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Right now I have Windows 7 installed on 1 of 2 drives on a g31m-e2sl rev.2 based system (yep, incompatible ethernet). I'd like to do a vanilla install of Snow Leopard on the other drive ( I bought the retail DVD ), preferably without…

I just finished building a machine ( my first build ever - from scratch ) based on the GigabyteG31M-ES2L and I'm having a hard time deciding on how I should approach installing OSX. I don't own Snow Leopard yet, but I do have a 10.6.7…

“For those of you that are still having trouble getting the sound to work I was able to get it to work by doing the following as provided by djnitehawk on this thread (check out his awesome automation script while you're at it): 1. get rid o…”

“I was able to just use the new legacy883.kext in extra/extensions. Although first time did not take. However when cloned to new drive started working. So must have to rebuild mkext or something like that. Try OSX86 Tools and rebuild and Cha…”

“Ok, but won't I need the UUID prior to the installation of OSX? Right now I don't have OSX in any form on my drive so how would I be able to use the disk utility to obtain the UUID?”

“I'm going to try installing SL tonight w\ this thread's original tutorial and the information bzen has provided. The only thing I don't quite understand is where I obtain my UUID. I've read up on it and I understand what it is and why it's …”

“For some reason the EFI partition never mounts after I run your script. I get this error: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 I've tried following this guide and this guide as well, but for reasons I assume re…”

“I just finished building a machine based off the G31M-ES2L and have since discovered that it's a rev. 2, which as many of you know uses a different incompatible brand for the ethernet port. What are the chances this is eventually going to b…”

“Just wanted to report that the voodooHDA.kext worked perfectly for my sound and the apple usb ethernet adapter also worked ( despite it being specifically for the macbook air). I did have to go into the network tab to initialize it as for s…”

“osx86 tools seems to have done the trick for my video card. My resolution automatically switched to 1920x1080 and it now shows up as it should in the system profiler. I remember reading about something called Quartz Extreme / Core Image bei…”

“OK, so I just finished installing Snow Leopard again w\ the new version of your script. Everything seems to have gone smoothly. The installation actually completed this time instead of dying w\ 11 min. left like before. I did notice one err…”

“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…”

“The system profiler reports a 'NVIDIA' device w\ 32 MB of VRAM so it doesn't seem to be detecting it correctly. I'll give the preset in osx86 tools a shot tomorrow but I don't know anything about creating custom EFI strings. I get a 'System…”

“Alright, so I am now successfully booting into 10.6 without the help of my thumb drive. I am still unsure of how solid this install is as the previously mentioned errors in the install log are still a mystery as well as these errors when I …”

“Hey, so oddly enough, I am able to boot into osx from my hard-drive through chameleon. It's strange that two identical 'OSX' drives appear but hey, it seems to work. I guess my next step is to test it it out and figure out what is and is no…”

“I reformatted my hard-drive again ( to clear off all the snow-install files) and tried the installation again. Same thing. I attached an image of the install log. The errors start about 3/4 of the way down. I'm going to try boot with it any…”

“I took a look at the log in the terminal again after I ran your script. There are two things are curious: -I get a 'sh: clear: command not found' twice.. the original clear command is definitely in there.. And then there is : Enter 'help' f…”

“Ok, so a combination of copying over the original 10.6 clear and xxd files and running installnow from within the directory must have fixed it. Your script seemed to run fine so I went ahead with the install. With about 11 min left on the i…”

“I should mention that I deleted the dsdt.aml from the usb drive... thanks so much for helping me through this. This is a fun rainy saturday activity...”

“ok, so i was able to boot off my usb drive (hooray!). I got into the installer and the first thing I did was format my drive to journaled,case-sensitive,and GUID. I then went to the terminal and ran your script off the thumb drive and got t…”

“/Volumes/hackintoshInstall Press [y] to continue. [n] to quit. [r] to retry y copying files to the hdd now... ./filez/dsdt -> /Volumes/hackintoshInstall/dsdt ./filez/dsdt/.DS_Store -> /Volumes/hackintoshInstall/dsdt/.DS_Store ./filez/dsdt/d…”

“Ran it off my desktop on 10.5.7 machine. Copied over the necessary files again to the fix that other error. No errors up until this part: /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0…”

“Excellent. Copying those files over from my 10.5.7 got rid of the 'dyld' errors, but now I need to figure out these: file copying done... waiting 3 secs... Volume hackintoshInstall on disk1s2 failed to unmount waiting 3 secs... Installing C…”

“To be more specific I get this error several times before it asks me to enter my disk number: dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022 /Volumes/hackintoshInstall/snow-installer/installnow: line 191: 273 Trace/BPT trap ./filez/clear I …”

“First off.. thanks so much for making a script like this. It's going to save me a lot of time and headaches. When I ran installNow off my thumb drive i got the error right off the bat: 'dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022 /Volume…”

“I guess what I was looking for was more of a step-by-step process for the dual boot setup. The tutorial I followed and the one I plan to next don't assume you want to dual-boot. If I were to install osx again with the chameleon boot loader …”

“I'll give it a try. I'm used to installing windows and just assumed that there would be a serial number conflict of some sort, but perhaps If I upgrade it to Snow Leopard before ever connecting to the internet it'll somehow workout.”

“Haha.. woops. 10.5.7, i meant. I'd like to get this up and running this weekend if possible. Do you think the apple store still sells Leopard standalone? Best Buy doesn't seem to sell it (although they have Snow Leopard) and nor does Apple'…”

“Ah.. I'll give that a shot. Yeah, i'm using 10.5.7. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!”