10.6 Generic Retail Install Guide

[turtle2472]

So I found this thread and it talks about making the same changes I have. The problem is the system doesn't boot. Is it because I installed a different "boot" file during the SL install? Is this something Chameleon RC3 can correct? Or am I just missing something really easy?

[ashley__]

Well you can install retail SL to an USB harddrive using one of these 132 bootloader discs around. How to boot without the disc well that´s another story, beats me been trying for a week now.

 

yes, this beats me to at present - my hidden efi partition also stops me from booting into leo without a disk so i've done something wrong big time there

 

edit: so i attempted the hidden bootloader again with GUI disabled. booted with the flags -arch=i386 -v -x32 and got a kernel panic - but im still able to boot using the insperon6400 cd

 

 

 

 

[AssaultM16]

Ok. Here is my PCI Device/Vendor ID. Can you please tell me what kext do I need?

 

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7900 GS [10de:0298] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
03:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

 

Thank You,

 

AssaultM16

[rkingj]

thank you so much for this guide? It really give a huge help.................

[OSX86GURU]

Everytime I try and boot the snow leopard installer from chameleon installed on my usb stick (installed as guide described) I get a generic kernel panic, attached is a screenshot. Any ideas why this might be? I made sure that all my kexts are being loaded by the bootloader and that there are no non snow leopard kexts in the extra folder. My laptop is a panasonic toughbook cf-y5 with intel l2400 core duo processor, gma 950 graphics, intel ich7 ide controller, ddr2 ram, etc.

I've tried with and without the certain kexts in the extra/extensions folder such as appleintelintegratedframebuffer.kext appleintelgma950.kext appleintelpiixata.kext and so on with no luck. Not sure if my problem is due to the fact that my processor is 32 bit but from what I read it shouldn't make a difference as long as I boot with the correct flags.I'd appreciate any advice, thanks!

 

p.s. I might like to add that this is the first thing I see when I select the snow leopard installer in chameleon.

[noob766]

Everytime I try and boot the snow leopard installer from chameleon installed on my usb stick (installed as guide described) I get a generic kernel panic, attached is a screenshot. Any ideas why this might be? I made sure that all my kexts are being loaded by the bootloader and that there are no non snow leopard kexts in the extra folder. My laptop is a panasonic toughbook cf-y5 with intel l2400 core duo processor, gma 950 graphics, intel ich7 ide controller, ddr2 ram, etc.

I've tried with and without the certain kexts in the extra/extensions folder such as appleintelintegratedframebuffer.kext appleintelgma950.kext appleintelpiixata.kext and so on with no luck. Not sure if my problem is due to the fact that my processor is 32 bit but from what I read it shouldn't make a difference as long as I boot with the correct flags.I'd appreciate any advice, thanks!

 

p.s. I might like to add that this is the first thing I see when I select the snow leopard installer in chameleon.

boot with -arch=i386 -x32 flags

[OSX86GURU]

boot with -arch=i386 -x32 flags

The boot flags I used are -arch=i386 -x32 -v and I get this error still. Is there a workaround? I followed the guide and made sure I completed all the tasks but unfortunately still no luck. Thanks for the reply though, any other ideas for me to try or do you think I should just wait for iKaros to come out and see if that solves my problems?

[turtle2472]

Does anyone else the irony of a "noob" helping a "guru"?

[noob766]

yes, this beats me to at present - my hidden efi partition also stops me from booting into leo without a disk so i've done something wrong big time there

 

edit: so i attempted the hidden bootloader again with GUI disabled. booted with the flags -arch=i386 -v -x32 and got a kernel panic - but im still able to boot using the insperon6400 cd

 

 

 

 

 

you have dependencies missing. try booting with -f

 

Ok. Here is my PCI Device/Vendor ID. Can you please tell me what kext do I need?

 

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7900 GS [10de:0298] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
03:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

 

Thank You,

 

AssaultM16

 

 

ICH-7 is retail supported so just an EFI string for your graphics card. and the needed kexts.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

btw. those of you trying to load 32bit through com.apple.boot.plist, the correct way to do it is via a key, not a string under kernel flags:

 

<key>arch</key>
<string>i386</string>

thanks to Kabyl who pointed this out to me.

[Minn3h]

some kext advice would be most welcome:

 

00:00.0 "Host bridge" "Intel Corporation" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub" -r07 "Lenovo" "Device 20e0"

00:01.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port" -r07 "" ""

00:03.0 "Communication controller" "Intel Corporation" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller" -r07 "Lenovo" "Device 20e6"

00:03.2 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller" -r07 -p85 "Lenovo" "Device 20ea"

00:03.3 "Serial controller" "Intel Corporation" "Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection" -r07 -p02 "Lenovo" "Device 20ec"

00:19.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82567LM Gigabit Network Connection" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20ee"

00:1a.0 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f0"

00:1a.1 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f0"

00:1a.2 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f0"

00:1a.7 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2" -r03 -p20 "Lenovo" "Device 20f1"

00:1b.0 "Audio device" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f2"

00:1c.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1" -r03 "" ""

00:1c.1 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2" -r03 "" ""

00:1c.3 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4" -r03 "" ""

00:1c.4 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5" -r03 "" ""

00:1d.0 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f0"

00:1d.1 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f0"

00:1d.2 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f0"

00:1d.7 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1" -r03 -p20 "Lenovo" "Device 20f1"

00:1e.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801 Mobile PCI Bridge" -r93 -p01 "" ""

00:1f.0 "ISA bridge" "Intel Corporation" "ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f5"

00:1f.2 "SATA controller" "Intel Corporation" "ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller" -r03 -p01 "Lenovo" "Device 20f8"

00:1f.3 "SMBus" "Intel Corporation" "82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller" -r03 "Lenovo" "Device 20f9"

01:00.0 "VGA compatible controller" "ATI Technologies Inc" "Mobility Radeon HD 3650" "Lenovo" "Device 2117"

03:00.0 "Network controller" "Intel Corporation" "PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [shiloh] Network Connection" "Intel Corporation" "Device 1211"

15:00.0 "CardBus bridge" "Ricoh Co Ltd" "RL5c476 II" -rba "Lenovo" "Device 20c6"

15:00.1 "FireWire (IEEE 1394)" "Ricoh Co Ltd" "R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller" -r04 -p10 "Lenovo" "Device 20c7"

15:00.2 "SD Host controller" "Ricoh Co Ltd" "R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter" -r21 "Lenovo" "Device 20c8"

15:00.3 "System peripheral" "Ricoh Co Ltd" "R5C843 MMC Host Controller" -rff -pff "" ""

15:00.4 "System peripheral" "Ricoh Co Ltd" "R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter" -r11 "Lenovo" "Device 20ca"

15:00.5 "System peripheral" "Ricoh Co Ltd" "xD-Picture Card Controller" -r11 "Lenovo" "Device 20cb"

[OSX86GURU]

ok so thanks to thegreatdeceiver's post my initial kernal panic is fixed but unfortunately it still kp's a little later on when booting from the install partition. It appears to happen after attempting to load appleintellpiixata for my intel ich7 storage controller. Does anyone know how to correct this? Is it as simple as finding a snow leopard compatible kext and placing it in the extra folder on the install partition? Thanks again for everyones help.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

those of you with core 2 duo. no more cpus=1. cosmo1t managed the TSC sync for SL. Link here.

Thank you Cosmo1t!!!

confirmed working. No more cpus=1 on SL, both cores working! niiiice

[icecold]

Hey noob,

 

 

So im back to the beginning installing SL. did have leopard on another laptop but changed to a dell 6400.

 

How do i go about installing SL to it, i notice the first file is labeled inspiron6400.iso.

 

Does this help me? Could you give me a quick few steps or pointers to which install guide and files i should be using.

 

PS i have a SL retail dvd to use.

 

Cheers

ICE

[Ev4n32]

Alright so I installed Snow Leopard on my Dell Inspiron E1505/6400 and I used the boot-132 Inspiron6400.iso and can someone tell me what bootloader I need to use and what all I need to do to so I can boot Snow Leopard without the CD.

[Ian T]

Making a Boot-132 Disc + Method

Inspired by SuperHai and dfe

 

noob766,

 

Thanks for the guide!

 

I was wondering if you found a solution with regards to the bootloader not being able to parse the plist file (e.g., Error parsing plist file)?

 

I've been scouring google and yahoo, but to no end.

 

Thanks!

 

Peace,

IanT

[icecold]

i managed to install SL on my inspiron 6400. Used the 6400.iso at top of thread.

 

Have tried to follow the guides to get it to boot chameleon straight of the EFI partition but no luck keeps erroring.

 

Anyone have any ideas of guides that i can follow to get this too work?

 

 

Ice

[MaestroX1]

I managed to install SL with the following method:

 

1.Boot using DellInspiron6400 disc

 

2.Install SL from restored partition image

 

So I have a working Snow Leopard install. Now for the post-install stuff.

 

Chameleon refused to install on the SL partition, and there's no boot file to replace. So I still have to boot using the CD.

 

I've copied my custom DSDT.aml to the root of the drive and it no longer gives the BIOS error.

 

No graphics or sound yet.

 

The card is an Nvidia 7200GS/7300SE 256mb. The kexts intalled don't seem to work nor did inserting the EFI string into the boot.plist file. Also, I get the cannot parse plist error while booting.

The Systm profiler states that my card is a Radeon 4890.

 

Regarding the sound, my mobo is a GB GA-965P-DS3. The Kalyway 10.5.2 disc had a special audio kext just for this board (for an AL883 chip). Is there anyway to extract that kext from the disc?

 

I'm also having a problem repairing kext permissions after copying them to the Extensions folder. The Kext Utility repairs permissions for some kexts and not for others. Eg: fakesmc.kext, NullCPU..kext and OpenHalt..kext failed, whereas the nvenable.kext and AppleAzalia.kext were successful. Is it possible to use kext-helper b7 in SL?

 

I installed the kext to take care of the orange icon problem (can't remember the name atm), it seems to have worked, but all drive icons have disappeared from the desktop.

 

My boot.plist file

 

 </P> <P><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "<A href="http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd</A>">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<key>arch</key>
<string>i386</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a01000000010106000001
0101060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d00000020000000010000000000000000000000
0
0000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c007
3
0069007a006500000008000000000000101c0000006400650076006900630065005f007400790070
0
0650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b00000064697
3
706c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b00
0
000646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650
0
00000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e566964696120
4
765466f726365203733303020534520000000400031002c0063006f006d007000610074006900620
0
6c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000
1
20000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d006500000012000
0
004e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062
0
06c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e00560043004100500000001800000
0
04000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d007200650076006900
7
30069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765466f7263652037333030205345204f70656
e
474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string></P> <P></dict>
</plist>
</P> <P>

 

 

 

Is there anything that should be added or deleted from this?

 

I have 2 NICs in my PC. The default Marvell Yukon works fine, but the Realtek add-on card isn't even detected. Any solutions?

 

Thanks,

MaestroX1

[icecold]

SL works great on my inspiron 6400.

 

Purchased a new hard drive for it. trying to plug my sata drive into my desktop to restore the drive to the new harddrive to save reinstalling etc.

 

Motherboard in the desktop is a ASUS P4VP-MX.

Tried booting using noobs boot cd, i an get into it etc put the SL dvd, booting with -v

it loads a whole bunch of stuff then suddenly the screen goes black.

 

 

Any suggestions? not looking to install just want to be able to get into diskutility.

 

cheers ICE

[TheGreatDeceiver]

good news for those of us with gma950. Apple apparently will release 64bit kexts with 10.6.2 according to Netkas

[GA-SIE]

Thank you for the Inspiron6400 iso file. This is the first time I was able to boot the Retail Disk.

 

I have an HP Compaq NC6400 laptop with Dual Core T7200 cpu.

 

In order to boot the retail disk I had to use the following:

 

cpus=1 arch=i386 -x32

 

It would boot without the cpus=1 but it would get a CPU kernel panic somewhere during the install.

 

I'm also thankful for the GA-EP45-DS3L-SL image, although I never got the retail disk to boot starting up with this, I used the folder for the steps and files to complete the process of getting the hard disk to boot up without using the bootcd.

 

I'm still without sound and network but i'm getting closer. I have it recognizing the Wireless card but AirPort does not find it so I can't configure it to get it on the network.

 

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)

00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)

00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] [1002:714a]

02:06.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller [104c:8039]

02:06.2 Mass storage controller [0180]: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) [104c:803b]

02:06.3 SD Host controller [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller [104c:803c]

02:06.4 Communication controller [0780]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller [104c:803d]

08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5753M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:16fd] (rev 21)

10:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection [8086:4222] (rev 02)

20:00.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller [1095:3132] (rev 01)

[Eckhard]

You don't need to run 64bit mode while you only have 2GB of RAM.

I still boot into 32bit even when I have 8GB of RAM. There's no benefit for you to run 64bit kernel unless you planing to utilize all 32GB of RAM.

 

What are you talking about?? It has nothing to do with RAM!!!!

 

turns out there is a kext for the X3100 snow leopard

AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext.zip

 

I think there is a big problem with the kext and apps for snow Leopard. Please everytime you post a kext make clear if it is a 64bit or 32bit driver/application. Anyway thanks for the up.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Thank you for the Inspiron6400 iso file. This is the first time I was able to boot the Retail Disk.

 

I have an HP Compaq NC6400 laptop with Dual Core T7200 cpu.

 

In order to boot the retail disk I had to use the following:

 

cpus=1 arch=i386 -x32

 

It would boot without the cpus=1 but it would get a CPU kernel panic somewhere during the install.

 

I'm also thankful for the GA-EP45-DS3L-SL image, although I never got the retail disk to boot starting up with this, I used the folder for the steps and files to complete the process of getting the hard disk to boot up without using the bootcd.

you can have both cores enabled. See post 388 above.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

upgraded to 10.6.2 with your hidden EFI partition and works like a charm. 100% working. didn't have to fix any kexts or kernel.

thank you

[fredybob]

So... I need an already exisiting mac with leopard to be able to boot snow either way? can`t i just do it througth windows? please help!