temis Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Hi everyone, I am having a hard time installing Snow Leo (genuine retail DVD 10.6.3) from scratch on my rig (please see infos in sig) ... I tried many bootloaders including those compatible with fermi 104 which is needed here EmpireEFI, mars123, mars123 v2, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] NVIDIA 4xxx-1, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-GE Il followed all available procedure (none of them was P6X58D-E specific though, found mostly for Premium version), with recommanded hardware and bios settings : also went to www.tonymacx86.com Restore to bios defaults AHCI + HPET + ACPI ON 1 HD (raw) on sata all other removed 1 DVD on SATA 4 Go RAM only 1 Graphic card in 1st PCIe I tried all possible options combinations using : -v -x cpus=1 busratio=21 GraphicsEnabler=Yes arch=i386 I get a "still waiting for root device" Can any successful user give me a procedure on how to install from scratch Thanks PS : Is there a bootloader that works for P6X58D-E + Fermi 100/104 graphic cards ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stofchi Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Read up on Kup's instructions. It will get you most of the way there with Boot132. Set the switches to what you have, but make GraphicsEnabler=n http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=222761 Then download the latest 10.6.5, but do not do the upgrade. In other words download the actual .dmg file to your download area. Then download Tonymacs [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] in the download area and reboot. Get in the system via the hard drive install and all the switches you mention in your post with my change from above. Run the 10.6.5 upgrade without rebooting. Run the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and select the options you have on your computer including the GC, Audio etc. Make sure you pick the run Chameleon boot install Remove the boot disk and try to boot from your hard drive. If it fails, then retry with the -x -v switch and see where it's breaking up Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj_jackson Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Hi everyone, I am having a hard time installing Snow Leo (genuine retail DVD 10.6.3) from scratch on my rig (please see infos in sig) ... I tried many bootloaders including those compatible with fermi 104 which is needed here EmpireEFI, mars123, mars123 v2, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] NVIDIA 4xxx-1, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-GE Il followed all available procedure (none of them was P6X58D-E specific though, found mostly for Premium version), with recommanded hardware and bios settings : also went to www.tonymacx86.com Restore to bios defaults AHCI + HPET + ACPI ON 1 HD (raw) on sata all other removed 1 DVD on SATA 4 Go RAM only 1 Graphic card in 1st PCIe I tried all possible options combinations using : -v -x cpus=1 busratio=21 GraphicsEnabler=Yes arch=i386 I get a "still waiting for root device" Can any successful user give me a procedure on how to install from scratch Thanks PS : Is there a bootloader that works for P6X58D-E + Fermi 100/104 graphic cards ? GTX460 not compatible Compatible: GTX200 series GTX 470,480 .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temis Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 @ Stofchi Thank you, actually the only thing I got wrong was GraphicsEnabler Yes instead of No so options : -v -x cpus=1 busratio=21 GraphicsEnabler=n arch=i386 was the way to install 10.6.3 + 10.6.5 upgrade + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] I think I still have a few things to figure out cause booting from HD doesn't work, only boot from boot123 CD with arch=i386 option works yet GTX460 not compatible Compatible: GTX200 series GTX 470,480 .... @ tj_jackson Since nov 16 nvidia has a new driver out and it's supposed to bring compatibility to fermi 100/104 graphic cards I only get a 1024x768x32 as of now but I read at www.tonymacx86.com that some guys have 460 GTX 1Go fully working on their rig so there is hope http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=...73&start=10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digiart Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Hi everyone, I am having a hard time installing Snow Leo (genuine retail DVD 10.6.3) from scratch on my rig (please see infos in sig) ... I tried many bootloaders including those compatible with fermi 104 which is needed here EmpireEFI, mars123, mars123 v2, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] NVIDIA 4xxx-1, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]-GE Il followed all available procedure (none of them was P6X58D-E specific though, found mostly for Premium version), with recommanded hardware and bios settings : also went to www.tonymacx86.com Restore to bios defaults AHCI + HPET + ACPI ON 1 HD (raw) on sata all other removed 1 DVD on SATA 4 Go RAM only 1 Graphic card in 1st PCIe I tried all possible options combinations using : -v -x cpus=1 busratio=21 GraphicsEnabler=Yes arch=i386 I get a "still waiting for root device" Can any successful user give me a procedure on how to install from scratch Thanks PS : Is there a bootloader that works for P6X58D-E + Fermi 100/104 graphic cards ? same of my card... I did without problem all of them use this "http://uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=12273" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temis Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 I finally have an up an running 10.6.5 with decent performances Here is what I did for what it's worth : Installed vanilla (10.6.3 retail DVD)with files and instructions from here : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=222761 options : -v -x cpus=1 busratio=21 GraphicsEnabler=n Installed 10.6.5 upgrade Installed [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 2.6.1, userdsdt + hardware kexts reboot upgraded chameleon 2 RC5 build 656 reboot Installed Nvidia drivers Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temis Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 upgraded to 10.6.6 from software update ... Everything is OK I only had to reinstall nvidia fermi drivers (there is a new version by the way : Retail_256.01.00f03v5) Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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