Problem:

Since I do't have a 8GB usb stick around, I tried to follow this tutorial with my SnowyWindOSX.Alpha dvd. At the end of the installation, I did not get any error messages like some of you got, which was supposingly normal, before my first reboot.

Rebooting with a CF card (that I installed only Chameleon) & select my MacOSX partition, & ran EFI Finisher, I can boot into my SL. However, I do not have sound (the sound icon in menu bar is greyed) & resolution is stuck at 800x600.

I assume my problem came from not following the guide completely. Can anyone tell me what changes to the steps I should follow if I only have the DVD instead of a 8GB usb stick?

Did you install onto a GUID or an MBR Partition? If you did not install onto a GUID then you do not have the 200MB EFI Partition which to install your kexts via EFI Finisher.

This is almost the same as the old Vanilla tutorial, but now I have created a package to handle the second half for you. I must give credit to Munky for paving the way, and to 18seven for designing this tutorial in its original form.

Vanilla USB Installer

This part is still the same, but I included it for ease. This way you dont have to search one and then the other.

Once you have our DMG/ISO of Retail Snow Leopard installation disc, insert a blank 8gb usb stick into your MSI.

Open up disk utility and create on the usb two partitions in MBR format:

1 partition of 200MB named: BOOTLOADER

1 unnamed partition with the rest of the space

MUST be in MacOs Extended(Journaled)

Once your usb is partitioned you can now restore the DMG/ISO file of Snow Leopard onto the bigger size partition on it. Open disk utility and choose the restore tab then on the source field put in or drag your Snow Leopard dmg/iso file and in Destination field put in or drag your usb unnamed partition.

Once the restore process is done, download chameleon 2 RC3 by Dr. Hurt modded by Dalton: http://www.mediafire.com/?tvqmqzwjznd

Install it on the BOOTLOADER partition of your usb.

Now you are ready to get to work.

Vanilla Install

So you followed the previous guide on building a bootable snow leopard installation usb, now you will follow this one to make your installation 100% vanilla, meaning that when you will update your system with software updater you will have a free system not screwed up by updates because all of our kexts will be on a hidden EFI partition.So let’s do this.

Boot your MSI Wind with your bootable snow leopard installation usb stick plugged in.

Hit F11 on the splash screen to boot from usb and wait for the install process to boot.

Now go on the Menu - Disk Utility

Choose the disk where you want to install and choose the option Partition

Choose 1 partition in scheme and in options BE SURE to set GUID and in Mac OS Extended(Journaled). Hit apply and format it, once done, continue install, you do not have to customize anytihing, just install.

Once installation is successful restart as required BUT be SURE you have your usb still plugged in because you will use it to boot your fresh installation.

Hit F11 again on the bios splash screen and choose your usb

On the chameleon selection screen choose your newly installed partition, and start it.

Ok nice you are on the Desktop of your new Snow Leopard.

Congrats!

Now that you are at the desktop of your newly installed Snow Leopard. Run this package:

This package will automatically format the EFI partition, install everything into the EFI partition, and install the Chameleon 2 RC3 bootloader to it. It also installs the correctly working display file from Mars. Also it will put the Vanilla forder in the root of the partition. It is the same Vanilla folder as before, so that you can interact with the EFI partition later if you need to.

If you want to swap kexts in the EFI partition replace the ones you dont want in the /Vanilla/EFIkext folder with the ones you do want, then run the 27ae and update scripts.

Enjoy!

@Dalton I have finally installed using your Vanilla Tutorial and would like to know how to proceed with 10.6.2 update. Do I just install it or is there a tutorial for that also.

1. With this revised tutorial the partition names no longer matter.

2. If you want to have a dual boot you need to have XP on the first partition, then Data, then OSX.

The 27ae script creates/updates patched GMA950 kext for native GFX resolution and acceleration. The update script takes the changes you made, in this case updating your GFX kext, and loads it to your efi. I put some other steps in there as well but that is the gist. Open the script and give it a gandar, remember if you don't understand a command use man i.e.

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No! If you change a kext in you Vanilla/EFIkext folder, you only need to run ./update.sh.

UpdateEFI patches the graphics and it only needs to be ran at system updates.