[GUIDE] Retail Snow Leopard Install on Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (Core i7) Mobo, Fully scripted - Chameleon 2 RC3, Extra & EFI partition boot Options

[mrycar]

What am I doing wrong?

Powel

I see nothing in your setup that would prevent firewire from operating.

I would recommend checking bios settings or the connection/power status of the device.

You may want to launch with -v in from the bootloader and catch what the status of firewire is while it is booting, or check the logs for your firewire status.

[powel212]

I have 2 separate drives one with firewire working and one with firewire not working.

I plug in one and boot and firewire works, I plug in the other and firewire doesn't work. I have reinstalled on the drive that it doesn't work on several times with different configurations but no dice. so I am pretty sure it ain't BIOS.

My system boots Verbose as default, when I boot the system that works I just get "Firewire configured - max 400Mps"

On the other I get "Firewire not configured"

That make any sense?

Is there a firewire kext I can try?

Thanks for the feedback.

Powel

I see nothing in your setup that would prevent firewire from operating.

I would recommend checking bios settings or the connection/power status of the device.

You may want to launch with -v in from the bootloader and catch what the status of firewire is while it is booting, or check the logs for your firewire status.

[Vasto]

Hey guys, I have an issue.
I upgraded to 10.6.2 without deleting sleepenabler.kext (I know, I should have read first). Then I got Snow Leopard install disk to boot, used the terminal to delete /Volumes/EFI/Extra/sleepenabler.kext, /Volumes/EFI/Extra/Extensions.mkext, and /Volumes/Main/System/Library/Caches/Extensions.mkext (This is from memory so the exact paths/file names may be a little off). Now, when I try to boot into either my HDD or the Installation DVD I get a panic.

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x77b6df60): "No HPETS available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly\n"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-90/pmThread.c:148

Any clues on how to fix this? I'm guessing I'm going to need to borrow someone's mac and drop a kext into my EFI and rebuild. But what kext is needed to fix this?

[d00d]

Hey guys, I have an issue.
I upgraded to 10.6.2 without deleting sleepenabler.kext (I know, I should have read first). Then I got Snow Leopard install disk to boot, used the terminal to delete /Volumes/EFI/Extra/sleepenabler.kext, /Volumes/EFI/Extra/Extensions.mkext, and /Volumes/Main/System/Library/Caches/Extensions.mkext (This is from memory so the exact paths/file names may be a little off). Now, when I try to boot into either my HDD or the Installation DVD I get a panic.

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x77b6df60): "No HPETS available...CPU(s) configured incorrectly\n"@/SourceCache/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-90/pmThread.c:148

Any clues on how to fix this? I'm guessing I'm going to need to borrow someone's mac and drop a kext into my EFI and rebuild. But what kext is needed to fix this?

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext or similar has been removed?
Instead of moving it back, you could fix the HPET section of your DSDT so that AppleHPET, AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement and AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient kexts load without having to use NullCPUPowerManagement.
See the topic linked in my signature for more information.

[digital_dreamer]

Noticed that some drives that I have, would not run the DD script properly. They were not releasing the EFI partition after copying the boot and extras stuff to it. When the partition was being made active in the script all files would vanish and the EFI partition would not be able to be eject or beunmounted. A reboot would unmount the efi partition, but it would be empty.

Same issue here on a SSD drive. Unmounting fails because of a 'device busy' error.

The problem occurs in the buildcache script (installed into /var/root/Library/Scripts).
After unmounting it executes 'rm -rf /Volumes/EFI', which deletes all the data on the EFI volume instead of removing just the mount point directory because it did not unmount successfully.

I just removed that specific line for now. For functionality sake it does not matter if the volume gets unmounted or not, next reboot the /Volumes/EFI will have disappeared anyways.

Yeah, I've been aware of this bug for awhile. As darkvoid already noted, the first attempt at formatting the EFI partition will leave the partition busy and will fail to unmount, thus causing the partition to be erased when the directory is removed.

However, in my experience, an immediate second attempt to install the bootloader will succeed. Why it'll work the second time and not the first, I don't know. So, run the bootloader install twice if installing for the EFI partition.
I'll find a clean, elegant way to get around this issue soon. AFAIK (at least in Leo), it does need to be cleanly unmounted to allow it to be mountable and viewable. However, if errors appear on a mount attempt, the script will perform a file system check, anyway.

best of wishes,
MAJ

EDIT: Have any of you who are using a EFI boot setup on 10.6.2 and my script noticed the Finder crashing when accessing the EFI partition, like during "Modify Plists"? If so, you'll need to comment out or delete the "sync" command in the unmount_EFI routine of the script.

[LocusOfControl]

Firewire doesn't work properly on this board!!!!
This error for example: "FireWire runtime power conservation disabled. (2)"

There are many threads with firewire issues!

Here for example: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=191029

Or here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...8920&st=340
(from page 13)
Master Chief is trying to find a solution for this issue!

Firewire works fine on my board, I use it to connect a Nikon Coolscan 4000ED slide scanner.
The native Leopard nikon driver doesn't work properly in SL but vuescan has a SL update

steve

[tonik23]

Thanks DD for the script.

I'm not too sure why but my LG dvd-rom won't show up?? never happened to me before with leopard.

anyone know why?

[mattrb4]

So, run the bootloader install twice if installing for the EFI partition.

I remember back in my Bad Axe 2 hackintosh days that I had to install the efi partition twice to get it working. Its fickety and needs a kick in the behind!

[pbj]

You can use Apple's own MacBook 32/64bit Airport N mini card with MP2W-2458 or MP2W-2400 adapter.
Here are the links:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Macbook-Airport-...1018136002r6149

It fits perfectly in short and hard to use (because of the heat sink) PCIE x1 slot on the motherboard.

Hey!

This one just arrived from china and doesn't fit into my PCIE x1 slot on my UD5.. The left connector of this card is around 2mm to long for the slot..

[LS8]

Should the front panel mic in work with the audio drivers from DD's pack? For me only headphone out works on the front panel, but the mic in does not. Thanks!

[Emilo]

Hey!

This one just arrived from china and doesn't fit into my PCIE x1 slot on my UD5.. The left connector of this card is around 2mm to long for the slot..

AR5BXB72 300M mini card is installed inside MP2W adapter which goes into PC-E x1 slot.
It fits like a glove. I know 3 more users in this thread which use this solution.

[pbj]

AR5BXB72 300M mini card is installed inside MP2W adapter which goes into PC-E x1 slot.
It fits like a glove. I know 3 more users in this thread which use this solution.

you are perfectly right! i missed the link to the adapter... thx!

e.:/ do you know a good alternative to HWtools, since both adapters are out of stock...

[fact]

you are perfectly right! i missed the link to the adapter... thx!

e.:/ do you know a good alternative to HWtools, since both adapters are out of stock...

There are a number of alternatives try searching ebay.
This one came up, amongst others, in my query:

http://shop.ebay.nl/messengerofcat/m.html?...p;_trksid=p4340