Snow Leopard Retail on DSAN-DX

[A. Stice]

Hi, I'm entirely new to the Mac community, but I thought I would try it out. I am trying to get Snow Leopard installed on my workstation. Specs are:

 

ASUS DSAN-DX (Bios 0402)

2x Xeon E5410

2x Western Digital 500gb hard drives in SATA ports 0 and 1

Generic Sony IDE DVD-RW drive

 

I've tried several different methods for getting it installed, but nothing seems to be working. So far it seems to come down to either a still waiting for root device error (when I try the boot 132 method) or a kernel panic traced back to ACPI when I try to install it from my external hdd. I've been doing a lot of reading over the past couple of days and I've tried installing with the hard drives set to AHCI and to IDE compatible, neither solved the root device error. I'm somewhat confused by the ACPI error, because the motherboard has ACPI 2.0 support and I have it enabled. I would be very grateful for any advice, especially if someone has gotten this working on the same board. Thanks!

[A. Stice]

I was able to get this working finally using a slightly modified version of this guide:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227

 

The only major difference were that instead of using a hard drive for the install disk and a usb drive to boot it I just put 2 partitions on an external hard drive. Also, I completely left out the smbios.plist and custom DSDT.aml.

 

It appears to be working correctly now except that it doesn't recognize my processors as being Xeons. I though it might pick them up automatically, but it didn't. Does anyone know of any kexts that I need to install to get these recognized properly?

 

Also, if anyone needs a step by step on how to install for this board. Send me a PM.