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thanks a lot!!! it worked and finally i can use my second HDD and DVD. thanks again this solved my last problem with 10.6

Cool,

Now if you be willing, can you sum up all the steps you used for us slower students who are still stuck with on the spinning boot screen when we try to boot from the installer flash drive?

Thanks.

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patching IRQ in DSDT enabled my xps to boot in IDE mode again :) no need to wait for DuNe's patched AppleIntelPIIXATA kext and we can use EFI partition again for Chameleon! because in AHCI i have to use USB flash drive. just edit DSDT as written here http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=564 and add DEV ID 28208086 to AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext.

ok have to go. good luck for now

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patching IRQ in DSDT enabled my xps to boot in IDE mode again :) no need to wait for DuNe's patched AppleIntelPIIXATA kext and we can use EFI partition again for Chameleon! because in AHCI i have to use USB flash drive. just edit DSDT as written here http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=564 and add DEV ID 28208086 to AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext.

ok have to go. good luck for now

 

Good news.

Can you provide your DSDT and your AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext in order to benchmark ? Thx in advance.

What about sound under SL ? VoodooHDA or patched AppleHDA ?

 

Bye

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I'm having problems with tranmission crashing in 10.6.1 any one else having the same problem?

 

I had the same problem with 1.74 and 1.75 on 10.5.8 Going back to 1.73 seems to work.

 

No idea with 10.6.1 though, but I can imagine it will be the same problem.

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So is someone willing and able to create a complete blow by blow write-up for how to upgrade to a fully functional 10.6 (or 10.6.1)? I am currently on 10.5.1 and will need something like that to get a novice like me to a working version of Snow Leopard.

 

Thanks,

Brandon

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Get Your Self copy of snow leo from where every you like just make sure it is an un-moddified retail copy.

 

Get a extra HDD Partition or a 10 GB flash drive and Partition it as GUID.

 

Restore that HDD partition or Flash Drive from the Snow Leo Disk Image.

 

Install The Chameleon boot loader to the Snow Leo HDD partition or Flash Drive, (included in the file link below)

 

Copy the extensions folder, DSDT and boot.plst that in the download to the Extra folder on the Snow Leo HDD of flash drive

 

Turn Raid on or Leave it off it doesnt Matter.

 

Boot From Your Snow Leo HDD Or Flash Drive. Select The Install Mac OS X Image From The Installer GUI. If you get "Cant Find Mach Kernel" just move the selector to another drive in the GUI then back to Install OS X image.

 

Partition The Drive you are installing your Snow Leo To as GUID and install.

 

After Reboot install Voodoo HDA To System/Library/Extentions from the /Extra Folder and open software update and select the 10.6.1 update and click update.

 

Reboot

 

You Now have a fully working Retail Snow Leo install running with 64 bit kernel and extentions. Sound works as well as full video and Network.

 

GOOD LUCK!!!!

 

 

Here is all you need for the XPS 410 and Snow Leopard

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ad0ba7a...04e75f6e8ebb871

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Rob,

 

I've been studying your steps, but instead of doing a completely new installation, what I would like to do is clone my current setup (under 10.5.1) with all of my applications, documents, settings, etc. to a new HDD and upgrade it to 10.6.1. I have a copy of SuperDuper, so cloning the drive won't be a problem, but what changes to your procedure would I need to make to accomplish the upgrade?

 

Thanks again for your help!

 

==Brandon

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Rob-

 

I couldn't get Chameleon R2 to install, so I downloaded and installed R3, and that worked. I did everything else you said, but when I boot with the USB stick containing the bootloader and the SL install files, everything appears to load, but I get stuck on the grey screen of death with the spinning pinwheel.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Brandon

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R u using the modified boot that's in the sl folder? If not try copying the boot from the folder I uploaded to the root of ur flash drive make sure you have the dsdt in the extra folder on your flash drive aswell as all the extensions and to upgrade just make sure the disk you are upgrading is guid partition or snow leopard won't let you install

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Rob-

 

Thanks again for all of your help! I was able to get 10.6.1 loaded up onto a 2nd internal HDD and it is working great, with 2 exceptions.

 

1. The only way I can get into it is by booting using the USB stick, then selecting the HDD in the Chameleon bootloader. When I try to boot from the HDD directly, I get the following:

 

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: testing

boot0: done

boot1: error

 

2. The second problem is that I have no sound.

 

Thanks again!

 

==Brandon

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