Combo Update

Go to Apple site and download 10.6.6 ComboUpdate.

Run the installer and follow the instructions.

It will take few minutes.

Restart once you’re done.

My congratulations: you’re up to date.

Let’s take care of few more issues.

Customize !!!

I’m a big fan of customization. I’ve always been. It started with Windows Vista, then it was Windows Seven, not it’s OS X.

I like to have some custom elements just to make my system more personal.

In our scenario I’m going to show you how to change boot screen as I can not stand the default one:

My favorite place to find boot themes is the “Theme Park” section of the VoodooLabs site.

Just to show you how easily you can change your boot skin I’m going to use  one of the probably most beautiful themes floating around called “DTYPE” created by Enzo.

It looks really nice, so let’s apply this one.

Go ahead and grab the theme from Voodoo site or open my “AIOdownloads” folder. Copy the “DType” folder into: SnowLeopard/Extra/Themes. There should be already our default theme.

One more time open “AIOdownloads”. Find Lizard application and copy/move it to your Applications. Open the app.

Choose your skin in the “Themes” tab and click “save”. That’s it. You’ve just applied your custom boot theme.

At this point it’s good to run Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) and repair permissions.

You may restart your computer now to see how your new theme looks like.

Few More Issues

Ok. We are almost done. Our trackpad is working, we have  Chameleon boot loader and we don’t need to type anything like “GraphicsEnabler=Yes” while booting.

Sound

Problem number one is the sound. Actually I should say: the lack of the sound. Go ahead and open “System Preferences”. Sound effects are grey out which means they are not available.

To fix that we need only one kept – Azalia Audio. Open “AIOdownloads” pack and run the program. Restart your laptop. The sound is back.

Power management

We need four kexts to have perfect power and battery management. Go ahead to “AIOdownloads” and unzip two files:

• AppleACPI_Thermal_EC
• VoodooPowerMini & VoodooBattery

After unzipping the archives you should have four kexts. Select all of them and copy/move them to SnowLeopard/System/Library/Extensions directory. Authenticate with the password. Before restarting your machine we need to run small and extremely useful utility called “Kext Utility”. One more time open “AIOdownloads” pack. Unzip “KextUtility” and place the app in your Applications folder. Run the program.

Once it’s all done you may restart your computer.

Bluetooth

Oh yes, we will have a working bluetooth connection. The only thing we need to remember is the switch on the right side of your laptop. It has to be permanently On. If yours is Off at this point just switch it On and one more time open “AIOdownloads” folder. There is a zip file called “ToshibaBluetooth”. Unzip it and copy/move the kept into SnowLeopard/System/Library/Extensions folder. Authenticate. Run “Kext Utility” and restart. That’s it, the bluetooth is back. Just remember to have the switch always On.

We are done (for now). You may learn how to change some graphic elements like boot screen here.

Fixing installation

So…. We finally have it: Mac OS X on Toshiba Satellite.

We are in the middle of our way. There are few things we need to take care of.

First of all setting up the system, but that’s easy.

More important is making sure that our computer will boot into OS X without Empire EFI.

Let’s continue from the point we left (intro video). That’s easy part, just follow the instructions on your screen. Notice that the trackpad is still not working. Use your USB mouse or tablet.

If you do not have wireless network choose different way to connect to internet. These settings are not permanent. There is always a way to change them later on.

You may skip those some steps.

Except this one:

And finally:

Yet, proper screenshots:

Now it’s time for serious stuff.

Place Empire EFI in your drive and open it. There are three folders inside. We are interested in the one named “Post-Installation”.

Inside there is an installer called “myHack Installer”. Go ahead and run it.

Stop once you get here:

You HAVE TO choose “Customize” and select/deselect following kexts:

Double check you have them all the same way as shown above. Choose “Install” and authenticate with your password.

Wait for the installer to finish.

Restart your computer.

Note that this time your computer should start without Empire EFI disc as we just installed Chameleon boot loader. This what you should see this time:

And don’t forget to type (for the last time) before the progress bar runs out:

GraphicsEnabler=Yes

If at this point you’re getting grey screen, one more time use Empire EFI disc with “GraphicsEnabler=Yes” option.

Now let’s fix our graphics, so we don’t need to type anything during booting. To achieve that we need to create custom string for our graphic card and insert it in to apple boot playlist.

It may sound complicated but I’m going to prove it’s easy. All we need is one application: OSX86Tools. Copy it to your Applications folder and run it.

Click on “Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag”. The new “Boot Editor” window opens. Choose the top left icon “GFX Strings”.

Pick up our graphic card from the list.

Confirm with password.

In the “GFX String Creator” window click on “Import String to Boot Editor”.

You should see this:

Then hit “Apply changes to com.apple.Boot.plist” and confirm with password.

Restart your laptop.

During the next boot you don’t have to type anything. We’ve just fixed that issue. Was it so difficult?

Let’s proceed to the next step.

Let’s Do It !!!

Before you start double check you have:

• Mac OS X retail install disc
• CD/DVD with burned Empire EFI (BootCD)
• USB mouse or tablet
• AIOdownloads folder (probably on external flash drive)

Have all of them?

Let’s start then.

Power up your computer and choose CD/DVD drive to boot from.

BTW setting the boot order can be done in two ways:

• press F2, go to Boot Order, make sure CD/DVD drive is on top
• press F12, choose CD/DVD drive

The difference between those two options is that by choosing the second one you make only one time change, while the first option will change the booting order permanently (until next change).

It’s totally up to you.

I find the second option more convenient, so I’m going to stick to it.

Before you hit enter insert your CD with Empire EFI.

You will see something like this:

 

In this case my internal hard drive contained Windows 7 installation.

The drive was partitioned before that’s why you can see one “System Reserved” and two “Windows NTFS” partitions.

Follow the instruction on the screen. Remove Empire EFI and place OS X installation disc in the drive. Wait a bit and hit F5.

Before choosing “Mac OS X Install DVD” type:

GraphicsEnabler=Yes

PS. Don’t search for any box or space to type it in. Just lay your hands on keyboard and start typing. As soon as you touch any key, the text appears in the left bottom corner of your screen.

Hit “Enter”. The next few minutes will look like that:

And finally:

At this point you may notice that your trackpad is not working. It’s good to have a USB mouse or tablet and connect it to your laptop.

Choose your language.

Before hitting “Continue” we need to prepare our internal hard drive for installation.

In menu bar choose “Utilities” and “Disc Utility…”.

And here it is: my hard drive with Windows installation as seen by Disc Utility:

Just for this guide (to make it simple)  I’m going to partition my hard drive into one partition.

While Windows use NTFS file system, OS X needs HFS+ file system with GUID partition table scheme.

Here is how to format your drive properly:

At the bottom right of the table you should see “Options…”. Choose it and make sure you have “GUID Partition Table” option enabled:

I’m going to name my partition “SnowLeopard”.

Once you’re ready click “Apply” and of course ignore warning:

Disk Utility will now partition your hard drive. Once it’s done quit application.

Familiar screen appears again:

This time go ahead and click “Continue”.

Read (or skip) the agreement. Just “Agree”.

After formatting the hard drive is ready for OS X. Before hitting “Install” you may customize your installation, so go ahead and click “Customize”.

I’m going to skip language translations. That saves 1.2 GB of space.

But I want to have Rosetta and QuickTime 7. I’m also going to install additional fonts and printer support for most popular models.

Finally install!

The installation will take some time. In my case it was approx. 30 minutes.

My strong advice is to keep an eye on your computer during installation as it happened to me once that the installation just froze in the middle. Then I’ve noticed that the fan stopped working. Laptop was becoming dangerously hot, so I had to shut it down and start all over again. Next time everything went OK, so just monitor the progress from time to time.

Anyway once the installation is complete you should see this:

Don’t panic. Everything is fine, at least according to the plan.

Click “Restart”. One more time change the boot order (F2 or F12), remove OS X installation disc and place Empire EFI one more time into CD/DVD drive. Boot from CD.

This time you should see this:

Before choosing “Snow Leopard” you need to type once again:

GraphicsEnabler=Yes

One more time matrix:

And finally – YES!!!! The intro video (probably with no sound, we will fix it later).

In case you wish to see it again, here is a YouTube link.

At this point you earned my congratulations. Seeing the intro means that the installation was successful.

There are few more things that need to be done, but the first major step is complete.

Welcome to the dark side!

You may go ahead to Fixing Installation.