sk1nhead Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 im quoting this from Stella's Blog: " Friends don’t let friends install OS X via OSInstall.mpkg. This guarantees a buggy installation, bad system permissions and possible kernel panics. If you’re going to install your OS either use the retail DVD or restore it to a high capacity flash key (8GB minimum). " i'll also add that using a flash drive or DVD will remove the "no installer package error" in Disk Utility, there is a workaround by running bsd.pkg from within Snow Leo but i havent tested it myselft so i prefer this one. I suggest subscribing to stella's blog via RSS or bookmarking it lots of good info there which get updated constantly. What's Needed: Retail Snow Leopard DVD Disc - BUY IT! $29 is a money well spent G31M-ES2L Motherboard Intel C2D or Quad Processor 8GB flashdrive (USB External Drive or another partition will work too) Leopard partition 10.5.8 or lower Sata Hard Drive in any capacity (for this guide we use a dedicated HD) NOW let's begin, first download the attached file below and place it in your Desktop. (also mirrored here) Creating a Snow USB installer: - launch Disk Utility, choose 1 partition and erase your USB flashdrive to GPT (Guid Partition Table) - install Chameleon RC1 choosing the flashdrive as the destination - show all hidden files (use terminal or ShowAllFiles app) - copy EFI 10.1 to root of your flashdrive deleting the old one - back in Disk Utility choose USB flashdrive, click the restore Tab and selecting Mac OSX Install DVD as the image and USB Flashdrive as the destination, be sure 'Erase' Destination' is uncheck then click restore. when install DVD restore is done go to snow folder on your Desktop and copy the following to root of your flash drive - dsdt.aml - boot.plist - edit this to match your EFI Strings, timeout and Graphics mode - Extensions[uSB] (rename it to Extensions) - Themes when done you can now turn off your Leopard machine. Now to install Snow Leopard: - Turn on your computer and press F12 Boot Menu then choose your USB flashdrive as the first boot - on the Chameleon screen enter " -v -x32 ", it will boot in 32bit verbose mode and if all goes well you'll be greeted with snow leopard installer screen - choose Disk Utility then the hard drive you will be installing snow into - format it using GPT and Mac OS Extended (Journaled), when done quit Disk Utility then customize the install if you want to.. im sure you know what to do here so just proceed until installation is finish. - after the installer is done, hit restart and lets leave it for a while and boot your Leopard partition again on Leopard: - go back to 'snow' folder on your Desktop - install Chameleon RC1 on your never booted snow drive - show all hidden files and copy PC_EFI to root and the following below to /Extra: - dsdt.aml - com.apple.Boot.plist - again edit this to match your EFI Strings, timeout and Graphics mode - smbios.plist - edit this to match your hardware specification - Extensions[OS] - rename it to Extensions - Themes inside Extensions folder are 64bit: fakesmc LegacyAppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver LegacyHDAPlatformDriver NullCPUPowerManagement OpenHaltRestart PlatformUUID - edit this to include your UUID SleepEnabler optional 32bit kext: you can add these 2 below if you need bonjour (works in 32bit only) IONetworkingFamily OpenHaltRestart First Boot: - turn on your computer and go to Boot Menu (F12) - choose your Snow Leopard partition as the first boot then press enter - on the Chameleon menu enter " -v -x32 " (very important), it will boot in verbose mode displaying lots of text, if all goes well you will greeted with the intro video but no sound yet - continue the process until you reach your desktop. - for the sound to take effect, launch System Preference then go to Sound and choose Internal Speakers/Built-In Speaker for both Sound Effects and Output Tab, press F11 or F12 if you can hear a feedback - Test Disk Utility by repairing disk permission if the "no package error" is not present. - let spotlight finish indexing the drive, it will take a few minutes but you can test everything while waiting.. - make an Extensions.mkext using Terminal, MKextool or Kext Utility - when the above task are done and tested, you can now shutdown your machine and boot 64bit without the "-x32" flags. Optional: - you can edit com.apple.Boot.plist and add " -x32 " after Kernel Flags if you plan to boot in 32bit, this can be done by using a Texteditor (e.g. Text Edit) or Terminal (nano), leave the file alone if 64bit is your preferred kernel. CREDITS: Pista7 and cparm for the sleepenabler Netkas for the fakesmc coconup for the HDEF dsdt patch, im sure this can be improve but for now this is good enough.. if anyone has a kext/patch or any improvement in terms of install, boot performance or changes that needs to be done please do post them here, im sure lots of members including me will benefit from it. snowi.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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