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This is probably not unique to SL but I'm posting it here because it occurs on my SL install. I restored a SL 10A380.dmg to a blank partition on one drive and then installed SL onto another drive using the OSInstall.mpkg file. Installation…

Anyone have it up and running? Just finished downloading it but I wonder if it's worth the trouble installing it if the Retail is coming out soon. I changed out my MB so I've been re-installing OS's for 2 weeks. The Gigabyte EX58 board has…

I thought I would give my experiences setting up Snow Leopard 10A432 on the Gigabyte EX58-UD5 board with an i7 920 chip. This board has given me no end of problems and has been the most difficult I've done - 2 weeks and counting. The…

I have an on-board Realtek 8111D for which I have been using the RTL1000 kext in 10.5. It works most of the time in 32 bit SL, but randomly drop the connection once in while. Although it comes up as a 64 kext it does not work under 64 bit.…

Playing around trying to optimize my system. I've noticed that sometimes a kext will not load if it's in E/E but will is it's in S/LE. Other times a kext will not load no matter which directory you place it in. I move a kext to E/E or…

“- why use a flash drive? because installing it inside Leopard will make a no installer package error in Disk Utility hence you cant use it, it will also work on another partition but didnt try it since i have a few spare flashdisk unused. T…”

“Also when I reset the system from sleep it screw my bios settings. Did you replace the AppleRTC.kext with the one suggested in SaCleoCheater's sticky SL thread?”

“Why not use Chameleon? I boot into Chameleon and then choose either OSX or Win 7.”

“Thanks for the guide ... it was very useful for making a USB SL Install. (Y) I didn't need it to install SL as I already have it running but I need to fix another SL partition using Disk Utility … this did the trick and now I have an SL Ins…”

“To see the internal drive/volumes ... Go to Finder Preferences Under Show these items on the desktop , check off Hard disks”

“Used your kexts and had success in booting in 64 bit SL. "Snow Leopard 10A43 install dmg" … Interesting sense of humour”

“Hmmmm ... very detailed. I tried the HDEF patch in the dsdt but had no luck. I think I'll try this one out and see if I have more luck. Thanks for the heads up.”

“It's not unique to this board. There are a few threads discussing KP's and possible fixes. In short ... if it's during boot up it's the bootloader ... if on the desktop, permissions.”

“No problem with iTunes 8.2.1 (6). Recognizes my iPhone and syncs. You could try reinstalling iTunes :-|”

“Think there's a bug in RC3 where boot.plist in /L/P/S takes precedence over /Extra. Try copying your plists there Hmmmm… did not know that. : I have a boot.plist in /Extra on both my Leo and SL. The boot.plist on each drive contains the boo…”

“Agree with moremegil ... keep it simple. I had Leo and SL on different drives. Each drive had the /Extra folder which contained the boot and smbios plists for that install. I originally had Chame loaded on the Leo drive. At the Chame sceen,…”

“Yes ... I have that file in all 3 of my SL installs (380 and 432).”

“I'm getting KP's in 64 bit 'cause disabler is 32 bit and I haven't found anything to replace it. 32 bit seems to work OK.”

“I agree ... it looks like we are all confirming the same experience ... If you install SL within Leo then you get the installer error if trying to fix permissions in Disk Utility. If you install SL wihin SL then there is no error.”

“Same KP here so I don't think it's specific to the board. It has to do with one of the kexts 'cause I was fooling around with one of my SL installs and now it does the same thing. :”

“OK ... I did two installs of SL 432 today. I restored to a temp partition and installed with OSInstal.mkpg If I installed from Leopard … I would get the message when I tried to fix permissions with Disk Utility If I installed from SL … was …”

“Yes the two might be … I remember having problems booting into 64 but I've done it so many times I can't remember what I did any more. : For #2 try what I did … install the next version ... seems to have repaired itself. I'm speculating tha…”

“Must be some file missing somewhere. I never tried it (didn't think of it) but I wonder if a re-install of the same build from the same partition would solve that problem. I'll have to try it next time it happens. I don't think it's a UUID …”

“I installed 402 and everything is as it should be. If anyone has an idea why this occurs I would still like to know.”

“Good to hear that Snow. It would be useful if you listed your basic kexts that you used to get it up and runnning on you board.”

“pharoleta … are you sure you have 64 bit enable. When you go to About This Mac - More Info - Software does it say Yes for 64-bit Kernel and Extensions ? If so I'd be interested in knowing the kexts you installed and where you downloaded the…”

“From my testing of 64 bit … NullCPUPowerManagement causes a KP when I get to the desktop. Disabler will cause a KP as it's loading. Appledecrypt causes a KP in both 32 and 64 as it's loading. You're beating your head against a wall :-! … bu…”

“Not here … I've done a ton of SL installs from a SL 380 and have not had any problem installing once I was told to deselect all except the main program (you can't deselect it anyways ) from the customize screen. 32/64 bit 380 is rock solid …”

“I've notice that the Mac and Tools misreport my computer info in SL. Not quite sure what is going on but some of it may be due to 'Turbo' mode (or whatever it called in your BIOS) or to the Tools not being optimized for SL. Other than that …”

“Also, I think Snow Leopard by default doesn't show your drives on your desktop. I have it installed on my Macbook and I can only see my Volumes in Finder. Yes ... I can only see my 'external' drives/partitions ... which are the drives/parti…”

“No. It does not change your system; it creates a folder with the necssary files. You can take the dsdt file and copy it to whereever you want.”

“One thing: tham50 said about creating my own dsdt. How to do that exactly? Run DSDT Patcher GUI on the the same system on which you will be using the dsdt.aml.”

“There are quite a few of us having the same problem. I've been trying to isolate what is causing it without luck.”

“No ... I only get a request to update 'Remote Desktop Client'. My model is identified as "MacPro4,1".”

“RC2 doesn't work well. Did you try and follow the various Giga thread how-to's?”

“Up and running on a P5K only one kext...dsmos and that's it! No KP and 64bit. Sometime less is more. I wrote a quick guide: How to Install OS X 10.6 (10A432) on P5 series mobo. I hope it helps. I'm going to start deleting the custom kexts a…”

“FINALLY … (Y) I did a lot of installs but finally got a finished product. Running in 32 bit. My second last one worked great but from some reason I could not get admin privileges. I've been working on it for a couple of hours and have not h…”

“Just finished installing from a 402 install but I hang at the last step before the desktop.”

“Did you install it from your working SL or Leopard drive? You see any difference between this version and the older SL's?”

“What a flakey board … I think. If you lose your Ethernet Adaptor Internet connection, shut down, turn the power supply off until all the board lights go out and then turn it on. A new ethernet adaptor should appear as another Ethernet Adapt…”

“That goes in the /Extra/ folder - correct? Yes … put it in /Extra”

“I find it very interesting that some folks have had to re-install some kexts, have the Extra folder, etc., whereas for my install I did not have to do anything. Is it just luck of the 'hardware' draw?”

“I have been running an iPC OSx86 PPF3 build in 10.5.6. Updated to 10.5.7 yesterday by Software Update. The update process resulted in 2 reboots. System reports as Mac, System Version as 10.5.7, Kernel Version as Darwin 9.7.0 As far as I can…”

“You don't need disabler.kext I'm using vanilla AppleRTC.kext in S/L/E but then my dsdt has the CMOS reset fix. Voodoo.kext must be in S/L/E ... it won't work in E/E”

“4. If correctly snow showing your HDDs in Leopard > Show hdd on desktop works if you enable in FInder preferences! Defaultly in SL disabled. Thanks slic ... that was probably the easiest fix yet.”