Installing Snow Leopard on MSI P35 Neo2 FR (myHack)

[rectifier23]

I finally decided to try out a hackintosh install on my system but I currently have some problems...

 

Lets start from the beginning...

 

Hardware Setup:

 

MSI P35 Neo2 FR

Intel Quad Q6700

Sapphire Radeon 2900 Pro

4 GB ADATA Vitesta Extreme Ram

EMU 1212 Soundcard

Windows XP + Vista Dualboot

1X 640 GB SATA Drive

1X 250 GB IDE Drive

 

I first started doing some research on hackintosh installs. The first thing I did was installing a Virtual OSX OS with VMWare. Its actually worked pretty well but still I couldn't use any graphics...

 

I decided to install my hackintosh with the MyHack Bootloader which is based on Chameleon. I liked it because it was really straight forward and noob friendly to me: http://osx86.sojugarden.com/installer/

 

So I bought a retail Snow Leopard Copy from Amazon which just arrived this week. I prepared a USB stick with my VM OSX copied the DVD image to the drive and installed Myhack. Everything was fine.

 

I restarted my PC and changed my Bios settings to:

 

MPS Table: 1.4

IOAPIC: Enabled

ACPI: S3

HPET: Enabled

EIST: Disabled

Execute Bit: Enabled

AHCI: Enabled

 

I forgot to mention that I did replace my bios with Kabyl's modified BIOS (7345v18_mod.by.Kabyl.zip)

 

The first problem I got was:"The IOUSB Family was not able to enumerate device". Well it took a while for me to figure it out. I disconnected all my USB devices...even my cardreader...took out my soundcard because I couldn't reach the USB cables on the motherboard lol. Well the problem was my USB Stick. I don't know why the OS couldn't recognize it after I could boot right into the myhack menu.

 

So I took my external harddrive reformated it in VM Snow Leopard and pretty much did the same as with the USB drive. This time everything worked and I got right into the apple snow leopard install menu. I chose the partition I prepared earlier and the intall process started. After 30 minutes It finished and I restarted my PC. Right after the installation there was something wrong with IOstorage......kext. I couldn't write down the full name of it. Now I still booted with the external USB harddrive but this time I chose the OSX partition inside the Myhack boot Menu.The first result I got with the normal boot was a black screen. Second time I tried it with the verbose mode and I didn't show me any problem. This time the result was a grey screen without the Myhack logo.

 

Anyone who knows what is wrong ?

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I already looked a little bit into modifying the DSDT. Since I only got a virtual OSX leopard Install in VMware I looked for some windows tools and found this one here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=142434 DSDT Patcher 02Beta5. I don't know if its still used or if there is another better program out there.I extracted the acpi_dsdt.bin with Everest but my problem was that I couldn't quite figure out things like Framebuffer, DevId, Use DSDT GFX,PEGP etc. The only thing I did was figuring out the hardware location with the windows device manager.

 

Another thing I didn't understand was the pfix. Now if I used some other kexts and a dsdt file with myhack I would need to update the mkext file with pfix right ? I did one test and ran the pfix3.0.mpkg on my VM SNow leopard and installed it to the USB Drive. I didn't get any files like the pfix file on my USB Drive after the installation. I saw some older myhack tutorials where there was a pfix file inside the root folder. Maybe the new pfix 3.0 works automatically...

 

I hope that someone can help me out. And excuse me for my poor grammar I'm from Europe.

 

-Andy

[rectifier23]

I'm actually surprised that no one had the idea to give me a hint that the radeon x2000 kexts should be removed from S/L/E. They basically caused the problem. I deleted them all and installed the RadeonHD.kext that I found here on the forum. Now I have my full resolution and the OS works smoothly. Only problem now is to enable hardware accleration.

 

But I'm happy that I finaly can boot without any kernel flags

 

Here's some info I found:

 

Kernel Panic (During Installation) - This occurs for many of the people . I’ve managed find out what was causing it. It was no other then frame buffer kexts. It seems that on some graphics card (regardless of Intel , NVIDIA , ATI) , it causes some random kernel panic lockups. I’m not sure why either (I am guessing its because , the installer is doing some checks against the graphics card to check if its EFI-capable or not). Anyhow the fix is easy (thanks whis). All you have to do is delete apple frame buffer kexts from your /Volumes/OSX86/System/Library/Extensions/ – the kexts which you’ll have to delete are :-

 

NVDAResman.kext for NVIDIA Graphics card

ATIFramebuffer.kext for ATI Graphics Card

AppleIntelIntergratedFramebuffer.kext for Intel Graphics

 

and

 

I installed Snow on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe with ATI HD 3870 system recently and tried many of the suggestions to get the system to boot without success. It would always hang soon after “DSMOS has arrived”. The solution I finally found was to remove ATIRadeonX2000.kext and

ATI3800Controller.kext from /S/L/E and then the system booted to the GUI correctly and allowed me to fine tune from there. Other ATI video cards that are currently unsupported should benefit from the same process by removing the appropriate kexts from /S/L/E. I haven’t tested this but the ATI1xxx series should remove ATIRadeonX1000.kext and the corresponding ATI1xxxController.kext and ATI2xxx and ATI3xxx series remove ATIRadeonX2000.kext and ATI2xxxController.kext to achieve the same results. I hope you can use this info in your blog.

 

I currently boot the system from a USB stick with Chameleon-2-1.0-r431 with the following kexts in /E/E folder and they have so far provided me with a very stable system. I also added this line “-x32 boot-uuid=BCA03D4B-F4A5-387A-B80F-B793D2115741″ to the “Kernel Flags” section of com.apple.Boot.plist to boot by default in 32 bit mode as I have heard it may improve stability until 64 bit options are improved. If you have any suggestions please send a reply.

AHCIPortInjector.kext

AppleRTC.kext

ATAPortInjector.kext

fakesmc.kext

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext

IOAudioFamily.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

OSvKernDSPLib.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

Sleepenabler.kext

VoodooHDA.kext

 

Thanks to http://prasys.co.cc

[typo]

I'm actually surprised that no one had the idea to give me a hint that the radeon x2000 kexts should be removed from S/L/E. They basically caused the problem. I deleted them all and installed the RadeonHD.kext that I found here on the forum. Now I have my full resolution and the OS works smoothly. Only problem now is to enable hardware accleration.

 

But I'm happy that I finaly can boot without any kernel flags

 

Here's some info I found:

 

 

 

and

 

 

 

Thanks to http://prasys.co.cc

DUDE / GIRL / I DON'T CARE - I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

 

I spent like 4 weeks trying to find out how to get my ATI X1900XTX running ... got no further than Single User mode ... from there I deleted ATIRadeonX1000.kext and ATI1900Controller.kext and BINGO!! BOOT!

Now I can try screwing around to get my resolution fixed but I've got a GUI now!!

 

Thanks again! and I hope that this helps all other desperate ATI owners.