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iBoot   MultiBeast: Install Mac OS X on any Intel-based PC
Posted by tonymacx86 on Monday, April 12, 2010
Labels: Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, guide, H55, iBoot, Mac, MultiBeast, OS X, P55, Snow Leopard, Video, X58

Any OSx86 installation guide can seem daunting at first glance, especially when trying to remember cryptic terminal commands and sorting through volumes of misinformation on the web.  This guide requires no coding, terminal work, or Mac experience of any kind.  You will not need access to a Mac.  In fact, it's easier and faster for me to install Snow Leopard with fully working components on my system than it is to install Windows 7.  And more fun.

The iBoot   MultiBeast method is designed and tested for any desktop or laptop running the latest line of Intel processors, the Core i3/i5/i7s.  I have had reports of success with older machines as well including CoreDuo, Core2Duo, and even Pentium 4.  However, AMD processors are not supported.

YOU WILL NEED
A computer running an Intel Processor
A blank CD
A Mac OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD
To leave any fear of your computer at the door.
Patience and humility- it may not work out perfectly the first time- but with enough tenacity and grit, you'll reach the promised land.  It's easy to get frustrated, but don't give up!  There are a community of users with similar hardware in the tonymacx86 Forum to provide support if you get stuck.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
If you have greater than 4gb of RAM, remove the extra RAM for a maximum of 4gb.  You can put back any extra RAM in after the installation process.
Use only 1 graphics card in the 1st PCIe slot with 1 monitor plugged in.
Remove any hard drives besides the blank drive being used for OS X.
Remove any USB peripherals besides keyboard and mouse.
Remove any PCI cards besides graphics- they may not be Mac compatible.
If using a Gigabyte 1156 board, use the blue Intel SATA ports- not the white Gigabyte SATA ports.
It's best to use an empty hard drive- you will have to partition and format the drive.
Always back up any of your important data.
STEP 1: BIOS SETTINGS
You will need to set your BIOS to ACHI mode and your Boot Priority to boot from CD-ROM first.  This is the most important step, and one many people overlook.  Make sure your bios settings match these.  It's not difficult- the only thing I did on my Gigabyte board besides setting Boot Priority to CD/DVD first was set Optimized Defaults, change SATA to AHCI mode, and set HPET to 64-bit mode.




STEP 2: INSTALL MAC OS X
In order to boot the Mac OS X Retail DVD, you'll need to download and burn iBoot.  For desktops and laptops using unsupported Intel CPUs and graphics, a legacy version of iBoot can be downloaded here.

Download iBoot
Burn the image to CD
Place iBoot in CD/DVD drive
Restart computer
At Chameleon prompt, eject iBoot



Insert your Mac OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD and press F5
When you see the screen below, press enter to begin the boot process

When you get to the installation screen, open Utilities/Disk Utility.  NOTE: If you can't get to the installation screen, retry the process, but type -x at the screen above.  This will enter Mac OS X Safe Mode, which will allow you to proceed.
Partition your hard drive to GUID Partition Table
Format your hard drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).   NOTE: Chameleon can only boot from a disk or partition of 1 TB or less.  Partition larger drives.
For the purposes of this guide, name it Snow Leopard.  You can rename it later.
Close Disk Utility
When the installer asks you where to install, choose Snow Leopard
Choose Customize‚ and uncheck additional options.  This will hasten the install process.  You can always install this stuff later.
Restart computer.
Place iBoot back in drive.
When you get to the Chameleon boot selection screen, choose your new Snow Leopard installation.

View the super-cool Mac OS X Snow Leopard Welcome Video, and set up your computer!


STEP 3: UPDATE TO 10.6.6
Upon the release of 10.6.2 and the 27" Intel Core i5 and i7 iMacs, Mac OS X Snow Leopard officially supports the Core i5 750 and Core i7 860.  The 10.6.6 Update will install a Vanilla Kernel, as well as a host of security and stability fixes. Details are available on Apple's website.
Open Finder and navigate to your Snow Leopard drive.
Right-click and delete Mac OS X Install Folder.  This folder is an unnecessary remnant of the installation process, and serves no purpose.
Download the Mac OS X 10.6.6 Combo Update
Download MultiBeast
Open MultiBeast- don't run it yet, just leave it open.  Set up windows as shown.

Mount MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.6.dmg
Install MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.6.pkg
Upon completion, the installer will ask you to reboot.  DO NOT REBOOT.
Switch to the already open MultiBeast.  If it closes, just re-open it.
STEP 4: MULTIBEAST


MultiBeast is an all-in-one post-installation tool designed to enable boot from hard drive, and install support for Audio, Network, and Graphics. It contains two different complete post-installation solutions: EasyBeast and UserDSDT.  In addition it includes System Utilities to rebuild caches and repair permissions and a collection of drivers, boot loaders, boot time config files and handy software.

Choose one of the following options directly following a fresh installation and update:

EasyBeast is a DSDT-free solution for any Core/Core2/Core i system. It installs all of the essentials to allow your system to boot from the hard drive. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately.

UserDSDT is a bare-minimum solution for those who have their own pre-edited DSDT. Place your DSDT.aml on the desktop before install. Audio, Graphics and Network will have to be enabled separately.  HINT: Check the DSDT Database for a pre-edited DSDT.
Run MultiBeast.
If you have a custom DSDT that's been edited, place the file on your desktop and choose UserDSDT.
All others select EasyBeast
Select System Utilities.
Optionally, you may install further drivers via Advanced Options to enable ethernet, sound, graphics, etc...  Be sure to read the documentation provided about each installation option.  NOTE: EasyBeast, and UserDSDT install Chameleon 2.0 RC5 by default, so you'll not need to check that option.
MultiBeast Demo Videos
Install to Snow Leopard- it should take about 4 minutes to run scripts.
Eject iBoot.
Reboot- from your new Snow Leopard installation drive.


Congratulations!  You're done!!

Your PC is now fully operational, while running the latest version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard!  And you have a nice Boot CD to get into your system in case things go awry.  Boot your system from iBoot if you have issues.  You may run MultiBeast as often as you like.

If you can't boot, try typing -x at the Chameleon prompt to enter safe mode, or just boot with iBoot.  When you get to the desktop, you can make all of the changes you need to.  The best way to start fresh is delete whatever you're trying to get rid of- including the whole /Extra folder, as most kexts are installed there.  Then you can re-run MultiBeast.  As long as you rebuild caches and repair permissions after you're done, you can do just about anything you want to /Extra/Extensions and /System/Library/Extensions.  Anything can be tweaked and enabled upon subsequent uses of MultiBeast.

If you've had success using iBoot   MultiBeast, consider a contribution to help keep the sites going.  We're constantly updating and tweaking our tools to help you.

Thanks in advance!

-tonymacx86 & MacMan





PS: For our most current workarounds and solutions for issues such as USB and audio, check out the Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update,  Mac OS X 10.6.4 Update,  Mac OS X 10.6.5 Update, and Mac OS X 10.6.6 Update articles.   Good luck, and see you on the forum!


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658 comments:

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 Anonymous said...
Would this be safe if I installed OS X SL on a computer with Core i7 860 if it is overclocked? I have my CPU at around 4GHz.

The board is Gigabyte, with nVidia graphics.

April 12, 2010 9:27 PM
 Anonymous said...
Nice work man, this is fantastic.

A

April 12, 2010 11:07 PM
 yehia2amer said...
hi tony
i tested your new iboot and MultiBeast but they are not working at all
my spec are : core i7 720QM , Nvidia GT 230M, 4GB Ram

First i tried the iboot nvidia , it loads only using CPUS=1 , i tried busratio=12 but it gives me KP
when using CPUS=1 after loading nvenabler it gives me KP
So i used "tonymacx86-P55BootCD 2xx.iso", it works good
then installed SL , updated to 10.6.3, installed EasyBeast unsupported and restarted
then booted with chamelon CPUS=1 , -x and it loads all the kexts and all goes fine
but it DON'T OPEN ANY GUI , it just stops and snow leopard don't open

so what is the problem now

April 12, 2010 11:44 PM
 Guy#1 said...
Had same prob as other boot CDs. Installs fine, but when trying to load Snow Leopard drive, the bootloader stops at "ERROR: Unable to find SMBIOS!" It does not even get to SL, just stops in bootloader...

(trying on USB IDE drive and USB Flash drive)

I installed SL a few months ago on SATA external by using another MacBook but I have no access to one now.

April 13, 2010 2:22 AM
 drunkenbozo said...
hey tony.

nice guide, however can I put back the RAM ive removed to make it 4GB?

April 13, 2010 3:16 AM
 Anonymous said...
seems to be a problems with the preboot.dmg. on iBoot. no mountable filesystems

April 13, 2010 3:39 AM
 Anonymous said...
Maybe also add PS/2 drivers and Netkas Aty_init.kext as optional, because GTX 2XX card using EFI strings sometimes fails to start.

April 13, 2010 3:56 AM
 Hammer said...
Will this work on i7 900 series processors.

April 13, 2010 7:38 AM
 Matt said...
Great work Tony!

To folks who don't have things working, try posting on the forum.

Your best bet is to research and pick compatible hardware, then try to install if you have the option!

April 13, 2010 7:54 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,

I "refreshed" my install on 10.6.2 by deleting Extra folder and rebuilding cache. Then I use GigaBeast and selected P55A-UD3P, my motherboard for i5.

Boot-up is much faster now, however...still no sound. Profiler shows AudioID as '888' with all the jacks identified. In sound input and output are blank.

Can anyone help? :(

thanks - mikey

April 13, 2010 8:07 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hello, I am of Argentinean and my English is bad.
But thanks, thank you very much

April 13, 2010 8:31 AM
 WE-stor said...
I did not get that OS X 10.6.2 sleep and adequately worked with sound on vanilla kernel, even editing the DSDT, although P55 and Nvidia. I have a dream, and I love this system. Unfortunately, I had clean the disc from the MAC OS and return to Windows.


Thank you, Tony. Apparently, Apparently I have not been able to digest all the material here and good to put MAC. It is difficult to understand the translated text by Google. I'll try again. In the now i must prepare for the exams at the institute. Thank you. You really helped me.

But I'll be back =DDD

April 13, 2010 9:38 AM
 Anonymous said...
Would it be possible to include an option to install multibeast in the EFI partition instead ?

April 13, 2010 9:44 AM
 john t said...
The refreshed 15 inch macbook pro with the i5 processors supports integrated intel graphics - GMA HD. Does this mean that standard pc notebooks with i5 processors and GMA HD will work (unlike with GMA X4500). Are there kexts for the GMA HD in 10.3? (I'm new this use - sorry if my query is a bit basic).

April 13, 2010 10:43 AM
 Anonymous said...
install is ok but my sound isn't work. my moherboard Gigabyte UD2

April 13, 2010 1:28 PM
 cr4nky said...
Hi Tony!

Thanks again for the great work! I had a well running 10.6.3 System and just backed up my old kexts and the extra folder. Then I installed the 10.6.3 combo update again and at last I installed everything with the MultiBeast. No changes so far, everything is okay EXCEPT for Audio, which only works with 10.6.2 AppleHDA.kext in S/L/E and the JMicron Kexts don't seem to bring a change for HDDs, so I will delete them! I have the same Mobo like you and the same CPU i5 750.

Take care!
cr4nky

April 13, 2010 3:07 PM
 yehia2amer said...
[b]finally[/b] i updated to 10.6.3, after a lot of fails , i finally got it to work (but still with CPUS=1)
and all thnx goes to you and the new MacBook Pro kernel , it seems that the original 10.6.3 kernel don't match my laptop
what i do:
1) installed macosx and updated to the latest 10.6.3
2) downloaded the macbook pro update from here http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1026
3) when i tried to install this update it gives me a message
Alert This software is not supported on your system
4) so i used pacifist to install the update
5) used your MultiBeast and installed chameleon and fakesmc.kext, and finally SL 10.6.3 working
so it will be great to add this new kernel and method :)

but now what can i do to overcome the [b]CPUS=1[/b] problem, please replay

April 14, 2010 2:37 AM
 Anonymous said...
Good day! I noticed that the downloaded (NVIDIA) iBoot / Extra / Preboot.dmg not mounted in the operating system. So it should be?
I apologize for the English language.

April 14, 2010 6:15 AM
 Anonymous said...
iam able to boot from nvidia bootcd but language selection screen blank when i press the blank area installation start the bar for preparing installation is not moving put some minute i got installation screen press continue license writing come put there is now agree or disagree i only press location of agree installation continue (iformat my disk use iaktos v7 to guid )
after more than ten minute it show disk selectin i press the disk green arrow come after more than 5 minute i press install installation start it take around one hour said in progress that 30 miute balance so i cancel installation plase help i use most iboot(gtx285 intel x22 new nvidia  universal)not boot

hm55 corei5 430m nvidia gt 330m

April 14, 2010 2:09 PM
 Patrick said...
Tony, thanks for all the great work. Just wanted to say I used the new MultiBeast w/GigaBeast and the method described in this post to apply the 10.6.3 Delta Update to a working 10.6.2 system and had no problems. P55A-UD3, i5-750. Still can't get sleep working even after the DSDT fixes, am going to try speedstep next.

April 14, 2010 3:28 PM
 Anonymous said...
Update to 10.6.3 all OK except sound.
I tried to use the MultiBeast with AppleHDA 10.6.2, but did not change anything.
I found the kext here (http://www.kexts.com/view/265-patched_applehda_10.6.2_kext.html) and installed it using Kext Helper and then I got sound working.

GA P55M-UD2, i7 860

April 14, 2010 4:14 PM
 Anonymous said...
Tony great job, report my experience: I tried using the new method iBoot   multibeast and did not work, follow all recommendations my hardware is Intel mother board DP55WB   i5-750   NVidia 6200 GT. Appears soon after putting the Mac OS X Install DVD Retail.

Using the old method tonymacx86P55BootCD.iso described in the previous post works perfectly ...

PS Toko - BR

April 14, 2010 6:12 PM
 John said...
I see that the guide recommends installing the 10.6.3 update; has the audio issue been solved? Specifically audio for the GA-P55M-UD2.

April 14, 2010 9:41 PM
 Daniel said...
Hey I have a P55-GD55, The Bios settings a a bit different, It doesnt have the AHCI, settings yours does, the only option that has AHCI as a setting i believe is the Raid setting... How do i get around this, I'm running The bios version 1.3 for my Mobo

April 14, 2010 11:00 PM
 WE-stor said...
Hi Tony! That I am again. I could not stop myself =DDD
I now have a fully working OS 10.6.3.
Thanks Tony. My sufferings were over.

Oops ... One question. I use VooodoHDA and when I go out of sleep, the sound quieter until it do not make a down and up again. Why, and how to fix it? Of course these are trifles, but like to know.

Thank you.

April 15, 2010 5:48 AM
 Anonymous said...
Any suggestions for a GA-H55M-S2H mobo and an i3 540 CPU?

I'm using an eVGA 8400GS, and NOT the on-chip GMA.

I'm also using a hand-built DSDT with devices and methods for the 8400GS (DSDT   nV Enabler 64) and the ALC888b (DSDT   hacked AppleHDA), and both are presently working thanks to an older version of MultiBeast.

April 15, 2010 11:59 AM
 Anonymous said...
I tried this on a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60 and was able to get to the Mac OS X installation screen once. I had to start over due to some existing Linux partitions from the past. After I removed them and reboot this boot process it always hangs. I've tried the "-x" safemode method and it also hangs. Any suggestions on what to do next?

April 15, 2010 5:15 PM
 sam said...
Hi Tony
Does it work for i5 661 CPU with P55 motherboard? I tried , but it show wrong message of e-BIOS error.Please give me suggestion.

Thank you

April 16, 2010 12:13 AM
 אורי said...
iBoot doesn't work on EX58-UD3R. It get stuck in the text phase after disk selection. end up using Kakewalk which worked great. MultiBeast worked like a charm.

April 16, 2010 3:05 AM
 Fernando Teixeira said...
Tony,

After a clean install folling your tutorial, iboot multibeast, still no sleep mode...
When I put the machine to sleep and press power button, the CPU restart.
What can I do?

By the way, Congrats!!!

Fernando Teixeira
P55M-UD2, Core i7 806, 9600GT

April 16, 2010 7:20 AM
 Fernando said...
Tony,

After a clean install, iboot multibeast, still no sleep mode. When I put my computer to sleep and press power button to return, the CPU restart.
What can I do?

Fernando Teixeira
10.6.3, P55M-UD2, Core i7 860, 9600GT, 4 GB kingston.

April 16, 2010 7:28 AM
 GaMeR said...
I'm using a windows computer and I want to dual boot with mac. Does this include some kind of dual-booting sofware?

April 16, 2010 10:13 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hello, I have been closely following your Blog and I am about to attempt this process on a Asus Essentio CG5275 with a P7H55 M board. Here are the specs

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus - Essentio Desktop with Intel® Core™ i5 Processor/9699025.p?id=1218152464094&skuId=9699025&st=asus essentio&cp=1&lp=2

Should I even attempt this with this system? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

April 16, 2010 10:56 AM
 Anonymous said...
hi

I tried on a Gigabyte P55A-UD4 with an i7-860, 2*2 DDR3 1333 Corsair in slot 1 and 3, XFX ATI 4890 card, Sonyarc SATA DVD writer and Hitachi sata 2Tb hard disc, usb mouse, apple usb keyboard

I used the iboot ati version but do not even arrive to any mac os screen, it fails with some kernel panic error messages.

any idea ?

April 16, 2010 4:53 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony, I appreciate your help,
I have a problem with the new iBoot   MultiBeast:
10.6.3 install without problems, but the audio is cut off at times and when I do the audio process generates some noise, I have a motherboard with P55-F6 UD3R 8 i7 ram and a 860.

In my old 10.6.2 install everything worked perfect, then install another disk with the new iBoot   MultiBeast but this time only until 10.6.2 update and everything works fine but the audio is defective, then replace the DSDT with which Multibeast 0.9.9 but still fails, I think there is something in the new change in the new MultiBeast failing either 10.6.2 or 10.6.3 appreciate any help

April 16, 2010 5:30 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,

I test many Snow Leopard Install. Your team IBoot and MultiBeast works better my P5K-E Motherboard Snow Leopard 10.6.3 version.

I Have only one problem. P5K-E ADI1988bFix Sound Card kext not work.

I Install Multibeast without DSTD because i not have work DSTD P5K-E motherboard. Can you help me. How i can get ADI1998 work.

I Install Multibeast option Patched 10.3.0 Kernel.

My Copumuter boot and start fast. Good job you. Only Soundcard is problem Now.

April 17, 2010 11:41 AM
 Chase said...
I have the Gigabyte P55A-UD7 motherboard and it isn't listed in gigabeast. Any chance I can get the files I need to do the custom DSTD method or does the UD6 or any of the others work.

Thanks in advance!

April 17, 2010 3:10 PM
 lovinxlost said...
great tutorial. one question, how can fix this problem?

ive done everything up to part 7(boot process).

but then all i get is 'still waiting for root device'.

how do i get past this

cheers

April 18, 2010 4:23 PM
 Anonymous said...
will it work with Intel Centrino Processor

April 18, 2010 7:14 PM
 Jingu said...
I have an Asus M60J laptop Core i7 720QM.

iBoot-Nvidia and multibeast method worked perfect. Updated to 10.6.3 without losing the USB ports.

However, I'm unable to inject cpu type. It still comes up as 1.6 GHz Unkown.

Using SMcputype 1793 or cpu-type <0105>. No effect. Still comes up unkown.

April 18, 2010 7:51 PM
 Luke S said...
I am a bit confused. The DVD you purchase from apple is OS X 10.6.0 no 10.6.2 correct?

April 19, 2010 12:04 AM
 Anonymous said...
The iBoot(Nvidia version) doesn't work with the Samsung R480 and I type in the busratio. It just reboot after patching and the solution is using the P55 motheboard dvd but then I keep getting installion fails....a little help?

April 19, 2010 3:35 PM
 Anonymous said...
I have tried to install OS X 10.5.2, 10.5.6 or 10.6.2 on a Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard and have had no joy, I go through the processes of installing OS Xs like formatting the hard drive, installing OS X and when I reboot I get a grey screen with an Ø sign in front of the apple logo.

The other problem I have is when I go into the Disk Utilities to format the hard drive I only see the IDE drive and not the 2 SATA drives, and when trying to install OS X I can only boot from the IDE DVD drive and not the SATA DVD RW drive.

Where am I going wrong? what should I do to get OS X running on my PC, by the way I am new to all of this and don't understand all of the gargan used.

System Info

Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H - System Type X86-based PC

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz, 2800 Mhz

RAM 4.00 GB

Audio PCI Card:
M-Audio Delta 66

TV PCI Card:
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1100 Capture Device (DVBT)

CD&DVD Drives:
SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621 ATA Device – IDE
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223Q ATA Device – SATA

Hard Drives:
Model ST3320820A ATA Device – IDE
Model SAMSUNG SP2504C ATA Device - SATA
Model WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0 ATA Device - SATA

On board Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i

On board Network:
Adapter Type Ethernet 802.3
Product Type NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet

On board:
Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller

Printers:
EPSON Stylus DX3800 Series
HP LaserJet1200

Lenny

April 21, 2010 11:21 AM
 Anonymous said...
i have followed the guide atm i am at the step where i am installing the 10.6.3 update .. i want to ask whats the momment to install the ram and the other pc peripherals i removed

April 21, 2010 11:25 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,
I am interested in installing on a Core i3-330M Thinkpad Edge, which uses the integrated graphics built-in to the i3 package. Do you think this is feasible? I heard integrated graphics is a big problem.
Thanks.
-Mu

April 21, 2010 2:35 PM
 Claudio C said...
Hello, I am not an expert and I really wish to do this.. so can you please tell me if it will run well on my pc..speces are Core 2 Quad Q9300, Nvidia Gefore 8600 GT 1 GB , 2 GB memory? Thanks! :) ..and oh.. what are the possibilities that my system would not work after doing the steps above?

April 21, 2010 3:58 PM
 Selwyn said...
Thx Man!

Works great on i7 920 (OC to 3,8 Ghz) Asus P6T WS Professional and ATI Radeon HD 4890 !

Took about 45 minutes to install and no problems at all !

THX THX THX

April 22, 2010 8:27 AM
 elbando1ero said...
So I am trying to do this on an intel i5 chip with an evga p55 sli board, and i'm wondering if maybe my board simply isn't compatible with iBoot, or if that actually matters at this point( I really have no idea what i'm doing)

I did set the AHCI and the boot priority, but the bloody machine refuses to see the iBoot disc i created to boot off of which leads me to wonder; You [TMx86] said "Burn the image to CD" and I am wondering did you mean i should burn the downloaded zip file, the expanded iso, the little drive icon it created on my desktop, or the contents (Extra, usr). It is a simpletons mistake I know, but I figured i might as well ask just to make sure I burned the right one (I burned the iso) or to find out if i didn't.

Also, I noticed the dsdt corresponding to my board isn't on your list, and i was wondering if there is a program i can use in either Windows7 or Ubuntu's Karmic Koala to extract it myself so i can make my own custom boot cd for the old set of instructions.

Anyway thanks for all you're doing! Haha i mean I haven't gotten the hang of this yet obviously but i'm glad someone out there is doing it right!

April 22, 2010 11:54 AM
 Jin said...
Tony,

Much thanks from So. Cal. After weeks of reading your forums and posts, budgeting and getting the parts (UD2, i5 750, 4GB XMS3, WD Blue 500GB, eVGA 9500GT 1GB dual DVI, CoolerMaster 460W PSU, Lite On DVD RW, MacBoxSet Family), I am up and running on 10.6.2 for now (went the safe, stable route for the first try). That was early this morning, and had to leave for work, but so far everything seems to work out of the box (after MultiBeast of course). Had a bad eVGA 9800GTX  with orange boot screen, freaked me out for a bit but was a bad card and got a new 9500GT instead.

April 22, 2010 12:10 PM
 VectorZ said...
Thanks for your great work Tony! As a continuing supporter and user of your Multibeast I was wondering if you could start including version numbers in the multibeast description or filename so that I know I am up to date. You Rock!

April 22, 2010 5:36 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,

I have a new HP dv7 running win 7 ultimate and would like to set up a dual boot. Can i use iBoot and Multibeast?

April 23, 2010 12:52 AM
 Eugene said...
Hello everyone i'm from Russia and i would like to know if my machine can work properly with this config : Intel Core i7 860 Asus P755d motherboard, 2x2gb samsung 1333 ram , IDE Pioneer DVD. 4 sata drives. My priority is music making and i am also interested if my sound cards (M-audio Delta 66 or M-audio firewire Audiofile can work on 10.6.3. Please help me with building my first hackintosh, cause Apple products in Russia are VERY precious. Simple macbook costs 2500$ !!!!

April 23, 2010 7:22 AM
 Anonymous said...
can above technique be used with linux KVM?

April 23, 2010 11:21 AM
 Tom Will said...
i try to boot but i get

EBIOS read error : error 0x09
Block 0x1ee0f8 sectors 0

wat going on

April 23, 2010 11:35 PM
 ElvIsAlive said...
line 17 a bit of a catch 22

Just continue with the guide. If you can't continue, reboot, erase the drive, and try the install again.

- so do you get this error every time and continue with the guide - WHATS THAT MEAN -

I CAN REBOOT AND THATS IT - WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY CONTINUE WITH THE GUIDE

OR ARE YOU SAYING - IF the ERROR happens
, THEN REINSTALL OSX


any HELP YOU CAN CLARIFY THE CORRECT Meaning please.

what do you mean by continue the guide - a assume use the reset button to reboot. it would not let me out of the install ( is that wat ya mean by continue out of the install process) very very confusing hey
----------------
very confused about - the above meaning -

i have a Gigabyte GA-P55a-UD4p motherboard -
a intel i5650 cpu 3.2ghz cpu

what options do i choose in multibeast -

do support my cpu and motherboard sound -
i have to type busratio=24 every boot into osx10 snow leopard
i cannot get sound working ?

tryed deleteing everything in the extra folder and selecting
gigabeast with my GA-P55a-UD4p but do i need a DSDT FILE ???

THE FILE "tonymacx86-DSDT-FIXES" DO I LOAD THAT ON THE DESKTOP OR PUT WHERE TO USE IT - DO I USE IT - MORE CONFUSED

GEE TONYMAC IF YA COULD HELP I BE A VERY HAPPY PERSON -

ALSO GETTING A AUDI0 DRIVERS for my Asus xonar essense pci-e card would be nice . how do i load the cmedia-8799 driver i think it is to my card.

Regards
ElvIsAlive -

ps be a great idea next to add a boot manger which can hack the bios back to ide on boot for windows xp.

heres what profiler says about audio card -

Intel High Definition Audio:

Device ID: 0x1458A102
Audio ID: 885
Available Devices:
S/P-DIF Out:
Connection: Internal
Line Out:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
External Microphone:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
External Microphone:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
Headphone:
Connection: 1/8-Inch Jack
S/P-DIF Out:
Connection: Combo
S/P-DIF In:
Connection: Combo

also how do i enable spdif digital output ?

April 24, 2010 11:40 AM
 Anonymous said...
I have an old computer that I would like to mess around with... It actually has Windows 7 ultimate on it now.. but I was wondering if this iboot would work for it considering its age and processor because I realize everyone else in this forum has a new CORE processor ??????

April 24, 2010 12:29 PM
 Anonymous said...
After installation can you place back the extra ram? I have 8 gigs and want to be able to use all that I paid for?

April 24, 2010 3:47 PM
 Anonymous said...
Thanks a lot tony, but I'm having issues w/ Multibeast and my new Gigabyte p55m-gd41 - It was a frys featured combo this week and kexts/multibeast settings would be nice. I didn't know which ones to isntall. :(

April 25, 2010 3:53 AM
 Gretzky said...
yeah, worked for me like a charm
MSI P55 CD53 with i5 750 and GF 9800 GT

April 25, 2010 5:41 AM
 sangeeth1991 said...
i dont have a ATI or Nvidia Graphic Card
what kind of iboot i download iboot ATi or iboot Nvidia ??

April 25, 2010 1:06 PM
 Anonymous said...
Works great ! thank you tony ! :)

April 25, 2010 1:55 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Guys,

What what components would be best to buy for a system to be built for this purpose?

So far I got these;

CPU: core i5 750
Mainboard: GA-P55M-UD4 (cheapest board with ALC889a)
Graphics Card: ??? NVidia 9800 ???
Hard Drive: any
Case: any

Would such a configuration be compatible? If not, which components should I prefer?

Thank you...

April 25, 2010 3:40 PM
 Lachlan Roy said...
Hey, thanks for the awesome guide! I'm kinda stuck at the moment, though.

I've got the Snow Leopard installation on a USB stick, which iBoot sees fine. But when I select the installer my monitor loses the input, my graphics card's fan goes full bore and the system locks up (and turns off instantly when I press the power button, suggesting that it's not going anywhere near the Snow Leopard installation). I've also tried starting up in safe mode, AND I've tried it with a Leopard disk (which I wasn't particularly expecting to work but thought was worth a try anyway) with no luck.

Here are the specs of my system:

Motherboard: eVGA P55 LE
CPU: Intel Core i5 750
GFX: XFX 5850 (Vanilla)

The loss of input automatically made me assume that it was the 5850, but the fact that the system becomes completely braindead makes me think it's something else... the motherboard, I'm assuming.

Any ideas as to how to get it working? Is this a fairly common problem?

Thanks in advance,
Lachlan

April 25, 2010 10:30 PM
 TreatLightly said...
Hey Tony,

Thanks for this sweet guide - I think it's the most user friendly guide I've come across so far.

Sadly I've given up - I had no luck after two solid days of trying to install SL on an ASUS N61 JQ (HM55 chipset, ATI 5730 vid), so I'm giving it a rest.

If anyone knows of support for this wicked laptop do let me know - until then I simply don't have the know how!

April 27, 2010 2:09 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,
Multibeast doesn't seem to permit me to provide the Darwin kernel parameters anywhere.
Where to specify these?
Thanks.

April 27, 2010 11:56 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hey Tony,

Easiest guide ever, works perfect with retail dvd and combo 10.6.3 update. Did the install, first time which worked pretty ok then I messed it up and did another install (later realised I did not need to reinstall). Mobo is ASUS P5N EM-HDMI with in built graphics Nvidia GeForce 7100/nForce 630i, 2GB corsair RAM, intel Q6600 quad core @2.4ghz.

Issues are the built in nvidia does not give more than 1024x768 resolution and I could not fix it, needless to say did not have QE so I bought a $30 Nvidia 512MB 8400GS DDR2 card and used the nvenabler and voila! full QE/CI working!
Sound uses voodooHDA, lan was working and to be honest I dont know if it was due to easy beast or OOB as I ran easybeast before I tried the lan. Bootloader is chameleon option, also works with the iHack version. The only other thing I changed was in the bios ACHI.

I have a dual boot with Win7 (GUID patition) on a separate drive, also have ubuntu (GUID partition) on the same drive as Win7 but strangely its not picked up by chameleon so will try another bootloader (I also tried with MBR partition but wasnt picked up either), but I'm happy all the same.

Oh yeah, the power, shut down, restart all work, also the multimedia keys on my keyboard all work. I think the only thing I'm missing is a webcam which I dont see the need for so wont buy one.

Anyone with this motherboard also had success?

Tony you are the man!

April 28, 2010 9:23 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi,

My problem is that the bios finds no disk or CD-ROM while connected to the blue ports on my gigabyte P55-UD4 under AHCI mode.
It only works with the white ports. Might that be the problem why I can't even get to the installer?

I've tried:
USB-method
OSInstall.mpkg Method (installed under 10.5.6 on other computer)
Old boot cd method
iBoot
-x

Nothing works!

Depending on which method I use it freezes on different locations:

ACPI(timed out)
Realtek Ethernet
VoodooHDADevice

How do I even get my blue ports to run in AHCI mode?

I've got P55-UD4 with Bios F7, i7 860, Sapphire 4870 1GB, 4GB Ram.

April 29, 2010 4:17 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,

I have a Asus UL20a with Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics...Is it still possible to fallow your procedure with nvidea or ATI boot? thanks

April 29, 2010 6:28 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi,

My problem is that the bios finds no disk or CD-ROM while connected to the blue ports on my gigabyte P55-UD4 under AHCI mode.
It only works with the white ports. Might that be the problem why I can't even get to the installer?

I've tried:
USB-method
OSInstall.mpkg Method (installed under 10.5.6 on other computer)
Old boot cd method
iBoot
-x

Nothing works!

Depending on which method I use it freezes on different locations:

ACPI(timed out)
Realtek Ethernet
VoodooHDADevice

How do I even get my blue ports to run in AHCI mode?

I've got P55-UD4 with Bios F7, i7 860, Sapphire 4870 1GB, 4GB Ram.

April 29, 2010 7:13 AM
 MDNZ said...
Lachlan Roy

The ATI HD 5xxx series aren't supported at all by Snow leopard. You have to wait until Apple gives offical support for these cards I'm afraid.

April 29, 2010 12:45 PM
 Anonymous said...
Thank You
works perfectly

P5E3 Deluxe
Core2duo E8200
Nvidia 8800GT

just add Kext VoodooHDA for audio

Very Good guide

April 29, 2010 4:46 PM
 wariows said...
Why EasyBeast install all on 32bit mode? I managed an installation with iboot   multibeast on my core 2 quad, and it detects a 32bit processor instead of the 64bit real. I have an installation of Mac OSX on the same pc with RebelEFI and it detects and can run all 64bit programs...

On the installation with iboot   multibeast, i was unable to run eclipse 64bit cocoa because the java (and all other programs) is 32bit...

Is there any workaround for this?
Thanks
Mario

April 30, 2010 8:49 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hello,

Yesterday I bought Snow Leopard 10.6.3 dvd to test how it will run on my computer. I followed the steps outlined in this article and my Dell Inspiron 1720 now runs a LEGAL copy of Snow Leopard like crazy. Wireless card, Nvidia 8400 started out of the box. OpenGL runs in full power. the sound I fixed with the help of Vodoo audio driver found in MultiBeast (works input and output!), the ethernet with AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext.pkg. The only thing isn’t working is shutdown (the system itself shuts down but doesn’t turn off power, but I’m not so lazy to push power button…) The only harware that is NOT working is the trackpad and the mouse of my Dell. I’ve tried several drivers of 10.5 version but none of them working for the dell. Anyway I thank you for this simple guide.

May 1, 2010 1:27 PM
 MILITARY said...
can't boot. blue screen. only on safe mode help

May 1, 2010 2:07 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hey Tony Mac I was wandering if you could help me

I've completed your old installation for i5/i7 sl and Im running it cleanly

My only problem is none of the audio fixes work. I've been trying for weeks with all sorts of HDA kexts but I still get no audio

Should I start clean and use this method?

And if you dont know what installation im talking about, look up Gman027 on youtube because I have a guide for them

May 1, 2010 11:46 PM
 Anonymous said...
I was able to use iBoot to install and get into Snow Leopard with no hassle at all. My only regret is to see that MultiBeast doesn't take advantage of the EFI partition. This would alleviate the issues of software updates. My other box was all manual install using munky's method and still updates direct from software update. Any chance of hosting all the kexts etc separately for the people setting up EFI partitions?

May 2, 2010 12:34 AM
 Tony said...
Hi Tony
Much thanks for this great site!

Well my old working OSX died--tried to use the DSDT for my board (DP55WB) because usb transfer was slow.

I finally got a working OSX but through through booting using the tonymacx86-P55BootCD-Intel CD. The chameleon boot on the hard disk keeps giving loops when after it says starting darwin.

Any ideas?
Much thanks in advance. :)

May 2, 2010 11:50 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony
Thanks for the great site!

I have a booting problem I can't seem to get around. I tried several options using in multibeast but doesn't work. I can boot to my OSX using the CD - tonymacx86-P55BootCD-Intel - but cannot on the hard drive. I have the Intel DP55WB board.

It keeps rebooting after it stays starting darwin.

Any ideas? Otherwise everything is working great.

Much thanks in advance :)
-Tony (also)

May 2, 2010 11:56 AM
 Alibaba said...
You guys are trying Snow Leo on very complicated
computers, eg. Asus and a like specific boards with
this and that hardware. Of course Leo will hardly
work on these complicated configurations, and often
will NOT work at all. You better try Leo on simple pc,
like 2 year old notebooks with popular hardware.
Go to apple.com and study the hardware that Apple
computers are using. Then look for computers that
have similar or nearly similar hardware configuration
and install on them your Leos. This way you'll save
days and nights spent on fixing your kexts...

May 2, 2010 5:32 PM
 Anonymous said...
hey tony,
i installed mac OSX LP v10.6 everything work but i can not connect to internet. can you guide me how to configure wire connection.

thanks

May 2, 2010 7:21 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi,

I have a GIGABYTE motherboard h57-usb3.0 with intel i3-530.

I downloaded iboot (nvidia) (I dont have nvidia card on my machine, the graphics is on intel processor itself). Bootcd launched properly and selected mac os x snow leopard. Then after couple of lines of text my system just restarted.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks

May 3, 2010 12:21 AM
 Anonymous said...
hasnt anyone ralized posting is useless as tony wont answer?? btw great tutorial but jeez, leave him alone and find a source like insanelymac or similar :D

thx for this, working great on i7 notebook (writting this from mac :D)

Have Fun!!

May 3, 2010 4:28 PM
 tonymacx86 said...
@Anonymous-

Thanks for that post!

Just a reminder to all- if you have any questions about this guide, register at the forum, and open up a support thread. But be sure to search first- a lot of the above questions have already been answered.

FORUM: http://www.tonymacx86.com

May 3, 2010 11:04 PM
 Anonymous said...
Post in the forums. I've seen good support there.

May 3, 2010 11:04 PM
 Anonymous said...
This was definitely the easiest install of SL I found after trying several guides. Thanks so much! Everything is working like a charm except powering off, but I can flip a switch quite easily.

May 5, 2010 1:17 AM
 Anonymous said...
Please what is wrong with my setup. I have
GA-P55m-UD2 motherboard
4MB ram, 3,2 Ghz i5 CPU 4 mb cache.
500 GB HD
GIGABYTE GTS 250 Graphics Card 1GB Ram

Mac OS won't install! It restarts during setup. It loads files for aboute a minute and then restarts. I have tried everything in this guide. BIOS setup and safe mode installation withoute any sucess.
I have tried several diffrent bootloaders, intall from usb or install from CD. But it restarts at the same point.
First i thought it was my grapichs card, so i have tried with a Sapphire ATI radeon. But with the same result.

Please help!

Lisa

May 5, 2010 12:15 PM
 Anonymous said...
Still no love for Radeon HD4650 1gig mobility ,.... damnnnn!!!

May 5, 2010 3:38 PM
 Anonymous said...
I have discovered some additional info to my problem.
After the install loads UHCI and EHCI controllers i get a message "No DSDT replacement found" it then shows "Starting darwin X86" and resets!
//LISA

May 6, 2010 3:15 AM
 Alibaba said...
Hey Lisa,
look in bios settings and try to disable dual cpu-enable one-core cpu, disable speedstepping etc. remove any external usb things, except mouse. Try it again. But I guess your computer configuration is too complicated. Sorry to say that, but I myself learned hard way...

May 6, 2010 8:20 AM
 Anonymous said...
I finnaly solved my problem. I found out that i had to specify the processor speed with the "busratio=##" command!!
//Lisa

May 6, 2010 9:16 AM
 Cristiano said...
I'm having a problem after the step 2.7, a message "Still waiting for root device" show many times and the installation don't start.

May 6, 2010 11:09 AM
 Taylor said...
Thanks for the guide! I followed the steps perfectly, but installed it to an external USB hard drive. It all went as planned, but I can't get iBoot to see my external HDD to boot into Snow Leopard. I did this so I could try it before installing it to my main hard drive. Does someone know how to continue? Thanks!

May 8, 2010 1:58 PM
 Arun 0446 said...
i am trying to install MAC Snow leopard in my Dell XPS 13. I am using sata 320 gb , 4GB DDR2 ram, 512 MB Nvidia Graphics card, Intel Core 2 duo processor. the iboot works, when i insert my SL DVD it moves till the language selection screen. After that my mouse and keyboard doesn't work. Am unable to select anything i hangs for ever. I waited more than an hour. But of no use. I tried busratio = 12 and 23 . Still no use??? any body help!!! any suggestion.??? thanks..

May 8, 2010 2:47 PM
 Grizz said...
I have the following laptop and would like to at some time have a DUAL BOOT Windows 7 Professional (currently on the machine) and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Here are the specs for my machine (I purchased in March 2010). Is this possible? How?

TOSHIBA A505-S6015

Platform : Intel Calpella
Mainboard : TOSHIBA Portable PC
Chipset : Intel HM55
Processor : Intel Core i5 430M @ 1200 MHz
Physical Memory : 4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
Video Card : Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD
Hard Disk : Hitachi (500 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT20F
Monitor Type : SAMSUNG - 16 inches
Network Card : RTL8101 PCIe Fast Ethernet Adapter
Network Card : RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCIe NIC
Operating System : Windows 7 Professional Professional 6.01.7600 (x64)
DirectX : Version 11.00
Windows Performance Index : 4.6

HD Audio Information :
Version : 1.0
Output Stream : 4
Input Stream : 4
Bidirectionnal Stream : No
64-bit support : Yes
Mode : High Definition Audio (HDA)
Manufacturer : Realtek
Model : ALC272
Codec Revision : 1.000



Another question: the install by using iBoot   MultiBeast, and I can find the download for the MultiBeast - but where do I download the iBoot?? As the Video card in my laptop as you can see is an INTEL Based card, not NVIDIA or ATI.


Thank You,
Grizz

May 8, 2010 11:18 PM
 Anonymous said...
Great guide. But When should I be able to expand the memory to more than 4 gb without getting kernel panic?

May 9, 2010 2:45 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hey Tony,

Is it possible to put an nvidia card in the first slot that will run, and then my ati 5850 in the other pci slot, and then run the system off of the nvidia card?

Thanks,

Phrzn

May 9, 2010 9:19 PM
 heyyder said...
which version of iboot do i download? i don't have either ati or nvidia. my laptop (sony vaio vpceb11fm) has an integrated intel graphics card.

May 9, 2010 11:48 PM
 Anonymous said...
hi all,

I have a AS ROCK H55, 4GB and Core i3 540

I have to questions:

1. I have a 5770 Radeon, this one doesnt run I know, atm I run OS X through the onboard Intel HD graphic. My Problem is that the 5770 runs the fan on full speed ! that is cray. Is there a way to manage the fan ?! :)

2. I want to build a new Hackmac. with the Gigabyte Board you took Tonyx86, my question is: Can I take 2x4GB (8GB total) ? And do I need to install SL in 64bit for that ? What is to do ?! Whats the right way ?

thx

May 10, 2010 6:32 AM
 nano287 said...
My Rig

MSI P55-CD53
Intel i5 750
OCZ Ram DDR3 1666mhz
HIS Radeon HD 4670 1GB DDR3

After the installation was finished i wasnt able to log into the system. but i restarted and i went into safe mode and this is how i am typying in this post. I am downloading update and hopefully that will work.
If anyone has this problem, help me out PLZ

May 10, 2010 10:50 AM
 heyyder said...
hi. i also have the same question as grizz. i have an integrated intel graphics card. which version of iboot should i use?

May 10, 2010 10:54 AM
 khuong said...
I got everything up and running... however i cannot install the bootloader/chameleon.. i am forced to use the bootcd to boot into macosx :/ anyway to fix this? (i've tried multibeast with all options possible and cannot get bootloader to work)

May 11, 2010 4:07 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi tony, I have a problem on my GA P55 UD3 Core i5 750 ati 4650 1GB 4GB ram Hd1 500GB WD black HD2 Segate 320GB
after installation of 10.6.0 I install combo 10.6.3 (1.1)
at this point before reboot I run multibeast and installa gigabeast for ud3 with system utilities and osx86 software,smbios.plist imac 11.1 corei5 and apple boot screen 64bit....but audio don't work
I reinstal vodoo hda 0.2.1 but don't work
what can I do?

I have a kext for ati 4650 card that work fine with 10.6.3...if you want I Upload them for a new version of multibeast.

Fotomodello

May 12, 2010 7:18 AM
 Grizz said...
Apparently Tony is no longer monitoring or responding these posts. I have noticed his absence from this forum/blog for quite some time. There are a number of unanswered posts here now - I guess he has moved on to bigger and better projects.

May 12, 2010 3:03 PM
 tonymacx86 said...
@Grizz-
Thanks for the responses- and everyone's interest! I've certainly NOT moved on from the scene! Just been doing a lot of other projects since 10.6.3 came out. Trying to make everything more compatible, and easy.

I have decided to make these blog comments just that- comments, not a question/answer area.

Since the forum opened, I haven't been responding to direct questions here, but have been impressed with the support that users are giving in the forum.

TO ALL: Please, if you'd like help on using this method- post in the forum- it's much easier to communicate!

FORUM: http://www.tonymacx86.com

Thank you to everyone for the kind words, and good luck!

-tonymacx86

May 12, 2010 3:22 PM
 Grizz said...
Tony,

Thank you for your post. I apologize if I offended by posting the comment.

I have posted my questions to the forums as you have requested.

Thank You,
Grizz

May 12, 2010 4:17 PM
 tonymacx86 said...
@Grizz-

No problem whatsoever- I hope you find the help you're looking for! :)

May 12, 2010 5:49 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hello :) this is the only method that worked for me DG31PR, Inel Dual Core E2200, 2GB Ram, Nvidia 8500 GT.
I just have one question, is it possible to find out the patches that iBoot loaded so i can load the same patches with mbeast?
Right now everything is working, Nvidia, Sound, Internetz, i don't want to lose it because i'm not sure what i'm doing :)
Any help appreciated ^^

May 12, 2010 10:46 PM
 Oleg Kozynenko said...
Hi all, I get the Ebios read error: Device timeout when I eject iboot and put in leopard dvd. Any suggetions ? Thanks

May 13, 2010 8:25 AM
 Nick said...
Hello Tony,
Thanks for this amazing post.
I can boot to the installation screen but as soon as i reach there, i click next on the welcome screen and it says 'MAC OS X can't be installed on this computer. If you want to restore your system from a Time Machine backup, Click Restore or Restart'.

What do i do in this situation??

I have a
Gigabyte P55-US3L Motherboard
Core i5 750
nVidia GeForce GT220

I changed the bios settings just as you have shown in the screenshots above.
Any help will be appreciated :)

Thanks,
Nick

May 14, 2010 12:15 PM
 Anonymous said...
what to do if I have 8 gb of ram? can I install the over 4 giga after installation? Can I have both Win and Mac on same hdd?
thx

May 14, 2010 7:11 PM
 Anonymous said...
Will this work if I don't have either an nVidia or ATI graphics card? I'm using the built-in Intel graphics card on my Intel mobo.

May 14, 2010 10:27 PM
 Anonymous said...
Great Work!! I would like to see the multibeast/multiboot for Asus P5KC MB.. Nvidia GT220..

May 15, 2010 11:21 AM
 Abhisek said...
Great Work!! Just wanna know can FCP and other mac applications be installed in this hack mac.Thanks.

May 16, 2010 5:26 AM
 Anonymous said...
will this work using a macosx 10.6.3 retail dvd? its the only one iv got

May 16, 2010 7:53 AM
 Gabor said...
Hi, can i install with this method Osx on a virtual machine with virtualbox? or vmware?

May 16, 2010 2:09 PM
 Anonymous said...
i get EBIOS read error when starting DVD install disk.

May 17, 2010 4:09 PM
 Marcus Maia said...
Hi, i use iBoot and OSX 10.6.3 Retail DVD. In the setup instalation the system detect all my hardware, MB Intel DP43TF, 4GB DDR2 and nVidia gForce 7900 GT 256MB. First boot, on the system registration and account creation, for the first time I watched the OSX intro with sound, network conection too. And finally came the SL with everything working, including nVidia accelerated and full resolution of my Samsung monitor XL2370 Full HD 1080p. A dream never seem on my Hackintosh. Now I can not install a bootloader so that SL stick with the original kexts. So, I'm booting with the iBoot CD (OSX and Windows 7 on the same disk) and all works fine, but I want this boot on my HardDisk (rdisk0s3). I try to use "fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0s3" but no success. Sombody can help-me?

May 18, 2010 8:10 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hey again.
Ok i got another ORIGINAL DVD and i installed it but WHILE installation it was LAGGING and AFTER installation it was LAGGING again.

Would it be coz of the graphics card?
GeForce GT220

Regards,
Nick

May 18, 2010 8:25 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi everyone,

I have MSI P55 GD65 with Intel i5 750 and I tried install OSx by this guide, but after install MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.3.pkg and reboot I can't use mouse(USB) only keyboard(PS2). Could you someone help me, please.
THX Josef

May 18, 2010 9:17 AM
 Anonymous said...
install multibeat additional USBFamily, so your USB mouse will work

May 18, 2010 4:31 PM
 billybobjoe said...
works perfectly on pentium 3 1ghz ati radeon 9700 pro dvd drive 1gb ram!

thx!

May 18, 2010 6:52 PM
 Anonymous said...
hiiii

its nice working tool. my snow leopard 10.6.3 its working fine . nvida 7300se & vooodo sound working fine. thanks lot ..

May 18, 2010 11:31 PM
 Ion said...
Hey,

I successfuly installed SL on my i5 750 with GTX295. The problem is that the snow leopard effects (drag/minimize/maximize, etc) are not smooth at all when I'm running any aplication.

Any help ? :(

May 19, 2010 12:26 PM
 Heine said...
Thanks so much! I got OSX running on my intel i5 system and it works like a charm. Such an easy way of installing OSX!

May 19, 2010 3:43 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hey, Tony


Does this guide only work on Gigabyte mobo's. Since i've been trying to change my BIOS settings and I changed them to Sata controller to ACHI and i boot with the cd and my computer just restarts. Then I think it' has something to do with HPET settings but i can't find that setting listed anywhere in my BIOS

May 19, 2010 10:56 PM
 stone said...
just got this up and running on my new box.

specs:

gigabyte p55-ud3
intel core i7 860 - 2.80 ghtz
4gb ram
two 500gig hdds
22x dvd burner
nvidia gtx 9500  1mb video [two dvi outs]
500 watt power supply
antec 300 case
two dell 22" lcds

May 20, 2010 1:40 AM
 Agent X said...
I have an Dell Optiplex GX620

Can I install MAC OS X 10.6.3???

May 21, 2010 3:04 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi

I cannot install unless i use cpus=1 busratio=17. Is that correct? should I do this?

thanks,
oto

May 21, 2010 9:35 AM
 cheesyruler said...
does your motherboard have to have HPET capability

May 21, 2010 10:17 AM
 Anonymous said...
My hp bios cannot be configured... :-( what should i do?

hp dv6 2130ej core i5

thanks, oto

May 21, 2010 11:58 AM
 Anonymous said...
I was able to install Snow 10.6 on my GA-P55M-UD4 but when I go to apply the 10.6.3 Combo Update I get an error saying that my HDD does not meet the requirements for the update. Any ideas?

May 21, 2010 2:46 PM
 Anonymous said...
i have a GS-p55a-ud4 p that every time i do -x it will reboot and type in busratio=20 -x then it will boot in to the cd then do the partion setup it will not boot from a 1tb or a 500 gb hd just get a error at the install screen

intel i5 core
ram 4 gb
video card ati hd 4670 with at less 1 gb of ram

May 21, 2010 10:27 PM
 Anonymous said...
Thank, tony this OS Snow Leopard is perfectly like a master piece, I install it in a motherboard PC Cilling P43G, 1 gb RAM 2 gb don't permit to install panic error coming up, audio was solved with MultiBeast with Vodoo and I instal a network card and run excellent because network adapter from motherboard don't is reconigse. Thanks I will do a donation. Att Luis M M

May 23, 2010 2:00 PM
 Anonymous said...
Thanks, tony after trying many thing for days this method works like charm. my mb is intel dx58bp iVidia 9400GT 1TB hard drive....keep up the good work. Thanks again.

May 24, 2010 2:55 PM
 Bazz said...
Hi Tony

Thanks Heaps! This is fantastic! Everything works except my audio.
After loading the OS my audio worked fine, after loading the update my audio worked fine... but after I loaded multibeast and then rebooted my audio stopped working.
I have tried everything in your video and other posts (including wiping the drive and re-loading 3 times now) and still I can't get the audio to work! Any help with this issue would be appreciated.
I am running the following hardware...
Gigabyte P55A-UD5 motherbaord
NVIDIA Gigabyte GTX 285 Video Card
Intel i7 860
Kingston 120GB SSD

Cheers
Barry

May 24, 2010 7:57 PM
 Jose Cruz said...
After i swap the media it boots but it gets stuck on http://yfrog.com/htphotoxmj . Help!!!!

May 25, 2010 10:35 AM
 Phoo said...
Hi, Need help...
I'm stuck at below line while booting Retail SL Disc after iBoot:
UCHI controller [8086:3b3e] at 00:1a:1 base 7f0(fe01).
Have tried busratio=21 but no go

Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 i7 860
4MB DDR3
NV 9500GT
Plain set-up just as Tony suggested.

Thanks in advance

May 25, 2010 10:37 PM
 Phoo said...
I actually got it running with 4GB of Corsair PC1333 but I exchanged it for 1600 as well as from EVGA NV9500 to Zotac NV9500 since they were on sale and decided to reinstall from scratch again but then I ran into this problem...UCHI... Is it the new video card? Help

May 25, 2010 11:57 PM
 Anonymous said...
thx

SL runs in an VBox on
- mainboard Intel DH55HC
- cpu Intel i5 661

currently without sound and clean shutdown's.
TBD ...
bare metal dito

May 26, 2010 4:45 PM
 mazing said...
Hey, I try to install the 10.6.3 version directly and I archieved it sucessfully.

Except for initial graphics problems, the rest of installation was perfect.

I had to boot with "-x" option to solve the graphics problem. Then I had to install NVEnabler before the Chamaelon Boot. After that I had installed the boot and the system worked sucessfully.

Thanks for all.

May 27, 2010 6:21 AM
 Anonymous said...
hello
I can´t install mac in my computer. I downloaded iboot and placed iBoot in DVD drive , after that I press f5 and run mac os retail dvd, but it appear " you can´t install mac in this computer, please restart " how canI install mac on my computer?


sorry but i am spanish and I don`t speak english

May 27, 2010 10:39 AM
 python said...
nice... keep up the good work tony!

May 27, 2010 12:11 PM
 Anonymous said...
Hi and SOS
My computer :
Mother board :Asus P7P55D
Graphic card :ATI Sapphire HD3850
Mac version Retail DVD 10.6.3
I've tried all iBoot version
Install ok
But when i reboot
Normal mode : Black screen
-x mode : normally start (but no usb and no mouse(usb or ps2))
So :
Can't download multibeast on safari(no mouse)
Can't us usb key or drive (no usb)
Can't burn a CD on Win readable on Mac

Any solution ?

May 27, 2010 2:35 PM
 Enrique Delgado said...
tony want to install snow leopard on a toshiba laptop L505 iBoot ES5034 get through the selection of languages but my keywords and trackpad do not work as I can solve?

May 27, 2010 8:22 PM
 xtraa said...
What can I say? I don't even have that kind of board but was reading for research and this is one of the best tutorials I have seen for a while!

Compliments!!

xtraa

May 28, 2010 3:35 AM
 MrJordanHawken said...
Umm you didn't specify how we change the BIOS setting? I can't even finish one of the very first steps if you don't specify what to do...

I run a HP Compaq d530.

May 28, 2010 6:21 AM
 Anonymous said...
[i][b]Спасибо!!!Всё встало без проблем![/b][/i]
Mac OS X 10.6.3
Компьютер:
Intel Core i5 750
Gigabyte P55-UD3L
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Вот если бы кто нибудь понимающий объяснил:
как установить(загрузчик)гружусь с (CD) iBoot-Nvidia
постоянно,да и по другому оборудованнию нужна помощь(если кто владеет русским и есть время на то что бы объяснить начинающему пользователю пишите,буду признателен а то с английским языком туго :-))
isq(616444916)

May 28, 2010 5:42 PM
 dennisdomingo said...
why? canot install mac os x 10.6 on my window 7 aspire 5542-c22f
amd athlon x2m300

May 29, 2010 4:58 AM
 Anonymous said...
excellent hi tony! installed on a intel dp55wb with i3 (530) using the cd iBoot supported. perfect boot integrating sound and video network, incredible.
Now when I install chameleon in the HD copy the folder / CD Extra iBoot to HD which boots too perfect. But my first problem occurs when I edit. Com.apple.Boot.plist to start in normal mode and is not verbose mode (-v) does not work
Any solution that is my Com.apple.Boot.plist


-
-
Kernel
mach_kernel
Kernel Flags
GraphicsEnabler = Yes
Timeout
1
Legacy Logo
Yes
EthernetBuiltIn
Yes


Com.apple.Boot.plist also delete the Library / Preferences / systconf so smoothly.
But also within the folder HD / I have the famous Extra preboot.dmg and within the Com.apple.Boot.plist I have another that I do with this?

May 29, 2010 11:21 AM
 C3po said...
Installed SL with iBoot Supported - working like a charm. Including 10,6,3 update. Motherboard - Gigabyte - E7AUM-DS2H - but I have to remove one 2 Gb module as it works only with 2Gb and no more - I get coruption.

BUT each time after using MultiBeast I lose my resolution - onboard nVidia 9400 is not recognized - just says nVidia with 32 Mb of ram and go in 1024x768 resolution. Sound also not working.

If I use iBoot for boot I have all resolutions - but is already at native monitor resolution - 1280x1024, it corectly display the 256 Mb graphic memory, and I HAVE SOUND, and network WITHOUT installing any other patches or files.

So - How to copy iBoot as main boot on the HDD ? Because for me is better than the bootloader & stuff installed by MultiBeast.

May 30, 2010 8:25 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hey Tony does IBoot have to be copyed to a CD and not a dvd?

May 30, 2010 3:15 PM
 Anonymous said...
so for this method its easiest to purchase the snow leopard cd. and i will not have to upgrade from leopard at all right?

May 31, 2010 1:18 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi everyone!
Ibooted with iBoot ATI with -x and it installs verye nice after installation i get garbage. when i use safe boot with iBoot ATI my graphic works and there it is 4670 series 9490 1gb need help ASPA pleezzzee

I use
Motherboard ASUS P5G41C-M
Quad Core 8300
4gb ddr3
SAPPHIRE HD 4670 1G GDDR3 PCI-E (New Edition)
500gb Sata
Monitor 24inch and have only VGA outpt i use VGA to DVI

Thanx guys

May 31, 2010 1:47 PM
 Виталий said...
Hello!
my config
--
video Gigabyte PCI-Ex GeForce GTX 275 - work
proc Intel Core i5-750 2660/6,4GT/8M S 1156 work
motherboard Gigabyte P55 UD4 Socket 1156 -work
memory Team 8Gb 4x2Gb DDR 3 PC12800 1600MHz 7-7-7-21 - work
HD 2x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 32M 7200RPM SATA
DVD LG GH-22LS50 Black SATA (ACHI Mode) - Work
monitor LG 23" W2343T Glossy Black Wide -work
keyboard Logitech Compact K300 Black USB - work
650W
Game Jaistick Logitech Force 3D Pro -not tested
web cam Logitech C600 -work

AND!
FireWare audiointerface T.C. Electronic desktop konnekt 6 - do not work. ....
i have download drivers from official t.c. electronic site, but hardware still not visable. what I have to do?? this is weary important! (In SystemProfiler/FireWare/ - it avialable) But if I enter to control panel, and go to the device setting, from its driver - I have a message: No hardware found. And blue indicator on the device - not flash, newer..
Sorry about my english, Thank you wery much!!!!!!!!!!!

--
iBoot-Supported   retail snow leopard 10.6.4   MultiBeast.
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June 1, 2010 8:50 AM
 Anonymous said...
Will it work with a laptop with graphics Intel GMA X4500? I need a reply guys, I've searched all over the net for a solution on this.

June 2, 2010 8:08 AM
 Anonymous said...
hey guys,

after installing iboot   multibeast, i can only boot into os x by -x (safe mode) if not i will face a kernel panic... any ideas?... thanks in advanced!

June 3, 2010 12:02 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hey, there's no image file when I download IBOOT supported? Can you post that somewhere?

June 3, 2010 1:54 AM
 Shakthi said...
Hi,

I got a copy of SL DVD & iBoot Nvidia. Tried following options:

1) -x
2) -x -v
3) -x -v cpus=1
4) cpus=1 busratio=17

When I try option 1 & 2 nothing happens. Installation does not proceed further.

When I try option 3 & 4 I get the grey screen with apple logo and then kernel panic.

Am I missing something. By the way I have a Sony Vaio Laptop (VGN C22 GH).

June 3, 2010 2:41 PM
 lee said...
Bout to try this today on a GA-VM800M-775. trying a slight mod to it. doing it from internal hard drive. using this method. man the usb on a g3 is slow lol. probably gonna take 4 hours to transfer the image to the hard drive. i seen that the board in a list was listed as worked well in a 10.5 install if i remember right. this is a 10.6.2 install. also gonna try to do a install from package for something of a live disc. will post back later on this run. been beating my head against the wall for a week on this. got it to boot up to loading screen and it hung on the usb 1.1

June 3, 2010 3:00 PM
 lee said...
well the good news is i got the boot screen. bad new is. got Ebios error on injection. the vm800 just crapped on me. ordering a new mobo. what to pick. lol. its a 775 socket so if anyone knows of a good 775 that will work decently let me know. where i got the ebios errors was on my toshiba l305-s5919

June 3, 2010 6:41 PM
 chris said...
HI! i am Chris, first of all thanks for your Iboot!

i tried almost everything on the web to install SL but i could success only using Iboot Nvidia

I installed snow leopard 10.6.3, it was quite difficult but finally i succeed to do it but i still have following problem:

the only for me to boot is to keep using the CD.
i cannot boot from the hard drive, i tried chameleon 2.0 RC4 and Beast but nothing....

For information i used the installation snow leopard by Hazard and using IBoot for booting....

any body can help me to solve it and make it booting without Iboot CD?

June 4, 2010 8:54 AM
 andre said...
Is this going to work with Intel Atom CPUs as well? I have got a ZOTAC IONITX-F here.

June 4, 2010 10:06 AM
 Anonymous said...
Hi Tony,
Try to Hackintosh on Asus P5K-E,Intel E8400,4Gb Ram. I use iBoot Supported 2.0 & retaill dvd 10.6.3. Yet after pressing F5 & "Enter", I get the message "EBIOS read error:Error 0x09 Block 0x18be00 Sectors