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Hi Tonymac, well I have successfully installed Snow Leopard using your guide! :(

 

I want to report how I did things differently:

 

- As lectrcman says, you can prepare the target hard drive in the Installer, using Disk Utility, just before installing.

 

- Once you've installed to the target drive, you can boot back into the Installer and open a Terminal in order to copy the replacement kernel and other files onto the hard drive. I used 2 USB sticks (1 for the installer and another with Tonymacx86 folder), but it would probably be possible to copy the folder onto the same USB drive as the installer.

 

- Then, reboot again and boot from the USB drive again, except now Chameleon bootloader gives the option of booting to the hard drive. Boot into Snow Leopard, and then install Chameleon onto the hard drive (which means you don't need to boot from USB again).

 

By following the above steps, I only needed to use a Mac to prepare the USB drive, and I was able to use an iMac. No need for 2 hard drives, no need for drive enclosures, etc.

 

Hope that helps someone else! Thanks again!

 

I guess the only gripe I have (and it's very minor), is that the anti-aliasing and font rendering on my external monitor on the Hackintosh doesn't look as beautiful as my iMac at work. I guess it's down to the quality of the panel though.

redtomato
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I would like to apologize for the wait, but without further ado, I bring you the final motherboard list and build guide!

 

P55Collection.zip

 

Enjoy! Critique! Respond!

 

Lovely! A few comments:

 

- Noticed you removed the God Box :( Any reason?

 

- Your new top end Hackingtosh Pro build uses a mobo that has sleep not working. For a computer of this price, I'd expect sleep to work. Perhaps you could put a note in about that? For a 'pro' computer which will be on all day, sleep is important to save power. If you believe sleep will be fixed very soon, then maybe add a bit about that?

 

- Your mobo list has at the top end the Gigabyte P55-UD6, the one with 6 RAM slots. I think it's important to put in a note that you can't expect to fill in all 6 slots with 2GB ram, that actually it only has 4 usable slots. See my previous comment on that mobo earlier in this thread for more on this.

 

- Any chance of a P55M mini ATX build? Just a single one would be good enough. You could add a note saying any graphics card or RAM from the full size builds will also fit. (if indeed they will fit - I have no idea if this is true)

 

Best wishes !

profdre
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Yeah :rolleyes: I finally could get to the installation screen of Mac OS X using the patched boot file and modified com.apple.Boot.plist from tonymacx86. BUT: I could only get there disabling AHCI mode. When I chose IDE mode, I got to the installer screen but I couldn't pick a drive to install, of course. So what's wrong?

profdre
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SO I finally managed to boot it from the hard disk I installed Snow Leopard to! :censored2: It works and System Profiler recognizes the Radeon HD 4890 card. But the screen resolution is limited to 1024*768, monitor isn't recognized. (it is recognized under Windows 7 on the same machine.

My main problem now is that I can't boot from the HD when I connect it via S-ATA (AHCI) I can only boot when I disable AHCI...here it gets stuck:

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laatmaarzien
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I would like to apologize for the wait, but without further ado, I bring you the final motherboard list and build guide!

 

P55Collection.zip

 

Enjoy! Critique! Respond!

 

Wonderful work! Makes the choice process so much easier. Thank you!

 

Folks, I just installed the new bios F3 update on my system:

GA-P55-UD3R / Core i7 860 / Skills Ripjaws 4GB / GeForce 8400GS

no overclock set, optimized setup settings plus ahci mac conf override.

Running SL 10.6.2 Vanilla in 32 bits mode.

 

Geekbench 32 bits now reports me a max. score of : 8072 (!) (score min. 7796, max. 8072 with 10 runs)

It used to be 65xx last time I checked in 32 bits mode...

 

AFAIR, I didn't change anything from my previous config except the bios !

 

Guys try update your bios (be sure to backup the previous one and don't play with betas!) and tell me if your mac system runs faster!

 

I don't believe my eyes but well : That's really cool !!

 

Update your sig dude ;)

indokid
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Treky- we must have compiled the boot file at the same time! ;)

 

hi tony

can you please upload your tonymacx86-snowleopard.zip in megaupload / rapidshare

cos sendspace is always giving me " sorry, the free service is at full capacity."

 

thanks in advance

Treky
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SO I finally managed to boot it from the hard disk I installed Snow Leopard to! :) It works and System Profiler recognizes the Radeon HD 4890 card. But the screen resolution is limited to 1024*768, monitor isn't recognized. (it is recognized under Windows 7 on the same machine.

My main problem now is that I can't boot from the HD when I connect it via S-ATA (AHCI) I can only boot when I disable AHCI...here it gets stuck:

 

It sounds like your videocard is not right recognized. Maybe Core Image and Quartz Extrem are disabled. Do you get the watereffect if you add some item in the Dashboard ? Do you use a VGA Monitor or DVI-D ? Maybe VGA make some problems. My HD4870 work without any problems with CoreImage and Quarz Extreme without any additional extensions or EFI strings. And you have not ATI2000x kext or something else disabled ?

tasc
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I guess the only gripe I have (and it's very minor), is that the anti-aliasing and font rendering on my external monitor on the Hackintosh doesn't look as beautiful as my iMac at work. I guess it's down to the quality of the panel though.

 

Apple did change font smoothing in snow leopard, you might try this from your terminal to see if it makes things look better:

 

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

profdre
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It sounds like your videocard is not right recognized. Maybe Core Image and Quartz Extrem are disabled. Do you get the watereffect if you add some item in the Dashboard ? Do you use a VGA Monitor or DVI-D ? Maybe VGA make some problems. My HD4870 work without any problems with CoreImage and Quarz Extreme without any additional extensions or EFI strings. And you have not ATI2000x kext or something else disabled ?

I installed Netkas Driver (the exotic thing) and now it works without a glitch ;) But as I wrote, the main issue is another, why can't I boot from the HD when it's connected via S-ATA (Intel chipset)?

strats37
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Hi Tonymacx86, great work on the two guides you have put together!

 

Do you plan to put a similar guide together to update a 10.5.8 system to a 10.6.2? If not I will just go and purchase another HD for a clean install of 10.6.2 sometime in the next two weeks.

 

Another guide that would bring traffic to your blog site would be dual booting guide for a Windows 7 and Snow Leopard Guide. I would even give you a donation on your site if I was able to successfully follow your guide for a dual boot system.

johnjingle
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Hi Tonymacx86, great work on the two guides you have put together!

 

Do you plan to put a similar guide together to update a 10.5.8 system to a 10.6.2? If not I will just go and purchase another HD for a clean install of 10.6.2 sometime in the next two weeks.

 

Another guide that would bring traffic to your blog site would be dual booting guide for a Windows 7 and Snow Leopard Guide. I would even give you a donation on your site if I was able to successfully follow your guide for a dual boot system.

Has anyone tried using Parallels instead of a dual boot? With an i5/i7 CPU and enough RAM I would think it would work well.

jhenley01
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Has anyone tried using Parallels instead of a dual boot? With an i5/i7 CPU and enough RAM I would think it would work well.

 

I don't use Parallels but I can tell you that VmWare Fusion 3.0 with Windows 7 x64 runs like a champ on my i5 w/ 4GB RAM.

tonymacx86
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I have a dual booting system running (on 2 separate hard drives)- it's no big deal. Right now I have Windows 7 x64 on an IDE drive, and Snow Leopard on a SATA drive. On my GA-P55M-UD2, the SATA drive automatically boots 1st. You would have to set the hard disk priority in BIOS if they're both SATA drives to access the drive with Chameleon on it 1st, then you can stop the boot sequence and select your Windows drive.

 

I haven't done it using 1 hard drive in quite a while. I know you have to format the drive Master Boot Record though. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult- years ago I had XP/Tiger/Ubuntu on 1 drive, but I'm sure with Snow Leopard it would be a bit different. :)

theotherone
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I just had a hard time trying to replace my NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB with a PowerColor ATI HD4850 (Triple-Interface - DVI, HDMI, VGA) on my GA-P55M-UD2. I didn't get the card to work! :)

 

I tried tonymacs latest bootfile, and Graphicsenabler=yes, but all i get is a garbled black and white distorted checkerboard when normaly the blue screen and then the desktop would arrive. I tried to add a kext from netkas' instructions for 10.6.2 to no avail.

 

I even tried to do a complete new install via my usb-stick where i get the same results.

 

I replaced the HD 4850 with my trusty old 8800GT and all is again fine now!

 

I will return the ATI-Card tomorrow to the dealer and take one of the more modern NVIDIA cards. Goodbye ATI!

 

What nvidia-card would you suggest as the best in compatibility/price/performance? I don't play, i want to be able to use 2 monitors as with the 8800GT (which should go to another rig) and want be able to connect a AV-Receiver via HDMI for 1080p Video (Sound via Optical from the board)??

 

TIA

Bansaku
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If your having the stalling on boot error try inserting your boot drives UUID to PlatformUUID.kext

 

I'm running 10.6.1 and so far the only thing I don't have fully working are iPhone sync (As previously said, it works with having a USB 2.0 device in the port next to it)

 

The kext's I have in /Extra/CustomExtensions are

AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext - not needed but comes from the same Realtek package as IONetworkingFamily
IONetworkingFamily.kext - Seems to enable Realtek R1000 (Using with Bonjour64 to enable promisc)
Framebuffer_Disabler.kext
LegacyHDA_ALC888B.kext - with patched DSDT to enable sound (Only tested 2.1 out)
NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
OpenHaltRestart.kext
PlatformUUID.kext - Edited with Boot partitions UUID (Seems to stop the boot freeze)
fakesmc.kext - patched to allow iStat to see CPU core temps.

 

I also use the pfix.sh script linked earlier in the thread to make /Extra/Extensions.mkext

 

 

I am curious how you patched Fakesmc.kext to allow for CPU core temps. I have been looking for a way for my i7 860 core temps being read in iStat with no luck.

lectrcman
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OK I've made a little more progress. I can't get to the boot screen with the setting on the TonyMacX blog. See attachment. However, if I change from AHCI to IDE it will boot to the install screen. I tried to run Disk Utility but it saw no HDs. Any ideas?

 

:(

goldenaustin
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OK I've made a little more progress. I can't get to the boot screen with the setting on the TonyMacX blog. See attachment. However, if I change from AHCI to IDE it will boot to the install screen. I tried to run Disk Utility but it saw no HDs. Any ideas?

 

:(

 

Yes, you need to use the AHCI setting as you already figured out, but ensure that you're plugging in your cable to port 0 on you motherboard. I had the same issue with my SATA drive, which was in port 1 while my dvd drive was in 0. I swapped the two, and then my SATA HD showed up.

goldenaustin
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I am curious how you patched Fakesmc.kext to allow for CPU core temps. I have been looking for a way for my i7 860 core temps being read in iStat with no luck.

 

I just got done testing out the FakeSMC.kext attached to this thread:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...192517&st=0

 

and worked like a charm with all 4 cores. I'm wondering if it's the same version that Klutsh referred to. Interesting thing, as discussed in this thread, is that Temperature Monitor doesn't seem to calculate the temp correctly and displays a huge temp while iStat seems to display the correct #'s just fine. I think previously, I was using the FakeSMC in Tony's bundle, but no core temps were showing, or maybe it was only one.

lectrcman
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Yes, you need to use the AHCI setting as you already figured out, but ensure that you're plugging in your cable to port 0 on you motherboard. I had the same issue with my SATA drive, which was in port 1 while my dvd drive was in 0. I swapped the two, and then my SATA HD showed up.

 

I did have it there. However, I moved it from SATA2_0 to GSATA2_0 which is moving it from the SATA controlled by the P55 chipset to the SATA controlled by the Gigabyte controller. When I did that the loader booted all the way up and saw the drive. Disk Utility saw it and it will allow me to format it. Right now I have Windows 7 installed and I am currently copying the files I want to keep from it to an E-SATA drive. I'm hoping to try the install tonight.

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