Thread: Problem installing Snow Leopard 10.6 on AMD FX-6100

Originally Posted by uridi0t

Ok, I will try Chameleon Wizard again. But what are the difference of Chameleon and Chameleon Wizard? I know that Chameleon Wizard allows you change preference under system preference.

Originally Posted by noway

Chameleon might be regarded as the loader, making OSX "think" it is on Apple hardware.
Reading BIOS , creating an EFI setting, such things...
Chameleon Wizard is the graphical frontend for installing, maintaining and customizing the Chameleon.

BTW: For me its one OS, one HDD too.

I just figured that I can boot into loader without using Mod CD. In fact, I didn't install any loader application after first installation. I think installation disk installed the loader for me.

Anyway, should I just install Chameleon Wizard and configure it by myself? Should I set -v cpus=1 busratio=20 arch=i386 -force64 PCIRootUID=1 so that I don't have to type these on loader for booting into SL by just pressing enter on SL HDD? These commands are what I typed on loader for booting into SL!

It will be org.chameleon.Boot.plist which should be in /Extra.
It may not be and you have to make the file your self. Making a copy of com.apple.Boot.plist that is in the same place and renaming it to org.chameleon.Boot.plist works really well.
You can edit it with Chameleon Wizard after renaming, or open com.apple.Boot.plist and saving that as the chameleon one.
It will probably look a lot like this:
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>DSDT</key>
<string>/Extra/dsdt.aml</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>legacy_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v arch=i386 -force64 cpus=1</string>
<key>PCIRoot</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>SMBIOS</key>
<string>/Extra/smbios.plist</string>
<key>SMBIOSdefaults</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>SystemType</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
<key>busratio</key>
<string>19</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Pete.

Or it would if opened in TextEdit.

Originally Posted by alaskan

It will be org.chameleon.Boot.plist which should be in /Extra.
It may not be and you have to make the file your self. Making a copy of com.apple.Boot.plist that is in the same place and renaming it to org.chameleon.Boot.plist works really well.
You can edit it with Chameleon Wizard after renaming, or open com.apple.Boot.plist and saving that as the chameleon one.

Or it would if opened in TextEdit.

As I remember, I don't see the org.chameleon.Boot.plist in /Extra, I think my Chameleon is an early version and I am going to install Chameleon Wizard when I get home tonight! Thanks!

If it isn't there, you will have to add it.
What it is using right now is in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist.
Which you can also change if you want to have all your boot flags working.

Originally Posted by alaskan

It will be org.chameleon.Boot.plist which should be in /Extra.
It may not be and you have to make the file your self. Making a copy of com.apple.Boot.plist that is in the same place and renaming it to org.chameleon.Boot.plist works really well.

Pete.

Or it would if opened in TextEdit.

I installed Chameleon Wizard and created org.chameleon.Boot.plist in /Extra. I checked the following:

Verbose mode (-v)
GUI
Time Out:5
Kernel - legacy_kernel
32-bit (i386)
PCIRoot=1
System Type=1
Busratio 20
cpus=1

So, the above options most likely the same that I typed on loader for loading into SL successfully. However, I have no luck to boot into SL by using org.chameleon.Boot.plist. The system either reboot right after the message running on sceen in loader screen or it is just showing nothing (not reboot but just nothing shown on screen), so had to reboot by pressing the power button.

I don't know what went wrong but I really don't know how to solve the problem for booting into SL without typing commands in loader.

Any suggestion?

Your selections are looking reasonable to me.
C-States and P-States should be checked IIRC.
Check the npci=0X2000 box too.

Best have a look at the the com.apple.Boot.plist the CD uses, if that is working for you.

Originally Posted by noway

Your selections are looking reasonable to me.
C-States and P-States should be checked IIRC.
Check the npci=0X2000 box too.

Best have a look at the the com.apple.Boot.plist the CD uses, if that is working for you.

Still not work! The system reboots! Really have no idea how to fix it!?

As nawcom posted, some Chameleons had bugs. The one from his CD should be fine.
You might also try Chimera 1.7.0 for restoring your bootloader, that always worked for me.
I recall issues with Chameleon Wizard too for netbook and AMD.
Luckily a plain installation with nawcom´s and the combo update worked for me finally.

Originally Posted by alaskan

If it isn't there, you will have to add it.
What it is using right now is in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist.
Which you can also change if you want to have all your boot flags working.

Originally Posted by noway

As nawcom posted, some Chameleons had bugs. The one from his CD should be fine.
You might also try Chimera 1.7.0 for restoring your bootloader, that always worked for me.
I recall issues with Chameleon Wizard too for netbook and AMD.
Luckily a plain installation with nawcom´s and the combo update worked for me finally.

My system would reboot after loader trys to run SL earlier and now I managed to let loader runs SL without needing to type command.

However, with the Chameleon 2.1 v1827 (not sure exactly the version of Chameleon), I always get the 'Wait for Root Device' message, even -f in org.chameleon.Boot.plist. When I use Mod CD and type the commands: -v -f cpus=1 busratio=20 arch=i386 -force64 PCIRootUID=1, I could run into SL 10.6.8. I just don't know why Chameleon wouldn't boot into SL but able to boot into SL with Mod CD with the same commands in org.chameleon.Boot.plist.

Also, my lan card is onboard Realtek 8111 and I already installed the pkg for lan card, however, I figure out that must use -f for making the lan card workable otherwise the lan card won't work?

press F8 as soon as your chameleon starts which will give you the boot prompt then enter:
-v -f cpus=1 busratio=20 arch=i386 -force64 PCIRootUID=1
and it should start