So after searching the forum and thinking about to do an update from my 10.5.8 Hackintosh (kalyway 10.5.2 install and iDeneb update), i luckily came to this Blog: http://prasys.co.cc/

And the Empire EFI from Pradeesh sounded really nice and i have given it a try and it was sooo easy.
No Hacking, no DSDT patching required.
Original Vanilla Kernel and 64-bit Mode enabled…

Just updated to 10.6.2. There you have be carefull but is even relative easy if you do all Steps as declared.

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First of all my big respect to the following people who made this possible:
of Course

• the master chief himself: Netkas from Russia, can be found on: www.netkas.org
• Pradeesh from Malaysia can be found here: http://prasys.co.cc/
• Conti http://osx86.sojugarden.com/
• and a lot of others people i'm sadly don't know the Names for suppling the Kexts…

The installation is based on Empire EFi and myHack

I'm running the following hardware:

* Asus P5W DH Deluxe not latest Bios should be 2.5X or 2.6x
* Core2DUO E2600
* Nvidia 7600 gt
* 4gb of Ram
* several HDDs (500gb Sata for Snow Leopard)
* IDE DVD Drive
* the BIOS Settings are the one from my Kallyway install so have a look over here:


Steps you have to do

1. Buy a legal Copy of Snow Leopard
2. Download Empire efi (Version 1.0) http://prasys.co.cc/2009/10/empire-efi/
3. unzip and burn containig iso to cd (i used disk utility from hackintosh 10.5.8 – use what ever your want) burn slowly, not highest availabl speed. I made it with 8x
4. Download Kext helper app from http://www.kexts.com/
5. Download the Kexts (VoodooHDA.kext, USB2 ECHI kext, NVenabler.kext from http://www.kexts.com/
6. Download Wifi Driver http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D1BOPR2I
7. put in the CD
8. Restart your PC/hackintosh and boot from CD (with inserted burned Empire EFI CD)
9. After the empire Efi Screen Shows up (Darth Vader in the background) put CD out and put the Original
10. Snow Leopard DVD in
11. Press F5 – wait till it shows up on the screen (the SNow Leopard CD), select it and press enter (may take a while)
12. Wait
13. Start the usual Snow Leopard Installation Progress. Maybe you have to format your Harddrive via (Additional Software-> Disk Utility) and format/partition it to GUID
14. Install Snow Leopard
15. When the install has got finished, put Leopard DVD out
16. Put the CD with Empire EfI back in your DVD and restart from CD again
17. Now When Empire EFI shows up choose the Hard drive you installed Snow Leopard to
18. and Hit Enter
19. Then the usuall progress with timezones and adding an user… from Snow Leopard will appear (don't copy yout settings from an other Mac)
20. When you are booted in Snow Leopard with an new User
21. Go to the (Empire EFI) CD, there in the Folder: Extra/Post-Installation start: my-hack installer.mpkg and install myhack to your new Snow Leopard harddrive.
22. Reboot without CD
23. Install Kexts: VoodooHDA.kext, USB2 ECHI, for nvdia graphics, the Snow Leopard NVenabler kext. With Kext helper app.
24. Install Wifi Driver Realtek …
25. Restart
26. fall in love with Snow Leopard ;-)

Now everything should be up and running smooth – if so decide to support the People who made this possible: netkas, Conti, Pradeesh, insanelymac.com, apple …

For Installing the Softwareupdate 10.6.2
I first messed things up so I'm not really shure if it works but in generall i have done this:

1. Backup Your /Extra and /Library/Extenisons Folder
2. Download 10.6.2 Combo Update from Apple
3. Install Combo update but DON'T restart
4. Then reinstall your backed up Kexts
5. and replace in /Library/Extensions the files contained in this Package http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4MDBCGL8 thanks to MacDude (for Graphic nvidia 7XXX to Work)
6. And replace in /Extra the new NullCPU...kext from Netkas
7. then run Cont's Script via Terminal to do this (after every Line Enter ;-)):
8. open Terminal
9. sudo -s
10. your password
11. cd /Volumes/yourharddrivenameinstead
12. ./pfix
13. /Volumes/yourharddrivenameinstead
14. restart

If you get KernelPanic
do this at Empire EFI boot:
press any key and then -x32 and Enter

Then Run Cont's pfix Script again and Repair Permissions with Disk Utility.


That's it Folks
Hope to help yaa out with some answers ;-)

wow, this looks like a great, easy guide. Has anyone out there been successful or frustrated? I'm planning to try this weekend and will report back.
-bb

Well-written and simple. Sounds good. It may finally convince me to open up the P5W DH I've had in my closet forever. Thanks.

Hi, just want to say thanks to your guide now I have a perfectly running Snow machine ! It even took the update to 10.6.2 with no problems at all . After more than 2 months trying to make it work , finally got it! and it was the easiest I have seen and tried so far ! Thank you again for a well written explained tutorial !
Now for the ones who want to try here are my specifics:

I have an Hp destop
Motherboard : Gigabite G41M-ES2L
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT. used the NvEnabler64 Kext
Ram: 4 Gigs
Wireless Card: Atheros , this one worked out of the box! Snow installation recognized it !
Sound: On board , I used the VoodoHD.kext to make it work

So , in general I only had to use 2 , YES did you hear that??? !! only 2 Kext to make this thing work !!!! I do not think you can get more " Vanilla" than that !!!!

I will recommend this set up to anyone out there ! Empire EFI is the fastest way to install SNOW ,and it works !!!!

I installed 10.5.8 without any issues, but when I try to use this guide to install SL, I get the "wait for service appleIntelCPUPowerManagement timed out" after I put in the SL disk. Wouldn't this work for everyone the same? Is there something in the BIOS that I should change? I originally had the problem of the "waiting for root device" but I removed the IDE DVD and used a SATA DVD instead, which resolved that issue. Any advice would be appreciated. I've installed using BOOT-132 on other boxes, but I can't seem to get a working SL on any of my machines (except my Dell D630 laptops).

I'm using an ASUS-P5B-E. Everything (ethernet, ATI 1900xt, firewire, sound...) works in 10.5.8.

For those who have got SL running with this method, are sleep, shutdown, and restart working or are they an issue? I managed to get 10.5.8 fully working with sleep but after adding in a second 9600GT it borked everything so now I'm taking the plunge to get SL working.

Here is my setup:

ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe (2302)
Intel Q6600 (G0 Stepping)
8 Gigs of DDR2 Ram
Seagate 500GB HD (for SL)
LG DVD Burner
2xBFG 9600GT's

to surreal :

I got my system working ! Everything works !! Even deep sleep !! I installed the sleepenabler .kext and now it works ! It did not worked when first installed 10.6, even the update ( 10.6.2 went without problems !)
So , sleep , deep sleep , wake , and shutdown, and restart all work !! Wireless internet works ! Graphics are perfect thru DVI !

to recount my set up , everything is Vanilla install!!! Did not changed anything from the original retail install !
I only had to use 3 Kext for :

video
Audio
and Deep sleep enabler!
That is it !!!
Perfect Vanilla install !! Thanks to all that made all this possible ! I Love my Apple PC

Can someone tell me where to activate the 64bit modus...

Its not working somehow regarding system information!

Everything else works so good

i know i may sound stupid but do you need 10.5x before you do this??

Has anyone encountered DMG corruption issues regarding this install method? See here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=206574

Here you'll find almost a complete solution to install Snow Leo on P5W DH Deluxe without any compromises. Boot-132 method + DSDT + snow install pack.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1360946

Hi all,

I tried this method on my P5W DH Deluxe, but i got the following errors on boot install.
"Error: Uncompressed file is not the length recorded."
"Error: couldn't uncompress plist file from multikext archive entry 0."

Any suggestions?

***The only installation that boot on my PC is Kalyway 10.5.2. No other realease works.

My specs:
- Asus P5W DH Deluxe
- Core2Quad Q6600
- Nvidia 9800GTX+ Plus
- 3GB Ram
- HD's: IDE, SATA. (SL HD=IDE)
- SATA DVD Drive

what is empire efi? what does it do?