boot0: error

When ever one tries to install a multiboot OSX Window box, you are most likely to run into the boot0:error, or a b0 error. what this means is that the partition that you intend to boot into did not have the active flag set.  Most of these errors arise after you have installed 2 systems and it wouldn't boot into either or both.  This can be easily fixed by the following steps

1. Boot with mac OSX boot disc
2. Goto Utilities and enter Terminal
3. in the terminal type

  diskutil list


Make a note of which disk has the partitions(rdisk0, rdisk1, etc)

4. type

  fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0


you might see the MBR error, don't worry about it.

5. type

  p


and you should see all your partitions.  At this point you would want to figure out which partitions you want to boot into first.  If you have 2 partitions then flag the one you want to be primary last.

For example, you have 2 partitions, 1 and 2.Partition 2 holds windows 7 and 1 holds OSX Snow Leopard.  You want to boot into OSX boot loader to choose which parition to boot, in this case you want to flag the windows partition active first, then flag the OSX partition active,

6. so you would type

   f 2
  write
  y
  f 1
  write
  y
  exit


This would fix your problem, eject your CD and reboot.

How to update Kext in Macs

Mac Kext are like drivers for the Windows platform. You need them to get your hardware device working.  In Mac the device drivers are mostly from Apple, therefore unless a third party is willing to give support, unsupport hardware is very difficult to co-exist with the mac os.  This is a way to update kext manually from the terminal. 




To update a kext:

cd /path/to/new/kext (put your downloaded kext path here)

cp -R KextName.kext /System/Library/Extensions

next you need to fix permissions so the kext can be executed by OS user (root/system)

cd /System/Library/Extensions

chmod -R 755 KextName.kext

chown -R 0:0 KextName.kext   (this will set the ownership on files to system user (root))

rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext   (this will reset all kext caching done by OSX)


Another way with GUI is to use the Kext Utility, by downloading this and using it, it will fix kext automatically.  If you want to install kext, you can drag the kext onto the program directly, the program will install and update the Extensions.mkext file.

Enjoy

64bit boot for Snow Leopard

How do you know if your Snow Leopard upgrade is booting in 64 bit?  Try these commands

ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi

This command will check if your EFI is 32 bit or 64 bit the EFI can make or break for your 64 bit hardware running in 32 bit.  There is a list of not too old Macs not being able to run in 64 bits because they have a dated version of the EFI.

To check if you are running the 64 bit Kernel, Type


uname -v

in terminal and if your response contains the string x86_64 in the output that means you are in luck.

SnowOSX Universal v3.6 (10.6.2)

UPDATE: On the russian site, it cites support for AMD, ATOM 330, Pentium 4 (D), Celeron CPUs, this is great news.
Also support for Samsung R-560 (R-310, R-610... etc.)
I got this to work on my Asus W7J, installed on a 16GB USB thumb drive.   Running 64 Bit EFI Kernel too.


The new version of the assembly for single-layer DVD, which is built on the basis of Retail Snow Leopard 10.6 Update 10.6.2 Safari 4.04. An assembly can be installed on GUID, and at the Mbr. In the assembly immediately included Russian localization.

Extras. information: from the assembly removed all packages with drivers for printers, AdditionalSpeechVoices, other languages

The contents of the folder Customise
- PC EFI 9.4 - boot-9-4 by Netkas
or choice
- PC EFI 10.5 - Chameleon 2 RC3 (r658) PC EFI 10.5 by Netkas
- NullCPUPM - blocker (disabler) for IntelCPUPowerManagement
- PlatformUUID - Error 35 fix
- FakeSMC
- IOATA Kernel Panic fix - 32/64-bit IOATAFamily.kext from Leo 10.5.8 (compiled by Slice)
- EvOreboot - Restart and Shutdown fix
- EvOSpeedStep - Power Management for Core i7
- EvOenabler - ATI video injector
- SMBIOSResolver - only for PC EFI 9.4!!!
- Legacy AHCI - 32/64-bit Legacy kext for Intel AHCI (SATA)
- Legacy ATA - 32/64-bit Legacy kext for Intel ATA (IDE)
- Legacy JMicron ATA - 32/64-bit Legacy kext for JMicron ATA (IDE)
- PS / 2 - kekst interface PS / 2
- Rosetta - support for legacy applications
- ATools - a folder with a set of office utilities and drivers

System requirements: PC with a processor Intel SSSE3 (not to be confused with SSE3!)
Year: 2009
Version: 3.6
Platform: PC
Language: English Russian
Tabletka: Not required
Size: 4.71 Gb
Checksum:
MD5: 5d76a853b7d76d99e48f0fa1762933fd

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Currently not on the bay or the nova.

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