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Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by cedyc

cedyc — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:39:16 +0000

That’s funny. I thought my speakers were just going bad. I have the same crackling noise on mine. Good to know there is a fix. Has anyone been able to get all of the applications installed on the 1525, i.e. iphoto ect.? I can get some of them like garage band and a few others but now iPhoto and I can’t remember the other ones that are on that application disk.

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:41:59 +0000

MilkyTech- Make the Timeout change to any com.apple.Boot.plist that could be affecting Chameleon. In other words, change the timeout to 0 in the com.apple.Boot.plist in Snow Leopard, Leopard, and any other OS that is using one.

Alex- The crackling is a common issue in Snow Leopard, and I have a fix for it. I just need to finish the guide for it and the crackling will be resolved.

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by Alex

Alex — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:14:46 +0000

The sound works on my Inspion but sometimes there is a ‘crackling’ noise when music is played…

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:03:32 +0000

that didn’t work. that file already had the timeout set to 0. it still goes to the boot device selection screen

Comment on Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:48:43 +0000

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.

Comment on Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by cedyc

cedyc — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:42:58 +0000

Nice Catch..

Comment on Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:25:45 +0000

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.

Comment on Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:54:30 +0000

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.

Comment on Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:47:36 +0000

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

Comment on Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:07:16 +0000

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

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:58:29 +0000

Add/replace the lines in your com.apple.boot.plist file in /Extra (or /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration if not in /Extra) with these, but changing 10 to 0. This will tell Chameleon to wait 0 seconds before booting the default OS.

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:04:46 +0000

Question: How can I set Chameleon to just boot to the HD without me having to press enter at the boot device selection screen?

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:23:44 +0000

I was trying to explain in layman’s terms. You are correct though in your statement that you can install Snow Leopard onto the hard drive from another computer. To rephrase, you must have a computer currently running OS X to install Snow Leopard onto the hard drive, whether it be the 1525 or installing from another computer onto the 1525’s hard drive (most will install from a current copy of Leopard on their 1525, as they have no other way).

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by cedyc

cedyc — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:24:59 +0000

@MilkyTech & Thomas.. Actually that’s not true Thomas. I did a fresh install of Snow on my 1525. It had Windows 7 on it and I formatted it and did the fresh install of snow. I used my iMac running snow to follow this turtorial and just installed everything to my 1525 hard drive. I have an IDE to USB cable that I used to hook the 1525 Hard Drive to my iMac. Then when I was done installing everyhing to it, I just put the HD back in my laptop and booted it up and continued with Step 16. So I wouldn’t say that you need Leopard installed but I will say that you need access to a Machine runing Mac OS in order to read the Snow Disk and run the install. Make sense?

Comment on Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide by Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:38:45 +0000

Unfortunately, you are right. You must first have Leopard installed in order to install Snow Leopard. On the bright side, Leopard installs fairly quickly, and is great for troubleshooting and repairing issues with Snow Leopard.