[GUIDE] (w/ photos) - 100% working Acer 6935g iAtkos v7 10.5.7 with nVidia 9600m GT - Page 12

Gurruwiwi · #**111** 09-01-2009, 09:09 PM

Hey mascal,

SL is ROCKING fast here, but I am having issues with audio like you wouldn't believe ! I'm going nuts.

Anyway, got everithing working fine, and even audio before, but this was one smooth and stable install so I dont want to got through that again.

Boot 132 I've never tried it, but people love it in general.

I highly recommend the USB method, because there is alot, ALOT of editing to get a stable setup. It is all very easy, but it does take time, and from what I've seem its harder to recover from KP in SL than in L.

Once everything is edited, install is a breeze.

So far I've gotten everything except SD which I havent started searching but have a pretty good idea.

Also, I read somewhere that most of Apple products except servers will boot in 32bit. Macbooks through iMac, dont know about the big Mac Pro's though.

But, 64 is working here !

mascal71 · #**112** 09-01-2009, 11:24 PM

so I have to make an ISO of my Retail snow leopard than put it on an USB pen and at last install snow from it ?

sl_mac · #**113** 09-02-2009, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gurruwiwi

Hey mascal,

SL is ROCKING fast here, but I am having issues with audio like you wouldn't believe ! I'm going nuts.

Anyway, got everithing working fine, and even audio before, but this was one smooth and stable install so I dont want to got through that again.

Boot 132 I've never tried it, but people love it in general.

I highly recommend the USB method, because there is alot, ALOT of editing to get a stable setup. It is all very easy, but it does take time, and from what I've seem its harder to recover from KP in SL than in L.

Once everything is edited, install is a breeze.

So far I've gotten everything except SD which I havent started searching but have a pretty good idea.

Also, I read somewhere that most of Apple products except servers will boot in 32bit. Macbooks through iMac, dont know about the big Mac Pro's though.

But, 64 is working here !

Hi Gurruwiwi,

It is really fantastic that you were able to boot into 64 bit SL. As you had mentioned, would you be able to create a step by step guide on installing 64 bit SL?

Also, I'm confused on which notebook to buy:

I'm eyeing on the following:

1. ASUS VX5 Lamborghini w/ NVIDIA GeForce GT130M
2. Asus G51 or G60
3. Acer Aspire AS8930-7665
4. HP HDX 16t or 18t
5. Dell Studio 14z [specs: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9550 (2.66GHz/1066Mhz FSB/6MB cache), 5GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz, 14.0” High Definition+ (900p) Bright LED Display with TrueLife™, Dell Wireless 1515 Wireless-N Mini-card, Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Internal (2.1), Soundblaster X-Fi Hi Def Audio, Back-lit Keyboard, NVIDIA® GeForce® 9400M G].

I would like to go for Quad core (Q9000 etc) and also DDR3 RAM. But, at the same time, going for a 18.4 inch would be a huge (desktop in your hands) which I don't prefer.

I'm a no gamer at all but heavily into DV/HD editing. Do you think Dell Studio 14z would be the best option. If I'm getting Dell 14z, I would also get a external BluRay burner. The two annoying things about Dell 14z is non-availability of quad core CPU and 900p LCD instead of true 1080p (1920x1080).

Also, on your signature, I'm seeing a link for your tutorial. What is that? As someone asked, the best approach is to have a bootable SL on a 8GB flash drive with modified kexts?

Thanks.

Gurruwiwi · #**114** 09-02-2009, 11:29 AM

Hi,

I will write a step-by-step guide with screenshots as soon as I manage to finish the install. Just three details left. The mystery of audio working then not, SD which I havent even bothered with but I think wont be hard (gulp), and I want to be sure that CPU and Ram are well used for future performance and stability.

I will write a quick "helicopter tour" for the more experienced, I would sure appreciate the help in making a real clone. I've gotten software update to really think this is a macbook pro 5,1

But... Yesterday evening I broke the install AGAIN.. Tried to dual boot Windows 7, trying to fix it now

And I need a filehosting service, because you will need alot of files too.

Be back in a jippy.

paradoxni · #**115** 09-02-2009, 11:34 AM

to help with installing, ive tried to put my iatkos v7 onto 8gb usb pen.

I used disk utility to partition and format the pen (journaled, 1partition, mbr) and used restore and selected the iso as source and pen as destination.

I can boot with the usb pen, however when the "press ok to continue" screen appears, the touchpad does not work? can i fix this or must i use a usb mouse

Gurruwiwi · #**116** 09-02-2009, 12:41 PM

Some considerations;

- DO NOT name your new SL account the same as your LEO

- DO NOT try SL on same HDD with Leopard just yet. It doesnt play nice, UUID's get mixed and SL KP's

- You definitely NEED another "mac", be it another PC or another real mac, or like me, switching HD internally or ocasionally booting from e-sata. I still need to run some more tests though, I think my "problem" with e-sata was the faulty drive I used.

- Install will NOT WORK via e-sata. its a KP fest, I dont know why

tired of swapping HD !! Once installed, that's another story.

- DO NOT USE WESTERN DIGITAL HD - There are know issues with some WD on some Macbooks and Macbok Pro's. I got one last week and it died on me, really weird, I did it no harm at all. I dont know what model I used, if it was or not recommended by Apple, but I'd just steer away from them. Anyways, I find Seagates to be quieter a cooler.

- I will always propose the use of "-v" so if it doesnt work for you, maybe because different model, you get to see where it fails. -v means "verbose" mode, it just shows you the booting codes.

What you need;

- 8GB usb
- SL Install in ISO format, not DVD
- A couple of kexts I will post shortly
- Kext Utility (provided) (script to repair permissions in both S/L/E and E/E)
- ShowAllFiles (provided) (small script that automatically Shows/hides hidden files, like boot.ini, instead of using terminal - very handy!)
- USB keyboard and mouse for installer stage
- Sata to USB or E-Sata enclosure

Procedure:

Step one: Make Bootable USB.

- Basically, format USB stick to HFS+J and restore the SL ISO to stick.
- Install Chameleon 2 rc 1 to USB,
- Copy "A_Tools" folder to USB root
- Run ShowAllFiles script to show hidden files. Delete the boot.ini it creates in root. Copy my provided boot.ini to root of USB.
- This next step is done for USB to be bootable, (and later to SL too)

Go to disk utilities and right click the USB stick, and choose "information"

look at UUID = Universal Unique Identifier... its a long number sort of like this:

6C8999A-3913-3544-80D8-6B8999997BC1

This number identifies the HD, or a partition inside a HD. Every time you ONLY format, the UUID remains. If you Partition or re-partition a drive, the UUID changes!

You will download my files and find a "Extra" folder containing the bootloader files and kexts. Edit them, and after you copy the to USB. Here is how;

You have to edit 3 files to contain the UUID entry, in the files you will find MY uuid inside, so it will be easy to spot. You'll have to put your own in.

Files are;

com.apple.Boot.plist
smbios.plist (I have already edited this to mimic a Macbook Pro 5,1, which have very close specs to 6935g, but still needs some tuning)
PlatformUUID.kext - (right click, show package content, info.plist)

- Delete the Extra folder that Chameleon created in USB.
- Copy "Extra" folder you downloaded and edited to USB

You now have a bootable USB SL installer. BUT, when you boot off the USB, you will ONLY be able to boot with

-v -x32 flags.

If all went well, you will be presented with the SL install procedure.

- Format destination drive to HFS+J
- Install SL, customize and remove all entries, you can download them later if you want.

Now, I must say that the installer normally crashes on me around 75%, just instantly reboots! I just erase partition, start again, and normally it finishes. I have no idea why this happens. Actually, normally its the third time around in finished the install

When install gives you the green "Finished Installing, Reboot ?" - click reboot, but when you see your motherboard display, press your Power button to power off the laptop.

Change HD and boot into your Leo, or use another computer with OSx. Put your SL HD into an enclosure and mount it in Leopard.

Now the procedure is almost identical to the USB BOOT stage.

- Install Chameleon to Snow Leo partition.
- Delete boot.ini files and replace with the one provided
- Delete Extras folder from Snow Leo partition root
- Edit the 3 files for your SL partition UUID
- Copy edited Extra folder to Snow Leo root

- Get your USB stick and copy my folder A_Tools to the root. I called it like that so it shows at the top when you double click to open the USB. Inside will be ShowAllFiles and Kext Utility.

Place you dsdt.aml in root of SL if you want, so far does nothing for me. Myb if I manage to fix dsdt for audio it might, but so far, nothing.

Shutdown and place your SL hard drive into laptop. Power on and boot with this flag

-v -x32 - this is very important! First boot must be 32bit.

If all went well, you're be presented with the intro video and profile creation.
This is when the USB and Keyboard comes in handy, as we dont have PS2 kexts installed yet.

Create profile, and while you do it, put in your USB so its ready when in goes into desktop. When you finish and go into desktop, open your USB stick

THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP IS THIS APPLICATION ! Kext Utility. When
you boot into Snow Leo, the very first thing to do when you see the desktop is to quickly run this app to prevent Kernel Panic! If it does before you manage to run Kext Utility, reboot and try again. Normally the panic comes after 2 or 3 minutes, sometimes 30 seconds.

USB -> A_TOOLS -> Kext Utility
Its takes a couple of minutes to complete, and the permissions in E/E normally fail the first attempt, but the script always manages either the first or the second run. It does this automatically and it even tells you its no big deal. I've never seen it fail, if it does, just run it again.

- When finished, reboot with -v -x32 - If all went well, your almost guaranteed a solid OS

- Reboot, this time with ONLY "-v" flag. This will boot into 64bit!

- Get your leopard string for graphics card, and copy them to E/com.apple.Boot.plist and NOT in L/P/S/ !!

- Copy the provided kexts into Extra/Extension

- Ethernet so far is the only kext you need to install to S/L/E, copy it there, now run Kext Utility again

- Reboot with "-v" flag

You now should have a almost fully working, but really stable SL, with now audio or SD card.

Here are the files, except Chameleon installer

http://www.mediafire.com/?odda0ttjxnz

Gurruwiwi · #**117** 09-02-2009, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paradoxni

to help with installing, ive tried to put my iatkos v7 onto 8gb usb pen.

To make the USB bootable, you have to install Chameleon 2 onto USB.

paradoxni · #**118** 09-02-2009, 07:46 PM

Ok I tried iDeneb v1.6 (10.5.8) and installed using only default options + broadcom driver - booted up fine and Airport icon appeared!!!!!!

then reinstalled it again, only this time followed your guide for iatkos v7 and tried to install the same kexts you mention only in iDeneb, this time NO airport icon - so it must be one of those drivers/kexts that you select during installation that is stopping this 1385 wifi card from workin?!?!

nevermind 1490 card will be hear tomorrow

Gurruwiwi · #**119** 09-02-2009, 10:07 PM

Welldone my maaaaaaan !!!

I am so glad !!

Pop in the 1490, its the first of the class that have 802.11a and despite it not being used now, it will in the future = higher speeds. Also, I have much better signal.

Who else was it? Chris? Mind running back the thread to check who was having troubles and send them a "Hi I got it !!" message?

wooooof... tried dual booting Windows 7 and f!cked everything. Even tried haseeb's method, diskparting acvtive bla bla bla. Nada. Thank god the first thing I did was to clone an image of SL to backup with carbon copy cloner.

Just formatted the drive in Leo, installed chameleon 2, opened Carbon, restored, and it boots perfect. Installing kexts I got a kernel panic with snow running fine, but upon a couple reboot + new kexts + repair permissions, it seems fine now.

except damn audio.

sl_mac · #**120** 09-03-2009, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gurruwiwi

Welldone my maaaaaaan !!!

I am so glad !!

Pop in the 1490, its the first of the class that have 802.11a and despite it not being used now, it will in the future = higher speeds. Also, I have much better signal.

Who else was it? Chris? Mind running back the thread to check who was having troubles and send them a "Hi I got it !!" message?

wooooof... tried dual booting Windows 7 and f!cked everything. Even tried haseeb's method, diskparting acvtive bla bla bla. Nada. Thank god the first thing I did was to clone an image of SL to backup with carbon copy cloner.

Just formatted the drive in Leo, installed chameleon 2, opened Carbon, restored, and it boots perfect. Installing kexts I got a kernel panic with snow running fine, but upon a couple reboot + new kexts + repair permissions, it seems fine now.

except damn audio.

Gurruwiwi,

I have finalized on the HP HDX18 notebook with the following specs:

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad Processor Q9100 (2.26Ghz, 12MB 6MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) - For 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 130M
500GB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (250GB x 2) with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 130M - For DDR3 Memory
18.4" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
Lightscribe Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer
Webcam + Fingerprint Reader with HP Imprint Finish (Fluid)
Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card with Bluetooth
Full Size Backlit Keyboard
8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

Couple of questions:

1. Is the quad core supported in SL?
2. I read that GT 130M is supported. Not sure about SL:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t169460.html
3. I want to replace the Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card with Bluetooth with Dell Wireless 370 w/ Bluetooth card. Will it match and work properly? How difficult is it to remove the Intel card from the HP HDX 18t chassis?
4. Will the backlit keyboard be supported in SL?

No info about what Audio card comes with HDX 18t.

I hope the specs are good for native DV/HD editing.

Please reply.

Thanks.