S10-3 Snow Leopard tutorial (alternate method)

[five12plus]

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand the patching process. I've opened all the zip files, and I tried using Kext Helper to install the Fixed_Voodoo_PS2 kexts, but the internal keyboard/trackpad still aren't working.

[treyjazz]

There's no need to mess with the keyboard and trackpad if you use the modified NBI boot image since it includes the kexts to allow you to use them. Also they are included in the NBI that gets installed from the OSX patch. You just need to boot up again to the install drive and choose it from the Utilities menu.

[five12plus]

Hmm. Is there a specific patched version of NBI that I should be running? Maybe that's my issue. I'll try running it again.

[treyjazz]

Yes the altered NBI boot drive image and the modified NBI OSX installer addon patch.

[five12plus]

Yes, my issue is, though, that no matter what I do I can't boot from your modified boot image, so I'm trying to work out how to perform the same tasks without having that option. I can boot from my patched OS X SL DVD USB and I'm trying to figure out how to include your boot image modifications there.

[treyjazz]

Oh I see now. It sounds like it is actually an issue with the USB drive you are using as the boot drive. Unfortunately the image only creates ~58M of space on the flash drive that is used for booting. You can get around this though by booting up the Live CD version of PartedMagicto resize the partition. Then you might need to run a Linux Live CD to copy over all of the OSX install files onto the same drive. Also the Linux Live CD can be used to test which drives are bootable when installed with Universal USB Installer. You should probably attempt this first to make sure the other flash drive is bootable.

[SimpleEd2]

Make sure you followed the steps correctly

In TransMac right click your small USB and select "Format for Mac" once that is complete select "Format with Disc Image" and select the modified NBI dmg

[five12plus]

I don't think it's a process problem. I'm using a Mac, so I'm using Disk Utility rather than TransMac, and I was able to create a bootable USB from the SL DVD with no issues. I'm dling the Parted Magic live CD now and I'll investigate the small USB that way to see if I can work out the issue.

[five12plus]

Didn't go the Parted route in the end. There is definitely something up with using Disk Utility to restore the image to the USB. Using diskutil in Terminal, this is what the USB looked like after restoring the image using Disk Utility:

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/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.1 GB     disk3
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS NBI_083F                3.8 GB     disk3s2


I then restored the USB using dd in Terminal rather than using Disk Utility and this is what it looked like:

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/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.1 GB     disk3
   1:                  Apple_HFS NBI_083F                50.0 MB    disk3s1


The USB created using dd is bootable; the USB created using Disk Utility is not. Starting the install again; will update on status when complete.

I used the instructions on the Moblin site for using dd. http://moblin.org/documentation/test-dr ... live-image. H/T to Many Ayromlou for the original instructions: http://nerdlogger.com/2009/05/20/writin ... dd-in-osx/

[treyjazz]

Ok let me know if I need to create a DMG for you to successfully restore via Disk Utility. I forget what exactly occurred but I removed the previously posted DMG I created and didn't think it would be much of a loss since I believe/d that most people trying to make their S10-3 Hackintosh probably have just a PC.

On a side note the AZiO AWU212N works well with OSX with the exception of having it plugged in when you boot up (causes the 5m delay until you can get mouse clicks and keyboard response just like when booting up without the VoodooPS2 kexts, strangely enough) and while shutting down it may take a long to actually shut down or may stall indefinitely. Also I am not sure if it was anything I did but after a few successful boot ups and shut down it stopped acknowledging the adapter and refused to let the Ralink utility run. I completely reinstalled SL, updated to 10.6.5 and reinstalled the wifi kext. It works fine again but still stalls for 5m once it reaches the desktop. Hopefully this isn't a factor in why it quit being detected before as I don't feel like restoring the TM backup or doing a total restall again if that fails.