HP 8510W Successful Snow Leopard Install info

[TheEther]

I thought this might help someone. I am FAR from an expert or a guru, but found several other's posts helpful so, I thought I'd add my success story. I have a HP 8510W with 9300 Core Duo processor and 4 Gig of RAM, BIOS F.15. I'm triple booting XP, Arch-Linux, and Mac OSX. But these instructions will work just fine if you don't intend to multi-boot.

 

I may have some of my Drivers wrong, but this does yield a working system. My next steps are to fine tune. I don't even know what a DSDT is so unless one was installed for me, I don't have one. Any suggestions on how I can make my system better from the shutdown/suspend/sleep perspective would be most helpful. The Hacintosh wont shut itself down properly or reboot properly. I always have to hold down the power button and kill it. I did press sleep once to see what that would do and it resulted in non bootable system. I tried clearing the BIOS and CMOS and that didn't work. So I had to reinstall. Since I have to reinstall, I thought what the heck, I'd add my experience here.

 

Before you begin, have a USB Keyboard and Mouse Handy in case something gets sideways.

 

1. I created a partition for OSX to use. (you dont have to do this step if you're not multi booting I don't think)

2. I used the iATKOS S3 v.2 CD to kick off the installation.

3. When MAC OSX install appears, click Utilities >Disk Utility

4. Choose the partition for OSX and right click/select "Erase" then format the partition as MacOS Extended Journaled. Choose Erase then close the disk utility.

5. In the Mac OSX installer choose your disk you just formatted then choose "Customize" in the lower left. (DO NOT HIT INSTALL YET)

6. Leave the Boot Loader at Default (AsereBLN)

7. NO Bootloader Options

8. In Patches uncheck RTC and choose 32bit RTC, leave the rest alone

9. In drives choose these ONLY. Sound=Voodoo HDA , PS/2 = Voodoo PS /2, Laptop Hardware=battery Leave the rest unchecked

10. Leave network completely unchecked.

11. Click OK in Customize then click install.. Relax for about 20-30 mins.. When install completes pop out the iATKOS S3 disk and let the boot loader boot OSX.

 

You should be greeted with a bootable OSX with Keyboard and Mouse functionality, Battery Icon should work and Sound should work. Wilkommen!

 

ahhh but the day is not yet over.

 

Nod to Ludens' Post Thank You for Your help!

 

On a USB stick I have the following drivers and programs

 

- Kext Helper b7

- Intel82566MM.kext

- MyHack_Installer_1.1.mpkg.tar.bz2

- VoodooPS2Controller-0.98-installer.pkg (just in case)

 

12. Run myHack_Installer_1.0.1.mpkg, select "Snow Leopard" volume, choose following options *ONLY*:

- Core

- Graphics Enabler

- FakeSMC

- IOATAFamily

- NullCPUPowerManagement

 

Uncheck other options, then install, reboot

 

This will give you Full Screen Graphics. ROCK! (But it broke my Keyboard and Mouse)

 

13. Run VoodooPS2Controller-0.98 to get keyboard and mouse back..

14. Use kext Helper and drag Intel82566MM.kext into it and install then, reboot.

 

15. You now have Wired Network, run Apple Software Update and update to 10.6.4. You're done.

 

Notes:

 

- The VoodooPS2 Keyboard/Mouse driver doesn't seem to work as well as the one that was injected in the iAKTOS S3 install. The Mouse seems to be very jerky like it's 50DPI instead of 300 DPI. Not sure why, I'll be looking into that.. The Injected driver was smooth as silk and the touchpad worked like a Mac with two fingers to scroll. The 0.98 driver doesnt work that way.

 

- The Laptop wont power down properly, need some help on that.

 

- The Wireless will not work, but a compatible internal module can be ordered from Ebay (HP Wireless Card Broadcom 4311AG Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g mini PCI adapter card (Bevo)) which will get recognized by the Vanilla Kernel as an airport. (one of the antennas (the N antenna) will not get connected to the HP replacement board when replacing the internal intel board) It'll be B/G only..

 

Hope this helps..

 

****Booting Chameleon with Grub Boot Loader****

 

I am using GRUB to boot my OS's.

 

The iATKOS S3 OSX install replaces whatever bootloader you have with a variant of Chameleon.

 

I reinstated GRUB as my primary bootloader as Chameleon does not detect my XFS Linux partition. If anyone is interested in learning how to get grub to boot Chameleon then do this. (I did it from Linux)

 

Restore Grub as your boot loader:

 

The iATKOS S3 install will replace your current boot loader with Chameleon. I use a ArchLinux rescue CD after I'm done installing OSX to restore grub.

 

I boot the linux rescue cd and log in a root.

I type "grub" enter, then at the GRUB Prompt I type the following:

GRUB> setup (hd0) (hd0,1)

 

(hd0) is your first hard drive

(hd0,1) is the first hard drive, second partition (the one where my Linux os resides, more specifically, the /boot directory)

 

Exit from the GRUB> prompt, reboot and eject the rescue CD. GRUB will now be your boot loader (Your shiny new OSX install wont be listed yet)

 

Boot into Linux

 

Download Chameleon 2 RC4 and extract. In the 'bin" directory locate "boot1h".

 

Write boot1h to the OSX partition like this.

 

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/sda[partition number of OSX in my case it's 4]

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/sda4

 

Copy the boot0 file to /boot/

 

edit your grub.conf (some distros) or menu.lst (archlinux and other distros) and add an entry like:

 

title Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard)

rootnoverify (hd0,3)

makeactive

chainloader (hd0,1)/boot/boot0

 

 

Explained (hd0,3) is the grub perspective on my mac os partion. The linux number is 4, let me illustrate

 

Linux Grub MyPartitionScheme

/dev/sda1 (hd0,0) XP-NTFS

/dev/sda2 (hd0,1) ArchLinux

/dev/sda3 (hd0,2) NTFS Partition

/dev/sda4 (hd0,3) OSX Partition

 

rootnoverify (hd0,3) is the OSX partition

chainloder (hd0,1) is the partition where the boot0 file is located

 

 

****NOTE**** If Chameleon was not previously your bootloader for OSX you have one more simple step. In the Chameleon RC4 bin directory locate the file call "boot". Mount your OSX partition and copy it into the root directory of your OSX partition. Unmount the OSX partition and reboot. You should be good-to-go.

 

 

Cheers!

 

Ether

[TheEther]

I ended up ripping out VoodooPS2 (which was installed in /E/E and /S/L/E) and went with ApplePS2, I'm much happier with it. My Track Point mouse doesn't work, but the TrackPad works like a Mac should so I'm sticking with it.

 

I fixed my Sleep and Reboot issues with the latest versions of SleepEnabler.kext and EvOreboot.kext. Reboots and Sleeps like a champ now.

 

Now if I could just keep it from running so darned hot, I'll be golden..