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

[colddiver]

Well... I decided to bite the bullet and get Vista Ultimate upgrade. I now have it installed both in Parallels and on its own HD (32-bit, unfortunately since I can't start the darn 64-bit installer from XP 32-bit - I really wish MS would stop the nonsense concerning their licenses). Chameleon boots it fine (didn't have much luck with Windows XP).

 

To make everything work smoothly, I had to do the following:

- Install all Mac OS HD and the SATA DVD Burner on SATA with SATA RAID/AHCI Mode set to AHCI

- Install the Windows HD on GSATA (first port) with on-board SATA/IDE CTRL mode set to IDE

- Set the boot priority to my Mac OS X HD (the one with Chameleon)

 

With this setup, everything works. I imagine there is a way to move everything to AHCI. I may look into this later. The big question I have now is should I attempt to activate both Vista setup (unclear to me if the Vista Ultimate license allows to have it installed twice on the same machine).

 

Concerning the heat potential issue I reported before, I set the fan speed to max in the BIOS and this seems to have solved the problem (I'm not getting much more noise). I encoded a full movie in H264 (2-pass encoding) and temperature remained around 65 - 70 celcius (average) which looks OK to me.

 

Colddiver

[feng'a]

I have a special thanks to say to everdone. Nice prompt reply to a PM I sent him regarding his comments about EFI booting Chameleon 2rc1.

 

So... I have done it! and it's working like a dream (so far)

 

What I did was...

 

Prep HDD with OS/combo update

Run wolfie's script with MAJ's kexts and the vanilla kernel

Run zhell's script to upgrade Munky's (what wolfie's script does) to use Chameleon 2rc1.

 

It just WORKED!.

 

Nothing needed to be installed onto the HDD that wasn't straight off the retail disk!

 

I'm so stoked!

 

So now I'm running booting directly to the RAID card booting off the EFI partition:

 

GA-EX58-UD5 w/ i7 920

12GB RAM DDR1600

Areca ARC-1222 SAS/SATA RAID HBA w/ 4x1TB disks in RAID10

ATI HD4870 Dual DVI running Dual 24" Screens (CI/QE out of the box)

FW800 expansion card

Drobo w/ Drobo Dash via FW800

WD MyBook Studio 2 via FW800

LG BD/HDDVD Combo

Wireless Di Novo KB for Mac, MX Revolution

Mac webcam from Logitech (forgot the model )

[slipperydip]

Hi everyone... I've been able to get my machine built around the GA-EX58-UD5 up and running with 10.5.7 following this fantastic guide... however I have not been able to get QE working no matter what I try!

 

My card is a ASUS 9400GT. 512MB RAM, Device ID: 0x065b, Vendor ID: 0x10de.

 

I have tried: efi strings, natit, nvinject, nvdarwin, nvkush.

I've also gone to the lengths of getting the rom off the graphics card and using NVCAP Maker to give me the NVCAP (it's 04000000000003000c0000000000000700000000 btw). I've been around the block too many times with this now and so I'm offering a $50 reward to the first person that helps me get QE active with my current setup.

 

Whatever I try, I still have "Quartz Extreme: Not Supported". bah! I'm absolutely no expert in this and I might be doing something wrong, but I am technically competent and know I'm not far off getting this solved... with the right help. I will send $50 USD via PayPal to the first person that tells me a config solution with my current setup which leads to me successfully getting QE running. PM me please!

 

My res is great - running 1920 x 1200 with a 24" Dell LCD (2405FPW), machine is running nicely but I need QE to run Logic.

 

I have spent so many hours on this... have enjoyed the learning, but now I'm all out of ideas and need it to work. :-) PM me please!

[jolt23]

Hi

 

I have a question about the bios set up. I installed the bootloader and leopard fine on the hd. When i try to boot up as AHCI the boot crashes and gives me a restart screen. If i try to boot IDE i get a still waiting for root device error. Does anyone know what problem i am running. I have also dissabled HT and set 1 core active only. I have tried searching the forums but cant fine anything that is similar to my problem running this set up.

 

My Set up is

EVGA X58 board, I7 920

Seagate 320gb HD

WD 32gb HD

1333 4g RAM

[hobes270]

Alright first I want to say thank you to DD and all you people who I read and got info off of! I have a few outstanding issues though.

 

1. I can only run chameleon v1, when I put v2 on, it goes to the apple boot screen with the grey spinning circle but then it just fades to a blue screen and hangs their for hours. But when v1 is on, it boots just fine. When v2 is on there the boot screen works great, but then when I tell it to boot into OSX it hangs after the apple. So I throw v1 back on the same drive and it works great.....

 

2. When I go to system profiler, for just about everything under hardware it says "There was an error while gathering this information." The only thing I can see is the graphics card. I tried changing settings using the script, but it didn't help anything in system profiler.

 

I tried changing settings in BIOS and everything, but no luck yet. Thanks!

[mattrb]

I wrote a tutorial, unfortunately is it in French (here)

 

iCore, just use Google Translate and work from there in getting the obvious misspellings. translated (here)

[orew]

Hey all. I decided to grab the latest UD5 bios from tweaktown and the current (F8e) has the new AHCI 1.20 so there is no longer a 10 second delay at boot. http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-latest-bios-28441/

Thought I'd share with anyone interested.

[melee54]

Hey all. I decided to grab the latest UD5 bios from tweaktown and the current (F8e) has the new AHCI 1.20 so there is no longer a 10 second delay at boot. http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-latest-bios-28441/

Thought I'd share with anyone interested.

 

Oh man, if only the UD3R had that BIOS update...

[orew]

Oh man, if only the UD3R had that BIOS update...

 

Yeah... other parts of the BIOS boot seem quite a bit faster as well. It seems like the time to get the desktop has been halved.

[matt1801]

Hi Guys,

 

First, thanks to dd and company for the hard work on making this board functional!

 

Second, I am having some trouble with my wifi card and I was wondering if anyone else is having similar issues or can offer some suggestions for a fix. My card is an asus wl 138g V2 (broadcom chip). When I first built my rig using the UD5 board the card worked out the box with 10.5.7, no problem. However at the same time I began using Ethernet and forgot about the airport. Fast forward one month to today, and I tried to turn on the airport card in the menu bar only to find it is not there! It is also not in systempref/network. Reboots do not solve the issue. I also tried removing the pci card and reinserting it. No dice! Sometime in the last month I did or installed something to make my card disappear. So, I opened up my system/library/extensions folder and sorted extensions by date modified. Please see the attached image for a list. Could someone tell if one of the recently modified kext is the cause for my disappearing airport? I did not install any kext (to the best of my knowledge!) but maybe one of the system updates I installed broke something?

 

Thanks so much,

Matt

 

 

PS. on a better note, I will soon be posting a description of my experiences with this board. I am a musician and I use a variety of peripherals like iLok keys, usb midi devices with their own drivers, and an apogee duet firewire interface. In short, the machine works great with everything I have! Even sleep works flawlessly!

[slipperydip]

Thanks to everyone for their help... the problem was that the wrong boot.plist file had the EFI/GFX string. Here's a quick summary for others:

 

My version of OSX86Tools was generating the EFI string correctly, BUT it was inserting this into /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

... that's not the right file!

 

The right file is in /Extra

 

once I put the EFI string onto the com.apple.boot.plist (note lower case "b") then I booted up with QE.

 

Fantastic!!

[hobes270]

Even sleep works flawlessly!

 

I have EVERYTHING working to 100% right now except for sleep. How do I go about getting sleep to work? It will go into sleep, but will never come back out. I am using chameleon 2, on DD script 3.91.

 

Thanks!!

[matt1801]

I have EVERYTHING working to 100% right now except for sleep. How do I go about getting sleep to work? It will go into sleep, but will never come back out. I am using chameleon 2, on DD script 3.91.

 

Hi Hobes,

 

Sleep has been the biggest mystery to me apart from my airport issue. Here's a summary of my sleep oddessy:

 

Part 1:

 

1. Installed iPC 10.5.6

2. Sleep worked out of box

 

Part 2:

1. Installed 10.5.7 using DD method

2. Sleep worked, but instant kernel panic on wake from sleep

3. Upgraded to F8b bios, same sleep result

4. Changed hibernate mode (open terminal, type "pmset -g" to see what your current hibernate mode is, and look back about 25-30 pages for explanation and directions on how to change it) to all available values, sleep still would not work.

5. Left hibernate mode on mode "0" and quit working on sleep!

 

Part 3:

1. About 3 weeks later I tried sleep and it worked! I could wake from sleep and my system remained stable for many hours after!

 

I cannot tell you what the heck I did to spontaneously get sleep working, I suspect it must have been a software upgrade I downloaded, or an unintentional tweak to the hibernate mode settings. I have attached a photo of my terminal running the "pmset -g" command. Honestly, I never thought sleep would work on my system. I have over a dozen usb devices, usb midi, usb bluetooth, logitech wireless mouse, etc. I figured all those peripheral would make sleep finicky forever. But as of today, it seems to work great. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I suspect with the shear variety of system configurations out there finding a "silver bullet" sleep solution will be next to impossible.

 

I've also listed my system config below.

 

Cheers and good luck,

Matt

 

 

Gigabyte UD5 F8b bios

DD install method with Chameleon 2 rc1 bootloader

Core i7 920 (no overclock)

6gb ocz ram

3 sata hd drives

Pci wifi card

EVGA 9800gtx graphics with netkas.org drivers

Sata dvd drive

over 1 dozen usb peripherals

apple bluetooth keyboard

apogee duet firewire audio interface

samsung t260hd monitor

[dr3amscap3]

PREPARATION

1. It is ideal to have two physical drives (not two partitions on the same drive) or, at least, another Mac system to work from.
   
2. One drive must already have OS X installed and running.
   This may mean using another Mac or installing a easy-to-use distro like Kalyway on the smaller/slower drive. (I only mention Kalyway, because it is the only distro I'm familiar with and know works well with this board. There may be more recent distros that can achieve equal success.)
   
3. Partition your target drive in Disk Utility using the GUID Partition Table (in Options button).
   
4. Make an ISO of your Retail DVD and download the Combo update, if needed.
   (The ISO of your DVD is not really needed, but it will shorten your install times dramatically. Trust me, when things go wrong (and they will) and you have to do an emergency install, more time spent waiting is directly proportional to higher blood pressure.)
   

RUNNING THE SCRIPT

1. Double-click RUN-PATCHER and enter your password.
   
2. You will be prompted with a selection of valid HFS drives to work with.
   
3. Default choices are highlighted in bold type.
   
4. Confirmed target drive name is saved for future use.
   
5. Install your choice of bootloader or pre-patch (option #2).
   
6. An option is provided to set target partition as active (option #3). The activate drive feature works with user to unmount all drive partitions (this is necessary for activation), including listing open files/running processes that prevent them from unmounting.
   
7. The script will check for the presence of a mounted "Mac OS X Install DVD" (or ISO) and prompt you if you wish to run that installer (option #4). Install from your Retail DVD and, immediately following that, the lastest combo updater. (There is NO need to boot into your new install first, before installing the combo updater.)
   
8. Run the kext/kernel installer (option #5). This is preconfigured to install the required kexts for the Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard, or any motherboard with the same chipsets. The kext/kernel installer automatically updates the boot caches for you.
   
9. Run the DSDT patcher (option #7) and the patched DSDT file will be installed in the appropriate location.
   
10. Your system is ready for reboot!
    

 

I've followed these steps (script version 3.91) in the install and on reboot I get passed Chameleon v2, the gray screen with busy icon and then a modal overlay that says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power..."

 

I removed DSDT.aml from /Extras as that was mentioned in the script, same restart screen.

 

I have a GA-EX58-UD5 with Asus EN9600GT SILENT video cards, and Realtek 8111D dual onboard gig-E ports.

 

I have 2 drives, qtosh and dummy.

 

Dummy = iATKOS v7 install (the ethernet isn't working and video cards are at 1024x768 generic defaults)

 

qtosh = retail install, with combo 10.5.7 update applied, partitioned with GUID.

 

In step #2 above I chose qtosh.

#5 I chose Chameleon V2

#6 I made it active

#7 I installed from my MBP install media and ran combo updater 10.5.7

#8 I ran the kext installer, accepted all the defaults

#9 ran the DSDT patcher and rebooted

 

That's where I am now. How do I get past this restart loop or where do I look for more clues?

 

Thanks.

[colddiver]

Hey all. I decided to grab the latest UD5 bios from tweaktown and the current (F8e) has the new AHCI 1.20 so there is no longer a 10 second delay at boot. http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/gigabyte-latest-bios-28441/

Thought I'd share with anyone interested.

 

Thanks for the link... This new bios worked quite well for me!

 

On an unrelated topic, I got curious about OpenCL and CUDA and tried the Badaboom H.264 encoder. This thing is blazing fast - it took 10 min. to encore a full 138 min. movie for the iPod Touch. I sure hope this is a sign of things to come with Snow Leopard and OpenCL...

 

Colddiver

[everdone]

I've followed these steps (script version 3.91) in the install and on reboot I get passed Chameleon v2, the gray screen with busy icon and then a modal overlay that says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power..."

 

I removed DSDT.aml from /Extras as that was mentioned in the script, same restart screen.

 

I have a GA-EX58-UD5 with Asus EN9600GT SILENT video cards, and Realtek 8111D dual onboard gig-E ports.

 

I have 2 drives, qtosh and dummy.

 

Dummy = iATKOS v7 install (the ethernet isn't working and video cards are at 1024x768 generic defaults)

 

qtosh = retail install, with combo 10.5.7 update applied, partitioned with GUID.

 

In step #2 above I chose qtosh.

#5 I chose Chameleon V2

#6 I made it active

#7 I installed from my MBP install media and ran combo updater 10.5.7

#8 I ran the kext installer, accepted all the defaults

#9 ran the DSDT patcher and rebooted

 

That's where I am now. How do I get past this restart loop or where do I look for more clues?

 

Thanks.

 

At least part of your problem is using a computer specific media. You need a Retail DVD, not one that came with a computer.

[knightprozac]

Second, I am having some trouble with my wifi card and I was wondering if anyone else is having similar issues or can offer some suggestions for a fix. My card is an asus wl 138g V2 (broadcom chip). When I first built my rig using the UD5 board the card worked out the box with 10.5.7, no problem. However at the same time I began using Ethernet and forgot about the airport.

 

I'm not sure if there is a fix beyond this but removing the IONetworkingFamily kext allows that card to work. I toggle between having the kext running and not running to switch between ethernet and wireless since you need the kext for ethernet.

 

My wireless card is being tested for faults at the moment though since the data transfer rate is terrible on it unless I constantly adjust the arial.

[airwalk776]

Hello Everyone,

 

Ok so I have a EVGA 9800 GTX + hooked up to two monitors. I got a 3rd one so I am looking to get a new video card. Not worth getting a 9800 GTX+ and there is a great deal for a GTX 260 216 core right now on dell for $114. Would both of these cards work at the same time ?

 

 

anyone doing something similar to this ?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Dell SB has eVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB PCI Express Video Card for $200 - 20% off coupon TR3K2WXQ65?53B - 10% off stackable coupon 22X6DLMFK6K92G - $30 rebate = $114 with free shipping.

 

 

They also have the SuperClocked version of the same card for $230 - 20% off coupon TR3K2WXQ65?53B - 10% off stackable coupon 22X6DLMFK6K92G - $30 rebate = $136 with free shipping

[Per Wiklander]

Well, the problem here was that I didn't get the chance to enter any params since I had accidentally activated quiet boot.

 

After using another computer for the past week, I decided to fix this today and my guess that pounding F8 would give me the menu back proved correct. So I booted with -v and, as often happens when you are desperate enough to ask for help, everything worked just fine, no gray screen of death. *sigh*

 

It's working just as good after a few reboots now so I guess I'll never find out what the actual problem was that caused the gray screen at boot last week.

 

When this happened again today I decided to find out what was wrong. After a series of reboots I'm pretty sure that the only time I get the KP is when I have my headphones connected to the front audio headphone jack on my box. Back (on mobo) ports work fine. Plugging the headphones into the front mic jack is also fine.

 

See attached image for the actual KP.

 

[raymondh]

Is there a OS X application for monitoring and maybe even adjusting the CPU fan speed?

[dr3amscap3]

At least part of your problem is using a computer specific media. You need a Retail DVD, not one that came with a computer.

 

Okay, reinstalled again, followed the steps, this time using a true Retail DVD. Same thing happens, get a gray screen, spinning cursor and instead of Welcome/Setup I get "You need to restart your computer".

[bigpoppa206]

Okay, reinstalled again, followed the steps, this time using a true Retail DVD. Same thing happens, get a gray screen, spinning cursor and instead of Welcome/Setup I get "You need to restart your computer".

 

In my experience, this sounds like one of two things. Either something is not right in your BIOS settings or it could be a kext problem, such as not installing the Disabler.kext or IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext or forgetting install the dsmos.kext.

[matt1801]

I'm not sure if there is a fix beyond this but removing the IONetworkingFamily kext allows that card to work. I toggle between having the kext running and not running to switch between ethernet and wireless since you need the kext for ethernet.

 

My wireless card is being tested for faults at the moment though since the data transfer rate is terrible on it unless I constantly adjust the arial.

 

Hi Knight,

 

Thanks for the tip. I tried deleting the IONetworkingFamily.kext from my System/Library/Extensions folder and from the Extras/Stored_Kexts folder but my airport still does not work or appear in networking pref pane or in the toolbar. However, my ethernet continues to work! Did I make a mistake in deleting the IONetworkingFamily.kext?

 

Thanks,

Matt

[Craig4]

My computer has been buggy the past few days as I have been trying to test a few new things.

 

first off I installed 3 new sticks of ram 6gb total. just to make sure what color slots do you put them in to run 3 channel?

 

next my computer has been resetting randomly after trying out F8 bios so I went back to F7 to see if that is the problem. will report back on that later.

 

edit: went back to F7 and computer rebooted again.... nothing has changed besides that... wtf is going on

[dr3amscap3]

In my experience, this sounds like one of two things. Either something is not right in your BIOS settings or it could be a kext problem, such as not installing the Disabler.kext or IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext or forgetting install the dsmos.kext.

 

I have Disabler.kext and dsmos.kext installed.

 

My BIOS settings are identical to the image (except smart backup, which isn't simply enable/disable for me).

 

I don't have IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext

 

I need to find that.