Install Guide Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.0 on a Dell
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Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... Find It » Home About Archives Moz Morris dee double-you emm – web developer & tea drinker Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.0 on a Dell Dimension 9200 / DXP061 November23 Specification This guide was tested with the retail Snow Leopard retail disk and the following specification: Model: Dell Dimension 9200 / Dell XPS410 Chipset: Intel P965 Chipset (ICH8R) Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Graphics: ASUS nVidia EN8400GS 512 PCIe Ethernet: Intel 82566DC Wireless: Belkin (Broadcom) Audio: SigmaTel 9227 Here is the LSPCI readout if you want lower level information. If you have a setup completely different to this then turn back now. You’re better off looking for a guide that matches your spec. Prerequisites You will need the following: 1. A working OS X installation. I used my iPC 10.5.6 installation. You could potentially use a friends. 2. Snow Leopard DVD 3. An 8+GB USB Flash Drive & spare hard disk 4. Chameleon 2 RC3 Boot loader Package 5. EFI studio 6. Kext Helper 7. A decent text editor, like TextMate 8. Some patience. This guide probably looks quite long, but in reality it takes no longer than an hour 9. The attribute of following instructions carefully. You will also need the following, which I can provide: 1 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... 1. A DSDT 2. A few driver kexts 3. A boot list file, also known as com.apple.boot.plist Click here to get all of these. BIOS settings: 1. ACHI mode (RAID off) 2. SpeedStep off 3. USB as priority boot Preparation Restore DVD to USB 1. Boot into your existing OS X installation, insert the Snow Leopard DVD & USB drive, and open Disk Utility. 2. Use Disk Utility to Restore the Snow Leopard DVD to the USB drive by: 3. Selecting the Flash Drive 4. Select the Erase tab on the right and then set Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Name the partition you’ll be creating Snow Leopard Install DVD so you can keep track of your installation device. After you’ve done this, click the Erase button. 5. After Disk Utility finishes erasing your old data on the flash drive and setting it as a new partition, it will be ready for the Snow Leopard install files. Select the Restore tab at the top and then drag the Snow Leopard DVD to the Source field. Select your USB device, now called Snow Leopard Install DVD for the Destination file. Click Restore and wait for the restoration to finish (about 20 minutes). Boot loader & Kexts 1. Install Chameleon 2 RC3 Boot loader using the package installer to the USB drive where you restored the Snow Leopard DVD to. Not your working OS X installation. 2 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... Snow Leopard Install DVD post Chameleon Install 2. Copy the ‘com.apple.Boot.plist’ & ‘dsdt.aml’ to the Extra folder in the root of the USB drive. Content of Extra 3. Create a new folder called Extensions within the Extra folder. Copy all the kext files to the Extensions folder. 3 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... Contents of Extensions 4. Open Terminal and run diskutil list This will list out all mounted drives. Look for the one that corresponds to your USB drive and note the drive number and installation partition. In this example below, the disk number is 2 and the partition is 2, also written as disk2s2 diskutil list Now run diskutil info disk2s2 You’ll need to substitute in your own disk and partition number after the info. diskutil info disk2s2 5. Copy the Volume UUID identifier from the information listed to you clipboard or somewhere safe. 6. Now lets go back to the Extra folder on the USB drive. Using that decent text editor I mentioned earlier, you’ll need to open up com.apple.Boot.plist. 7. We are now going to tell the boot loader which disk to boot based on the disk identifier we just retrieved. After the last </string> and before </dict> enter 4 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... <key>boot-uuid</key> <string>000000000000</string> 8. Replace 000000000000 with your own disk identifier that should still be in your clipboard. Save the file and exit. com.apple.Boot.plist content 9. Navigate the Extensions folder within the Extra folder. Open up UUID-platform.kext in your text editor. Go to the contents folder and edit the info.plist. 10. Look for <key>PlatformUUID</key> and paste in your disk identifier in the <string>In Here</string> below it. Save the file and exit. info.plist inside of PlatformUUID.kext Graphics 1. Start EFI studio and locate your graphics card from the drop down. For EN8400GS I had to use the 7600GS EFI string. If you have trouble locating an EFI string, just have a Google around. 5 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... EFI Studio Interface 2. Click Add device. Then click Hex String to Clipboard. 6 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... 2. Now back to the Extra folder on the USB drive and open up com.apple.Boot.plist again. 3. After the last </sting> which should be where you entered your disk identifier, start a new line and input: <key>device-properties</key> <string>000000000000</string> 4. Replace 000000000000 with your own EFI string that should still be in your clipboard. Save the file and exit. 7 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... Complete apple.com.Boot.plist Permissions 1. Open the Terminal and run sudo –s at which point you must enter your password. Sudo allow us to run programs with the privileges of root. 2. If you’ve followed the instructions exactly to this point, then you should be able to copy and paste the following commands. You may have decided to follow the guide slightly different up to this point. If you have, then you’ll understand what you need to change here. cd /Volumes/Snow\ Leopard\ Install\ DVD/Extra chown –R root:wheel * chmod –R 777 * If any of these throws an error then either I’m terrible at writing instructions, or you’re terrible at following instructions. No time to argue anyway, on we go. Installation 8 of 21 5/8/10 5:34 PM Moz Morris » Blog Archive » Install Guide: Mac OS X Snow ... http://earthview.co.uk/2009/11/install-guide-mac-os-x-snow-leo... 1. Reboot your machine and if you’ve set your USB to priority boot the Chameleon boot loader should appear. 2. Select ‘Snow Leopard Install DVD’, which funnily enough is your USB drive and hit enter. 3. Fingers crossed within a few moments the Snow Leopard installer will appear. 4. If you get the ‘no smoking’ sign after a while then something’s gone wrong. Reboot, and at Step 2 this time, type -v before hitting enter to boot in verbose mode. This will then output an error message. From here, you’ll have to use your friend Google to help you. 5. Choose your required language. 6. Before continuing with the installation program we’re going to prepare that spare hard drive I mentioned you needed in the prerequisites. Open the Disk Utility under the Utilities menu. 7. Select the spare hard disk. 8. Select the Erase tab on the right and then set Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Name the partition you’ll be creating Snow Leopard. Now click the Erase button. 9. Now exit the Disk Utility and continue with the installation 10. Choose your newly formatted disk Snow Leopard as the destination and install. The installation should take around 15minutes or so. 11. It should be noted that sometimes the installer would display an error after completion. You can ignore this. I’m sure someone out there has an answer why this happens, just Google it if you’re that bothered. 12. Reboot! First Boot 1. Leave your USB as the priority boot device as we’ll be using the chameleon boot loader installed on there to boot our Snow Leopard installation. 2. When the boot loader appears, you should see the Snow Leopard installation. Select it but don’t press enter yet. 3. Currently the boot loader is always going to look for the USB drive as the root device, remember we set this earlier when editing the apple.com.Boot.plist. We now need to tell it which device we would like to boot this time.