Vanilla Snow Leopard 10.6.2 installation on P45-DS4

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Brief Steps below:

You will need

 

a. Snow Leopard DVD or its IMAGE

b. 8GB USB disk

c. a working Leopard installation on a separate Hard Disk

d. a new SATA HD

e. blackosx SupportFiles.zip (find on forums)

f. Chameleon RC4 installer package

 

Steps:

 

1a. Partitioned Hard disk as cham 1gb and the rest as SnowHD as GUID

1b. Created usb installer usb disk following Life Hacker guide

2. Booted from USB installer disk

3. Install bare system 10.6.0 to SnowHD

4. Installed chameleon rc4 by installer to cham partition

5. put files from Support Files for Blackosx SL Install v2.0.zip (find here on the forum or pm me). to Cham I placed DSDT.aml provided, and worked fine with P45-DS4 bios 7.

 

my com.apple.Boot in CHAM has the following

<key>arch</key>

<string>i386</string>

<key>Default Partition</key>

<string>hd(0,3)</string>

 

use hd(x,y) reported by Disk Utility for your Boot Partition in my case SnowHD.

 

 

6.Installed minor updates first (not sure if necessary)

 

7. Installed 10.6.2 combo update

8. deleted AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from S/L/E

 

9.Restarted without any boot flags

 

QE CI working, audio (ALC888) working

 

No firewire devices listed at the moment hence

10. Removed applehpet.kext from S/L/E to solve firewire issue (worked)

 

 

My Rig Spec:

 

P45-DS4 rev 1.0 (audio ALC888)

8600GT 512MB Asus Passive Heat sink (Dev ID 0x040210de)

6gb generic 6400 ram

1.5 TB Samsung SATA2 disk

Startec Hot Swap SATA Mobile Rack Backplane Product ID: SATABAY4BK

Black Magic Intensity Pro HDMI and Analog HD/SD editing Cards 2 nos

LG BlueRay SATA Writer

 

for (SOLOMON HANS)

[mandj]

Hi Seemab

 

Great to hear the p45-ds4 works. Im in the process of trying the life haker install proceedure, but still no luck, It just never boots of the usb drive. At least I know its possible now...And blackmagic too Awesome!

 

Thanks for posting!

[mandj]

Ok I got it fixed finally!

 

I have a Ep45-ds4 with 4gb ram and a $60 celleron dual core(just to see if it would work)

 

I followed the team liquid tutorial (fat guy jumping) Very Awesome tutorial!

 

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessag...?topic_id=95364

 

only i did the failsafe bios settings but turned on ahci and first boot device dcrom 2nd hard drive

 

I could only get an external usb dvd rom to boot with(might have been an incorrect setting or somthing-but it worked- the internal sats dvd rom works now dnt know why it didnt want to boot)

 

used the 132cd to load the $39 retail snow leopard

 

Then shut it down

 

had to use the boot cd again to sellect hard drive then it boots and I fill in all the info

 

then once thats up and running I installed the ep45ud3p snow leopard.pkg.zip file from lifehacker tutorial

 

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/life...now_Leopard.zip

 

and at the same time updated the apple software.

 

Then restart and it worked perfect .it also updated the sound and graphics drivers by itself. Im using a 8800xt card

 

Now running smooth

 

I then appled the bios setting that this tutorial recomments and it works perfect!

 

I removed the above kexts and the onboard firewire doesnt work,so I put in a generic firewire pci card and it works.

 

So another success with the Ep45-ds4

 

The snow leopard hackintosh must be the cheapest pc to make. Way cheeper than a windows disk anyway.