技嘉 G31M-ES2L 主板 Snow Leopard 零售版 DVD / U 盘完整安装指南

@SnowI dont think this is dsdt related because 32bit seems to work properly. Permissions are ok? no errors in kext utility, terminal or disk utility? You are using the 64bit Sleepenabler? Try sleep in x64 safe mode (-x) and report back.

Ok.. i replaced the SleepEnabler.kext i was using with the one attached in the main thread. After a permissions repair it seems to work, i will investigate further in the next days.
BTW i replaced dsmos.kext with the new fakesmc.kext from netkas.

Cheers and thanks for your help!

I also tested fakesmc and its a good replacement for dsmos. Faster boot since it doesnt have to wait for dsmos (check verbose mode to confirm)

it immediatly says "dsmos is arrived" (or something similar)! SMC in Apple hardware also manages sleep and shutdown issues, i'm wondering what this smc emulator can do regarding these aspects.

STill have Kp after wake from sleep

@cili0. I was hoping that your suggestion would have worked, but that would be too easy.

Replaced dsmos with updated fakesmc.kext (netkas put updated on his site today). Reinstalled sleepenabler.kext from the first page here. But still getting a KP after waking from sleep.

Actually reinstalled everything, SL, Chameleon 2, PC_EFI 10.1, kexts in /Extra and still having the same problem. Kext utility works good, finishes permissions/rebuild fine.

If anybody has any suggestions…

I also had KP's with wake after installing faksmc kext.
I also removed OpenHaltRestart & SleepEnabler to check if there were still needed.
I've then put them both back and only replaced dsmos and all was good again.
I had to use kextutility and reboot everytime so make sure you reboot enough to load the new kext/mkext.

@wwbsox@cili0. I was hoping that your suggestion would have worked, but that would be too easy. Replaced dsmos with updated fakesmc.kext (netkas put updated on his site today). Reinstalled sleepenabler.kext from the first page here. But still getting a KP after waking from sleep. Actually reinstalled everything, SL, Chameleon 2, PC_EFI 10.1,…

have you tried to repair permissions from disk utility ? i know it seems a noob suggestion, but i replaced the sleepenabler.kext with the one provided in the main topic, repaired permissions with "sudo diskutil repairPermissions /" and launched kext utility.

KP after wake from sleep

Well I did a little testing and this is what I have found.

If I install from SL, I don't get the "no installer package" error. But I do get a KP when waking from sleep.

If I install from Leo, I do get the "no installer packages" error. But sleep works great. Wakes up everytime with no KP. I still get a "USB device removal error" if I don't eject my USB stick before sleep. (chameleon 2/PC_EFI 10.1 on usb stick).

I have tried this 3 different times/both ways and always the same results. I would prefer to do the install from SL obviously. I think this would be a cleaner install. But I do need sleep functioning.

I havent tried reinstalling BSD.pkg from SL as Snow said this made things worse and he is using the same MB.

Also, Anybody seen a modified IOUSBFamily.kext for 64 bit yet? This fixed the "devical removal error for many in Leo.

This really sounds like the wrong Sleepenabler is being used m8, make sure it's 64bit version and install again using KextUtility.

Don't install from Leo and def not reinstall BSD.pkg.

Kexts needed: fakesmc/NullCPUPowerManagement/OpenHaltRestart/PlatformUUID & SLeepEnabler.

Don't forget to edit UUID strings before and after install and in the proper files (all 3)

Install from USB like guide says!

Got a G31M-ES2L mobo too, but none of this works on my hack as I can't install from a DVD restored partition because I get a KP whether if I boot in 32 or 64 bits. I succeeded to install from within my Leopard install but I can only boot in 64 bit mode, with a Kernel panic right after the video and 32 bit mode hangs when loading "Don't steal Mac OS X.kext".

Using PC_Efi_v9/Chameleon1 and adding the PC_EFI_ V10 bootfile solved the KP`s on my maschine..

Dunno why but Chameleon 2 didnt work for my 10.5x either.

This Guide/kexts here works great on my G31M here ( thanks ! ) , so maybe PC_EFI_v9 solve your KP`s too

I followed this guide to update my 10.5.6 to snow leopard.
Good job on the guide, thanks!

Before deciding to follow the guide properly and install from a usb stick I had a few not so successful attempts at installing from a hard drive partition, using iPartition and Disk utility, creating and destroying new partitions and restoring to keep things fresh when I failed.

With the usb stick, it worked fine. I had the PCEfi boot file from this guide on it and the Extra folder had the contents of the guide extra folder and also 3 other ones:

AHCIPortInjector, ATAPortInjector, IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
I think chameleon put them there.

The first time I forgot to edit the uuid flags in com.apple.boot.plist and PlatformUUID.kext.
While at it I also changed the resolution string in apple.com.boot.plist and upped the timeout value and added the device string for my graphic card.

I installed to my one partition leo disk.

After installing, I used another computer to remove the uuid flag from apple.com.boot.plist on the usb stick.
Booted to the usb stick and chose my hard drive in the chameleon screen, no kernel flags.

Snow Leopard, 64 bit!.

Only small problem I had was when (after having enjoyed snow leopard for a couple of hours) I tried to make my hard drive bootable on its own so as to not have to use the usb stick every time.
Chameleon gave an install error until I installed using the hfs EFI option.

I used EFI Partition Mounter and sudo -s in terminal to copy the boot file from the usb stick to the root of the hard drive and the extra folder from the usb stick to the efi partition. I just realized I never changed the uuid info in Platformuuid.kext….

Sleepenabler.kext worked as well, I put it among the EFI partition kexts.

So thanks, again.

Because of this thread I also know about the .chameleon folder in root, wish I knew that before….

i have this same mobo, but i do not have 2 internal hd's. i have an external hd i would like to use to do the install, but would like to also install 10.6 on my internal hd that currently is running 10.5.8. how can i install 10.6 over my 10.5.8 install once it is installed to the external hd? is what i'm asking even making sense?

@sk1nhd33t:
I have your motherboard (in a blue G3) and have been following this thread closely.
Great work!
I applied the above USB dsdt patch with success.
I did find however that I needed an extra curly bracket at the end of your code snippet for it to compile properly.

Problemas / problems with GA G31M-ES2L

i'm see the tuto, and i'm very impress, by the way... thats confirmed! 10A4321 IT's the gold master!

But, here, in my home, i want to install in my second hard disk and i'm still get this constants errors! Please, see the youtube link of the kernel crashes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TONj3JFc9aE ↗
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlcvVulAtac ↗
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELASzECFWwo ↗
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjAEO-DzCo ↗

This errors are a kick in the balls!

I do not have memory key, so i'm install by the DMG using this tuto: i hackintosh.com/2009/08/how-to-install-snow-leopard-10a432-on-pc-hackintosh/ (at least the frists steps)

my video board are a Xfx GeForce 7300 GS
this is the only offboard hardware of my machine, everything it's onboard, i have a dvd-RW drive SATA from LG, a Samsung SATA hard disk (10.5.8) and a Maxtor IDE Hard disk (Want put 10.6)

someone can help-me? maybe by msn messenger or gtalk?

my msn messenger is gustavohmsilva (at) live.com
my gtalk accout are gustavohmsilva (at) gmail.com

please please pleeease can someone help me? :'(

well, i finally got this installed, but i can not get sound working. to get this to install i used chameleon rc1, installing it on an efi hfs partition. so my extra folders is located on a seperate partition which i can setuop to view via /Volumes/EFI/Extras. I have tried all the kexts here for auio, 32bit, 64 bit, patched my dsdt, tried other kects from here ↗ all with no luck. the speaker icon does appear in my menu bar and i can see that the system reports the correct sound card data in my system profile, but i can not get any sound. sounds works fine in 10.5.8, but nothing in 10.6...

Hi. I love the guide. Very well made.
So far, I have done everything according to the guide, and I am sad to say that I get an Kernel Panic when booting from the USB-Stick.

The KP says among other things:

"panic cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002cbf74"
"Error Code: 0x0000000000000002"

Any idea what might be causing it?

And yes. I have the G31M-ES2L, and I used only your files, and did it the correct way (unless I missed something that is. But I doubt it.)

sincerely,
Dag Magnus

Any chance we'll get ahold of a Bonjour fix that'll work in 64-bit?

Very nice tutorial, man.

PCI NIC Not Detected

Thanks for all of your hard work! I have everything up and running, sleep and sound have no problems at all. Unfortunately I was unlucky enough to get a G31M-E2SL 2.0 board from NewEgg for this project, so I also had to install an Encore ENGLA-1320 card (RealTek 8169). It worked out of the box under 10.5.6, with the vanilla IONetworkingFamily kext. In 10.6 it's not detecting any PCI card as installed. It shows up in the POST and it has a light, so I know it's working, I just can't get show up. Any ideas?

"when install DVD restore is done go to snow folder on your Desktop and copy the following to root of your flash drive

● dsdt.aml
● boot.plist - edit this to match your EFI Strings, timeout and Graphics mode
● Extensions[USB] (rename it to Extensions)
● Themes

when done you can now turn off your Leopard machine."

Do you really mean that we should copy the files from the /Snow/Extra/ folder on the Desktop, to the ROOT of the USB-Stick?

Edit: Also.. I couldnt install Chameleon v2 RC1 on the Snow Leopard disc after the installation.
It stops on "writing package reciept". (allmost at the start of the installer).
Any workaround on this?
I found a way to do it manually. But I really dont know if I did it correctly.

Or is it a typo, and we should really copy it from /Snow/Extra/ to /USBSTICK/Extra/ ?

Because when I copy it to the ROOT of the USB-Stick as you have written here, I cant get to the installation-screen. I only get an gray screen with the mouse-cursor spinning.

When I put it in /USB-STICK/Extra/ I can access the Installation-screen successfully.

Thanks for your update to this great guide, new files worked fine.

I wonder, what is the purpose of making your own mkext file? I don't have one on my EFI partition, would it make the boot time shorter if I had?

Another thing I discovered just now is that I can't boot into 32bit. I never tried before but I was trying to get final cut going and thought it might help with 32bit. I'm getting a KP quickly into the boot.

I tried the fix in this thread : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18… ↗ but no luck.
Also I'm not sure if I should include the kexts in the EFI partition when rebuilding the mkext as the fix says.

Fixed: Writing this in 32 kernel. I moved my installation from efi partition to main partition, but I think the problem was that some of my kexts had root:admin ownership instead of root:wheel. It was kextcache that complained about it and gave me the clue. I guess the fix in the thread above is quite good after all.

Tried Guide with Exact Settings for G31M-E2SL and Unable to Install

Have Rev 2.0 of Board so no Realtek. Have old Dlink DGE-530T, which will use (may try to use SKGE.kext v0.2d or 0.2e but unsure if working in 64 bit mode) later after get to complete actual install. For Video just using onboard GMA3100 for now.

Loaded all stuff on to drive as shown in pics on 1st Page of Thread. (boot file, Extras Folder (with Themes, Extension Folders, and in root boot.plist and DSDT.aml file). Have Retail Snow Leopard.
Edited boot.plist as required with UUID and added kernel flags for -v -x32 mode.

Also dont have running Leopard system other than on Mac Pro.
Machine trying to install on has XP 32 and Win 7 64 Already on it on single SATA drive 0, and then trying to install on second drive.

I am able to boot off usb. (tried with and without verbose mode and get to start install.). Then use disk utituly to format with HFS+ as GUID then select to install on. Then choose custom options and remove fonts and languages not required. Then starts installing and gets to about 24 min or less then kernel panic or crash. Similar to initial posts and post by dmbardal.

Could it be issue with DSDT file for Rev 1 vs Rev 2 Boards. Have tried to recompile/dissassemble of DSDT with no luck from comparing yours to the one extracted from Rev2.0 FC BIOS from July. Also tried 64 bit mode and same things.

I am at a loss. Only KEXT's used are ones in USB folder that suggest. Also tried KEXT's from OS folder but dont get into option to install get problems before installer starts after booting from USB.

Also tried changing BIOS Settings (disabling features for CPU, etc..) . Possible BIOS setup screenshots anyone? Any thoughts on setup here to help me get past install and on my way?

Boot uuid

Thanks for Email i had USB Key UUID as part of the boot.plist. So tried to remove as suggested.

I tried exact same install off USB this time without UUID String in boot.plist and this time with 32 bit mode no kernel panics. Completed install part.

As suggested followed 1st post closely (but missed this) and this appears to be the only problem with installer.

Now just gotta get the drive ready to boot off new drive with bootloader again. Is there easy way to do this from terminal after install completes? As i dont have existing leopard on new drive. Will go thru guides again and forum to see if can find out whats next. Is there anyone that can help? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Do I have to run installer package again for Chamelon 2 RC1?

How to Install without Previous Leopard just from Retail DVD

Thx for help am now running. : Have some notes to add about complete manual install without any other OSX.

3 Guides
Snow Leopard New Retail - Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L →
Snow Leopard Old (for Reference OnlY) Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L →
Chameleon Manual Install - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16… ↗

- will need 8 GB USB Key
- will need another Intel Mac (or PowerMac or something with GNU Bash, if familar with bash syntax)
- will need 2nd HD to Install Mac To
- follow install instructions from guide here for Creating SNOW USB Installer
- follow instructions for install and partition of New disk

NOTES
Also affter USB guide finished then create new folder on USB that you will copy files to new HD install from
- Should have the following inside
- Chamelon-2-RC1-r431 Binaries
- chameleon.osx 86.hu/file_download/27/Chameleon-2.0-RC1-r431-bin.tar.gz&
- The Extras Folder from Snow.Zip Guide
- make sure no UUID yet in boot.plist file when installing from USB (otherwise if on USB will get Kernel Panics).
- set kernel flags for 32 Bit ( -x32) in boot.plist
- Boot off usb (F12 then Hard Disks ,then select USB Key)
- Install with No Fonts/Translations (in custom Menu)
- After install finished then boot back with usb to get to terminal
- After install finished then get UUID for install drive as stated in terminal. (Remove USB and goto another PC to edit)
- Change as required for UUID in boot.plist and platform UUID info.plist (need to be done on another computer as cant find way to edit in OSX terminal)
- After editted both files on other computer then put USB back in
- open terminal then use ditto to copy (change to directory on USB with New Extra Folder with Extension , etc...)

cd /volumes/*

mkdir Extra 

cd /volumes/"Your USB Drive"/"Your Install Folder goes here"

Ditto Extra /volumes/*/Extra

(Where * is the name of drive that you installed on)
- this should copy all files across including any extensions required.
- After copied extra folder and verified files are copied then need to install Chameleon from terminal window
- goto Chameleon Manual Install for directions
NOTES: for part 7 do need r in front of disk (in example osx partitions was disk0s2) so would be same as example /dev/rdisk0s2
- otherwise get device busy error, and if succesful will get bytes in / out.
- For OSX Syntax help goto ss 64.com/osx/dd.html
- Once complete then need copy EFI boot 10.1 from root of USB to new Volume (use cp command to copy to root).
- Boot off the new drive (still in 32 bit after hitting F12 to select from and boot)

PCI or PCI-E Ethernet Card for 64 Bit Kernel Snow Leopard

cant seem to get older DGE-530T that I had lying around working.

Any suggestions to replace?
As I have rev 2.0 board with Atheros AR8131 built in and non working DGE-530T

Will Try in 32 Bit mode.

Finally I got it to work on my PC as well.
I messed up my 10.5.8 installation, so I "had" to get 10.6 to work..
And I finally did!

I used your old guide tho.
And my vital part was the "First Boot: - turn on your computer and go to Boot Menu (F12) then choose 8GBsnow as the first boot then press enter, on the Chameleon menu choose your hard drive with recently installed snow and boot with -v -x32 (very important), it will boot in verbose mode displaying lots of text, if all goes well you will greeted with SnowLeopard intro video but no sound yet, just continue the process until you reach your desktop."

That made me able to finish up everything.

I had a problem installing Chameleon 2 RC1 on the SL Disk tho.
So I had to manually install it.

Also, my Network-cards dont work in 64bit, only 32bit (atleast it seems so atm.)
I got a DLink DWA-556 (PCI-E N Card) and a DLink DWA-140 (USB N Card)
Both uses Ralinks chipsets, so I guess thats why.
If anyone get a hold of some working drivers for 64bit from Ralink. Please, do tell

Thanks a bunch for the guide. After a week of struggling, blood, sweat and tears. I finally made it. Boy, what a ride!

Edit: Now it seems that my Ethernetadapters have given up on me.
They wont work in 32bit now. sigh

Edit Again: I did a reformat etcetc. and installed everything from scratch. Except that I kept one SL install alive to modify everything.
Installed. Used the -x32 in the boot.plist, and now everything seems to be working allright
I just used OSX86Tools to enable Quartz (I allready had my 9600 GT 1GB String in the boot.plist)
and it seems to be working quite allright.
I just got a shocker when it said "boot: error" on my Chameleon boot. But I restarted, and it was allright. wierd tho.
Anyhow. All fine and dandy now!

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 needed but don't know where to find it.

Thanks for explaining about mkexts, I also found rebuilding the mkext helped me avoid kp when installing little snitch.

@drossxyuI'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 needed but don't know where to find it.

go to utilities and open "Disk Tool" or "Disk Utility" or whatever its called in English (Im using Norwegian so..)

Then rightclick the device you want the UUID of and click information.
There the UUID will be shown. Its a long number, so you most likely will have to make the window bigger.

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?

First thanks for this detailed guide. Unlucky me, I've got a noobish problem:
I preparded an USB Device as explained, but I cannot make my PC to boot from it. After pressing F12 to go to Boot menu I select "Hard Disk". Now I can choose between my usual Harddrive and "Bootable Add-in Cards". Theres no USB device to choose from...
I tried it with iPod (8GB) and USB Stick (2GB + Retail DVD, your linked method)

Any solutions?

PCI 64 Bit Kernel Working with Dynex DX-PCIGB

Got a PCI NIC for GA-G31M-E2SL (Dynex DX-PCIGB at bestbuy for $22) it has Realtek8169 chip on it. It has built in support under IONetworkingFamily.kext under Plugins and RTL8169 DeviceID 10EC8169. So after a bit of digging around and trial error finally found that need to edit DSDT.

The one with original post will create issues with any PCI NIC as it has GIGE defined in PCI Express Slot 1. My actually card for this board comes up on Hub0@1E (bottom PCI Slot) top is slot 0 (have DGE-530T in there that could not get to work). Can find this out with IORegistry Explorer Utility (have attached).

So decompiled the ASL from Original Post to DSL file. Then editted. Had to remove the GIGE and then all GP9 Ref's with Text. After did this was able to check with bootable USB and finally with 64 Bit Kernel.

Now have pretty much vanilla install (from what I understand) with Rev 2.0 Board. I have attached all relevant info and DSDT files (compiled/uncompiled) and some reference material used FYI.

BIOS Change so can Boot from USB

Have to turn on legacy storage support in USB, then should see in boot menu when hit F12 or in BIOS under boot drives before saving change.

Thanks sk1nhd33t for this guide but I'm afraid it is not working for me. I'm still on the 1st step (Creating the USB flash Snow Installer) and can't pass that. I followed your instructions completely and carefully and I have a kernel panic right away. What could be the problem? Could it be a setting in your BIOS? Is your G31M-ES2L rev 1.x? What BIOS version do you have, mine is F9c rev 1.x.

-With the hidden files are shown and dragging and dropping the "boot" to the USB flash disk gives me an error because it was saying that it is hidden, but it is not. Anyway, I just copied it manually using the terminal. Do I have to repair permission to that "boot" file? chown/chmod?

-I already tried your dsdt.aml and tried my own. Both doesn't work.

-I'm sure that my GFX EFI String works (in Leoaprd).

-I don't have to copy the smbios.plist to the USB installer right? It will be copied to the Installed OS after installation?

Please help! I just received my computer parts last night and the 1st thing I did is install OSX86. By the way, Leopard works flawlessly (retail method).

Full Specs:
G31M-ES2L rev 1.x F9c
250GB SATA HDD (Enhanced mode in BIOS)
NO DVD drive
7300LE 64mb (works with EFI string in Leo) - DVI
2gb memory Crucial ddr2 800ghz
Intel E5200
275W PSU
USB mouse/kb

@MonkeyDLuffyThanks sk1nhd33t for this guide but I'm afraid it is not working for me. I'm still on the 1st step (Creating the USB flash Snow Installer) and can't pass that. I followed your instructions completely and carefully and I have a kernel panic right away. What could be the problem? Could it be a setting in your BIOS? Is your G31M-ES2L rev…

Is your memory 2x1GB or 1x2GB?
I've had KP's when I tried to install with a single 2GB memory module.

@heemsker

I use 1 stick of 2gb only. Could it be the cause.

UPDATE: Well, I have a good news update, not yet sure though.

I noticed in the kernel paneic that 64-bit enabled. Ofcouse, I put -v -x32. I know it works because verbose mode is working.

So I went to the bios and changed 32-bit mode to 64-bit, rebooted - booted to my Snow Leo flash drive then just put -v boot flag and it booted. Now I'm installing in my internal hard drive. It is actually 50% right now. I'll give an update later to see if it will work.

Any other boot flag aside from -x32? It doesn't seem to work on mine. It still loads 64-bit

Good luck to me

UPDATE 2:

After installing snow Leo from the USB flash drive, I followed the next steps. First one is to install Chameleon to the Internal hard drive where Snow Leo was installed.

I run the chameleon package and for some reason, the installation is not pushing. It is stuck at "Installing Core" "Writing Package Receipt". The leopard is still running though and I noticed hard drive activity. Cold reboot my system and redid the same thing, it was still the same, stuck on that same spot. I tried 32-bit mode/64-bit mode inside leopard but they are all the same. I'm sensing permission problems. I don't know how to install chameleon manually.

I'm going to try other stuff now, see if it works.

@sk1nhd33t@MonkeyDLuffy just install it manually, take a look at this guide (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16… ↗) to manually install chameleon 2, since you'll be using PCEFI just replace the path of the boot file or drag it in terminal. eg- cp [drag efi10.1 boot file here] [drag the destination] -you can also skip the…

Hey sk1,

thanks. I'm going to check on manually installing chameleon, I also wanted to learn it a long time ago. I guess this would be the perfect time.

But while youre here, maybe you can share you're BIOS settings. Are you on 32-bit or 64-bit mode? Enhanced mode? C1E enabled? Etc.
Only if you have spare time Or willing.

Thanks man!

UPDATE:

I have installed the bootloader properly and it boots but not completely. When I run -x32 -v as boot flags, it kernel panics right away (right after loading /Extra), but when I boot in normal -v (64-bit in BIOS) it boots but only half way. It kernel panics after loading some other kext. I also tried -x32 while in 64-bit mode in BIOS. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

During the eternal quest to reduce the amount of kexts used, i've managed to combine both legacy audio kexts into one

BIOS doesn't detect USB Device

@bzenHave to turn on legacy storage support in USB, then should see in boot menu when hit F12 or in BIOS under boot drives before saving change.

Thanks for your response. So I went to BIOS and saw that i already had "Legacy USB storage detect" enabled. A picture of my BIOS is attached below. I've found no solution yet...

Boot Suggestion..

Don't use F12... hit delete on power up and go into Bios, Advanced section I believe and highlight your USB drive and use page up to move it to the top. I never could get F12 to work either. Just remember to change it back when you're done or you may run into issues during normal boot.

Audio kexts...

Been lurking these boards for several days and have successfully implemented SL on my setup... with one exception, NO AUDIO! So, with this new audio kext can I just put it in my extra / extension folder and be done with it? Or do I need to generate a new mkext file also and possibly remove others?

For the most part I installed 100% per this threads suggestions.. However for the life of me I never could get Chameleon to install on my SL partition. I ended up creating a separate small partition on the same hard drive and installed Chameleon on that, and simply copied the Extra folders and files to my Snow Leopard partition that Chameleon generated. Who knows.. perhaps that is part of the problem with no audio? But everything else works great, network ok, 64 bit ok, graphics ok... just no sound.. yet!

Update to Chameleon RC3 and Snow 10.6.1

Installed RC3 of Chameleon on USB and right on top of SATA drive and works.
Also getting some faults/panic/restarts during installs etc.. so tried the IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext (found 64 bit compatible one) and seems to have fixed along with Install of Chameleon RC3. Without in 64 bit mode would crash on installs of 10.6.1 when trying to optimize system. Also added SMUUID to smbios.plist which may have helped but dont know for sure. Also with RC3 of cham seems to have fixed time machine issues automatically as now have icon in tray where as on initial install did not. Also before Carbon Copy Cloner would crash on clone to another partition (still in beta, so am testing).

Then afterwards was able to install 10.6.1 without issues and do latest software
for itunes and remote desktop.

Also thanx for new kext for legacy883 so far no issues.

I can report successful update to 10.6.1 as well... but still no audio.

bzen... you report no issues with legacy883? I tried that kext, ( put in extensions, rebuild mkext file, repaired permissions ), but still no audio. I have no device to choose from within sound properties. I had no issues with sound on 10.5.6 or 10.5.8.. and still don't as I use a removeable hard drive for my OS's. ( W7, XP and OS X's pre SL )

Can you elaborate on how you implemented that kext with success? Do I need to remove an AppleHDA kext to avoid conficts and properly install? From what I'm starting to get into, for some reason I think I have something pointing to a wrong address where my built in audio is on my bus? But I'm still an infant in this field and learning.. thx

I have audio, all I did was reboot twice both times with -v -f -F. I am also using the new rc3 of chameleon. My install of SL with basically the old boot 123 way using the required kexts and got a full vanilla install with no issues without even installing through 10.5. So I would say try out the new rc3 and reboot doing -v -f -F and the kext util to repair all extens

no luck with -f

@JShubert683I have audio, all I did was reboot twice both times with -v -f -F. I am also using the new rc3 of chameleon. My install of SL with basically the old boot 123 way using the required kexts and got a full vanilla install with no issues without even installing through 10.5. So I would say try out the new rc3 and reboot doing -v -f -F and…

Thanks for the suggestions guys.. but still no luck. I removed caches, rebuilt kexts, DSDT does have HDEF, etc... but all is silent.. well except my words of discouragement to myself. For what it's worth, whenever I use -f on restarts, I get KP's at the OS X login screen. I didn't think we needed to force a rebuild of kext's if we generated mkext files to begin with? But I've only read about a million posts over the last few "daze" so all could be blending together and I'm getting confused?!

May try voodoo option as suggested as I have read successes w/that. Might even try rc3 of Chameleon over the weekend since still don't have Chameleon on my main SL partition as it would hang up on installation.

Again... everything else works great in 64bit mode... it's just to quiet! LOL

Man, you're lucky the only problem you have is audio. I can't even install 10.6 in my setup

I don't really know what I'm missing, I've trying several methods but can't get it to work.

Mine can't even boot in -x32 kernel flag.

Could it be that I have 1 stick of 2gb memory? As one poster mentioned earlier?

I tried different kinds of BIOS settings. Oh Btw, sk1nhd33t → thanks for posting your BIOS config.

This is just sad I'm really hoping that I can experience the "Snow Leoapard" feel soon. I really don't have an idea what it looks like.

Hi, I've just got a lovely rev.2 board so i could get my second hackintosh up and running after selling my old one and getting a macbook and then deciding that i wanted a desktop again.

As you know the rev.2 board doesnt have realtek network, first gigabyte board ive seen without one... just my luck. Anyway i went and brought myself an AU$18 TP-Link card with an 8169sc chip on it (i think). Anyway i installed the card and everythong, bonjour, gigabit, etc. works with included drivers from apple. I just finnished setting up 10.5.8 and am having some issues getting sound working, ive managed to get it to work with some hda kexts but the sound is horrible, everything sounds wrong and muffled.

So i havent set up snow leopard yet which is what will be what im using in the end after im done, so i cant check the sound with that. But i was thinking, it only cost me 18 dollars for perfect network, is there a good sound card or even usb sound card that i could get thats as good as the onboard sound (when working properly) for a low low price that would be a much better option?

Thanks for the guides you guys have put up here anyway, has been great help deciding the hardware for this hackintosh, board works very well and was cheap enough for my wife not to kill me .

Dsdt.. Hdef

@sk1nhd33t

I did verify HDEF is listed in DSDT. Now as to whether or not that means I'm ok just because I see it remains to be seen. But I did use the one I got from the first page of this thread with no modifications.. perhaps that's my issue? I've read where you can patch it... but need to research further and see if that would help? I even tried to generate EFI string for HDEF and put in my com.apple.Boot.plist... but still nothing.

Anyway... I'm at a loss as I did go through all your steps and don't seem to be any closer to hearing music?! As I mentioned, sound works flawlessly in 10.5.8.. but I cannot select any device in System preferences / Sound in my SL install. Arrgh..

I've even managed to successfully install 10.5.8 on my Nvidia chipset system which was much more difficult than the gigabyte 10.5.8. ( but haven't tried to put SL on that board yet )

Just as a side note... I have a USB speaker system from Logitech that I decided to plug in just for the heck of it.. and of course it shows up immediately in sound preferences and works great. Now, something else that I haven't tried that may be a possible conflict is I do have a creativesound card installed in one of my PCI slots. I use it when I boot from XP as it's full blown surround for games, movies, etc... perhaps that may be causing some conflicts with my onboard sound? But again.. no issues in 10.5.8.

It's time to take a break for awhile and maybe jump back with a clear mind later. Thnx for everyone's input…

I'm making progress. I can now boot with -x32 -v BUT I can only see a grey screen. I can hover the mouse, not like it is frozen, but that is it. It is just stuck at the grey screen.

What could this be? Anyone?

Wow, I made it work.

I used all the kext that can be download from this thread and just used the Unofficial Installer of Chameleon RC3 that Dr. Hurt made. That's it! Now I have a fully working Snow Leo! It looks awesome. I'm not yet sure it is stable yet. Doing some testings.

Darn! My Zydas USB wireless doesn't work! I can't find any drivers

kudos to you

Well congrats to you MonkeyDLuffy! When you discover stuff on your own, it only makes you better. Me.. I'm starting to figure it out as well.. just a few weeks ago I attempted my first OS X adventures and now I know enuff to be really dangerous! LOL As do you it sounds like. Speaking of.. still no sound with my built in mobo audio and I've pretty much tried everything that should have worked. ( but am listening to music via my USB Logitech speaker system )

My next attempt will probably be to just buy another hard drive, ( so as not to mess up this 99% SL working install ), and try the newer Chameleon RC3 method.

Anyway.. congrats on your success!

One question to those that may have dual boot systems ... I have another hard drive in my computer that is formatted NTFS that I use for overall data storage ( music, photos, etc... and share with my XP OS ) I point Itunes to use that data ( w/o importing into it's own folder ) to use for playback. One thing I notice.. it's sloooooooow on processing data. Same holds true when just pulling up Disk Utility... it seems to bog down while it polls the system looking for that drive. Without that NTFS formatted drive plugged in, Disk Util pops up quickly. Anyone else experience that? I don't think it's as slow with Leopard, so could be part of my kext setup? Ahhh... a month ago I had never even heard of that word! LOL

Audio.. or lack thereof..

I'm still quiet in regards to onboard audio, and have relegated myself to enjoy my hackintosh for awhile using the usb speaker system. There as to be some difference in my hardware from others that are experiencing success as I've tried all suggestions.. and even a complete removal / reinstall of SL and for the life of me cannot get my mobo sound to show up as an option.

I'm gonna mess around and see if there are other glitches I haven't discovered yet before diving back into audio. For now, I'm only seeing a slow down in response on my NTFS formatted hard drive when accessing through SL disk utility. It took forever for Itunes to organize my catalog and generate artwork from that drive.

Sorry, not much to offer in terms of assistance at this point in time.. will update if I uncover something. Good luck...

Ok so you may get startup error while running x64 most of the time, and i really dont see the benefit of running full x64 all the time, so i just put the arch-i386 command in my boot.plist and that seemed to solve my lock ups during boot if i didnt do -f -F all the dang time…

i've got snow leopard installed using the same motherboard...i've even got sound working by manually installing the ALC883 kext with the Kext Utility.

i have a lot of experience with windows pc's so please excuse me but i've got a some questions and i've been searching for a while but cant seem to figure this stuff out...

1. what exactly does the /Extra/Extensions folder do? i'm assuming that netkas boot file tells it to look here at boot up and install the files inside of it? because i look in /System/Library/Extensions and they aren't there after booting up...do i need to manually install these like the ALC883 kext?

2. every now and then i am getting a random error while doing normal things like browsing sites in safari or browsing through finder windows.

how can i troubleshoot this better? i'm trying to determine if there are logs or something i can look at to give me more info about the error. i figured i'd give it a shot booting into 32 bit mode so i did -v -x32 at bootup and everything seems fine so far.

the only thing i can think that i didn't do well was editing smbios.plist…i'm not quite sure if this is some vital hardware profile or is it just something for "display purposes". i'm using two hard drives one has leopard and other has snow leopard so i'm assuming the UUID and whatnot is irrelevant since i boot directly to the drive i want to use.

any help is much appreciated.

@TamrielThanks for your response. So I went to BIOS and saw that i already had "Legacy USB storage detect" enabled. A picture of my BIOS is attached below. I've found no solution yet...

What BIOS Version looks different then mine as no secondary IDE option and also the SATA is not set to Enhanced.

Can you see USB in BIOS boot options

@vipuhi've got snow leopard installed using the same motherboard...i've even got sound working by manually installing the ALC883 kext with the Kext Utility. i have a lot of experience with windows pc's so please excuse me but i've got a some questions and i've been searching for a while but cant seem to figure this stuff out... 1. what…

Had similar issuses until added the IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext and able now to run in 64 bit kernel with no issues (except 2 that I am working on see post below).

SMB Share Issues + NTFS Write Support - 10.6 (64 Bit)

@L8nitehackinI can report successful update to 10.6.1 as well... but still no audio. bzen... you report no issues with legacy883? I tried that kext, ( put in extensions, rebuild mkext file, repaired permissions ), but still no audio. I have no device to choose from within sound properties. I had no issues with sound on 10.5.6 or 10.5.8.. and still…

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 Chameleon 2 RC3

dont use OSX86 tools on a retail install of SL... I can't stress that enough.. Ok the simplest way to get everything work correctly is this. I can conclude everything is working cause I just finished my final FRESH install with no issue to report, and yes I even installed in x64 mode. Heres the deal got an external hd? If you do well I can help you if you don't well I dont know what to say lol. Anyway format the external hd flash or usb drive "mbr" whatever you want so long as it boots. once thats installed run the new rc3 installer on the drive so it installs to the ROOT of the hd not the EFI partition thats why i partitioned it as mbr, once installed copy the kexts from the first thread into the extra/extensions folder, I used all the kexts that would NORMALLY be used during NORMAL boot not the USB folder, another thing use netkas NEWEST fakesmc v.2 now restore the dvd to the drive. if you want to use it on an mbr partition search youll yield a bunch of results i just dont want to go into that now. Finally reboot boot of the drive -v to make sure everything is loading and install. once installed install chameleon rc3 to the drive copy kexts to the extra folder and run the kext script to rebuild extensions and alas you should have working sound... This works with either sound kexts. updated to 10.6.1 before i typed this no errors yet

First thing i want to say is, thank's to all that have contributed to this thread.

Second thing i thought i might post how i set it all up to help others.

So i have a rev.2 board and i brought a tp link.com/products/product_des.asp?id=2 to replace the on board network, cost me AU$18 from the local shop its all they had and it had a realtek chip so i brought it, works 100% OOB. Best thing i could of ever done and i recommend you to do the same.

After i did that i install Leopard retail onto the same disk i wanted Snow, but i later just did a clone of that disk onto my usb drives partition and used boot 123 to boot it. I installed Snow following this guide and hit an issue where chameleon wouldn't install, i found a pkg of RC3 and just followed the guide using that instead and it worked fine, im also sticking with the 32bit kernel as vmware wont work otherwise. I also updated to 10.6.1 and not one problem, it even sleeps/wakes automatically. So those are the two minor issues i had and if anyone has the same just do what i did and it should work great.

Now i have one slight problem someone might be able to help me with, i installed synergykm beta 7, it works great but if i reboot the pc it doesn't start up automatically is there some way i can do this? Also with linux when i was using synergy for a keyboard/mouse i would have it automatically login but then lock the screen, so its loged in but still cant be accessed without my password, this is so synergy can load and i can then use the keyboard/mouse from another computer. Is there some way i can do this? If anyone's had any experience with synergy your help would be appreciated, and if you haven't had any experience with synergy, its the best way to share a mouse/kb between computers!

Anyway, thanks a lot for the great guide.

Quick question ... not very clear o the OP guide ... do we replace or merge the content of "Extensions" folder created by Chameleon with the OP pkg on both the USB install & the main SL HD?

Also, how do we do this using the hidden EFI way?

Tkx much in adv.!

You replace the contents.

The EFI partition method is explained in my old guide for Leopard →. Scroll down to Step 6 - just make sure you replace the 'boot' file with PC_EFI_v10.

Ahhh OK ... Tkx Voyn1x!

I actually based my Leopard on your guide ... Didn't know I can do the same w/ SL w/ minor adjustment.

Tkx so much to all who took time & created the great guides!

@Voyn1xYou replace the contents. The EFI partition method is explained in my old guide for Leopard. Scroll down to Step 6 - just make sure you replace the 'boot' file with PC_EFI_v10.

Another question ...

I got SL to install on another SATA HD, then when I bring back Leopard to install Chameleon the installer stuck at "Installing Core (writing package receipt)" screen & never complete ... the only way out is to force quit the installer.

I've done it on 2 different HDs & either standard or EFI way.

Did I do something wrong?

Tkx!

@bzenI 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 Chameleon 2 RC3

What function in OSX86 Tools would "rebuild" my mkexts. I'm still having trouble getting my audio to work. I installed the legacy883.kext using kext utility and there still isn't an audio device showing up in the sound preferences.

I also need a ethernet solution as I have a rev. 2 board. The tp-link tg-3269 was recommended in this thread, but it doesn't seem to be available in any of the US based sites/stores. Is there an alternative NIC that works just as well? I've also though about buying one of these apple usb ethernet adapters (store.apple.com/us/product/MB442Z/A).

@BlaSTiWiAnother question ... I got SL to install on another SATA HD, then when I bring back Leopard to install Chameleon the installer stuck at "Installing Core (writing package receipt)" screen & never complete ... the only way out is to force quit the installer. I've done it on 2 different HDs & either standard or EFI way. Did I do…

As i said in my post chameleon wouldn't install, this is what happened. Do a quick search for a pkg of the RC3 of chameleon and use that instead, all the other steps are the same.

Turned out it seems to be related to Leopard 10.5.8 I'm using (dunno why) ... When I did it w/ Leopard 10.5.7 (AiTKOS v7 based) all went thru fine w/ all RC1, 2 or 3.

@joel_ezekielAs i said in my post chameleon wouldn't install, this is what happened. Do a quick search for a pkg of the RC3 of chameleon and use that instead, all the other steps are the same.

give up on audio..

Well, I still don't seem to be any closer to getting sound from my mobo. I've completely done a fresh install using the latest Chameleon to SL, and again... everything works flawlesssly, but no freakin' sound options to choose from?!

I removed my other Sound Blaster card just to see if that was causing a conflict, no difference. ( use that when I have my XP hard drive in )

As soon as I plug in my usb speakers, SL recognizes them and plays just fine. And when I put my other hard drive in with just Leopard installed, it works fine with my mobo sound.

Anyway.. may just go purchase an external usb setup with 5.1 to use with Snow Lep and XP.

Argggh... this one has me totally baffled.

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 of all other sound kexts that u have added, from both /E/E and /S/L/E

2. download the latest voodoohda ↗ and extract it...

3. copy voodoohda.kext to /S/L/E and run the following commands in terminal to fix repair permissions and rebuid mkext caches...

• sudo chown -R root:wheel /system/library/extensions
• sudo chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions
• sudo diskutil repairpermissions /volumes/NAMEOFSNOWVOLUME
• sudo touch /system/library/extensions

4. install the voodoohda pref pane by double-clicking on it...

5. reboot and pray to the hackintosh gods

I have a G31M-ES2L Rev.2. I was never able to get the legacy883.kext to work, nor the other two separate sound .kexts. Since I have the Rev. 2 the ethernet port never worked either so I decided to purchase the apple usb ethernet adaptor. It says it's supposed to be for the macbook air only but it works fine. For some reason it didn't work right off the bat. I had to go into the network control panel to 'activate' it. I'm dual booting w\ windows 7 so luckily there is a windows driver for this device here (discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2104350&tstart=0), although I have yet to test it.

I'll just be a little bit off topic here but your answers are going to be important. I hope it is ok.

Do you experience VERY SLOW boot from USB in G31m-ES2L rev 1.x?

I boot from Snow Leopard USB installer and it takes 12 minutes to see the 1st installer screen. Using the same external hard drive, it boots into my laptop in only 2 minutes.

Booting from DVD is way faster than booting from USB.

This is my second motherboard. I had it replaced thinking that the slow boot is caused by a faulty mobo. Now that I got a new, sealed mobo, it has the exact same problem. My older Gigabyte P35-DS3L mobo does not have this problem.

I'm on F9i bios. Tried other non beta bios and it is still slow.

Btw, thanks for this guide. It is really awesome.

I'm enjoying Snow Leopard now!

First thanks for this guide, almost everything works fine for me, except that i have a kernel panic each time i try to boot with -x32 flag, but i think it is not a problem if everything is fine in 64 bits mode, is it ?

There is something else, SL is installed on a USB hard drive, i have a sata too with win7 partition in first and a hfs partition which i want be used as chameleon boot partition, please, somebody can help me to do that. (actually i choose usb hd in boot menu to launch a chameleon rc2 which seem working fine actually)

thanks for all and i hope my english is good

@MonkeyDLuffyI'll just be a little bit off topic here but your answers are going to be important. I hope it is ok. Do you experience VERY SLOW boot from USB in G31m-ES2L rev 1.x? I boot from Snow Leopard USB installer and it takes 12 minutes to see the 1st installer screen. Using the same external hard drive, it boots into my laptop in only 2…

Odd, I've got a rev 1.x board and mine boots the usb stick installer within a couple of mins - much quicker than a DVD.

Where are you plugging in the usb stick? If it's through an Apple keyboard for instance, it will only read at USB 1.0 speeds. My board is using the original bios shipped with it (F7).

Also dsdt is bios and mobo specific - you may find the dsdt in this guide is for a different bios version. Imho you should always make your own DSDT than use someone elses.

Yeah, it is really weird. Hmmm, I'm just plugging it at the back USB ports. I tried switching ports and I they are the same. I just discovered something new (just now), when I disable USB 2.0 in BIOS, the slow boot speeds are identical with it Enabled. I disabled USB 2.0 in my other gigabyte motherboard (not G31m-eS2L) and now it is identical with the slow boot speed as my G31m-ES2L Enabled. I'm guessing that USB 2.0 is not working properly in the boot process.

However, If I'm inside the OSX (installed in the USB), its super fast. It's just the boot process.

BTW, thanks for confirming that you're not having this problem. I have to talk to Gigabyte regarding this issue.

EDIT:

Oh I forgot to mention that it is not DSDT related. I also have an external Windows 7 and XP USB installers. They all boot slow compared to a cd or dvd.

Anyone else getting random kernel panics.

It would say that the app has caused the kernel panic (usually happens after half an hour of use or so)

e.g pages, adium, mail etc etc.

It only happens when booted with -x32 (i would use -x64 but then I have no sound)

Can anyone shed some light on this situation?

Can anyone help me?

I have this little issue.

On the boot.plist file on my USB I have the -x32 flag set and when I boot into OS X via the USB it works fine.

But with the charmeleon installed on my HDD it always boots into the 64 bit kernal. I have tried editing the boot.plist file on my HDD and using the -x32 flag before booting into OS X and neither work.

Anyone know why this is happening?

@someguy360Can anyone help me? I have this little issue. On the boot.plist file on my USB I have the -x32 flag set and when I boot into OS X via the USB it works fine. But with the charmeleon installed on my HDD it always boots into the 64 bit kernal. I have tried editing the boot.plist file on my HDD and using the -x32 flag before booting into…

use
arch=i386 on boot or in your boot.plist

another board

hi, i have Leopard10.5.7 (iatkos) installed in one partition of one drive (i have 3 sata hdd) and i want to upgrade to Snow Leopard and install on other hdd...i´ve been trying this for almost 4 days with no success. Basically i followed the 2 most common procedures:
OSInstall.mpkg and USB flashdrive methods and nothing but KP's.
Because i don´t have at this moment an 8 gb usb flashdrive i substituted it with other partition on the same target drive of Snow...KP's allover as expected, then i tried using an external hdd as a substitute of the flashdrive...more KP's.
So i'm wondering if your guide is specifically for your board? Is your dsdt specifically for your board?
Don't you think the external hdd should function as a usb flashdrive?
I have an intel board DP965LT (Q8200, 4 gb of ddr2 800 MHZ and a 9600 gt).
Leopard is full functional.
I really would like to know this, if possible, before i buy an 8 gb thumbdrive .

@sisiphushi, i have Leopard10.5.7 (iatkos) installed in one partition of one drive (i have 3 sata hdd) and i want to upgrade to Snow Leopard and install on other hdd...i´ve been trying this for almost 4 days with no success. Basically i followed the 2 most common procedures: OSInstall.mpkg and USB flashdrive methods and nothing but KP's.…

well in order to help you, pictures might be very helpful

Chameleon HD installation problem

i could follow the instructions from sk1nhd33t till the point "Back on Leopard". The installation of SL went well. So after that, I attached my "new" SL-SATA-harddrive to my MBP (with Leopard on it) with an USB-Adapter to install Chameleon. But everytime i try to install Chameleon, the installation-process is stalling. I think the "Core" is installed correctly but the installer can't write the receipts. I get this protocoll error:

Sep 21 18:15:02 f048144113 runner[387]: Extracting BOM from "/Users/wrenger/Downloads/snow/Chameleon:EFI/Chameleon-2-1.0-r431.pkg" to "/Volumes/Hackintosh/Library/Receipts/boms/org.chameleon.core.bom"

I have no idea what's going wrong, because i could write chameleon from my MBP to the thumb drive.

My hardware:

1. MBP 13 (still Leopard on it)
2. PC with G31M-ES2L, E5200, 4GB…

Hope someone can help.

Greets

Onboard-graphic

Thanks again. It worked. My Hackintosh is running and updated (10.6.1). Onboard network-card is working. The only negative point is the onboard-graphic-(card). Is there any kext or EFI-String for it?

Help with Sound

I am trying to get my sound work on my hackintosh.
I have a ES2L board and everything is working except the sound (this board is rev1.1)

I used lifehackers guide(http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-y… ↗)

Should I have not installed this way?

@sk1nhd33t@Stoerte install it manually instead or google dr. hurt's RC3.pkg and use it together with netkas new PC EFI v10.3. edit: here's a very easy to follow guide to manually install Chameleon (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16… ↗) , just replace PC EFI boot file on step 8. dowload the binaries here: RC1…

Why do people keep linking to RC1? RC2 and RC3 have been released. I believe I've been using RC3. Is there something RC1 does better?

netkas stated that rc1 is more compatible to older motherboards, so chances are you're safer with rc1

@sk1nhd33t

I started to use the Netkas 10.3 EFI & also the newest fakesmc kext everything working as before but my system profile didn't show like yours ... my PCI list is empty ... and I have to switch back to use EFI string for my nVidia (8400gs) in order to get other resolutions to show up otherwise only 1024x768. I've cleaned up my boot.plist like yours too.

My board is r2.0 so I'm using RTL8139 based PCI ethernet so kinda expected it may not show up on the PCI list but the video card should, no?

Tkx!
@sk1nhd33t →

@sk1nhd33t@snow glad that it now worked for you and my guide help a bit. chao! edit: BTW USB installer boots and install fine on 64bit using this board.

@sk1nhd33t Are you saying that I should disregard snow's instructions whenever it mentions booting in "-v -x32"? If yes, then good--because that's what I did! Well, the reason I did that was because I didn't know how to get into the prompt and enter "-v -x32" with Chameleon 2.0 RC3. Everything seems to be working fine and I had no KP's during installation. Will it be okay that I didn't boot in 32-bit mode? In other words, is using "-v -x32" merely a safety guard for preventing crashes? Or are there other reasons for booting in x32?

BTW, Chess crashes on me when I try to move any of the pieces.

@sk1nhd33t

I'm a bit confuse ... I thought swappin' the "boot" file is basically switchin' the binary ... If I recall correctly I'm using RC2 as the base install since it's the only one that has ability to use EFI partition while the RC3 hacked installer can not (I think similar w/ RC1) ...

I'm using 8400GS on rev2 w/ latest PC-EFI 10.3 now ... how do I find out if I have QE/CI?

Tkx!

@sk1nhd33t

I think I'm using RC2 w/ your original 10.1 then upgrade to 10.3 ... I'll try your link to chk for QE/CI support AFAIK some people said if Chess, Front Row & DVD works then more than likely QE/CI in use and I got them to work.

Yeah you're right hidden EFI partition works on all Chameleon ... I forgot just varied during install the RC1 only has EFI as the option and RC2 has EFI & FAT but the RC3 installer I got (hacked by Dr. Hurt) have no custom button so I don't think it' has EFI and/or FAT support

Similar to your situation w/o the EFI string (I'm using UInstaller to generate my 8400gs) in the boot.plist I'm stuck on 1024x768 mode while w/ the EFI string I have a lot of choices.

Another question ... I'm using the PleaseSleep you suggested ... and it works great but when the machine sleep a bit longer when I wake it up I lost my keyboard & mouse ... do you run to similar situation? But if its not to long all good ... have not try to hookup USB drive or anything to see if I lost it too like USB problem.

Do you keep the SleepEnabler.kext while using the PleaseSleep application or replace?

Tkx!

Great guide sk1nhd33t, thank you for taking the time to write it up.
Quick question, how long should it take to restore the SL dvd to the thumb drive? I've tried it as per the instructions on my 10.5.8 hackintosh and from my macbook but it is painfully slow. Disk utility showed over 1 day before I stopped it. Thumb drive seems to be normal as I tried transferring a 700mb file and it was quick. Also tried to restore from the SL dmg file located on the hd vs from the dvd rom. Still slow.

Chameleon install

How do I know Chameleon is installed correctly on the USB? Is there some file or directory I can check for?
I tried the manual install of RC3, but I couldn't boot from it. In boot selection I tried everything (USB-HDD, USB-ZIP, USB-FLOPPY). I'm guessing I might not be installing the Chameleon boot loader correctly. So just want to make sure I am.

Okay, Dr. Hurts RC3 installer worked, then I copied over 10.3 boot.
The thing I had to do was to set my USB Flash to be priority boot over HDD in bios.
Then it booted fine and installed fine too. I did not specify (" -v -x32 ") before the install. Is that bad?

Now, my next problem is about "Back on Leopard" step. I have two machines - old PPC iMac G5 and PC hackintosh (brand new) that I'm trying to install SL on. So what can I do to install Chameleon now onto the new hackintosh SL box?

Edit: I figured it out. Just used the flash drive to boot to Chameleon and then selected the new HDD with SL install. Got it to boot on its own. Now to get the video card working (GeForce EN9600GSO). Any good tutorials on how to get that working?

Another edit: Got my video card to work using Universal Installer using custom install. Want to tanks Sk1n for all the great help!

boot

ok, sk1nhd33t i finally manage to install SL...with bits of this tuto and part of the OSInstall.mpkg method, and lots of try/error/try again. I was forced to use AppleIntelPIIXATA from leopard because somehow the new one for SL did not recognize my mac partition, during install on your method or any other method too  : . i used Chameleon-2.0-RC2-r640 and EFI 2.0.
Sound works good, internet too, no Kp (only when i was trying to install Photo CS4),sleep is working, the problem is when i come back from sleep sound is full of glitchs (like leopard too).
my major annoyance is every time i boot to SL (installed on one hdd of 3 at my disposal) i have to boot with flags -v -f -x32 otherwise it will stall.
i edited boot.plist like this but still will not boot.
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
	<string>1440x900x32</string>
	<key>Kernel</key>
	<string>mach_kernel</string>
        <key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<string>-f -x32</string>	                                         
        <key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<string>boot-uuid=B5375017-4D34-3E88-9B6867110FDFEA89</string>
        <key>Theme</key>
        <string>Default</string>
	<key>Timeout</key>
	<string>1</string>
	<key>device-properties</key>
is there any way to make it boot automatically without typing those fags everytime

I downloaded the PleaseSleep application, which seems to work just fine!
But its really really ugly and there is no setting to hide it completely, remove the menu bar icon or the floating window, you must have atleast one, and i would like it to run completely in the background. I really dont need to change any preferences at any time.

So how's this done?
Using it on my netbook too, therefore i need the space in the menu bar, cause of the low resolution.

My thought exactly ... have you try to choose the non-menu bar option (floating window) then go to preferences-> accounts and you'll have the option to see what app that auto-run when login automatically and make hidden? That way it'll be minimized to the dock.

@JoQI downloaded the PleaseSleep application, which seems to work just fine! But its really really ugly and there is no setting to hide it completely, remove the menu bar icon or the floating window, you must have atleast one, and i would like it to run completely in the background. I really dont need to change any preferences at any…

BlaStiWi and sk1nhd33t okey
The thing is i only have 1024x600 resolution, and it sucks to have many icons at the topmenu.

Hope we'll find a solution!

I have 10.5 running fine on an Abit IP35 Pro w/ ATI 4850 video card. Can't get the install of SL to work unfortunately. I'm booting from an external USB HD and it takes about an hour to get to the attached screen. It then either freezes or after several more hours it shows some audio related issue.

I booted with the -v -x32 options. Also had to put the NullCPUPowerManagement kext in the Extensions folder to get past an HPET-related kernel panic. Any suggestions are more than welcome.

@sk1nhd33tPleaseSleep cant be hidden even if you tick hide on startup so what i did was change it's menubar icon, at least now i dont see a tricolor "Zzz" icon and it matched other icons in my menubar pleasesleep is the icon before MainMenu (eraser icon)

@sk1nhd33t Do you fee like being even more generous and sharing your menu-hilite.gif, menu-off.gif, and menu-on.gif? Right now I use a 22x22 pixel transparent gif.

My mainboard has 2 NICs, w/ one disabled booting setup took a very long time, both enabled and it would freeze after network initialization. Purchased and installed an RTL-8169 card and disabled the onboard cards, ut now I get a kernel panic. Any suggestions?

Chess problem

Chess kernel panic.

Chess kernel panics in 64 bit as soon as I move the mouse. Front Row and the ripple effects in dashboard work fine though. Chess is fine in 32 bit kernel. It makes me wonder if I have qe/ci only in 32 bits or if its not clear cut like that.

This is the crash screen:

I have the G31M-ES2l and the graphic card Asus GeForce 7300GT 256mb.
Output through DVI.
Snow leopard with kexts as in sk1nhd33ts guide.
Chameleon RC 2/3 boot0 boot1h and netkas 10.3 boot. No efi string - GraphicsEnabler in boot.plist. Kext Utility.

I don't know much about Quartz extreme and Core Image except that they are supposed to make the GPU do more of the work.
The 7300 is pretty weak though so I don't know what the difference would be.
The Wikipedia entry for Core Image list the 7300 as one of the cards used by apple for core image and notes that "any GPU capable of handling Core Image instructions is also Quartz Extreme capable". I used a trial version of iMaginator and ran this test (gtdmarc.blog spot.com/2009/01/core-image-benchmark-comparison-geforce.html) I found. There was no difference under 32 or 64 bit (around 2 min 40 sec). I also used Core Image Fun from the developer tools. Transitions and effects worked fine in both 32 and 64 bit. (it crashes when using large pics like the example pics). Quarts composer also seems to work.

Xbench gives me slighter higher value for quartz and openGL in 64 bit…

Clicking the "Open in 32bit mode" under 64 bit kernel doesn't help Chess.
I also tried out an app called OpenGL Extensions Viewer. No difference in cpu % while testing.

g31m2es2l
E6300 2.8 Ghz
Asus GeForce 7300 GT silent 256 mb
2 GB 800 MHz ram
500GB HD samsung ecogreen
PicoPSU 120 w

on mine, keeps on saying restart before install..anything to modify to remove the restart...

Kext Help

First thank you. This guide worked perfectly for me. Snow running perfectly even after update. This is my problem I accidentally drop a kext into a console and now all my kexts look like in the picture. Even if I download them they turn into a folder before I can do anything with them. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

@simsimChess kernel panic. Chess kernel panics in 64 bit as soon as I move the mouse. Front Row and the ripple effects in dashboard work fine though. Chess is fine in 32 bit kernel. It makes me wonder if I have qe/ci only in 32 bits or if its not clear cut like that. This is the crash screen: I have the G31M-ES2l and the graphic card Asus…

same thing happens with me. i get the ripple effect and screensavers work, but chess crashes like yours does. i have the same board and cpu as you. i have a 7600gs 256mb. i simply got rid of chess. haha.

good to know, maybe its just a bug then.
I never used chess before, only to test for qe/ci

Need Help!

I've followed the instructions and cannot get the USB to boot. I have tried many. many things. but, no luck. Need help.
I posted the verbose message screen. The screenshot attached is right before the machine reboots. I Leopard 10.5.6 installed (ideneb), and had no problems with that install.

Here is what the screen reads:
efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL stringdata
Loaded HFS+ file (Extra/smbios.plist) 943 bytes free from 4237430
Patched DMI Table
Loaded HFS+ file (DSDT.aml) 15508 bytes from 4237430
Patched ACPI version 1 DSDT

Then the machine re-boots.
I am using Chameleon 2 RC2 with EFIv10 boot file.

@raymop (at) mac.comI've followed the instructions and cannot get the USB to boot. I have tried many. many things. but, no luck. Need help.

i recall reading somewhere that pentium d's can't run vanilla. i could be wrong. this guide worked perfectly fine for me using a basic pentium dual core (e6300). have you ever ran vanilla with your pentium d?

I got mine working fine now incl. an ATI4850 thanks to the following thread:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18… ↗

One thing that isn't working, is 5.1 out over S/PDIF. Stereo only for now.

Vanilla on Leopard

@dooododooi recall reading somewhere that pentium d's can't run vanilla. i could be wrong. this guide worked perfectly fine for me using a basic pentium dual core (e6300). have you ever ran vanilla with your pentium d?

Well, I installed Leopard using iDeneb v1.3 (10.5.6).
This is what system profiler says:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.2.0
Boot Volume: HAckint0sh
Boot Mode: Normal
Computer Name: Hackint0sh

So, if I can't run vanilla on 10.6, then can you recommend a guide for me to follow?
I am just a little past noobie stage.

raymop

sk1nhd33t, thank you so much for all the time/work you've put into this and helping others get up and running. I'm brand new to this and have a couple of questions from the 1st post in this thread:

when install DVD restore is done go to snow folder on your Desktop and copy the following to /Extra on your flash drive ● dsdt.aml ● boot.plist - edit this to match your EFI Strings, timeout and Graphics mode ● Extensions[USB] - rename it to Extensions

Where do I find instructions on how to edit the boot.plist? I don't know how to find my EFI strings, timeout, or graphics mode. I searched the forum but can't easily find the answer.

Also, would you consider updating those attached files to the latest? I tried doing it myself but got confused. (e.g. Chameleon RC3, PC-EFI 10.3, etc.)

I've tried a SL install several times on my G31M-ES2L with the VGA PNY VCG85512GXXB 8500GT 512MB graphics card. I've gotten it up and running almost perfectly, except no matter what I try, audio doesn't work (no audio devices show up). I've tried LegacyALC883.kext, I've tried LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver and LegacyHDAPlatformDriver, I've tried both, I've tried Voodoo, but nothing works.

@altoidboyAlso, would you consider updating those attached files to the latest? I tried doing it myself but got confused. (e.g. Chameleon RC3, PC-EFI 10.3, etc.) ... I've gotten it up and running almost perfectly, except no matter what I try, audio doesn't work (no audio devices show up). I've tried LegacyALC883.kext, I've tried…

This is my situation exactly. I have everything working, except for audio. None of the kexts seem to work, no matter where I place them. I have tried everything and have a G31M-ES2l Rev 1.1 (F8 bios) board.

I migrated my Leopard account, so maybe that caused an issue. I think I may just have to totally wipe the drive and completely start from scratch.

If someone would be so kind as to create a new zip with the currently recommended solution, I would greatly appreciate it as well.

Ah, glad to know I'm not alone. But I didn't migrate Leopard. I did a total clean SL install, following a few different guides and trying many different kexts. I'm about to try this guide (the one at the top of this thread) again.

Sound is working. I did a fresh install on another drive, copied over my settings manually, and then used carbon copy cloner to get it all back on my original disk.

Spotlight KP

(i thought my installation went well, but now i have the following problem. Every time i boot my computer, Spotlight is trying to index my harddrive and my hackintosh gets a KP and i have to reboot...booting…Spotlight trying to index...KP...reboot...etc. :'( Someone has a fix for me?)

O.K. it's not (only) a Spotlight problem. I stopped running spotlight and deleted the index. (hostconfig SPOTLIGHT=-NO- and mdutil -i off /, mdutil -E /) Now i get every few minutes a KP...Grrrr. Any suggestions?

Another point is that i can't suspend, i have to shutdown the computer every time. Smartsleep didn't help.

HW: G31M-ES2L, E5200, 4GB RAM
SW: see install-instructions (except installing Chameleon RC1 manually), SnowLeopard 10.6.1

I'm a bit confused about the PleaseSleep appliation... I don't have PleaseSleep and my sleep seems to work fine, as in my computer turns itself off in, say 20 minutes. It turns on my fast after this, thus I assume it went to sleep. Am I missing something here?

P.S I have the same board as sk1nhd33t.

@raymop (at) mac.comI've followed the instructions and cannot get the USB to boot. I have tried many. many things. but, no luck. Need help. I posted the verbose message screen. The screenshot attached is right before the machine reboots. I Leopard 10.5.6 installed (ideneb), and had no problems with that install. Here is what the screen reads:…

I recommend the dr. hurt bootloader linked some where in this topic.
I couldn't get my usb to boot with the standard RC1/2/3 or EFI boot files either.
So just restore your SL iso to the USB drive, install the dr. hurts bootloader and put the extensions(USB) folder and others in the extra folder.

Help w/G31-ES2L SL install

I've followed your guide, installed from USB successfully, booted into fresh SL partition (-v x32), installed Chameleon RC2 package for EFI HFS, copied boot to root, copied Extras to root with com.apple.boot.plist with EFI String for 8600GT 256MB from OSX86 Tools, renamed extensions.

When I then try to boot into the drive with -v x32, it kernel panics. I don't understand, this has happened twice on me after another fresh install and then isntalling chameleon.

any help/suggestions?

plaza.ufl .edu/rmn87/KP.jpg

G31M-ES2L rev2.0
4gb DDR2800
C2D E8400
eVGA 8600gt 256mb

i have successfully installed 10.5.6 on my G31M-ES2L, can someone tell me if the BIOS settings for 10.5.6 and 10.6 be the same? or someone please post the BIOS settings for 10.6

@eLPhii have successfully installed 10.5.6 on my G31M-ES2L, can someone tell me if the BIOS settings for 10.5.6 and 10.6 be the same? or someone please post the BIOS settings for 10.6

I haven't had anything to change.

Kernal Panic While Installation

Im unable to install snow leopard. When I select the "Install Mac OS X" in Chameleon Bootloader I get the attached screen. I have tried to install in 32bit and 64bit. Both I get the same error. out with this.

Im using G31M-ES2L V1.x mobo.
iAtkos Leopard 10.5.7.

@sk1nhd33tyou dont need PleaseSleep because manual and automatic sleep is working for you.. lucky you care to share the rest of your specs?

Yep, PleaseSleep is not running (I do have it installed however) and the normal sleep functions for me. Though sometimes it wakes up by itself. It seems that it may be tied to some program running. It's strange sometimes it'll sleep fine, and sometimes it won't auto sleep and wakes up (in a minute or so) if manual slept. That is why I installed PleaseSleep to see if it would fix this issue, which it did not.

My specs:
GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 1.1
Intel Pentium E5200
Asus 9600 GSO Video Card
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S
Asus WL-138G V2 PCI Wireless card
1 TB Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 HD

Question: I cannot get my CPU temp to display with iStatMenus. It only shows the HD temp. Has anyone gotten CPU temp to display using any app?

I have everything as in the first post and automatic sleep works for me without PleaseSleep as well. 32 and 64 bit both.

Only difference is I don't have a bonjour fix. Weird thing though, if you set Display and Computer to sleep after, say 2 minutes of inactivity, display will sleep at that time but it takes a couple of minutes after that before computer sleeps too.

1 sata drive, apple pro usb keyboard, 7300gt, firewire pci, picopsu.

OK, tested a bit more and it seems to just work now and again

Don't upgrade your bios, I upgraded to F10 and now my ethernet does not work, even with the ethernetbuiltin put in the boot.plist

Edit: Help, Everything worked fine with the Beta F9 Bios, but now ethernet does not work even when I downgrade to F9 (final) bios. Im going to try the F8 bios, but does anyone know if theres any solution?

@simsimWeird thing though, if you set Display and Computer to sleep after, say 2 minutes of inactivity, display will sleep at that time but it takes a couple of minutes after that before computer sleeps too.

I see this too. It's almost like the sleep timer for computer starts after the Display goes to sleep. So say if you have 2 minutes set for sleep for both Display and Computer, Computer will go to sleep after 4 minutes. This is just a theory, not totally positive on this.

looking into buying the board, but i'm not really sure if 5.1 multichannel audio is working?!

I read that S/pdif is not working, but what about analog multichannel?

thx,
lazy
ps: awesome guide, thx so much!

Audio for ES2L v2.x board

@L8nitehackin@sk1nhd33t I did verify HDEF is listed in DSDT. Now as to whether or not that means I'm ok just because I see it remains to be seen. But I did use the one I got from the first page of this thread with no modifications.. perhaps that's my issue? I've read where you can patch it... but need to research further and see if that would…

hi L8nitehackin

I also have the version 2.x of the board and I was having the exact same problem: everything working (with a separate NIC, not using the onboard LAN) except SL can't see onboard audio.

the problem I was having was I was using Chameleon 2RC2...i switched to RC3 and used the kexts and DSDT.aml posted by sk1nhd33t and voila! WE GOTZ AUDIO LOLZ!

to recap:

- use the kexts provided by sk1nhd33t
- use the DSDT.aml (patched with HDEF already) by sk1nhd33t
- use Chameleon 2.0 RC3

all three are crucial to have on board audio working for ES2L v2.x boards

infinitemac community rules! sk1nhd33t's guide is awesome! i would have never managed to build my Hackint0sh without his guide! Ayos ka talaga, tsong! (translation: You're alright, brother!)

I need some help, I installed snow leopard using a lifehacker guide, but cant install any kexts using Osx86 Tools.

I don't get any sound, i dont see any output device in sound preferences.

Using 10.5.8 i was able to install sound kext but why isnt working in snow leopard.

what tool do i use to install kexts?

Installation on G31M-ES2L with geforce 7300 GS - success

Using a bought copy of the upgrade disk I managed to use your tutorial to upgrade a working ideneb install to snow leopard! Thank you SO MUCH, you are the greatest!

Some things:
1. adding EFI means adding a long list of digits to the com.apple.Boot.plist and it is based on your graphics card. I used "EFIStudio (scott dangel.com/blog/?page_id=20)" , entered my EFI in the file (which you later copy from the USB to the HD in /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist)
2. the UUID of my computer (you can find it in "apple->about this mac->more info->hardware under "hardware UUID") was already in the plist when I opened it, which brings us to:

3. I did not do exactly as written here. this tutorial is for a new install and I upgraded a current install, somehow it worked (maybe because I was based on ideneb to begin with?), after installing from USB I booted from the USB again but chose the HD I upgraded. the OS started ok (no video :- but could not install chameleon for some reason. I didn't get it installing until now.. but I can boot from the HD now (after copying all of the Extra/ and boot files and changing as written in first post) and now the OS works.. so I don't know what was that chameleon failed to install all about.

Anyway, thank you so much for the howto, I really admire all you people taking the time to make this possible!

I have the same problem, no audio devices are showing up, can anyone help?

@checkitoutThis is my situation exactly. I have everything working, except for audio. None of the kexts seem to work, no matter where I place them. I have tried everything and have a G31M-ES2l Rev 1.1 (F8 bios) board. I migrated my Leopard account, so maybe that caused an issue. I think I may just have to totally wipe the drive and completely…

drossxyu Has the sound fix

"drossxyu Puma Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29 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 thisthread (check out his awesome automation script while you're at it): 1. get rid of all other sound kexts that u have added, from both…

The fix by drossxyu is what worked for me. I tried everything. And I mean everything. This is the ONLY sound fix that worked,
You must remove any and all other HDA's from /extra and s/l/e. Rebuild and reset permissions.

After 1 week, I finally have snow leopard with working sound.

Try this fix for no sound

@ju421019I have the same problem, no audio devices are showing up, can anyone help?

See my response right below yours! Maybe it will help.

Thanks - I will try this audio trick on a fresh install again tonight.

Or can I do it on my existing install, I think i added several kexts to get it work, where is the path to remove them?

What are these paths? "get rid of all other sound kexts that u have added, from both /E/E and /S/L/E"

1. I found the the link to the voodoohda file and pane.

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,234.0.html ↗

I got an question.
I have successfully installed Snow Leopard using your way,
but I changed my GeForce 9600GT for an ATI HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 simply because its better, and I know it works on 10.6.1.

However, when I did that, I got the following error:
"AppleRTL8169 phywaitforautonegotiation timeout"

I have googled, and I have no idea how to fix it.
I did also try to use the USB-Installer and boot to install another one, because I thought it was because of the GFX change,
but that doesnt work either..
I have also tried to do "n" instead of "y" on the useethernet string, but nothing.
I have tried to remove the GFX String, nothing.
I have tried to remove all the NVIDIA kexts (NVxxxx.kext), still nothing.
Same result.

Any chance for a hint in the right direction, or an direct answer?

- Dag Magnus

Edit: I removed the NVIDIA kext from the installer, the ATI kext, and added an modified ATI Kext and my installer now works.
But when I install and try to run the newly installed Snow Leopard, it stops at the same problem.
I dont know what I am supposed to do now, I am completely lost!

I couldnt read all the post so please forgive me if its already answered

Were you guys able to get the onboard graphics working? Full resolution and QE support?

If so please give me some sort of a guide or tip…

Dsdt...

Ok, I am for the most part new to dsdt patching.. Here's my problem.

I used the dsdt.aml from the snow.zip. Install goes great, boots up great. Only, I have no networking at all! I have an asus 138g-wl wireless pci card (I think that's it, works well in 10.5). My board is the ES2L version 2, so I know that builtin Ethernet does not work.

Anyway, if I remove the dsdt.aml from the zip in this guide and replace it with the one I was using for 10.5 (just the rtc fix), network starts right up.. But I lose the fixes in the new dsdt! Like, the CMOS reset fix, sound, etc..

Any suggestions? I looked at the decompiled versions of the old versus the new, I have no idea what I am looking at though.

How do install the dsdt.aml file?

I ask this because I installed Snow Leopard using the lifehacker guide for another gigabyte board, it works fine, except some things like audio.

Now, I know there is a dsdt file in this guide, how can I apply it to my install?

Can anybody run Voodoopower.kext in 64-bit? It only works in 32-bit which I think is normal. But I want to run in full 64-bit and at the same time save power.

Is there any other way to run Speedstep buy not using Voodoopower? Or maybe anybody has a 64-bit version or a work around to make Voodoopower work.

UPDATE:

I found the answer to my question but I'm not 100% sure it works. It looks like it works though.

I just went ahead and read this thread:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18… ↗

Scroll down at the 1st post you will see the link for CPUi.

I DID NOT follow any DSDT/SSDT modification with regards to CPU speedstep. I just installed the CPUi app and that is it. I just made sure that Voodoopower.kext is not available in /E/E or /S/L/E.

The reason why I'm not sure it's 100% is because of the program that netkas made, cpu-x, doesn't recognize the speed change. But the CPUi app itself does. I don't know where cpu-x fetches the info, but with Voodoopower.kext + cpu-x, cpu speed changes are recognized, but 32-bit only.

The CPUi works in both 32 and 64bit. - SLEEP works, but it is harder to wake up - more keys needs to be pressed. AUTOSLEEP does not work.

UPDATE: It was not hard to wake up from sleep. I just thought it was. Sorry.

spinner of death at gray before install

howdy -- followed the instructions to the tee but I seem to be sticking at a gray screen after the large / small text, with a moveable cursor before the install really begins. if i wait long enough it turns into a spinner. any thoughts?

Bootable but won't install

I followed all the steps and when i boot from the USB drive, i get this
I'm not using a flash drive per se, it is this ↗my mobo boots from it fine but could that still be a problem?
I also had trouble with the kexts in the com.appleboot.plist, how do i make my strings or EFI strings? i did it with EFI tool, but thats just for my graphics card, is that how i do it?
here are my specs:
G31 S2L
Q6600 Core2Duo
EVGA 9800GT
Edit:you can't see it but its in 64bit mode, how do i edit the mkext to keep it in 32?

I followed this guide in this thread:

http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-y… ↗

To get everything working fine, easiest way to install. Only Issue I am having is sound, I can't see the input/output device, any help there please?

Yes I know the lifehacker guide mentions a different motherboard, but it works fine on this one too.

Now, I just need sound working from the board.

Great!

Quick Q ... does the myHack installer put stuff into EFI partition?

Tkx!

@sk1nhd33tguide updated again to base an RC3+PCEFI 10.3 install and updated kext.. made a short guide too in creating your own DSDT using DSDT-SE.. credits to all who found/create all the apps, kext and fixes.. enjoy ISSUES im having: - Automatic Sleep w/o the use of PleaseSleep - waking from sleep using my Apple Aluminum KB - the rest is flawless!

@sk1nhd33tguide updated again to base an RC3+PCEFI 10.3 install and updated kext.. made a short guide too in creating your own DSDT using DSDT-SE.. credits to all who found/create all the apps, kext and fixes.. enjoy ISSUES im having: - Automatic Sleep w/o the use of PleaseSleep - waking from sleep using my Apple Aluminum KB - the rest is flawless!

Really nice to hear that the rest is flawless. May I ask, what SpeedStep app are you using (64bit)? I use CPUi which seems to work but I was wondering that you might be using something better. Voodoopower only works in 32-bit

@sk1nhd33there's how the setup goes, any of the 3 combination will do: - LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver + LegacyHDAPlatformDriver + HDEF = audio - LegacyALC883.kext + HDEF = audio - VoodooHDA (S/L/E) + untouch dsdt = audio if all fails then i dont know what to suggest anymore ^_^

Just let you know that the first method also worked for my Jetway xblue P43 mobo with alc883.
I've tried voodoohda 64bit in s/l/e too but, mic input almost always never worked properly. Using appleHDA just feels more satisfying and produces a bit clearer sound, imho

Great stuff, thanks!

Hi, i was wondering if i could get some quick help. I had my computer set up properly and everything worked, but i wanted a larger hdd, anyway i formatted and set everything up again and its working perfect. But for some reason i have nfi why, i cant connect to anything shared with samba, from windows 7, osx, or solaris. Does anyone have a clue why this would be happening, when i try to connect it just sits there saying connecting and never finishes.

Can't open Chameleon Screen

I have tried this and followed other guides on how to Install the retail SL but I can't get the Chameleon screen to open after booting from the USB drive. Does anyone know why I can't get Chameleon to run or has anyone else had this problem? I'm trying to install to Dell M90 Laptop.

@cchristophherI followed all the steps and when i boot from the USB drive, i get this I'm not using a flash drive per se, it is this (http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essentia… ↗)

That's not really following ALL the steps then.

All I can say is that I have the same hardware as the OP, I followed his directions, and SL works semi-perfectly (no auto-sleep, but remedied by PleaseSleep.app) as he said.

Just get an USB flash drive and proceed. I wish for your success!

@joel_ezekielHi, i was wondering if i could get some quick help. I had my computer set up properly and everything worked, but i wanted a larger hdd, anyway i formatted and set everything up again and its working perfect. But for some reason i have nfi why, i cant connect to anything shared with samba, from windows 7, osx, or solaris. Does anyone…

ok so i have worked out that connecting to an smb share works perfectly fine before i install myhack+kexts (first boot after install), does anyone please have any suggestions?

edit: well after alot of screwing around i just went back to your old guide and used the files from there after installing snow leopard with myhack bootloader. works fine now.. :s

edit 2: lol well i got a kernel panic setting it up that way and went back and tried numerous things, its gotta have something to do with myhack and whats in the efi partition, but for now im using nfs to connect to my fileserver

@sk1nhd33tif you are talking about the hidden EFI partition then NO, install it manually instead with just 3 terminal commands or RC2.pkg that's what im using right now including my backup leopard partition.. i prefer it because it's hidden and im not tempted to tinker it a lot haha! im using Pstate created by hnak, cant link it to you right…

I just got it from the original post of "FormerlyknownAs" here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18… ↗

It is the last link of the first post.

I just installed it at /S/L/E repaired permissions, cleared cache. Restarted in 64-bit and ran the CPU-i app and there I can see that my E5200 shifts from 2500Ghz to 1200Ghz. Multiplier increases from x 6.0 to x 12.0 (the normal). Cpu voltage also changes from my stock 1.292 V to 1.052 V. Seems to work fine in my case. I think Mitch_de from IM also said that the CPUi works fine and we were having the same issue because CPU-X (netkas cpu tool) does not detected the voltage/ghz shift.

By the way, what is the difference between speedstep and P-state?

I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me here.

a. Also I have another request, anyone know how I can dual boot windows 7 and SL? Do I need two hard drives?

@ju421019I followed this guide in this thread: http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-y… ↗ To get everything working fine, easiest way to install. Only Issue I am having is sound, I can't see the input/output device, any help there please? Yes I know the lifehacker guide mentions a different…

@cchristophherI followed all the steps and when i boot from the USB drive, i get this I'm not using a flash drive per se, it is this (http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essentia… ↗)my mobo boots from it fine but could that still be a problem? I also had…

Even Im having the same problem.. But im not able to figure out the problem…
Why dont anyone from infinitemac help us out with this problem…
At least tell us where we are going wrong...

Hullo. Thx for really good guide, but I've got one problem, and have no idea how to solve it. I'm using dual boot with SL and win xp, xp is on one partition and SL on other. I have bootloader (myHack 1.0 rc3) installed on separate disc, because if i install bootloader on SL partition it messes up xp bootloader, and windows stops working. So SL work fine, boots up perfectly, but if i choose windows from chameleon, it doesn't start, screen goes black, and on top of it appears white dot. But if i make windows partition active and boot from that hard drive, windows starts normaly. Any ideas why chameleon doesn't load windows? And strange thing, windows partition is set to default on chameleon, is there any way making SL partition as default?

Looking forward hearing from you

Can't boot from USB stick, help

Thanks to everyone for this fantastic thread. I am attempting to build my first Hackintosh using the G31M-ES2L (Ver. 2.0) board using this guide.

I am following the steps to the letter, but I cannot get my machine to boot from the USB stick. The stick shows up in the BIOS and I can select it on the boot menu, but after that nothing happens.

I have reformatted my stick and re-restored the SL image, re-run the MyHack installer, basically followed the directions over and over and still nothing works.

If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears. I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure this out...

Sorry for asking this again, but... I cannot get my CPU temp to display with iStatMenus. It only shows the HD temp. Has anyone gotten CPU temp to display using any app?

@russianbanditHas anyone gotten CPU temp to display using any app?

You can use CPUi it needs it's own kext to be installed, but works fine on a Hack.

If you can't get past KP in your first Snow boot, I'd suggest you need to properly install the Chameleon bootloader. Get the latest version (2.0 RC3 r658 + PCEFI v10.4 by Netkas), install by included instructions and try again.

Hope this helps! PM me to let me know!

Found why audio selections did not show up

Many thanks to OP for the really hard work. Everything worked except Sound and Samba shares. I had problems with the audio like some of the others. Forgive me if I missed any similar solution posted earlier; it seems this thread is very popular

Here is what I did:
1. download MKext Tool from pcwiz computer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=48

2. Start it, click on tab "View Contents".
3. Choose /Extra/Extensions.mkext
4. Click on View Contents.

5. If any of the audio exts are missing (LegacyALC883.kext, LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver.kext, LegacyPlatformDriver.kext) then it might help to create a new Extensions.mkext.

Note, follow the following only if 5 is true.

6. Click on Pack tab on MKext Tool.
7. Drag all the kexts in /Extra/CustomExtensions to the window.
8. I saved the extensions to an Extensions folder on my desktop.
9. I picked the "View Contents" tab again and opened the just created mkext and here is the result:
Found 7 kexts:
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/fakesmc.kext - org.netkas.fakesmc (2.0)
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/FramebufferDisabler.kext - net.osrom.kext.Disabler (1.0.1)
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/LegacyAppleRTC_32bit_Only.kext - com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (9.9)
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/NullCPUPowerManagement.kext - org.tgwbd.driver.NullCPUPowerManagement (1.0d2)
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/OpenHaltRestart.kext - com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart (1.0.3)
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/PlatformUUID.kext - com.superhai.driver.PlatformUUID (1.0)
/Volumes/SnowCoco/Extra/CustomExtensions/Sleepenabler.kext - sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler (1.0)

10. I trashed the older /Extra/Extensions.mkext. It will ask for auth. You may decide to move it; I was less patient.

11. Copy your new Desktop/Extensions/Extensions.mkext to /Extra/Extensions.mkext. It will ask for Auth.

12.  Delete cache.  In terminal mode do:
     sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Caches.

13. You can also run pfix as described by OP.

14. Reboot.

15. Go to System Preferences -> Sound (Thanks OP)
Select Internal Speakers for both Sound Effects and Output.

I would suggest only the brave to try this first and then verify that I am saying something sane. This is my first post here.

Now to figure out Samba shares: Mine just say connecting to Server. Works fine with windows client.
Other stuff: Time Machine: fine. Sleep is beautiful. CPU= E5200, 2 hard drives. Can't test Parallels as E5200 does not have VT extensions
Originally had 10.5.6. Would not boot from USB stick so I created a separate partition on one drive, put the Snow hackintosh installer on it and booted from it. Installed OS on the other drive and continued as described by OP. Beautiful. The original hard drive with 10.5.6 I reformatted and now use it for time machine.

Samba shares: Still trying to figure it out. Other Apple customers have the same problem.

@infiniteThanksNow to figure out Samba shares: Mine just say connecting to Server. Works fine with windows client.

If you used pfix it doesn't set the execute bit on one of the files in the smb kext that needs it to run correctly. I went into Disk Utility and repaired permissions and smb is working for me now.

Britney

In case someone made the same mistake as me…

When I was reinstalling my stuff I couldn't get sound for a while, until I realised I was manually making the mkext in /extra by combining the kexts in S/L/E and Extra. It should only contain the kexts in extra. If you do it manually in terminal you get a lot of missing dependency messages but the resulting mkext is the same as you get from Kext Utility (I checked with md5).

I had some samba problems too but using "computername\username" as the username worked for me. As in this tip macwi ndows.com/snowleopard-filesharing.html#090209d

brfransen: It WORKED ! I went to Disk Utility and used it to repair permissions and SMB share now works. Thank you !

simsim: Thank you! The warnings generated by the command line confused me so I wanted to use the MKext Tool to visualize what was going on. Plus I am fairly new to OSX Mac. Actually I am running away from Windows.

I was successfull following this guide to get SL up and running with kalyway 10.5.2 on another partition. The screen resolution wasn't correct and in profile it didn't recognize my video card. I installed EFI studio to fix this choosing my card. The software update offered additional updates and programs, which I declined and I might note saw in this process 'connecting to apple' which I had not noticed with the 10.5.2 verison that has has been installed numerous times in the last months attempting to get a working 'es2l ver2'. After restart I noticed during that process the cpu multiplier 10.5…never before that, 8 normal, the 'my hack' screen with bootloader options…kalyway1052, SL,slinstaller. I then choose SL only to get screen 'power button/restart' message in various languages with very large circle and line…similar to those ' no left turn', etc. I'm used to seeing. The kicker is that after trying to restart and to use 'kalway1052' doesn't work…going into bios the system has been reset to defaults.After making adjustments then booting into '1052' which is fine.Seems that when SL crashes it changes bios back to defaults. Any ideas or suggestions would be great. Thanks.

@brfransenIf you used pfix it doesn't set the execute bit on one of the files in the smb kext that needs it to run correctly. I went into Disk Utility and repaired permissions and smb is working for me now. Britney

Thank you so much, using NFS worked fine but i had strange permission problems, and not knowing how to set it up on solaris properly didnt help, smb works great again!

Success - thanks

Long-time lurker on this thread, but I wanted to simply say thanks for all the hard work as I finally got my ES2L rev 1.x working with Snow Leopard. I literally tried more than a dozen different methods (including the early versions here) and finally this latest version worked perfectly for me. Also updated to 10.6.1 without any issue and all is working perfectly. Thanks!

Can you give us the tip for 10.6.1 to have audio working 100%

@carolinablueLong-time lurker on this thread, but I wanted to simply say thanks for all the hard work as I finally got my ES2L rev 1.x working with Snow Leopard. I literally tried more than a dozen different methods (including the early versions here) and finally this latest version worked perfectly for me. Also updated to 10.6.1 without any issue…

Can you post the audio kexts?

I can't seem to have 100% in-out audio on SNL...!

Thanks:)

I skipped all audio content

Sorry I can't be of any help as I use a Bose Companion 5 USB speaker set and so have audio disabled in my BIOS and skip all those portions of the directions. Best of luck in your search to get it working.

CMOS - Corrupt

What is the easiest way to fix the CMOS Reset error I get every time my computer restarts? I am using the DSDT downloaded in the ES2L Kit. Everything else works like a charm on my G31m-es2l. I've tried the cmos corrupt fix in the es2l folder. How did everyone else fix theirs?

G31m-es2l Rev 2.0
9600GT 512
Snow Leopard 6.1

verifying DMI pool data

I followed the guide (thanks for all your work on this!) and was installing SL when the machine rebooted, and now all I get is "verifying DMI pool data." i've re-formatted my thumb drive, did the entire process over, and still, "verifying DMI pool data." I have v2 of the board, and am trying to use onboard graphics. Is that my issue?

try this......

Search es2l on these boards…guide under Voyn1x at the end shows Alc883.zip

I did use Kext Helper 0.7 to install both…got from weaksauce leopard soup es2l guide and folder.
AppleAzaliaAudio:

Version: 1.0.0
Last Modified: 10/21/09 8:04 PM
Get Info String: 1.0.0, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 2005
Kind: Intel
Architectures: i386
64-Bit (Intel): No
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
Kext Version: 1.0.0d1
Load Address: 0x5b6d4000
Valid: Yes
Authentic: Yes
Dependencies: Satisfied

AppleAzaliaController:

Version: 1.0.0
Last Modified: 10/21/09 8:04 PM
Get Info String: 1.0.0, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 2005
Kind: Intel
Architectures: i386
64-Bit (Intel): No
Location: /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleAzaliaController.kext
Kext Version: 1.0.0d1
Load Address: 0x5b528000
Valid: Yes
Authentic: Yes
Dependencies: Satisfied

Had to install pci etherent card…trendnet

Type: Ethernet Controller
Bus: PCI
Vendor ID: 0x10ec
Device ID: 0x8169
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x10ec
Subsystem ID: 0x8169
Revision ID: 0x0010

disable 'on board lan'

Help with Audio no Work

Audio no work in 32bit or 64bit

please some help

ACL883:(

No Sound

Ditto here on sound.
Nothing doing.
V2 using firmware from Gigabyte FF, FE did not work either.
Tried Voodo, Taruga 64

Sound stuff is scattered all over the net but nothing concrete. Thanks for this thread it is lengthy but you gain some knowledge from it.

Thanks to this thread and all the great contributions I have my ES2L R2.0 FC BIOS, E6300 OC'ed to 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 9500GT 512MB, PCI TrendNet Ethernet (due to no driver for the R2.0 onboard Ethernet), and PCI Firewire all working great! Everything I have tried so far, including audio and sleep works. I haven't tried automatic sleep but manual works fine and I never used automatic sleep in the past.

I used Conti's myHack 1.0 RC4 (osx86.soju garden.com/2009/10/myhack-installer-1-0-rc4-released/) to install. Then I extracted my DSDT and compiled and found some errors. I fixed those using the DSDTSE Fixes Menu and then changed the RTC section as sk1nhd33t instructed and added the Method DTGP. For audio I used only the LegacyALC883.kext provided in the ES2L Kit (media fire.com/?x1lgy9rhefy) sk1nhd33t linked in the first post of this thread and then modified my DSDT to remove the "Sound AZALIA" section and replace it with coconup's DSDT HDEF code. ↗ I also added the DSDT USB sleep fix ↗ and System Profiler now shows all my USB 2.0 Buses as Built-in.

For those that may be interested I have attached my dsdt.dst.

Thanks to all those who have contributed.

Britney

This guide has been a life saver, I bought Snow Leopard thinking I could just install like Leopard and everything would work. This guide actually makes the install EASIER than Leopard. Thanks much for your work on this.

Well, I was able to get everything but the sound to work so instead of trying this that and the other thing, I just bought Creative's Xmod USB sound adapter for around $20 bucks on Amazon and now I have sound!

@brfransenThanks to this thread and all the great contributions I have my ES2L R2.0 FC BIOS, E6300 OC'ed to 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 9500GT 512MB, PCI TrendNet Ethernet (due to no driver for the R2.0 onboard Ethernet), and PCI Firewire all working great! Everything I have tried so far, including audio and sleep works. I haven't tried automatic sleep…

Great to hear your install is a success. I still can only boot with the 'installation usb drive' inserted and 'boot 1st' option ' in my bios. After that I'm able to eject and all seems well with operating system,,,,,,,,sound, sleep,cmos reset fixed,etc. Any idea how to correct this? Also the overclocking would be nice to try. Same processor. Any settings advice would be appreciated.Thanks

@353infGreat to hear your install is a success. I still can only boot with the 'installation usb drive' inserted and 'boot 1st' option ' in my bios. After that I'm able to eject and all seems well with operating system,,,,,,,,sound, sleep,cmos reset fixed,etc. Any idea how to correct this? Also the overclocking would be nice to try. Same…

That sounds to me like the bootloader isn't installed on your HD. Did you rerun myHack and target your boot SL hard drive?

For the overclock all I did was set the cpu multiplier to 10.5 and the front side bus to 325MHz. I had the front side bus at 333MHz but after the machine would sleep it would be awake for about 10 mins and would then kernel panic. Backing off the front side bus to 325MHz seems to have fixed that.

Britney

Been reading this guide like mad and other sites, however I have noticed that many who build a machine with this board have dedicated video cards, does the onboard video work at all with this or no? I'm hoping to use the onboard until I can save up enough money for a video card.

Haven't been able to find an answer to this one.

In any case, thanks for the guide. Hopefully it's smooth sailings for me.

It worked for me while I was waiting for my video card but there are problems. One is that I couldn't get any video to display in Quicktime or VLC. There was sound but only black would display in the video window. Another problem was that the display would never sleep and when I put the machine to sleep all the fans would continue running. Once I got the PCI-E video card installed both issues were gone. I am thinking that both issues have to do with no specific drivers for the GMA 3100 chipset but I didn't do much research.

Britney

@PibbmanBeen reading this guide like mad and other sites, however I have noticed that many who build a machine with this board have dedicated video cards, does the onboard video work at all with this or no? I'm hoping to use the onboard until I can save up enough money for a video card. Haven't been able to find an answer to this one. In any…

The built-in Intel GMA 3100 (not GMA X3100) is not compatible with either Leo or Snow Leo. It will work but you won't have QI/CE (VESA only) thus making it suck a lot - such as No resolution change, you might have problems watching videos, can't run a lot of programs that are QI/CE dependent, and lots more.

If you can stand that, you can just go ahead and install it while waiting for your dedicated video card.

BTW, when you decide to purchase the video card, make sure it is 100% compatible.

Thanks. Well, I do have a video card but from my understanding it hasn't worked since Tiger or something. It's a Sapphire Radeon x800 PCI-e, I might try it but from what I know it most likely will not work.

EDIT:

I went ahead and ordered the XFX 9500GT 1GB PCI-e, which is apparently said to work on the osx86project as well as having seen others running it.

Thanks again. I went to myhack installer page and reread ...noticed that I failed to follow 'post install' for sure. Little concerned that some 'fixes' seem to cause more problems. No big deal really letting usb stay inserted…boots system and then sleeps. You updated the 10.6.1 download? All the best.

I've used the method described in the OP to install Snow Leopard onto my hackintosh with the following spec:

Mobo: GA-G31M-ES2L
CPU: E5200 2.5GHz
Graphics: 8600GTS (fanless)

I have a dual boot setup with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 both booting fine from Chameleon 2.0-RC3 on the same HDD. I'm using the dsdt.aml and smbios.plist given in the ES2L Kit zip, and have the following extensions installed:
fakesmc.kext
LegacyALC883.kext
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
OpenHaltRestart.kext
PlatformUUID.kext
Sleepenabler.kext
In addition my com.apple.Boot.plist is set up exactly as suggested in the OP.

The system boots fine but is very unstable. It has never KP'd, but quite often the app I'm using will freeze, then the dock will freeze, followed by the Finder. At this point the system has to be forcibly powered down & restarted.

I had Leopard 10.5.7 installed for a few months before formatting and installing SL yesterday, but I've never experienced this problem before. Any ideas?

Update: I've removed PlatformUUID.kext and Sleepenabler.kext and added -legacy flag to force 32-bit kernel, will see if that helps & report back.
Update2: Switched off HDD sleep in Energy settings, ran chkdsk on the Win7 partition, and repaired permissions in Disk Utility - this seems to have fixed the problem, for now at least.

I got a question. I'm in my Network tab in system preferences, and my Netgear FA331 isn't showing in the list. When I try adding an interface, I'm only given the options of Built in serial port, VPN, PPPoE and 6 to 4.

From what I understand the FA311 is based on the Realtk 8139 chipset. Do I need to find rtl8139.kext first before it will show in that list or what? It seems IONetworkingFamily.kext doesn't work either. If i put in a new NIC, will it discover it automatically and show it in the list? I forgot to put the '<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key' deal when i installed SL, hopefully that didn't affect anything?

thanks for any help.

Ok, so I went out and bought that Dynex Gigabit PCI card at Best Buy, and it works without anything needed on my part.

I tested mine sound, and went by how OP told to set it up. The system sound plays sound, but when I go into safari and play a flash video, I don't get any sound at all? Gonna try normal media files and see where that gets me, but I can't figure out the flash video sound issue,

NEVERMIND. I forgot to change the Output tab too. Hehe. It works fine now. This is awesome! Now I just gotta test and see if my DVD drive works, and its all good. I also have to get around to installing Fusion, I wonder how that will work.

Boot problem

Great info!

This is my setup:
Mobo: GA-G31M-ES2L
CPU: E5200 2.5GHz
Graphics: 8600GTS

I followed the instructions and everything installed fine. However when I reboot to my USB drive, the bootloader doesn't see the SL drive. It wants to load the installer again. Anyone have a suggestion?

for the help.

Syn

@syndocGreat info! This is my setup: Mobo: GA-G31M-ES2L CPU: E5200 2.5GHz Graphics: 8600GTS I followed the instructions and everything installed fine. However when I reboot to my USB drive, the bootloader doesn't see the SL drive. It wants to load the installer again. Anyone have a suggestion? for the help. Syn

I got stuck on this one too. Like the first time you load the thing by F12, you choose USB HDD or USB Thumb or whatever it was, and it was load and install. Then everytime afterwards it was gone or something. So during F12, I hit Hard Drive + and found that USB drive in there and it worked from in there.

is anyone experiencing slow wake ups? is that something associated with this setup or hackintoshes in general? my wake ups have been fine for about a couple of months, but recently, it takes awhile for mouse clicks, keyboard key-presses, and wifi to respond/activate. (my screen turns on right away though.) any thoughts?

Audio problems I faced and fixed

iztec, jetpr : I made every mistake as far as audio is concerned but now it is all good. Here is some stuff:
(a) Use the the DSDT update posted by brfransen,
(b) Update the extensions.mkext under /Extra. It may be that the LegacyALC883.kext is not being picked up. Look for a posting by me, infinitethanks, for a long way to do it and responses by smarter people to my posting for a short way to do it.
(b) Use option, system profiler to check the audio profile. If it is not available, you may not have set the audio to auto in bios.
(c) when everything is set correctly, my audio profile looks like the following:
Device ID: 0x1458A002
Audio ID: 883
Available Devices:
Speaker:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Line Out:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Line Out:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Line Out:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Internal Microphone:
Connection: Internal
External Microphone:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Line In:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Headphone:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
S/P-DIF Out:
Connection: RCA

My Bios version is F8

Hello, i don't have the SL disc, but I have the dmg on my computer. Is there any other way I can install without having the disc?

My system is as follows:
E6300 pentium dual core 2.8 ghz
ga-g31m-es2l Not sure what rev
2 gb patriot 800 mhz ddr2
9600 gt

:)

cj95, just drag the snowleopard_10a432_userdvd.dmg file to source box and drag the sd/hdd (partiton) you're using to the destination box.

Who knows about the video. I am running rev 2 of this board. Everything works like a champ, except sometimes I get artifacts in certain graphics programs. (Inkscape,chess,...) Also every once in 50 times it wakes from sleep I get a grey screen, with red,blue and green static.

If I understand correct, Chameleon rev 3 should automatically detect my 9600 GT 512. Any insights? Feel free to PM me until I get this resolved.

99% there.. but no network

i'm an IT pro, but a newbie when it comes to osx86...

have a g31m-es2l running SL.. sound, but no networking?/ i mean nothing in the prefs panel?

i must be missing a kext or something

Thoughts?

@evil gi'm an IT pro, but a newbie when it comes to osx86... have a g31m-es2l running SL.. sound, but no networking?/ i mean nothing in the prefs panel? i must be missing a kext or something Thoughts?

If it is a rev 2.0 board there are no drivers in OS X that work for the on board ethernet. I use this PCI card ↗ in my rev 2.0 and it uses the drivers built into SL. No other hacking required.

Britney

Just as a bit of a side note to this method - which absolutely rules BTW - the attached Realtek 32bit network driver causes Kernel Panics and random freezing of the OS several times daily.

I've got a whole bunch of machines with Rev 1 of this board with F8 bios and it's taken me weeks to figure out that it wasn't hardware causing the KP's.

With F7 and F10 bios, any SL install method doesn't see the ethernet card. It seems that only F8 (maybe some of the F9's going around?) works.

Needing Bonjour to be active is necessary for all my computers so I was running in 32bit kernel mode solely because the ethernet driver needed to have the new ifconfig installed (didn't want to remove the vanilla one).

There are a bunch of kext's over at "Stell's Blog" - just Google it and browse to the "Prepare Yourself" post. I moved the RTL1000 kext into the /E/E folder and upon first boot, in 64 bit mode, Bonjour worked perfectly.

Maybe it could be included in the method as an option for Bonjour when booting in 64 bit mode?

James

thanx for this guide. I now have a working system using a rev 2.0 board. I did encounter some issues, but resolved them with the following:

I used the latest myHack installer, and ran the dsdt patcher instead of compiling my own. I used an EN8400GS graphics card and a Netgear GA311 PCI ethernet card.

Everything seems to work 100% and I'm thrilled.

Thanks to this awesome guide, I have had success in installing SL on my first (rev 1.1 F8) Hackintosh.

I followed the guide exactly, but I chose to go with the onboard video. I suffered from the same problems mentioned previously in this thread - sleep not functioning correctly, etc.

So I decided to go out & get a 9800GT. Using this guide (aquamac.prob oards.com/index.cgi?board=hack1&action=display&thread=509&page=1)I seem to have gotten it working OK, but I still have the following issue:

Sleep (auto & manual) seems to work OK, but the display won't wake up. The PC itself seems to wake up fine, but the display won't. I have to reset the PC & then I can't get back into the OS unless I use the -pci0 switch.

Of course, the sleepenabler ketx (etc.) have been installed, as per guide.

Does anyone have any idea as to what I might be doing wrong ?

boot from usb hdd not pen drive

Can you do this from a usb hdd not a pen drive ? currently I have one usb hdd but not a pen drive, when I do boot rom it all i get is the blinking cursor at the top of the screen ? any help ?

blancmaison
Yes! An external hdd works, as it's how I did my install on a rev 2 board. I even had a drive with 2 partitions, added a third 10gb partition, and put snow install on it. I'm not sure if it matters, but is your drive guid partition mapped?

Everything working, now trying to add Ubuntu 9.10

I followed the guide and my system has been up and running for many days now. Many thanks to people on this forum. I even upgraded the system from a lowly E5200 to a Q9550. I guess I want to do more.

(a) Add a clean Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu and then reinstalled Chameleon. Chameleon recognizes the Linux partition. When I select the linux partition and boot, grub complains about unknown file system and then throws me into grub rescue.

This is the latest and greatest Ubuntu 9.10. Ubuntu boots after installation but does not boot after Chameleon is installed even when Chameleon can see the Linux partition.

Ubuntu is now using ext4 as default file system.

(b) Restore Ubuntu from another machine instead of installing a clean copy. I have not go this far yet. I guess I will use dd (with care).

So yeah, I am asking for trouble and probably deserve it but any advice from someone who has done a clean install or better yet, a restore from another Ubuntu install under Chameleon, will be appreciated.

Got Ubuntu 9.10 and ES2L hackintosh running fine now

I could not get Chameleon to launch OSX so I decided to use grub to launch OSX. Ubuntu 9.10 has moved to Grub 2, different from legacy grub. Ubuntu will detect OSX HFS+ boot partitions and create boot menu items and scripts but I it kept on getting kernel panics when I used the grub boot menu ... something to do with invalid number of arguments somewhere in the stack.

Also, unlike legacy grub, grub 2 can read HFS+ partitions.

In Ubuntu, use Gparted to find out which partition has your OSX installed.

Then add a very simple menuitem in Ubuntu grub configuration file:
/boot/grub/grub.cfg (note: used to be /boot/grub/menu.lst in legacy grub)
Use any editor. Make sure you have to have admin privileges to save the changes.

menuitem "Mac OSX boot or whatever you want to call it" {
insmod hfsplus # loads hfs+ module. Grub 2 can read hfs+ files !
set root=(hd0,6) # your partition may be different
multiboot /boot # used to be called kernel in legacy grub.
boot # not really necessary; it is implied
}

Now reboot. You will see your new entry in the grub boot list. Use arrows to select it. It will now boot into chameleon.

I think someone can make it better.

Yes it is guid , I am waiting for the board that is mentioned in the post to turn up so I thought I would try to build the boot disk on my old emac onto a usb hdd I have , I have tried different format options as well , I then tried the usb hdd on a dell optiplex gx 520 which normally like hackintosh but just get a blinking cursor.

Excelent guide i used in my GMG31-S2C I HAVE SL WORKING BUT...

Thanks for the guide, is excellent, but i mixed up with the DSDT patch and my motherboard is different that in the guide the chipset is the same, i have problems with video when i write the string line with efi studio the resolution that i only get is 1024x768, and the sound not working at al the kext that i use is the ACL662 but no exit, so i had to use and external audio, I need help to get this working at fully capacity, by the way, im using a 7600gt nvidia 256 mb and a cpu intel dual core 5200, but im going to buy an E7500 core two duo and start over again, any sugestions or advices? thanks

E5200 is plenty enough.

Some thoughts:
E5200 is good enough. I built a full system on the ES2l with no issues. I moved to a Q9550 because I was doing heavy image processing.

DSDT : One problem could be that your DSDT may be very different. DSDT is, in very crude terms, a representation of the hardware configuration by the BIOS to the software. Hence, just having the same chipset does not help all the time.

If you find a good DSDT for your motherboard/BIOS version out somewhere, use it. Getting the DSDT from the OSX system is not good enough; it just returns the one you just put in. A good way to get a DSDT is to download a Linux live ISO (Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc.), burn it to a CD and boot from it. Create a terminal window, and type:

sudo cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > DSDT.aml

Then you use DSDTSE app in the ES2L Kit to patch it, compile it, and save it to either the / and/or the /Extra folder(s).
There are fixes that you have to make; see OP.

Rebuild the /Extra/Extensions.mkext with the MKextTool, Kext Utility, or the command line. See posting by me and followups to it.

Make sure the permissions are correct: use the Disk Utility to fix it, not the script.

Clean all caches and retry

Hi, thanks for the quick response, now i have internet and video working at full capacity, just the audio, but with the usb audio no problems i can live with that, now i have to work in the rosseta so i can play chess in with the java application and as i understand, i dont need another cpu? do i have a good one? thanks.

I did the repair permissions thing that you recommend to me and this is what i get is a screen image of my pc, thanks for your advice.

I can't boot from usb thumb drive, or a western digital mybook external hard drive.

This is starting to drive me crazy. Neither will boot. It just goes straight into Windows 7 on my other partition. I tried to put both as first boot device in bios, and then tried to do it from the boot menu. No dice.

I have a g31m-es2l I bought yesterday, core 2 duo e8200, 2gb ddr2 800 ram... I don't know what the problem is. It just won't boot from the external drives.

Any help? I am so lost at this point.

If you did all the steps in the correct way you just have to enter to the motherboard bios configuration and choose usb as the first boot, I had the same problem, so i disconnected the hard drive and just use one hard drive o install osx snow leopard and is working right now.

And don't get desperate be patient

Thanks for the reply!

Do you think I need to just do it on a seperate HDD than my windows 7 install? I wanted to do it on the same drive, just different partitions, but that doesn't seem to be working.

Tell is the safest thing to do if you are trying to install snow leopard. If you don't have one extra hdd, then enter in the motherboard advanced bios configuration and choose usb as the first boot.

Okay, thanks. Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't working for me. I finally got to boot from my external HDD, but it just got stuck.

I had to create a partition in order to get that far, just unpartitioned space wouldn't boot from my external HDD. I'm not sure what the problem is, because I have the same setup as the original poster.

I did. That didn't work initially, so I tried to use an external HDD.

@antonehenryOkay, thanks. Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't working for me. I finally got to boot from my external HDD, but it just got stuck. I had to create a partition in order to get that far, just unpartitioned space wouldn't boot from my external HDD. I'm not sure what the problem is, because I have the same setup as the original poster.

Hiya,

Yea unpartitioned space is not going to boot, it needs a active partition to boot, as long as im reading your post correct, you will need to setup up and OS on the unpartitioned space to be able to boot.

What methods have you actually tried, it may help to list them all her so we can see where its going wrong!,

Hope ya get it working soon.

I have installed and everything runs smooth just the sound doesn't work i had to use an external usb, can someone give me some advice

10.6.2 update

Is it safe to update?

Anybody update to 10.6.2 yet?

What can happen if you update? start over again thats it, this is the funny thing about this, and of course that you can update as well you are using vanilla kernel

@BlaSTiWiIs it safe to update? Anybody update to 10.6.2 yet?

Yes, and all went fine. http://netkas.org/?p=315 ↗

Just be sure to remove sleepenabler.kext before you update to 10.6.2 and update to the new sleepenabler.kext listed on Netkas' page after updating to 10.6.2http://netkas.org/?p=315 ↗

Making Audio work.

@latinoguyI have installed and everything runs smooth just the sound doesn't work i had to use an external usb, can someone give me some advice

Sound was tricky for me. I finally got it by
(a) making sure I rebuilt the /Extra/Extensions.mkext after having added the sound kext to the CustomeExtensions folder.

(b) Making sure that the audio output configuration was for "Internal Speakers".

(c) In System Profiler:

No audio in the system profiler implies you don't have the correct BIOS settings.

Less than 5 lines implies that you have correct BIOS settings but the wrong kext or the kext was not loaded. Boot with a -v -x to see what is going on.

Use lspci (a version exists in OSX86Tools to see what you actually have.

A large number of lines (>8) everything is loaded properly. Check (b)

Please look for my post sometime earlier; I can't get to my Mac right now as my daughter has stolen it from me

It's finally installing now.

Problem I had... I updated my macbook to 10.6.0 from Tiger, which I was using to create the install on my external HDD. I had a partition made for Mac OS X already, reformatted it via Disk Utility during installation on my Hackintosh/Win7 Dual Boot to Mac Extended Journal or whatever it is...

So now it's installing on that partition and rather fast. We'll see how the system is working once it's done.

Problem was, Tiger wasn't able to run the ES2L Kit properly, I believe. Gotta do it from a version of Leopard.

Thanks for the ideas LatinoGuy. Or should I say, Gracias, Amigo?

Here's a little followup hiccup I am having.

When trying to boot up, I got a "operating system missing" error from my BIOS. So I have to repair windows via the install disc, then I can use windows' boot manager to select an operating system. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9s6Cesg_j8 ↗)
(updating this post as I go along, I am so close!)

If anything, I will just reinstall windows7. No biggie, I just installed it the other day. I think I also saw somewhere that you should instal OS X first if you're going to dual boot with windows 7.

EDIT:::::: Need to reinstall Windows 7 on same partition. That's okay. It's been fun. Next will be trying to boot into OS X. WooHoo.

apparently using Disk Utility (OSX) or the Win7 install disc, you cannot format your partitions to install both operating systems on one hard drive. It's hating me right now.

Next I will trying installing them on separate hard drives.

EDIT::::: Wow, did this F up my hard drive. I can't find a good way to repartition my hard drive to reinstall windows 7. I even erased all of it via partion magic, disk utility, and windows 7 install cd. Nothing works at all. I can still install OS X on it, but nothing else. Weird.

I keep getting a C:\Boot is corrupt and unreadable error. Maybe I will just install OS X for now, until I get a new HDD. So weird. I have never run into a problem where you just can't completely wipe the HDD and start over. hmm...

EDIT:::: PS sorry for the multiple posts in a row.

I wasn't able to install both on the same HDD. I am now in the process of recovering a HDD i accidentally formatted trying to get both to work nicely dual booting. But should work just fine on separate HDD's

Dude, use Linux to part the drives.

@antonehenryEDIT::::: Wow, did this F up my hard drive. I can't find a good way to repartition my hard drive to reinstall windows 7. I even erased all of it via partion magic, disk utility, and windows 7 install cd. Nothing works at all. I can still install OS X on it, but nothing else. Weird.

Make sure the drive is GUID.
Download any of the latest Linux Live CDs (Ubuntu, Red Hat /Fedora, etc.). Torrent downloads are also available. Burn the iso to a cd. Boot to the live CD.

Use that to repartition using gparted. (System->administration-Gparted)
Linux should be around 8G. The rest is up to you. Partition format is unimportant.

Install W7
Install OSX (see OP)
Install Linux. Linux will install grub and run grub-config automatically which will do an os-probe and ALMOST do the right thing.

Remove CD, boot into Linux, find out which partition has OSX. I use GParted which can be installed using:

sudo apt-get install gparted

Keep gparted around; it is useful!

edit the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file

Add in the custom section at the bottom of the file:

menuentry "Your name for OSX" {
insmod hfsplus
set root=(hd0,6) # your disk /partition may be different
multiboot /boot
boot
}

You must use the custom section else an os-probe will over-write the information. Remove all the other menu entries for OSX in the grub.cfg file; they don't work because they assume a mac efi system. Save the file. You must be root or must do sudoedit to edit and save properly.

If, while booting, you don't see the boot options, you should hit the ESC key when the grub message comes up.

Life saver: the Linux dd command. Installing Windows 7, OSX, multiple times can be a pain. I have used the Linux dd command to save the disks and partitions. Then it is just a matter of copying them back if I messed up. This is not the right forum to go into dd though.

The only issue I have with grub is it does not have a sweet interface like chameleon.

And remember, experiment. Once you are done experimenting, put in a second disk (about 3x the OSX partition) and use the time machine to save your work and you will be happy. It tastes better than icecream.

I updated to 10.6.2.

Removed the old sleep enabler before updating. Got kernel panic. Checked Netkas site, saw this: "There is panic with geforce7 cards and 64-bit kernel mode, use 32-bit kernel mode". I have a 7300 card. In 32 bit everything seems to work.

No big deal. I mostly like 64bit because I get a much higher Geekbench score with it

So, I did the install following this fantastic guide (thanks to all involved) and everything was working great (video, audio, bonjour, sleep, the whole nine yards)! When the 10.6.2 update came out, I cloned my install to a different partition to play with. After following the netkas suggestions, I have some unusual results. First, 10.6.2 will only boot with the -f option; whenever I do not do that, I get an immediate KP. Second even when I boot with -f, I do not have functional audio, even though I'm using the same LeagacyALC883 kext that worked with 10.6.1. One thing I've noticed is that in my working install (10.6.1), there is an an Extensions.mkext in my /Extra folder, but this does not exist in the 10.6.6 install. Could this be part of the problem, and how should I go about fixing it? Thanks again.

All set up.

I can't get internet to work though. The realtek driver doesn't work it seems.

Well, I think I've got it fixed. Amazing what you can do when you read the instructions! I first used mkext tool to make an Extensions.mkext of the extensions in the /Extra/Extensions folder, but that didn't solve the problem. But, after re-reading the guide, I ran the pfix utility as root, and it cleaned out the system caches as well as fixing permissions, and now everything is working OK! Thanks again for the great guide!

How Can I change from 64 bit kernel to 32 bit kernel mode? I have 7600gt card, it cause me KP after uprgaded to 10.6.2

I had install my Hackintosh thru this guide
http://lifehacker.com/5351485/#bootloader_guide ↗

GA-G31M-S2L Ver. 1.1 (F9)
Nvidia 7600GT
4Gig of Corsair Ram
WD 120Gig
Intel Core2Quad 6600

@antonehenryAll set up. I can't get internet to work though. The realtek driver doesn't work it seems.

I should specify for help.

Tried to install realtek driver in ES2L kit, tried to use that other tool in original post, but don't know how to use it.

Tried to install a couple of kext thingys from insanelymac post linked in original post.

IN my network part of system preferences, no option for ethernet shows up, just my serial connection. =[

I might have an NIC lying around somewhere though.

Update 10.6.2

Looks like the 6.2 (nov 11) breaks the install. Hopefully It wont require a reinstall.

32-bit kernel

@kvkvbirdHow Can I change from 64 bit kernel to 32 bit kernel mode? I have 7600gt card, it cause me KP after uprgaded to 10.6.2

In /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist add
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=i386</string>

It is in the OP instructions.

Ethernet working.

@antonehenryI should specify for help. Tried to install realtek driver in ES2L kit, tried to use that other tool in original post, but don't know how to use it. Tried to install a couple of kext thingys from insanelymac post linked in original post. IN my network part of system preferences, no option for ethernet shows up, just my serial…

1. Try to run lspci in the command line. It should show all the devices. If it does not show the ethernet device, you may have a bad chip or your BIOS setting may be wrong.
OX86Tools has lspci.

2. pfix may not work perfectly. I remember having strange problems with network shares. Turns out that some permissions were not set right by pfix.

Use the Disk Utility to fix the permissions. Also, OSX86Tools can fix permissions, clean caches, etc.

3. Britney (see post by her earlier) pointed out that ethernet works for F8 BIOS version but does not in a latter version (don't remember). She suggested using a network card. Her screen name is different, I don't remember. She had also posted another DSDT.

Netkas has a way to upgrade to 10.6.2

@spudstud450Looks like the 6.2 (nov 11) breaks the install. Hopefully It wont require a reinstall.

Go to netkas.org and download the latest SleepEnabler.kext.
1. Boot from the USB Installer and go to the install drive and remove /Extra/CustomExtensions/SleepEnabler.kext

2. Rebuild /Extra/Extensions.kext.
I used MkextTool.
Drag all the extensions in /Extra/CustomExtensions
Change the folder to /Extra and enter Build.
It will over-write the previous version of /Extra/Extensions.mkext

3. If you have not updated yet, Update to 10.6.2. Reboot

4. Put the patched SleepEnabler.kext from netkas into /Extra/CustomExtensions

5. Rebuild /Extra/Extensions.mkext (see (2)

I generally use linux dd command to save an exact copy of my partition before doing this kind of work.

sleep issues

Followed the guide here, and on netkas's site to update to 10.6.2 fine.

Everything works fine, always has.

But i've always had a problem with sleep not being reliable. Sometimes it'll go to sleep fine, then when I wake it (keyboard or power button) it'll all spin up but nothing, blank screen (and dead to any ping/ssh attempts).

Any ideas people?

It's not an easily reproducible error, and nothing seems to get written to the logs. Suggestions as to how I could even track down the issue would be welcome.

Maybe you can try -v in Kernel Flags in /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist

@yogi446Followed the guide here, and on netkas's site to update to 10.6.2 fine. But i've always had a problem with sleep not being reliable. Sometimes it'll go to sleep fine, then when I wake it (keyboard or power button) it'll all spin up but nothing, blank screen (and dead to any ping/ssh attempts). Any ideas people?

I had a similar problem (not the same). My mistake was the I had the fake buffer kext also loaded.
Maybe you can try putting in the -v (verbose) flag in the /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist and see what happens?

Coming out of sleep takes a different path though so maybe you should ask netkas the question. He is the real guru. He may have a way of tracing the problem.

The other thing I noted in my issues were that sleep problems were created when the system was going to sleep. I would see some errors in the log then. I would see nothing bad on waking up.

@infiniteThanks1. Try to run lspci in the command line. It should show all the devices. If it does not show the ethernet device, you may have a bad chip or your BIOS setting may be wrong. OX86Tools has lspci. 2. pfix may not work perfectly. I remember having strange problems with network shares. Turns out that some permissions were not set right by…

Thanks for the reply! lspci shows I do have an ethernet controller

Attansic Technology Corp. Unknown Device [1969:1063] (rev c0)

So I'm guessing I have a newer version of the mobo, if this isn't a realtek thing. I saw some people posting around about Attansic 1062 and 1026, but haven't found anything about 1063. I will keep looking.

One more thing. I can not set my resolution either. I edited com.apple.Bood.plist, but no luck. I am stuck at a weird resolution for now. Anyone know a way to force a resolution?

EDIT::: Using OSx86 Tools' Boot editor, it shows that I am running 1920x1080x32, but that is not the case. it's weirdly stretched and not right.

Also, I have Rev 2.0. That would probably be causing some of my issues, yes?

anyone have some instructions to dual boot chamelion and windows7 on the same drive ? ive spent days following different instructions, and reinstalling windows7/leopard, i think ill just ask here.

oh everything else in the first post works, i just need to figure out how to dual boot off 1 hard drive.

Use the latest UBUNTU (9.10) to multi-boot

@bununanyone have some instructions to dual boot chamelion and windows7 on the same drive ? ive spent days following different instructions, and reinstalling windows7/leopard, i think ill just ask here.

The latest version of ubuntu will not only mult-boot but also detect the different OS installs for you I have a posting about it earlier.

You have to change the grub.cfg for hackintosh as I point out in that reply since grub2 assumes it is a real mac.

@infiniteThanksThe latest version of ubuntu will not only mult-boot but also detect the different OS installs for you I have a posting about it earlier. You have to change the grub.cfg for hackintosh as I point out in that reply since grub2 assumes it is a real mac.

thanks for the reply, i actually read your post, before i posted this, i was gonna go that route, if i couldnt find anyway to make chameleon work.

Suggestions for Ethernet on rev2.0, display issues

@antonehenryAlso, I have Rev 2.0. That would probably be causing some of my issues, yes?

The person with the best answer to the question (brfransen)

@brfransenIf it is a rev 2.0 board there are no drivers in OS X that work for the on board ethernet. I use this PCI card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168… ↗) in my rev 2.0 and it uses the drivers built into SL. No other hacking required. Britney

I would suggest not fighting the battle but winning the war.

Display: I had a similar problem with display when I used aVGA monitor as the only monitor. I could not set the resolution. When I used a DVI monitor by itself or with another vga it worked but I had to use the display setting in the system preferences to set the VGA resolution. No idea what was going on there.

Also, use the OSX86Tools to set the graphics card feature. Maybe that will help you. It did not help me though.

I've been using -v to try trace my random wake issues.

I've tracked a possible cause - the GFX card not waking up properly. To that end, i've removed the EFI string for my GFX card and got it working via a DSDT patch instead, which means I can send a wake notification to it on an acpi wake, which should fix it if it is indeed the error. It'll be a few days before I've used it enough to see if it's a fix or not though.

I am trying this new method, but can not get the installer to fully load. i get no kp, but all i get is a blank screen. i am wondering if this is to do with my video card? i am following your directions exactly, but nothing. i have a nvidia 9400gt video card, this should be supported by the graphicsenabler, correct? any help is appreciated...

Anybody tried adding an additional Ethernet NIC card? I added a Realtek 8139D which should run natively in OSX but for some reason, it does not show up in Snow.

Could this be caused by the DSDT patch that included the ethernet fix? My built-in ethernet works. Just wondering why the PCI NIC is not being detected.

Anyone has a clue?

Try system preferences->network

@MonkeyDLuffyAnybody tried adding an additional Ethernet NIC card? I added a Realtek 8139D which should run natively in OSX but for some reason, it does not show up in Snow. Could this be caused by the DSDT patch that included the ethernet fix? My built-in ethernet works. Just wondering why the PCI NIC is not being detected. Anyone has a clue?

I had a similar problem: I built another hackintosh in about 20 minutes today and I had already done a linux dd of my drive to a new drive. So booting was easy but system profiler did not show the network card. So I went to system preferences->network and it started by prompting me with a message about a new card being detected and that I should enable it.

Try it ... it might work.

Nah, it didn't work That was the first thing that I did after adding the NIC. dsmeg doesn't even supply a mac address for the newly added pci nic. Even system profiler doesn't detect it. I'm quite puzzled. However, I haven't tried adding the realtek1000 kext. Maybe I'll try as soon as I got home.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I am having issues getting this guide to work for me. i have the usb disk setup correctly. i have my com.apple.Boot.plist setup per the guide, minus the GraphicsMode as I am unsure what it needs to be set too. My video card is a ASUS EN9400GT with 1 VGA, 1 HDMI, and 1 DVI. I attempted to follow this guide using a DVI2HDMI adapter and when the setup would launch I'd have a blank blue screen. I attempted this passing "-v" and "-v -pci1" as chameleon boot options. I then tried using the HDMI output on the card. Now I am, getting the install background picture and nothing else. I get the spinner but it freezes and just sits there. Again, I've tried with "-v" and "-v -pci1" with same results. What else can I try to get this working?

I just wanted to say thank you for your guide. This was the first time I tried to build such a machine and once you understand the whole system it is really easy to get a successful install thanks to your guide : )
The only thing that was a little difficult for me was the video, I think I will try your updated guide with the RC3 Nvidia auto detect (I have a 9600GT).

(Right now I have just added the efi string in the boot plist because I did not understand what kext and so I need. Resolution and average use seem to work fine but cpu load on 720p video for example is very high (50-100%))

So my actual question would just be if I did understand it right that with the RC3 Nvidia auto detect you dont have to do anything more or do I still have to do all that kext and efi string stuff?
greetings from germany : )

Black/Blue Screen After 10.6.2 Update

@infiniteThanksGo to netkas.org and download the latest SleepEnabler.kext. 1. Boot from the USB Installer and go to the install drive and remove /Extra/CustomExtensions/SleepEnabler.kext 2. Rebuild /Extra/Extensions.kext. I used MkextTool. Drag all the extensions in /Extra/CustomExtensions Change the folder to /Extra and enter Build. It will…

GA-G31M-ES2L Rev.2
Q8200
NVidia 9500GT 512 (Dual DVI)

Followed this guide in late September and got a stable install - great work!

Decided to update to 10.6.2 (combo) and missed the SleepEnabler fix - Kernel Panic following "successful update" reboot.

Followed steps 1 and 2 as quoted above for the following files from netkas.org:

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
SleepEnabler.kext

Rebuilt Extensions.mkext, repaired permissions on SL drive and kextcache on com.apple.kext.caches

After doing this I was able to boot, however to a black screen with no pointer. Press space key on the keyboard and get blue screen. Tried swapping DVI ports - no change.

Can boot into safe mode. Thoughts on a plan of attack?

EDIT: I just decided it was quicker to reinstall then develop a laundry list of potential fixes after sifting through the various threads.

Followed this guide but had trouble with the latest ES2L Kit - could not get sound to work nor was my ASUS WL-138g wireless PCI card recognizedhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168… ↗.

Went back to the kit with files dated 10/10/09 and all was well. Installed as per guide with the exception of SleepEnabler.kext. Upgraded to 10.6.2 flawlessly and then add the latest SleepEnabler.kext from netkas.org. Sleep works fine.

All is well in 32-bit anyways.

OK, I get about 3/4 of the way through the install, then I get the spinning wheel (not the colored one), and the computer reboots. Weird

Oh, I have the board with v2 bios

Important

important

I've a rev 1 board, and was using the RTGMac_v203 realtek drivers.

they cause failures to wake from sleep

I finally tracked down black-screen on wake issues. It was a repeatable error whenever I was using more than 2 gig ram and network activity.

Specifically opening 20 avi off a server, and loading 80 tabs in safari would cause the failure every time.

I reverted to the built in snow leopard drivers* and no problems now (except no bonjour). If you do a bit of googling you'll find other people mentioning power management issues with the realtek drivers and SL, as the drivers were built for 10.4.

* the realtek installer/uninstall script has a serious problem! when it installs, it deletes the apple realtek driver kext, and when it uninstalls it removes the realtek one. So you're left with no driver at all.

So to restore, you need /system/library/extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext from an untouched SL install/disk. Replace it, repair disk permissions, "sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions" wait a bit for the kexts to rebuild, and then reboot.

Try this RTL8139 works in 64bit → ... it works great w/ me ...

@MonkeyDLuffyAnybody tried adding an additional Ethernet NIC card? I added a Realtek 8139D which should run natively in OSX but for some reason, it does not show up in Snow. Could this be caused by the DSDT patch that included the ethernet fix? My built-in ethernet works. Just wondering why the PCI NIC is not being detected. Anyone has a clue?

@bununanyone have some instructions to dual boot chamelion and windows7 on the same drive ? ive spent days following different instructions, and reinstalling windows7/leopard, i think ill just ask here. oh everything else in the first post works, i just need to figure out how to dual boot off 1 hard drive.

verified on 2 hard drives, i simply went to the chameleon site, downloaded the latest version and followed the instructions.

@BlaSTiWiTry this RTL8139 works in 64bit ... it works great w/ me ...

Amazing! Works for me too. Secondary NIC is now detected working fine

I just have to find a solution for my 4650 Black screen problem and I'm set!

Thanks BlaSTiwi

can't make a new DSDT or figure out yours

I am having trouble with the DSDT on 10.6.2. I have a GA-G31M-ES2L v1.x and a C2D E6600. When I use your DSDT, everything works except my TI PCI Firewire card isn't recognized (it works fine in 10.5.6). When I use a DSDT for the same MB posted by swhay, Firewire works but Ethernet doesn't. When I diff your DSDT and swhay's, there are a lot of differences, but I can't figure out which one(s) might be relevant to Firewire. Could you be explicit about the changes you made in your DSDT, and post your DSDT file before you modified it too?

It would be great if you would not skip or generalize any details in the section I quote below.

UPDATE

● copy dsdt.aml to /Extra of your Snow Leopard drive or create your own by following this short guide below, AGAIN it's always recommended to create and use your own dsdt, included my dsdt.aml and .dsl for comparison purposes only.

- open ES2L kit Tools then double click the included DSDT SE.app
- click DSDTSE Tools then Extract DSDT
- under ACPI search choose RTC
- rename 0x04 to 0x02
- under ACPI search choose Sound Azalia
- check the included dsdt.dsl and copy the HDEF section there, alternatively - you can use it if you have a quad
- add Method DTGP under DSDT Hacks
- look under Credits and DSDT Hacks for more dsdt fixes.
- when done editing click DSDTSE Tools -> Compile DSDT, click DSDT Files Folder and you will see your newly compiled dsdt.aml
- copy it to /Extra of your Snow Leopard drive

I also have a question regarding DSDT. I'm using the supplied DSDT from the original guide. Do you have to boot without dsdt to extract it correctly? I'm wondering because I can't compile a new one using the steps in the guide. Also, can't find Sound Azalia using ACPI search, Method DTGP already exists, stuff like that.

BTW, my firewire card works with the dsdt I'm using. (Belkin f5U503, rev s-3)

Thanks, booting without dsdt helped. I still get 2 warnings and 2 errors though, so I need to work on it. Besides, everything works fine the way it is so I'm not too motivated Also I have no idea what for example "Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)" actually does so need to look into that too.

@joeyfGA-G31M-ES2L Rev.2 EDIT: I just decided it was quicker to reinstall then develop a laundry list of potential fixes after sifting through the various threads. Followed this guide but had trouble with the latest ES2L Kit - could not get sound to work nor was my ASUS WL-138g wireless PCI card recognized. Went back to the kit with files…

^^^^^@free4mac

Try using the old DSDT he posted (file dated 10/9/09 - attached here) without any changes - seemed to work for me as I was having issues with his latest one.

@simsimThanks, booting without dsdt helped. I still get 2 warnings and 2 errors though, so I need to work on it. Besides, everything works fine the way it is so I'm not too motivated Also I have no idea what for example "Method (DTGP, 5, NotSerialized)" actually does so need to look into that too.

2 Errors with DST - Solved

I also had the 2 errors and looked at the lines giving the errors and compared that part of the DSDT to the one in the E2SL Kit. I had to change the Method (_MSG lines from Store (Local0, Local0) to Store ("Local0", Local0) because the quotes were missing in the extraction. The lines should look like below:

Method (_MSG, 1, NotSerialized)
{
Store ("Local0", Local0)
}

Method (_SST, 1, NotSerialized)
{
Store ("Local0", Local0)

After making this change it compiled without errors but with warnings. The dsdt.aml worked fine.

@sk1nhd33tUPDATE: ● open Audio folder and copy it to /Extra/CustomExtensions ● open smbios-plist folder and copy it to /Extra, edit this to match your hardware ● copy bootcamp theme then edit com.apple.Boot.plist adding the following: -

First and foremost… thank you for making it possible for me to get my first build up and running. Your guide was instumental in making this happen. My comments that follow are just to try and help a first timer like myself save some hours by getting it right the first time.

As a first time Hackintosher, steps like the:

● open Audio folder and copy it to /Extra/CustomExtensions

quoted above can be confusing. "it" seemed to be the Audio folder when I first read the step. There actually isn't an Audio folder, but rather an "Audio Kext" folder with two more folders inside it. So after having an unsuccessful attempt, one of the things I figured out was to take the .kext files out of the inclosed folders and put them in to /Extra/CustomExtensions.

@sk1nhd33tUPDATE: ● copy dsdt.aml to /Extra of your Snow Leopard drive or create your own by following this short guide below, AGAIN it's always recommended to create and use your own dsdt, included my dsdt.aml and .dsl for comparison purposes only. - open ES2L kit Tools then double click the included DSDT SE.app - click DSDTSE Tools then…

In the section on creating your own dsdt.aml, quoted above, the section about Sound Azalia tripped me up for a while. Not knowing that you were talking about a file named dsdt.dsl, I was searching the extraction in the Sound Azalia section for the letters "dstl.dsl". If the step had read:

- open dstl.dsl in /DSTL and copy the HDEF section from there into your extract

It would have saved me one more failed attempt.

Perhaps when you get some time, you can edit the guide. Also, see my note to simsim on the error in the DSDTSE extraction that causes two errors when compiling… at least it did for him and me. I have a rev 2 board.

Once again... thanks for all you have done.

dsdt

Thanks Andy, adding the quotes in the extracted dsdt where you indicated made it compile without errors (still warnings). I just wonder why everybody hasn't got the same problem. I have the 1.1 version of the board and F8 Bios.

Glad to help, simsim. my board is Rev 2.0 with a version 6.00 Bios, so that indicates it's something else.

I had 10.5.6 working on this mobo months ago and then went a different direction for a while (linux).. pondering coming back and found this VERY impressive guide. It would appear that there are no known/remaining issues for this mobo once things are working?

Mike

Just wanted to share my experience. I'm on a 1.1 f10 board. I had this running fine on 10.5 and decided to upgrade to 10.6. Went fine except no audio. I've been pulling my hair out for the last couple of days with no success on the audio.

Here's my tip, don't run PFIX from the finder. Run it from Terminal with sudo. I kept running it from finder and was getting feedback but it turns out it was failing to actually do anything.

Works like a charm now! Thanks for everyone's hard work!

Anybody made Sleep working faster? Since I upgraded to 10.6.2, my sleep (updated) works but it takes about 45secs to 1min to fully sleep (fans not spinning). The moment I click "sleep" the screen goes black then, wait until it fully turns off (45secs). Before, as soon as I clicked sleep, it only takes 2 secs.

I already updated the NullCPU..kext and the 10.6.2 SleepEnabler from Netkas blog. I made sure that the kext are loaded.

Also,

I noticed that dsdt was updated.

And I think the update is this:

Device (PWRB)
{
Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0C0C"))
Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
{
Return (0x0B)
}
}

What does this do?

Is it related to the powerbutton?

Got it working

Thanks Andy, this was timely! I extracted an unmodified DSDT for my system by booting from a Linux live CD and it had this same problem when I tried to compile it with iasl. Combined with the updated instructions and reference DSDT from sk1nhd33t, I was able to modify it and seem to have a fully working system! I'm using the SleepEnabler for 10.6.2 from code.google.com (the Netkas binary patched version didn't work for me), and the HDA and HDAEnabler kexts posted by swhay for audio.

@Andy GA2 Errors with DST - Solved I also had the 2 errors and looked at the lines giving the errors and compared that part of the DSDT to the one in the E2SL Kit. I had to change the Method (_MSG lines from Store (Local0, Local0) to Store ("Local0", Local0) because the quotes were missing in the extraction. The lines should look like below:…

Fast Sleep Working in 10.6.2

@MonkeyDLuffyAnybody made Sleep working faster? Since I upgraded to 10.6.2, my sleep (updated) works but it takes about 45secs to 1min to fully sleep (fans not spinning). The moment I click "sleep" the screen goes black then, wait until it fully turns off (45secs). Before, as soon as I clicked sleep, it only takes 2 secs.

My 10.6.2 machine takes 2-3 seconds to fully sleep. Here is how I updated from 10.6.0 to 10.6.2 using skn1hd3t's guide as a reference on a Rev 2.0 MB.

● I ran the MacOSXUpd10.6.1 install package choosing my Snow Leopard partition and re-booted
● I ran myHack_Installer_1.0_RC3_r32 from the 10/9/09 ES2L Kit originally posted by skn1hd33t choosing my Snow Leopard partition as the destination and under Customize excluded SleepEnabler, so I put a check on the ff:

- Core
- com.apple.Boot.plist
- GraphicsEnabler
- fakesmc
- NullCPUPowermanagement
- OpenHaltRestart
- PlatformUUID

● I made a new dstl.aml using the DSDTSE application from this guide and put it in /Extra. skn1hd3t has a new procedure for this now on pg. 1 which I haven't tried. I think you can skip this step as all my original edits were still in the extracted dsdt.dsl file.
● I checked /Extra/Extensions to see if SleepEnabler.kext was in it. (Remove it if it is there). My /Extension folder had the ff:

- fakesmc.kext
- LegacyALC883.kext
- NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
- OpenHaltRestart.kext
- PlatformUUID.kext

● I edited the com.apple.Boot.plist and saved it. This step is probably not necessary as you will repeat it after installing 10.6.2 as noted below. Each time myHack Installer is run, this file gets altered and can be updated prior to running pfix2.2.1 so that the right Theme etc. will load. Mine looks like ff.:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Kernel</key>
	<string>mach_kernel</string>
	<key>Timeout</key>
	<string>5</string>
	<key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<string>arch=i386</string>
	<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
	<string>y</string>
	<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
	<string>y</string>
	<key>Theme</key>
	<string>bootcamp</string>
	<key>Graphics Mode</key>
	<string>1024x768x32</string>
</dict>
</plist>

● I ran pfix2.2.1 choosing my Snow Leopard partition (it takes about 5 minutes to complete) and then rebooted
● I ran the MacOSXUpd10.6.2 install package choosing my Snow Leopard partition and rebooted
● I repeated the steps above, starting with myHack_Installer through pfix2.2.1 only I put the SleepEnabler.kext from netkas.org in /Extra/Extensions before running pfix2.2.1. Do not check SleepEnabler on the myHack Installer.
● Reboot and your sleep should work fine. Remember to set your sound output back to Internal Speaker as this always gets changed in the update process.

I suspect this process could be shortened, but this is what worked for me and I haven't tried going back and skipping steps as my system is now working fine.

A couple of times my system froze upon waking (spinning pinwheel). It hasn't happened recently, but if it does, I will try the SleepEnabler that is mentioned below:

@free4macI'm using the SleepEnabler for 10.6.2 from code.google.com (the Netkas binary patched version didn't work for me), and the HDA and HDAEnabler kexts posted by swhay for audio.

Help with sound on G41M-ES2L

I am going insane in the membrane here, your guide is the best I have found. Simple to follow although once I have completed this task I want to post an my own "Idiots Guide to G41M-ES2L", all is working except audio ALC888B. Which there is a number of version floating around like "http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=18… ↗" . Which simply do not work mainly because people have posted a fix that they themselves have not actually tried. I have a G31M-ES2L but 2x G41M-ES2L which seems to still be available to purchase where the G31 is not. Can you shed some light on this? and maybe point us to a fix that works with your bootloader and the ALC888B codec. Thanks a million.

GA-G31M-ES2L Rev 2.0 Still Available

@macman20I have a G31M-ES2L but 2x G41M-ES2L which seems to still be available to purchase where the G31 is not.

macman20, I don't know where you live, but here in the States, the GA-G31M-ES2L Rev. 2 board is still available. I just bought one last week from Newegg and it works great with the addition of a graphics and network card as the onboard LAN does not have a working driver currently. Here is the link. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168… ↗

Probably a dumb but...

I have a working system based on the instructions here, no real issues to be honest so thanks for all the hard work.

I'm trying to upgrade to 10.6.2, I realise the sleepenabler.kext needs changing but read on for my problem.

I cannot find a definitive answer to despite a lot of searching is exactly how does one remove a kext (e.g. sleepenabler), rebuild, reinstall a kext and rebuild. Phrases such as "deinstall the sleepenabler.kext and then reinstall" are bandied around as if these are normal activities.

My assumption is that I do something similar to:

1. cd into the right /extensions directory,
2. rm or rather mv the sleepenabler.kext to somewhere else safe.
3. rebuild the kext cache <-- This is the bit thats odd, I read so many different things, such as ox86tools or kextinstal but they always seem to be fragments of information. Is this pcifix or some other tool?
4. Reboot
5. Update to 10.6.2
6. Install the new updated sleepenabler.kext into the right directory. Again I assume a simple copy is sufficient.
7. Rebuild the kext cache - See point 3.

I have a good working system and do not want to screw it up with messing around with the kext's in a way I don't understand so any help welcomed.

Thanks and sorry for the dumb question.

Rob.

Has anyone manage to get audio to work in 64bit on this mobo, if yes, can you share please, I would like to know how you did it. Thanks.

This worked for me:
Updated to 10.6.2 but did not restart
I removed sleepenabler.kext from /Extra/Extensions (also placed LegacyALC883.kext in there)
Placed new netkas sleepenabler.kext (files.net kas.org/10.6.2/SleepEnabler.kext.zip) into /Extra/Extensions
Then i deleted Extensions.mkext from /Extra
Ran Kext Utility from here ↗Rebooted and everything cool.

@rwillettI have a working system based on the instructions here, no real issues to be honest so thanks for all the hard work. I'm trying to upgrade to 10.6.2, I realise the sleepenabler.kext needs changing but read on for my problem. I cannot find a definitive answer to despite a lot of searching is exactly how does one remove a kext (e.g.…

Black screen after 10.6.2

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I followed your instructions and did an upgrade to 10.6.2. It seemed to go OK until the machine rebooted. The iHack screen appears, it all looks OK until I get to the where the login screen should be.

A black screen appears with a mouse cursor. The mouse cursor works, I can move it around, but it's still a black screen. If I press the interrupt button on my PC the correct screen momentarily appears (all the Finder windows and icons etc) and then the machine reboots.If I leave the machine overnight then press the space button all the Apple desktop appears. It doesn't appear after only 15 minutes though.

My card is a Asus badged Nividia 9600GT with 512MB RAM. It worked well under 10.6.1.

Any suggestions at all?

Rob.

@MonkeyDLuffyThe built-in Intel GMA 3100 (not GMA X3100) is not compatible with either Leo or Snow Leo. It will work but you won't have QI/CE (VESA only) thus making it suck a lot - such as No resolution change, you might have problems watching videos, can't run a lot of programs that are QI/CE dependent, and lots more. If you can stand that, you…

It seems my optiplex 755 does just fine with a gma 3100 in leopard. but in snow it kinda blows me off...

How are you connecting your graphics card to your screen?

I connect through the VGA port, via a Raritan four port KVM to a VGA screen.

I do not use HDMI.

I have just come home and pressed the space button on the computer and the screen is working. It was not working when I left to go to work this morning.

I wonder if it's due to a screen saver kicking in and making it work (or something). I've just changed the energy saver to one minute, will restart and see what happens.

This is weird.

Rob.

Update on black screen after 10.6.2 with nvida 9600

Summary of problem
Gigabyte G31M-ESL MB
Dual Core E6300 CPU's
4GB RAM
Asus Nvidia 9600GT graphics card connected to 17" screen by Raaritan 4 port KVM on VGA port. I don;t have HDMI (sadly)

Black screen on boot after 10.6.2 upgrade. New sleepenabler installed.

Whilst it's bad form to reply to your own mail, I have made a rather interesting discovery.

1. I set the Energy Saver for the screen screen, not PC, to one minute.
2. Rebooted the machine and had the same black screen as I normally get after the update to 10.6.2. i.e. I can move the mouse but cannot see the screen.
3. Left the machine untouched for the requisite minute and the monitor clicked into standby as the Graphics card went to sleep. I know thats not the right phrase but hopefully you know what I mean.
4. Hit any key and lo and behold, my screen appeared instantly. No changes to kexts, uninstalls.

I think the black screen is related to some sort of power saving issue NOT the HDMI copy protection stuff that most people have looked at. Of course my guess is worth exactly what you paid for it, nothing

Hopefully this may help other people.

5.1 Optical

So, I've been trying for a month to get 5.1 Optical working on this board ( v1) without success using a Gigabyte plug-to-M/B adapter.
I can get light from the hole but no audio comes out.

I've had the sysinfo listing it as SPDIF Combo and SPDIF RCA depending on which kexts I'm trying.

I've got 2 channel output from the 3.5mm stereo no problem but I really want 5.1 for Plex.

Has ANYONE managed to get confirmed 5.1 from this board or do I need to upgrade or switch to another platform…

Cheers for all the information so far!

Pete

Thanks

1st post but a big lurker! Thanks for the guide especially for a first timer. Fully working and running stable.

Specs are pretty standard:
GA-GM31-ES2L rev.2
E5200
Zotac 9400GT 1gig
Crucial XMS2 PC6400 - 4gig
WD Raptor and Samsung drives
*edit* additional NIC as the onboard ethernet still isn't working

Dual booting on dual drives - OSX 10.6 and Win 7 64bit

One other question...

How safe is using software update in 10.6? There have been some pretty significant updates and I'm just wondering the risk factor when installed from a retail disc.

Sorry everyone another thing just popped up.

Using this guide as a finishing step the Please Sleep kext is loaded onto the system. My question is: Do you have to have the Please Sleep kext and the program loaded in order for the sleep function to work correctly?

Steve

BIOS Settings / root device

Can anybody post the correct BIOS settings for the G31M-ES2L please?

I can't get around the "still waiting for root device" error. I've tried several IDE/SATA settings according to the OSX86 wiki where the problem is mentioned.

My setup is an ide-attached DVD-Rom and an completely unformatted SATA harddrive. As installation method i've chosen the external usb stick. Strangely both devices (hdd,dvd) turn on just before the message of the missing device appears.

thanks for any advice!

I have the same setup - about the only thing I did slightly unusual was to plug in the SATA drive into SATA1 instead of 0. Anyway BIOS-wise I set the SATA to Auto. Everything works fine

Hmmm I would think the issue is with the ide drive. I purposely purchased a SATA DVD drive for this build. At $20 it was cheap enough. I have 3 drives in my system; 1 for OSX, 1 for Win 7, and 1 to image the OSX drive so I can make changes without always having to start from scratch.

I think the issue with the drives is that the bios searches for the SATA and IDE drives on the same channel (at least that my take from reading the POST message) and perhaps there are IRQ issues with this in OSX.

Drive config:
SATA 0 - OSX
SATA 1 - Win7
SATA 2 - OSX image backup
SATA 3 - DVD drive

Awesome. Thanks for the info sk1nhdd33t

Will patch up accordingly and let everyone know how it goes (if anyone cares).

Well I've hit the wall...again. I've been trying to update to 10.6.2 and it kernel panics almost immediately. I've lost sound and when I remove sleepenable.kext for some reason I lose my ethernet connnection as well.

I'm not too sure where I went wrong but it's 1:30am and I need to work in the morning. Dammit.

I removed sleepenabler.kext, rebuilt the kext cache, downloaded and installed the 10.6.2, added in the new sleepenabler.kext and then rebuilt the cache.

I use the V1 motherboard, your signature appears to be V2 so wonder if that is anything to do with it?

Black screen and VGA

@rwillettSummary of problem 1. I set the Energy Saver for the screen screen, not PC, to one minute. 2. Rebooted the machine and had the same black screen as I normally get after the update to 10.6.2. i.e. I can move the mouse but cannot see the screen. 3. Left the machine untouched for the requisite minute and the monitor clicked into standby…

I have the same problem as you. I cloned my flawless system but the newer setup has only a VGA monitor (1280x1024). Here are my observations:

If I use the original DVI/HDMI/VGA (1920x1080) monitor using DVI or HDMI connectors, it works fine.

If I use the VGA monitor, I get the funny black screen.
If I hit the power button for a very short period, I see the login screen for a fraction of a second and then the machine goes to sleep.

If I hit the power button or any keyboard key or click on the mouse, the machine wakes up and I get the beautiful login screen and things work.

Idle sleep does not seem to work. The displays shuts off but the machine keeps on running. At least the fans were running.

If I force the system to sleep via the menu or the power button, the system DOES go to sleep like it should and wakes up as it should.

Switching to the DVI monitor fixes the login and sleep problems.

I have this wild conjecture that when I use the VGA only monitor, the display system is actually trying to use the DVI port and fails. Hitting the power button may cause it use the VGA port. But this may be my conjecture at 2:27 AM.

@sk1nhd33ti believe i already posted it a few pages back but i'll save you the trouble in looking for it.. here is a PDF came from weeksauce12 from his old 10.5.7 leopard tutorial (Slytherine).: dl.drop box.com/u/3168149/BIOS_Settings_ES2L.pdf

Thanks so much, i guess my fault was the boot order because that was the only difference. Whatsoever, now it works like charm! Thanks again.

@rwillettI removed sleepenabler.kext, rebuilt the kext cache, downloaded and installed the 10.6.2, added in the new sleepenabler.kext and then rebuilt the cache. I use the V1 motherboard, your signature appears to be V2 so wonder if that is anything to do with it?

Not too sure either. When I look at the KP screen I see that it is the sleepenabler that is causing the problem. I think that part of the problem was that I tried to load the new sleepenabler kext before doing the upgrade so that I hopefully wouldn't lose ethernet. I must be doing something incorrectly because it's my understanding that sleepenable has nothing to do with ethernet. Gosh this is as bad as when I would spend hours trying to configure early linux distros.

My next step is to download the 10.6.2 combo file and do an offline installation. I'll see if that works.

If anyone is looking for the offline files they can be found here. (support.apple.com/kb/DL959)

Another Lurker my upgrade 10.6.2 experiences and method=fail

I have a 10.6 system following this guide. I never used sleep enabler though.

Some people might be interested in the way I test updates now. I use carbon copy to clone my current drive (i was made following this guide). Just reinstall chameleon bootloader ( here ↗ ). That will give you a perfect copy of your system that is bootable. boot into the new system from bios. try your upgrade configuration. If and when it doesnt work. go to carbon copier again clone your working drive again, this time it wont take very long to clone your drive since it compares files before it moves them. it is awsome.

I am trying to update this system too and I am having trouble. I have gotten 10.6.2 to work.

Update
add new sleepenabler (i didnt have old one)
delete extentions.mkext
rebuild as advise earlier in thread.

got it to boot buuuuuuut

its weird. it doesnt sleep like my current system does. ethernet issues. etc...

i'll keep a look out and I can try a few tweak everyday till i get it. with this carbon copy work flow it is easy to test out changes. good luck. look forward to other results.

@rwillettI removed sleepenabler.kext, rebuilt the kext cache, downloaded and installed the 10.6.2, added in the new sleepenabler.kext and then rebuilt the cache. I use the V1 motherboard, your signature appears to be V2 so wonder if that is anything to do with it?

How!? How does one rebuild the kext cache?

@alltoorobotI have a 10.6 system following this guide. I never used sleep enabler though. Some people might be interested in the way I test updates now. I use carbon copy to clone my current drive (i was made following this guide). Just reinstall chameleon bootloader ( here…

A great suggestion. I've been doing the same thing but have been using Disk Utility. I ran into a problem where it didn't image properly. Do you have Carbon copy on a bootable USB or disk?

Try using http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14… ↗

@russianbanditHow!? How does one rebuild the kext cache?

Does somebody have problems while using an usb keyboard and mouse?

I'm not sure how to describe the behaviour, but it's fairly annoying me. If I type fast or using any kind of multiple-key-shortcut serveral keystrokes get lost. It's not repeatable by typing the same, but it's defently not the users fault
Same story while using the mouse. From time to time a click event gets lost.

I've searched the forums and some people had the same problems but no one since snow leopard. According to some solution tips i've disabled usb legacy in the bios, without any change. (changed USB ports as well)

Not sure if it's a problem of my machine or settings...

@flowriderA great suggestion. I've been doing the same thing but have been using Disk Utility. I ran into a problem where it didn't image properly. Do you have Carbon copy on a bootable USB or disk?

I have two almost identical 500 gig WD hard drives. So I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my stable system onto the other 500 gig wd hard drive. Like I said before you have to add a boot loader again for your new clone to work. I should try out my 32 gig usb drive see if I can make that a bootable clone too.

great writeup

I have updated to 10.6.2 like in a previous post.

By the way, I am using a rev 2.0 mobo, 4g mem, msi 9400 gt graphics card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168… ↗, another pci nic http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168… ↗

In case some are using case sensitive partition, dsdt.aml should be DSDT.sml. That is, it is CASE SENSITIVE.
Otherwise, sound would not work and others may not.

Are there still issues using 4 gigs of RAM?

ie. when I was doing my 10.5.6 build using this mobo, folks generally recommended sticking with only 2G of memory.. folks with 4G had stability issues... at least that's what my fuzzy mind seems to remember from ~8 months ago when I last did this.

(getting ready to try again, using these very nice instructions for Snow Leopard)

@zim2diveAre there still issues using 4 gigs of RAM? ie. when I was doing my 10.5.6 build using this mobo, folks generally recommended sticking with only 2G of memory.. folks with 4G had stability issues... at least that's what my fuzzy mind seems to remember from ~8 months ago when I last did this. (getting ready to try again, using these…

im running 4 gigs of ram, and ive yet to run into problems.

I was going to build a computer for my friends the same as mine which is based off this only its rev. 2 board with a realtek network card.

But i can no longer get this board without ordering it from some online place ive never ordered from (im in australia btw). However i was thinking the g41mt-es2l has realtek network and sound but ddr3 memory. Has anyone used this board or knows if it might have any issues, it seems pretty much identical other then slightly updated with better video which wont be used anyway, it even still uses ich7 i believe.

I am following this guide with no success. I get to the main wallpaper screen with the colorful spinner, but after about 5-10 seconds the spinner freezes and nothing after that. I have KPs are anything, so I am unsure what could be the cause of this. I am using GraphicsEnabler=y because I am using an Asus EN9400GT video card and have no additional cards or anything installed. Only odd thing is as the setup is loading (during the Chameleon screen after using -v) it reporst my video card as nVidia unknown 512MB. Could this be the issue? I wouldnt think so but I really dont know. Any help is appreciated...

I have the Asus EN9400GT card and also get the message it's not recognised, however it works perfectly well.

You don't state what you have done and where the problem occurs, is this during boot, install or after installation.

The more information you provide, the more chance there is of diagnosing the problem.

@rwillettI have the Asus EN9400GT card and also get the message it's not recognised, however it works perfectly well. You don't state what you have done and where the problem occurs, is this during boot, install or after installation. The more information you provide, the more chance there is of diagnosing the problem.

I re-imaged my disc and gave it another shot and it works. rwillett, you have the same card? do you know how to get sound over hdmi? or if it is possible? i am using hdmi to connect to my flat screen and woiuld love to get sound working over it so i can get rid of these speakers, if possible...

Success SL 10.6.1 on G31M-ES2L GPT and MBR

I just wanna report & share that I had successfully installed above said.

Intel E7300 Core 2 Duo + G31M-ES2L + 3Gb DDR2 800 + 9400GT 512Mb
(using patched OSInstall.mpkg + ES2L Kit in Sandisk Cruzer 8Gb & Pendrive 8Gb USB stick)^_^

I have 3 Hdd's.
Hd0 500Gb = Vista, XP, Leopard 10.5.8 Vanilla + NTFS3G
Hd1 320Gb = Leopard 10.5.8 Vanilla (2), 10.6.1 Vanilla + NTFS3G, and
Hd2 160Gb = Snow Leopard 10.6.1 Vanilla (2) + FATs

SL 10.6.1 on GUID partition on Hd2
SL 10.6.1 on MBR partition on Hd1

Deleted Sleep Enabler.kext & installed UD3Pv3 package.
Barfff... barfff... ! yes, updated to 10.6.2 with UD3Pv3 package - but audio not working, - and tried most of Voodoo.kext, Apple HDA's + Realtek ALC883.mpkg - it makes good graphics but No Audio.:(

I'm staying with 10.6.1 now to test if theres any inconsistency issues.

Good so far.
Many thanks to all the members around the globe.

Ooops, one more thing … the above success are also applied to my 2nd PC C2Q6600 / 9400GT / 2 Gb DDR2 / Asus P5KPL-AM - - - - >> TQ

@dustintinsleyI re-imaged my disc and gave it another shot and it works. rwillett, you have the same card? do you know how to get sound over hdmi? or if it is possible? i am using hdmi to connect to my flat screen and woiuld love to get sound working over it so i can get rid of these speakers, if possible...

Sorry no, don;'t use HDMI so can't help.

Rob.

@rwillettSorry no, don;'t use HDMI so can't help. Rob.

I dont think video cards output sound through their hdmi. I have a 9800gt and I used both hdmi and vga. I didn't have any sound, just get a headphone out to rca from radio shack.

Also, I followed this guide and I have noticed my usb speeds being slow. According to this (answers.ya hoo.com/question/index?qid=20090813150057AAsqVW6). It takes about 42 secounds to transfer 1 gig of information to a usb drive (connected directly to my board). Any Ideas?

You;re confusing USB speeds with disk speeds. USB might be 480mbps (it isn't really), your disks can't output data at those speeds.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, you could have 800mbps Firewire but no disk can work at those speeds.

Oddly enough I'm transferring 69.93GB off a Mac Mini disk to a larger disk via a USB 2.0 connection as we speak.

It has 66GB to go and is estimated to take two hours. Lets assume it does it in two hours, that works out at 550MB per minute which equals 9Mb per second. Which is about right for a 2.5" laptop disk. I could have USB 3.0 but it still wouldn't be quicker.

I have no issues with 9Mb/second, a faster disk would help but for you to get to 1GB in 17 seconds you can't do it off a single disk. Perhaps a disk array with stuff in parallel would help

@rwillettYou;re confusing USB speeds with disk speeds. USB might be 480mbps (it isn't really), your disks can't output data at those speeds. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, you could have 800mbps Firewire but no disk can work at those speeds. Oddly enough I'm transferring 69.93GB off a Mac Mini disk to a larger disk via a USB…

Thanks for explaining that to me. I'm setting up a media center and I decided to use a 30gb usb stick as a go between from WD TV and computer. Great explanation of how it really works.

Thanks rwillett

Any one using the old school PATA (IDE?) HD's I have a few I tried to throw in my machine I got one recognized but it hasnt been recognized again. not really sure what the deal is just wondering. ive toyed with the bios too but again im not sure what I can do, the bios doesn't seam to recognize them. I might need pin covers for the drive. I thought the bios chose which drive was being used so i threw the master slave covers out... Hope I don't need em. Also here are my kexts if anyone sees any tweaks I could make let me know
Sn0ws-iMac:~ sn0w$ kextstat
Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) <Linked Against>
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2 4 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.dsep (10.0.0)
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4 84 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.libkern (10.0.0)
5 63 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.mach (10.0.0)
6 24 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.private (10.0.0)
7 39 0 0 0 com.apple.kpi.unsupported (10.0.0)
8 0 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.6.0 (7.9.9)
9 0 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.bsd (7.9.9)
10 1 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.iokit (7.9.9)
11 2 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.libkern (7.9.9)
12 1 0 0 0 com.apple.kernel.mach (7.9.9)
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14 14 0x5510b000 0x11000 0x10000 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily (2.6) <7 5 4 3>
15 1 0x551ab000 0x41000 0x40000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform (1.3) <14 13 7 6 5 4 3>
16 0 0x4ecdd000 0x2000 0x1000 com.psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart (1.0.3) <4 3>
17 0 0x54d1d000 0x2000 0x1000 org.tgwbd.driver.NullCPUPowerManagement (1.0.0d2) <7 4 3>
18 0 0x54d29000 0x2000 0x1000 net.osrom.kext.Disabler (1.0.1) <4 3>
19 0 0x54f5c000 0x2000 0x1000 com.superhai.driver.PlatformUUID (1.0.0) <4 3>
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22 0 0x5518a000 0x11000 0x10000 com.apple.driver.DiskImages (281) <21 7 6 5 4 3 1>
23 0 0x552aa000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall (2.0.11) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
24 2 0x5512c000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.kext.AppleMatch (1.0.0d1) <4 1>
25 0 0x55185000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.security.quarantine (0) <24 7 6 5 4 2 1>
26 0 0x552a0000 0x8000 0x7000 com.apple.security.sandbox (0) <24 7 6 5 4 2 1>
27 0 0x551a5000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet (6) <7 6 5 4 2 1>
28 0 0x5519b000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC (1.4) <4 3>
29 0 0x552b2000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS (1.4) <7 4 3>
30 3 0x553c5000 0x3b000 0x3a000 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily (1.6.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
31 0 0x5522b000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons (1.3) <30 15 13 7 6 5 4 3 1>
32 0 0x55220000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC (9.9) <13 5 4 3 1>
33 0 0x55225000 0x4000 0x3000 org.netkas.fakesmc (2) <13 7 4 3>
34 1 0x551a8000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime (1.3.0) <7 5 4 3>
35 12 0x5afc4000 0x2f000 0x2e000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily (3.7.8) <7 5 4 3 1>
36 0 0x5af89000 0x10000 0xf000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI (3.7.5) <35 14 7 5 4 3 1>
37 2 0x5b16e000 0x43000 0x42000 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily (4.1.7) <5 4 3 1>
38 0 0x5af99000 0x26000 0x25000 com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI (4.3.4) <37 14 7 6 5 4 3 1>
39 0 0x5af69000 0x14000 0x13000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI (3.7.5) <35 14 7 5 4 3 1>
40 0 0x55395000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM (1.3.0) <34 7 5 4 3>
41 2 0x5b12f000 0xd000 0xc000 com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily (2.5.0) <5 4 3 1>
42 0 0x5af7d000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA (2.5.0) <41 14 5 4 3>
43 1 0x55229000 0x2000 0x1000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient (3.7.5) <35 5 4 3 1>
44 0 0x5b151000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub (3.7.8) <35 5 4 3 1>
46 0 0x5b160000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib (1.0.0d1) <6 4 3 2 1>
47 0 0x5b28a000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.BootCache (31) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
48 0 0x5b2bf000 0xe000 0xd000 com.apple.iokit.IOATABlockStorage (2.5.0) <41 21 5 4 3 1>
49 0 0x5539b000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter (402.1) <21 5 4 3 1>
50 1 0x5b2b3000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite (3.7.5) <35 4 3 1>
51 2 0x5b397000 0x1a000 0x19000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily (2.5.0) <5 4 3 1>
52 0 0x5b37a000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass (2.5.0) <51 35 21 5 4 3 1>
53 0 0x5b3fd000 0x18000 0x17000 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice (2.5.0) <51 21 5 4 3 1>
55 0 0x5b3e3000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver (3.7.5) <35 30 5 4 3 1>
56 0 0x5b593000 0xa000 0x9000 com.apple.filesystems.autofs (2.1.0) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
57 1 0x5b585000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily (3.4.0a20) <6 5 4 3>
58 2 0x5b59d000 0xa000 0x9000 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC (3.0.1d2) <13 7 5 4 3>
59 0 0x5b603000 0xf000 0xe000 com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin (3.4.0a20) <58 57 14 13 7 6 5 4 3>
60 2 0x5b84c000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily (10.0.2) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
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62 0 0x5b29d000 0x2000 0x1000 com.apple.driver.Apple16X50ACPI (3.0) <61 13 4 3>
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70 3 0x5b963000 0x16000 0x15000 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily (1.8) <7 6 5 4 3 1>
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72 0 0x5b982000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.driver.AppleRTL8169Ethernet (1.1) <70 14 5 4 3 1>
73 0 0x5b9fd000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEthernet (2.0.9) <70 35 7 5 4 3 1>
74 4 0x5ba08000 0x1e000 0x1d000 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily (2.0) <14 7 5 4 3>
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78 0 0x55100000 0x4000 0x3000 com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (1.1.0) <64 5 4 3 1>
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81 0 0x5b988000 0x6000 0x5000 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X (7.0.0) <58 7 4 3 1>
82 0 0x5b9f4000 0x7000 0x6000 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile (17) <68 6 4 3>
83 0 0x5b612000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient (3.0.5) <74 14 13 7 5 4 3 1>
84 0 0x5ba74000 0x9000 0x8000 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager (2.2f18) <60 7 5 4 3 1>
86 0 0x5ba5e000 0xb000 0xa000 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface (73.0) <7 5 4 3 1>
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89 0 0x5b55e000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction (10) <68 4 3 1>
90 0 0x5b535000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction (10) <68 4 3 1>
91 0 0x5b565000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction (14) <68 6 4 3 1>
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99 0 0x54df1000 0x3000 0x2000 com.bresink.driver.BRESINKx86Monitoring (5.0) <12 11 10>
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102 0 0x54dc1000 0x4000 0x3000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (3.0.8) <100 7 5 4 3 1>
103 0 0x54da7000 0x3000 0x2000 org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (3.0.8) <100 5 4 1>
104 0 0x54db9000 0x5000 0x4000 com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor (1.9.2d0) <5 4 3>
105 0 0x5b3dc000 0x3000 0x2000 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub (3.7.5) <50 35 4 3 1>
Sn0ws-iMac:~ sn0w$

Thanks again

I tried to do this yesterday and never got it to work. The BIOS recognised the disks (as it should) but SL failed to see them. I suspect a new Kext is needed but I put mine in a Firewire enclosure and it worked fine.

I had one working, I'll let you know if I can get it working again. I switched a few kexts around I have to figure out what was working. I

Regarding IDE drives.
My backup clone is on a IDE drive and boots fine, also the dvd drive I sometimes connect is IDE.
I don't use any special kexts. It's just a hassle to get the little jumpers right on the drives, the master/slave thing. And then the connector on the IDE cable matters too, middle or end. One time I couldn't get it to work no matter what I did, but then I discovered that a cable had got lose at the molex connector, so no power...

" I thought the bios chose which drive was being used so i threw the master slave covers out"

I assume you mean jumpers? To some extent you're right, but you really do need them. Unless you do cable select, which can be a bit flaky and then where on the cable they are matters more, and you need the right sort of cable for it.

IDE drives also work fine for me here.

As above, make sure you have it cabled up right.

That means master *should* be on the end of the IDE cable (and make sure it's the correct sort, should be an 80 not 40 wire one for HDs), the slave nearer the mobo. Also be sure to set master/slave jumpers correctly.

Hi, I am working on my second hackintosh (last one was like a year ago, and the whole ideneb thing was allot easier for me )

Anyway I have a G31M-ES2L with a 2.33ghz c2d, 4gb of ram, ati 4550 card.