I know the drivers worked under 10.5.8, but the hardware is not even seen by SL.

I will try the Finder tweek to show drives.

Thanks

I can confirm this. Same thing was happening to me. Bought a SATA DVD drive and install went smoothly!!

Finder/Preferences worked.

Any clue as to how to make SL see my Marvell Yukon Ethernet?

Hi daryoon

I had a look at it and I see Lintendo and titan4 have already tried it and confirmed it works. Well done guys
From reading the posts, I also didn't have SATA in my DSDT so I did as Lintendo did and added the code before Device (PRIM) and I too can confirm it works and I now have my SATA devices recognised as Intel ESB2 AHCI in System Profiler. (Which the following link describes ESB2 as an Intel SATAII controller that seems to be native to 10.5.)

It is also mentioned here too.

I have now removed IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext from /E/E.

So again, Thank you for this link.


Congratulations rednous - Well done


Congratulations to you too valdanta68 - I see that SATA DVD drive helped then..

Very cool, good job guys. I spent the time getting Snow Leopard on my wife's mini9. Just completed that task and was about to return my attention back to this topic, when I see that you all did the hard work already. I am just gonna follow in your foot steps then. Nicely done gents.

-Daryoon

And congratulations to you too msb


Hi -iCE!HACKER

Another successful install - Fantastic - Well done Hopefully you won't have too many kp's with the OSInstall method for now and then when you get the retail DVD, let me know how you get on with that.


WOW - and you too Spiky1984... This is great... Thanks for reporting


I don't know if this is any use but I found this earlier?


Hi snifferpro - Well done with your install too. I see rednous' answer helped you get booted and find your drive icons
As for your Yukon Ethernet, you are going to have to search for someone who has your mobo and got it working.

Tried but still the same. I am having some hopes to BIOS update since there were some guy who fixed this with BIOS update. I can't think of anything else to try to fix that. And right now my eyes are bleeding from too much of Objective-C.

Searching now for Marvell Yukon 88e8001 kext and Ralink USB drivers for SL.


Great guide when it's followed correctly. I apparently goofed when I missed the
correct boot file.

Next step for me is to make a backup of the SL I have now to the Backup partition
so that when I start trying to get Yukon and Ralink working I'll have something
to go back to relatively easy.

Thanks again for the Guide

Ah well, it was worth a try. But yeah, I am waiting for the BIOS update too (can't be long now....?) and I also read that it fixed ApexDE's sleep issue...


Good luck finding an answer for your hardware, and good idea to create a backup partition. It always comes in handy for testing at least.

Was it hard? I've been threatening to do it to my wife's mini 9 as well. Sick of mint/ubuntu. How's performance?

I have installed Leopard 10.5.8 onto an IDE HD, but I am unable to install Snow Leopard from BlackOSX's guide using an USB stick. http://netkas.org/?p=125 describes my my problem:
the way SL 10A432 handles ATA controllers is different from other earlier version of SL.

I tried the new kext posted but only KPs.
I get cannot get past the KPs.
Any work arounds?

I have an ABIT I-45 CV MOBO that does not have AHCI SATA in the Bios.

Have a look at Jingu's post

Have you tried the "restart automatically after power failure thing" in the energy saver preferences yet?

Hi Blackosx,

Thanks... managed to boot SL yesterday night using BootCD and retail Snow Leopard... got everything working fine except sound... but managed to solve it (advised by jorsh) to use arch=i386 during boot...

I have added in this to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Thanks again....

Did you read the guide? as you want to be adding arch=i386 to the com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra. By only using /Extra for your fixes, if you ever want to re-install Snow Leopard, you'll know it will just simply work.

WOW !! I just tried that and it works ! I can't believe something that simple (and unrelated) can fix it...Thanks a lot Lintendo !

Whoop!... The old Jan Bird method!.... (I didn't think to mention it as I guess you would have tried that..) Well done for mentioning it Lintendo
And great news for you titan4

EDIT: It's included in my 10.5.7 guide but I haven't aded it to this one. I'll make a note to add it in the next update.

I didn't tried that since it seemed so unrelated to sleep to me. You see ? Still a noob ! But DSDT patch for keyboard/mouse waking you posted before, don't work for me anymore since I have new shiny keyboard

But still I am in good mood so I love you guys today !

That DSDT fix didn't work for me either. I still need to wake my system from the power button on the case.

I'm hoping these are some quick questions =P

Is the AHCIPortInjector kext installed by Cham2 (Which I need) also 32&64bit? Are all the others as well?

By replacing the boot file, and now running Cham2 RC3, means I can use only one boot partition/manager to boot 10.5.8 & SL right? I gotta look into this as I'm not sure I should move to SL entirely. I'd also have to figure out how to specify different kexts for each version haha

Hi EnzoFX. I dont't know if AHCIPortInjector.kext works with the kernel in 64-bit mode as I don't need it for my mobo. But All the kexts in my Support Files with the green label have been verified as working in both 32 & 64bit mode.

The new Chameleon v2 RC3 download had 10.5, 10.6 and Common folders in the Extensions folder. But I haven't had time to check to find out if that was just to supply different versions of kexts for us to use, or for us to actually use this folder structure so as to have one set of kexts for 10.5 and one for 10.6?

Could you (or anybody else) be so nice to post the new DSDT.aml or the complete "added" SATA section ? I do get compile errors after first adding SATA section and then altering it.

Thanks

Hi Donar - I have updated my DSDT guide to include this to help show what to do.

I have done as Lintendo said, and that was to add the code before Device (PRIM).. So here's mine with the FAS0, FAS1 and bracket from Device (IDE1) section then new code (in bold) before Device (PRIM)

Blackosx, quick question.

If I overclock my processor, do I have to recompile the DSDT too? Or modify the smbios.plist with the new speed?

(By the way, XBENCH scores are definitely lower with Snow, I wonder why?)

I don't think you will need to change anything.
Xbench is very old now, so I wouldn't use it these days.

EDIT: You will want to update your SMBIOS to reflect the speed change.

Yes, I have added in the com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra of Cham... but did not work... I have to amend the one in the other...

It didn't work? it's worked for everyone else here.. Never mind, as long as you have got it working then that's the main thing.

Just used the 64-bit version of Geekbench and got a 4972! Sure seems zippy.

Thank you for the link.

I've downloaded it and I am testing.

Hi Blackosx.
Just to report (again) several days later, everything is OK with my Snow Leopard.
Except my Wifi usb Edimax, Ralink rt2870 based chipset, works only in 32 bit SL. I'm not sure is it driver based or due to lack of 64 bit pref pane.
Thanks again on your excellent guide.

hi to all,
blackosx, hi again,

i would like to share my additional experience with all of you after successful 10.6 retail installation:

1. Updated to 10.6.1 flawlessly :-)
2. My EHCI ports (Hi Speed USBs) were reported external so i additionaly patched my DSDT according stellarola's guide on his blog --> now my EHCis are reported internal, so no more errors like they would be ejected accros sleep :-)
3. Following the link (see the blackosx post back in this thread) explaining where and how to patch DSDT for fixing external SATA to Intel ESB2 AHCI (internal SATA and removing the IOAHCIPortInjector.kext from Chameleon's extensions) i succeeded. So my SATAs are internal native, no more IOAHCIPortInjector.kext!

and a little reminder from me: always do a backup of your DSDT.aml (dsl) so you can get back if something got f_cked :-)

there's a very interesting news on netkas blog --> FakeSMC v2, i installed it and its working great for now, reported SMC version 1.30f3.

something for the 64bit madness, let's call it like that :

im an adobe user, so i tryed to install CS4 (32bit) in 64bit mode --> installer started and quit immidiately.

a friend of mine who's for long years a real MacPro user told me that 64bit is great if you have 32 or more GB of RAM. 10.5 could address max 16GB of RAM.

So running 10.6 in 32bit is great and it wont be a problem unless you have more than 32MB RAM.

Many thanks, i mixed something up before... i've done the patch now removed IOAHCIPortInjector.kext restarted ignoring kextchache - SATA connectors are still -internal-

Well done rednous and thanks for the heads up on FakeSMC v2. I have updated the front page accordingly.
I have CS4 installed and running. But I think I installed it with the kernel in 32-bit mode.


No problem


@smilenkovski - Good to hear your system is running well. Hopefully you will get some drivers soon for your WiFi etc.

I installed whole CS4 Master Collection just fine on 64-bit kernel.

titan4, great :-)

i suppose it failed here coz i was lazy enough to fix Bonjour as the last step from blackosx guide. Im i right ?

cheers

I don't think it can be related to bonjour. But anything is possible. :-)

I have now installed Snow Leopard on a GA EP45-DS3 Rev 1 board using this eminent guide (e8400, 2GB RAM, 1TB HDD, nVidia 8800 GT 512 MB). The graphics card is however not recognized properly so I will try another dsdt.aml (adding PEGP although it was not present). By the way I have managed to get my wireless Netgear WG311 to work also using the Realtek RTL8187B driver. Thanks for your work on this guide and the DSDT guide too!

Edited: Bios F7. Graphics works fine using PEGP and sound too after changing the LegacyHDA kext in the package.

Edit2: Installed on another GA EP45-DS3 Rev 1 Bios F7 with nVidia 9600GT using generic nVidia 512 MB and PEGP in DSDT. Worked fine!

titan4, thanx again for your help :-) ill try it

Yes, it has been mentioned by many people including me that in most cases you need to enable PEGP even when you don't see it in IORegistryExplorer. So go and do it and enjoy your new Kitty

Well Done with your install Carl_XII
For reference selecting the PEGP option has been made more prominent in the most recent version of the DSDT guide.

Solved my SL install USB stick KP issue on a non-AHCI MOBO. Used the following linK:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1189943

Followed your instructions. It works great with the following modifications:

1. Copied(recursive) the above 10.5.8 IOATAFamily.kext to System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext
2. Removed /Extra/Extensions.mkext and added other *.kext files from my 10.5.8 Leopard
3. Removed /Extensions/Disabler.kext
4. Used Chameleon v2 RC3 r658 boot file instead of Chameleon v2 RC2 r640
5. Did a Permissions Repair
6. At Chameleon prompt selected Install (USB stick) and used -v -x -f.
7. Everything boot-up for SL installation
8. Installed SL and re-booted
9. At Chameleon prompt selected Snow (Install SL partition name) and used -v -x -f.
10. SL booted-up for configuration.

Did I do anything incorrectly
Thanks again.


Edit
Hardware: Abit I-45 CV no AHCI in BIOS
Video: Nvidia 7200 GS with 128 MB
Installed :10.5.8 Leopard on a IDE HD
Later Installed 10.6 SL on SATA HD with two partitions Cham and Snow
SATA Hardrive on SATA1
DVD Drive on SATA2
Memory: 4GB

If it worked for you then you must have done everything right. Well done

EDIT: For reference, what motherboard and hardware are you running?
Thanks for updating you post.

Hey,

Is that right? The only way to boot a preboot cd is to use a sata dvd drive? My boot cd's for leopard worked off my ide drive. I only just bought it a couple of months ago so im loathed to ditch it.

Oli

No problem It's good that I could help a bit...

Does it work with EP-45-DS3P Also?

In general yes. But please note that there are some differences between DS3L and DS3P like audio controller (889 instead of 888 on DS3P), so there will be differences for you most of all in DSDT making process.

Go on and try it. And when you will wait for your new Kitty to install, check older post in this thread. I am sure there was somebody with your board here Have fun !

Offtopic: I actually smiled for the first time this weekend when learning that strange language Mac programmers use. I am starting to understand it actually

And 11h47m uptime so far for today without single glitch. Nice kitty

You can always use the USB install method?

WOO HOO ! Got Sleep working on my machine and I do have a TSST DVD drive that others had issues with sleep. I used the tips here for the DSDT SATA fix and here for the USB/EHCI DSDT fix. I can now put the "kitty" to bed and wake her up with either the keyboard or the mouse.

I happen to be using a Logitec MX5000 combo with blue tooth dongle.

Thanks again to everyone here posting their successes and failures, It helps all of us in the end!

Thanks once again to blackosx for his guide as well as his patience and hard work in updating this guide!!

I have attached a copy of my DSDT for others with similar board like mine.



Dora

Well done doradekell. I can tell you're happy

Not as much as I was yesterday. I started jumping around room and making kitty sleep and wake up like 20 times in a row She was finally complete And I have some feeling that SATA fix mentioned even increased overall stability.