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[harbri]

EDIT 29-08: Added kexts, dsdt and plists to the post.

Hi,

After many installs and a lot of random kernel panics I finally succeeded in installing SL on my Gigabyte EP35-DS4 based system. Here's the method that was successful for me:

* Formatted a 8Gb USB-stick into a GUID partition with diskutility
* Installed Chameleon RC1 on the stick
* Installed EFIv10_1 on the stick
* Copied DSDT file to root of the stick
* Copied smbios.plist (with UUID of stick!!) to Extra folder on the stick
* Copied boot.plist (with UUID of stick!!) to Extra folder on the stick
* Used mkext utility to create mkext containing fakesmc.kext, OpenHaltRestart.kext, PlatformUUID.kext (with UUID of stick!!), LegacyAppleAHCIPort.kext and LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage.kext and copied the mkext to the Extra folder on the stick
* Deleted the Extensions folder within the Extra folder on the stick
* Restored the 10.6 image to the stick using diskutility (don't mark "erase destination"!!)
* Formatted harddisk into a GUID partition with diskutlity and made a note of the UUID of that partition
* Created a folder "Temp" on stick
* Copied smbios.plist (with UUID of harddisk!!) to Temp folder on the stick
* Copied boot.plist (with UUID of harddisk!!) to Temp folder on the stick
* Used mkext utility to create mkext containing fakesmc.kext, OpenHaltRestart.kext, PlatformUUID.kext (with UUID of harddisk!!), LegacyAppleAHCIPort.kext and LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage.kext and copied the mkext to the Temp folder on the stick
* Booted my PC from stick, started installation of SL to the harddisk.
* After installation restarted my PC from stick, started installdisk again and went into terminal after the language selection menu (that is before the actual install process).
* Created a folder Extra on the root of the SL-harddisk.
* Copied DSDT file from stick to SL-harddisk.
* Copied smbios.plist, boot.plist and mkext from Temp folder on stick to Extra folder on harddisk.
* Deleted Extensions folder in the Extra folder on the harddisk.
* Rebooted PC from stick, in GUI-menu selected harddisk to boot from.
* Succesfully booted into SL
* Installed Chameleon RC1 and PC_Efi 10.1 on harddisk so that I don't need the stick anymore to boot.

I found out after a lot of trial and error and many kernel panics that this is the only method that resulted in a perfectly working 32-bits Snow Leopard installation on my configuration. I hope that sharing my experience will help others.

Cheers,
Harbri

Config: Gigabyte EP35-DS4, Intel Core2Quad Q9550, Nividia Geforce 8800GTS,  4Gb RAM (Corsair), Samsung 500GB harddisk.

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[nameless2k]

do you got sound?

[harbri]

nameless2k, on Aug 26 2009, 08:36 PM, said:

do you got sound?

I have an USB-soundcard which works out of the box in OSX so I don't use the soundchip on the motherboard (disabled it in the bios).

[EnzoFX]

Nice
Here's hoping my P35-DS3L will soon boot SL =P

[Nexos™]

pleas upload all used kexts

[pan-pan]

Could you upload kext files and anything else you think is useful. I am trying two days now to install it and after the installation complete when i login after a few minutes it crashes without any reason...

[pan-pan]

Did you manage to boot it with 64bit kernel? I receive kernel panics!!

[harbri]

pan-pan, on Aug 29 2009, 08:30 PM, said:

Did you manage to boot it with 64bit kernel? I receive kernel panics!!

I did but only by making a new mkext (with the kexts attached to the first post) in Mkext tool and then selecting x86_64 from the pulldown menu at "Slim to processor architecture".

[covercipher]

How do you get the serial number SMmemserial for you smbios.plist?

[harbri]

covercipher, on Aug 30 2009, 07:00 PM, said:

How do you get the serial number SMmemserial for you smbios.plist?

They were already in the file when I downloaded it somewhere from this forum. Never bothered to change them.

[pan-pan]

Which version of bios do you use harbi?

[harbri]

pan-pan, on Aug 30 2009, 10:47 PM, said:

Which version of bios do you use harbi?

I'm using version F6.

[pan-pan]

your mobo is v2? If it is can you send me the bios file because i can't find it at gigabyte's site? Thank you.

[harbri]

pan-pan, on Aug 31 2009, 11:05 AM, said:

your mobo is v2? If it is can you send me the bios file because i can't find it at gigabyte's site? Thank you.

You can find it here on the gigabyte site.

[Steven2k7]

Does anyone have sound with the ALC 889a working? I've tried all the .kext's I can find and I either have no sound enabled at all, or it will show I have sound, but I get no output.

btw, if anyone is having problems I used this guide and it has worked perfectly for me, except for sound so far.

Edit, I have sound now. I was messing around with a few files and other settings while working on sound, but I'm pretty sure I used this file to get sound. I just copied that file to *snow leopard drive*/extra/extensions and restarted. The only other audio .kext I have in my /extra/extensions folder is LegacyHDA.kext from the guide I linked to earlier.

http://cid-8b65993ef...pleHDA.kext.zip

[zorro7000]

pan-pan, on Aug 28 2009, 07:29 PM, said:

Could you upload kext files and anything else you think is useful. I am trying two days now to install it and after the installation complete when i login after a few minutes it crashes without any reason...

same {censored} for me

are we tooo stupid? i ran osx since 1055 on 3 "hacks" but this time is hard

I like to have the .mkext, the boot & kernel and the other stuff (mdsum and location of dst, plist etc)

there must be a fault! Hope to hear from master of ...

I will try it again .... and...

[Steven2k7]

Odd, I had almost no problems installing snow leopard. It was easier to install this than Leopard for me.

If its of any help for any of you still having problems, I followed this guide: http://www.insanelym...howtopic=181903

I'll upload my /Extras folder that contains all the .kexts, and .plists that make my install work. When it comes to using EFI studio to get the HEX code for your graphics card, I just used OSx86 tools to get the hex code.

My hardware:
EP35-DS4
Q6600
XFX 8800gs, 384mb
6gb DDR2 800
currently SL is on a 74gb raptor

Right now my only 2 problems are I loose sound after waking up from sleep mode and I cant get logitech control center to work.

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[angelseban]

SORRY FOR THIS STUPID QUESTION , HOW CAN I FIND UUID OF THE STICK?

[olofd]

1. run terminal
2. write: diskutil list
3. identyfy the stick and the partition nr. ex. disk6s2
4. write: diskutil info disk6s2
5. look for Volume UUID in the info you get.

[angelseban]

olofd, on Sep 4 2009, 09:15 PM, said:

1. run terminal
2. write: diskutil list
3. identyfy the stick and the partition nr. ex. disk6s2
4. write: diskutil info disk6s2
5. look for Volume UUID in the info you get.

Thank you