Retail Leopard on Gigabyte EP35-DS3L

[eclau]

I read the whole guide by weaksauce12 on GA-P35-DS3L here before I decided to buy a GA-EP35-DS3L for my second machine.

 

I installed Leopard using the retail 10.5.0 DVD image, and then upgraded directly to 10.5.4. karaakeha1 has put together a detailed guide here for GA-P35-DS4, which works for GA-EP35-DS3L.

 

Requirement: you must do the following steps on a working Leopard machine

Assumption: you are going to install Leopard on a partition named xyz on the destination drive

What I did: carry out step 1 to 5 on my P35-DS4 machine, then transfer the drive to my new EP35-DS3L machine and continue with step 6 to 8

 

1. Partition the destination drive with Disk Utility using the GUID partition scheme

2. Install Chameleon EFI onto xyz

3. Install Leopard onto xyz

3.1 Mount Leopard retail DVD or its image (installation will be faster with image)

3.2 In terminal, copy and paste the following 2 lines, one after another:

	 cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages
 open osinstall.mpkg

3.3 Follow on-screen instructions and install leopard on xyz

3.4 Quit Terminal

4. Install 10.5.4 combo update on xyz

5. Now, remove incompatible kexts and install the required ones

5.1 Download the

package

from karaakeha1 guide

5.2 Copy the kext folder to your user folder

5.3 Download and open post_patch.sh (link below) with Textedit and change /Volumes/Leopard to /Volumes/xyz

5.4 Open terminal, drag and drop post-patch.sh, and press enter

6. Boot partition xyz on the new drive

7. Install EFI-string for video/sound/ethernet/Time Machine using EFI Studio

8. Install shutdown fix

 

You may comment out certain lines in the post-patch.sh script if you do not want to replace the particular kexts under the Install new kext section but replacing/adding the following is absolutely necessary:

AppleSMBIOS.kext

AppleHDA.kext

dsmos.kext

AppleACPIPlatform.kext

The whole installation process will take less than 20 mins. Sleep, restart and shutdown all working.

 

Cheers

 

PS: this guide is almost a direct copy of karaakeha1's, I am just trying to make it clearer for those who are new to retail Leopard installation. All credits go to karaakeha1.

 

post_patch.sh.zip

[greythorne]

This seems to be troublesome. You need an existing working leopard installation. And what if you don't have a working leopard installation?

[eclau]

This seems to be troublesome. You need an existing working leopard installation. And what if you don't have a working leopard installation?

 

The answer is obvious.

 

If you do not have a working Leopard machine, which means your hardware compatibility has been tested, then you should just try one of the customized installations first.

 

Once you know your hardware is Leopard-compatible, you may want to run OS X as vanilla as it can be, like the one you find on Apple hardware. That's when you would embark on retail installation.

 

Get an external usb/firewire or internal hard disk (who does not have an extra one?), and install retail Leopard on it using your existing Leopard installation. If it works, then you can install it onto your main hard disk.

 

I have 2 hard disks on each of my 3 machines, with Leopard on one partition of each hard disk.

I can try any new applications, kexts, hacks, whatever... and if something goes wrong, I can boot up the working partition on the second drive to troubleshoot.

If something goes very wrong, I can just restore the partition from the working partition on the second drive, or I can install retail Leopard afresh.

 

Cannot imagine those days when I would hesitate to install any OS X update because it may just break the whole system, then I would have to reinstall OS X using the DVD which took forever to finish...

 

My 2 cents

[Grayson]

eclau clued me in on how to get a retail install of Leopard 10.5.4 on a GA-EP35-DS3L http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=117763 . I replaced my Kalyway 10.5.4 install with it & couldn't be happier with the results. Everything works! Restart, Sleep, Shutdown, rex switching. It behaves just like a real Mac in every way but the boot. With the Kalyway install I had horrible audio(used same Taruga driver and Enabler on retail & it's superb audio), couldn't switch resolutions(blue screen), no sleep and more. Now I have the Mac I wanted, the one Apple couldn't be bothered with making, all thanks to this forum and it's members. This is fan-freaking-tastic!!!

[43moon]

I have a GA-EP35-DS3L. I followed the "Retail install guide for GA-P35-DS4 with chameleon EFI, Look Ma, No Terminal!" guide from Tseug. My only issue that I had with the onboard hardware was with my audio not working. I used the AppleHDAPatcherv1.20 and installed ALC888-a.txt and it was resolved.

 

I also had issues with my Linksys WMP300n, but that is unrelated to the onboard hardware, so I will leave that out of my comments here.

[eclau]

eclau clued me in on how to get a retail install of Leopard 10.5.4 on a GA-EP35-DS3L http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=117763 . I replaced my Kalyway 10.5.4 install with it & couldn't be happier with the results. Everything works! Restart, Sleep, Shutdown, rex switching. It behaves just like a real Mac in every way but the boot. With the Kalyway install I had horrible audio(used same Taruga driver and Enabler on retail & it's superb audio), couldn't switch resolutions(blue screen), no sleep and more. Now I have the Mac I wanted, the one Apple couldn't be bothered with making, all thanks to this forum and it's members. This is fan-freaking-tastic!!!

 

Glad that you've got it working!

[cacon]

Hello eclau, I have succesfully installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on this same motherboard, everything works as it should, but I'm now tempted to try the retail installation and see if I like it better, but I have a few doubts about the process...

 

- How exactly do you mount the retail DVD image? Through terminal or with an application like pacifist? The image file should be ISO or DMG or both?

 

- The post_patch.sh script will replace and install the necesary kext files "automatically" (trying to understand the process)....?

 

- EFI Studio has the most drivers/devices to select from? Or it's just a tool to install the drivers.

 

 

Thanks for the guide and for the answers. I'm sorry if I'm asking very noob/dumb/obvious questions.

 

Cheers!!

[eclau]

Hello eclau, I have succesfully installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on this same motherboard, everything works as it should, but I'm now tempted to try the retail installation and see if I like it better, but I have a few doubts about the process...

 

- How exactly do you mount the retail DVD image? Through terminal or with an application like pacifist? The image file should be ISO or DMG or both?

 

- The post_patch.sh script will replace and install the necesary kext files "automatically" (trying to understand the process)....?

 

- EFI Studio has the most drivers/devices to select from? Or it's just a tool to install the drivers.

Thanks for the guide and for the answers. I'm sorry if I'm asking very noob/dumb/obvious questions.

 

Cheers!!

 

You are going to like retail install better...

 

I have the DVD image in .dmg, just double click to mount it.

 

The post_patch.sh script will backup and replace the kexts automatically. Read the script to have an idea what it does.

 

EFI Studio has strings for graphic, sound and ethernet. Run it to see if you graphic card is included. Sound and ethernet are supported if you have a EP35-DS3L.

[cacon]

Thanks eclau, I appreciate it. I forgot that the dmg files mount a temporary drive when you use them.

 

Thanks again!!!

[gief]

Hi eclau,

Everything seems to be working here, thanks a lot.

 

Just wondering if you could clarify a few things:

 

1/

5.4 Open terminal, drag and drop post-patch.sh, and press enter

This goes ok but complains about a lack of PS/2 kext. No biggie though, I used the PS/2 installer referred to in weaksauce12's thread.

 

2/

7. Install EFI-string for video/sound/ethernet/Time Machine using EFI Studio

I installed video, ethernet and AZAL (no HDEF though which it couldn't find).

I couldn't even see where to install Time Machine here. If you can point out how to fix Time Machine that would be great.

 

3/

8. Install shutdown fix

In the linked thread it says the fix won't work without CHUD, so as per weaksauce12 I installed CHUD, the CPU preference pane, and then the Power Off fix. Shutdown works.

 

In summary, all appears to be cool, except I'm not sure about Time Machine.

 

Cheers.

[eclau]

Hi eclau,

Everything seems to be working here, thanks a lot.

 

Just wondering if you could clarify a few things:

 

1/

 

This goes ok but complains about a lack of PS/2 kext. No biggie though, I used the PS/2 installer referred to in weaksauce12's thread.

 

2/

 

I installed video, ethernet and AZAL (no HDEF though which it couldn't find).

I couldn't even see where to install Time Machine here. If you can point out how to fix Time Machine that would be great.

 

3/

 

In the linked thread it says the fix won't work without CHUD, so as per weaksauce12 I installed CHUD, the CPU preference pane, and then the Power Off fix. Shutdown works.

 

In summary, all appears to be cool, except I'm not sure about Time Machine.

 

Cheers.

 

For PS2, you need separate fix.

 

By using EFI_String, TM problem is fixed.

 

Yes, you need CHUD for the shutdown fix.

 

Enjoy your vanilla install...

[gdong]

I got a beautiful install using JaS 10.5.4 and Chameleon 1.0.11. System is in my sig. Everything works, except i get no video when i wake it from sleep (S3) and it doesn't fully power down for sleep (S1) but other wise sleep works at S1. Everything else is working like a charm except this crappy VIA firewire card i have, and its no wonder why that one doesnt work. Any recommendations for a firewire card for me (and the sleep issue?)

[tyderian]

Anyone on an ep35 and used this method or variants go to 10.5.5 yet? If so, how did you upgrade and are you having any problems?

 

Thanks!

[Allnutz]

for everyone wondering how to install the first working osx to make the retail installation on another drive - GET Kalyway 10.5.2 plus the jmicron patch for it then patch the dvd image and burn it to DVD.

Then Just install it!

 

Now you have the first installation to meke a retail 10.5.5 or earlier accroding to this thread or the original karaakehas threads.

[Throx]

hey.. worked like a charm, except I first had to boot in safe mode (-x) and run EFIStudio for adding the right strings, after this... just perfect!

Thanks a lot!!

[localhost_ro]

for some reason, i'm not able to use efi studio properly to generate my efi strings (it crashes unexpectedly). i have the exact same motherboard model and i was wondering if you could share your com.boot.apple.plist. thanks.