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

[melee54]

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

 

 

Whoah, whoah... So that white port is buggy? That's the one that I have my SATA plugged into! I had no idea why that one was white, but I decided to use it. I'll switch to a blue one, then.

 

I will invest in another SATA drive, though. Thanks for the help.

 

EDIT: Switched to blue SATA port, switched bios to ACHI. Now I cannot boot into my old IDE. Sorry for ignorance, I'm brand new to this.

 

Edit: (World record broken for most edits by forum user....): Ran gparted, completely wiped both drives. Installing iATKOS again. Hopefully this'll work.

 

 

Edit: IDE drive stopped working in ACHI mode. MB wouldn't boot correctly. I'm going back to Windows 7 until I get another SATA drive.

[Yertil]

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

 

MAJ there are colored kexts so i guess it is boot-132, so what do i have to do to make this an easy upgrade! i am wondering if i can pm you i have some other things to ask as well

thanks again

Adam

[everdone]

Whoah, whoah... So that white port is buggy? That's the one that I have my SATA plugged into! I had no idea why that one was white, but I decided to use it. I'll switch to a blue one, then.

 

I will invest in another SATA drive, though. Thanks for the help.

 

EDIT: Switched to blue SATA port, switched bios to ACHI. Now I cannot boot into my old IDE. Sorry for ignorance, I'm brand new to this.

 

Edit: (World record broken for most edits by forum user....): Ran gparted, completely wiped both drives. Installing iATKOS again. Hopefully this'll work.

 

 

Edit: IDE drive stopped working in ACHI mode. MB wouldn't boot correctly. I'm going back to Windows 7 until I get another SATA drive.

If I remember correctly, earlier you indicated your DVD drive was IDE. For best results the DVD drive needs to be SATA. Loading and booting OSX is a lot easier if all drives are SATA.

[melee54]

If I remember correctly, earlier you indicated your DVD drive was IDE. For best results the DVD drive needs to be SATA. Loading and booting OSX is a lot easier if all drives are SATA.

 

 

Figured as much... Right before I built this computer, I bought an IDE burner for my old PC since my previous one failed. It's now in my new PC. I didn't really want to spend money on another DVD burner... But I guess I might have to.

 

Thanks.

[radov4n]

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

 

Best of wishes,

MAJ

 

Yeah, DSDT patch in the script did not work for P6T. Had to patch it manually also instead of "./DSDT\ Patcher Debug/dsdt.dsl" I had to do "./DSDT\ Patcher Debug/dsdt.dsl -f". Then moved the resulting DSDT.aml to /Extra.

 

Thanks.

[digital_dreamer]

Whoah, whoah... So that white port is buggy? That's the one that I have my SATA plugged into! I had no idea why that one was white, but I decided to use it. I'll switch to a blue one, then.

 

I will invest in another SATA drive, though. Thanks for the help.

 

EDIT: Switched to blue SATA port, switched bios to ACHI. Now I cannot boot into my old IDE. Sorry for ignorance, I'm brand new to this.

 

Edit: (World record broken for most edits by forum user....): Ran gparted, completely wiped both drives. Installing iATKOS again. Hopefully this'll work.

Edit: IDE drive stopped working in ACHI mode. MB wouldn't boot correctly. I'm going back to Windows 7 until I get another SATA drive.

The SATA ports aren't too bad, it just has wake from sleep issues that the Intel SATA ports don't experience.

There's the well-known over-4GB induced KP that are fixed with the included patched kexts (The vanilla kexts still have this bug, AFAIK.)

 

When you are having as much trouble as reported here, it's best to eliminate any potential trouble areas in an effort to move forward.

 

MAJ there are colored kexts so i guess it is boot-132, so what do i have to do to make this an easy upgrade! i am wondering if i can pm you i have some other things to ask as well

thanks again

Adam

I'd just upgrade to 10.5.7 (from a different install), remove any colored patched kexts that are remaining, run the Patch Installer to install bootloader and kexts. You can PM me.

 

MAJ

 

Yeah, DSDT patch in the script did not work for P6T. Had to patch it manually also instead of "./DSDT\ Patcher Debug/dsdt.dsl" I had to do "./DSDT\ Patcher Debug/dsdt.dsl -f". Then moved the resulting DSDT.aml to /Extra.

 

Thanks.

Are you talking about having to do a forced copy to overwrite the original?

 

What patching did you have to do besides deleting the CPU aliases?

 

MAJ

[luh3417]

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.

Worked like a champ. dd, MAJ, knightprozac, many thanks!

 

@melee54 Do invest in SATA HDD and DVD, you won't regret it.

 

Two articles that have some angles on OC this family of motherboards...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboard...a-x58-ud4p.html

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=...E2bydYYl2Ib-4IQ (.pdf download link)

Bear in mind "they were written around the C0 revision of the i7 920 and not the current D0 so voltages will probably be a bit different for the overclock." FWIW neither article is for the UD5 either. Just wanted to give some ideas of the tricks they used. Personally I'm aiming for 3.6 with little or no voltage tweaking.

 

Was just at Computex where the Gigabyte booth has the whole family on display. GA-EX58A-EXTREME, -UD5, -UD4P, -UD4, -UD3R. Only the 3R looks like they took much off, but check their website for details.

[digital_noah]

Please help me, I don't have any idea what j f..... doing wrong....!

Any sugestions?

 

My target is Retail, but I have MS only now............

 

And to the end of my noob storry, sorry fom my english!

 

My suggestion is to avoid a RAID install. Try getting it to work on a single drive first. Then if your system boots, mirror the drive onto your RAID array.

[dwest576]

I am sorry if this question has been answered. The search is not working properly on the boards for me.

 

I Have been running a Boot-132 w/ an EFI Bootloader install on this MB for a while w/ a NVIVDIA 9800 GTX.

 

I have been using an EFI String to load the "drivers" the the Video card w/ everything working properly.

 

Since moving to Chameleon, I cannot use EFI strings, and can only load the drivers w/ an injector and I don't get any QE.

 

Does anyone know a way around this? I love Chameleon.

 

Thanks,

Dave

[knightprozac]

The SATA ports aren't too bad, it just has wake from sleep issues that the Intel SATA ports don't experience.

There's the well-known over-4GB induced KP that are fixed with the included patched kexts (The vanilla kexts still have this bug, AFAIK.)

 

Perhaps this is related to my machine not being able to enter sleep while running my raid. I had to run my RAID from the white GSATA2 ports since I couldn't get it to work on the blue intel ones.

 

To people reading those overclock articles just be aware that they seem to be based around the C0 revision of the i7 920 and not the current D0 so voltages will probably be a bit different for the overclock.

[hisham_dell]

Strange: Chameleon not loading kexts from /Extra/Extensions!

 

Using script version 3.6 and a Kalyway 10.5.2 install on my old Dell GX 280, I installed Chameleon 2, activated the parition, installed OS X 10.5.4 from my shrink wrapped retail pack, combo updated it to 10.5.7 and installed the default kexts in /Extra/Extensions and updated the boot cache (I'm using vanilla kernel 9.7 from 10.5.7, so no kernel or system.kext copied). I then booted it up on my ex58-ud5 i7 machine and everything worked sweet without any problems. Chameleon was loading the kexts from the Extra/Extensions and it was running great.

 

Then I decided to repartition my drive for whatever reason (wanted to installed Windows as well), so I used disk utility to partition it with 1 HFS+ partition for OS X and 1 FAT partition for Windows. My understanding is that this creates a hybrid gpt/mbr disk automatically (it does as far as I can tell, as I did install Windows without a hitch).

 

Anyway, back to OS X and DD's great script. Now I'm using script version 3.7 and again my Dell GX 280 with Kalyway 10.5.2 to install OS X. The problem is, and I 've tried re-installing several times, is that Chameleon does not load anything from the /Extra directory! And so I get a KP since Apple ACPI kext locks up since it's not disabled by disabler.kext.

 

I've re-installed several times (and yes, even without installing Windows. Just OS X on the first partition). Chameleons 2 shows it's pretty graphical face but when I load up OS X, it disregards the /Extra stuff. :/

 

Funny thing is, when I use a Boot-132 CD to boot the partition, the /Extra stuff is loaded!

 

I would appreciate if any of you guys can shed some light on this, as I have even tried using script version 3.6 and ended up with the same issue. I even reverted back to my original setup of just one HFS+ parition, GPT to see if it will work and it doesn't!. I could swear I did the same steps the first time round when it worked without a problem!

[knightprozac]

After installing windows XP onto a partition on my boot drive I had to boot into a separate drive and then reinstall chameleon 2.0 onto my target drive that way before I got things to work.

 

If you wanted to you could try using the script during the kext installation to install into /system rather than /extras.

[joeblough]

Strange: Chameleon not loading kexts from /Extra/Extensions!

 

we discovered this a long while back and that's why dd's script (starting with 3.4 i think, i cant remember) started putting the extensions in /Extra/Stored_Kexts and making /Extra/Extensions.mkext. chameleon seems to reliably load all the kexts from the mkext file, but does not load them if they are just in /Extra/Extensions/

[hisham_dell]

we discovered this a long while back and that's why dd's script (starting with 3.4 i think, i cant remember) started putting the extensions in /Extra/Stored_Kexts and making /Extra/Extensions.mkext. chameleon seems to reliably load all the kexts from the mkext file, but does not load them if they are just in /Extra/Extensions/

 

I'm at work now and wrote the above post from memory, so I'm not too sure about where the kexts are.

 

FWIW I used the scripts to create and install the kexts, so all should be as you say (/Extra/Stored_Kexts and /Extra/Extensions.mkext). Will check to be sure this is the case once I'm home.

[hisham_dell]

I'm at work now and wrote the above post from memory, so I'm not too sure about where the kexts are.

 

FWIW I used the scripts to create and install the kexts, so all should be as you say (/Extra/Stored_Kexts and /Extra/Extensions.mkext). Will check to be sure this is the case once I'm home.

 

I just got home and checked my system. Everything is in the right place except that the script for some reason did not create an Extensions.mkext, even after updating the boot cache several times. I have attached the log for the boot cache.

 

Seems like permissions on the kext are set incorrectly. I simply unarchived DD's script, so all the permissions should be unchanged as he's set them. How can I repair them back to the correct permissions?

 

Why is this happening? Again, I'm using script version 3.7.

Boot_cache.log.zip

[everdone]

I am sorry if this question has been answered. The search is not working properly on the boards for me.

 

I Have been running a Boot-132 w/ an EFI Bootloader install on this MB for a while w/ a NVIVDIA 9800 GTX.

 

I have been using an EFI String to load the "drivers" the the Video card w/ everything working properly.

 

Since moving to Chameleon, I cannot use EFI strings, and can only load the drivers w/ an injector and I don't get any QE.

 

Does anyone know a way around this? I love Chameleon.

 

Thanks,

Dave

If you are using D_D's script and modifying the boot.plist when running that script, your EFI string is probably not being entered correctly. Open the boot.plist in D_D's folder and add your string manually (copy and paste). Then redo the install of kexts and Chameleon but do not run the 'modify plist' command. (make sure you remove the Inject kext from the list).

 

I have the UD3R board equipped with two drives, one boots from EFI partition and the other uses the Extra folder. In each I am using chameleon2 with an EFI string for the Invidia video card in the boot.plist. I modified the boot.plist manually because the string is too long to be input from Terminal.

[digital_dreamer]

I just got home and checked my system. Everything is in the right place except that the script for some reason did not create an Extensions.mkext, even after updating the boot cache several times. I have attached the log for the boot cache.

 

Seems like permissions on the kext are set incorrectly. I simply unarchived DD's script, so all the permissions should be unchanged as he's set them. How can I repair them back to the correct permissions?

 

Why is this happening? Again, I'm using script version 3.7.

hisham_dell,

Sorry you are having trouble. It does look like the kext ownership is not being set to root:wheel, but don't know why, yet.

Can you send me the Install.log, so I can see what the permission actually are. It will display the permissions of everything in /Extra.

 

Does this issue occur when you are using the Kext/kernel installer, too?

 

To get your system up, try each of these lines in secession in Terminal:

(replace YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE with your drive name and copy/paste)

chmod -R 755 "/Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/Extra/Stored_Kexts/"
chown -R root:wheel "/Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/Extra/Stored_Kexts/"
kextcache -a i386 -m "/Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/Extra/Extensions.mkext" "/Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/Extra/Stored_Kexts"
chmod 755 "/Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/Extra/Extensions.mkext"
chown root:wheel "/Volumes/YOUR_BOOT_DRIVE/Extra/Extensions.mkext"

 

Thanks.

 

kind regards,

MAJ

[luh3417]

Can I swap graphics cards and it will just detect the new one and adapt to it? I noticed my screen saver (Flurry) was choppy, and some misbehavior when I use the KVM switch. Then I noticed that System Profiler reports 8800GT, but Quartz Extreme: Not Supported. I'll look in some graphics threads but thought it would be OK to ask if anyone has any suggestions. This is just a 3.7 install which installs netkas.org. Though I did double-clutch and install graphics twice.

[FUT1L1TY]

Can I swap graphics cards and it will just detect the new one and adapt to it? I noticed my screen saver (Flurry) was choppy, and some misbehavior when I use the KVM switch. Then I noticed that System Profiler reports 8800GT, but Quartz Extreme: Not Supported. I'll look in some graphics threads but thought it would be OK to ask if anyone has any suggestions. This is just a 3.7 install which installs netkas.org. Though I did double-clutch and install graphics twice.

 

I'm pretty sure that the new Universal GFX injector from Netkas is not working for you. I say that because it doesn't work for me either. I just went back to using a EFI string in my boot.plist. You should do the same and see if it fixes your QE problem. Be sure to remove the GFXinjector and update your boot cache.

[digital_dreamer]

I just got home and checked my system. Everything is in the right place except that the script for some reason did not create an Extensions.mkext, even after updating the boot cache several times. I have attached the log for the boot cache.

 

Seems like permissions on the kext are set incorrectly. I simply unarchived DD's script, so all the permissions should be unchanged as he's set them. How can I repair them back to the correct permissions?

 

Why is this happening? Again, I'm using script version 3.7.

hisham_dell,

The only thing that can cause the permission changes NOT to be honored is if the "Ignore ownership on this volume" is turned ON. Make sure it is OFF. Get Info on volume, bottom of Sharing & Permissions, deselect that button.

 

Although it should not be disabled, an installer may activate ownership just as a precaution. My script attempts to do the same - activate on-disk ownership just in case it is disabled for some reason. I'll have to be more aggressive in checking on this flag anytime permissions are involved.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

EDIT: Sometimes this volume ownership issue can occur when it is plugged in as a USB drive.

[mattpeufpeuf]

Anyone have e-sata works?

Myne works just 1 time. Else I need to reboot

[digital_dreamer]

Anyone have e-sata works?

Myne works just 1 time. Else I need to reboot

When I had my eSATA drive connected to the Gigabyte/JMicron ports, the drive would disappear after wake from sleep. Now, I have the eSATA drive connected to the blue/green Intel SATA ports and everything is much better. Drive's always online, even after wake.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

P.S. I'll be out of town for a few days (be back Sunday evening), so I'll miss the activity here for a while. Thought I might take a laptop with me, but didn't get around to fixing it. Got to replace the battery charger IC (ISL6255), a 28-pin SMC that's 5x5mm.

 

BTW, my current project now is adding a EFI partition boot setup to the script. This will require modifications to almost every subroutine, but should just take a couple weeks of spare time, if I'm lucky.

 

Enjoy your week.

[Jay Bomb]

I had to clear my partitions and start over, however whenever I try to boot into 10.5.7 now. Text overwrites the main apple loading screen until it fades to black. However chameleon was able to boot kalyway. Is there a file I'm missing?

 

Update: Fixed the issue had to disable a feature on the motherboard.

 

New Question: I had to install Easy BCD to get into my OS X install. If I used the script and set the OS X partition active again will that let it be able to boot? Or should I proceed to install chameleon on my kalyway drive and boot from there?

 

 

[joeblough]

P.S. I'll be out of town for a few days (be back Sunday evening), so I'll miss the activity here for a while. Thought I might take a laptop with me, but didn't get around to fixing it. Got to replace the battery charger IC (ISL6255), a 28-pin SMC that's 5x5mm.

 

Enjoy your week.

 

i can do that rework for you have a good trip.

[iktus]

Guys, i've a little problem

i've reinstalled osx wit DD 3.7 script and now my video card work out of box...

the problem is that not working CI and QE on my 9800 gt

in my previous installation for the video card i had to use the efi string, and it was a good solution...cause OOTB she did not work

now I wont to use this solution,but I can not find the injectors from netkas...i try to remove it from installation /kext/_graphics/_repository, i've reinstalled ...but did not change anything...

Help me please

tNx in advance