Issues installing 10.6 on AMD computer

[Timski]

hi there guys i need a bit of help/ advice am scratching my head on this one

i decided to have a little project to get snow leopard working on my AMD machine..

 

Spec:

 

Mobo: Asus A8v Deluxe Chipset Via VT8237 sound: AC97 Nic: Marvell (I normally use the skge kext for leopard) GFX: Gforce 6100 128mb Processor: AMD 4000 Ram: 3gb : HDD:1) Maxtor 320 gig (with leo installed) 2) Maxtor 160 GB (Sata- USB converter connection)

 

so i decided to follow the example on getting snow to work on the old pc by using this example

http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/09/install...-pc-hackintosh/

 

before i go anywhere i must explain i have hone one sata port on this board as the other one fell off a long time ago so i am using a Sata - USB converter to get it working and it mounts the Drive perfectly.

 

i deceied to use the MBR method as i can change the sata ACHI settings as there are none to change ... and i know that leopard worked that way on a previous attempt.

 

so i formatted the partition with MBR and named it Sn0w

 

went to terminal

sudo -s

chown 0:0 /Volumes/Snow

 

then opened my snow leo installer disk and then used the showallfiles fix to show me all the files. copied the MBR version of OSInstaller.mpkg to the snow leo disk and ran the new installer OSInstaller.mpkg and choose the Sn0w disk to install the disk to removing printers and languages..

 

one that completed i installed the Chameleon-2-1.0-r640.pkg to the Sn0w drive and then deledted the current Boot file and copied the BOOT file that came with the package to the root of Sn0w.

 

ran the DSDT on the Sn0w drive it reports it failed.. selecting OSX and apply DSDT Ticked and selected to Sn0w HDD

 

copied the match_kernel.test7 over (do i delete the other one?)

 

Copied the FakeSMC.kext, PlatformUUID.kext, Openhaltrestart.kext, NullCPUPowerManagement.kext and any other kets i had AppleVIAATA.kext and skge.kext

 

did as it said copied the extras folder over and applied to kext utility and copied back inc the Extension.mkext

 

then ran and older version of EFI studio to generate the code needed for the GFX and added the line

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

 

<string>1280×1024×32 </string>

 

<key>device-properties</key>

 

<string>

Alphanumeric code you generated with EFiStudio

</string>

 

 

then saved the plist file to Sn0w/Extra/Extensions

 

did the SMbios thing with the UUID and also added that to the PlatformUUID.kext saved those

 

 

all went well until i turned off switched the sata drives over so that the main drive is the 160 gig one rather than the 320 and booted up the computer i was then greeted with this

 

Boot0: done

Boot1: /boot

 

so i am assuming that its saying that it can't boot disk 1 i think i need change the boot disk to 0 am i correct? and how do i do this?

 

or i if i have missed something please can you explain

 

any help on this is really appreciated

 

tim

:-)