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Leopard on P5E-WS Pro, install on X38 chipset
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Hey Guys, just letting everyone know I have successfully installed leopard on an Asus p5e-ws Professional motherboard. Below is a list of how I did it, no compaints about it being ugly, I'm tired and might clean it up later!

As a preface, I rewrote this walkthrough after some trial and error, hope it helps!

Specs are as follows:

Asus P5E-WS - Pro (X38 Chipset)
Intel Quad Duo 2 q6600
4gb Corsair DDR2
ATI HD3870
4 Seagate Sata drives (Drive 3 being the OSX Drive)
1 Sata DVD Writer

Requirements

Kalyway and a bootloader, you can get the bootloader do a web search for PC_EFI v8

An ipod/usbdrive


****As a note I use full hd's for my dual booting, not partitions, if you wish to use partitions, you will have to find another guide****

Steps:

1. Open up your bios and set your SATA mode to AHCI

2. Insert your Kalyway disk and hit F8 on boot to select the dvd to boot from.

3. This will take some time but after kalyway loads (about 5 min) hit the next button

4. After you have clicked the next button you should be at the Kalyway Welcome screen, go up to Utilities, and choose Disk Utility

5. Choose the HD you wish to install Kalyway on, then click Partition, on the Volume Scheme pulldown choose "1 Partition", type in a name for the parition, then down at the bottem choose options and select GUID Partition Table. Under the format take note, I now recomend you use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) not Case sensitive Journaled. I was so happy to find out that once I tried to install my Licensed copy of Adobe Production Collection, that case sensitive os's are not supported by adobe. Is it really that freaking hard to label a file with a capital letter when you are programing?!? So needless to say, adobe has now forced my hand in reinstalling... Again... Anyways, hit apply and it should format the partition and set it as GUID

7. Quit Disk Utility and open Terminal

8. Time to install the bootloader. On another computer copy the pc_efi_v8 bootloader to a thumb/ipod drive and insert connect to our kalyway machine.

9. The next step is to set our partition as active for our GUID Drive. Run the following commands in terminal. And please pay close attention to your Drive and Partition setup:

diskutil list
--- This will list your partition information for all drives, look for which partition has the name that you specified in the disk utility earlier , My case my disk is 0 and my partition is 2, so X=0 Y=2---
--- Unmount all partitions listed on that drive, my case, I have the disk and 2 partitions (note once again diskX would be replaced with disk0 in my case---


diskutil unmount diskX
diskutil unmount diskXs1
diskutil unmount diskXs2



--- Now start set the partition active ---


fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX ***X=0 in my case and please note the "rdisk" instead of "disk"***
update
f Y ***Y=2 in my case***
w
q

--- now do the unmount steps again ---


diskutil unmount diskX
diskutil unmount diskXs1
diskutil unmount diskXs2



--- Install the bootloader ---


cd /Volumes/{name of ipod or thumb drive}/pc_efi_v80
./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8 ***once again, the command I used was ./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s2 ./boot_v8***
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 ***if you haven't figuared it out yet, I used rdisk0s2***
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1 ***Please note this time it is just plain diskX not rdiskX***

10. Optional: Restart to see if your bootloader installed correctly, hit f8 during boot, select your kalyway HD and you should get something pop up saying can't find com.apple.boot.plist, or a variation there of. This means your bootloader installed correctly, go ahead and restart, and boot back into the kalyway install dvd.

11. Exit out of terminal back to the welcome screen

12. Time to install, click cont. on the welcome screen, agree to the terms of use, choose your kalyway partition to install to and click next, CLICK CUSTOMISE, checkmark the Vanilla_Kernel ACPIPlatform, Thats the only one for my install, you might want to look and see if you need any of the video card drivers, MAKE SURE TO UNCHECK Bootloaders EFI!!!!! Click install, wait 20 min and come back!

13. Restart and you should have a great working version of kalyway.

14. So, an almost great working version of kalyway, on restart you'll get an AppleLPC.kext was installed improperly, simply use the kext installer that comes with kalyway and install the version of the kext from the cd, found at /Volumes/Leopard_Install_Osx86/System/Library/Extensions/AppleLPC.kext

15. Now on to drivers.

First pop into system prefs, network, and you'll see you'll only have one ethernet port setup, simply click the "+" below the adapters, it will bring up a list of adapters, click the pull down menu, choose the first ethernet, hit ok followed by apply, and magically your secondary eithernet and firewire ports will now show up and be functioning.

For the HD3870 I used the drivers suggested by netkas' (http://netkas.org/?p=48) and then used HDA_ICH9_ALC888 ktext package for my audio.

Fix HD Logo's to internal harddrives: Fix Logos

****To get your ide drives to function on the Marvell 88SE6145 controller use this ktext http://my.ukrweb.info/marvell-and-others-ata-kext-leopard --- (Update, I believe this kext can cause kernal panics, install at your own risk)
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- L EphIno   Leopard on P5E-WS Pro   Jan 10 2008, 07:38 AM
- - DaxTsurugi   Grats. I think you're the first person to inst...   Jan 10 2008, 07:47 AM
- - L EphIno   As a Side note, seems I get a kernal panic when I ...   Jan 11 2008, 01:14 AM
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- - L EphIno   So I just reinstalled kalyway, used the efi v8 boo...   Feb 6 2008, 08:09 AM
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|- - L EphIno   QUOTE (gramarye @ Feb 6 2008, 08:32 AM) 1...   Feb 7 2008, 01:10 AM
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|- - L EphIno   QUOTE (gramarye @ Feb 9 2008, 04:35 AM) G...   Feb 10 2008, 06:36 AM
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|- - L EphIno   QUOTE (varied @ Mar 8 2008, 11:41 AM) Ok,...   Mar 12 2008, 08:38 PM
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