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I compiled this list of what NVIDIA GPUs are supported in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 according to kexts, I think it could be useful to know what is supported and what is not. It doesnt mean it should work, it just means their device ids are…

I'm testing Snow Leo like mostly everybody else here. I'm currently booting SL from a USB stick, but I would prefer to just use the same chameleon loader I'm using for Leopard, how do you think is the best way to achieve this? I understand…

This pretends to be a simple guide with pictures to install Leopard Retail from a USB drive to a hard disk using Chameleon 2 RC1. [Updated 15/05/2009]: It involves using Chameleon2 RC1 to boot a copy of a Retail DVD on a USB Drive, install…

I installed SnowLeo from Leopard using OSInstall.mpkg method just fine but I'm unsure if the installation is right. The installation completed successfully but: - I got a few errors in the installation log, about not being able to run some…

I redid a test install of SnowLeo and I didnt put any disabler kext and it booted and everything seems to be working without any extra disabler (only FakeSMC v2, OpenHaltRestart and PlatformUUID and VoodooPS2, boot is netkas pcefi 10.3).…

It looks like the well-known patch to OSInstall.mpkg to allow you to install to MBR partitions is not working as it should. I edited one and it worked when you launch the OSInstall.mpkg from inside Leopard, but this same file doesnt let…

You may have noticed that Apple changed LCD Font Smoothing settings in System Preferences: Now it looks like you can only turn it on or off. However even when that toggle turned on SL wont activate LCD Font Smoothing when it believes your…

This small update with the big name contains only a couple of updated kexts: IOAHCIFamily.kext and IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext , that are supposed to: (from Apple) ...address intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of…

Boot Think! Looks good close to Boot Camp and its reported to be able to boot anything including XP on a separate drive. Wish I would knew how to read chinese... Thread on InsanelyMac:…

Whats the current status of onboard Nvidia chipsets support? I've read many reports that some motherboards with Geforce 9300/9400 chipsets work with 10.5.6 and nvkush but I've tried to get my nForce 630i/Geforce 7100 working with it and it…

“You would need to get a codec dump from your audio hardware to fix the outputs mapped to the wrong ports. Also you could try using this modded version of VoodooHDA by Slice that lets you remap the ports too, it could be easier than patching…”

“The SMUUID, the platformUUID and the disk partition UUID are 3 different entities and they dont need to match from what I know. The SMUUID in smbios.plist seem to be useless. The PlatformUUID key is based on your ethernet card's MAC address…”

“Apart from having the right device id the kext itself has to support your card's core, for desktop cards they are all usually very similar (so if Apple supports G92 core, all desktop cards with that same core should work, even if apple miss…”

“What is your card's device id? You can see it in System Profiler. If its already in that list you dont need to edit the plist of NVIDIA kexts, you would only need to do that if your card's device id its NOT in that list. Using chameleon Gra…”

“These strings are not used in boot.plist, they are just the device ids of the cards recognized by apple's drivers, if your card is not there you would need to add its id to the plist, if your card is there and it still doesnt work the probl…”

“i have some difficults in plist editing because this is a rare codec.It reports alc600 but in the codec dump is 0x6108ec10 Realtek is known for naming its codecs with different commercial names despite of having the same hardware ids, the b…”

“Yes I have read and followed it and I get the idea that this is a transfer of layout, pathmaps and codecid from leo to snow. and I know that 0x1458A002 is not my codecID. Its 0x10ec0883 on the actual machine. The point I was trying to make …”

“Really nice, its on par with Chameleon now I think, unless I'm missing something. They should really release the source code though, they havent released it yet I think...”

“i cant boot into osx(READ THE THREAD ABOVE THIS ONE) how am i suppose to remove nvinject.kext? ANY SUGGESTIONS THANX IN ADVANCE - Using MacDrive from a Windows partition (needs to boot with -f afterwards). - Booting in single user mode (-s …”

“You can check the PIO/UDMA modes in the IORegistry, most drivers report it there. In my case with an MCP73 controller it was running in UDMA2 indeed, not a big deal with a DVD recorder (like in my case) but if you have a modern HD you will …”

“What nforce controller do you have? Some of the newer ones got troubles with cable detection not working. In Linux you can disable that with a kernel argument, but I think that cant be done in OS X. Maybe c0rk007hck can implement a toggle i…”

“I tried netkas pcefi 10.3 as suggested by monsieur.d and it worked, it only loads the extensions from the chosen partition. Now only problem is DSDT and smbios.plist, those files are still always loaded from the boot partition anyway. No bi…”

“I assumed rd=disk1s2 and boot-uuid=xxx referes to the same thing, the partition being booted, but rd is not absolute (will change if you shuffle disks or remove partitions) and boot-uuid is absolute (will never change unless you reformat th…”

“Thanks, I think I understand how it works now. The published 10.5/10.6 folders work as advertised if you are booting from EFI System Partition (or probably in a separate boot partition, if you have Chameleon installed in the OS partition, t…”

“In case anyone's interested I managed to get a dual boot working with this layout: /boot /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist /Extra/smbios.plist /Extra/DSDT.aml /Extra/Extensions/*.kext ---> These ones loaded only for Leopard /Extra/10.6/Extensions…”

“I'll try that when I get a chance, but without being able to load a different set of kexts for Leo & SnowLeo we still have to put SnowLeo kexts on /S/L/E instead of on /E/E, not the best cleanest solution...”

“Well it didnt work so I guess I did something wrong, kexts got loaded from both partitions... This is my disk layout: Chameleon's RC3 boot is in disk1s2. I put this in disk0s3\Extra\com.apple.Boot.plist disk1s2 Boot.plist is just: disk0s3 i…”

“Well it didnt work so I guess I did something wrong, kexts got loaded from both partitions... This is my disk layout: Chameleon's RC3 boot is in disk1s2. I put this in disk0s3\Extra\com.apple.Boot.plist disk1s2 Boot.plist is just: disk0s3 i…”

“I thought the \Extra folder is always read from the \boot partition. So can I have something like this: Leopard partition: \boot \Extra\boot.plist for 10.5 \Extra\Extensions for 10.5 SnowLeo partition: \Extra\boot.plist for 10.6 \Extra\Exte…”

“I think the key is what OG-Phantom mentioned: running the installer from an OS that is NOT Snow Leopard results in troubles, I got the same troubles plus errors in the installations log but when I install SL booting from an USB Installer I …”

“If it reboots on its own even in -v I guess the problem is the kernel. I would try some 10.5.6 release that has the latest Voodoo kernel posible and use the cpus=1 flag, that should give you best chances than all those old releases.”

“If you install in different disks its as easy as you said it, only that it wouldnt work for XP, cant boot it from chameleon if it lives in a different HD. Installing them in the same disks would be a bit more complicated (mbr would be overw…”

“You dont really have to swap chameleon for something else, just use it as ONLY a bootloader for OS X and use something else as the bootmanager to select which partition you want to boot from. You can read here about which Boot Managers supp…”

“Chameleon 2.0RC1 is coming along very nicely. However, there is one issue that I ran into when using it to dual boot WinXP and Leopard on separate drives, so I thought I'd share the solution here. Anyway, I installed RC1, and it gathered th…”

“Well it depends how careful you are and how unstable your computer is, if you have crashes and have to hard to reset the computer often you will end up with troubles sooner or later. If you are careful enough, like not force mount any dirty…”

“Original method makes you configure each volume's mount point manually in fstab while the new hack will replace mount.ntfs command so all NTFS volumes you plug will be mounted r/w. I've been researching a bit and it seems the automounting i…”

“I've installed paragons NTFS on mac osx, and.. even though it's said it has snow leopard support, it doesn't work at all. without any app for NTFS support, i can only read NTFS partitions. Did you try this version? paragon software.com/home…”

“I think you're mixing up things, you cant delete windows bootloader, windows obviously wont boot without it, you are confusing the bootloader (the one who kickstarts the os) with the bootmanager (the one who lets you choose which os to boot…”

“I doubt it matters, they are only supposed to load the code that is 32 or 64 bits even if they contain both. Besides most Apple's vanilla kexts are dual, and I dont know of any way to make them 32 bits only for instance...”

“Thanks for the reply--this forum is great! I will check out the options for boot.plist from Chameleon's BootHelp.txt. My system boot time is much longer than Leo and I was under the impression that ...boot.plist could be modified to boot mo…”

“com.apple.boot.plist in Extra is the main config file for Chameleon, you can specify many options that affect mostly how the system boots, you can see all the available options in Chameleon's BootHelp.txt. Here is mine for example: SMBIOS.p…”

“It would be a bad choice indeed considering Boot Think has no public source code and the author doesnt seem to have any plan to publish it.”

“Rebel EFI inside. tiny url.com/ygjxfa7 Thanks! Good work. Can you explain what method you used? Also people would be interested in the cbboot file used.”

“AES-ECB-%3d (%s): failed passed AES-CBC-%3d (%s): AES-CFB128-%3d (%s): That sounds like variants of AES so I guess they encrypted something, maybe that weird initrd that nothing I kow can open. It makes no sense, assuming there is only kext…”

“Read the comments in the second article electro cites above. It's all about the amount of time and frustration you're willing to put into installing OSX86. If I asked a friend who knew a lot about building a Hackintosh to build me one, I'd …”

“The website worked fine for me just now. I wouldn't say it's pointless, if their "supported hardware profiles" help make building a Hackintosh easier. How many users have systems that work 100% or even 95%? Complaints about bits of hardware…”

“Can we us hackintosh users install and use Apple's BootCamp HFS drivers somehow?”

“Why restore the whole 10.5.6 extensions? Thats not really recommended unless you found some really serious troubles, it will probably cause more issues in the end.”

“yes 64bit kernel require 64bit kext and only 64 bit kext,the application may be 32 or 64 but kernel extension with 64bit kernel must be 64. althought native 10.6 kext is hybrid 32+64+10.6 sdk so their run on 32 and 64 but only on 10.6 64bit…”

“You need 64 bit kexts when you run kernel in 64bit mode Wow really? Including the injectors, hdaenablers and so on? So most of the hackintosh kexts we have now are worthless for Snow? Is there a list of known 64-bit capable kexts? I'm afrai…”