have a working SL.

My problem is definitly kernel, what ever I do or try I end up with KP. I have no BIOS reseting problems, though.

Hopefully, there will be a smoother non vanilla SL kernel in a month or two. With few more updates SL will probably only get better till then

[chrisamanko]

Originally Posted by RetroRen I'm on a perfectly working 10.5.5.right now, even sleep works great for me. So, I'm really not in a hurry to get SL working to have a OSX on PC expirience, but it would be nice to have a working SL. My problem is definitly kernel, what ever I do or try I end up with KP. I have no BIOS reseting problems, though. Hopefully, there will be a smoother non vanilla SL kernel in a month or two. With few more updates SL will probably only get better till then

Wjy dont you upgrade to 10.5.8? use the iDeneb 10.5.8 Combo Kit! then you can have all the latest updates, safari etc

[tr33stan]

Originally Posted by RetroRen I officially give up for now I tried installing SL using all the AMD methods available on the net, following the exact details, but I always end up with KP, both with modbin and qoopz kernel. Vanilla kernel gives me only reboots. I guess I'll have to wait for a better kernel. I patched DSDT, fixed RTC, edited boot plist, tried various kext combination, but it didn't work. I see on osx86 project that one guy managed to install SL to the same MBO that I have using this guide, but I had no luck. ______________________ Gigabyte 790X UD4P 8 GB DDR2 667 Mhz RAM AMD Phenom II 550 ATI Radeon HD3850

[quote=RetroRen;39607]I officially give up for now

I tried installing SL using all the AMD methods available on the net, following the exact details, but I always end up with KP, both with modbin and qoopz kernel. Vanilla kernel gives me only reboots.

I guess I'll have to wait for a better kernel. I patched DSDT, fixed RTC, edited boot plist, tried various kext combination, but it didn't work.

I see on osx86 project that one guy managed to install SL to the same MBO that I have using this guide, but I had no luck.

try to use a better SL or a retail version, i had the same problem

[blackknight]

[quote=tr33stan;40417]

Originally Posted by RetroRen I officially give up for now I tried installing SL using all the AMD methods available on the net, following the exact details, but I always end up with KP, both with modbin and qoopz kernel. Vanilla kernel gives me only reboots. I guess I'll have to wait for a better kernel. I patched DSDT, fixed RTC, edited boot plist, tried various kext combination, but it didn't work. I see on osx86 project that one guy managed to install SL to the same MBO that I have using this guide, but I had no luck. try to use a better SL or a retail version, i had the same problem

There are two things keeping you from a working system. One is that the Phenom II X2 550 runs at 3.1 GHz. OS X has a problem with running with a higher multiplier than 15 on AMD systems and will instantly reboot after choosing the OS in Chameleon. Set the multiplier to 15 (3.0GHz) and you should be good. The other thing is having more than 4GB of RAM. Use the switch "maxmem=4096 -v" without quotes in your com.apple.Boot.plist or at Chameleon when choosing the OS. It isn't in the graphical options, but if you just start typing you'll see it at the bottom of the screen. Also make sure that you're using AHCI mode for all SATA controllers until you get the system going.

I personally have a Phenom II 550 and a GA-MA790FX-DS5 (nearly the same chipset) and used these methods to successfully boot Snow Leopard.

Good luck.

[ah.micky]

Can anyone tell me if it can install on my laptop? i've been searching for weeks.

HP Pavilion Tx2000 (Touch Screen PC)
CPU: 2.2 GHz AMD Turion 64 x2 Dual-Core .....
Ram: 3072 mb
VGA: NVIDIA Geforce Go 6150M

Pls give me some comments on Where to download and How to install Snow Leopard 10A432.

Thanks in advance....

[RetroRen]

Originally Posted by blacknight There are two things keeping you from a working system. One is that the Phenom II X2 550 runs at 3.1 GHz. OS X has a problem with running with a higher multiplier than 15 on AMD systems and will instantly reboot after choosing the OS in Chameleon. Set the multiplier to 15 (3.0GHz) and you should be good. The other thing is having more than 4GB of RAM. Use the switch "maxmem=4096 -v" without quotes in your com.apple.Boot.plist or at Chameleon when choosing the OS. It isn't in the graphical options, but if you just start typing you'll see it at the bottom of the screen. Also make sure that you're using AHCI mode for all SATA controllers until you get the system going. I personally have a Phenom II 550 and a GA-MA790FX-DS5 (nearly the same chipset) and used these methods to successfully boot Snow Leopard. Good luck.

Actually I have multi at 15, my Phenom works at 3.0 Ghz all the time, all drives are set to AHCI, and I tried booting with maxmem=2048 on Chameleon but it didnt help

I envy you, you have a working SL
What guide did you follow?

[blackknight]

There is no such thing as a kext for a chipset. There are kexts for the ethernet, sound, ATA/SATA and such that are part of a chipset, but nothing for the chipset itself.

[RetroRen]

Originally Posted by blackknight There is no such thing as a kext for a chipset. There are kexts for the ethernet, sound, ATA/SATA and such that are part of a chipset, but nothing for the chipset itself.

I know, I ment SB750 SATA/ATA kext.
I have that kext for 10.5 but it didnt work well, so I use Leopard without that kext.

[blackknight]

Originally Posted by RetroRen I know, I ment SB750 SATA/ATA kext. I have that kext for 10.5 but it didnt work well, so I use Leopard without that kext.

You need to use the AppleATIATA.kext for SL. I can't remember where I saw it, but I think it was on insanelymac.com forums in the hardware section. I personally just use AHCI as it always works in OS X, but I have it just in case. I also have a modified AppleOnboardPCATA.kext that is modified the same way as the leopard version as it seems to enable the 5th and 6th SATA ports when set to IDE mode for DVD-Roms. It was also found on insanelymac.com, but like I said, I usually use AHCI as it works the easiest.

[RetroRen]

Originally Posted by blackknight You need to use the AppleATIATA.kext for SL. I can't remember where I saw it, but I think it was on insanelymac.com forums in the hardware section. I personally just use AHCI as it always works in OS X, but I have it just in case. I also have a modified AppleOnboardPCATA.kext that is modified the same way as the leopard version as it seems to enable the 5th and 6th SATA ports when set to IDE mode for DVD-Roms. It was also found on insanelymac.com, but like I said, I usually use AHCI as it works the easiest.

I saw one here:
http://www.infinitemac.com/f36/ati-a...post37535.html

Perhaps this one could work I will also give it a try...
Also I tried with only fakesmc kext and with qoopz kernel and updated PC EFI 10.5 boot file, no go