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[Guide] Vanilla Retail 10.6.x with Chameleon v2 for Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L

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aaa, got you :-)

 

For the drives not shown on the desktop go to Finder/Preferences/Sidebar and mark Harddisks --> they will appear onto the desktop.

 

As far as i know Marvel Yukon works under OS X (my old mobo was Asus..) --> its a mather of DSDT patching i suppose. Why dont you try EFI string for your ethernet in apple.com.boot.plist ?

 

good luck :-)

 

I know the drivers worked under 10.5.8, but the hardware is not even seen by SL.

 

I will try the Finder tweek to show drives.

 

Thanks

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Sounds like the same problem I'm having, it's caused by having an IDE dvd drive and not a SATA drive. You'll need a SATA dvd drive, I think newegg has one for less than $20.00.

 

I can confirm this. Same thing was happening to me. Bought a SATA DVD drive and install went smoothly!!

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I was wondering if you saw this method outlined here to customize the DSDL.aml file further to get rid of the IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext? Look in particular at the SATA fix. http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/how-to-snow.../post34233.html

Hi daryoon

 

I had a look at it and I see Lintendo and titan4 have already tried it and confirmed it works. Well done guys :)

From reading the posts, I also didn't have SATA in my DSDT so I did as Lintendo did and added the code before Device (PRIM) and I too can confirm it works and I now have my SATA devices recognised as Intel ESB2 AHCI in System Profiler. (Which the following link describes ESB2 as an Intel SATAII controller that seems to be native to 10.5.)

 

It is also mentioned here too.

 

I have now removed IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext from /E/E.

 

So again, Thank you for this link.

 

blackosx, :)

i would like to report a successful 10.6 retail installation with the following hardware:

Congratulations rednous - Well done :)

 

I got working!!! Thanks BlackOSX for all your help. No KP in 64-bit mode yet!!! Boots in 15 - 20 seconds on my 10,000RPM velociraptor drive!

Congratulations to you too valdanta68 - I see that SATA DVD drive helped then.. :)

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Very cool, good job guys. I spent the time getting Snow Leopard on my wife's mini9. Just completed that task and was about to return my attention back to this topic, when I see that you all did the hard work already. I am just gonna follow in your foot steps then. Nicely done gents.

 

-Daryoon

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I would like to thanks Blackosx for snow Leopard guide and i would like to report a successful 10.6 retail installation including 10.6.1 update.

And congratulations to you too msb :)

 

so i followed OSInstall.mpkg methord all went fine only thing i did a chmod + chown before rebooting into 10.6 .... all i have to do now is update to 10.6.1 .. once i get the original SnowLeopard DVD i will try booting from dvd and report back...

Hi -iCE!HACKER

 

Another successful install - Fantastic - Well done :) Hopefully you won't have too many kp's with the OSInstall method for now and then when you get the retail DVD, let me know how you get on with that.

 

I tried the installation method via boot cd and Snow Leopard dvd today and it worked right away. Running Snow Leopard in 32 bit due to some external hardware I cannot find 64 bit drivers for. But i don’t mind as I don’t have more than 4 GB of RAM anyway. Updated to 10.6.1 without any problems.

 

My Hardware: nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS 512 MB, Intel Core2Duo 7400, Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3LR, OCZ 4 GB DDR-2 800 MHz Platinum.

WOW - and you too Spiky1984... This is great... Thanks for reporting :)

 

......Actually I don't have sleep problem I have waking problem....

I don't know if this is any use but I found this earlier?

 

Also, it didn't find my Marvel yukon ethernet ports.

Hi snifferpro - Well done with your install too. I see rednous' answer helped you get booted and find your drive icons :)

As for your Yukon Ethernet, you are going to have to search for someone who has your mobo and got it working.

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I don't know if this is any use but I found this earlier?

 

Tried but still the same. I am having some hopes to BIOS update since there were some guy who fixed this with BIOS update. I can't think of anything else to try to fix that. And right now my eyes are bleeding from too much of Objective-C.

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And congratulations to you too msb :D

 

 

Hi -iCE!HACKER

 

Another successful install - Fantastic - Well done :) Hopefully you won't have too many kp's with the OSInstall method for now and then when you get the retail DVD, let me know how you get on with that.

 

 

WOW - and you too Spiky1984... This is great... Thanks for reporting :)

 

 

I don't know if this is any use but I found this earlier?

 

 

Hi snifferpro - Well done with your install too. I see rednous' answer helped you get booted and find your drive icons :)

As for your Yukon Ethernet, you are going to have to search for someone who has your mobo and got it working.

 

Searching now for Marvell Yukon 88e8001 kext and Ralink USB drivers for SL.

 

 

Great guide when it's followed correctly. I apparently goofed when I missed the

correct boot file.

 

Next step for me is to make a backup of the SL I have now to the Backup partition

so that when I start trying to get Yukon and Ralink working I'll have something

to go back to relatively easy.

 

Thanks again for the Guide

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Tried but still the same. I am having some hopes to BIOS update since there were some guy who fixed this with BIOS update. I can't think of anything else to try to fix that. And right now my eyes are bleeding from too much of Objective-C.

Ah well, it was worth a try. But yeah, I am waiting for the BIOS update too (can't be long now....?) and I also read that it fixed ApexDE's sleep issue...

 

Searching now for Marvell Yukon 88e8001 kext and Ralink USB drivers for SL.

 

Next step for me is to make a backup of the SL I have now to the Backup partition

so that when I start trying to get Yukon and Ralink working I'll have something

to go back to relatively easy.

Good luck finding an answer for your hardware, and good idea to create a backup partition. It always comes in handy for testing at least.

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Very cool, good job guys. I spent the time getting Snow Leopard on my wife's mini9. Just completed that task and was about to return my attention back to this topic, when I see that you all did the hard work already. I am just gonna follow in your foot steps then. Nicely done gents.

 

-Daryoon

 

Was it hard? I've been threatening to do it to my wife's mini 9 as well. Sick of mint/ubuntu. How's performance?

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I have installed Leopard 10.5.8 onto an IDE HD, but I am unable to install Snow Leopard from BlackOSX's guide using an USB stick. http://netkas.org/?p=125 describes my my problem:

the way SL 10A432 handles ATA controllers is different from other earlier version of SL.

 

I tried the new kext posted but only KPs.

I get cannot get past the KPs.

Any work arounds?

 

I have an ABIT I-45 CV MOBO that does not have AHCI SATA in the Bios.

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Tried but still the same. I am having some hopes to BIOS update since there were some guy who fixed this with BIOS update. I can't think of anything else to try to fix that. And right now my eyes are bleeding from too much of Objective-C.

 

Have you tried the "restart automatically after power failure thing" in the energy saver preferences yet?

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Hi Blackosx,

 

Thanks... managed to boot SL yesterday night using BootCD and retail Snow Leopard... got everything working fine except sound... but managed to solve it (advised by jorsh) to use arch=i386 during boot...

 

I have added in this to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

Thanks again....

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Thanks... managed to boot SL yesterday night using BootCD and retail Snow Leopard... got everything working fine except sound... but managed to solve it (advised by jorsh) to use arch=i386 during boot...

 

I have added in this to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Did you read the guide? as you want to be adding arch=i386 to the com.apple.Boot.plist in /Extra. By only using /Extra for your fixes, if you ever want to re-install Snow Leopard, you'll know it will just simply work.

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Have you tried the "restart automatically after power failure thing" in the energy saver preferences yet?

 

WOW !! I just tried that and it works ! I can't believe something that simple (and unrelated) can fix it...Thanks a lot Lintendo !

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WOW !! I just tried that and it works ! I can't believe something that simple (and unrelated) can fix it...Thanks a lot Lintendo !

Whoop!... The old Jan Bird method!.... (I didn't think to mention it as I guess you would have tried that..) Well done for mentioning it Lintendo :(

And great news for you titan4 :)

 

EDIT: It's included in my 10.5.7 guide but I haven't aded it to this one. I'll make a note to add it in the next update.

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Whoop!... The old Jan Bird method!.... (I didn't think to mention it as I guess you would have tried that..) Well done for mentioning it Lintendo :)

And great news for you titan4 :D

 

EDIT: It's included in my 10.5.7 guide but I haven't aded it to this one. I'll make a note to add it in the next update.

 

I didn't tried that since it seemed so unrelated to sleep to me. You see ? Still a noob ! :) But DSDT patch for keyboard/mouse waking you posted before, don't work for me anymore since I have new shiny keyboard :(

 

But still I am in good mood so I love you guys today ! :D

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I'm hoping these are some quick questions =P

 

Is the AHCIPortInjector kext installed by Cham2 (Which I need) also 32&64bit? Are all the others as well?

 

By replacing the boot file, and now running Cham2 RC3, means I can use only one boot partition/manager to boot 10.5.8 & SL right? I gotta look into this as I'm not sure I should move to SL entirely. I'd also have to figure out how to specify different kexts for each version haha

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Hi EnzoFX. I dont't know if AHCIPortInjector.kext works with the kernel in 64-bit mode as I don't need it for my mobo. But All the kexts in my Support Files with the green label have been verified as working in both 32 & 64bit mode.

 

The new Chameleon v2 RC3 download had 10.5, 10.6 and Common folders in the Extensions folder. But I haven't had time to check to find out if that was just to supply different versions of kexts for us to use, or for us to actually use this folder structure so as to have one set of kexts for 10.5 and one for 10.6?

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I had a look at it and I see Lintendo and titan4 have already tried it and confirmed it works. Well done guys :(

From reading the posts, I also didn't have SATA in my DSDT so I did as Lintendo did and added the code before Device (PRIM) and I too can confirm it works and I now have my SATA devices recognised as Intel ESB2 AHCI in System Profiler. (Which the following link describes ESB2 as an Intel SATAII controller that seems to be native to 10.5.)

Could you (or anybody else) be so nice to post the new DSDT.aml or the complete "added" SATA section ? I do get compile errors after first adding SATA section and then altering it.

 

Thanks

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Could you (or anybody else) be so nice to post the new DSDT.aml or the complete "added" SATA section ? I do get compile errors after first adding SATA section and then altering it.

Hi Donar - I have updated my DSDT guide to include this to help show what to do.

 

I have done as Lintendo said, and that was to add the code before Device (PRIM).. So here's mine with the FAS0, FAS1 and bracket from Device (IDE1) section then new code (in bold) before Device (PRIM)

 

[size=1]                    FAS0,   2, 
                   FAS1,   2
               }[/size]

              [b] Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
               {
                   Store (Package (0x02)
                       {
                           "device-id", 
                           Buffer (0x04)
                           {
                               0x81, 0x26, 0x00, 0x00
                           }
                       }, Local0)
                   DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                   Return (Local0)
               }
[/b]
[size=1]                Device (PRIM)
               {
                   Name (_ADR, Zero)
                   Method (_GTM, 0, NotSerialized)[/size]

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