Snow Leopard successfully installed on Intel DG33BU

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Just wanted to share my experience on how I got Snow Leopard running on my system.

 

First, my system specs:

• Intel DG33BU motherboard
  
• XFX GeForce 8500 GT Fatal1ty 512MB DDR2 (PV-T86J-Y1SW) with 1 DVI and 1 VGA port
  
• Apple Cinema 20" monitor
  
• Two SATA hard disks
  
• One SATA CD/DVD drive
  

Installation prerequisites:

• Leopard already installed on a SATA hard drive (if needed, follow my instructions posted here on how to install Leopard on DG33BU boxes)
  
• A SATA blank hard disk (to install Snow Leopard on it) connected to SATA Port 0
   
  I had one disk partitioned with MBR and with WinXP on it. The other one was also partitioned with MBR and was used for Leopard. As I needed a blank disk, I used Acronis Disk Director to resize my WinXP partition, leaving enough space to copy my Leopard partition. Still using Disk Director I copied the Leopard partition from one disk to another. Just after checking that I could correctly boot from the freshly copied Leopard partition, I was sure I could format the other disk.
   
   
  
• SATA configured in BIOS as AHCI (to be able to dual boot WinXP with AHCI enabled, I had to install Intel drivers following tutorials I found through Google. It seems that Vista and Windows 7 have built-in AHCI support)
  
• Image (dmg) of the Snow Leopard Install DVD
  
• Chameleon 2.0-RC2 installer package
  
• Chameleon 2.0-RC3 binaries
  
• Kexts for the Chameleon bootloader (they will be installed on the EFI partition)
  
• 64 bit Kext for the Intel 82566 network adapter (it will be installed on the Snow partition)
  
• 64 bit VoodooHDA
  
• Patched DSDT.aml file
  

Installation procedures:

1. Boot into Leopard and using Disk Utility, format the new disk with GUID partition scheme (I always create two partitions, one for the OS and another for data I don't want to lose when reformatting). Give an easy name for the partition you're going to use for Snow Leopard (I called mine as "Snow")
   
2. Mount the Snow Leopard Install DVD image. After that, click on the "Go" menu and select "Go to folder". Type "Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/" (without the quotes) and hit "Go"
   
3. Double click on "OSInstall.mpkg" and follow the onscreen instructions. Just be sure to choose the Snow partition you created before. And remember to click on "Customize", deselecting unneeded languages and all printers. After Snow Leopard's installation completes, don't boot
   
4. Install Chameleon 2.0-RC2. Again, follow onscreen instructions. Just make sure to click on the "Change Install Location" button, selecting your Snow partition, and then on the "Customize" button, selecting the "Chameleon EFI HFS" and the "Extras" options. After Chameleon RC2 is installed, don't boot
   
5. Copy the Chameleon RC3 boot file to your EFI partition. To achieve this, open Terminal, and type the following commands:
   

   sudo -s
   <your passaword>
   diskutil list
   <identify the EFI partition on the same disk where your Snow partition is - it'll be something like diskXs1, with X=0,1,2,etc. - use this identifier on the next commands>
   mkdir /Volumes/EFI
   mount_hfs /dev/diskXs1 /Volumes/EFI
   killall Finder

   
   If you get an invalid argument after the mount_hfs, type "fsck_hfs /dev/diskXs1" and then try again
   You'll see a new disk on your Desktop (or Finder window) called EFI. Copy the "i386/boot" file from Chameleon RC3 binaries to the EFI disk. If you receive permission denied errors, try copying using Terminal (after issuing the "sudo -s" command)
   

6. Open the Extras/com.apple.Boot.plist file on the EFI disk in TextEdit and paste your graphic cards EFI string between the <string> and </string> tags that follow the "<key>device-properties</key>" line. You could copy it from your running Leopard Boot.plist or generate it using EFIStudio
   
7. Exclude all Kexts in the EFI's /Extras/Extensions folder. Copy the Kexts I provided
   
8. Create a patched DSDT.aml following the guide. Optionally, use the file I provided, but I don't know if it'll work. Put the patched DSTD.aml file in the Extras folder of the EFI disk
   
9. Open Disk Utility, right-click on the Snow partition and choose "Information". Copy the value for "Universal Unique Identifier". Right-click on the /Extras/Extensions/PlatformUUID.kext on the EFI partition, choose "Show Package Contents", then open the "Contents" folder. Open the Info.plist in TextEdit and paste the value copied from Disk Utility between the <string> and </string> tags that follow the "<key>PlatformUUID</key>" line.
   
10. Reboot and in BIOS change your hard disks boot order, so that the new GUID disk is the first option (or hold F10 during the POST screen and choose that disk)
    
11. In Chameleon boot screen press any key and then type -v -f and hit enter
    
12. If everything went fine, you should boot into Leopard, with no sound and no network
    
13. Once in Leopard, install the Intel82566MM.kext and the VoodooHDA.kext using Kext Helper. Reboot and again use the -v -f boot options
    
14. If everything went fine, now you'll have a fully working Leopard installation. If you wish, install the VoodooHDA preferences panel by double-clicking the VoodooHDA.prefPane file
    
15. I've already updated to 10.6.1 and had no problems.
    

[ruavegafreak]

Hi, I have the same MB as you, and am looking to move from Kalyway 10.5.2 to SL via your instructions. I don't have the same video card. I know that the onboard will not work, so I am using an old ATI x600 card until I can verify that I can get this running. At that point I'll look into getting a more up to date card.

 

My question is that you say to 'use the kexts I provide' and also mention providing a patched DSDT.aml but I dont see anything attached to the post to download. Any help is appreciated.

 

Thank you.