First off, I'm really new to the Hackintosh scene! This is a my first real post. But after three straight week of working on my new box, I've finally got all hardware working 100%. So this is my thanks to all the awesome people out there and the hope that others will not have to suffer the headaches I went through.

This guide is based HEAVILY off of Digital Dreamer's guide as well as instructions from Prasys's Blog entry on how to install Snow Leopard.

Items Needed

1. A working copy of Leopard (the minialist functionality is needed) (I used Kalway 10.5.2 on an external USB drive)
2. Digital Dreamer's X58_Mobo_Patch_Installer 4.0 RC1
3. A copy of Snow Leopard Retail DVD (Buy it! It's worth it and only $29)
4. An 8 GB Flash drive or extra harddrive (External or Internal)
5. USB Image for X58-UD5

Quickly, The advantages to this install method over simply using Digital Dreamers Script alone is that by booting from the installer DVD/Flash Drive and installing it properly, we ensure that all permissions are correct and Disk Utility can see the package receipts correctly, allowing us to correct permissions in the future if need.

Also it alleviates the need to dive into the terminal to hide all the folders in the root directory that shouldn't be showing.

To sum it up, just a more Mac Like end result.

Prep Work

1. Format Flash Drive/Extra hard drive with Disk Utility
   
   • Open Disk Utility
   • Select the Disk to Use
   • Select Patition Tab
   • Under Volume Scheme, select 1 Partition
   • Click Options Button, make sure GUID is selected
   • Enter a name for the Drive and make sure HFS+ (Journel) is selected
2. Restore 10.6 DVD to Flash/Hard Drive
   
   • Still in Disk Utility
   • Select the freshly formatted Drive
   • Select Retore Tab
   • Drag SL DVD to source text field
   • Drag Flash/Hard Drive to destination text filed
   • Click restore
3. Run Digital Dreamer's Script
   
   • Unzip script
   • Select RUN-PATCH-INSTALLER.command in top level of folder
   • Enter your password
   • select your Flash/Hard Drive you restored the DVD to
   • Select option 2 (Install bootloader)
   • Select PC_EFI (Snow Leopard Compatiable)
   • Leave script running, we will be back
4. Replace Contents of Digital Dreamers Extra Folder from Flash/Hard Drive with USB image downloaded earlier
   
   • Open your Flash/Hard Drive in Finder, and open "Extra" folder
   • Deleted "Stored_Kext" and "Themes"
   • Mount USB Image (Double Click on it)
   • Drag "AdditionalExtensions" Folder, Extensions.mkext, "Themes" and the "dsdt.aml" to your Extra's Folder in your Flash/Hard Drive
5. Edit DVD Installer to prevent Kernel Panics
   
   • Open your Flash/Hard Drive in Finder
   • Press CMD+Shift+G
   • Type System/Library/Extensions then press enter
   • Delete NVDAResman.kext, ATIFramebuffer.kext, AppleIntelIntergratedFramebuffer.kext & IOATAFamily.kext
   • Keep a copy of Digital Dreamer Script Handy, you can place it in the root directory of the Installer Flash/Hard Drive

The Install

1. Reboot and SMASH F12
2. Select your Flash/Hard Drive with you modified SL Installer and press Enter
3. Pray, to how ever you like and hopefully in a few seconds/minutes you will be in SL Installer
4. Install onto a fresh Drive/Partition that has a GUID Partition Table (an upgrade from a vanilla Leopard Install might work but I did not do that so I have no idea.
   -If you need to format a drive you can use the installer Utilities Menu to open Disk Utility and go from there.
5. Install JUST THE BASE SYSTEM, select your install drive select customize and uncheck EVERYTHING
   -Don't worry you can install any needed extra later
6. If all goes well (no kernel panics) when the system reboots, SMASH F12 again and select you Flash/Hard Drive installer as the boot disk.
7. Press the Tab key twice and select your new SL Install Drive, type -v -x32 then press enter

IN THE NEW OS

At this point you fill out all the info, and the desktop should load after you finish creating your new account.

IMPORTANT

According to Digital Dreamer, you need to open the Terminal and type



Until you have properly installed all you Kexts and update your bootcache from within SL

With this method you might not need to, but heck why chance it, I did it, and everything is running beautifully.

Post-install

1. Customize Digital Dreamer's script folder
   
   • Open Kext_10.6
   • Go through _Graphicss folder's _repository directory and drag the appropriate kext for your video card to the _Graphics dirctory and put the one currently in there back into the _repository
   • Goto Misc_Patches Folder
   • Drag from _repository sleepenabler.kext and fakesmc.kext
   • place Disabler.kext and dsmos.kext back into _repository (if either exist, I can't remember which is in there, neither are needed with fakesmc and NullCPUPowerManagement.kext)
2. Run Digital Dreamer's script again, from with SL
3. Select your new SL Drive
4. Select Option 2 (Install bootloader, PC_EFI)
5. Select Option 5
   
   • Select the appropriate number to make all video, audio, networking, and misc patches install into S/L/E instead of E/E (Example, press 4 then ENTER, 5 then Enter, etc, etc)
6. Select Option 7 to builder your CMOS fixed dsdt.aml
7. Customize to your liking with the rest of the options
8. Reboot, SMASH F12 and select new SL Drive or enter BIOS and make that drive as your default startup volume

Now in your fully working copy of Snow Leopard (hopefully) you can turn back on spotlight indexing



DONE!!!!


These are the steps I followed to get a 100% hardware functioning HackPro
My Specs are as follows

Mobo: GA-X58-UD5
Video: ATI HD4890 by XFX 1024GB
Ram: 12GB OCZ Platinum Ram 1066 CAS7
HD's: OCZ Sumbit 60GB SSD (OS Drive)
3 * 1TB Hitachi Deskstar Performance Series (16MB Cache)

The Only thing I do not have working correctly is Sleep, but that is software issue not a hardware issue.

So there you have it, Snow Leopard with 100% Hardware Functionality

Let me know how it works for you CHEERS!

This post has been edited by Crypticus: Sep 24 2009, 07:53 PM

Very concise and well written guide, I'm sure lots of people will find it useful.

Thanks for sharing.

This is a great guide, pretty easy to follow compared to DD's original post. I first tried the Lifehacker method and got nowhere, then tried this. I got SL installed on my target HDD, and everything appeared to have worked but it will not reboot after the install. I tried rebooting from the thumb drive and it got stuck at the verifying DMI pool data screen, prior to Chameleon. Launching from the internal HDD gets stuck here:


Any ideas? Many thanks in advance.

Ga-ex58-ud5
i7 920
OCZ 6GB DDR3
Velociraptor 300 GB
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT

The panic screen say what is wrong...
You need to fix your HPET in DSDT, and load with Chameleon help modified DSDT.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm still pretty new to this, is there any chance you could expand a little bit on that? I can't even get to Chameleon, I haven't done anything with DSDT before, and I don't know what HPET is. Got any links, etc.?

Thanks

Ok, sorry about the "I don't know anything!" post, I was away for the holidays and using a really slow internet connection. Now that I'm back on my speedy home connection, I know what HPET is, and I understand I need to get a program to decompile the DSDT.aml file. So that leaves me with how to fix the HPET, and once I do how do I get the edited file into my boot HDD? (thumb drive gets stuck at verifying DMI pool - or will editing the DSDT fix this too?)