SnowOSX : First Snow Leopard 10.6 Distro for Intel PC

26 November 2009 by Vinay 21 Comments

This article will discuss the first “snow” assembly SnowOSX Universal 10.6 v3.4. Distribution is based on the Snow Leopard 10A421 and installed on a PC computer based on Intel processors with support for instructions SSSE3. First, you need to download the distribution from the Internet. Image SnowOSX Universal 10.6 v3.4 is distributed in ISO format and has a size 4.34Gb, and thus can be written not only under OS X, and Linux or Windows, with an ordinary single-layer DVD. The disc must be burned to a minimum speed x2 or x4.

Where to Download SnowOSX Distro

SnowOSX distro is available on usual places like Bay of Pirates, Mininova or your favorite torrent site. Please don’t ask us or post the links of torrent link in comment because of legal issues. We’ll cover a how to guide very soon so keep following iHackintosh your one stop place for all Apple hackz

General Information about the SnowOSX Distro

Version : Mac OSX Snow Leopard Build 10a432 v3.5
The developer : Apple + dan1234
Platform : Intel only
System requirements : PC computer with an Intel SSSE3 processor, 1GB of memory, 8GB free disk space
Interface language : English + Russian

Kexts Included in SnowOSX Distro

AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext
AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext
ApplePS2Controller.kext
AppleRTL8139Ethernet.kext
CPUi_snow.pkg
dsmos.kext (from Netkas to 10a432)
HDEFInject.kext
LegacyAppleAHCIPort.kext
LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA.kext
LegacyAppleYukon2.kext
LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage.kext
LegacyJMicronATA.kext
NVInject.kext
OpenHaltRestart.kext
PlatformUUID.kext
SleepEnabler.kext
SMBIOSResolver.kext
TARUGA_SNOW
VoodooHDA.kext

FYI

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21 Comments »

Jason Pizzuco said:

Can you istall SnowOSX Distro on any PC with a Intel Processor or is it limited to some like installing OS X 10.6 with Rebel EFI?

Jason, Canada, Age 12

# 26 November 2009 at 6:48 pm

neFos said:

Thanks.!

My Board ASUS P5K-SE..
Cpu Quad SS3 support

Work?

# 27 November 2009 at 1:41 pm

Biso said:

that’s very old news … there is v3.5 and 3.5.2 and very recently introduced v3.6 which based on SL 10.6.2 with Chameleon bootloader capable of booting into 32 or 64 bit mode. this version solved so many problems you usually face when upgrading from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2

# 28 November 2009 at 7:12 am

ShokoMoka said:

It looks great bt it’s doing problems to me…
When it loads up, it’s trying to start Darwinx86 and then it restarts…
Can you pleas post a tutorial or something

# 28 November 2009 at 6:26 pm

Vinay (author) said:

@Jason @neFos Almost on any PC with Intel based system, though you need to do a workaround for patches, fixes for your Sound/Lan/WiFi etc.

@Biso Thanks for the update, already searched the V3.6 on torrent sites but only 3.5 is seeded in the wild. Some Direct Share sites posted direct download links but it’s unverified. Do you know the home of SnowOSX?

@ShokoMoka Make sure to have Sata HDD, also play with your BIOS setting like disable unused ext ports like Serial/Parallel/1394 etc. Also set your Sata in AHCI mode.

# 29 November 2009 at 9:20 am

neFos said:

Thanks @Vinay

# 29 November 2009 at 8:06 pm

wanja said:

i downloaded v3.6 and when booting from dvd i get darwin boot loader with options -v , ?, or press enter and chose operating system(w7)…where and how do i install hackintosh? is it possible to keep win7 and make a partition just 10Gb from that hard drive?

# 1 December 2009 at 12:28 pm

redhope said:

thanks
can i install this version in separate IDE HDD if no is there any way to do it ( i want to try it in old HDD for me)
and sorry for my english

# 2 December 2009 at 4:29 am

sHaRjI said:

This is my
——————
System Information
——————
System Manufacturer: INTEL_
System Model: DX48BT2_ Extreme series
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 4GB RAM DDR3 corsair
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Display Memory: 2668 MB
Dedicated Memory: 877 MB
SONY DVD RW DRU-V200S ATA Device
Hard disk : WD 500GB
Razer Mouse & keyboard
Sound Sigmatel 9274HD
Altek lancing 5.1 channel speakers
Ethernet Intel 82566MM/DC

Can i install this and how i am using windows 7 >>>>>
sharjeee@gmail.com

# 5 December 2009 at 7:39 pm

TUAN said:

I had been panic with AppleAHCIPort.kext.
I’m using GIGA P43, CPU E7500, ASUS HD 4670, HDD SEGATE 500 RAM 2GB

# 7 December 2009 at 12:42 pm

Jan said:

Where can i download kexts for my nvidia 8800gts 640mb to make this work for me?

# 10 December 2009 at 11:41 am

nimhim said:

dear all,

yesterday i install the new snow leopad 10.6 v3.6 but i didnt understand how to configure it. i cant create the boot loader . and my intel proccessor also support ssse3 model.but my all hdd & dvd rom are SATA. but when i install realy i dont know how is partition creat. however i try & install but reboot after it never boot. i cant handle it. if anyone know about please post it with simple step. after instll my bios setting has some issu.it identify no hdd in system.

# 14 December 2009 at 3:50 pm

v_skimmer said:

@Wanja
Same issue so far. It asks for the hex code of the disk to boot
But I want it to boot the CD. Need to find a DOC
(I have iDeneb v1.5.1 running smooth)

# 18 December 2009 at 3:17 am

Vasudeva said:

Hi Vinay!

Can I install this distro on external USB drive?

I am using Lenovo R60 laptop.

# 20 December 2009 at 9:36 pm

fireseven said:

Asus g51vx rx05 (laptop)

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P7350
Northbridge Intel PM45 rev. 07
Southbridge Intel 82801IM (ICH9-M) rev. 03
Mainboard Model G60VX (0x0000015B – 0×00028480)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
4GB RAM

Sometimes I get Dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one

Sometimes I get further, those messages are still on the screen, and just a split second later it still hangs.

I’ve tried:

acpi=off
cpus=1
-f
-x32
-s
-x

SnowOSX Universal
SnowOSX Uniflash

Disabling all my extra hardware on the laptop and unplugging everything.

I can’t get it to boot to the install process!

For some reason, every ISO application sees Extensions as a file instead of a folder. So I can’t edit them or change them in any way. I actually don’t have a mac to read the ISO from either….

I successfully got 10.5.6 to install on a different PC a few months ago, but I no longer have that hardware.

Any help would be appreciated!

# 20 January 2010 at 2:55 pm

wagner said:

I have 3 mac x, a 10.52, two 10.6, tree 10.6.2
the last two install and all restarts he/she doesn’t enter in the system, mistake when carrying the system

I please need help

# 4 February 2010 at 6:24 pm

Yair said:

Hi everyone!!!

I’ve recently downloaded the SL software and I own a Hackintosh of iatkos now upgraded to 10.5.8 and the disc loads correctly in the Mac OS X system but in the install process it goes correctly, in the 47% freezes the installation and i couldn’t stop the installation because the system was busy…and my question is… Why it takes too longer? and… Why it was frozen by 8 hrs and without an advance?

I Hope that you send me an answer to my e-mail:

yairbmp@gmail.com

Thanks!!

# 18 February 2010 at 10:55 am

Tree son said:

When i try to load up the system it says:

“VWware is starting Mac OS X.

Hold “option” to select Mac OS X BOOT device.
Hard Disk 80h has no boot volumes, choosing DVD.
Loading… done.
Please wait for the DVD to load…¦”

And stays like this.

Can you help me please?

# 13 April 2010 at 9:19 pm

joe bob said:

how do i get this to work on my Dell Optiplex GX270 with an intel Pentium 4 and 2 GB of RAM? i have tried 3 times straight from the disk and 5 times through OSX86SV and it restarts after about 5 seconds every time

# 8 May 2010 at 6:02 am

Dave said:

I am about to pull the trigger on this purchase for an OSx86:

ASUS P6X58D motherboard

XFX Core Edition GS250XZSL4 GeForce GTS 250 1GB 256-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
With the 6.0 gbps drives (2x2gig) and 6 gig of DDR3 memory (3x 2GB). Rack mount case and 600w power supply. Will use a large (32GB) USB flash drive in lieu of any DVD drive.

Any reason, sir, that I’m doomed to failure here?

Thank you!

Dave

# 12 May 2010 at 7:17 pm