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Anarchia_92
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Hi all,

i have 1 problem and 1 question...

I have made an USB with Snow Leopard and i Have installed Boot 132 on it.

 

Question: Can i Install the Update 10.6.5 on the USB without problem? When i will install Snow Leoaprd, will the update been already installed or not?

 

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I have this Wireless: D-Link DWA 110

The USB is recognised and i have installed the Software for Mac from the Original CD but it does not work...

Problem: How can it Work?

 

Thank a Lot.

With Regard,

Andrea.

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I upgraded to 10.6.5 and after the boot screen spins for a bit, I get the grey screen of death. I don't even know how to go about fixing this. Is there some log somewhere I can post info from so you guys can see what the problem is? I have a working Windows 7 partition on this same computer that I'm using now, so I can go in to the drive and read/write files.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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MrParis
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Similar story to everyone else, upgraded to the 10.6.5 and seemed to only have the problem with sound. Reapplied the sound script and all working.

 

I've tested sleep and appears to be working all correctly, however I have noticed I've had a few "Your computer needs to restart" screens when trying to shutdown the computer. Seems to be pretty random but need to do a few tests to see if it's the sleep that's causing the error etc.

 

Overall, seems to be running stable, not noticed any other issues (so far).

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Hello folks and thanks for this awesome guide and effort!

 

I've succesfully installed Snow leopard on my computer, but I have some issues with the memory. I have 12 GB DDR3 RAM installed, but Mac OS shows the memory as 12GB DDR2. I'm not sure it actually treats the memory as DDR2, but it is still quite peculiar.

 

Have anyone had this problem?

 

My spec:

 

Motherboard: ASUS P6T DELUXE V2 (BIOS v1108)

Processor: Intel i7 950

RAM: 6 sticks of Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 PC3-16000 2000MHz (CMT6GX3M3A2000C8)

Graphics: NVIDIA 9800GT

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Rizwan Ahmad Khan
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Asus P6T Deluxe V1 & V2 boot-132 Install Method

No Mac Required!

 

ATTENTION! 10.6.3 and higher will break sound. There is a patcher on the latest install ISO and also in the downloads section below.

 

Credits

We'll start off with a few credits...

Requirements

  • An Asus P6T Deluxe V1 or V2 motherboard based computer.

  • Asus P6TD reported to work by qbe.

  • Asus P6T SE reported to work by dirtycofe.

  • Please PM me with other supported boards and I'll put them here

  • The ISO attached to the bottom of this post.

  • The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Installation DVD.

  • A supported graphics card

  • Nice utility for those that have to add additional kexts for their board --

Basic Installation Instructions

This assumes the system has a single SATA hard drive and a SATA DVD drive attached. Alternate partition and multi-boot setups may be covered in another post below. Download and extract the attached ISO and burn it to a CD or DVD.

 

BIOS Settings

 

Main->Storage Configuration

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AiTweaker, all Auto or enabled

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Advanced->CPU Configuration, all Auto or Enabled (except A20M disabled)

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Advanced->Onboard Devices Configuration (Marvell Storage optional)

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Advanced->Chipset->Intel VT-d Configuration (optional)

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Advanced->PCIPnP

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Power, Some people set Repost to Yes -- helps with wake.

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Operating System Install

  1. Boot off the boot-132 CD you created, you can hit F8 when the system is POSTing and use the Asus BIOS Boot Selector to choose your DVD drive as the boot drive . You'll end up at a Chameleon boot screen.

  2. At this point remove the boot-132 disk and insert the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Installation DVD. Press F5 and after the screen refreshes you'll see the Mac OS X Install DVD as a boot option. Select it using the arrow keys and hit Enter to boot. This starts the retail Snow Leopard installation process. If you boot to a black screen, Start from Step 1 again and after hitting F5, hit Tab. You can try typing in the following kernel flags to get your video working. Try each combination. A visit to netkas.org might help you find information to get your card fully working after installation.

    • -x

    • GraphicsEnabler=n

    • GraphicsEnabler=n arch=i386

[*]Choose your language and proceed to the next screen.

[*]From the menu at the top of the screen select Utilities->Disk Utility. Select your hard drive and partition it as a GUID(GPT) disk and leave it at the default file system type. Apply the changes so the partition is laid out and the file systems are formatted. Exit Disk Utility.

[*]You can now continue through the retail install process, selecting the Volume you just created as the installation target. When everything is done installing your computer will restart.

[*]Hit F8 during the POST so you get the Asus BIOS Boot Selector screen. Remove the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Installation DVD and put the boot-132 disk back in the drive. Select the DVD drive from the boot selector and press Enter. You will arrive at the Chameleon boot screen again, but this time you will have the hard drive volume you just installed to as a boot option. Use the arrow keys to select it and press Enter.

[*]Enjoy the video and then continue through the Apple setup process. When you get to the Registration screen you should hit Command-Q or Windows Key-Q(the windows key is between the left Ctrl and Alt keys) and skip the registration. Finish up the rest of the installation screens and you'll be left at the OS X Desktop.

[*]In the upper right corner of the screen you will see an icon for the DVD drive. Double-click it and there will be an installer package named P6TDeluxeV2Installer.pkg. Double-click that and go through the installation screens. If you have multiple Volumes select the correct one as the installation target.

[*]Click the Applications folder in the Dock on the lower-right, it will pop open and then you will click the Utilities folder, then click Terminal. At the Terminal screen type in:

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

Hit Enter and put in your password when prompted.
This will rebuild your extensions cache so the network adapters will be recognized.
You may also have to go to System Preferences in the Dock and then go to the Network icon
for the adapters to be recognized.

[*]Click the Apple in the upper left part of the screen and select Restart...

Remove all disks from the DVD drive and see if you can boot. If you can then you are done! If not, I've encountered some boot problems in testing and the following solution helped.

 

Solutions to boot problems

This solution requires you to boot off the boot-132 CD/DVD disk and select your hard drive. This will get you to the Desktop so you can try each fix.

  • Go to Applications->Utilities->Terminal and try these commands at the prompt.

    mount <Enter>
You should see output similar to this:

/dev/disk3s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

The first line shows your root volume
Yours may be mounted on a different device e.g. /dev/disk2s2
Type in:
sudo fdisk -e /dev/diskX <Enter> replace X with your drive number

You are now at an fdisk prompt. Type:
p <Enter> to print the partition table, you will see output like this:

Disk: /dev/disk3 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167] GPT 
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 

Type:
flag 1 <Enter> To flag your partition as active, it will be the one with id EE.

Type:
w <Enter> To write the changes, hit y at the reboot warning if present.

Type q <Enter> to quit.  Reboot and remove all disks again to see if it works.

If not, boot one more time from the boot-132 disk and select the hard drive.
Once at the Desktop, double-click the CD/DVD icon and run the
P6TDeluxeV2Installer.pkg installation package again.


 

Downloads

7-zip software for Mac:

http://leifertin.info/Leifertin/mac_apps/mac_apps.html

7-zip software for Windows:

http://www.7-zip.org/

7-zip software for *nix:

http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/

 

  • Updated 5/14/2010 v1.15 Release notes: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1468624
  • Updated 4/3/2010 v1.14 Release notes: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1441394
  • Updated 2/3/2010 v1.13 If you select the Processor Independent DSDT it will install Fabio's v3.00 DSDT
    Use v1.12 package to revert if there are problems.
    You can select just the DSDT in the installer, no need to copy main installation files again.
  • Updated 1/26/2010 v1.12 Updated initrd.img to use the latest boot file and added AppleVIAATA.kext for PATA and eSATA support.
    Use 'arch=i386 GraphicsEnabler=n' if you have problems booting
  • Updated 1/23/2010 v1.10 Added Processor Independent DSDT(provided by iFabio) to the installer package for those that have a CPU other than the 920 or 940

 

This attachment is actually an archive created with 7-zip. I had to name it with a .zip extension so it would upload. Please remove the .zip from the end of the filename and use 7-zip to extract the ISO.

If using Safari to download go to Safari->Preferences and uncheck 'Open "safe" files after downloading' in the General section. You can change it back after download

AsusP6TDeluxeV2_boot_132v1.15.7z.zip

AsusP6TDeluxeV2_boot_132_v1.14.7z.zip

AsusP6TDeluxeV2_boot_132v1.13.7z.zip

AsusP6TDeluxeV2_boot_132v1.12.7z.zip

 

Audio patcher for 10.6.x

Updated, uses perl script to patch file instead of a binary diff, works with any version of Snow Leopard. Thanks

to Fabio and aschar. Drag and drop audiopatcher.sh onto a Terminal window, hit Enter and provide your admin password.

audiopatcher.sh.zip

 

 

 

Hello,

 

My name is Rizwan and i've been trying to install Snow Leopard 10.6.3 iOTIKOS setup on my pc. my machine specs are as follows:

Processor: Corei7 930

Motherboard: Asus P6T

Ram: Corsair XMS3 Tri-Channel Band 6 GB

Graphics Card: nvidia GTS450 (EVGA)

 

when i boot from the custom made installation cd, it starts of perfectly fine and then when i run OSX setup, it returns some error saying some string can not be initiated and then the screen turns black. what to do with it now?

 

Thanks,

RIZ

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Raymond Lai
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Here in Hong Kong, really hard to get a "branded blue tooth" dongle like Dlink, belkin . I bought 2 other OEM ones, never work though. Some mouse came with a blue tooth adepter , however only able to use with that particular mouse, never appear in system setting.

 

For 10.6.5 , after audio fix, everything works fine except I need to hard shut down every times.

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hey all,

 

i just updated to 10.6.5.

my Ethernet connection is not recognized when i boot into 32bit mode.

the connection is fine if i boot into 64bit mode.

 

i have a UAD2 music card that only works in 32bit with OSX.

 

i'm using Chameleon RC5 r619 bootloader.

i installed the latest 1.15 dgobe installer.

 

i assume i need to edit a .kext file. :)

help?

 

thanx!

sir demon

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iBdb
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@Raymond Lai

It may be easier for you to go direct to your local apple store, or buy off net if you can find a properly supported

dongle. There is a supported Hardware list both in this forum & Wiki 'but I have found them to not always up to date.

 

@Rizwan Ahmad Khan

This is for 'Retail' Snow Leopard disk only. The day's of distro's are over. For around $30 you can purchase retail

disk so it won't break the bank. Considering apple could probably if not stop us at least make it very difficult to

install OSX on PC's I think we should support them in some small way.

 

@Eekay

Look back to my post #1315, download and install attachment to solve Ram recognition problem.

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iBdb
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@ Starobro & Richard79

 

Both of your quires are related to ATI 5xxx series card's and the issues would be better researched in threads

related to these cards. Although there has been some success using various installation methods the performance

has not been reported as what the card's potential should be.

 

I linked to a couple of these a while back. Careful research of these may find the current best solution for your

card/s. The 5xxx series is still really at a testing point in development. If you wish better support maybe get involved

in testing provide the most complete info/test results asked for (even if you do not understand them, those requesting

the tests do). A simple 'yeh it works for me (as many have done) does not help in developing solutions.. ;)

 

EDIT: I have also read different people reporting improved results having there systems set as Mac Pro 3.1,

however deep in this thread iFabio did report good reasons for using 4.1. Why this is happening is not clear

and I'm unaware of anyone researching this specifically. It may be that for some reason ATI based

(some at least) may work better set as 4.1 or maybe even 11.1 or other ??? (just food for thought)

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Morkeleb
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Hi.

 

I tried installing snow leopard on an 8gb usb stick.

I successfully restored an image of snow leopard 10.6.3 on it,

however when I run the P6T Deluxe Installer on it

(version 1.15 as commented in second post of this thread),

it gets stuck on installing "main" and saving the package.

(I only got the german messags: '"main" installieren'

and 'Paketquittierung sichern')

 

I notice there that the cpu is saturated highly with the process

"runner" of the user "_installer".

 

What can I do?

Any idea what the problem might be?

Please notice that i run this on mbp with osx 10.5.8 installed.

 

Morkeleb

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ErmaC
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Hi guys!

 

I see a lot of confusion here about macmodel...

 

Any configuration is different...

My advice is.. use the better macmodel for your purpose!

 

You can yse this:

 

- MacPro3,1 (lot of people prefer this for GFX benchmark reason)

- MacPro4,1 (my case)

- or the new (need upgrade to 10.6.5) MacPro5,1

 

Example in Smbios.plist for MacPro5,1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SMbiosdate</key>
<string>11/08/2010</string>
<key>SMbiosvendor</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMbiosversion</key>
<string>MP51.88Z.007F.B00.1008031144</string>
<key>SMboardproduct</key>
<string>Mac-F221BEC8</string>
<key>SMfamily</key>
<string>Mac Pro</string>
<key>SMmanufacter</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>SMproductname</key>
<string>MacPro5,1</string>
<key>SMserial</key>
<string>xxxxxxxxxxx</string>
<key>SMsystemversion</key>
<string>1.0</string>
</plist>
</dict>
</plist>

 

I hope this help...

 

Fabio

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Morkeleb
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I've got an update:

 

Even through the installer stopped i was able to boot from the usb stick that it apparently modified correctly (though I cannot be completely sure).

I managed to boot up, and with the GraphicsEnabler=n option i get past the language selection and able to start the disk utility, however then I just get a waiting-mouse-sign and it does not manage to gather the disk information properly.

After a while it finds one of my four harddrives and the usb stick, then nothing for a long while.

I cannot even abort or click menus anymore.

All harddrives I have are sata, plus a sata blu-ray drive.

 

Any idea what the problem may be?

I remember that I had a similar harddrive configuration probably a year ago, maybe replaced one or two drives with newer models, and then I was able to properly run leopard (10.5.x) properly.

 

Btw, I have a gtx 470 graphics card, and I found some drivers, so at least on that level it should work, right?

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Further update:

I found out that apparently snow leopard did not like my 2tb drive.

Once I disconnected it I was able to install snowleopard.

When the installation was finished and i clicked to restart

it showed a screen in half black, and the same circling symbol

that is shown on startup. But shutdown did not complete correctly,

so I had to restart.

 

When trying to boot from the drive where I installed snow leopard

that does not work either, the apple symbol appears with the circling

symbol, then after a minute or two some strange no-cd symbol (I think)

appears just over the leaf of the apple symbol and nothing more happens

but the circling symbol goes on.

I tried all the various boot options, none works.

 

- Why does'nt support snow leopard large 2tb drives? Is there a fix for that?

- What can I do to make snow leopard boot up correctly from disc?

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Morkeleb
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I now booted with the -v (verbose) option and it told me that it was still waiting for the root device, apparently it is not finding it with a certain UUID.

I thought this could not happen when selecting the boot partition through chameleon...

 

What can I do do fix it?

Also, how to add proper support for large 2TB drives?

 

I would really appreciate some help!

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