And always use portable drive to install before internal hard drive. For Realtek id 0139 card reader isn’t supported, a USB SD card reader is handy.
May 17, 2012 If you’re not familiar with chameleon, there’s a way to dual boot using windows 7 and EasyBCD on 750GB hard drive here.
2011-12-26 For those who want to boot from WDC 750 GB, I use the original MBR formatting on the hard drive, use Windows 7 to shrink a partition for Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Use an external USB hard drive to load Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or LION first, then restore the partition to the internal hard drive partition. When done, remove the hard drive, connect this hard drive to an external USB, install Chameleon on the 100MB MBR partition, copy the Extra folder to this MBR partition (after Chameleon installation). Make sure we can still boot the drive (in USB connection), then put it back to the LAPTOP, it will boot using Chameleon boot loader.
I’m writing up a tutorial on how I intalled Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with full QE/CI/CL & resolution 1600×900 & Atheros Ethernet/Wifi & sleep working on my Lenovo G770 10372LU laptop model. I need these software to make it work. I think this laptop is the best for Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and Lion at the moment. This Lenovo has the important devices that work/not work with Mac OS X at the moment, please identify your hardware because G770s do come with different devices. Check for Graphicsid, Wifiid, Ethernetid, SDcard readerid. My SDcard id is not supported at the moment. Thanks to many techs savvy on the net like Maldon, Bcc9, Kyle_c, I could get these going so well. MAKE SURE TO BACK UP THE IMAGE OF THE HARD DRIVE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING TO THE LAPTOP.
Software and hardware needed.
* iboot-legacy, multibeast, updatehelper
* An external USB hard drive: we will need this one over and over for installation, experimenting snow leopard 10.6.8 and lion then restore it to the internal hard drive after we’re happy with our MAC OS X. DON’T install on the hard drive without knowing if it’s going to work.
* Patched kexts for Ethernet & Wifi & trackpad
So, Is it possible install OSx directly to the main Hard Drive and not an external HD. I think this is why my setup does not work. I’m installing it directly to my laptop HD and not an external. Is this possible??
Eric,
You can directly install OSX to the hard drive, are you dual booting? Are you totally delete the Windows 7? If you shrank the windows 7 to make a partition for 10.6.8, then you need to patched MBR installation, if you delete the windows 7, then you have to partition it to GUID for retail 10.6.3 to load. Tell me your set up.
So I have almost the exact setup.Asus Sabertooth x58Intel i7 970I have 4 GB’s of ram in, will it rellay make a dif if I have 1x2gb in?I have the HDD plugged into 2Sata 6gb/s instead of 1 because the position in my case makes that pretty much impossible.DVD is in either regular SATA 1 or 2, I don’t recall which.I run the flags -x -v -f cpus=1 pcirootuid=1 busratio=21I do not get too far never to the Install screen. When running in verbose (-v) to see the steps it is taking, it eventually gets to Still waiting for root device. What do? lol
If you have x58, then you have to follow the instructions on x58 i920, it doesn’t matter what set up you have, just follow the way I set up mine. Every type of chipset, different ways of installing Snow Leopard.
Eric,
You just replace 3 files in the Extra folder, run Kext utility in APPS folder and reboot, or you can copy the whole Exra folder over the old Extra folder, I just post the download for the Extra.zip folder.
I have followed your tutorial and I notice I get an error when trying to install the Multibeast System Utilities. If I remove them, the installation runs fine.
Also, after coping the files over the Extra folder( smbios.plist com.apple.Boot.plist) and rebooting my machine hangs on the apple logo. Any Ideas?
I’m still not to clear on the “extra” folder. So do
A)By completely replacing the “extra” folder with the ( smbios.plist com.apple.Boot.plist). Does that mean remove everything an anything inside the folder, and it should only have the 3 files?
or
B)Replace the 3 files provided with the current files inside the “extra” folder.
I’m using the same machine: Lenovo G770
Eric,
After 10.6.8 update, install multibeast with the options on the pictures, open “snowusb1068″ (your usb name), open “Extra” folder, inside the “Extra” folder there will be 3 important files “smbios.plist”, “com.apple.Boot.plist” and “dsdt.aml” and a folder “Extensions”. Unzip all my file “dsdt.zip”,”comapplebootplist.zip” and copy all my 3 files over the multibeast 3 files. After everything is done, use kextutilies to update the cache then reboot, click tab at the boot screen, type -v to see what’s going on, but it should run.
Many thanks idog! The tutorial is coming up nicely.
Can you post a link for your Extra folder (dsdt + boot.plist)? Is sleep working with the patched dsdt?
I was thinking of installing snow leo on my G470. Do you think you can post the step-by-step tutorial? My main concerns are getting a patched dsdt, and patched kexts for the wireless and etherenet