@djnitehawk

What is this? This is a script which lets you do quick and easy Snow Leopard installs by automating the pre-install preparation process. What exactly does the script do? It takes care of the following: Installs Chameleon 2 RC3 boot loader…

i cant seem to find a working kext for snow leopard for my built in ethernet which is an intel 82566 series... i had it working in leo 10.5 but after installing snow 10.6 today my ethernet is not detected, and i cant seem to locate a kext…

UPDATE: problem solved... see post below... hi guys, thanks to the many guides in this forum, ive been able to get SL 10.6 running fine on my pc except for one little thing which has been driving me nutts for almost a week now. you guessed…

“Ok man sounds great! Well, actually your hackie which I used to boot with does give full rez at 1280x800 but it defaulted me back to 800x600 or something on reboot after I installed the voodoo_dmg file (not one of yours). I have just tried …”

“Well, the gfx seem to work, but it doesnt like rebooting into the gfx card after install. Every time I fire up the usb with Snow image and your funky file set, it reaches the install screen every time. Its odd that it does this after instal…”

“Hey man, I downloaded and installed (per your instructions) the x300 files and i get an error on this line "sudo diskutil repairpermissions /volumes/Leopard" saying it could not umount the drive or find the UUID? It then seems to complete t…”

“ok dude...Gr8! But 1 question before I start. I see that "battery 1" has an installer file while "battery 2" includes only the kext. How can I restore from a bad install of this file (to battery 2 if need be) if lappie doesnt like it? I can…”

“Oh, another thing mate…I dragged the kexts files voodoo.kext and powermanagement.kext over the Kext Helper v7. Now I have the battery meter but fan is still spiking and things are getting hot. Also the GFX card has defaulted to 1024/768 res…”

“Brilliant! Just Brilliant I say! Now boots into Snow Installer quick as a flash too! So do I still need to follow any Terminal commands before I begin install (as you said in the instructions beginning of post) And what about other stuff? T…”

“Thanks man! I followed your instruction including the "cpus=1" command and the new Natit.kexts but I'm still getting the blank white screen. Here are some pics of what console is saying before the white screen comes up. ok do this now: 1. b…”

“I forgot to comment. The external usb drive I am using is one of these: wdc .com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=561 And so fare I have had some SUCESS! now I get past all the text in chameleon boot but it hangs at the white screen before …”

“without me adding thing, it boot in 64-bit mode on it own. if run a game thats 32-bit, would it switch over to 32-bit mode or do i hive reboot in 32-bit mode. from what i've read... the 64bit kernel can run 32bit apps without restarting mac…”

“when I want to use 64bit mode I hive to reboot and type in at boot, [ boot: -x64 ] Yah, I no, it can be put in the [ com.apple.boot.com] , but it doesn't When I open Pacifist I get this error: Sorry, One or More of the following command-Lin…”

“Thank you for the quick reply. This one actually restored the USB-speed, BUT strangely enough it killed my firewire; no devices found and also the System-Profiler sees no more firewire connections! In Leopard (10.5.8) FireWire is still ther…”

“Hey djnitehawk, I can feel the karma flowing through your coding into cyberspace already! If you can get me into this new OS I'll be in Nirvana…Snow style Nah! just kidding Anyway, here is the processor: Intel® Celeron® Processor 560 • 2.13…”

“@daze if the above doesnt work for ya try replacing /S/L/E/iopcifamily.kext with this one http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=449”

“Thank you for this great guide. My System: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE, Intel Quad-CPU @2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 50GB SATA HD, Nvidia 8800 GTS (640MB) Snow Leopard boots just fine in 64-bit and everything, except for the sound is working. But I don't bother…”

“Thanks for your speedy reply. Ok, it appears these lappies have a rather basic bios. Sata option 'on' or 'off' no ahci or hpet. But I have attached the boot error pic and DPCI system info your requested. If you can get it working for me I a…”

“swt ill have a looksie now and reply soon... btw im helpin ppl out with the hope of collectin some good karma... so if u can donate some good karma that should be all good... and yeh i know... win7 cant even come close to our little hacky b…”

“I have kalyway 5.3 running flawlessly on this laptop. But I have run practically every guide out thiere including this one by djnitehawk and I still get a hanging issue or kernel panic cpu not recognised etc when trying to load S leopard. I…”

“first of all... what actual issue's are you trying to fix with dsdt patching? ive only needed the uhci/ehci usb buitin patch to get my sleep working... people who do not have programming experience will not be able to easily use the dsdt ha…”

“haha yeh i know... dont know how that came out… probably cos i've lived in aussie and nz... its quite a common saying ovr thr”

“Credit goes to djnitehawk for helping me with the issues i encounter.. (Y) cheers buddy! always glad 2 help...”

“couse i don't have a working installation of OSX to run the scripts provided in this thread. u should download a 10.5 distro such as iatkos v7 > burn to dvd > install 10.5 then continue with this guide... or try one of those boot132 cds and…”

“1. there is no option for 2. same thing then 3. could not find this kext - I assume it is one - by search in forum 4. the Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo 5535 could not be found even 5. so with this I´ve had bad luck too - maybe I´m to silly to sea…”

“any suggestions to "Systemuptime in Nanoseconds=206663406631" system hanging while booting - just before there was a kernelpanic with HPETs not found? if there was an error "hpet not found" have u tried enabling hpet in bios? if hpet not fo…”

“welcome... honestly man i dont know if it can be installed on mbr partitions, cos i havent tried it myself... u could experiment and let us all know maybe? im not at home right now to check it...”

“Quartz Extreme / Core Image being something that needs to be enabled. How do I know if this is working properly? if you have no choppiness or video lag when playing videos it probably means its enabled... the thing is they say that the syst…”

“is it me or disks now in SL change to yellow weird... i dont get that... so this is what this problem looks like... ive only heard of it... u gotta install a kext called "ahciblockstorageinjector.kext" to your /extra/extensions... if that d…”

“'sh: clear: command not found' it is safe to ignore that... that is output by Fassl's dsdt patcher... its trying to clear the screen but it cant find the clear command on the install dvd... i cant fix that... but it doesnt do any harm... if…”

“Right-click on the target OS X HDD volume icon on your Desktop -> Get Info. If the checkbox next to "Ignore ownership on this volume" is checked then click on padlock symbol to authenticate and UNCHECK the checkbox. Then to ensure that the …”

“does your DSDT.aml have the cmos fix already in it? unfortunately no! im using Fassl's dsdt patcher which doesnt fix the cmos reset problem... atm im trying to go through fassl's source code trying to learn C language and add the cmos reset…”

“is ur target disk ide? or sata? if ide u have to find a kext that will detect ur ide drives... as far as i can remember there were some modified ide kexts floating around that worked with snow... have a look around for those... if ur target…”

“looks like ur mobo doesnt have an HPET device... can u first go through ur bios setup and see if you can find anything related to HPET (high precision event timer) and enable that... if hpet cant be found on ur bios, try the following: at c…”

“Thanks for the update. I'm going to give it a shot in a bit. Just to double check, I should edit the com.apple.boot.plist in Extra and add this line in order to boot in 32-bit:: Kernel Flags -x32 Are there are any other places this flag sho…”

“@teamka42 whats ur hardware config? mobo, graphic card, etc? try this when booting from your usb drive: interrupt chameleon by pressing any key when it shows up. then type the following: "GraphicsEnabler=No" without the quotes then select u…”

“ok guys... ive updated the main post with v1.1 and revised the guide... do re-read and retry if you had trouble using version 1... might pay to wipe everything you've done with v1.0 before trying v1.1... and of course report back with your …”

“aha... it is always safer to run everything in 32bit mode until you have a working install... that might be the cause of the installer failing... and those commands for repairing permissions on the moved kexts and renewing boot caches so th…”

“good to hear... i just woke up and i will get on to fixing the script now... so yeh being able to boot into a new snow installation without any panics or freezes is only half the battler... getting all ur other devices detected and working …”

“ok fellas im gonna have to call it a day and get sum sleep... too tired to think about all these technical mumbo jumbo will get back to it first thing tomorrow morning...”

“But I only disagree on one thing... I thnk this community is MUCH better than the "insane" one. ooooops i made a booboo u see what happened was i posted this thing first over at the insane one and copied and pasted it here and forgot to edi…”

“oh and also try booting into ur new "OSX" partition and see what happens (despite the error)... and if u are able to boot into ur new "OSX" while having the usb plugged in, that means the installer did just fine and chameleon didnt get inst…”

“in that case try this: dont run the script before installing to your target... install first... after install, restart and come back into the installer and run the script... see if u can get the installer to finish that way... if the instal…”