Darkzide Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Hell everyone. I want to share my method of how i installed snow leopard (iAtkos S3 V2) on my pc. I hope someone find the answers here Successfully Installation of iAtkos S3 V2 in Asus P7H55-M LX My Specs: Intel Core i5 750@2.66ghz 8MB Cache SKT 1156 4GB Ram Corsair 1336 Mhz 500GB SATA Seagate ST3600 HDD Samsung DVD-Burner ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB PCI-e Onboard Audio Installation Guide: 1.-First of all download iAtkos S3 V2 from a trusteable source. 2.-Burn the downloaded .iso @ slow speed (max 8x) in a quality media preferably (Sony, Verbatim, LG, etc) 3.-Once you finish to burn, reboot your pc and enter to your bios configuration. (DEL key at Asus Screen) 4.-Once in the bios, in the first screen it will say at the bottom (Storage Configuration) its very important that you change the IDE mode to AHCI, save the changes and exit. 5.-Hit f8 button at Asus Screen and select the DVD-ROM as first boot device. 6.-A purple screen will show up and hit f8 to access to the advanced boot option. 7.-Now you need to type this: busratio=20 cpus=1 -v (only works on cpus=1) 8.-Darwin will start to load in some parts it appears to be frozen but don't worry it will load (5-10 minutes) 9.-The language selection will appear now and it seems the installer freezes again but it doesn´t it will take a while and now you can select your language click next (the frozen thingys ends now lol) 10.-Now before selecting a destination hard disk, click in utiities > disk utilities 11.-Select the hard drive where you wish to install Snow Leopard and click in Erase, select as format Mac Os X (Extended Journaled) and then click erase. Once its done close the Disk Utility. 12. Now click again in Utilities and Select Terminal. 13. Now we going to unsure that the selected hard drive is set as active to avoid the boot0: error message at the end of the installation. 14.-A Dark green screen will popup and type this: diskutil list 15.-A list will show up, verify which disk number holds your partition (disk0, disk1) 16.-If your partition is the first disk (disk0) for example you need to type this: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 if the MBR file could not open message appears just ignore it 17.-Now type: p verify in which partition you going to install Snow Leopard (1,2, etc) 18.-if its the number 1 for example type: f 1 19.-Now we going to save the changes type: write , then: y , then: exit , close the terminal. 20.- Now select the partition where you going to install and click the button Customize. 21.-The most of the default values are ok for us, i changed the boot loader to chameleon v2, i added the PS/2 driver support, USB, and the Ethernet Driver in this case is the Realtek ones. Now accept and back to the disk selection. 22.-Now you can continue, it will start to install (it will takes around 20 min) maybe it freeze a bit but nothing big. 23.-Once it finish restart the computer and don't to anything it will boot normally without type anything weird, and thats it you got Snow Leopard installed. My video card its a Sapphire ATI HD 4650 1GB DDR2 if someone need help let me know mine its working 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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