[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[hollyend]

Thanks to all for your replies on the hard drive noise, next question if I may, if I let the computer go to sleep on its own accord I can not wake it, If I use the sleep command I can wake it with the power button??? any pointers?

[LocusOfControl]

#root:

 

Unless I have misunderstood and when it prompts "#root:" is where I only need put in a password, it did not work.

 

 

when you see the prompt following the mount command finishing in single user boot

 

type as follows

 

LocusOfControl:~ root# passwd root

Changing password for root.

New password:

Retype new password:

LocusOfControl:~ root#

 

I'm curious as to why /sbin commands don't work - they are fundamental to your system

 

In a terminal window type ls -l /sbin

 

post the output back here...

 

That line appears so often because your SL install is badly broken by the looks of things

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to all for your replies on the hard drive noise, next question if I may, if I let the computer go to sleep on its own accord I can not wake it, If I use the sleep command I can wake it with the power button??? any pointers?

 

A lot of people have problems with this

 

Try going to energy saver prefs, change both sets of settings and save, then try hitting the reset defaults twice

 

if that doesn't work your DSDT may not yet have appropriate fixes in it

 

Read this thread http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196771

 

followed by this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=192518

[zoro2]

when you see the prompt following the mount command finishing in single user boot

 

type as follows

 

LocusOfControl:~ root# passwd root

Changing password for root.

New password:

Retype new password:

LocusOfControl:~ root#

 

I'm curious as to why /sbin commands don't work - they are fundamental to your system

 

In a terminal window type ls -l /sbin

 

post the output back here...

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
total 14616
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  122016 Jul 25 01:18 SystemStarter
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   31520 May 18  2009 autodiskmount
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50960 Jun 29  2009 clri
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   29424 May 18  2009 disklabel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50752 Jun 23  2009 dmesg
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  148016 Jun 29  2009 dump
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   67440 Jun 29  2009 dumpfs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   85456 Jun 23  2009 dynamic_pager
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   80800 May 19  2009 fibreconfig
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  221056 Jun 29  2009 fsck
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  710224 Jun 29  2009 fsck_hfs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   76880 Aug  1 01:54 fsck_msdos
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  297968 Aug  1 02:03 fsck_udf
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50960 Jun 29  2009 fstyp
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50992 Jun 29  2009 fstyp_hfs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   51008 Jun 29  2009 fstyp_msdos
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   51008 Jun 29  2009 fstyp_ntfs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   51024 Jun 29  2009 fstyp_udf
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50944 Jun 29  2009 fstyp_ufs
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   55760 Jun 23  2009 halt
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  121984 Jul 15 01:27 ifconfig
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  110080 Jul 15 01:27 ip6fw
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  180224 Jul 15 01:27 ipfw
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  183968 Jul 17 01:31 kerberosautoconfig
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   69296 Aug  1 01:58 kextload
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   69504 Aug  1 01:58 kextunload
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  622832 Jul 25 01:18 launchd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   65232 May 18  2009 md5
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   39024 Jul 14 01:25 mknod
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   80768 Jun 29  2009 mount
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   63664 Jul  2  2009 mount_afp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   44448 Aug  1 01:54 mount_cd9660
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   85568 Aug  1 01:54 mount_cddafs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50848 Jun 29  2009 mount_devfs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50960 Jun 29  2009 mount_fdesc
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel	  44 Jan  8 19:56 mount_ftp -> /System/Library/Filesystems/ftp.fs/mount_ftp
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   85376 Jun 29  2009 mount_hfs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   49632 Aug  1 01:54 mount_msdos
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  111296 May 19  2009 mount_nfs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   35296 Aug  1 01:53 mount_ntfs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  367792 Aug  1 01:52 mount_smbfs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  173856 Aug  1 02:03 mount_udf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   34768 Aug  1 01:58 mount_webdav
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  131104 Jun 29  2009 newfs_hfs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   60752 Aug  1 01:54 newfs_msdos
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  291232 Aug  1 02:03 newfs_udf
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  304496 May 19  2009 nfsd
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50992 May 19  2009 nfsiod
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50656 Jun 23  2009 nologin
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  101312 Jul 15 01:27 ping
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  139168 Jul 15 01:27 ping6
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   97408 Jun 29  2009 quotacheck
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  148016 Jun 29  2009 rdump
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   55760 Jun 23  2009 reboot
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  tty	213472 Jun 29  2009 restore
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  105776 Jul 15 01:27 route
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  tty	213472 Jun 29  2009 rrestore
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  101456 Jul 15 01:27 rtsol
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   64272 May 18  2009 service
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   85808 Jun 23  2009 shutdown
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   63392 Jun 29  2009 tunefs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   64192 Jun 29  2009 umount

That line appears so often because your SL install is badly broken by the looks of things

Boot method to single user: Chameleon screen, select boot drive. THen hit down arrow. Pop up menu on screen for booting ignoring caches (tried that but not different), booting single user, etc.

 

Booted single user again.

Trying :/ root# passwd root

Note that at this point it is showing just as I have typed. IT is not showing my username and root, just ":/root"

 

Result:

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

Launch_mesg(): socket is not connected

Passwd: unable to open directory node with name /local/default. Node wasn't found.

:/root#

 

Any hope?

[LocusOfControl]

Boot method to single user: Chameleon screen, select boot drive. THen hit down arrow. Pop up menu on screen for booting ignoring caches (tried that but not different), booting single user, etc.

 

Booted single user again.

Trying :/ root# passwd root

Note that at this point it is showing just as I have typed. IT is not showing my username and root, just ":/root"

 

Result:

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache

Launch_mesg(): socket is not connected

Passwd: unable to open directory node with name /local/default. Node wasn't found.

:/root#

 

Any hope?

 

Your permissions are different to mine

 

I don't know why you got the message /sbin/fsck not found

 

but to change your password you need to successfully run the /sbin/mount -uw command

 

unless you want to try /sbin/mount -uwf to force the mount followed by the password change I don't

know what else to suggest

[zoro2]

Your permissions are different to mine

 

I don't know why you got the message /sbin/fsck not found

 

but to change your password you need to successfully run the /sbin/mount -uw command

 

unless you want to try /sbin/mount -uwf to force the mount followed by the password change I don't

know what else to suggest

Isn't there a way to repair permissions? I tried doing that with DU from the Leopard drive. It said it repaired permission but only took a half a second, so I doubt it. How do I repair permissions while booted in single user mode?

 

This time I got similar results, but slightly different. THe "/sbin/mount -uw /" wasn't used with the final slash mark, it made a difference. While it allowed me to change the root password, allegedly ... it gave me the following error:

 

unable to change the password for the record root eDSRecordNotFound

WHat did you mean that you got different permissions? IS there a standard install set up that if you have it, I should have it just the same? If so, and there is no way to repair permissions, what are my options?

 

Ongoing thanks for your time.

[mangopeach]

zoro you poor soul how many problems can one person have?

[zoro2]

zoro you poor soul how many problems can one person have?

I know, right?

 

Hard to get back to productivity till it's all back. My girlfreinds getting suspicious too, seems I am spending more time trying to fix this problem than pay attention to her.

 

Actually, aside from raw beginnings last spring, once this machine got running it has been pretty sweet. Looking forward to normal - whatever that is.

[vido]

Tring to find somekind of fix for my PS/2 (PS2 [for search]) keyboard. Cannot get pass the Registration screen right after the Welcome video. I only have a PS/2 keyboard and two USB mouse, i also got kalyway on another hdd... I tried to use Ctrl+F to find a fix in this thread and gave up on page 48... Googles not really helping, and my internet keeps going out, may b it was the effect of the earthquake. im a noob at hackintosh builds also thanks in advance.

 

edit: found some kext in misc folder. done.

[woot4fun]

I connected my 1.5TB backup drive to to the white sata ports on the motherboard and my hackintosh got very unreliable. Specifically the system would work fairly well until the mac went into timemachine backup mode. Then things went south. Are these sata ports not supposed to be used? Is there a bios setting to enable them?

 

When I first suspected these ports as the problem I rebooted and was successful at running disk tools "drive verify" against the drive, although it did take some time. The port definitely works some.

 

Thanks in advance..

[digital_dreamer]

Passwd: unable to open directory node with name /local/default. Node wasn't found.

:/root#

 

Any hope?

Let's get some information from your system. Log into the SL account you have no Admin privileges type in Terminal id for user identify info first. Give us the results. Then, give us the results of the following:

dscl . -list /Users | grep -v _

The list should include your account user name(s).

 

Try at your own risk:

Boot into Single-User mode:

mount -uw /

/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist & (There is a space on both sides of "load")

dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership "YOUR_ACCOUNT_USER_NAME"

reboot

This will attempt to make your existing account a "Admin" account

 

However, I fear you have bigger problems with your install due to using MA.

MAJ

[bbchucks]

hi all,

does anyone know if there's a way when i plug in my headphones that all sound will be routed to the headphone jack?

on the laptop macbook if i plug my headphones into the jack on the left side the sound goes thru there.

 

is there a way to do this on the desktop or 10.6.2 install on UD5 mobo??

 

thanks!!

[zoro2]

Let's get some information from your system. Log into the SL account you have no Admin privileges type in Terminal id for user identify info first. Give us the results.

(substituting zoro2 for my account name for anonymity)

$ id
dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
uid=501(zoro2) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),61(localaccounts),12(everyone)

Then, give us the results of the following:

dscl . -list /Users | grep -v _

 

zoro2s-Mac-Pro:~ zoro2$ dscl . -list /Users | grep -v _
dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
daemon
zoro2
zoro3
nobody
friend
root

The list should include your account user name(s).

It does.

Try at your own risk:

Boot into Single-User mode:

mount -uw /

/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist & (There is a space on both sides of "load")

dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership "YOUR_ACCOUNT_USER_NAME"

reboot

This will attempt to make your existing account a "Admin" account

 

However, I fear you have bigger problems with your install due to using MA.

MAJ

I will allow you to review what I just posted. IF no comment or suggested changes, I will do the second part, boot and try to name Admin access for this user.

 

Much thanks

[LocusOfControl]

hi all,

does anyone know if there's a way when i plug in my headphones that all sound will be routed to the headphone jack?

on the laptop macbook if i plug my headphones into the jack on the left side the sound goes thru there.

 

is there a way to do this on the desktop or 10.6.2 install on UD5 mobo??

 

thanks!!

 

I have had various combinations of DSDT edits plus kexts and audio config in system prefs

 

I have had a scenario in which plugging headphones diverts music from speakers to headphones

I'm not using that set up now but it should be just a simple matter of matching the right DSDT Device (HDEF)

settings with appropriate 889a kext

 

I use front speakers only as sound isn't a priority and I just use native Apple kexts

(I want to get rid of all non-apple kexts thus I don't use 3rd party sound kexts - although I will probably have to keep

FakeSMC)

 

So the answer is yes, just forgot which combo works

 

 

Isn't there a way to repair permissions? I tried doing that with DU from the Leopard drive. It said it repaired permission but only took a half a second, so I doubt it. How do I repair permissions while booted in single user mode?

 

This time I got similar results, but slightly different. THe "/sbin/mount -uw /" wasn't used with the final slash mark, it made a difference. While it allowed me to change the root password, allegedly ... it gave me the following error:

 

unable to change the password for the record root eDSRecordNotFound

WHat did you mean that you got different permissions? IS there a standard install set up that if you have it, I should have it just the same? If so, and there is no way to repair permissions, what are my options?

 

Ongoing thanks for your time.

 

 

Just out of curiosity, is your hard disk containing SL connected to the blue sata connectors or the white ones?

 

Yes there is a standard configuration of file permissions, they are included in what is called the bill-of-materials (.bom)

files which are included with each installed package (this is what diskutil uses to verify and fix incorrect permissions

etc)

 

AFAIK you need to run /sbin/mount -uw / since the trailing / is telling mount to mount the root file system in write

mode because currently it is read only. So I believe without the / what you did is doomed to fail

 

"and there is no way to repair permissions, what are my options?"

 

attach your SL drive to a machine with a working SL install? or hope that DD's suggestions work or reinstall slowly

and resist urges to use migration assistant or any other disk manipulation prog

 

When you install, you must go past a screen that asks for your name and password and says this is required to set up

your account, what do you normally do ?

 

PS have you ever considered buying a mac ?

[digital_dreamer]

It does.

 

I will allow you to review what I just posted. IF no comment or suggested changes, I will do the second part, boot and try to name Admin access for this user.

 

Much thanks

I don't see any issues from what you posted.

I'd be tempted to add the "Admin" to your user privileges in Single_User mode.

 

How many different OS X installs do you currently have on your system (selectable from the bootloader)?

What sounds like what has happened (among other things) is that your system has loaded the kexts from one install (first active boot drive) and proceeded to boot a different install (via bootloader selection). If, for example, you have two versions of SL installed (10.6.0 and 10.6.2), you will definitely have mismatched dynamic libraries installed, prompting an error like "dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache".

If your SL boot volume is not the first boot disk on your system (BIOS order), you need to select that drive via BIOS using F12. That way, it doesn't load kexts from a different install on another drive.

 

NOTE: If this is confusing, just remember this: The Chameleon bootloaders always loads the kexts from the boot cache located on the first active boot drive it finds. It does this, in spite of the fact you may select another install on another partition/drive at the bootloader screen.

It is this behavior that can cause lots of unpredictable behavior if you don't know what's happening and why. But, it is also this behavior that makes a preboot CD work - load the kexts from the CD and boot into a Retail Install DVD.

 

MAJ

 

PS have you ever considered buying a mac ?

LOL!

[zoro2]

Just out of curiosity, is your hard disk containing SL connected to the blue sata connectors or the white ones?

SHould be the blue ones. I will have to check, been a while.

 

ADDED: Yep, blue. I can't remember the reason anymore but blue is more reliable or some such.

 

... PS have you ever considered buying a mac ?

OK... Started out on a IIsi, then 7600, 9600. Enjoyed tweaking the XLR8 chip I bought and kept wanting more. I guess watching my friends and their PCs I just have to confess to a bad case of BIOS envy. I love being able to tweak a system so much. And, I Love the MDD G4 case, practically industrial art IMHO. But it was never really upgradable. SO I began resenting Apples occasional "back water Mac" releases that you just could not do much with, like the MDD G4. Of course my new system is geekbenched at (almost) a full 10X speed of my old G4, and that feels good too.

 

I don't see any issues from what you posted.

I'd be tempted to add the "Admin" to your user privileges in Single_User mode.

 

How many different OS X installs do you currently have on your system (selectable from the bootloader)?

What sounds like what has happened (among other things) is that your system has loaded the kexts from one install (first active boot drive) and proceeded to boot a different install (via bootloader selection). If, for example, you have two versions of SL installed (10.6.0 and 10.6.2), you will definitely have mismatched dynamic libraries installed, prompting an error like "dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache".

If your SL boot volume is not the first boot disk on your system (BIOS order), you need to select that drive via BIOS using F12. That way, it doesn't load kexts from a different install on another drive.

 

NOTE: If this is confusing, just remember this: The Chameleon bootloaders always loads the kexts from the boot cache located on the first active boot drive it finds. It does this, in spite of the fact you may select another install on another partition/drive at the bootloader screen.

It is this behavior that can cause lots of unpredictable behavior if you don't know what's happening and why. But, it is also this behavior that makes a preboot CD work - load the kexts from the CD and boot into a Retail Install DVD.

 

MAJ

 

 

LOL!

Well, I guess I am a magnate for these things of late. I am thinking that, as this bootable drive is relatively fresh, and the RAID is still working I May just grab any new files off the disk, and do the scorched earth thing. Erase the SNL disk, start over.

 

If I do that, I am pretty confident now that I know which installer packages work. I would not choose any migrated files. What I find to be confusing is how when I do a plain Jane install of the system, no migrated accounts, the machine puts my current user name on the new account.

 

Then when I used migration assistant, now only CCC, to move over my files, I Was moving over similar named accounts.

 

I am still a little unsure about which folders to migrate over (using CCC from now on) when I get to that step? I am thinking just move the documents and the apps folders. It would be nice if they stayed registered, but I have wasted a very large chunk of my time (as well as gotten time on this list where I am sure others are waiting for time as well)

 

To answer the question, I have three accounts on this disk at the moment, one for a guest, one for me from my old RAID migrated account, and one for me with a slight alteration in my name for the account I created when I last installed SNL.

 

Unless I hear differently, I will go that route, clean house tonight and start fresh in the morning.

 

Thanks all very much.

 

ON top of that one way I tried to fix the sound problem was to reinstall SNL over a working SNL bootable system. But, the fresh loaded SNL was 10.6 where the system I was replacing is 10.6.2.

 

Sound did recover. And sound sounds much better, stronger, clearer, than it did in 10.5. Not sure why but it's noticeably better.

[LocusOfControl]

SHould be the blue ones. I will have to check, been a while.

 

ADDED: Yep, blue. I can't remember the reason anymore but blue is more reliable or some such.

 

 

Yes stick to the blue ICH10 sata ports, the white ones are JMicron (I don't use mine so I turn them off in bios)

[zoro2]

Yes stick to the blue ICH10 sata ports, the white ones are JMicron (I don't use mine so I turn them off in bios)

Progress. I am almost back on track now. Getting a KP after successfully booting and while checking with Apple for updates. Didn't do this before but, oh well.

 

Downloading the 10.6.2 combo update from APple now via the working 10.5 drive. Hoping the KP will go away once I am all updated. But that has to be done regardless so, one thing at a time.

 

Curiously, on the Apple site, one line about the 10.6.2 combo updater stands out. It said (emphasis mine):

 

What’s New in this Version

The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:

 

- an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly

- a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites

- Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts

- a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user

- issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers

- the reliability of menu extras

- an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture

- an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing

- a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book

- an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet

- Safari plug-in reliability

- general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk

- an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account

WHat a surprise.

[snood]

Has anyone been able to get jumbo frames to work on this board?

They worked at one time in the past then I reinstalled fresh to upgrade to 10.6.2, everything else works great.

[LocusOfControl]

Has anyone been able to get jumbo frames to work on this board?

They worked at one time in the past then I reinstalled fresh to upgrade to 10.6.2, everything else works great.

 

 

How were you setting this and testing it?

 

I decided to treat myself and bought

 

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB977G/A...mco=MTA4NzI5Mjk

 

I tried sudo networksetup -setMTU en0 9000

 

Seems to work on the apple card in 10.6.2

 

en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 9000

 

I did read http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21333 and it says

 

Warnings:

1. All devices on a local network must be configured to use Jumbo Frames, or loss of connectivity could occur on that network.

 

I'm connecting to an apple timecapsule via ethernet but I didn't find the performance as good as with mtu1500

(2x 1GB full duplex)

[Sidewinder33]

Hey Guys I've hit a little snag while trying to install OSX. I first tried using a thumb drive to boot but the whole system froze every time I even plugged the drive in. So I decided to go with the preboot cd method as I had read that worked better now I've got my osx disc in the drive and it was reading. Now its sitting at the boot screen with the apple logo nd the grey pin wheel spinning. On top of all that there is a little white box in the middle with a circle with a slash through it (I'm assuming its saying no drives to go on) does anyone have any idea why the usb drive would freeze the entire system like it does and then also why the preboot cd isnt working? Have I missed a step? thanks guys

 

Update: Now when I try to load the OSX cd from the preboot cd after 20 seconds of the apple loading screen my display goes inactive and video signal goes off. Any ideas?

 

Alright Second update: I tried prepping the hdd on my current mac. I did everything up to running the dsdt part of the script. I then put that drive in my new comp and booted it up. I get to the loader splash screen where it says press any key to enter setup. I push a key and it starts scrolling a log then after a min or two the video signal cuts out and my screen goes into sleep mode.

 

Are there any other settings in the bios I need to set other than the Peripheral stuff that DD has already shown. I was looking and read I may need to move some gpu kexts or I will get a black screen. If that was the case what would I need to move and where too?

 

Sorry for so many edits just trying to keep it in the same post.

[CruiSAr]

Hey Guys I've hit a little snag while trying to install OSX. I first tried using a thumb drive to boot but the whole system froze every time I even plugged the drive in. So I decided to go with the preboot cd method as I had read that worked better now I've got my osx disc in the drive and it was reading. Now its sitting at the boot screen with the apple logo nd the grey pin wheel spinning. On top of all that there is a little white box in the middle with a circle with a slash through it (I'm assuming its saying no drives to go on) does anyone have any idea why the usb drive would freeze the entire system like it does and then also why the preboot cd isnt working? Have I missed a step? thanks guys

The little white box with a slash through it indicates that OSX cant find your root device (hard drive). This is why you need to set your Sata mode to AHCI.

 

Update: Now when I try to load the OSX cd from the preboot cd after 20 seconds of the apple loading screen my display goes inactive and video signal goes off. Any ideas?

 

Alright Second update: I tried prepping the hdd on my current mac. I did everything up to running the dsdt part of the script. I then put that drive in my new comp and booted it up. I get to the loader splash screen where it says press any key to enter setup. I push a key and it starts scrolling a log then after a min or two the video signal cuts out and my screen goes into sleep mode.

 

Are there any other settings in the bios I need to set other than the Peripheral stuff that DD has already shown. I was looking and read I may need to move some gpu kexts or I will get a black screen. If that was the case what would I need to move and where too?

 

Screen going into sleep mode is due to unsupported gpu. Your desktop loads alright but OSX cant display it. If you followed DD's bios settings then no, you dont need anything else to be set in bios. You also need to list your components so it makes it easier to help and point you in the right direction. If you are using an Nividia GPU then you can use DD's script to insert Efi strings in your boot plist.

[Sidewinder33]

ok thank you for the reply I have set my sata to AHCI I've had it that way since I first got it up and running.

 

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 F8 Bios

Ram: 6 Gb Corsair XMS 3 Ram

GPU: Evga Geforce GTX 285 1Gb

Hdd: 1Tb WD BLACK

Lite On iHas124-04 Dvd/Cd Drive

 

I dont know how to add the efi string to the boot list, do i need to change it before I run the installer.

 

Any ideas as to why the entire system freezes when I try to use my thumb drive thats been prepared by DD's Script?

 

P.s. This is my first stab at doing this so feel free to give me any mundane detail that may be old hat to someone who's been at this a while

[CruiSAr]

ok thank you for the reply I have set my sata to AHCI I've had it that way since I first got it up and running.

 

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 F8 Bios

Ram: 6 Gb Corsair XMS 3 Ram

GPU: Evga Geforce GTX 285 1Gb

Hdd: 1Tb WD BLACK

Lite On iHas124-04 Dvd/Cd Drive

 

I dont know how to add the efi string to the boot list, do i need to change it before I run the installer.

You can access the EFI string section of the script by doing the following:

1. Option #9 "Modify plists"

2. Select the boot plist your system will be booting from( Your newly installed SL drive)

Select "A"

Select "device-properties" from the list"

Then, select "2" for "Graphics from nVidia"

 

I am sure the rest will be self explanatory.

 

Any ideas as to why the entire system freezes when I try to use my thumb drive thats been prepared by DD's Script?

I dont know why you are having the hang, I honestly havent used this feature of the script. You will need to direct that question to DD.

[Sidewinder33]

You can access the EFI string section of the script by doing the following:

1. Option #9 "Modify plists"

2. Select the boot plist your system will be booting from( Your newly installed SL drive)

Select "A"

Select "device-properties" from the list"

Then, select "2" for "Graphics from nVidia"

 

I am sure the rest will be self explanatory.

 

Ok thanks, if I'm booting from the preboot cd though and the screen goes blank while the OSX DVD is running how would I edit the preboot cd to include Nvidia gpu's? I dont see the properties option for the cd image (guessing I won't either) Keep in mind I'm burning the cd on my other mac and then using that. Is that ok or do I need to try another method? Thanks for the help so far CruiSar

[Budge]

There is a known problem with booting from a USB device with the GA-EX58-UD5. I have had the same issue. As soon as the computer starts to read the thumb drive, the whole system freezes. Do a Google search for more information.

 

I've also had a problem with my USB keyboard. It works fine with Windows 7 and I can even use it to make changes in the BIOS. But I cannot use it for the Boot Device Menu or with Chameleon. I have to switch to a PS2 keyboard.

 

I hope that helps.