Guide to the most easiest and safest install for Mac Os X 10.6.3 Server Snow Leopard for GA-EP45-EXTREME! (Finally!)

[mR.GeeK]

Ok, so i'v been trapped in the same loop hole everybody has been in for the past year.... i want all my devices and peripherals to work, but there is no perfect walkthrough or guide out there that makes everything JUST working perfectly....Without no hacks nor any patches(Cuz most of them f*** Up)...........

"Out Of The Box!" as Apple advertise! hehe

Anyways, I'v been experimenting from Kalyway to Ipc, and at the end landed on Hazard's Snow (Which is the best, compared to any of the others!!) But unfortunately it messed my system up and after Updating to Chameleon 2 Rc4, i got the black screen after loading! SO, in order to end my pain, once again after trying most of the "Easy" Patches and work arounds like Kakewalk and MyHack, Etc. i found this, the easiest and safest way ever

 

To cut it short, here is what you'll need (The Usual list)

 

1. A USB thumb drive that's at least 8GB in size.

2. A Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard dvd.

3. And of course a Mac or a Hackintosh with any Os X on it (Required for some terminal work)

 

Step One: Prepare Your Thumb Drive

We're going to be installing Snow Leopard to your Hackintosh from your thumb drive rather than from the Snow Leopard install DVD, since in order to run the installer on your PC to begin with, you'll need to slightly customize the way the installer is loaded. (More specifically, we'll be loading a custom bootloader onto the thumb drive that will make booting into the install work like a charm.*)

 

So first things first: You need to format your thumb drive and then turn your Snow Leopard install disc into a disk image on your desktop. Here's how to do it:

 

A. Launch the Disk Utility application on your Mac

(located at /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility)

 

B. Format and partition your thumb drive:

Insert your thumb drive; after a second, it should show up in the Disk Utility Sidebar. When it does

(1) click on it, then

(2) click on Partition.

(3) Choose 1 Partition from the Volume Scheme,

(4) give it a name (I called mine Hackintosh Install) and select Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) from the Format drop-down.

Now—and this is important—

(5) hit the Options button and make sure GUID Partition Table is selected as the partition scheme. Once you've made sure to set all the appropriate settings

(6) click Apply and Disk Utility will get to partitioning your thumb drive.

 

 

C. Copy the Snow Leopard Install DVD image to your hard drive:

In the following step we'll be turning your thumb drive into a Snow Leopard Install drive, but before we do that, we need to get the installer off your DVD and onto your hard drive. To achieve this, insert the Snow Leopard DVD. When it shows up in the Disk Utility sidebar

(1) click on it, then

(2) click New Image in the Disk Utility toolbar. Choose where you want to save it (for the sake of convenience, I put it on my Desktop), then click the Save button. Now go grab yourself a cold drink. This will take some time. When it finishes, move on to the next step.

 

 

D. Restore the Snow Leopard Install disk image to your thumb drive:

 

Now, in Disk Utility,

(1) click on HackintoshInstall (or whatever you called your partitioned thumb drive)

(2) click on Restore.

(3) Drag and drop Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg from the sidebar to the Source field

(4) drag and drop your thumb drive from the sidebar to the Destination field.

(5) click on Restore and enter your password when prompted. Disk Utility will take everything on the Snow Leopard Install DVD and restore that image to your thumb drive—since, like I said above, we'll be installing Snow Leopard from our thumb drive instead of the DVD. Again, go grab yourself another drink; this will take a few minutes. When it finishes, your thumb drive has basically been turned into a Snow Leopard installation drive.

 

 

As I said earlier, the thumb drive needs a little finesse before you can boot the Snow Leopard installer on your PC hardware; let's apply that finesse now.

 

E. Warning: Semi-heavy Terminal work ahead. It's not that difficult, and I've gone into a lot of detail to make it as easy to follow along as possible, but if you're not at least a little comfortable with the command line, it may make you pretty uncomfortable. Beg or borrow a command line geek for an afternoon, if needed.

 

Now Make sure your thumb drive is still plugged in, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type in:

 

diskutil list

 

We're interested in two pieces of information here. The first is the root identifier for your thumb drive (mine looks like disk2, as you can see in the screenshot). The second is the specific identifier for the portion of the thumb drive that contains the Snow Leopard installer. (Again, see the screenshot.) In my case, the first is disk2 and the second is disk2s2. Yours may vary depending on how many disks are on your system. Copy your identifiers down somewhere. We'll need them later.

 

 

Head to the Chameleon homepage (http://chameleon.osx86.hu/) find the Latest Releases section of the site's sidebar, and download the latest version of Chameleon. Uncompress the download and move the Chameleon folder to someplace that's easy to access. I'm putting it on my Desktop.

 

(1).Now, in Terminal, cd to the i386 folder of the Chameleon folder. On my Mac, the command looks like this:

cd /Users/adam/Desktop/Chameleon-2.0-RC2-r640-bin/i386/

 

Yours should look similar if the Chameleon folder is on your Desktop, except your username should replace mine. (Quick shortcut: In Terminal, type cd , then drag and drop i386 folder from inside the Chameleon folder to Terminal.) Hit Enter.

 

(2).You're going to be running a couple of Terminal commands that will use Chameleon to make your thumb drive friendly to booting up the OS X installer. They are, as follows:

 

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk2

 

IMPORTANT: On your computer, replace rdisk2 with whatever you copied down above. In my case, the thumb drive's root identifier was disk2, so /dev/rdisk2 is as it should be.

 

After you type in that command and hit Enter, you'll need to enter your user password to execute it. Do so, then execute the following command, again paying special attention to the disk identifier we took note of above:

 

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk2s2

 

(3). IMPORTANT: As I noted, my Snow Leopard partition was disk2s2, so that command is right for me. You should replace the disk2s2 portion of the command with whatever you noted as the portion of your thumb drive that contains the Snow Leopard installer.

 

Now we're going to place an awesome, custom EFI bootloader on your thumb drive that lets us load into the installer (and into Snow Leopard in general). So first, head over to netkas.org and download the bootloader from the bootloader link. Make sure you download it somewhere convenient. (Again, I've just downloaded it to my Desktop.)

Now head back into Terminal, where we're going to copy the boot file to your thumb drive. (One might think that you could just do this using Finder via drag-and-drop, but in this case, doing it via Terminal is necessary.) So, in Terminal, your command should look similar to this:

 

sudo cp /Users/adam/Desktop/boot /Volumes/HackintoshInstall

 

The easiest way to do this is simply type in sudo cp ,(1) drag and drop the boot file into Terminal

(2) drag and drop your mounted thumb drive from the desktop into Terminal. (The drag-and-drop method is a quick Terminal trick that pastes the full path to each file or directory.) After that, simply hit Enter. (Enter your password if necessary.)

 

I know it seems like we've already run a marathon, but you've got one last step and then it's relatively smooth sailing from here on. Download http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/life...09/09/Extra.zip, unzip the file, and then drag and drop the Extra folder into your thumb drive. Nothing fancy, a simple drag and drop with your trusty old mouse will do. Once you've done that, open up your thumb drive and verify that it looks something like the screenshot below. (Notice the Extra folder, the boot file, and the OS X installer.)

 

 

Step 2: Set Your BIOS

 

If you have a Gigabyte Mobo, then follow these simple steps, if not, then your on your own untill step 3

but I'm sure you'll find it easy, maybe my next couple of steps would give you a hint of what your doing.

 

I'm only going over the important stuff, the rest is for you to play around with.

 

(1) In the 1st section (M.I.T) leave everything as it would be if you load the optimal settings.

 

(2) In the advanced Bios features:

--- Hard Disk Boot Priority ---

Set your thumb drive as 1st, and the hard disk you are going to install on as 2nd.

 

HDD SMART capability - Enabled

Limit CPUID - Disabled

No-Execute Memory Protect - Enabled

CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) - Enabled

C2/CE2 state support - Disabled

CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) - Enabled

CPU EIST function - Enabled

Virtualization Technology - Enabled

 

(3) Integrated Peripherals:

 

SATA RAID/AHCI Mode - AHCI

SATA Port 0-3 Native Mode - disabled

Onboard SATA/IDE Device - enabled

Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode - AHCI

 

(4) Power Management:

 

ACPI - S3(STR)

HPET Support - Enabled

HPCT Mode - 64bit Mode

 

Step 3: Install Snow Leopard

 

If you've made it this far, the hard part is over. Now it's time to install Snow Leopard, which—unlike what we've done so far—is extremely easy.

 

------ I'v Covered everything to get you started on a clean install so far, I will continue the post and write Step 3 in a few hours, just need to finish updating to 10.6.3

 

So if I'm not back by today, i have failed you..... hehe

 

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[mR.GeeK]

i will re-upload the pictures that are in the guide, but i faced a lil problem with my IDE dvd, and i just wouldn't give up until i did a stupid thing by adding too many kexts till i got a KP..... :s

So i kept going back and forth tryin to fix it, untill i just gave up(took me 18Hrs).... goin to try the New myhack installer..... Until then ill wait and see if it fully works, if not, ill continue this guide and update it with all the kexts needed for a perfect "Clean & Safe Install", but on the other hand, if it does, i'll just delete this guide, and wait till the new apple bios project reaches our Mobo(Ep45-Extreme) and ill write a new guide.

[mR.GeeK]

Rewriting a new guide and will soon post it