Note: This update requires you to be running 10.6.1. If you aren’t already, you can download and install the 10.6.1 update from here. And don’t worry, just install and restart when prompted and you’ll be good to go.
Snow Leopard has been available to the public for almost 6 months now, has received 2 updates, and has been running nearly perfectly on the 1525 (and mostly every other hackintosh that could run Leopard). The newest update, 10.6.2, has been out since early November, but a lot of users have yet to make the upgrade. Unlike the Leopard distro days, users are running retail copies of Snow Leopard and thus the upgrade processor is much simpler. So call it old superstition, or sticking to what you know, but users have been hesitant about performing the update. Well that fear of upgrading bears no merit in this case as the 10.6.2 is one of the easiest updates we’ve seen. Instructions follow, and I think you’ll be shocked just how easy the update is.
1) Download the 10.6.2 Delta Update from Apple.com. It’s a fairly large download- 473MB- so grab a cup of coffee in the mean time.
2) Download the new SleepEnabler.kext and unzip it to your Desktop.
3) Install the update from step 1 but sit tight; you do not want to restart you computer yet. Once Installer tells you the update is finished and to restart, launch a new Finder window.
4) Copy the unzipped SleepEnabler.kext from your desktop to /Extra/Extensions/, overwriting the previous version of the kext.
5) Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/ and remove IO80211Family.kext.
6) Note: This step is only for users with Celeron Processors. Run this package on your Snow Leopard partition to install a compatible kernel (thanks Joey).
7) Restart.
8) Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/ and delete AppleHPET.kext. This will allow your USB to once again operate at 2.0 speeds.
9) Restart once more
That’s it! As long as you followed those few simple steps, you’ll be up and running 10.6.2 without a hitch. Plus your USB will be running at 2.0 speeds again!If you found this guide useful then feel free to make a donation by clicking the link at the end of the Author’s Mini-Biography or by clicking on some ads around the site. Any amount truly does help.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Yeah it didn’t even cross my mind because they are both Intel.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:15 PM
So that’s probably whats going on with mine. I have a Celeron processor.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:18 PM
And the issue finally reveals itself! I’m curious as to whether MilkyTech has a celeron processor as well. I have the feeling that he’s going to let us know soon though (he’s subscribed to this post :-p). If he does, I might consider posting a workaround for the celeron processor (or at least linking to another article with a workaround). And just out of curiosity, Cedyc, are these single-core Celeron processors?
March 24th, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Oh, I thought that was the norm, thanks. See, you learn something new every day (but today I learned so much about boot loaders, partitioning, operating systems, and other stupid computer stuff I think i’ll die of some sort of brain explosion) Thanks for the info.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Haha, I know how you feel right now (a bit overwhelmed, no?). I felt the same way when I first got involved in all this hackintosh
crapstuff.March 24th, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Sorry forgot the link (: Stupid me.
Read this
March 24th, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Please read the following, from what I read, inspiron 1525 uses the intel celeron processer, which, along with intel atom, is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.2. There is a hack that might fix this, i’ll try it soon. I’ll let you know.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:02 PM
There’s a very small number of 1525′s that use the Celeron Processor. The majority of them have either a Dual Core or Core 2 Duo processor, which is supported in 10.6.2.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Thanks a lot man. I’ll let you know how it goes.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Nevermind, it didn’t work.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:41 PM
What didn’t work? The information turned out false?
March 24th, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Thomas I don’t know if you seen my other post but I have a Dell Optiplex G260 that I want to install Leopard on. Can I just follow these instructions and used these files or is there another posting I should follow.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:43 PM
My apologies, Cedyc. I saw your comment but it slipped my mind and slowly got pushed down out of view. The general process of this guide will work, but it’s extremely likely that these won’t be the correct kexts. Check http://insanelymac.com for other people that may have installed it on their Optiplex G260′s as I know nothing about that computer or its hardware.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:31 PM
What I’ve read online is that you need to use chameleon RC4 to avoid MilkyTech and cedyc’s reboot problem. I’ll see if that info is legit
March 24th, 2010 at 9:34 PM
It’s very possible that that’s the cause of the issue. If so, I think they owe you huge thank you’s :p. Chameleon RC4 has some issues when updating Snow Leopard, so I assumed RC3 was safe to use (as it does support SL). I will research the issue, but please let me know if you can find that information again.
March 20th, 2010 at 1:23 PM
exactly. you should always “backup” your software!
March 20th, 2010 at 1:27 PM
Agreed. I feel that if you purchase the software you should also get digital download rights to it, no matter the source of the download.
March 20th, 2010 at 1:34 AM
LOL just think of it as a back up copy for the one that I already bought..
March 20th, 2010 at 1:07 AM
Yep you were right. I downloaded iLife09 from the web and it works fine.
March 20th, 2010 at 1:10 AM
You get away with downloading it just this once, but I expect you to buy iLife 10 when it’s released :-p
March 19th, 2010 at 6:39 PM
The software came with my iMac when I bought it in June of last year. You have a good point, I was on Leopard at the time. Hmm let me try some things.
March 19th, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Hey Thomas as far as the software I’m trying to install in the laptop it’s my iMac Applications Install DVD which has the iPhoto garage band etc. When I put the disk in and try to install the bundle package I get an error saying can not install on this computer. I can browse the DVD and install certain individual packages but not all will install. For example I can install garage band but not iDVD or iPhoto. I just assumed it noticed that I don’t have a camera and wont install.
March 19th, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Your camera (or lack thereof) shouldn’t affect the programs installation. How old is the software as there’s a small chance, though highly unlikely, it isn’t compatible with Snow Leopard?
March 19th, 2010 at 3:48 AM
ok thanks, not a big issue, just want the laptop works flawlessly, hope you’ll find ways for the HDMI to work.
again thanks a lot
March 17th, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Hello!
Now my laptop runs on 10.6.2 all are working fine except for “sleep”
when on plug-in power the laptop restarts; when on battery sleep is OK.
any help…
Thanks a lot
March 18th, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Miaxz- If you’ve placed the new SleepEnabler.kext in /Extra/Extensions/, there’s not much more you can do about sleep. It doesn’t seem like we’ll ever be able to get more than battery sleep out of this.
March 13th, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Tried one more time…
This time I never installed sleepenabler in the first place
updated to 6.1 no prob
rebooted to safe mode, check both kext locations, def no existence of sleepenabler.
updated to 6.2, quadruple checked and still no sleepenabler
rebooted and same kp and immediate reboot as soon as grey apple screen appears.
tried booting -x -f with same.
SleepEnabler def has nothing to do with this problem
staying at 6.1 for now unless someone gives me a really good reason for updating.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Nice Catch..
March 13th, 2010 at 11:25 AM
If I boot with those flags it def gets farther before reboot. I used the pause key and was able to stop it at exactly the point of reboot (extremely lucky…took 5 tries to stop it there)
Here are the last few lines of text:
Loaded HFS+ file: [System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/MacOS/TMSafetyNet] 9364 bytes from 4239820.
efi_inject_get_devdrop_string NULL trying stringdata
Loaded HFS+ file: [Extra/DSDT.aml] 475 bytes from 4239820
Patched DMI Table.
Loaded HFS+ file: [Extra/DSDT.aml] 20022 bytes from 4239820
Patched ACPI version 2 DSDT
Starting Darwin x86
Thats all she wrote! it reboots right there. when I watch the lines of text, it seems like it goes through all of the kexts twice and this happens at the end of the second go around, but never gets to the voodoo kext the second time.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:47 AM
no luck there. after 4 times installing evrything from scratch, I think I will just stick with 10.6.1 until cedyc or someone else figures out a sure-fire fix for this.
Thomas: if you could give my email to cedyc so we can stay in touch that we be appreciated since we both have the same issue and sounds like we used the same install method for SL without having leopard installed first
March 13th, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Would yout mind trying the update one more time, but booting with -v -f -x arch=i386, as it may allow you to boot after updating. I’ve never had an issue with kext permissions affecting the boot, so I doubt that could be the cause of the issue. I will personally follow up on some methods for updating to 10.6.2 to see what works and what doesn’t. I will send him your email now so that you two can stay in touch about the issue. And if I do find a solution, I’ll be sure to let you know.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:07 PM
ok, I am having exact same problem as cedyc. no problem getting installed and updated to 10.6.1. then immediate reboot as soon as apple pops up. happens too quick in verbose mode to see where it reboots. with -x -f flags it seems to get a little farther, but then reboot.
this was first attempt with this method. going back to 10.6.1 and going to try again but will install and uninstall kexts through terminal. I think we may need to change permissions and ownership and remove cache and rebuild
delete kext:
mount -uw /
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/****.kext
March 4th, 2010 at 3:16 AM
hello, should i always boot with -f arch=i386 flags? (on 10.6.2)
thanks
March 4th, 2010 at 1:20 PM
The -f flag isn’t always necessary, but the arch=i386 flag is as it tells Snow Leopard to boot to 32-bit instead of 64-bit (which lacks some drivers).
February 14th, 2010 at 12:23 AM
I was just curious what was causing SleepEnabler not to work in 10.6.2. I hadn’t been able to use sleep till I installed the kext you provided. Thanks!
February 13th, 2010 at 11:00 AM
@hellsend that’s exactly what mine was doing. Did you ever get yours working? I will have to mess with it some other time.
February 13th, 2010 at 10:53 AM
I’m just going to stick to 6.1 for now. Im just getting the system stable. I had to re-install it from scratch. (Which actually is pretty easy now). Anyway I would test your combo pack today but my wife needs the laptop for school. I may try it next weekend or later in the week.
February 13th, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Hi, I was just wondering whether cedyc had succeeded into updating to 10.6.2 .. I tried it several times, but it just would reboot after update, again and again, even with “-v -x”, -v -f arch=i386″, or else … I tried -x32, -x64 … Nothing. And I can’t get any error message, it just reboots …. If you managed into updating, just let me know.
Thanks in advance, and Thomas, thanks for all of your Guides :), they’ve helped me a lot ;)
February 13th, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Hellsend – Try booting with “arch=i386 -legacy” as it is another way of booting to 32-bit.
cedyc- That’s fine. Due to two people having issues, I’m going to install a fresh copy of Snow Leopard on a separate partition and test it out myself. I could swear this is exactly what I did to upgrade, but I could be forgetting something. Anyway, if something was left out of the guide, this test should weed it out.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:47 AM
What’s different/new about the new SleepEnabler kext?
February 13th, 2010 at 2:07 AM
The only difference is that it supports 10.6.2. That’s it, nothing exotic. The old SleepEnabler.kext causes 10.6.2 to KP so this is just a fix for that. Were you looking for a specific feature/function to be added?
February 12th, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Nevermind I see the email. All the directions from the email don’t show up in the blog
February 12th, 2010 at 8:20 PM
boot up with that flag or put that flag in the boot file?
February 12th, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Sure why not.. I prob got like 5 mins left before my HD is done cloning.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Download the Combo Update here and then install it from a 10.6 system. Once again, after it’s done installing but before restarting replace the SleepEnabler with the one from this guide and remove IO80211Family.kext. Then when booting, boot with the -f arch=i386 flag.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:32 PM
That’s odd- I wonder why the comment isn’t displaying properly. I’ll fix it now.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:03 PM
At least I can get to 6.1.. woohooo
February 12th, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Lol. I’m trying to think if there’s anything else I did when updating because I had no problem going to 10.6.2 from 10.6.1.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Actually, do you think you could test out the combo update for me? It would just require you to update directly from 10.6 to 10.6.2. Let me know if you’d be up to it.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:40 PM
It’s doing the same thing. I’m about ready to clone my usb back to the HD and start over and just go to 6.1
February 12th, 2010 at 8:02 PM
I would recommend that you do just that until I can get this issue figured out.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:29 PM
I did. I’ll do it again though.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:23 PM
Yeah but now it won’t get anywhere. Even when I do a -v -x it doesn’t get past the mach_kernel from 4234670
February 12th, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Did you make sure to replace the SleepEnabler.kext before rebooting?
February 12th, 2010 at 7:21 PM
and to think… I have a Master’s in Information Systems.. LOL
February 12th, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Lol you’re more qualified than me :-p
February 12th, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Now I’m getting an error:
starting hibernate
Sleepimage has garbage
hibernate failed
February 12th, 2010 at 7:21 PM
That’s a common problem and truly means nothing in the grand scheme of things. In other words, don’t worry about it.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Yeah hold on
February 12th, 2010 at 7:11 PM
didn’t work
February 12th, 2010 at 7:15 PM
The only real way I can diagnose the issue is by seeing it. Is there any way you could take a video of it loading when booting with -v.
February 12th, 2010 at 6:52 PM
It doesn’t say anything. Kernel Flags
That’s it.
February 12th, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Ok. Add “-f arch=i386″ to the next line so that it resembles this file. Then reboot and see if it boots.
February 12th, 2010 at 6:22 PM
I’m using 2 RC3. I did reboot between 6.1 and 6.2. 6.1 was working fine after the reboot. I’m booted up on my usb drive now. I have access to the laptop HD. Should I try and reinstall Chamelon to the laptop?
February 12th, 2010 at 6:46 PM
Sorry about the delay, I had to take care of something. No, reinstalling Chameleon won’t do anything; I just wanted to see if you were running RC4 as it’s been known to cause problems. Have a look at com.apple.boot.plist in /Extra/ or, if not in this folder, in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ and tell me what it says under “Kernel Flags”
February 12th, 2010 at 6:18 PM
I’m going to boot back to my usb drive then try to fix it from there. That’s why I love my usb backup
February 12th, 2010 at 6:20 PM
What version of Chameleon are you using? Also, did you reboot between the 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 updates?
February 12th, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Idk. It’s going way to fast for me to get a picture
February 12th, 2010 at 6:13 PM
Still a no go…
February 12th, 2010 at 6:15 PM
What’s the last thing you see when booting with -v? Do you think you can get a picture?
February 12th, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Nope the 6.2 didn’t work. It’s rebooting as soon as it comes up with the apple logo. Let me try to go into safe mode.
February 12th, 2010 at 6:11 PM
Boot with -v -f arch=i386 and see how it goes.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:53 PM
Thats funny I had no idea you were supposed to do this process when updating. When I updated, I updated from 10.6 and straight from Software Update. Everything went perfect but I guess next time I’ll check just to be sure. Luck maybe :) Thanks for the guide, I’ll defiantly follow it next time. Lol
February 12th, 2010 at 5:56 PM
This method isn’t so much required as it is precaution. Some users will find that they can update straight from 10.6 to 10.6.2 through Software Update, while others won’t be able to boot after the change. This method just seems to work for the highest percentage of people.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:47 PM
10.6.1 went with no problems. Halfway down with the 6.2 download. My next post will be when I’m done.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:42 PM
I’m installing 6.1 right and about to reboot. Like I said this was before there were any guides..
February 12th, 2010 at 5:39 PM
I just went straight from 10.6 to 10.6.2 with the software update and it crashed it..
February 12th, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Read the guide!!!
February 12th, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Oh, I’m terribly sorry. I thought you were saying that you just updated straight to 10.6.2 and it crashed. My mistake about that. Anyway, give the updates a shot and report back how it goes.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:35 PM
Because I’ve tried the update in the past with no luck but that was when it first came out. I didn’t mean that in a negative way. My bad.. I’m going to get started. I’ll let you know how it goes.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:36 PM
What went wrong with the update? Also, what version of Chameleon are you using?
February 12th, 2010 at 5:32 PM
What the heck. I’m going to go ahead and give it a try. I gotta download the 10.6.1 first.
February 12th, 2010 at 5:33 PM
What’s wrong? Why the “What the heck?”