Peter R. Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 The box contains : Gigabyte EP35 DS3 Intel 6750 Duo 8 Gb ram Sapphire (I think) ATI 3870 A collection of HD's. Last major update led me to install iATKOS 10.5.4, which installed without much trouble. Combined with PCWiz' P35 Control Center app is delivers a pretty headache free install. I've been wanting to upgrade to the latest 10.5.6 reslease, especially in light of the improved EFI V9 handler which allegedly allows for on-line updates without having to faff about with install scripts. First off, I thought iATKOS 5i, since 4i had been good to me. Installed fine, but upon first boot it crashed while constructing the Apple logo screen. No amount of coaxing and reinstalling with different options could persuade the distro to boot. Closest I got was an infinite repeat of the power button symbol and the message ' your computer needs to restart' etc. Exit iATKOS. Since PCWIz generally knows what he's doing, iPC was next up. Again installed fine, but crashed on first boot. Starting -x cured this, and the machine behaved fine after that. However, QE/CI support was surprisingly absent, and none of the available patches fixed this. Strange, since iATKOS 4i gave me QE/CI out of the (virtual) box. Exit iPC. For sports I tried iDeneb 1,4, but this also landed me with the infinite 'your computer needs to restart' loop on first boot. I then reinstalled iATKOS 4i and went the upgrade route. First up is installing EFI v9 with (again) PCWiz' UInstaller. Installing gave me the 'the process forked' error. It is mentioned on his website, so he's probably on it anyway. I pressed on by running the install script and installing te combo update. So far all seems to be well. I have 10.5.6 and QE/CI, sound and everything else. I still don't know if I can use Apple Software Update, but I guess we'll find out soon enough eh... Peter R. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurdWise Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 This is what happens when you use pcwiz's garbage tools.. If you had spent half as much time learning the basics of the OS you're using as you wasted on installers and pointless GUI tools your system would not only be in better shape, but you'd know all about how you got there, and what to do next time around instead of fumbling and guessing. What's more you'd *know* how to make software update work for you. If you don't want to look under the hood & get your hands greasy, get a Mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter R. Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Thank you for that invaluable assistance. I have really picked up a lot if useful info from it. Contrary to what you may be used to yourself, I have a life. This constitutes working, shopping, house maintenance, car maintenance, odd jobs, helping my in-laws, keeping my wife happy and other stuff generally frowned upon by the Hack Elite. I am grateful PCWiz invests his time in these tools so luddites like myself can experience OSX without too much hassle. Thanks PCWiz ! Peter R. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurdWise Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 You didn't even bother to read what I wrote..If you had gone about this properly in the first place you would have wasted less time, learned something useful, and had more time to spend in your real life.. In fact pcwiz's {censored} has cost you time & effort for absolutely no gain, and you're foolish enough to believe this is a good thing. You wouldn't be posting your "woes" here if it wasn't for the kind of {censored} that the poor unsuspecting noob clings to in the hope that it will be a shortcut. No-one wants to make it harder for you, the fact is that installing os x is astonishingly easy if you just spend a little bit of time doing it right from the outset. The packagemakers and gui-pushers are really just in it for their own ego's sake. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter R. Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 You have issues. Seek treatment. Preferably NOT on this board. Goodbye. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPhoneiac Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 I have spent a couple of months on this board learning how to put a Hackintosh together. Many of my posted questions where never answered and many where but never was I flamed the way the Turd flamed Peter. There was absolutely no call for that. Furthermore Osx86 tools by PCwiz is an invaluable tool that saves me a lot of time. Just becasue I can poke around doing a sudo this and chmod that it does not mean that I like it, in fact, that's why I like OS X. Your comments about PCWiz where really uncalled for and you should apologize. Don't worry, I am not holding my breath. By the way, I have 4 real Macs, but I am sure you will make an issue of that as well. Peter R. After spending much time on this board I realized that there are some very entrenched directions for installing OS X on a home made Mac. I choose to explore the vanilla option and it really has been painless. I have to say that owning a real mac or having access to one definitely simplifies things. All I did was: 1) Attach a usb drive to my mac 2) Format it as mac os extended journaled 3) Installed 10.5.6 to it 4) Installed chameleon 4) Flashed my bios on my PC 5) Removed the usb drive from it's housing and installed as the sata boot drive 6) Booted And it worked like a charm! I did have to search for drivers and such but I got lucky in that I found everything I needed. I even have the onboard lan and sleep working perfectly with the help of Marionez excellent atheros driver and ACHI fixes. Any way have fun! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter R. Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hey Iphoniac, I'll look into this 'bios reflash vanilla thing' Sounds interesting. The way my box is set up now is with a USB HD cradle. So I just slip in the HD with the OS i require. Sometimes I do need native Windows so I can't toss it out completely. But it leaves me the option to experiment with other stuff like Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I just don't have the space for 2 seperate computers, and this solves that. Peter R. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
duggyuk Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 I have the same board almost (P35-DS3R) and i've had no issues at all. I tried that boot132 disc and that worked too. The trick is to turn off the JMicron controller in the bios, attached anything on the purple (Jmicron) ports to a yellow one. Thats it as its all fine then. Using Ideneb install here (didnt know about pcwiz installer) or I would have used vanilla install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPhoneiac Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hey Iphoniac, I'll look into this 'bios reflash vanilla thing' Sounds interesting. The way my box is set up now is with a USB HD cradle. So I just slip in the HD with the OS i require. Sometimes I do need native Windows so I can't toss it out completely. But it leaves me the option to experiment with other stuff like Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I just don't have the space for 2 seperate computers, and this solves that. Peter R. Chameleon will let you select the drive you wish to boot with so you won't need to swap out drives. Also the bios reflash thing is only for the Asus p5 series boards, you don't even need one for your board so skip that step. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1131782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroke Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 This is what happens when you use pcwiz's garbage tools.. If you had spent half as much time learning the basics of the OS you're using as you wasted on installers and pointless GUI tools your system would not only be in better shape, but you'd know all about how you got there, and what to do next time around instead of fumbling and guessing. What's more you'd *know* how to make software update work for you. If you don't want to look under the hood & get your hands greasy, get a Mac.… … … You didn't even bother to read what I wrote..If you had gone about this properly in the first place you would have wasted less time, learned something useful, and had more time to spend in your real life.. In fact pcwiz's {censored} has cost you time & effort for absolutely no gain, and you're foolish enough to believe this is a good thing. You wouldn't be posting your "woes" here if it wasn't for the kind of {censored} that the poor unsuspecting noob clings to in the hope that it will be a shortcut. No-one wants to make it harder for you, the fact is that installing os x is astonishingly easy if you just spend a little bit of time doing it right from the outset. The packagemakers and gui-pushers are really just in it for their own ego's sake. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161830-1056-installation-woes/#findComment-1132023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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