Thanks DD for your script! Awesome!
Anyway, I spotted a little "bug" in your script.
The "10" (Modify processor info) option only change the name for the English.lproj settings.
If your mac is not using set up to be in English the change have no effect.

Yeah, I need to get rid of that portion and revamp it with a text file that can be imported. Bash will only input up to 1022 characters.


Correct.
I just posted about this issue one page back.
It's already fixed, but not uploaded yet.

regards,
MAJ

The UD3R will work, except for the audio... it doesnt use the 889a codec like the UD5 boards, it uses 888, so you'll need other kexts for it.. (D_D used to include them in the old scripts).. other than that, its pretty much the same

Hi,

thanks for the nice work you done.

After updating 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 VMware Fusion and Parallel Desktop is crashing the system by its kernel extensions.

I have a iDeneb install and the old chamelon boot loader, x58-UD4, x58 mobo combo patch installed from above.


Thanks for any hint and greets from Ibiza

Same as mine
some sudden KP and my 4 partitions on Windows 7(bootcamp) on VMvare fusion are not read, only C: partition of course vmware read regularly
this weekend i try to come back on 10.5.6
Iktus
Ps if I want to have Camaleon v2, I have to use the vanilla 9.7 kernel?
ppsthere are no problems with the new script 3.8 and 10.5.6?i can use it?
tnx

Thanks for the info. Nice reviews at xbitlabs.com. I reviewed my setup and just ordered everything. Now the long wait for delivery begins! Revised setup will be:
• Lian-Li PC-V1010B Case
• Corsair 750HX Power Supply
• Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Motherboard
• Core i7 920 CPU
• Scythe Mugen 2 Cooler
• Corsair XSM3 1600 RAM (6 x 2 GB)
• EVGA 285GTX
• 2 x WD Caviar Black 1TB
• Lite-On iHES206-08 Blu-Ray reader/DVD writer

I have 3 older HD that I will most likely recycle in this machine as well. This should give me some space to play with Windows and one of the Mac OS X distros (downloaded the iATKOS v7 and iDeneb 10.5.5).

This was a little more expensive that I was shooting for initially but it should keep me going for some time. Hopefully, next time I post to this forum, it will be from this new rig...

One last question. Concerning the overclocking, are you guys using the Gigabyte EasyTune6 tool or are you doing everything manually?

Colddiver

I just installed quite successfully with a GTX 295 (Quartz Extreme and QuartzGL enabled)

my specs:
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5
- 6 GB RAM
- 2 WD HD (SATA) in RAID (Windows Vista and Windows XP in there)
- 2 old IDE HD (Kalyway as repair Mac OS and iDeneb as main Mac OS)
- GTX 295 (Zotac)
- Buffalo USB WLAN

some things I had to do in order to get the system running:
- I had to take away the Network kexts from DD's script in order to get the USB WLAN adapter recognized (otherwise the Ralink drivers wouldn't work)
- I had to take away the Graphics kexts from DD's script, install EVGA GTX285 drivers and add EFI string to boot.plist in order to get GTX295 working (I followed the instructions in http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1178921 to generate the EFI string, and notice that I used 896MB as memory size)

cosmetic issues that are still hanging:
- when checking the system profiler in "Hardware" area I get: "There was an error while gathering this information.", not sure why this is happening, actually cpu-x can see the details of the CPU fine
- I would love to have Mac OS in the RAID together with Windows installations (not the end of the world, but my old IDE drives are not speed light fast...)

Hi! I have the motherboard Gigabyte X58-UD5 and I have a problem. When the system is going to load, the PC reboots... when Darwin86 appears.
I had tried with -v, normal, with the BIOS' options just the photo in the first page. I tried with Iatkos version 7 and Leopard 10.5.4 and the CPU still rebooting too. I thought the problem was the writer (LG and ASUS).
I have the last BIOS version (F7).

I don't know what's the problem. Thank you very much!!

I have Stripped RAID working on the White GSATA2 ports. You can refer to one of my prior posts in this thread to see how to get it working. I couldn't get it working with other ports or through disk utility. Also I can't get my computer to enter sleep while my RAID hard drives are attached.

I just bought another monitor and I thought everything would be fine for dual screen but now I see it's something that people have alot of trouble to get working. Does anyone know how I can get dual monitors working on my HIS 4890?

@digital_dreamer,

I just wanted to say thanks for the script. I've successfully used it (with different kexts) to get an MSI X58M build up and running. I'll probably put a guide together specifically for the MSI X58M after I go through my notes and do it again on the 2nd build I have on order.

The only major issue I had with the script was with getting all 4 cores of the i7 920 up and running. The DSDT created has the 'Alias' lines in the Processor section which I needed to manually remove, and then rerun the DSDT Patcher. I suppose this may not be a problem with your script and may just be a problem with the DSDT Patcher. The DSDT Patcher Readme file seems to suggest that the 'CPU Aliases' issue has been fixed but that doesn't appear to be the case, at least for the MSI X58M board. Any ideas as to why the 'CPU Aliases' is still a problem?

Again, thanks for a great guide and script!

Thanks for your comments, cutterpillow.

I'd like to work on that Alias issue. This is an inherent problem of the DSDT patcher that my script tries to fix. Got it fixed for the ASUS boards, but it appears the MSI boards are a different animal.
Would you be able to post the DSDToutput.log from my script and your working dsdt.dsl file from the DSDT_Patcher/Debug folder?
Thanks!

regards,
MAJ

Digital Dreamer (and anyone else, of course), if it's not too much trouble, would you please take a look at my help topic? The last thing I tried was this tutorial with the latest script. I would greatly appreciate it.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=172232

Thank you so much DD! This is the best guide I found.

I have read through most of this guide and many others, I just had one quick question-I hope you haven't re asked it for the 10th time!

I have a pretty standard rig and I was going to install OSX from my macbook using USB/SATA connector. Once back in my rig, does it matter what drive is the slave and which one is the master. I was going to have vista on the "master" (for gaming) and OSX installed on the "slave" (for general awesomeness) I think this will work from what I have read before.

Thanks,

BF

Master/Slave arrangement is basically moot with the SATA technology. Yeah, the BIOS may still refers to this arrangement for legacy reasons and to act like a IDE controller, as some drivers or OSs may have issues if this info is not available. But, there can only be one drive per port on SATA, so master/slave is meaningless.
I know it used to matter back in the day with IDE or ATA (No insults intended to those still using it! My dual G4 system was/is all IDE, of course.)

What matters now is enabling AHCI and whether you are using the Intel ICH10 ports (green/blue) or the Gigabyte/JMicron ports (white).

regards,
MAJ

OK so I tried to reproduce this and wasn't able to do so. I didn't save my original (bad) DSDT.dsl file and now when I run the script and choose the option to run the DSDT Patcher the DSDT.dsl file that it creates looks good and doesn't have any of the 'Alias' stuff in the Processor section.

I didn't think of it at the time but I wonder if it was because the first time I ran the Patcher (when I was still trying to get the install up and running) I was booting with 'cpus=1' and I may not have had a good DSDT file (maybe I didn't even have one). I did the initial install from another Mac running the Leopard DVD installer and set up everything but the DSDT (which of course I couldn't do because the hardware in the Mac is different from the MSI X58M machine). The first thing I did after I got the MSI X58M booting was run the DSDT Patcher. Perhaps booting with 'cpus=1' caused the problem? Or perhaps not having a DSDT file in /Extra? Or having a bad DSDT file in /Extra to start with?

Anyway, I'll give it a try again tomorrow.

Hi, I am not that familiar with the boot loader stuff but I think it doesn't matter what is being used. However, I tried different bios settings for the cpu tweaks(1core only,etc...), also I updated VMWare fusion today to 2.05 or so, but no success there. In the original post, Digital dreamer says Vodoo Kernel 9.7 alpha for 10.5.6 but its a thread about 10.5.7 I thought. I am not sure that could be a problem. Unfortunately, I need 10.5.7. for IPhone development, damn.


I will proceed with tweaking and give you a note then I get it running.

best,g.

yippiie ! i got it runnging you have to install the 9.7 voodoo kernel from the mobo patch install, better you do it with osxTools ! The voodoo alpha 2 doesnt work ! you can check your install with : uname -a

Still trying to figure out how to get dual screens working on my 4890. My cousin gave me a 2400Pro so now I'm trying to get that working to drive my 2nd screen as a last resort.

I'll report back if I'm successful.

I finally installed dd 3.8 on my secondary SSD boot drive. The description of 3.8 in post 1 does not say it includes the June 8 netkas. Point being, the result was that the 9600GT sees both monitors, but no QE. One other odd thing was that it showed my CPU at 3.2Ghz.

So then I downloaded and ran June 8 netkas, installed onto that same boot drive. No change, no QE. I actually did get QE out of the June 8 netkas a few weeks ago, on this same drive that has now been erased and reinstalled for the current experiment. Anyone got any ideas?

Have you tried reinstalling the drive but without installing the universal injector with the script?

so have we determined that all 8800/9800 regardless of X or not (9800 GT vs 9800 GTX) will not work with the injector provided? is it fullproof to use the string instead?

also, I know you put the string in the plist file... does it matter where exactly this is placed? between certain lines? or just at the very end?

1) Yes the injector is not for this kind of card.
2) It doesn't matter where it is placed.
You can use dd script to create the entry for you. Copy the first chars of the string (because bash/shell is limited) then edit on your own the file and put the entire string in it.

I've totally owned myself. I tried installing ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pcie Series 10.5.6 - 10.5.x.pkg to get it working to allow a dual monitor setup but it stripped me of all but 1 resolution and removed my QE_CI. The card showed up in my system profiler but wouldn't display anything. If I set it to my primary card in the bios when Mac OS was finishing booting everything would freeze up and the fans went to max speed.

So I thought I'd try getting my resolution back by running the QE_CI_For_Exotic_Cards.pkg but after running that and restarting I got lots of coloured dots on my screen and couldn't see a thing.

I managed to boot in safe mode and delete some stuff and reinstall some stuff but I'm now back to being able to boot normally but stuck with 1 resolution and no QE_CI.

Any help will be appreciated.
BTW I probably won't be posting for a while cause I'll be away from my computers and the net for the next few days.

TFTFY.



MAJ

I'm looking for some help to get my first hackintosh up and running.

I have a iMac that I used to install 10.5.5 onto an external drive. I have updated that install using combo updater to 10.5.7. I've run off that external drive for a while now and everything works great (connected to the iMac).

I would like to now install that drive into my GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P based box. What do I need to do to get this drive to boot on that motherboard?

Here are the rest of the specs:

GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz
Corsair TR3X6G1600C9 XMS3 6 GB 3 X 2 GB PC3-12800 1600MHz 240-Pin DDR3
eVGA e-GeForce 9800GTX+ Superclocked

I am having issues with my mouse again. I didn't change anything and my mouse is jumping all over and lagging. It was perfect - not sure what happened.

any ideas on fixing this again?

ITS MY MOUSE DYING! My Logitech MX 3200 is not working.

what mouse and keyboard combos are you guys using? would the wireless apple keyboard and mouse work?

would they also work when i boot into Windows 7?

thanks

try adding a key <key>device-properties</key><string>...000001...</string> in the com.apple.boot.plist.
It's a better way and should work. Use google to find how to do it,
if you are use dd script and chameleon the file is located in /extra

hey thanks for the script DD, i have been following the tread and have been running ipc but want to take a swing at vanilla. im using 3.9 and keep getting an error of firewire unable to start and then onto "still waiting for root device" my ipc still start up fine.
setup
ud4p
i7 920
6gb ddr3
1tb WD black into 4 part (osx, windows 7, ubuntu, fat storage)
32 raptor w/ipc

the one im trying to boot up from is osx on the 1tb black, its set as master and set to boot first. dont no how to fix.

...speaking of firewire, I'm using Chameleon 1.012 with the Voodoo 9.6.0 Kernel and I am still getting my firewire defaulting to full-secure. I thought that was a bug in Chameleon 2.0 RC1, but firewire was supposed to work fine in 1.012. Am I mistaken?

Ryan

I could try that, do you mean, take dd 3.8 script, put ATY_Init off to the side, then run dd 3.8 script, then run netkas June 8 script. I may try that, or wait to see what digital_dreamer suggests. Wonder if the June 8 netkas was part of 3.8.

Sorry if this is a totally n00b question, but what does pre-patch mean here? Isn't a bootloader a necessity when not having an apple bios? Or is this about the magic EFI-partition?

This Firewire error message is common and doesn't mean it's non-functional. It still performs, but has some technical limitations that affect bandwidth.


Honestly, I don't know what the issue is here, so have no suggestions.
I have periodically run into the dreaded ATI kext not working at one time, then working the next, with no explanation known to me.

regards,
MAJ

"Pre-patch" is the more familiar term most other methods/scripts use. The "pre-patch" typically does several things: installs the bootloader, activates the drive, and prepares the drive for the "post-patch" (setting volume permissions for install). My script splits those tasks up into individual routines, so that they can be performed separately as needed. As an example, in the case of a multi-partition OS X install, one would not need to (nor would want to) activate each partition the bootloader is installed on. So, that task is removed from what used to be the "pre-patch" routine and is given a standalone status.

I choose to add the "pre-patch" name to the bootloader install function, as that is the dominant function of the common "pre-patch," and to provide a sense of familiarity to those who have used other scripts or install methods that incorporate a "pre-patch" function.

regards,
MAJ

Remember me? I was the one with constant kernel panics during installing. Specifically at "installing media files". I never got passed it.

Ever since then, my hard drive hasn't worked. I'm now running off of an old 18gig IDE drive, 'cause I had to send my 500gig SATA back to Seagate. I think getting all those kernel panics and manual restarting caused either my sata to die, or my sata ports to fry. When I get my new HDD, I'm not so sure I'm up for trying this again.

Is there any advantage to doing a retail install rather than a common distro such as iAtkos or Kalyway?

Thanks for this DD. This was the easiest install for me yet. Following your instructions for cham2 on first boot I has working network and sound (even auto detects plugging stuff in to the headphone jack and switches outputs), shutdown, the aty_init saw my xfx 4870 and QE/ CI is working, both dvi ports work and auto detect output.

Shutdown works but I get display corruption (vertical pinstripes) on wake from sleep. Also about this mac always shows 3.2 ghz and 1600mhz ram no matter what speed the the processor and ram are actually set to.

I'm getting around 320 in xbench and 9400 in geekbench. Is that abou what i should expect or should my scores be higher? Any suggestions on benchmarking the 4870? I tried opengl info and got 1000+ fps on the standard benchmarks there, but I was hoping for more. I have the OC version of the xfx4870 (775 mhz) Does the mac run the card at the bios settings or does this get overridden by leopard? My mother board croaked after running about 12 hours, I'm waiting an RMA replacement now and looking forward to using my new mac.

Okay, got my EVGA GTX 285 working flawlessly with QE/CI and dual monitors. My only issue is getting on board audio working with a 5.1 setup. If anyone has any ideas let me know... I'm probably doing something stupid.

Anyway, this may be of some help but I'm going to list some pointers that worked for me.
1) Make sure that you're target vanilla OSX disk is SATA and in the first SATA slot and AHCI mode is enabled.
2) I wanted a Windows 7 dual boot setup and I tried leaving it on the non GSATA ports. If AHCI mode is enabled, your boot loader will get screwed up and repair may corrupt your entire install if you don't rescue it properly. So I suggest you plug in your Windows 7 disk into the GSATA ports and leave AHCI mode OFF for the GSATA ports. This will save you a lot of time and effort trust me.
3) To get my GTX 285 working I just did the default options of DD's install and used Chameleon 2. After you boot into your install, I removed all Geforce and NVD kexts in SLE and ATY_Init.kext. I then installed the EVGA GTX 285 Mac drivers from netkas.org. Next, I followed this guide installing GFX strings and modified the apple.boot.plist in the Extras folder. Rebooted with my second monitor plugged in and everything worked beautifully.
Aqua Mac forums - GFX Strings

why did you use the gfx string rather than netkas enabler???

I couldn't get netkas enabler to get me multi monitor or QE/CI no matter what I tried. So I read a tip on using gfx strings and it works beautifully although I've only tried it on WoW so far.

Gfx string is usually the preferred way to go with almost any Hackintosh as it allows the system to think everything is native. Also, the less kext changes or hacks, the more stable a system tends to be as well as being able to survive an update from Apple.

Yes, I remember you, melee54!

So, are you using that board for something else, now? Windows?
Do you think that the HD or the SATA port could have been the culprit?

The advantage Retail install has is a vanilla install that's easily updated without issues. But, if a distro is the only thing that works for you, then stick with what works. You can still run with the 'big dogs.'

kind regards,
MAJ

Has anyone had any success running Snow Leopard on the i7 systems?

After playing around with 10A380 install, which never can finish a boot, I've noticed the system has incredibly aggressive kext checking. If any kexts are altered in any way, they are omitted from the mkext (boot cache).

Take a look at the following boot log from SL. This is after installing Disabler.kext and dsmos.kext with the correct permissions (755 and root:wheel), the same permissions as the rest of the kexts in S/L/E.
Note, also, I had removed the original vanilla AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and then reinstalled it. It also is flagged as "not authentic!" Is there some metadata or other flag that gets set/created when kexts are removed/added after a fresh install? Appears to be so.

(removed the time stamp to shorten the lines.)




I know there are a number with SL installed and running, but I wonder how this is the case with this setup?

regards,
MAJ

I've managed to get my resolutions and QE CI working again so now I'm back to square one with trying to figure out how to get the 2400Pro working with the 4890 for dual monitors.

That's interesting about Snow Leopard kext management. I wonder if it's been done intentionally to try and prevent hackintoshes.

Hi, i´ve got Snow leo running on GA x58UD5, Core i7 920 and Geforce 8800GT.

You need the following:
1. Snow Leopard A380 dmg (You can easily update to A394 through Software Update 830 MB)

2. Download these Files from the first post
http://www.infinitemac.com/f57/how-to-inst...-on-a-pc-t3137/
(includes Chameleon 1.012, boot File for Snow Kitty and dsmos and disabler kexts)

3.
a. Install naked leopard to USB Harddrive or Flash Drive and install Chameleon 1.012 afterwards. install the necessary kexts for booting. Then replace the boot File in root

copy the boot file, which you downloaded, to the root of your new Leopard install
sudo -s
cd to the direcory of your downloaded Snow boot
cp boot /Volumes/(the_name_of_the Volume_of_your_new_Leopard_Install)

b. Boot into your new Leopard
c. Mount the Snow Leopard.dmg

in Terminal:

cd "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages"

open OSInstall.mpkg

This opens the Installer. Install to a new drive Guid Formatted!!! Do not reboot!!!

d. install Chameleon 1.012 to your Snow Leopard Volume

e. Replace the boot file with Snow Leopard boot file


cd to the direcory of your downloaded Snow boot
sudo cp boot /Volumes/(the_name_of_the Volume_of_your_new_Snow_Leopard_Install)


f. Copy your working DSDT to the root of your Snow Leopard Volume in Terminal
cd /Volumes/(the name of your Volume with working DSDT/
sudo cp DSDT.aml /Volumes/(the_name_of_the Volume_of_your_new_Snow_Leopard_Install)



g. Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist in S/L/E with the EFI String for your Graphic Card

h. Use mkexttool (from pwiz) to install both kexts to an mkext in Extra on your Snow Leopard Volume. If you patched your DSDT correctly, Snow Leopard will boot with only dsmos.kext. You can use all your kexts for 10.5.7 despite the audio kexts. openhaltrestart is not working in Snow-no reboot and sleep

i. I uploaded the audio kexts for 10.6 Realtek889a here:

You have to install them to S/L/E. Kexthelper is probably not working.

I copied them manually in Terminal
sudo -s
cd to the directory of the audio kexts

cp -R *.kexts /Volumes/(YourVolumeName)/System/Library/Exensions
chown -R root:wheel /Volumes/(YourVolumeName)/System/Library/Extensions
chmod -R 755 /Volumes/(YourVolumeName)/System/Library/Extensions

! Snow Leopard has some serious issues on our board. It resets your bios settings (Cmos checksum error) at every reboot. No fix around yet. I guess we have to wait. Do not forget to save your working Bios settings in Bios F11 before booting into Snow Leopard. You can relaod them at boot.

Have fun trying it out

hmmm... i was planning on trying on a week the saturday... so def going to do it your way then....

What graphics cards work with DD's script and require the least amount of "fiddleing"? I'm really looking for something that just works after I run the scripts.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure it was a bad HDD or bad SATA port. I've got 2 new 500 gig Seagates headed this way. I think I'll try the retail install again as long as it isn't my SATA ports that are messed up. After the kernel panic marathon, my windows install would freeze during boot, after boot, at any random time, etc. So Either the HDD got messed up from constant restarting during kernel panics, or somehow the SATA port died. We'll see soon enough. I really hope I don't have to send my whole motherboard back...

Thanks,
Melee54

2400Pro & 4890? Mixing an aged card that is 30$ with a 180$ card? That is borderline sacrilegious. Good luck!

Wouldn't be surprising!


Thanks for that!
And, yeah, I was already running into the BIOS resetting issue, even with the partial boots.
Speaking of BIOS, I tried the latest beta f8b with the AHCI 1.20 update. Well, it does remove those wasted 10 seconds = good. But, it's buggy as can be. KPs everywhere. Plus, they removed the memory multipliers, so you're stuck with only the lowest two. Fastest I can run my 1600MHz RAM is 1350, IIRC. Back to the regular f8b I went.


Try any of the common ATI Radeon cards. The ATY_Init.kext graphic injector is written for the following (taken directly from the injector's plist): Radeon 2400 Series, 2600 Series, 2900 Series, 3400 Series, 3600 Series, 3800 Series, 3800X2 Series, 4600 Series, 4800 Series, 4850 Series, 4870 Series, 4870X2 Series, 4890 Series?? <--That's in the injector

However, I'd say the older 2000 and 3000 series are better supported than the newer 4000 series. Time will change that though.

regards,
MAJ

Thanks for the info. What about Nvidia? I have a 9600 GT and if that one works, it will save me some $$

The below kext would be helpful.
Click to view attachment

Why sure. The 8000-9000 series are well supported. If the Injectors don't work well (I wouldn't know), the EFI strings are well suited for them. Anyone here can help you with that or you can look in the NVIDIA forums for support on that card.

best of wishes,
MAJ