MartiniGuy

Hi folks, please - a moment of your time... I'm migrating from a Mac Pro to a Hack Pro (I need the money a real Mac Pro will fetch). I've purchased the following: Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR v.1.1 4 Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm SATA drives (8TB total) nVidia 9600GT Q6600 Core 2 Quad running at 3Ghz/1333 2x2GB Patriot DDR3-1333 Using Kakewalk 2.2 (tried USB version [failed], then CD method [worked]) I read somewhere that Kakewalk won't install if the boot volume was larger than 1TB, so I created a single 100GB partition on the first drive and ran through the install of SL 10.6.0 - success. Sound did NOT work, but it showed up in the Control Panel. Then I updated to 10.6.3, and there is no sound hardware at ALL. I'll try to fix that one on my own. But my real question... I have to leave in the Kakewalk CD to load the Boot Image, then select my "Hack" boot volume and boot into SL. I've run the KakewalkBoot.mpkg 4-6 times, before and after the 10.6.3 update, and it will NEVER just boot from the Hard Disk. Is this the way it's supposed to be? Seems pretty kludgy if so. Anyone else found a solution for this? Thanks, JP

Hi folks, I've got an EVGA 680i board with a Core2Quad Q6600 and an EVGA 9600GT - has anyone revisited this to install 10.6.1? I realize this is an old thread, but hopefully things have gotten a bit easier. JP

Thanks for this - I just upgraded my Gen1 Mac Pro with 2 Quad core Xeons, and neither 10.5.7 nor 10.6 showed the correct values. I can now report that your app works in BOTH. mac_pro_gen1_8_core.tiff