smooth13 Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 My current setup: 4 Hard Disks (with 1 or 2 partitions on each): Vista and OS X are on separate disks. eVGA 8800GT SSC Integrated ALC889a sound 4 GB RAM You need to have the following: Extra hard disk (physical disk, not a partitioned drive) Working 10.5.2 with EFI v8+ and Vanilla kernel You need to have a working 10.5.2: 10.5 Retail (Vanilla) install: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=86167 10.5.2 Update (Vanilla) install: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry618748 How I did it: Ia. Make a separate backup of all the modified kexts that you need to make your copy of OS X run on your computer. I downloaded an archive, so I didn't need to back anything up. Download your copy from: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=86167 ***VERSION 3 ARCHIVE FOR GIGABYTE G33M-DS2R*** Ib. When I got 10.5.2 to work on my setup, I used Carbon Copy Cloner (free utility) to make a copy of OS X 10.5.2 onto an external hard drive. You can do it for your extra internal disk if you wish. But make sure that it's physically separate from your working Vista/OS X drives, since you'll need to boot from this new copy. When you use Carbon Copy, give a different name to the Volume(drive) that you'll be copying to. Then, the next step is to install EFI v8+ and Making the external drive active. ***EDIT: When making a drive active, make sure to have the target drive unmounted/ejected. You can find your disk info (disk & sector) by using "Disk Utilities" sudo -s (Enter) cd /Volumes/Macintosh/Users/xxx/Desktop/EFI/pc_efi_v80 (Enter) ./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8 (Enter) dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 (Enter) dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1 (Enter) ***X and Y correspond to the disk that you just copied the files to.*** ***The terminal should show something similar to this*** bash-3.2# ls .CFUserTextEncoding Desktop Music .DS_Store Documents Pictures .Trash Downloads Public .bash_history Library Send Registration .fontconfig Movies Sites bash-3.2# cd desktop bash-3.2# cd EFI bash-3.2# ls .DS_Store EFI.sh leopatch pc_efi_v80 postpatch.sh bash-3.2# cd pc_efi_v80 bash-3.2# ./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s2 ./boot_v8 HFS+ filesystem detected Looking for 1 words free reading 4096,4096 Marking word 499 writing back 4096,4096 allocated blocks 32 at start 15968 bash-3.2# dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.017674 secs (28969 bytes/sec) bash-3.2# dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 400 bytes transferred in 0.022213 secs (18007 bytes/sec) bash-3.2# ***Make sure no lines read "resource busy" or "mounted uncleanly" or something along those lines. That means that you have not ejected all the Volumes(drives) on the disk.*** II. Boot from the mirrored disk (Boot from the disk that you copied to). ***You may need to make BIOS changes to change the boot priority*** ***Make sure that you booted from the copied OS X*** III. Download the 10.5.3 update http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/ IV. Install the update onto the Original disk! You'll need to choose the Install location. Don't install to the default location (the one you booted from). ***If you did it correctly, it won't ask you to restart at finish, since you installed it to a different location*** V. Copy modified kexts over: ***If you are using the archive file that you downloaded in step Ia, type the following*** ***EFI Folder should be on your desktop (After you extract it)*** ***MACOS = Your current disk*** ***Macintosh = Your original disk*** cd /Volumes/MACOS/Users/xxx/Desktop/EFI/ sudo rm -r /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/AppleEFIRuntime.kext sudo rm -r /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext sudo rm -r /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMBIOS.kext sudo rm -r /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext sudo cp -r kext/ALCinject.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp -r kext/AppleHDA.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp -r kext/dsmos.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp -r pc_efi_v80/AppleSMBIOS.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp -r kext/AppleAHCIPort.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp -r kext/IOAHCIFamily.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp -r kext/IOATAFamily.kext /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/ sudo cp kext/IONetworkingFamily /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/MacOS/ sudo cp kext/AppleACPIPlatform /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/MacOS/ sudo rm -r /Volumes/Macintosh/System/Library/Extensions.mkext That should do the trick!!! Running smoothly as ever. Shutdown/Reboot Works without extra patches. NOW, I've noticed a few things with running OS X on Gigabyte G33m-DS2R since 10.5.2. These issues have not been fixed! ***EDIT: It has been fixed! 1.) VLC is slightly choppy when viewing AVI files (skips random set of frames). In fact, a lot of movie players act the same way. On the other hand, Quicktime and Chroma are the only players that do not skip frames. I know that it's not audio, because iTunes plays flawlessly. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the video card driver... ***EDIT: There's nothing wrong with video. It was NTFS-3G issue. Whenever I play movies on a NTFS drive, it skips frames... I'm currently using NTFS-3G and MacFUSE. I fixed this by increasing buffer/Caching to 1000 from 300ms. It works great now!*** 2.) I can't play Call of Duty 2 with 8800GT card! It crashes before it starts. Anyone know how to fix this problem? I didn't use NVinject/installer of any sort. I did it manually using one of the guides for 8800GT. Performance is pretty good (Around 210 for OpenGL using xbench). I used "8800GT_EFI_Pack" Any ideas? ***EDIT: Tomb Raider: Anniversary Edition works great!!! So it must be Call of Duty 2 not being compatible with G92 8800GTs. *****************************EXTRA INFO************************************ Guide to install your 8800GT (G92) the proper way: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=91755 I also did a few extra things to my setup: 1) Installed NTFS-3G and MacFUSE to be able to read/write to NTFS (Windows) drives. 2) Edited boot/shutdown parameters to hide certain drives and unmount all the drives before shutdown so that the whole shutdown process takes less than 5 seconds. 3) Edited boot/shutdown parameters to fix the time discrepancy while changing Vista from OS X and vise-versa. Do the following if you want to do it as well: sudo -s (type in your password, then press enter) sudo nano /etc/rc.local (add the following line) date `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y` (Ctrl + O) (Enter) (Ctrl + X) sudo nano /etc/rc.shutdown.local (add the following line) date -u 'date +%m%d%H%M%Y' (Ctrl + O) (Enter) (Ctrl + X) 4) Edited boot parameters to boot in Verbose mode. Making those changes makes my OS X 10.5.3 experience much better! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/107430-guide-gigabyte-efi-v8-vanilla-1053-update-guide-the-safe-method/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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