由 USB 手指 / 外置硬碟安裝 Snow Leopard 完整指南（解決 64 位元權限與 Kernel Panic）

Not specific for Gigabyte, I dont think so. Use your own kexts but follow the guide for install method.
I want to keep the Packages & KP info and the title is at its max size so I won't be editing yet m8.

Actualy when looking back and with this method SL is pretty easy to install and require less fiddling around with custom kexts. It does though require proper permissions on everything.

It better run too because my Nick has been "Snow" for decades (in games and to other people)

Later bud

Alright, I'm glad it worked out well for you guys. I've also Updated the guide with IOHCIBlockStorageInjector (fix HD icons) and FakeSMC (replace dsmos but experimental) kexts.

Laters

Ouch, sad to hear that m8, must not work for Nforce and/or AMD then. I'll edit the guide to 'Intel only' when more users confirm non working.

Besides my guide I can't really help you out with that system m8. I had an AMD rig once but it was too much trouble everytime I had to install or update so I switched to Intel.

Anywa, good luck and thx for the report!

@zod1988since you use the same mainboard as I do: how did you enable sound? I used a 64Bit version of VoodooHDA.kext and I'm now able to change the volume and the Sound preferencepane shows several outputs, but none of them work. Am I missing something?

Hi m8

I'm using my Firewire Presonus Inspire 1394 for now since its recognized from the first boot. I have the onboard disabled and will wait for KX Driver 64bit support. If the ALC889a would support analogue 5.1 sound then I would consider switching though.

I have update my guide with UUID method and provided template smbios & comappleboot plist files.

Hope that gets you further in the process m8, good luck!

@Jtillwick

I do not recommend installing this way and thats exactly why I built this guide m8, to avoid all those issues.

@GurruwiwiHi Snow ! I am happy to announce that your guide works like a charm with my laptop. I want to give you 20 thumbs up, but I only have two Your guide not only was the only one so far to work, but is so well thought out it was also the only guide that made me really understand the quirks with Snow. 32bit and 64bit, one or two KP's on the…

Hi Gurruwiwi,

I'm very happy to know this guide was successful for you and therefor can be used for laptops too.
It was my intention to be more specific then the other guides because I always got lost at some point
Thanks again for the kind words and enjoy the OS m8!

@spacelimeAllright, got the installer running now , used another dldt.aml that was already patched. Think that was the problem. But now the only thing is that the installer doesn't recognize my internal hard drives. Only the USB. So I have nowhere to install it… I'm thinking it has something to do with SATA support perhaps?

Hi Spacelime, good that you've found (or built) a proper dsdt file because I could not help you with this (it's system specific)
Either you need to run the proper ATA kexts for your motherboard or you need to format the destination drive to HSF+ journalled inside Leopard. Try other things with format too if that doesn't work. Unallocated space or FAT32.
You have ICH10R so maybe this can be of help:

http://netkas.org/?p=125 ↗

Notice! only for those who have AHCI disabled or using a laptop so keep that in mind.

Good luck and report back with update m8

I remember using EasyBCD, good app indeed, but like DocShadow mentioned, Chameleon should detect all your operating systems properly and boot into them.
I'm using Chameleon 2 RC1 and it detects Snow Leo, Leo and Win 7 x64.

The only issue you will have with Chameleon is no more sleep in Win 7 (logoff bug). Since I use Win only as a gaming OS I can live with it though.

I'm glad my guide helped you in the right direction bud, enjoy the 64bits flying

rapid share.com/files/276809840/com.apple.Boot.plist.zip.html

mega upload.com/?d=R056JRFJ

I won't add these links to the guide because, well, the bloody link still works like it should so check your internet.

@ Why go MBR anyway m8? Windows on same disk?

@ Rootus, try adding -x (safe mode) to boot and try Chameleon 2 RC1 with Boot 10.1: media fire.com/?mytlwh2jymz

I've got a P-35DS3P rev2.0 board m8 which uses another BIOS. I've got the latest F12 installed.
Both SL and Win 7 boot fast so no issues.

Glad my guide could be of help to you m8

My DSDT: media fire.com/?djjyr0ztkdn

I'm glad my guide could help, I wanted it to be more specific since I also hit a wall with other guides.
My 8800GT is a 512MB version but I don't use a GFX EFI string anyway since I've included this is the DSDT file.
Other then GFX you could probably use my DSDT. I don't know what will happen if you use it with GFX included, it might not boot or just boot in VESA mode. If you have another install (or Windows with macdrive) you could try it and if not working restore.
Be sure to upgrade to F12 since it boots faster. When searching for AHCI devices it speeds up a lot.

Hope that helps m8

Is the lag still there because I've got iTunes running but haven't got a hitch (so far)

Anyway, try this one, I've added the code to the working 10.6.2 kext.

Update: Seems to be there although even less obvious then pre 10.6.2 so trying the kext myself.

This is specifically for gigabyte mobo right? You should edit the title, because use laptop users dont need most of the kexts (openhalt, nullpower, etc)

Please correct me if I am wrong. Snow Leo really is a much tougher cat to tame, I find

Otherwise, great guide!

Used your kexts and had success in booting in 64 bit SL.

"Snow Leopard 10A43 install dmg" … Interesting sense of humour

i also have success in booting 64 bit except my Realtek 8139c Network card is not working in 64bit mode. if anyone has a solution be glad to hear it Seems stable and very responsive, 6 hours now with gaming and apps all over

Greatest Guide ever :P

Wow, big thanks to you, man.:)

At first I thought it didn't work either, but it even booted the Installer in 64Bit mode without any trouble.

My Install is now rocksolid if you look past the fact that somebody still has to figure out how to make RadeonHD 3850s work under Snow Leopard.

Once again, huge thanks to you!

Does not work for me.

Same steps, same kexts, just replaced mach_kernel on Install with AMD one (tried both, Dmitri's and Modbin's).

KP on boot, after loading kexts.

I have no luck with SL at all.

-AMD Opteron 180
-nForce4 Asus mobo

since you use the same mainboard as I do: how did you enable sound?
I used a 64Bit version of VoodooHDA.kext and I'm now able to change the volume and the Sound preferencepane shows several outputs, but none of them work.

Am I missing something?

@SnowI had an AMD rig once but it was too much trouble everytime I had to install or update so I switched to Intel.

I have no problems with AMD and Leopard. I'm installing from retail DVD, updating with no problems, and it's stable.

My next rig will be Intel-based too.

maybe u can use this step maya77 for your AMD.. its work for me..
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install →

I have a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R and am currently running 10.5.8 without any issues. I tried installing a retail Snow Leopard I received today and I too get a kernel panic on first boot immediately after loading of extensions. Have also tried on my GA-P35-DS3L with the same result.

I installed my retail copy from the DVD while booted into my Leopard install by running the OSIntaller.mpkg from Terminal. Afterward I installed Chameleon 2.0 RC1 using the EFI HFS method and replaced the boot file with EFI 10.1. I have a dsdt.aml with the RTC fix in Extra/ and the kexts I have in the Extra/Extensions folder are (all 64 bit versions):

• dsmos
• IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
• NullCPUPowerManagement
• OpenHaltRestart
• PlatformUUID (with my drive's uuid)
• SleepEnabler

Anyone know why I am getting a kernel panic on boot? Anyone want to help point me in the right direction?

Where do we get the SMBIOS file to edit? I don't see one in your files to download. I did get one in another package elsewhere but it listed the Brand and model of MOBO in the txt when I looked at the file. Should I just change that info to match mine? thanks

Hello! Thank you very much for this nice guide. I'm having some trouble though. Maybe you can point me in the right direction?

When I boot up Cameleon works great... i type in -v -x32 (tried without it too). It loads up until it says Ethernet Adress XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Ethernet Adress XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
or something and then the screen turns black. The usb drive continues to read for maybe a minute and then nothing happens. When I reboot the BIOS is screwed up so I have to restore it from a backup.

I have followed your instructions very carefully. But thing that I'm not sure that I got right is the dsdt.aml. I found an app called dsdt patcher which didn't have much options and it generated the file... Is that the way to do it.

My hardware:
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P (ame ntio.se/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:2178829)
Intel Quad Core 2.66ghz
Geforce 9500 GT
I boot from a Kingston 16GB thumbdrive that i partitioned into one 10gb with Snow and one 6gb

thank you,
Olof

Hi Snow !

I am happy to announce that your guide works like a charm with my laptop.

I want to give you 20 thumbs up, but I only have two

Your guide not only was the only one so far to work, but is so well thought out it was also the only guide that made me really understand the quirks with Snow.

32bit and 64bit, one or two KP's on the way, but boots up nice unflagged, and damn fast responsive!

Now for laptop 64bit kexts for everything. Thanks!

im using chameleon v1 w/pcefi v9, the one your using should work though, but if worse comes to worse, try what works for others I guess.

I loaded all my kext into /S/L/E I dont know much about how the kext in /E/E work. but with my case I'll tell you you MUST rebuild your kextcache or it wont load the new kext and therfore you'll get a KP 0x000002 right away. you cant rebuild the cache unless permissions are set correctly so ensure that.

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/*
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/*

now everyone except myself seem to be able to rebuild the kextcache from within Leopard, this never worked for me, so I always had to boot the SL dvd from my macbook and rebuild the cache from there (usbhdd)

kextcache -v 1 -ltm /Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions

maybe my syntax is wrong for Leopard, if anyone can correct it that would be great.

Im also using fakesmc insted of dmos

@jtillwickI have a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS3R and am currently running 10.5.8 without any issues. I tried installing a retail Snow Leopard I received today and I too get a kernel panic on first boot immediately after loading of extensions. Have also tried on my GA-P35-DS3L with the same result. I installed my retail copy from the DVD while booted…

Allright, got the installer running now , used another dldt.aml that was already patched. Think that was the problem.

But now the only thing is that the installer doesn't recognize my internal hard drives. Only the USB. So I have nowhere to install it… I'm thinking it has something to do with SATA support perhaps?

To see the internal drive/volumes ...

Go to Finder Preferences

Under Show these items on the desktop, check off Hard disks

Thanks for the guide ... it was very useful for making a USB SL Install. (Y)

I didn't need it to install SL as I already have it running but I need to fix another SL partition using Disk Utility … this did the trick and now I have an SL Install if needed.

Thank you Snow!
I read up a little about AHCI... still don't really understand it but when I turned AHCI on in the BIOS I was able to see my hdd in the installer

Now I've installed Win 7 and Kubuntu Karmic and am attempting to triple boot. I'm making some progress using the brilliant EasyBCD to modify the Win7 bootloader. I made many attempts using GRUB2 as the main bootloader but it just broke my Windows install every time.. With EasyBCD I'm now able to boot smoothly into either Win or Linux, but not yet OSX.. hope to get it working soon!

Yippie, got the tripple boot working finally

If anyone is considering to dual or tripple boot with Windows i HIGHLY recommend that you try EasyBCD... I've spent many hours trying to get either the efi bootloader or GRUB2 to boot into the other OSs, but with no luck. easybcd was really a breeze.. just install it in windows and you can set up exactly how to boot with a GUI in 2 minutes and it WORKS!

Now I just have a few details to cope with. OSX detects my DVD drive but is unable to read from it and a window telling me this appears just after booting every time.

If I boot into OSX and then boot Kubuntu the file system on my EXT4 partitions is a little screwed up so the boot up process halts and asks me to run fsck manually. after doing this and rebooting it loads Kubuntu just fine. It seems that OSX is messing something up… I'm going to reinstall Kubuntu and change the partitions to EXT3 and see how it goes.

Anyone have any idea about the CD/DVD drive problem?

Allright... a little update for anyone who cares.. I'm just so excited to have this thing up and running lol.

The corrupted filesystem seems to be due to EXT4. So that may be worth concidering if you want to dual boot with ubuntu. You may wanna use EXT3 as it is probably the safe bet.

The complaining about CD drive error was not really the CD at all but just my secondary HDD that I hadn't partitioned yet. So now that it's done it workes fine. Tried to make a backup with time machine to the secondary hdd but that actually caused OSX to crash in the middle of it. Seems a little worrying, I hope I won't get this with other things too.

Anyway, I'm starting to feel most things are working fine now. Thanks again snow for the excellent guide!

Why not use Chameleon?

I boot into Chameleon and then choose either OSX or Win 7.

Can somebody upload the file
"com.apple.Boot.plist (media fire.com/?zmyzng3m5hj)"
agian.
Download does not work.

i'm trying to apply your guide to install SL on MBR. Unfortunatelyy it seems that the modification we used to do to OSInstall.mpkg doesn't work anymore. Any advice ?

,

i already tried that OSInstall.mpkg, but i think the author wants me to run the OSInstall.mpkg from a previously installed SL/Leo system. He says:

"It is very important to run the MPKG not the PKG file !"

What i want to do is to overwrite the OSInstall.mpkg in the USB stick and then install from that. Up to now no luck with any patched OSInstall.mpkg i found.

,

Thanks for posting the guide.

I'm having a problem, if you have any ideas I'd really appreciate them -- I'm kinda stumped, and I don't know where to go from here. SL boots from USB, goes through the usual text bits about kext loading and stuff (using -v -x32 as boot options, have also tried safe mode but it just panics if I do that), and then it switches into graphical mode. I get a light blue screen, which turns after a few seconds into a light gray screen, and the mouse cursor changes from an arrow to a beach ball, and it never escapes from beach ball hell. Spins, spins, spins, for as many hours as I care to leave it.

FWIW, an install of SL that I did from within Leopard also hangs at a particular point, though it's before going graphical, and it also never recovers. Slightly different outward behavior, but the hang is consistent.

My setup -- Asus P5K-VM, Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, nvidia 9600 GT 512MB, 1.5 TB SATA drive (Seagate; dual partitions, both under a TB), 250GB SATA drive (WD) with Leopard 10.5.6, and a SATA DVD writer. Everything works great using Leopard.

Software -- SL retail disc (okay, the $29 "upgrade" disc rather, seems retail to me), Chameleon RC2 build 640, EFI 10.1 boot. Tried with all the kexts in this guide, also tried simplifying to just dsmos based on a post from someone else who got things working on a P5K series board with just that.

Thoughts? I'd really like to get this installed, I'm hoping it will give me a bit more efficient utilization of the quad core CPU. I've got it running on my real Macs and I'm hooked on the new version of Mail (bye bye Outlook, wasn't nice knowing you, won't miss you, etc ).

@Snow@ Why go MBR anyway m8? Windows on same disk? @ Rootus, try adding -x (safe mode) to boot and try Chameleon 2 RC1 with Boot 10.1: media fire.com/?mytlwh2jymz

yes, i've got windows 7 in the same HD.

The SMUUID, the platformUUID and the disk partition UUID are 3 different entities and they dont need to match from what I know.
The SMUUID in smbios.plist seem to be useless.
The PlatformUUID key is based on your ethernet card's MAC address and should help avoiding error 35 errors and not built-in en0 ethernet cards. (see this thread ↗)
The boot-uuid chameleon argument is the id of what disk partition you want to boot, and it should not be needed for chameleon rc3 either, but maybe netkas' pcefi 10.2 needs that to boot Snow Leopard (unsure).
They are all UUIDs but they identify different things.

It would be great if you could post your DSDT.aml for your board. Curious what Bios revision your on? You might not be aware but recently Gigabyte came out with an F6 updated bios that improves the boot time considerably in the BIOS!

I have the Gigabyte EP-35DS3P rev2.1 board...

Thanks for your guide,
Taylor

Snow, your guide is really detailed, precise and concise at the same time, this is what i most appreciate in a guide! These last weeks i've read so many guides about SL installation that i was quite puzzled and could never get started, i think that this time i'll finally get my hands on this long awaited installation following your instructions.
The intiguing thing is that i have more or less the same HW as you, just a couple of subtle differencies.
I have a Captiva 9800GT with 1GB memory, i've read somewhere that it's basically the same as your 8800GT, is yours 512MB or 1GB? If it's 1GB can i use your com.apple.Boot.plist with its GFX string as it is?
My GA-P35-DS3P is rev. 2.1, and i could see from the Gigabyte site that 2.0 and 2.1 revisions followed the same roadmap about firmware upgrades, so i guess that if i upgrade it to F12 as you did i can even use your DSDT.aml?
Thanks for your work and i hope to get a reply from you!

Hootcho

Hi Snow, I have the same board as you have and ran into the CMOS issue. tried fixing this but to no avail. I'll try your dsdt.aml and see if this works out.

Anyone got a 10.6.2 SleepEnabler.kext that blocks the AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext that causes the mouse lag?
Or another fix? Aside from just deleting the kext at fault from the system.