so it turns out now that i got networking to work that the laptop had a few more issues that needed to be worked out.
so here’s the final list of things needed to get snow leopard to work on the asus g51j-a1:
empire efi boot disk – this is where the magic all started. burn this onto a disk, boot, and then load up the retail disk.
netkas’ nvidia injector to get 1920×1080 resolution working on the LCD.
10.6.2 ComboUpdate from apple. the kernel that comes with 10.6.2 supports the i7 CPU.
VoodooPS2, VoodooHDA for keyboard/trackpad and audio functionality. the audio turned out to have a lot of static that i didn’t hear until i started to stream some video.
superhai’s VoodooBattery to get the battery meter to work.
netkas’ fakeSMC to get istat menus’s CPU temperature monitor to work.
once i swapped the intel wifi 1000 bgn wireless card with the dell 1510, wireless worked out of the box. bluetooth also worked out of the box. reboot works, but i am still having some trouble with sleep and shutdown.
i just installed chameleon boot loader 2.0-RC4 and replaced the annoying theme that the empire EFI boot disc installs with something a little less painful to look at.
win7 boots fine in vmware. what i wasn’t sure about was whether or not a VM that i installed on the win7 partition would boot up from OSX, but after NTFS-3G was installed for read/write access to the win7 drive, the VM boots up just fine. talk about great re-use of hard drive space on the laptop.
one unexpected thing is that istat menus’ bandwidth meter does not work. i ended up installing both istat menus and menu meters to get all of the meters i wanted in the menu bar.
Hi! Can you give a bit of detail about what options you picked when installing the EFI/Chameleon after installing OSX? I got OSX installed and hosed the installation after running the myHack piece. I’m re-installing and am going to try some different options this time. Also, are you dual booting from a single hard drive or 2 hard drives?
Thanks!
on the EFI boot disk there’s an…i think Extras folder or something with some kind of post-installer type application. i used that with the default settings to install the bootloader onto the hard drive.
i later installed a more current version of chameleon on top of that just following their directions on the install.
i am dual booting from two hard drives. chameleon boots first, then either boots up OSX or the windows bootloader to then load windows.
Great thanks! I got it all working, except for wireless. I’ve ordered a Dell but haven’t received it yet. I want to update the Chameleon because I don’t like that initial background.
Thanks a lot!!! I have only one question:
what version of Empire Efi have you used??
I have installed Snow Leopard correctly, but when i try to run the Snow partition with Empire Efi it stucks.. 🙁
i used the empire efi w/ the i7 compatibility. booted with no problems for me.
I have installed Snow Leopard 10.6.1/10.6.2 successfully with Hazard’s DVD. But the only problem is the shutdown function does not really power off. CPU halt and screen off, but power is still on. Have you encountered the similar problem ? Any solution ?
By the way how many kexts are in your Extra folder ? and can you enable sleep function ?
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