Snow Leopard Booting On My S10

[FradicalOne]

UPDATE: Snowy/Leopard dual boot now working, vanilla /S/L/E directories, working /E/E directories . . . good times. First draft of the installation guide and kext pack will go out TONIGHT to all donors (watch your PM inbox), so if you want an advance copy for late-stage testing, now's the time to donate! It will really help to get some other users' feedback before I try to go "live" with an installer pack, so the more the merrier. Thanks!

Ok, SilverZero my new donation of $10 is in! Good work, please send a long the Snow Leopard guide when you feel it is ready. Thank-you again for all your hard work!

[perryking]

No minimum, everything helps . . . but I've been impressed with the generosity of our donors so far! Like I mentioned in the donation thread, we're about halfway to our donation goal so far, and moving by $20-$25 at a time is a lot more encouraging (and keeps me up late every night working on these things more effectively) than going in $5 increments. The faster we get there, the faster we get the S10-2 tested and working, and I'm tinkering with the idea of doing the same project for an S12 when we get through this phase, maybe subsidized by auctioning off the S10-2 once it's set up and tested. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Did my part
15 your way!

[DrLaban]

Ahh.. sounds good! Can´t wait to wake up tomorrow morning then Glad I sent you some cash earlier today
Well I´m of to bed, It`s 1 o`clock @ night here in Norway. I´m ready to do some SL testing tomorrow!

[clumber]

Simplest install of any of the snowleopard versions! I use MBR rather than GUID, so i had to search for the correct meta-package (found one here: http://limiter.fre3.com/blog/?p=19), but it all seems pretty straightforward on my S10-2. Standard VoodooHDA 0.2.2, used the old bcm patch, grabbed the GMA kext's from somebody in the MSI forums, along with a set of Extra extensions. Removed AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext, and added the ApplePS2Controller and AppleACPIPS2Nub kexts . I put all the extensions into /S/L/E, chowned and chmodded as usual, and used the old V9 bootloader and it all seems to work just fine, as long as you use a copy of the boot file made for snowleopard instead of the one that comes with it... oh, and I booted into Leopard to install. The install fails during the printer driver installs, but it's done that for all the SL versions, and it still works fine. And of course, add the dsdt file and a modified com.apple.Boot.plist. Presto!

clumber

S10-2 with OCZ 120 Summit SSD and 2Gig memory, dual boot XP and Snow.

[SilverZero]

Donors: Check your inbox!

[kennykilla]

Donors: Check your inbox!

Do you plan to reveal the secret for other people anytime?

[SilverZero]

Donors: Check your inbox!

Do you plan to reveal the secret for other people anytime?

Haha, yes, we're just getting some kinks out.

[SilverZero]

Just an update for anybody following this project. At this point, after several late nights of testing and research, I'm at the point where installing Snow Leopard is the easy part. The tricky part now is getting everything working correctly. It's just a matter of finding the right kext combination, which is a trial-and-error process . . . but we should have a working installer pack ready this week. I know I'm usually an optimist about these things, but I've got a good feeling about it.

And once again, a special thanks to all of you who have already donated toward the S10-2 project. We're withing striking distance, which means we could (hopefully) have a working guide for Leopard, Snow Leopard, and everything else compiled for the S10 and the S10-2 in the very near future. Donations are better than caffeine when I'm up late working on this stuff, so thank you all! (And an advanced thank you to any of you who are thinking about donating right now.)

[lemming]

I have attached a hacked kext and prefPane for VoodooHDA that has internal Mic working in both 10.5.8 and (so I here) 10.6

You need to use the included prefPane to get internal mic working

I have tested it in 10.5.8 on my s10e and can now make skype calls using internal mic!!!

I'm not sure if this new hack has hit this forum yet...
None of it is my work - I just found it on an MSIWindforum, where it was taken from a Russian forum

Let me know if it comes in useful

[SilverZero]

I have attached a hacked kext and prefPane for VoodooHDA that has internal Mic working in both 10.5.8 and (so I here) 10.6

You need to use the included prefPane to get internal mic working

I have tested it in 10.5.8 on my s10e and can now make skype calls using internal mic!!!

I'm not sure if this new hack has hit this forum yet...
None of it is my work - I just found it on an MSIWindforum, where it was taken from a Russian forum

Let me know if it comes in useful

Yes, a couple of us are testing it ATM, but thanks for the drop!