[GUIDE] Installing Snow Leopard/Leopard retail DVD on the GA-E7AUM-DS2H

[e60]

It's not about the workload, the time or any kind of credits. The posting lists all alternatives that are currently available. You can choose one of the three methods offered for yourself and you'll have to decide which of those is the best and simplest for your own purposes.

 

Which one that might be? I'd say the one that's comprehensible to you at first sight. Apart from that the posting contains information about which files you should use for which purpose. That's really all the work we can do for your - I don't think it's asking too much to expect a little amount of self-reliance.

 

By the way, in my opinion there are no "leaders of this thread". Many people helped to get this thing here up and running! So in this case all thread Members are "the leaders of this thread".

[LJSeinfeld]

It's not about the workload, the time or any kind of credits. The posting lists all alternatives that are currently available. You can choose one of the three methods offered for yourself and you'll have to decide which of those is the best and simplest for your own purposes.

 

Which one that might be? I'd say the one that's comprehensible to you at first sight. Apart from that the posting contains information about which files you should use for which purpose. That's really all the work we can do for your - I don't think it's asking too much to expect a little amount of self-reliance.

 

By the way, in my opinion there are no "leaders of this thread". Many people helped to get this thing here up and running! So in this case all thread Members are "the leaders of this thread".

 

Dude.

 

First of all: Thanks for your contributions. That being said... There is no need for you to get all high & mighty about they way you're helping me...

 

I figured it out on my own. I'm not asking you to do anything for me. I was just trying to make the point, and a valid one at that, that the current thread is long and confusing and that it might help others if someone cleaned up the tutorial, guide, or whatever you want to call it. I would re-write it myself.. but I got turned-around in the middle of my install and tried about a zillion (different?) things before my system worked as it should. I don't want to put bad information out there.

 

You know what I mean by the leaders of this thread. There are people here that have the technical know-how to accomplish things at a hardware level that the majority of others, including myself, do not.

 

I'm all for learning. I'm just saying that it may be of benefit to others if things were cleaned up a bit. A lot of the guides that are here appear to be translations to English from another language... some things are unclear. Note: I'm not getting down on anybody, I'm just saying that sometimes the guides are difficult to understand due to the grammar and/or punctuation of the way they're written.

 

Sheesh.

[dlach]

Dude.

 

First of all: Thanks for your contributions. That being said... There is no need for you to get all high & mighty about they way you're helping me...

 

I figured it out on my own. I'm not asking you to do anything for me. I was just trying to make the point, and a valid one at that, that the current thread is long and confusing and that it might help others if someone cleaned up the tutorial, guide, or whatever you want to call it. I would re-write it myself.. but I got turned-around in the middle of my install and tried about a zillion (different?) things before my system worked as it should. I don't want to put bad information out there.

 

You know what I mean by the leaders of this thread. There are people here that have the technical know-how to accomplish things at a hardware level that the majority of others, including myself, do not.

 

I'm all for learning. I'm just saying that it may be of benefit to others if things were cleaned up a bit. A lot of the guides that are here appear to be translations to English from another language... some things are unclear. Note: I'm not getting down on anybody, I'm just saying that sometimes the guides are difficult to understand due to the grammar and/or punctuation of the way they're written.

 

Sheesh.

 

First, love your avatar.

 

Second, doubt e60 was getting high and mighty, likely a translation issue, he's a good guy who generally doesn't do that.

 

Third understand your frustration but as e60 said. the thread has shown that there is no single guide that works for everyone. I thought mine did and it did work for a lot of people, but there were some who it did not work for and so maharajmd put up his guide which has helped a lot of people too. Then there is the fact that the whole BIOS flashing thing is not necessary and not to everyone's taste (at the time it seemed to me to be a sure fire way to make things work). And finally you have adidasPrince's fix for the >2GB issue and Aserebln's booter which changed a lot of things thanks to e60's diligence in pulling it all together. Like it or not, e60 DID do a lot for you and the board by getting Asere to work on the DSDT and booter and then pulling together fixes into packages and keeping things going.

 

For myself, I still don't use Asere's booter since I don't have or need >2GB. I believe that once the next Chameleon release is out, it will change most of what is being done in this thread, though a good DSDT is important.

 

Would it improve things to rewrite post 1 into a new guide? Yes, but guess what? This board is dead. You can't buy them anymore. I've moved my own questionable work and time expenditure onto other platforms. Finally, and let me put a hard point on this...frankly I don't think I'll write another guide for this or any other board because no matter what you do or how hard you try to help people, it mostly just gets you grief and criticism. The fact that I'm even writing this is case in point and likely my last post to this thread. From where I'm sitting, the only reason there is still a community here is because of folks like Olegischinski and e60 keeping the flame alive.

 

Good luck to all, as confusing as this thread is there is a lot that can be gleaned from it. If you want a simple drop-in solution you should buy a MAC, come to think of it you should probably buy a MAC anyway those new uni-body minis are looking sweet.

[e60]

@LJSeinfeld

I had to think long and hard how to reply to your posting and whether I should be pissed off about it. Then again I couldn't care less about it. If there is anything that you don't understand go ahead and specify your problem but don't cause any further confusion, a fact that you have been criticizing yourself before. Please stay out of the discussion if you neither require help nor have anything worthwhile to add. If you think you're better qualified to explain things for a newbie - go ahead. Nobody's going to stop you.

 

@dlach

I'm actually a bit shocked at reading this! Personally, I'm sad that you want to throw in the towel at this point. We may not always have seen eye to eye, but you did invest a lot of work, you've achieved quite a bit and what's more without you and your insights we wouldn't be at the point we are now. I hope you'll reconsider your decision and keep on participating in this thread. By the way, thank you for the compliments!

[LJSeinfeld]

EDIT: quote function picked up 2 posts, fixed that.

 

 

 

@LJSeinfeld

I had to think long and hardhow to reply to your posting and whether I should let myself be ticked off about it. Then again I couldn't care less about it. If there is anything that you don't understand go ahead and specify your problem but don't cause any further confusion, a fact that you have been criticizing yourself before. Please stay out of the discussion if you neither require help nor have anything worthwhile to add. If you think you're better qualified to explain things for a newbie - go ahead. Nobody's going to stop you.

 

Well, that pretty much sums it up. I was making a suggestion that I thought could possibly help out -that was all- then you go all passive-agressive on me.

 

Either way, I'm done. Flame on.

[e60]

I'm realy starting to get pissed off now as I don't really see what your problem is. Like I wrote before,

you were right with the confusion but to get clearness dlach made a update on his first post. If you think you can explain the whole stuff in a better way, please go ahead!

 

So let's drop the issue and concern ourselves with the matter at hand.

[LJSeinfeld]

First, love your avatar.

 

Second, doubt e60 was getting high and mighty, likely a translation issue, he's a good guy who generally doesn't do that.

 

Third understand your frustration but as e60 said. the thread has shown that there is no single guide that works for everyone. I thought mine did and it did work for a lot of people, but there were some who it did not work for and so maharajmd put up his guide which has helped a lot of people too. Then there is the fact that the whole BIOS flashing thing is not necessary and not to everyone's taste (at the time it seemed to me to be a sure fire way to make things work). And finally you have adidasPrince's fix for the >2GB issue and Aserebln's booter which changed a lot of things thanks to e60's diligence in pulling it all together. Like it or not, e60 DID do a lot for you and the board by getting Asere to work on the DSDT and booter and then pulling together fixes into packages and keeping things going.

 

For myself, I still don't use Asere's booter since I don't have or need >2GB. I believe that once the next Chameleon release is out, it will change most of what is being done in this thread, though a good DSDT is important.

 

Would it improve things to rewrite post 1 into a new guide? Yes, but guess what? This board is dead. You can't buy them anymore. I've moved my own questionable work and time expenditure onto other platforms. Finally, and let me put a hard point on this...frankly I don't think I'll write another guide for this or any other board because no matter what you do or how hard you try to help people, it mostly just gets you grief and criticism. The fact that I'm even writing this is case in point and likely my last post to this thread. From where I'm sitting, the only reason there is still a community here is because of folks like Olegischinski and e60 keeping the flame alive.

 

Good luck to all, as confusing as this thread is there is a lot that can be gleaned from it. If you want a simple drop-in solution you should buy a MAC, come to think of it you should probably buy a MAC anyway those new uni-body minis are looking sweet.

 

OK - I know I said I was out before.. but apparently one of my other posts didn't save, or somehow got deleted.

 

The highlights were:

 

@dlach

 

Thanks, I agree the board is dead.

 

Just don't like people insinuating that I'm asking them to do my work for me as I'm the kind of person who tries to figure it out on my own first. Only was suggesting that it may save others from going through what I did if things were cleaned up a bit. I spent two nights reading, trying, then un-trying fixes patches etc. In hindsight I wish I documented my steps... but I didn't --otherwise I would write down what I did.

 

I am super-impressed by people that can delve this far into the nuts & bolts of how a computer works at a hardware or low-level software level. Respect to those who do, as to me it's as good as magic.

 

I hope forum support for this mobo continues -- I don't want to have to change it out!

 

And the new unibodies are looking sweet.

[Rebound]

I am running Leopard on this mobo, and it's fantastic. I have a problem with hard disk performance, however, and I was hoping somebody could offer some suggestions.

 

The computer has a pair of 300 MB Seagate 3.5" drives installed. The second drive is used as a backup drive. I use SuperDuper! to clone the boot drive to the second drive, in case my OS tinkering renders the boot drive un-usable.

 

Using XBench, the CPU benchmarks at nearly 200% of average, and memory at 144%. But the Disk Test reports 48% of average. In particular, the Uncached Write speed of 4K blocks creeps along at only 1.16 MB/sec, or 11% of average.

 

I wanted to know if anybody can give me some things to try, such as a kext I might want to re-install or uninstall. All polite suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[olegischinski]

I am running Leopard on this mobo, and it's fantastic. I have a problem with hard disk performance, however, and I was hoping somebody could offer some suggestions.

 

The computer has a pair of 300 MB Seagate 3.5" drives installed. The second drive is used as a backup drive. I use SuperDuper! to clone the boot drive to the second drive, in case my OS tinkering renders the boot drive un-usable.

 

Using XBench, the CPU benchmarks at nearly 200% of average, and memory at 144%. But the Disk Test reports 48% of average. In particular, the Uncached Write speed of 4K blocks creeps along at only 1.16 MB/sec, or 11% of average.

 

I wanted to know if anybody can give me some things to try, such as a kext I might want to re-install or uninstall. All polite suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

hi Rebound,

 

would say, there is absolute no reason to be discontented. Look at the xbench db online, listed results are pretty much as yours.

[shawndoggy]

Would love the guide... I'm just a script monkey who followed the script in the first post to a T and I don't have audio. Have to confess ignorance about how most of this stuff works, so if you could pretty please just make it simple for the newbs....

 

(BTW, running q6600 cpu, 2gb ram, no extra cards)

 

Everything updated on this post.

 

Shawndoggy, before I forget. You can update your Bios to F4 insted of using "Jon55's" one. But in this case you will have to replace your DSDT.aml with the one from my updated post, which is located in the GA-E7AUM-DS2H.zip.

 

OK so I made these updates. Now when I try to put in more than 2gb of RAM my system becomes unstable and crashes. It will boot, but will crash within 2-10 minutes. Doesn't matter if I try 4gb or 8gb.

 

Is that a hardware issue or a function of my install?

[olegischinski]

OK so I made these updates. Now when I try to put in more than 2gb of RAM my system becomes unstable and crashes. It will boot, but will crash within 2-10 minutes. Doesn't matter if I try 4gb or 8gb.

 

Is that a hardware issue or a function of my install?

hi shawndoggy,

 

do you use the F4-BIOS?

Do you use the Bootloader by AsereBLN?

Do you use the DSDT by e60?

Which kexts are in your /E/E ?

[wally007]

can anybody please point me to files that are responsible for audio ?

 

My audio is working great, but i'm still experiencing very loud POP everytime application wants to use audio device.

 

My 10.6.3 install is several months old using 8gb ram ( works fine , inserted after install ), booting off USB stick in my E/E i have fakesmc.kext , iLegacyHDA.kext , LegacyHDA.kext , OpenHaltRestart.kext.

 

Thanks !

[olegischinski]

can anybody please point me to files that are responsible for audio ?

 

My audio is working great, but i'm still experiencing very loud POP everytime application wants to use audio device.

 

My 10.6.3 install is several months old using 8gb ram ( works fine , inserted after install ), booting off USB stick in my E/E i have fakesmc.kext , iLegacyHDA.kext , LegacyHDA.kext , OpenHaltRestart.kext.

 

Thanks !

hi wally007,

 

I'm using BIOS-F4, Bootloader by AsereBLN, DSDT by e60 (modified for my CPU). There are fakesmc.kext, LegacyHDA.kext, OpenHaltRestart.kext (and JMicronATA.kext, because of my ATA-Devices) in /E/E.

 

LegacyHDA.kext is from here - BTW: What is iLegacyHDA.kext?

Before I switched to DSDT, I used the HDAEnabler too. (no modification of AppleHDA.kext)

 

That's all. No Plops here, neither in 10.6.3 nor in 10.6.4.

(4GB RAM, only an additional FW800 PCI-Card)

[LJSeinfeld]

hi wally007,

 

I'm using BIOS-F4, Bootloader by AsereBLN, DSDT by e60 (modified for my CPU). There are fakesmc.kext, LegacyHDA.kext, OpenHaltRestart.kext (and JMicronATA.kext, because of my ATA-Devices) in /E/E.

 

LegacyHDA.kext is from here - BTW: What is iLegacyHDA.kext?

Before I switched to DSDT, I used the HDAEnabler too. (no modification of AppleHDA.kext)

 

That's all. No Plops here, neither in 10.6.3 nor in 10.6.4.

(4GB RAM, only an additional FW800 PCI-Card)

For some reason, to get audio (optical digital out) I had to use: Jon55's kext 64bits (megaupload)

 

The rest of our stuff is the same... F4 Bios, e60 dsdt.aml, asere booter, etc.. No idea why, as it appears others may not need it.

[olegischinski]

For some reason, to get audio (optical digital out) I had to use: Jon55's kext 64bits (megaupload)

 

The rest of our stuff is the same... F4 Bios, e60 dsdt.aml, asere booter, etc.. No idea why, as it appears others may not need it.

hi LJSeinfeld,

that's interesting!

If I'm using LegacyHDAPlatformDriver.kext (from Jon55's package) instead of LegacyHDA.kext, I have no sound.

 

BTW: I have no possibility to check, if there is any digital I/O with the LegacyHDA.kext. Perhaps you could try that out?

[shawndoggy]

@all

I updated all files needed for SL. You will find a GA-E7AUM-DS2H.zip below, containing AsereBLN 1.1.9 Booter, F4 Bios, smbios.plist (updated to iMac9,1 identifier), com.apple.Boot.plist, DSDT.aml, an edited fakesmc.kext to prevent BEMB and MSDS messages on boot, LegacyHDA.kext and OpenHaltRestart.kext. I would recommand to use the newest DSDT, because I edited a part to get rid of the Sound plopping and there was a little mistake in the RTC section.

 

- For Bios stettings please take a look on this post

- For installation methods you can check dlach's version on the first post, Maharajamd Guide or use Tonymacx86's [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Supported & AsereBLN 1.1.9 GA-E7AUM-DS2H Installer located below. You only have to downlaod the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] image and burn it on CD. For more informations check Tonymacx86's blog and start with "STEP 2: INSTALL MAC OS X". When you reach to the end of "step 2", please install "AsereBLN 1.1.9 GA-E7AUM-DS2H Installer" and have fun. You don't need any of the other steps from Tonymacx86 blog! By the way, if you are unsure how to install the AsereBLN package, check the "how to" inside of the Zip file.

 

Note! Olegischinski pointed me to a important issue. If you want to use [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Supported, please remove all RAM greater than 2 GB. After installing AsereBLN's booter, you can use all of your RAM.

 

I tried upgrading to this bios and reinstalling chameleon using the AsereBLN and it just ended up hanging at boot.

 

So then I tried installing with the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported and I get a weird display issue when loading the osx dvd. I'm running a q6600 cpu, though, so I'm not sure it's supposed to work with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported.

 

Went back to the original dlach method and reinstalled. Strangely I must have done something different. The computer will now shut down when told to, but I've lost my display options and sound again. Gah!

[olegischinski]

I tried upgrading to this bios and reinstalling chameleon using the AsereBLN and it just ended up hanging at boot.

Did you boot in verbose mode to recognize what's wrong?

How did you install the bootloader?

 

So then I tried installing with the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported and I get a weird display issue when loading the osx dvd. I'm running a q6600 cpu, though, so I'm not sure it's supposed to work with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported.

Should work with your CPU ...

 

Went back to the original dlach method and reinstalled. Strangely I must have done something different. The computer will now shut down when told to, but I've lost my display options and sound again. Gah!

So what do you want to do?

Stay with F3-BIOS and patched Chameleon or give a new try to e60's method?

 

Which kexts do you use?

Which keys are in your com.apple.Boot.plist (in /Extra)?

[shawndoggy]

Did you boot in verbose mode to recognize what's wrong?

 

No, I did not. Sounds like a good idea though. How do I do that?

 

 

How did you install the bootloader?

 

Just like in E60's post... ran the AsereBLN ap

 

Should work with your CPU ...

 

OK.

 

 

So what do you want to do?

 

Just get a working, bootable system. I'm not picky about how I get there as long as it works.

 

Which kexts do you use?

 

these are in extra\extensions:

 

AHCIPortInjector.kext

ATAPortInjector.kext

fakesmc.kext

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext

LegacyHDAPlatformDriver.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

Sleepenabler.kext

UUID.kext

 

Which keys are in your com.apple.Boot.plist (in /Extra)?

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>Kernel</key>
 <string>mach_kernel</string>
 <key>Kernel Flags</key>
 <string>rd=uuid boot-uuid=9EB9E117-0873-38AB-A7AF-7947D49612F2</string>
 <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

[e60]

@shawndoggy

If you want to use AsereBLN's bootloader, you first have to uninstall your previous bootloader, get rid of some unnecessary kexts and clean up your com.apple.Boot.plist. I'm shure that because of these kexts and your com.apple.Boot.plist AsereBLN's bootloader was hanging!

 

these are in extra\extensions:

 

AHCIPortInjector.kext

ATAPortInjector.kext

fakesmc.kext

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext

LegacyHDAPlatformDriver.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

Sleepenabler.kext

UUID.kext

 

The only kexts you need are the following ones:

 

- fakesmc.kext

- LegacyHDA.kext

- OpenHaltRestart.kext

 

They all are included in the installer package. After using it you don't have to add any aditional kexts (the only exception is the jMicronATA.kext if you want to use IDE drives). So if there are more than this three (or four) kexts in your Extra\Extensions folder, please delete them!

 

By the way, youre com.apple.Boot.plist should look like this if you're not using any extra options:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
 <string>Yes</string>
 <key>Kernel</key>
 <string>mach_kernel</string>
 <key>Kernel Flags</key>
 <string></string>
 <key>PCIRootUID</key>
 <string>0</string>
 <key>Wait</key>
 <string>No</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

If you want to boot in verbose mode, add the following key:

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>
 <string>-v</string>

[shawndoggy]

Re-burned [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported and tried again on the assurance that it would work. Got the same weird graphics issue (see below). I managed to click through "blind" and get the install going and even got the sucess message. However when I try to boot after install (again booting from [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported) i get the same graphics jumble and cannot click through the account creation stuff.

 

I'm running a 1440x900 vga display. Would try dvi if I had one but I don't. plugged in hdmi and no joy either.

 

Would it work if i used the dlach boot cd to boot from the fresh install on my hard drive and then use the aserebln method to install bootloader and kexts?

 

[olegischinski]

...

I'm running a 1440x900 vga display. Would try dvi if I had one but I don't. plugged in hdmi and no joy either.

You have a monitor with vga and hdmi port only. Right?

Unfortunally I've no experiences with vga and hdmi. (Perhaps it's a way to use a dvi-vga-adapter?)

Would it work if i used the dlach boot cd to boot from the fresh install on my hard drive and then use the aserebln method to install bootloader and kexts?

Did you try to boot with this BootCD? If it works, you can install e60's package, but don't forget to flash your BIOS to F4 afterwards.

If not, we will see ...

Do you have a working installation on your HDD, I mean, do you have several installations, two HDDs (e.g. one for testing)?

[shawndoggy]

You have a monitor with vga and hdmi port only. Right?

Unfortunally I've no experiences with vga and hdmi. (Perhaps it's a way to use a dvi-vga-adapter?)

 

Did you try to boot with this BootCD? If it works, you can install e60's package, but don't forget to flash your BIOS to F4 afterwards.

If not, we will see ...

Do you have a working installation on your HDD, I mean, do you have several installations, two HDDs (e.g. one for testing)?

 

Monitor is vga, adjacent flat screen tv is hdmi.

 

I can boot with dlach's boot cd using the instructions from the first post, but haven't tried booting with it after using the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported install method. Didn't know if it would mess up the install by booting back in with the dlach boot disk to work my way through the account setup screens and to install the aserebln package, so I thought I'd ask first. I've already flashed with the F4 bios, so I think I'm good to go there.

 

I've got multiple hard drives yes, but right now no working installs (keep messing them up!)

[olegischinski]

Monitor is vga, adjacent flat screen tv is hdmi.

 

I can boot with dlach's boot cd using the instructions from the first post, but haven't tried booting with it after using the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported install method. Didn't know if it would mess up the install by booting back in with the dlach boot disk to work my way through the account setup screens and to install the aserebln package, so I thought I'd ask first. I've already flashed with the F4 bios, so I think I'm good to go there.

 

I've got multiple hard drives yes, but right now no working installs (keep messing them up!)

No, any BootCD will only make the circumstances for the boot process and won't touch your installation.

But you must know, if you install a bootloader in mbr (e.g. on the first HDD), the bootloader will give you the choice to boot all your installations (the one on the second HDD too), but will boot it with kernel and kexts from your installation on first HDD. So if you have e.g. two HDDs with two installation you can use several bootloaders (one installed in mbr of the first HDD, one installed on the second), but then you must choose the boot device via BIOS (press F12 on boot) to have a really difference.

[shawndoggy]

No, any BootCD will only make the circumstances for the boot process and won't touch your installation.

But you must know, if you install a bootloader in mbr (e.g. on the first HDD), the bootloader will give you the choice to boot all your installations (the one on the second HDD too), but will boot it with kernel and kexts from your installation on first HDD. So if you have e.g. two HDDs with two installation you can use several bootloaders (one installed in mbr of the first HDD, one installed on the second), but then you must choose the boot device via BIOS (press F12 on boot) to have a really difference.

 

started over with a fresh install and still no joy. bios is f4. Got 10.6 installed and got through the signup screens. Immediately installed aserebln bootloader and edited com.apple.boot.plist to add verbose booting. shut down. restarted and got the following:

 

panic ... "No HPETs available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly\n"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-90/pmThread.c:148

Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement

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@shawndoggy

First of all, please check your Bios settings and make sure that everything is configurated like here. This is one of the most important steps! After you made these changes, remove your second HDD and all RAM greater than 2GB. Than boot with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] Supported, use Diskutility to format your whole HDD and do the installation stuff. When you're ready, use the installer package to install AsereBLN's bootloader, DSDT and all kexts that are needed. That's it! You don't have to do anything else.