[TOTALLY VANILLA] Retail Snow Leopard

[CowboyMiller]

Howdy all, its been awhile since ive posted just cuz ive flawlessly upgraded from 10.5.2 to 10.5.8 on my own and the time has come for the 10.6 install.

Ive followed the guide to the T and and boot to he installed USB but it always Kernel Panics.

If i boot to the installer USB and choose my 10.5 it Kernel Panics

If i boot to 10.5 normally use the Retail SL osinstall.mpkg to install onto a 'Snow' partition of my main drive then boot to my main drive bootloader the 'Snow' hangs at loading the Kernel. If i boot to the installer usb using the new bootloader and choose the 'Snow' partition it Kernel Panics.

Ive even tried installing the Retail to the 'Snow' Partition and then running the steps to make the USB bootable on the 'Snow' partition, it STILL hangs at the Kernel using the old loader or KPs using the USB loader. so i am completely stuck. Aside from the Vanilla kernel, is there a patched Kernel i can use instead?

My Specs are in my SIG

Any thoughts?

[MACinized]

No mate, I din't try that yet. Will try that if this installation doesn't work out well for me

the reason behind my suggestion is i'd also like u to have a totally vanilla snowleo (i.e. no extra kext and boot files are placed directly to the snowleo install).

 

hi,

Thanx for the lovely dtailed guide. I would like to know if i purchase the same Motherboard as ur will the isntallation be succesful .Can i use my old XFX8800GT (256MB) with this motherboard according to your guide.

I want to know if Asus P5b-vm will be supported.

if u would have a computer whose specs are exactly the same as mine, then i'm more than sure that u could make it work.

 

as to applicability to other devices/specification (e.g. graphics card, mobo, etc.), pls. understand that i should no longer do the (re)searching for u. google is my friend and there's no reason why it can't be your friend too.

 

Howdy all, its been awhile since ive posted just cuz ive flawlessly upgraded from 10.5.2 to 10.5.8 on my own and the time has come for the 10.6 install.

Ive followed the guide to the T and and boot to he installed USB but it always Kernel Panics.

If i boot to the installer USB and choose my 10.5 it Kernel Panics

If i boot to 10.5 normally use the Retail SL osinstall.mpkg to install onto a 'Snow' partition of my main drive then boot to my main drive bootloader the 'Snow' hangs at loading the Kernel. If i boot to the installer usb using the new bootloader and choose the 'Snow' partition it Kernel Panics.

Ive even tried installing the Retail to the 'Snow' Partition and then running the steps to make the USB bootable on the 'Snow' partition, it STILL hangs at the Kernel using the old loader or KPs using the USB loader. so i am completely stuck. Aside from the Vanilla kernel, is there a patched Kernel i can use instead?

My Specs are in my SIG

Any thoughts?

for those having kernel panic even though you're sure you've followed the guide to the details and you're also more than sure that you are using the minimum required extra kexts for your setup, then i would suggest u remove the smbios.plist that's included inside the ScriptFiles folder of the MacLoader_SL kit; or edit it to fit your computer specs.

[DoctorEvil30564]

Success!! I was able to boot my D945GCLF system into the Snow Leopard installer a little while ago after using macloader SL 0.4 and the instructions in this post.

 

I ran into a couple of issues related to the secondary IDE channel being disabled which kept causing me to have a kernel panic as soon as the Appleintelpiixpata kext tried to load during bootup from my external USB hard drive.

 

I was able to come up with a working IOATAfamily.kext and appleintelpiixpata.kext file that allows me to boot into the snow leopard installer without having to disable the ATA controller on my system.

 

my exact system specs are in my signature file. I've uploaded the kext folder from my macloader SL 0.4 folder with the hopes that it will help out anyone who is having similar issues.

 

the last piece for the puzzle is a Snow Leopard compatible network card driver for the onboard NIC on the D945GCLF. does such a beast exist? I used the R1000 realtek network card kext from Psystar with Leopard, will this work under snow leopard? I'd rather run the system in full 64 bit mode if possible, but may have to take what I can get.

 

thanks in advance, and sorry to ramble on. it's getting late and I'm a little giddy at the moment. I was beginning to think I'd never get SL to install on my system.

KEXTs.zip

[macusers]

the reason behind my suggestion is i'd also like u to have a totally vanilla snowleo (i.e. no extra kext and boot files are placed directly to the snowleo install).

 

 

if u would have a computer whose specs are exactly the same as mine, then i'm more than sure that u could make it work.

 

as to applicability to other devices/specification (e.g. graphics card, mobo, etc.), pls. understand that i should no longer do the (re)searching for u. google is my friend and there's no reason why it can't be your friend too.

 

 

for those having kernel panic even though you're sure you've followed the guide to the details and you're also more than sure that you are using the minimum required extra kexts for your setup, then i would suggest u remove the smbios.plist that's included inside the ScriptFiles folder of the MacLoader_SL kit; or edit it to fit your computer specs.

 

 

Macinized, When i double on the 1-GetDSDT, the Termial Launch and i get this:

 

 

Last login: Fri Sep 18 20:36:54 on ttys000

Macintosh:~ kentt$ /Users/kentt/Desktop/MacLoader_SL_0.4/1_DSDT_Patcher/1_GetDSDT ; exit;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACPI contains 6 values

Got DSDT with length 15508 bytes

Wrote DSDT to 'dsdt.dat'

 

Intel ACPI Component Architecture

AML Disassembler version 20080926 [Oct 4 2008]

Copyright © 2000 - 2008 Intel Corporation

Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a

 

Loading Acpi table from file dsdt.dat

Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded

Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]

Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]

Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)

................................................................................

.................................................................................

.................................................................................

.................................................................................

...............

Parsing completed

Disassembly completed, written to "dsdt.dsl"

No application knows how to open /Users/kentt/Desktop/MacLoader_SL_0.4/1_DSDT_Patcher/Tools/dsdt-fixed.dsl.

logout

 

[Process completed]

 

Do i have to do this on a real Mac ? . I am a little confuse.

[CowboyMiller]

yea even did that too, here is a copy of the output of the patcher on the DSDT. i think this is where my problem lies as the errors exceed 200.

DSDT_Error.txt

[MACinized]

Success!! I was able to boot my D945GCLF system into the Snow Leopard installer a little while ago after using macloader SL 0.4 and the instructions in this post.

 

I ran into a couple of issues related to the secondary IDE channel being disabled which kept causing me to have a kernel panic as soon as the Appleintelpiixpata kext tried to load during bootup from my external USB hard drive.

 

I was able to come up with a working IOATAfamily.kext and appleintelpiixpata.kext file that allows me to boot into the snow leopard installer without having to disable the ATA controller on my system.

 

my exact system specs are in my signature file. I've uploaded the kext folder from my macloader SL 0.4 folder with the hopes that it will help out anyone who is having similar issues.

 

the last piece for the puzzle is a Snow Leopard compatible network card driver for the onboard NIC on the D945GCLF. does such a beast exist? I used the R1000 realtek network card kext from Psystar with Leopard, will this work under snow leopard? I'd rather run the system in full 64 bit mode if possible, but may have to take what I can get.

 

thanks in advance, and sorry to ramble on. it's getting late and I'm a little giddy at the moment. I was beginning to think I'd never get SL to install on my system.

good to hear that morpheiuz & nice to share your set of kexts for possible use of others.

 

Macinized, When i double on the 1-GetDSDT, the Termial Launch and i get this:

 

Last login: Fri Sep 18 20:36:54 on ttys000

Macintosh:~ kentt$ /Users/kentt/Desktop/MacLoader_SL_0.4/1_DSDT_Patcher/1_GetDSDT ; exit;

...

ACPI contains 6 values

Got DSDT with length 15508 bytes

Wrote DSDT to 'dsdt.dat'

 

Intel ACPI Component Architecture

AML Disassembler version 20080926 [Oct 4 2008]

Copyright © 2000 - 2008 Intel Corporation

Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a

 

Loading Acpi table from file dsdt.dat

Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded

Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]

Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]

Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)

................................................................................

................................................................................

.

................................................................................

.

................................................................................

.

...............

Parsing completed

Disassembly completed, written to "dsdt.dsl"

No application knows how to open /Users/kentt/Desktop/MacLoader_SL_0.4/1_DSDT_Patcher/Tools/dsdt-fixed.dsl.

logout

 

[Process completed]

 

Do i have to do this on a real Mac ? . I am a little confuse.

use TextEdit to open the dsdt-fixed.dsl file inside the */MacLoader_SL_0.4/1_DSDT_Patcher/Tools folder.

[super_engine]

Thank You

Works very fine for my ASUS P5GC-MX/1333

 

I'd installed retail SL following your easy guide

 

My congratulations

[macusers]

MACinized, You are the Genius, It works great. I really appreciate for your time and effort. Please accept a bow from me. Thank you.

 

Wow it boot of the USB now but I now get message " Installation Fail" due to the installer can't reboot the Snow Leopard volume. What do i miss?.

[Comodin]

MACinized,

 

I gave your new MacLoader 0.4 a try. I worked perfect just like the old ones. You are the man. But, no matter my efforts, I’m not able to boot with 64-bit kernel. I have tried a lot of combinations, but it is useless. Could you please give me some pointers. My best configuration uses the following kexts:

 

From Stell’s blog:

 

- AppleIntelPIIXATA

 

- Intel82566MM

 

- NullCPUPowerManagement

 

- OpenHaltRestart

 

- PlatformUUID

 

- Sleepenabler

 

- VoodooHDA

 

Also:

 

- fakesmc (v2 from netkas).

 

- NVEnabler 0.1

 

- IOATAFamily

 

- IOUSBFamily

 

- IOUSBMassStorageClass

 

I am also posting a pic of the boot in verbose mode. Just where it freezes. I am sorry for my poor English.

 

Greetings from Ecuador;

 

 

 

Comodin.

 

 

 

 

[VN Man]

OK tried the latest version of MacLoader_SL (version 0.4) in the hope to get AppleHDA.kext loaded... seems that it has support for HDEF but lost HPET...

 

Now got KP, the error is about HPET...

[exspeediator]

I followed the tutorial tutorial but my system reboots after it loads the darwin kernal i see the apple logo for about half a second and then it reboots. I tried single user and verbose mode. I made the installer usbkey with a macbook and the computer I am trying to install it on has a gigabyte P55-UD4P motherboard with an intel i5 overclocked to 3.2 ghz with a ati 4850 graphics card and 4gb ddr3 ram. I also did not add any thirdparty kexts. I know osx86 can run as I have gotten iportable sorta working on a USB key but I would much rather work with my own fresh clean install with my retail snow leopard dvd thanks to any one that can help

[MACinized]

Thank You

Works very fine for my ASUS P5GC-MX/1333

 

I'd installed retail SL following your easy guide

 

My congratulations

good to hear that.

 

MACinized, You are the Genius, It works great. I really appreciate for your time and effort. Please accept a bow from me. Thank you.

 

Wow it boot of the USB now but I now get message " Installation Fail" due to the installer can't reboot the Snow Leopard volume. What do i miss?.

if the installation proceeded for at least about 7mins., then i bet snowleo was installed just fine so don't worry about that "Installation Failed" message. just manually restart & u should be good to go.

 

MACinized,

 

I gave your new MacLoader 0.4 a try. I worked perfect just like the old ones. You are the man. But, no matter my efforts, I’m not able to boot with 64-bit kernel. I have tried a lot of combinations, but it is useless. Could you please give me some pointers. My best configuration uses the following kexts:

 

From Stell’s blog:

 

- AppleIntelPIIXATA

 

- Intel82566MM

 

- NullCPUPowerManagement

 

- OpenHaltRestart

 

- PlatformUUID

 

- Sleepenabler

 

- VoodooHDA

 

Also:

 

- fakesmc (v2 from netkas).

 

- NVEnabler 0.1

 

- IOATAFamily

 

- IOUSBFamily

 

- IOUSBMassStorageClass

 

I am also posting a pic of the boot in verbose mode. Just where it freezes. I am sorry for my poor English.

 

Greetings from Ecuador;

 

Comodin.

 

so does it mean you are not successful in booting to your newly-installed snowleo? i'm not sure but u may try adding the dsmos.kext from stell's blog also.

 

as to booting to 64-bit, i guess using 32-bit kext/s affects it (i.e. if u add 32-bit kext/s, u can't boot to 64-bit mode). btw, w/ the MacLoader_SL kit, snowleo will be set up to automatically boot in 32-bit mode. u can try booting to 64-bit by typing "arch=x86_64" at boot.

[macusers]

I have tried to boot off the The new install Volume several time but it won't go, i got kext panic.

[Comodin]

good to hear that.

 

 

if the installation proceeded for at least about 7mins., then i bet snowleo was installed just fine so don't worry about that "Installation Failed" message. just manually restart & u should be good to go.

 

 

so does it mean you are not successful in booting to your newly-installed snowleo? i'm not sure but u may try adding the dsmos.kext from stell's blog also.

 

as to booting to 64-bit, i guess using 32-bit kext/s affects it (i.e. if u add 32-bit kext/s, u can't boot to 64-bit mode). btw, w/ the MacLoader_SL kit, snowleo will be set up to automatically boot in 32-bit mode. u can try booting to 64-bit by typing "arch=x86_64" at boot.

 

Thank you so much for replying. I know it is set up to boot in 32-bit, I used the "arch=x86_64". I will try to add/delete some kexts and give it another try in the next week. Thank you again.

 

UPDATE:

 

It worked!... I added dsmos.kext from netkas using kext utility, and it finally boot in 64-bit mode. But now Audio & Video are not working. I know it won't be difficult to fix!... Great...

[menelaos]

Hi and thanks for all the effort you've put into this!

 

 

 

 

I am trying to install but I am getting a problem at this step:

 

"5. Double-click "2_SnowLeoInstaller" file then follow prompts."

 

After I enter my password in the terminal, it just displays "logout" and "Process completed". I don't see the part where it's supposed to ask you a bunch of stuff... In other words, the snowleoinstaller.sh script is not running properly for me

 

 

 

 

Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance

[MACinized]

Hi and thanks for all the effort you've put into this!

 

I am trying to install but I am getting a problem at this step:

 

"5. Double-click "2_SnowLeoInstaller" file then follow prompts."

 

After I enter my password in the terminal, it just displays "logout" and "Process completed". I don't see the part where it's supposed to ask you a bunch of stuff... In other words, the snowleoinstaller.sh script is not running properly for me

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance

if after entering your root-password, nothing else is displayed, then there's nothing also i can suggest.

[alltoorobot]

Thanks MACinized

 

I've got up and running a couple time but I never got the MacLoader to work.

 

I got my usb stick to install using the SnowLeoInstaller. No probs there

 

It was the MacLoader step, installing to the EFI partition that would never boot.

 

I got around this by installing the The SnowLeoInstaller to the HD I installed Snow on, so it's not on my efi partition.

 

What is the difference?

 

Is it because I am attempting to install MacLoader from a different Hard drive? I do that because I cant get snow to boot from the usb sticks bootloader.

 

I take it MacLoader must be installed from SnowLeo?

 

Thanks I might have just talked my self through what I need to do boot 123?

[MACinized]

Thanks MACinized

 

I've got up and running a couple time but I never got the MacLoader to work.

 

I got my usb stick to install using the SnowLeoInstaller. No probs there

 

It was the MacLoader step, installing to the EFI partition that would never boot.

 

I got around this by installing the The SnowLeoInstaller to the HD I installed Snow on, so it's not on my efi partition.

 

What is the difference?

 

Is it because I am attempting to install MacLoader from a different Hard drive? I do that because I cant get snow to boot from the usb sticks bootloader.

 

I take it MacLoader must be installed from SnowLeo?

 

Thanks I might have just talked my self through what I need to do boot 123?

from what i understand, u now got a working "SnowLeoInstaller" in your usb-disk. then everything else should work.

 

> boot w/ your "SnowLeoInstaller" then install it to your target hdd. make sure it's formatted w/ GUID Partition Table (GPT).

 

> after successful install, still reboot w/ your "SnowLeoInstaller" but interrupt it to be able to boot to the hdd/partition of your newly-installed snowleo. after filling-up the mac-user-info section, you should now be able to go to the desktop of your newly-installed snowleo.

 

> from your newly installed snowleo, open the MacLoader_SL folder then execute "3_MacLoader" then follow prompts.

 

> that's just it. you should now be able to automatically reboot to your newly-installed snowleo.

 

pls. (re)read thoroughly the guide and if you encounter a problem, pls. be specific in posting it. i can immediately provide recommendations regarding the procedure but it only usually means u missed something that's already provided in the guide. when it comes to dsdt-fix/patch, kernel panics, freezes, or any other osx-compatibility-related issues, pls. don't expect solutions from me. it should be your counterpart already - to know if your setup is osx-compatible, what kexts work, etc. u may still post about it in this thread though in the hopes that other users may be of help.

 

pls. be guided accordingly.

[alltoorobot]

from what i understand, u now got a working "SnowLeoInstaller" in your usb-disk. then everything else should work.

 

> boot w/ your "SnowLeoInstaller" then install it to your target hdd. make sure it's formatted w/ GUID Partition Table (GPT).

 

> after successful install, still reboot w/ your "SnowLeoInstaller" but interrupt it to be able to boot to the hdd/partition of your newly-installed snowleo. after filling-up the mac-user-info section, you should now be able to go to the desktop of your newly-installed snowleo.

 

> from your newly installed snowleo, open the MacLoader_SL folder then execute "3_MacLoader" then follow prompts.

 

> that's just it. you should now be able to automatically reboot to your newly-installed snowleo.

 

pls. (re)read thoroughly the guide and if you encounter a problem, pls. be specific in posting it. i can immediately provide recommendations regarding the procedure but it only usually means u missed something that's already provided in the guide. when it comes to dsdt-fix/patch, kernel panics, freezes, or any other osx-compatibility-related issues, pls. don't expect solutions from me. it should be your counterpart already - to know if your setup is osx-compatible, what kexts work, etc. u may still post about it in this thread though in the hopes that other users may be of help.

 

pls. be guided accordingly.

 

Installing the SnowleoInstaller from my leopard onto my snow drive after installing Snow from my usb works great too. I couldn't get it to boot from the USB to the Snow though.

 

Everything is working great thanks!

[VN Man]

OK tried the latest version of MacLoader_SL (version 0.4) in the hope to get AppleHDA.kext loaded... seems that it has support for HDEF but lost HPET...

 

Now got KP, the error is about HPET...

 

OK My mistake...my dsdt file got messed up, that is why the OS complained about HPET. Anyhow uses other dsdt.aml from another thread in this forum, recompile and got no warnings....

 

Now AppleHDA kext loaded and....No Sound

 

Back to the other thread and see if anyone have any ideas....

[Grayson]

4. Unplug your SnowLeoInstaller then reboot. If all is well, you should now be able to boot with your vanilla Snow Leopard.

All is not well, I get this after following the guide to a tee. Your guide has gotten me further than any other. I am running just the stock kexts included in your 0.4 version.

 

 

I do have an ASUS WL-138g V2 IEEE 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Adapter that worked flawlessly through Mac Os X 10.5.8 on my system. Ani ideas? Any wireless N adapters that work natively with Snow Leopard?

[MACinized]

4. Unplug your SnowLeoInstaller then reboot. If all is well, you should now be able to boot with your vanilla Snow Leopard.

All is not well, I get this after following the guide to a tee. Your guide has gotten me further than any other. I am running just the stock kexts included in your 0.4 version.

 

 

I do have an ASUS WL-138g V2 IEEE 802.11b/g PCI Wireless Adapter that worked flawlessly through Mac Os X 10.5.8 on my system. Ani ideas? Any wireless N adapters that work natively with Snow Leopard?

u may try also adding the dsmos.kext from stell's blog.

[Grayson]

Added the DSMOS kext you reffered to but made no difference so removed the Wireless PCI card and now get this.

 

 

Thanks for any advise.

[sequethin]

the guys at my office and I are trying to get this to work and so far, we can get to the install screens but the mouse is so slow it's pretty much unusable. With patience and careful mouse skills we can manipulate the pointer but we're afraid it would just be a waste if the installed system can't have a working mouse. anyone else see this?

 

Edit: apparently moving the mouse from port to port and back again seems to have worked! looks like it's installing now.....

[Polivio]

thanks for the guide man, but when i boot from the usb it appears the apple white and a sign of a restriction why?