[GUIDE] Snow Leopard on P5KE WIFI P5K-E 64bit vanilla

[subliminal tone]

Oh yeah:

If you install from Leopard and not Snow Leopard, you may get a "package not installed " error when repairing permissions with disk utility. In that case, load up your Snow Leopard Install DVD disk image, and with terminal, open the BSD.pkg, and install. Reboot and you should be able to repair the permissions

 

This really remove the error, but repairing permissions finishes in a minute or less, and never finds any permission to repair, I think that's not a fixed. Any other ideas about it?

 

Thanks!

[paddy159]

I just followed your guide but it doesnt boot. It Just stucks at

Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 42346f0.[

Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 42346f0./code]

After that only a blinking underscore.

Whats wrong ? Bootloader wants to load a wrong partition?

 

Thanks, Paddy

[macmaniac]

I just followed your guide but it doesnt boot. It Just stucks at

Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 42346f0.[

Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 42346f0./code]

After that only a blinking underscore.

Whats wrong ? Bootloader wants to load a wrong partition?

 

Thanks, Paddy

 

I've not seen that. I think you did something wrong. All I can suggest is that you try a few more times, and be very careful in performing each step correctly, and in sequence.

 

@ subliminal tone:

 

Did you forget to enable owners? Enable them if you haven't.

 

If you have, and confirm that they are working, you can now do one of two things.

 

1st, test Permissions Repair. You can deliberately change a permission(to an incorrect one) in the s/l/e folder, and then do permissions repair. See if PR works. If it doesn't then

 

Reinstall from your new Snow Leopard partition, and then you don't have to worry about that problem, because it only happens when you install from Leopard.

[subliminal tone]

Did you forget to enable owners? Enable them if you haven't.

 

If you have, and confirm that they are working, you can now do one of two things.

 

1st, test Permissions Repair. You can deliberately change a permission(to an incorrect one) in the s/l/e folder, and then do permissions repair. See if PR works.

 

Still not working, I think I will need to reinstall whole system.

 

If it doesn't then Reinstall from your new Snow Leopard partition, and then you don't have to worry about that problem, because it only happens when you install from Leopard.

 

I cant do that because I don't have one more disk for new installation, so I will need to start at the very beginning.

 

Thank you for trying to help!

[shinemac]

i always get an error message....... "permission denied" when i type this in terminal "mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI "

 

i have replace X with my disk number indeed.

 

someone please tell my why ? Thank you !

[macmaniac]

shinemac, I've only had that error when I forgot to run the chameleon RC2 installer.

 

Run the installer again.

[shinemac]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, macmaniac...... my problem solved....

but when i do the last procedure "umount /Volumes/EFI "

 

terminal shows a message "Resource busy",and you said that this guide may not be for someone who have this kind of error.

My motherboard is ASUS P5KE WIFI AP,if this is not the solution for me.....what should i do to complete SnowLeopard OSX86 install ?

[macmaniac]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, macmaniac...... my problem solved....

but when i do the last procedure "umount /Volumes/EFI "

 

terminal shows a message "Resource busy",and you said that this guide may not be for someone who have this kind of error.

My motherboard is ASUS P5KE WIFI AP,if this is not the solution for me.....what should i do to complete SnowLeopard OSX86 install ?

 

When I say the solution is not the "one for you", its because that error usually is an indication of something going wrong. You should not get that error, and unfortunately, I don't know exactly what causes that one.

 

You need to unmount the EFI volume before you do the next step. All I can suggest is maybe rebooting. When you log in again, the EFI volume should be unmounted. You could then proceed to the next step.

[shinemac]

i always got error message "permission denied" during my terminal setup.

not quite smoothly about terminal work. even don't have any chance to move forward to the final step. it stocks all the time.....everytime.

 

is it any hardware or BIOS setup that i should notice ........ex. HD AHCI or IDE ?

[paddy159]

I followed your Guide with success ... The only Problem is, that my IDE DVD burner could not be recognized. Which kext's are needed? I have a P5K -E Wifi ...

I think comething like Jmicron?

 

Regards Patrick

[macmaniac]

@shinemac: My guess is that you forgot to login in to terminal correctly. Type sudo -s enter, followed by password.

 

@paddy159: I don't know for sure, because I use SATA DVD. My kext pack included what I believe is the patched Jmicron kext, but maybe it doesn't work for IDE, or maybe you need to configure your drive differently in BIOS. Sorry, can't really help you there. Maybe someone else can chime in with the IDE DVD fix.

[theyangster]

Thanks Macmaniac for your guide,

 

I was getting that "resource busy" message only until the I tried the -f option (Thanks CRP).

 

However, now my error is beyond the the scope of your guide...my Sapphire 3850 doesn't support openCL (according to netkas' blog - only 4XXX series seem to have it native) and the EFI string from leopard doesn't work. Not your fault though, so I thought I'd say thanks till there's a workaround (or buy a nVidia card!).

 

Thanks again

[japhex]

Right now I have 2 leo installs on 2 disks both on the second partition.

 

Is there a way to install on a second hardrive not empty? (could erase that second partition for free space) What would be the changes?

 

Thanks

[CJS]

hi

is it possible that you upload your DSDT with the fixes such that we can reference. i dun realli get the sleep fix part

[macmaniac]

hi

is it possible that you upload your DSDT with the fixes such that we can reference. i dun realli get the sleep fix part

My sleep/sound/icons DSDT:

DSDT.aml.zip

[highlander711]

Hi

 

i am having a problem using this guide

 

i follow everything as described

but when "umount /Volumes/EFI *-if you get an error with this command, this guide may not be for you, Or�€� reboot, and try from the beginning. "

 

i get ==> umount: unmount(/Volumes/EFI): Resource busy

 

so that means i cant install snow with this guide?

 

 

my machine

Q6700

P5K-E wifi

4Gb corsair 800 ram

3870 HIS video card

 

running Mac OS X 10.5.7 - upgraded from 10.5.5 Aitkos (hard drive 1 sata)

target hard drive (40GB IDE for testing if works)

 

anyway to solve this? it shows same thing even i reboot and redo everything

 

thanks

 

or does anyone knows if Aitkos has a snow version?

[whirlwind]

same here, highlander711.

[macmaniac]

Next time, after you reboot, proceed to the next step. That should work.

[highlander711]

Next time, after you reboot, proceed to the next step. That should work.

 

well i continue like you said

but after install

before it finished installing - like 1 or 2 min left of the installation

 

"i get install Failed

 

the installer could not install some files in "/volumes/snowlLeopardHD" contact the software manufacture for assistance"

 

 

any idea what is wrong?

is it possible i need a sata hard drive instead of IDE?

 

or it is my image a bad one?

 

update: i try to boot with the hard drive anyways

but it just stays on apple logo and spins and spins

i am sure internet works because i can see my router green light

 

if i boot with -v command

i can see it will stop on

 

 

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) Timed out

 

and stopped there nothing else

 

but i can see the CPU or hard drive still runs because of the flashing lights and i can hear the hard drive sometimes even the screen stop at that point

 

is it possible i need to change the driver for the video card?

 

my card is HIS 3870 512mb

 

i used your com.apple.Boot.plist

 

could you let me know how to change that?

thanks

[highlander711]

i tried different snow leopard image

 

same result -

but looking at the screen

i can see there is something is not loading

 

appleHDAcontroller

 

i dont know how to copy the screen

 

is possible that appleHDAcontroller is the driver for the video card?

[macmaniac]

well i continue like you said

but after install

before it finished installing - like 1 or 2 min left of the installation

 

"i get install Failed

 

the installer could not install some files in "/volumes/snowlLeopardHD" contact the software manufacture for assistance"

 

 

any idea what is wrong?

is it possible i need a sata hard drive instead of IDE?

 

or it is my image a bad one?

 

update: i try to boot with the hard drive anyways

but it just stays on apple logo and spins and spins

i am sure internet works because i can see my router green light

 

if i boot with -v command

i can see it will stop on

 

 

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) Timed out

 

and stopped there nothing else

 

but i can see the CPU or hard drive still runs because of the flashing lights and i can hear the hard drive sometimes even the screen stop at that point

 

is it possible i need to change the driver for the video card?

 

my card is HIS 3870 512mb

 

i used your com.apple.Boot.plist

 

could you let me know how to change that?

thanks

 

I think its the IDE drive, but I could be wrong. Unfortunately, I can't troubleshoot the issue for you, as I don't have IDE. The best way for this install method is two SATA HDDs. A USB drive will work as well.

 

To edit your com.apple.Boot.plist, you can open it with textedit. The best way is with nano or pico in terminal. This is beyond the scope of this install guide, so you'll have to do your own research.

 

i tried different snow leopard image

 

same result -

but looking at the screen

i can see there is something is not loading

 

appleHDAcontroller

 

i dont know how to copy the screen

 

is possible that appleHDAcontroller is the driver for the video card?

 

 

HDA = High Definition Audio.

 

If you can afford to, I suggest you buy a small cheap SATA drive, or an external USB drive. It will save you hours of wasted time and aggravation. Or perhaps try one of the "pure vanilla" installs, but those methods usually require a USB thumb drive.

[highlander711]

well i tried with a sata drive

 

but same thing

 

it will install like normal but 2 min before it finished

 

i got install failed

[macmaniac]

well i tried with a sata drive

 

but same thing

 

it will install like normal but 2 min before it finished

 

i got install failed

 

 

Probably a bad disk image.

[highlander711]

Probably a bad disk image.

 

actually they are not bad image

i found out that when you install the snow OS from leopard to another hard drive

 

if you didnt remove the printer drivers from the installation you will get fail at the end of the installation

 

after i remove the check for printers

it will install ok

 

but i am still having problem booting

 

i have tried both methods

1 using a usb drive

1 using a second hard drive

 

and i am having same problem or close to

 

specially when i use usb drive, boot and chameleon loaded up and i tried to use with

-v

it will load ok

but do you know where you should get the welcome video

when loading screen is about to change to welcome video ( it will flash for 1 sec and change to welcome video)

 

well i dont get the blue screen and then welcome video

i would get black screen and that is all

and looking at the usb seems it wil load something else and stop

like waiting for me to select the language menu ( well that i am guessing )

 

using the second hard drive method

 

i would get stuck the same moment

like normally i should be getting the blue screen but i got stuck on the loading screen

 

and if i dont use the -V command

i would get the grey screen with the apple and the wheel spinning

after loading the apple will go away

and stuck on the just gray screen no even the thing spinning

 

and i am guessing the same moment i should be getting the blue screen but i dont

 

i tried to search on the net

and few people have the same problem and they have different machine so kind of stuck right now

i guess i will have to wait until Aitkos comes with the snow version

 

anyone have any idea?

[highlander711]

ok

 

after spending days and hours

 

i kind of found out what was my problem

 

it seems everything works but except i would get stuck before the welcome video

 

well i have the HIS 3870 video card

 

it seems that the Snow leopard doesnt like the ATI 2600 series and 3800 series

 

here from netkas.org

 

<H2 class=entrydate>August 15, 2009 </H2><H3 id=post-128 class=entrytitle>SnowLeopard and ATI </H3>August 15th 2009 Posted to ATI, Snow Leopard Going to share my expirience with ATI cards in SnowLeopard

 

2600PRO/XT and 3870 known to have problems with qe/ci/opengl, you need to remove ATIRadeonX2000.kext to get at least resolution change working.

 

4850/4870/4870×2/4890 works (4890 needs patched x2000.kext for qe/ci/ogl), just need to add dev-id into ATI4800Controller.kext.

 

this list will be updated when more tests will be done.

 

or you can go here

 

so if you have a 2600 or 3870 the snow leopard wont work

 

unless they find out another way

 

and if you got it to work please let me know how

 

thanks