Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Using Hazard's Snow_Leopard_10.6.1-10.6.2_SSE2_SSE3_Intel_AMD DVD on a GPT SATA HDD on an Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus MOBO

All done on an eSATA Hard Drive connected via eSATA or USB 2.0 ......using a USB keyboard and mouse (NOT PS/2), Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard, Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 G0 CPU running at 3.0GHz, PATA DVDRW, Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 8600GT 256MB graphics card, Netgear GA311 Gigabit LAN PCI card (RealTek 8169S chipset) and Asus SupremeFX audio card (AD1988b audio codec).

NO WARRANTY IS IMPLIED OR GIVEN AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THESE STEPS WILL WORK FOR YOU AS THEY HAVE FOR ME.

THIS GUIDE IS ONLY for INTEL CPUs NOT AMD CPU SYSTEMS AND THE SYSTEM INSTALL SELECTIONS USED IN THE GUIDE ARE FOR AN nFORCE CHIPSET MOBO. CERTAIN SELECTIONS WILL NEED TO BE DIFFERENT FOR AN AMD CPU AND/OR INTEL CHIPSET MOBO.

  I have used the final patched version (original and PPF patch both obtained via Google searching...... ) of the Snow_Leopard_10.6.1-10.6.2_SSE2_SSE3_Intel_AMD_by_Hazard Snow Leopard......this distro is made from the Retail Mac OS X 10.6 DVD with updates 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.

  It is claimed to support most of the modern hardware for Intel and AMD  (AMD users need to patch CPUID's with Marvin's AMD Utility) and  includes the Intel Atom fixed kernel for 10.6.2 update, support for  Intel Pentium 4 with Legacy Kernel, SATA Fix and more.

   Note that the distro Install DVD boots by default into 64bit mode AND  like ALL single-layer DVD distros, is a "stripped-down" version of the  Retail OS X Install DVD containing NO Printer Drivers........       
  
INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

  1. Boot PC from Hazard Install DVD


  2. When Darwin bootloader appears, press F8 and at the boot: prompt, type

  

-v arch=i386

  If you have any problems, try

  

-v arch=i386 cpus=1 maxmem=2048

but only use maxmem=2048 if you have > 2GB RAM installed on your MOBO


  3. Use Disk Utility to set up at least 2 OS X volumes of equal size  (minimum 80GB, partitioned/formatted as GPT/Mac OS Extended  (Journaled); one as OSX_Main and the other as OSX_Backup


Note that without modification this distro install DVD cannot be  used to install Snow Leopard onto MBR/Mac OS Extended (Journaled)  partitioned/formatted HDD volume(s)    


4. Select OSX_Main as your target install volume in the Select a Destination popup-window


  5. Click on Customize button in the Install Summary popup-window, and select as follows.      

NOTE any Customize options not listed below HAVE NOT BEEN SELECTED!

        

Mac_OS_X_10.6.2

Kernels > NONE

Boot_Loaders-Options >

  > Chameleon_Boot_Loaders > Chameleon_RC4

> Bootx86

> Boot_Options > Graphics_Enabler

You can choose to use Graphics_Enabler (BUT ONLY if you have a nVidia graphics card...otherwise choose no Boot_Options unless you know you need to choose certain boot options....)

Graphics_Drivers > NONE

UNLESS you have  one of the ATI or Intel graphics cards using a driver in the list of options.......

OR if you have a nVidia graphics card BUT have not chosen Graphics_Enabler in Boot_Options; in which case, choose as follows:

Graphics_Drivers > NVidia_Graphic > NVEnabler

NOTE: I have found that both Graphics_Enabler and NVEnabler  work with my GeForce 8600GT 256MB graphics card giving CI/QE (as seen  from the transparent top menu bar) but Graphics_Enabler works more  cleanly during bootup, as the bootup screen shows......

Audio_Drivers > AppleAzaliaAudioAD1988b

  If you do not have a AD19988b audio chipset/codec, choose the listed  option your MOBO audio chipset/codec requires, BUT if you are not sure  which available option(s) for your audio chipset/codec to choose, then  choose VoodooHDA_v2.5.3......HOWEVER, if your chipset/codec is not  listed, then choose the AppleAzaliaAudio option (2channel output).......  

Note:  I have found that choosing the AppleAzaliaAudioAD1988b option results  in VoodooHDA.kext (0.2.1) being loaded also......this produces speaker  "crackles/pops" during booting but you do get sound output with the top  menu bar speaker icon activated with volume control......however, in  System Profiler > Audio (Built In) appears as "No Built-in  Audio."....

Network_Drivers > nForceLAN

unless  you know exactly which of the listed drivers your MOBO onboard LAN  chipset requires........if your chipset is not listed, then choose  NONE.......

CMOS_Reset_Fix > ElliottForceLegacyRTC

SATA_ATA_FIx > NONE

Patches >

> About_This_Mac_Fix

>EITHER OpenHaltRestart OR EvOreboot

NOTE: The PS2 option is ONLY needed if you are using a PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse......

> SMBIOSResolver

> Upstream_Client_Disabler

  (Normally needed if you have a 8xxx or 9xxx series nVidia graphics card)

> UUID


Additional Fonts OPTIONAL

Rosetta OPTIONAL

(Rosetta is required if you have PPC apps that you need to run on your Intel CPU mac)

QuickTime 7

  6. Click on Install button.............if you wish to, you can skip the  "Checking Installation DVD" process........but it is recommended that  you do not.......


  7. After the installlation process finishes, you will see an Install Failed warning appear in a popup window.......just ignore this  warning........and click Restart button......


IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE:


      A. This distro Install DVD, while successful (booting from a PATA or  SATA DVDRW), produces a messy Snow Leopard installation because all the  patched and/or non-Apple kexts are put in /System/Library/Extensions/  rather than in /Extra/Extensions/.......so that /S/L/E is no longer an  untouched pure Apple kext, i.e. vanilla kext, folder.......


  B. The Extensions.mkext file used during bootup from the DVD and from  the Snow Leopard installation on the GPT/Mac OS Extended (Journaled)  HDD volume is a problem.......primarily because it loads the  SuperNForceATA.kext from Extensions.mkext.......this produces a looping error on  bootup:

Quote

08/04/2010 17:09:51    kernel    FEDE genero 32IOVMSegments
08/04/2010 17:09:51    kernel    FEDE - SuperNForceATA: createChannelCommands( 0xac25400)
08/04/2010 17:09:51    kernel    FEDE Casteo a IOAABUSCommand64
08/04/2010 17:09:51    kernel    FEDE Obtengo el comaqndo DMA
08/04/2010 17:09:51    kernel    FEDE obtengo el descriptor de memoria
08/04/2010 17:09:51    kernel    FEDE entro al ciclo

  with the FEDE messages filling up the Console All Messages log.......and slowing down booting to the Desktop..........


       HENCE:


  8. Reboot the PC and when the Chameleon boot-loader screen has "framed" your Snow Leopard OS X volume icon, type

  

-v -f

  and this should appear to the right of "boot:" on the bottom LHS of the screen......

  Note: If you wish to, you can then reboot with just

-v

and see the difference.......


9. Navigate from the Desktop to /System/Library/ and find an  Extensions.mkext file (49.3MB) and 'drag and drop' it to Trash......


10. Now go to the /System/Library/ Extensions folder.........find and 'drag and drop' to Trash, the following files:

SuperNForceATA.kext
See B. above

SuperVIAATA.kext

Despite a successful installation and updating to OS X 10.6.3, MY RECOMMENDATION is to do a full vanilla Snow Leopard Retail OS X Install DVD installation, with the necessary non-vanilla kexts placed, if at all possible, only in /Extra/Extensions/, using my nForce GUIDE to INSTALL Snow Leopard (10.6) on a Series 6 or 7 nForce chipset / Intel Core2 Duo or Quad or newer CPU MOBO, which explains how to do a successful installation of Snow Leopard 10.6 using either a USB flash drive installer method, or my nForceSLBoot132DVD method........