Comments on: How to Install SnowOSX Universal

By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:18:50 +0000

For each audio, LAN Network you need right KEXTs (drivers) to be put in the right place. You need to put the correct ones in here /System/Library/Extensions. Osx86wiki might help you choosing the right one.
In most cases VodooHDA.kext fixes your audio.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:50:38 +0000

Same here, It was working just fine before… Maybe I should try safe mode?

By: aggi

aggi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:52:33 +0000

after complete installiing and putting patch files.. i rebooted and pressed f8 and typed -v my monitor goes blank .. how can i solve this problem

By: amanjain

amanjain — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:22:38 +0000

heya trafanx ………………….
installed ……………
but serialatapi device reconfiguration not successful … 0×1,4

any help ………………

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:38:09 +0000

Thnx for a really good guide.
The thing is i can't get by that kernel panic screen.

I have installed the Snow Leopard on a new HD. I have done the sh MakeDSDT-thing. I have copied the patch file and the other files. But I think here might be where it goes wrong. I the first zip-file i have two folders. Both including the same files?
In the 2nd zip-files is the kernel-panic-patch.

Would really like some help. =)

By: punpanonicus

punpanonicus — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:24:39 +0000

I GET THE SAME THING!!! I LOVE THIS OS, I'VE TRIED TO INSTALL IT ON BOTH LAPTOPS… CORE2DUO AND NOTHING…. STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE!!! NOT EVEN GUID INSTALLER. I'M ABOUT TO GIVE UP… HOURS IN FORUMS AND NO ONE EXPLAINS MY SITUATION! ITS A SHAME… still waiting for root device… thats why if u dont write -v it hangs on the “famous” apple grey screen… its waiting for root device… DAMN THIS!

By: Hafaisy

Hafaisy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:44:00 +0000

Hello, i'm from malaysia . i not understand with this :
cd /Volumes/PenDriveName/FolderWhereYouKextsArePresent
cp -R * /Volumes/SnowFX/System/Library/Extensions/
diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/SnowFX/System/Library/Extensions

Did i delete all into the pendrive and put the file into it ? can you help me ?
can you make example for this ?

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:28:37 +0000

I have the exact same problem! I also used Macdrive just like you.

Can anyone help us?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:16:54 +0000

Hiya Taranfx,

Many thanks for the guide. a great help!!

I currently have a unsupported Wireless LAN card (Atheros), however i have a supported one (Dell) arriving in the next few days. Is it possible to “add” this card without having to re-install again??

Many thanks

By: Install Snow Leopard VirtualBox

Install Snow Leopard VirtualBox — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:59:39 +0000

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By: porear

porear — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:35:34 +0000

Thanks again my friend. I am sorry it took a bit, but just had a chance to try the additional mods. Unfortunately, no luck – I am no longer missing the IOATAFamily, but am getting a KP.

I have tried Vanilla install, but have also not yet been successful with that. I have not given up though! I'll try to post back here when I get it. Thanks! – porear

By: selimsari

selimsari — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:34:37 +0000

hello
I have a Hp dv2385ea,
I have installed all you said.
i was at step 9, i choiced to use usb, and i did what you said at that comments :

"cd /Volumes/PenDriveName/FolderWhereYouKextsArePresent
cp -R * /Volumes/SnowFX/System/Library/Extensions/
diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/SnowFX/System/Library/Extensions"

it worked.
But when i restart it give me the same screen as you at that link..

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3685/0702201...
if i start with -v that screen
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2776/0702201...

after i came back here to do something more..,

at windows mode ( macdrive8 )

i opened the mac disk and search for the IOATAFamily.kext
I found that folder.. as you said change whole folder with Newone ( which you gave at step9 )
after i didnt understand what should i do with IOATAFamily-panic-fix.patch file, i put that as you said IOATAFamily.kextContentsMacOS , with delete old file (IOATAFamily) inside of that folder. its not working again..same panic screen..

I didnt understand and someone didnt understand (after step9)...

Could you please help, i spent my whole day for try to install that..

PLZZZZ.. thanks

By: taranfxhr

taranfxhr — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:12:21 +0000

Finally I reinstalled macos because I didn't know how to uninstall PC EFI v9 Chameleon.

By: woody1130

woody1130 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:33:10 +0000

I wouldn't bother with step 14 if you have problems with it, just go to kexts.com and get your graphics card specfic kext and install that the same way you did with the to earlier kexts in this guide.

By: taranfxhr

taranfxhr — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:55:07 +0000

I installed PC EFI v9 Chameleon but since I had a problem. At boot screen, I see:

Starting hibernate
Sleepimage has garbage
hibernate failed

By: taranfxhr

taranfxhr — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:52:25 +0000

I did the 14th step and had since booting issues. I see everytime:
Starting hibernate
Sleepimage has garbage
etc.

How can I uninstall PC EFI v9 Chameleon ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:17:56 +0000

has anyone tried doing the 10.6.2 apple update? did it destroy your install?

By: mofux

mofux — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:44:58 +0000

i have formatted my disk with “MBR” option… maybe that helps?
however, i think you have exactly the same problem as i had, because for me also the first boot was going good.

i did some other things in safe mode though then just installing the bootloader, such as putting some files into the /Extra folder which cameleon creates…

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?show...

^there you find the Bootloader.zip i used and it also has some other stuff specific to my board which i needed to copy over…

have a look into the Extra.zip as well… it might have some extensions that are of use for you such as SleepEnabler und NullCPUPowerManangement. don't forget to run KextUtility when you are done copying the extensions…

by the way… i think you should simply the a Snow Leopard Retail DVD and install from that – it's what i did now and i have absolutely no problems anymore (also the IOATAFamily didn't have to be patched etc)… after all of this i don't know what distros are even for
Good Luck!

By: porear

porear — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:27:11 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, mofux. I successfully installed Chameleon, but unfortunately with the same result. Install – successful boot – install Chameleon – boot fail missing IOATAFamily. At this point copying the modified kext files back over again as per the guide above has no effect. For some reason only the first boot after install ever works…

By: woody1130

woody1130 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:25:42 +0000

I have tried this insall and everthing is going well up to step 10. i cant get the usb and terminal method of transfering the replacement kexts so i used the macdrive 8 and windows method, which worked but easybcd will not work on XP and if it should i have a problem but i have given up on that and would like to know if i could re-install leopard over my XP install and transfer the kexts in leopard and use disk utility to repair permissions then bot up the snow leopard drive again (hopefully without the Kpanic). i would just do this but i thought a quick post might tell me wether it will work without sacrificing my only working OS.
cheers
mike

By: mofux

mofux — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:15:55 +0000

Kext com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA - library kext.com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily not found
Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA - failed to resolve library dependencies
Kext com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA failed to load (0xdc00800e)

and then loading fails with something like "root device not found"

i got this Message as well, what however worked for me was booting with -x -v in safe mode.
when you are there install another bootloader (for me it was chameleon2 RC2-r640) and you should be able to get up in normal mode again.

I have a question about EFI strings...
i'm running a Ati Radeon X1950XT and i think the drivers are also working (i get that water ripple effect when adding widgets to the dashboard), however, i'm stuck with a 1024x768 resolution :(
i tried to generate the EFI strings and added them to the /Extra/com.apple.boot.plist but still no change of the resolution :(

this is what my Graphics.plist (from that i generate the hex) looks like:

PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)

@0,AAPL,boot-display
0x00000001
@0,ATY,EFIDisplay
0x42414756
@0,compatible
ATY,Alopias
@0,connector-type
0x00000200
@0,device_type
display
@0,name
ATY,Alopias
@1,compatible
ATY,Alopias
@1,connector-type
0x00000004
@1,device_type
display
@1,name
ATY,Alopias
AAPL,aux-power-connected
0x00000001
AAPL,backlight-control
0x00000000
ATY,Card#
109-A52027-00
ATY,Copyright
Copyright ATI Technologies Inc. 2005-2006
ATY,DeviceID
0x7244
ATY,EFICompileDate
Aug 18 2006
ATY,EFIHWInitStatus
0x00000000
ATY,EFIOrientation
0x08
ATY,EFIPostRBBM
0x0000444f
ATY,EFIPreRBBM
0x0000000f
ATY,EFIRestored
0x00000008
ATY,EFIVersion

MDEuMDAuMTQwAA==

ATY,FrameBufferOffset
0x000000e0
ATY,HWGPIO
0x0003daa3
ATY,IOSpaceOffset
0x00100000
ATY,MCLK
0x0009eb10
ATY,MRT

cAAAAAAAfwBoAACAAAEAAGkAAIAAAQAA/////wIAAABgAACA/i8PAv////8C
AAAAYAAAgP4vDxL/////AgAAAGgAAICAAQAAaQAAgIABAABoAACAgAAAAGkA
AICAAAAAaAAAgAAAAABpAACAAAAAAHAAAAAAAH8AaAAAgAABAABpAACAAAEA
AP////8CAAAAYAAAgP4vDwL/////AgAAAGAAAID+Lw8S/////wIAAABoAACA
gAEAAGkAAICAAQAAaAAAgIAAAABpAACAgAAAAGgAAIAAAAAAaQAAgAAAAABw
AAAAAAB/AAgAAIASRAADdgAAgAAAAgB2AACAqEABAHYAAIAzBxEA/////xQA
AAB2AACAMwYBAHYAAIAzBgMAdgAAgDMGAwB2AACAMwYDAHYAAIAzBhMACAAA
gBJEAIMKAACAIiIHAGAAAIDuPw8S4AAAgDMGAAA=

ATY,MemVendorID
0x0002
ATY,MemVendorIDFull
0xffff80ff
ATY,PCIConfigSpace

AhBJcgcAEAAAAAADQAAAAAgAAOABEAAAAACy8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC
EElyAACw8FAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIQSXIBWAIGAAAAABCA
EQCgDwAAEAgAAAENAARAAAERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFAIAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==

ATY,PlatformInfo

AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=

ATY,RefCLK
0x00000a8c
ATY,RegisterSpaceOffset
0x0000b2f0
ATY,Rom#
113-A52027-140
ATY,SCLK
0x000927c0
ATY,VendorID
0x1002
IOMatchCategory
IOFramebuffer
IOPCIMatch
0x72441002
MVAD

JwSCABcHALcnBIIAFwcAk0g/QAZwCEAAwACwBOIEAQADALAEQAYAA0g/QAZw
CEAAwACwBOIEAQADALAEQAYAAw==

VRAM,totalsize
0x10000000
device_type
ATY,AlopiasParent
model
ATY Radeon X1950xt first card
name
ATY,AlopiasParent
saved-config

JwSCABcHALcnBIIAFwcAk0g/QAZwCEAAwACwBOIEAQADALAEQAYAA0g/QAZw
CEAAwACwBOIEAQADALAEQAYAAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AADYt2ZIZxAAABAAAAhoAQAAAQAAAAYAAAC4nEICGAAAANi3ZkhonEICIG95
ByBveQfot2ZIGAAAAAAAAAAGAgAA+LdmSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAABYOX9HgiAAABAAAAhoAQAAAQAAAAYAAAACAAEAAQABAETJRAbE
7TsAAQAAAEDJRAZEyUQGze47AAMAAgACAAIApGjnBQ==

Any ideas?
btw... sorry for spamming this with sooo much text

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:35:27 +0000

Hey, our msi a6000 laptops will not work to have mac os x installed. I had the professional trying to install leopard three different kind of cds in three different names. None of them work. The professional researched hard and found MSI company made new motherboards that prevent mac os x installed due MSI knew MSI being used as a mac laptop.

By: porear

porear — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:37:09 +0000

Great job Taranfx! Your work is appreciated.

Got a bit of a strange problem - but have been able to repeat it through two separate installs, one as a GUID scheme and another as MBR.

I am installing on an IDE drive which is the only drive in the system. I followed the instructions above, and did initally get kernel panic before replacing IOATAFamily with the modified version and patch. I copied the files over using the Windows method and MacDrive.

After replacing IOATAFamily, everything booted fine and I went through the initial startup and registration screens. On next reboot in verbose mode, something happens and IOATAFamily is no longer found. I see the following:

Kext com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA - library kext.com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily not found
Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA - failed to resolve library dependencies
Kext com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA failed to load (0xdc00800e)

and then loading fails with something like "root device not found"

Again, I have been able to replicate this error. Is OSX "repairing" itself on first boot and replacing my modified IOATAFamily.kext files?

Thanks much for any help.

By: porear

porear — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:31:23 +0000

By: MackingTao

MackingTao — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:18 +0000

The fact is I did try it on a laptop and it did boot install but got a kernel panic after installation! So if there is one what could be the prob with my computer??? what could it be?? I have a dell vostro 200MT CPU E4500 4GB ram vga 8500GT 512mb. Plz help me.

By: timesheep

timesheep — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:19:14 +0000

I believe the best burning speed is the slowest. Well, you get done slower, but there is less chance for your burner to do something wrong. If you get an error burning, i'm pretty sure you'll know. Last time i did that it went like: “32KB of Sector 0×10050000 Memory overlap”
Totally spazzing. You will occasionally get a reading error if there was a burning error
Have you tried same disc on another computer? Just to check if your PC is the problem?

By: michlepoo

michlepoo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:27:11 +0000

hi is there special way to run the pathc

By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:52:03 +0000

place the kext then add .patch files in IOATAFamily.kextContentsMacOS

By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:51:19 +0000

place the kext then add .patch files in IOATAFamily.kextContentsMacOS

By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:48:27 +0000

you can check that here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL... http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL...

By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:45:52 +0000

yes, it goes for both.
USB doesnt get recognized for most motherboards during installation.

By: robrob

robrob — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:46:24 +0000

hi i will like to know hot this decrypting is resolved.

By: MackingTao

MackingTao — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:22:14 +0000

Plz help me am having the error sTILL WAITING for boot device as i boot the OS form the dvd!!! I have tried several times to burn on different speeds but still same error!!! PLZ could u specify the best burning speed to burn down the iso and which is the best burning tool for it!!! thx in advance

By: Make Bootable USB [OSx86, Snow Leopard]

Make Bootable USB [OSx86, Snow Leopard] — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:21:36 +0000

[...] both Native/Hackintosh Retail Snow Leopard OR OSx86 distro like Leopard Kalyway 10.5.6 and SnowOSX v3.x Snow Leopard. In other words no matter what version of Mac OS X you wish to install via USB, this method [...]

By: dudenesspa

dudenesspa — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:43:25 +0000

I'm getting this too! I don't see where this question is answered Taranfx. Any help please?

By: Steen

Steen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:50:30 +0000

When i boot from the CD it's asking me for a 2 digit hexadecimal boot device. what am i supposed to tell it?

By: oprea

oprea — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:29:40 +0000

what is Pen Drive NAME
my folder on the usb card is NO NAME/IOATA
its'ok ?

By: adameast

adameast — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:37:03 +0000

Hi I tried everything you said, burned the disc, but when i boot it up, and press F8 then -v it starts to load some drivers but resarts in the middle. it just stops at one of the drivers and restars the computer. could someone help?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:36:27 +0000

Works like a charm on my HP-HDX16t-1200CTO! Very stable. Got a cheap Zonet USB Wifi stick from MicroCenter and downloaded the RALINK drivers for 10.6 from http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/support.php?s=3 (top one). WiFi works great in 64-bit mode. Downloaded the HDA audio drivers (HDAEnabler.kext and LegacyAppleHDA.kext, just use Google to find them) and got audio (speaker + mike) working great. Still looking for a webcam driver, but that's not critical.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:05:03 +0000

Getti / Taranfx,
Did you guys get this working solid on the MSI A6000? My friend just got one and I'd like to hack it for 10.6. If you got it to work can you write me a little tutorial on how to best proceed?

Thanks

JR

By: JHL

JHL — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:30:06 +0000

Step 8. After the installation is complete, reboot with DVD ejected. Hit F8 on Darwin boot loader and enter “-v”.

Is the Darwin bootloader supposed to be installed on the pc by now? When i restart without the dvd i cannot find darwin. Also when i reboot with the dvd, darwin only recognizes the snowosx dvd not the hard-drive i installed to. When using other boot cd's like 132 i find the hard-drive but the computer stops at Loading Darwin/x86.

Any help would be apreciated

By: sanchitgrover

sanchitgrover — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:35:38 +0000

please help me…pls
i did what u said… but nohing shows up except a light blue screen… no option of choosing the language… please help..

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:56:52 +0000

A goo guide….. i just install the SnowOSx but i dont have an Audio and LAN, WIFI connection which is i have HP CQ60-116

Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g Wifi Adapter
Realtek PCIe FE Family COntroller
Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221

Im hoping that you can give me an idea… tnx in advance….

By: Conrado

Conrado — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:07:59 +0000

You should update step 9 for the .patch location.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:38:11 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the guide - one question though!

I did everything as described and am on this part:

By USB:

cd /Volumes/PenDriveName/FolderWhereYouKextsArePresent
cp -R * /Volumes/SnowFX/System/Library/Extensions/
diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/SnowFX/System/Library/Extensions

Tip: Replace the files if it already exists int eh destination folder.

However when I enter this code into terminal it says that "Ownership of the affected disk is required". As I am using just one HD with only Snow Leopard I do not have a Windows partition to boot off and use as an alternative. Could someone please advise?

Many thanks

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:56:38 +0000

Hi,
I really like your website, and info, but have one question...
before I waste too long downloading the snowosx image...does it support Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) processors?

I've tried a number of times to get my PC to boot from a USB drive with a Snow Leopard image (using two different boot packages) and could never get it to recognize it as a boot disk. So, now I'm wanting to try burning a DVD of this and see if it works!

Any suggestions on getting it to work (Fujitsu Lifebook N3530, Core Duo 1.66GHz) would be appreciated!

Thanks!

By: apa

apa — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:20:57 +0000

Same problem here... I'm installing on an old Dell Latitude D610 (pentium M, ATI X300, 2 gig mem, and switched off everything from BIOS (network, wlan etc.): Boot from DVD, F8, -v, a screenful of text and it reboots itself after hanging for about 20 seconds or so.

I do get some error messages:

OpenHaltRestart: getMatchingServices failed.
VID: family specific matching fails
IPPCCardBridge::start failed

The last line is:

BSD root: disk1s2, major 14, minor 4

What to do?

By: mikeeh

mikeeh — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:39:42 +0000

Thanks, for the easy install tut. I m trying to install on my Hp dv6t-1300. I went in to the Bio but I can't seem to find the HD or Sata drive or power info. I m trying to follow Step 2. You’ve got to make some small adjustments to your BIOS.
Boot Priority: Enable USB Boot, and set USB thumb drive the highest priority for Boot.
AHCI Mode: SATA RAID/AHCI Mode should be set to AHCI
ACPI Power mode: Set it to S3(STR). I have window 7 home ed. Any help or suggestion will be grateful.
Mike

By: Nando

Nando — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:38:53 +0000

I do not move from the white screen. I can boot up in safe mode but that is it. In verbose mode it loads and then explodes in to odd dos mode like graphics of black and white. last three lines are dmos has arrived, dsmos: hook and decryption contexts set. ACPI_smc_platformplugin::start – waitforservice(resourcematching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

By: Lolocite

Lolocite — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:29:49 +0000

Hi and thanks for this nice Tutorial. I followed each step perfectly and everything went well. I did not experience the Kernel Panic but I ended up with a screen white and black all fuzzy/blurry, difficult to describe (but as if something is wrong with graphics). It appeared just after loading DSMOS.
I have a Shuttle SP35P2 (ICH9, Core 2 Duo, ATI 4850)
I then trie to apply the kernel panic fix, but still had the same screen problem coming up after DSMOS. Strange enough it also, upon reboot, says my BIOS has a checksum error and has been reverted to Load safe defaults. So I then have to redo the BIOS config with AHCI, S3, and HD boot priority.
Do you have any clue what I might need to overcome this problem ?