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.

Download from these links below. Apparently the other sites included were either not available or it is a paying download service.

http://hotfile.com/dl/18438462/9060fd3/SnowOSX3.6.part01.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438637/72892f3/SnowOSX3.6.part02.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438908/230262f/SnowOSX3.6.part03.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439140/81b3032/SnowOSX3.6.part04.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439356/b585762/SnowOSX3.6.part05.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438428/a5a1c8e/SnowOSX3.6.part06.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438588/3a02c05/SnowOSX3.6.part07.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438860/2a2e7b1/SnowOSX3.6.part08.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439183/a6f7460/SnowOSX3.6.part09.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439408/2037804/SnowOSX3.6.part10.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438383/2b0146a/SnowOSX3.6.part11.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438657/b33517f/SnowOSX3.6.part12.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438938/c0f3eea/SnowOSX3.6.part13.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439150/98ef300/SnowOSX3.6.part14.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439360/2cd8681/SnowOSX3.6.part15.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438577/27d052b/SnowOSX3.6.part16.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18438844/8563e23/SnowOSX3.6.part17.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439054/cd757f5/SnowOSX3.6.part18.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/18439182/05d7168/SnowOSX3.6.part19.rar.html

Dual Booting windows 7 and Mac OSX Hackintosh with bootthink

Bootthink is a relatively new bootloader created by a Chinese hacker. However it sometimes be easier to use than the traditional Chameleon. This is what you have to do. One very interesting aspect is that you can install this onto a USB Drive. By doing that you experiment with different settings before you install to your real system, thus not taking any chance of screwing your system.


1. Get yourself a copy of Ideneb, IPC or iATKOS and burn it to disc.
2. Boot that up in your computer and goto Disk Utilities
3. Make 2 partitions, first Mac Extended, and 2nd partition use a FAT
4. Install OSX into the Mac Extended partition. (I would assume you already know how to do that, for any problems go to insanelymac and search first, if you cannot find what you are looking for ask nicely, they are really helpful.)
5. After your mac is booted and running smoothly, pop in the Windows 7 install Disc and boot with it.
6. Make sure you do not re-partition your drive, format it with NTFS, and click continue.
7. You can find windows 7 loader from google.
8. Download Boot-think(2.3.18 is the newest version at the time of this article) and install the windows version with the .exe and reboot. Make sure you run as administrator.
9. Boot into Windows 7 and goto "Darwin" folder. Once you are in there, goto the "MBR" folder, run "setupMBR.bat" as administrator.
10. Enjoy
It should already work.

Magic Pro MP-p6vm-a4 OS X, ideneb 1.4

The recent surge in Mac and Iphone had made me start to pay more attention to Mac. So I have decided to pick this back up (from 15 years ago) by getting myself a computer with Mac in it. I originally started this by trying to install OSX in my new AMD Phenon II by using VMWare. I have tried numerous distrubtion and they all don't seem to boot properly. IPC, Ideneb and leo4all all don't seem to play nice with my VMware and AMD hardware. However, I don't want to shell out for another new Mac, so I assembled back my retired good old Core 2 Duo E6300 with the MP-P6VM-A4 board to give Hackintosh a try. After a few install and reboots, I started to understand that you really have to know all your chipsets on your motherboard to make this thing start properly. It is much like installing Slackware back in the early 80's. Heck installing Slackware was even easier back in the days.

I am using this not too popular Magic Pro board, and it uses all VIA chipset, on Board VGA and IDE's are all working, I am not sure about SATA because I don't have anything attached, ethernet is working with the ViaRhine kext. Sound is not working properly because I can't find the Kext(drivers for Mac) for this particular chipset. Via VT1616B is a very strange chip, I am starting to think that this is one of those chip number variation that they give for different countries. I google this chip and there are only a handful results, need not talk about the kext.

After all assembling this machine and installing OS X was quite interesting, they have come a long way. After recent use of Windows 7, Ubuntu and this I am starting to understand why people swear by OS X, it is a well designed operating system. I mean you can do the same stuff in other systems, but it is much easier to do it in Mac. And you can also dig deep into the console if you know what you are doing, so it basically has the wonders of both worlds.

I will next try to install 2 OS onto it. Windows 7 RC and OSX hope it works.

edit:Sound works now by choosing generic AC97 audio. And you don't really need the Voodoo kernel also. So everything works. However one slight hickup is it doesn't boot via USB, so it is kinda a pain to try Snow leopard on it.
You can update from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 via upgrade pack from tpb, or other major torernt sites. After that you can update via the Mac Software update with no problem.