Post by aquamac on Sept 5, 2009 18:41:00 GMT
I have put together an Installer of Chameleon and all the Snow Leopard kexts that will install in one easy Click, that you can edit for your system. The instructions are below and included in the DOWNLOAD.
All you need is an Apple Snow Leopard Disk that you can buy from Apple, a working com.apple.boot.plist from Leopard and your DSDT.aml file. With these you can edit the Installer and boot to Snow Leopard.
Snow Leopard Installation Walkthrough.
Please Print Out these Instructions
Part 1. Pre-INSTALL
You will need a working GFX String from Leopard and dsdt.aml.
Copy the device-properties string from your working Leopard "com.apple.boot.plist" to the one inside the Chameleon package which has the benefit of booting Snow in x64 and working with Chameleon.
See Instructions below:
1. Right Click the Installer called "Snow Leopard Chameleon.pkg" and select "Show Package Contents"
2. Double Click "Contents", then Resources, then Extra.
2. Edit the com.apple.boot.plist with the GFX string from your working Leopard one.
3. Edit The smbios.plist to your liking, by default, your mac will show up as a Mac Pro 3,1.
4. Then replace the dsdt.aml with the correct one for your motherboard.
YOU MUST DO THIS!
(You can use the included DSDT PatcherGUI by PCWizz to make a dsdt.aml file if you don't have one.).
Part 2. Installation.
1. Boot your System into your current Leopard working system (if you are not already booted.
2. Prepare a hard drive for your install (for a trial run I would use USB) by using Disk Utility and format as GUID partition table.
3. Install "Show all Files" (included in download) to your Applications folder on your hard disk. Open it to show all your hidden files.
4. Place your Snow Leopard "Mac OS X Install DVD" onto your desktop and mount it.
You will be looking at a window with a big X and a number of folders similar to when you put your Leo installation disk in your DVD drive, but with extra folders as you can now see hidden files.
Navigate to System/Installation/Packages/ and double click "OSInstall.mpkg"
A window will open up, follow the instructions and choose your newly formatted disk as the destination.
Run the install & go grab a coffee! When it has finished, don't reboot. You should now have a virgin copy of Snow Leopard on your USB hard disk. You have completed phase 2, hopefully it went OK.
Part 3. IMPORTANT! You must do this otherwise your system will not boot snow leopard.
1. Don't re-boot the system yet, but double click the "Snow Leopard Chameleon.pkg" package that you modified earlier and install to your hard disk with the new un-booted version of Snow Leopard on it. Let the installer complete by authenticating.
7. Reboot, you should see the Welcome screen and should have a working version of Snow Leopard!! The only thing that will need fixing is sound or lan depending on your setup! All other kexts for booting Snow Leopard are automatically installed with this version of Chameleon.
This is not my work, I only put together the Installer. All thanks for the clever bits go to:
Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef
Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ
aquamac 2009.
All you need is an Apple Snow Leopard Disk that you can buy from Apple, a working com.apple.boot.plist from Leopard and your DSDT.aml file. With these you can edit the Installer and boot to Snow Leopard.
Snow Leopard Installation Walkthrough.
Please Print Out these Instructions
Part 1. Pre-INSTALL
You will need a working GFX String from Leopard and dsdt.aml.
Copy the device-properties string from your working Leopard "com.apple.boot.plist" to the one inside the Chameleon package which has the benefit of booting Snow in x64 and working with Chameleon.
See Instructions below:
1. Right Click the Installer called "Snow Leopard Chameleon.pkg" and select "Show Package Contents"
2. Double Click "Contents", then Resources, then Extra.
2. Edit the com.apple.boot.plist with the GFX string from your working Leopard one.
3. Edit The smbios.plist to your liking, by default, your mac will show up as a Mac Pro 3,1.
4. Then replace the dsdt.aml with the correct one for your motherboard.
YOU MUST DO THIS!
(You can use the included DSDT PatcherGUI by PCWizz to make a dsdt.aml file if you don't have one.).
Part 2. Installation.
1. Boot your System into your current Leopard working system (if you are not already booted.
2. Prepare a hard drive for your install (for a trial run I would use USB) by using Disk Utility and format as GUID partition table.
3. Install "Show all Files" (included in download) to your Applications folder on your hard disk. Open it to show all your hidden files.
4. Place your Snow Leopard "Mac OS X Install DVD" onto your desktop and mount it.
You will be looking at a window with a big X and a number of folders similar to when you put your Leo installation disk in your DVD drive, but with extra folders as you can now see hidden files.
Navigate to System/Installation/Packages/ and double click "OSInstall.mpkg"
A window will open up, follow the instructions and choose your newly formatted disk as the destination.
Run the install & go grab a coffee! When it has finished, don't reboot. You should now have a virgin copy of Snow Leopard on your USB hard disk. You have completed phase 2, hopefully it went OK.
Part 3. IMPORTANT! You must do this otherwise your system will not boot snow leopard.
1. Don't re-boot the system yet, but double click the "Snow Leopard Chameleon.pkg" package that you modified earlier and install to your hard disk with the new un-booted version of Snow Leopard on it. Let the installer complete by authenticating.
7. Reboot, you should see the Welcome screen and should have a working version of Snow Leopard!! The only thing that will need fixing is sound or lan depending on your setup! All other kexts for booting Snow Leopard are automatically installed with this version of Chameleon.
This is not my work, I only put together the Installer. All thanks for the clever bits go to:
Developers: Crazor, Dense, fassl, iNDi, Kabyl, kaitek, mackerintel, mercurysquad, munky, Turbo, zef
Thanks to: bumby, cosmo1t, dfe, Galaxy, kalyway, netkas, sckevyn, XyZ
aquamac 2009.