[GUIDE] Retail OS X Install (10.5.8) on Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (Core i7) Mobo

[radov4n]

Does anyone know if DD's script can be used for Asus P6T? I've installed 10.5.7 retail on a separate drive using my evga x58 system and DD script, but when I moved the drive into my P6T system boot hangs on "Mac Framework successfully initialized". If I play around with boot flags sometimes I get "Debugger called: <panic> .. Backtrace.. (CPU 0) etc.. and a boot halt.

 

Does this mean I messed up my P6T bios settings? Or screwed up DSDT?

 

Any help / suggestions are very appreciated.

[FUT1L1TY]

I would like to post a correction to my system sleep working. I never actually tested to see if the machine would go to sleep on its own. It turns out that it doesn't actually go to sleep automatically. It can only be put to sleep manually. It does however wake up just fine without any weirdness other then the LAN sometimes takes a few extra seconds to get going again which is not a huge deal. I apologize if my previous posts might have caused some confusion on the matter of S3 sleep.

 

Anyway, I guess the question remains does anyone with a similar setup (please see my sig) have automatic sleep working? It's not such a big deal to me because I'm in the habit of manually sleeping my computer when I walk away from it although sometimes I do forget.

[joeblough]

knightprozac, or ANYONE,...

 

I've changed my bios settings to make SATA into ACHI. Now my computer runs this achi program whenever it boots... OK, whatever. So I format my SATA drive, try to install OSX again from my small IDE drive to the SATA, and again I am presented with an untimely ""You must restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds, or press the restart button"

 

I'm thinking about giving up on OSX. I've been trying this for one day straight, accidentally deleted my windows 7 partition (early on...), and I'm getting pretty frustrated. Seems no one else is having this problem...

 

are you sure your memory is good? you should make a memtest86+ boot CD and see if it will pass the memory tests. you need to set your interface back to IDE mode in order to boot the memtest86+ cd, though.

[everdone]

Does anyone know if DD's script can be used for Asus P6T? I've installed 10.5.7 retail on a separate drive using my evga x58 system and DD script, but when I moved the drive into my P6T system boot hangs on "Mac Framework successfully initialized". If I play around with boot flags sometimes I get "Debugger called: <panic> .. Backtrace.. (CPU 0) etc.. and a boot halt.

 

Does this mean I messed up my P6T bios settings? Or screwed up DSDT?

 

Any help / suggestions are very appreciated.

DD's script should work but do not run DSDT with the target drive connected to a different computer than the one it is to be used in. Check some of the Asus howtos and make sure you have the correct kexts for the board you will be using. Running kext install and bootloader install from DDs script will work just fine. Edit the smbios and boot.plist files with a text editor prior to installation (I found it easier to modify those files external to the script rather than modify those with the script).

[NoskireFiel]

For that you need IONetworkingFamily.kext

 

 

Installed and still nothing. Updating to 10.5.7 was a bad idea.

[melee54]

are you sure your memory is good? you should make a memtest86+ boot CD and see if it will pass the memory tests. you need to set your interface back to IDE mode in order to boot the memtest86+ cd, though.

 

I'm completely out of CDs... Trying to make it boot off a USB at the moment.

 

I did a new install of kalyway onto my USB drive and tried to install from there, but I encountered the same problem. If I can't get this by tomorrow, I'm done with osx86. So stressful and time consuming.

 

I hope my RAM isn't bad... I've been running Windows 7 on it for weeks now. At one point I was even using almost all 6gigs of it... Unless it just happened to die recently...

[AdamNJ77]

I'm completely out of CDs... Trying to make it boot off a USB at the moment.

 

I did a new install of kalyway onto my USB drive and tried to install from there, but I encountered the same problem. If I can't get this by tomorrow, I'm done with osx86. So stressful and time consuming.

 

I hope my RAM isn't bad... I've been running Windows 7 on it for weeks now. At one point I was even using almost all 6gigs of it... Unless it just happened to die recently...

 

 

 

I guess it can be stressfull, but once you know how to use DD's Script, I found the actual installation easier and faster then a regular installation of Windows. The only thing not working is my sleep which at this point I am pretty much over unless someone comes up with a solution. But besides that you just hit a few buttons, reboot and select your OS X drive and it loads up perfect. No drivers for me to install, crashing, etc...Even easier then the iPC, Kalyway, and other distros I used to use. I guess it just depends on your setup and how lucky you are that everything works : /...But if you want an powerful i7 computer running OS X you have no choice yet. And of you can't be bothered, stick to Windows, or go buy a real Mac (or wait till new Mac's come out with the i7 chip).

[digital_dreamer]

knightprozac, or ANYONE,...

 

I've changed my bios settings to make SATA into ACHI. Now my computer runs this achi program whenever it boots... OK, whatever. So I format my SATA drive, try to install OSX again from my small IDE drive to the SATA, and again I am presented with an untimely ""You must restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds, or press the restart button"

 

I'm thinking about giving up on OSX. I've been trying this for one day straight, accidentally deleted my windows 7 partition (early on...), and I'm getting pretty frustrated. Seems no one else is having this problem...

Don't really know what's going on, but KPs are typically hardware related (or software driver to hardware).

At what point does this KP occur and can you extract the system.log from /Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/private/var/log for us? A hardware-related KP is generally more cryptic and lists hardware addresses and other numbers in bytes.

 

What Retail DVD are you using?

Is your IDE drive plugged into the onboard (Gigabyte/JMicron) PATA port or are you using a SATA-to-IDE converter?

If you can get away from using your IDE drive for the install and use a SATA drive instead, you'll have better success.

 

Does anyone know if DD's script can be used for Asus P6T? I've installed 10.5.7 retail on a separate drive using my evga x58 system and DD script, but when I moved the drive into my P6T system boot hangs on "Mac Framework successfully initialized". If I play around with boot flags sometimes I get "Debugger called: <panic> .. Backtrace.. (CPU 0) etc.. and a boot halt.

 

Does this mean I messed up my P6T bios settings? Or screwed up DSDT?

 

Any help / suggestions are very appreciated.

Make sure the DSDT patch is created on your target machine, not the machine that did the install.

 

Installed and still nothing. Updating to 10.5.7 was a bad idea.

Does that IONetworkingFamily.kext contain the RealtekR1000.kext in /Plugins?

If so, then perhaps there is a hardware issue involved and the BIOS needs to be reset (CMOS clear).

 

regard,

MAJ

 

Thanks again MAJ .. will give 3.7 a go!

 

The SMexternalclock should represent the BCLK or the bus speed so setting this right will then allow something like CPU-X to report correctly the multiplier for the given OC... well that is what I observed on a previous build...

 

The audio driver is still providing some challenges in particular with Plex and Digital Out... if the AV receiver does not support DTS then Plex with down-mix to AC3 and then releases the driver when finished, it appears that the release is not clean and so audio stops until either a restart or using the MIDI utility to get things working again.... what is the default audio kext used within the 3.6/3.7 script?

 

cheers

Any issues with the audio driver can be directed to the source thread: ALC889A

The one that I'm using as default is the "Legacy 3outs2ins digital HDA headphone" from the legacy no-front-mic series.

 

Best of wishes,

MAJ

[Yertil]

ok so i see this post has progressed since feb and march when i was last on it .

 

DD , is it possible to upgrade to the latest version of your software with chameleon , with out reformatting and starting from scratch i would like to run 10.5.7,

im not sure if it was mentioned before but i do not want to read 80 pages of post or 53 from the last time i was on.

Thank you in advance for your help

and keep up the great work

also have you gotten time machine and VMware to work correctly yet?

[digital_dreamer]

ok so i see this post has progressed since feb and march when i was last on it .

 

DD , is it possible to upgrade to the latest version of your software with chameleon , with out reformatting and starting from scratch i would like to run 10.5.7,

im not sure if it was mentioned before but i do not want to read 80 pages of post or 53 from the last time i was on.

Thank you in advance for your help

and keep up the great work

also have you gotten time machine and VMware to work correctly yet?

Shouldn't be a problem, but what setup do you have? The previous boot-132 or EFI boot?

If boot-132, I'd just upgrade to 10.5.7 from another drive, then remove any of the colored kexts left in S/L/E.

If EFI boot, you'll want to erase the EFI partition.

Then, run the script and install the new Cham2 bootloader, run kext installer and you're good to go.

 

TM and VMware Fusion work great. The only sticking issues are related to sleep and getting WIFI and LAN working together.

 

regards,

MAJ

[melee54]

Don't really know what's going on, but KPs are typically hardware related (or software driver to hardware).

At what point does this KP occur and can you extract the system.log from /Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/private/var/log for us? A hardware-related KP is generally more cryptic and lists hardware addresses and other numbers in bytes.

 

What Retail DVD are you using?

Is your IDE drive plugged into the onboard (Gigabyte/JMicron) PATA port or are you using a SATA-to-IDE converter?

If you can get away from using your IDE drive for the install and use a SATA drive instead, you'll have better success.

 

The Kernal Panic happens nearing the end of the install. I can't remember, but I think it's during or right after it's installing "media files."

 

I forgot to mention that I've encountered other KPs by simply trying to d/l something on utorrent...random intervals.

 

DVD is 10.5.6.

 

IDE is onboard. I also ran Kalyway from a USB drive and tried running the patch/installing from there, but also resulted in KP.

 

I'd much rather use another SATA drive if I owned one.

 

I'm going to install iAtkos rather than Kalyway and see if that helps any. I hope so.

 

Here is the file you requested... I think. I couldn't find one on the drive Kalyway is on, but I found it on the drive I tried to install the retail DVD on:

 

edit: File isn't uploading, give me a second to host it somewhere else...

 

edit again: File is gone. The log emptied itself....

 

 

Final Edit: Here's the log -

systemlog.rtf

[Yertil]

Shouldn't be a problem, but what setup do you have? The previous boot-132 or EFI boot?

If boot-132, I'd just upgrade to 10.5.7 from another drive, then remove any of the colored kexts left in S/L/E.

If EFI boot, you'll want to erase the EFI partition.

Then, run the script and install the new Cham2 bootloader, run kext installer and you're good to go.

 

TM and VMware Fusion work great. The only sticking issues are related to sleep and getting WIFI and LAN working together.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

MAJ

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly , i used your first automated procedure which ever one was posted around 3/6/09 i do not remember which one, i know that terrible i built this beautiful machine and i cannot remember which boot i did. lol i believe it is efi boot ! ill have to look for my notebook i wrote down all my steps. ill do that tmw unless you can figure out which one it was by the date

Thanks again

Adam

[digital_dreamer]

melee54,

Most of your log messages prior to reboot are unrecoverable file system errors. The OS is keen enough to acknowledge something is wrong prior to the reboot. The issue appears to get worst toward the end, and now the system reports all types of Finder errors, as well, indicating some OS files are getting corrupted in the process as time goes on.

 

That Kalyway install is certainly getting messed up now.

 

Try the other distro you mentioned and make a ISO of the Retail Mac OS X DVD, if you haven't already, and use that to install OS X.

Ideally, you'll want to get away from the IDE drive.

 

 

MAJ

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly , i used your first automated procedure which ever one was posted around 3/6/09 i do not remember which one, i know that terrible i built this beautiful machine and i cannot remember which boot i did. lol i believe it is efi boot ! ill have to look for my notebook i wrote down all my steps. ill do that tmw unless you can figure out which one it was by the date

Thanks again

Adam

Well, at that time it was the boot-132 method, but if you say EFI boot, that was wolfienuke's setup. Now, it's more confusing.

Look into System/Library/Extensions and see if you have any colored kexts. If there are some, it's boot-132. If not, you probably have a vanilla install with EFI boot.

 

MAJ

[luh3417]

I have problems that seem to me related to some kind of internal clock.

1. VLC 0.9.9a seems to have some berserk timings when playing back a .flac file.

2. Typing seems a bit over-eager to repeattttt keyssss.

3. Time of Day clock runs fast, accelerates a couple hours a day. When I go to Date and Time it self-corrects.

4. Not much in the log except repeated "Capping VBL time to 20000000 (was 22508930)"

5. Sound gets out of sync when watching Peppa Pig Season 3 .avi files in QuickTime Player.

6. About This Mac says Processor 4GHz Unknown. (I bet the answer to that is somewhere in this thread).

 

Anyone else having these issues, is it some BIOS setting? EX58-UD5, using knightprozac's guide Only thing I over did was, I used the 3.7 script, and I also ran a package from www.netkas.org (8800GT), which is redundant. Running F7 BIOS with Optimized defaults, plus set the Integrated Peripherals per the image in the first post. Not overclocking at all. Did not reset CMOS yet, guess its worth a try.

[NoskireFiel]

Does that IONetworkingFamily.kext contain the RealtekR1000.kext in /Plugins?

If so, then perhaps there is a hardware issue involved and the BIOS needs to be reset (CMOS clear).

 

regard,

MAJ

 

 

What do you mean by "Does that IONetworkingFamily.kext contain the RealtekR1000.kext in /Plugins?"

 

I checked my System/Library/Extensions folder and both of those kext's are in there. I don't get what you mean by /Plugins

[knightprozac]

melee54:

 

As DD said it'd be really helpful if you can get away from the IDE. You might not be aware but there is actually 2 different SATA2 controllers on the EX58-UD5 motherboard (An Intel one and a Gigabyte one). You should make sure both of these are switched to AHCI.

 

They can be found in the "Integrated Peripherals" section on the bios. The first one is at the top of the list and it's called "SATA RAID/AHCI Mode". The second one is near the bottom of the list and is called "Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode".

 

luh3417:

1. Haven't tried to run a flac file with vlc so I'm not sure if that works fine for me.

 

2. I have no problem with typing repeating keys. Everything seems normal to me.

 

3. I've heard of time becoming inaccurate on some computers when people overclock. I'm not sure if it'll apply to your computer or not but you can always try running at factory speed and see what happens. I know if I have this issue or not since I always have my time set to keep sync with an online time server.

 

To Others:

I don't suppose anyone would have any ideas as to why the computer won't enter sleep while running a hardware RAID off the GSATA2 ports.

[luh3417]

knightprozac: Which BIOS version are you running? Did you set it to optimized defaults and then, what other settings did you change? Just the AHCI settings, and a few others, in the Integrated Peripherals BIOS sub-screen? (I'm not overclocking... yet...) I changed my post above, keyboard issue was probably an artifact of bad maxed-out settings by Migration Assistant. Other odd thing is About This Mac says Processor 4GHz Unknown. Wish the Search Topic button worked, anyway its time I rummage through the 80 pages in this thread again.

 

Which bootloader and kernel did you choose? I suspect my problem, now that I re-read the first post, is that I chose "the older Chameleon v1012 bootloader". If this proves true, I might suggest you modify step 3 of your guide to advise people of this important decision. And in general to read the first post thoroughly as a background to your guide. Its really my own fault, but suggest that change. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing in my case. In other words, people may like to choose Chameleon 2.0 RC1. I know going backwards is problematic, but I wonder if I can now upgrade to Chameleon 2.0 RC1 or if that causes issues.

[knightprozac]

I'm running bios F7 (the most recent official version) on the EX58-UD5. I have loaded failsafe settings but that was when I was trying to get windows XP to install and not for my Mac OS.

 

Below are the bios settings I have changed to:

BCLK = 181

Load Line Calibration = Enabled

Core Voltage = 1.2V

RAM Voltage = 1.6V

 

Hard Drive Boot Priority= 1st: Performance 0 (RAID)

Boot Device 1: Hard Drive

 

SATA RAID/AHCI Mode = AHCI

Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode = AHCI

 

That's pretty much it. Nothing really special. Not really many changes at all.

 

Sorry to hear your having problems. I am running chameleon 2.0RC1. I didn't specify whether to pick Chameleon 2.0RC1 or v1012 because I didn't know how important it would be for things to run properly. I'm generally quite quick to pickup and learn computer stuff but I am still very new to the hackintosh world. I did say that my instructions were according to my knowledge but I guess that isn't really an obvious enough warning so I'll edit my post to make this more clear.

 

If you want to change your Processor from "Unknown" you can run script step 10. My speed still doesn't report correctly either in the "About This Mac". There's probably an easy fix for that but it's something that's really not important to me so I haven't looked into it.

[melee54]

Knightprozac, I tried had them both set to that mode yesterday with no luck.

 

DD - I installed the other distro, booted up the script and...!........

 

Dun dun dun dun...

 

 

It failed. Got the same error at "installing media files."

 

I'm beginning to think my .iso is messed up.

 

It's failed 5 times on Kalyway (IDE), once on Kalyway (USB install), and once on iAtkos. All on the same installation spot.

 

So either my iso is messed up, or my SATA drive doesn't like those media files...

 

Does the retail DVD have to be 10.5.6? Can it be 10.5.5?

 

 

Edit:... I hadn't really paid much attention before, but does it have to be specifically an .iso, or can a dmg work? I'm in the process of making an ISO rather than DMG.

[digital_dreamer]

I have problems that seem to me related to some kind of internal clock.

1. VLC 0.9.9a seems to have some berserk timings when playing back a .flac file.

2. Typing seems a bit over-eager to repeattttt keyssss.

3. Time of Day clock runs fast, accelerates a couple hours a day. When I go to Date and Time it self-corrects.

4. Not much in the log except repeated "Capping VBL time to 20000000 (was 22508930)"

5. Sound gets out of sync when watching Peppa Pig Season 3 .avi files in QuickTime Player.

6. About This Mac says Processor 4GHz Unknown. (I bet the answer to that is somewhere in this thread).

You must have installed the older bootloader, which is incompatible with the vanilla kernels. You'll need to install the Voodoo kernel if you want to stick with that bootloader.

 

What do you mean by "Does that IONetworkingFamily.kext contain the RealtekR1000.kext in /Plugins?"

 

I checked my System/Library/Extensions folder and both of those kext's are in there. I don't get what you mean by /Plugins

Inside that IONetworkingFamily.kext is a Plugins folder that should contain the LAN driver, RealtekR1000.kext.

How did the RealtekR1000.kext get installed into S/L/E?

 

The correct installation would be to install the modified IONetworkingFamily.kext, which contains the RealtekR1000.kext, into /Extra, and remove the RealtekR1000.kext from S/L/E. This should leave a working setup with a vanilla install.

 

knightprozac: Which BIOS version are you running? Did you set it to optimized defaults and then, what other settings did you change? Just the AHCI settings, and a few others, in the Integrated Peripherals BIOS sub-screen? (I'm not overclocking... yet...) I changed my post above, keyboard issue was probably an artifact of bad maxed-out settings by Migration Assistant. Other odd thing is About This Mac says Processor 4GHz Unknown. Wish the Search Topic button worked, anyway its time I rummage through the 80 pages in this thread again.

 

Which bootloader and kernel did you choose? I suspect my problem, now that I re-read the first post, is that I chose "the older Chameleon v1012 bootloader". If this proves true, I might suggest you modify step 3 of your guide to advise people of this important decision. And in general to read the first post thoroughly as a background to your guide. Its really my own fault, but suggest that change. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing in my case. In other words, people may like to choose Chameleon 2.0 RC1. I know going backwards is problematic, but I wonder if I can now upgrade to Chameleon 2.0 RC1 or if that causes issues.

Installing Cham2 over 1012 is no problem. Same install process, but with different files. Just rerun the bootloader install routine (pre-patch) and select Cham2 and you're done.

 

Knightprozac, I tried had them both set to that mode yesterday with no luck.

It does sound like a bad ISO or installer disc, but don't know why that would happen, as there are all kinds of checks in place to verify the contents of the DVD prior to copying/burning or installing.

You can use any Retail Leopard install disc, going all the way back to 10.5.0. Just make sure you install the combo updater afterward. You don't need to boot into the new install first before installing the combo updater. Run the updater immediately after the Retail install.

 

kind regards,

MAJ

[knightprozac]

I'm beginning to think my .iso is messed up.

 

It's failed 5 times on Kalyway (IDE), once on Kalyway (USB install), and once on iAtkos. All on the same installation spot.

 

I'm not sure if your iso is messed up or not. I actually had the same problem as you when I was trying to get a clean install back onto my non-RAID hard drive (this was before I discovered that the IDE bios setting was causing my problems).

 

I noticed that the crashes seemed somewhat sporadic so through perseverance I did actually manage to do a clean install. Here's what I did

 

I already had disk image of my 10.5.0 install DVD setup (I created this disk image myself using Disk Utility to create DVD/CD Master)

 

I ran steps 2 and 3 on DD's script then rebooted to hopefully give myself more time before the crash would occur.

Then I ran step 4 of the script off of my mounted disk image and rebooted again before running the 10.5.7 Combo Updater. Rebooted again before running the remaining necessary steps of the script.

 

If I ran into a crash during the installation of 10.5 or the combo updater then I did a reformat of my hard drive and started again.

[melee54]

A race to beat the crash. Hahahaha...

 

I have a feeling a new iso isn't going to help me for some reason. So unlucky when it comes to these things...

 

I'll try that whole restarting thing, though.

 

Edit: Tried the restarting thing twice, froze at installing "mail" both times. So aggravating!...

 

 

Edit: LOL, ... I mounted the iso from the drive I'm installing it on, and I got to the very last thing it needed to install and BAM, ..."Please Restart". So close! I'm going to try again.

 

 

Edit again: Tried once more, and froze at the end again. "Installing OSes"... That sounded important, but I thought "Ahh, what the heck." So I isntalled the combo update, finished the rest of the mobo patcher, loaded up... I got through the introduction video of all of the "wecomes", then was presented with a "Keyboard not detected". Also, mouse didn't work.

 

I guess that could be because the install never finished...

[digital_dreamer]

A race to beat the crash. Hahahaha...

 

I have a feeling a new iso isn't going to help me for some reason. So unlucky when it comes to these things...

 

I'll try that whole restarting thing, though.

 

Edit: Tried the restarting thing twice, froze at installing "mail" both times. So aggravating!...

Edit: LOL, ... I mounted the iso from the drive I'm installing it on, and I got to the very last thing it needed to install and BAM, ..."Please Restart". So close! I'm going to try again.

Edit again: Tried once more, and froze at the end again. "Installing OSes"... That sounded important, but I thought "Ahh, what the heck." So I isntalled the combo update, finished the rest of the mobo patcher, loaded up... I got through the introduction video of all of the "wecomes", then was presented with a "Keyboard not detected". Also, mouse didn't work.

 

I guess that could be because the install never finished...

Needless to say, you shouldn't be having these issues at all.

You say you've been running your Windows install for weeks without issues. Is this on a SATA port?

Is the optical drive the one on the IDE port or a HD?

 

MAJ

[melee54]

Needless to say, you shouldn't be having these issues at all.

You say you've been running your Windows install for weeks without issues. Is this on a SATA port?

Is the optical drive the one on the IDE port or a HD?

 

MAJ

 

Optical Drive and old 18gig HD are both run on the IDE port. Could the Optical drive be taking power away from the IDE, despite it not even being used when I'm installing OSX from an iso?

 

Yes, I have been running windows off of my SATA drive. I only recently installed my old 18gig IDE for the purpose of the Mac install.

[digital_dreamer]

Optical Drive and old 18gig HD are both run on the IDE port. Could the Optical drive be taking power away from the IDE, despite it not even being used when I'm installing OSX from an iso?

 

Yes, I have been running windows off of my SATA drive. I only recently installed my old 18gig IDE for the purpose of the Mac install.

Invest in a good SATA HD for OS X to plug into the Intel SATA ports (blue/green). It'll be money well spent. Plus, anything to get away from the buggy JMicron controllers that run the PATA and white SATA ports.

 

MAJ