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I'd just like to post my experience with updating to 10.6.4. It didn't go so well for me.

 

First of all, I was stupid and I forgot that I had to delete Sleepenabler.kext, so obviously, KP upon reboot. Well, then I figured, no biggie, I'll just restore from Time Machine. Everything seemed to be going fine until I tried to boot. No go, I got Boot 0:GPT Boot 0:Testing, and then hang. I had to use a Kakewalk boot disc to get to Chameleon so I could access my hard drive. When I finally got back into my restored OSX installation, I found that it had gone haywire. Safari failed to execute (However, Firefox did not), Dashboard immediately crashed itself along with Finder, my "About this Mac" was changed, and I had no listed sound devices. After that, I decided to start over and reinstall Snow Leopard using the original flash drive. I inserted the flash drive, restarted the computer, went into BIOS and told it to boot from flash drive, waited for the flash drive to boot, and GASP hung at Verifying DMI Pool Data. Booting the HD did the same thing, (Not Boot 0:Testing). Recalling the 70-some pages of this forum, I moved the SATA cable around. Still nothing. I forgot to mention that throughout the process I had been checking BIOS settings, and probably went over every setting at least 5 times. So anyway, I came to the conclusion that this somehow turned into a Hardware issue and not a software issue. The only other option had was to flash the BIOS to FE. After doing so, everything worked fine. I even got to the Apple Logo boot screen without changing a single BIOS setting. After updating to 10.6.4 (By using Software Update, actually)everything works great and my "About this Mac" even changed back. However, I now have no files or Applications and after the last experience, I'm afraid to try and restore from Time Machine again.

Another vote for a successful update. I have the same motherboard/vid-card and everything from the suggest build specs, and was able to update to 10.6.4 via the combo link (about 4 posts above this one) with no issues. Sound, internet, and both monitors are working fine with no hitch. I havent done any "extra" fooling around with the system, no extra kext, just the install as lifehacker had it, and v3 from stell

I'd just like to post my experience with updating to 10.6.4. It didn't go so well for me.

 

First of all, I was stupid and I forgot that I had to delete Sleepenabler.kext, so obviously, KP upon reboot. Well, then I figured, no biggie, I'll just restore from Time Machine. Everything seemed to be going fine until I tried to boot. No go, I got Boot 0:GPT Boot 0:Testing, and then hang. I had to use a Kakewalk boot disc to get to Chameleon so I could access my hard drive. When I finally got back into my restored OSX installation, I found that it had gone haywire. Safari failed to execute (However, Firefox did not), Dashboard immediately crashed itself along with Finder, my "About this Mac" was changed, and I had no listed sound devices. After that, I decided to start over and reinstall Snow Leopard using the original flash drive. I inserted the flash drive, restarted the computer, went into BIOS and told it to boot from flash drive, waited for the flash drive to boot, and GASP hung at Verifying DMI Pool Data. Booting the HD did the same thing, (Not Boot 0:Testing). Recalling the 70-some pages of this forum, I moved the SATA cable around. Still nothing. I forgot to mention that throughout the process I had been checking BIOS settings, and probably went over every setting at least 5 times. So anyway, I came to the conclusion that this somehow turned into a Hardware issue and not a software issue. The only other option had was to flash the BIOS to FE. After doing so, everything worked fine. I even got to the Apple Logo boot screen without changing a single BIOS setting. After updating to 10.6.4 (By using Software Update, actually)everything works great and my "About this Mac" even changed back. However, I now have no files or Applications and after the last experience, I'm afraid to try and restore from Time Machine again.

 

I'm sorry that you have to go through so much just to update, It should never be this complicated.

First of all, if you are on hackintosh or any mac for that matter, it is essential to have a bootable clone/backup at all times, forget time machine as that is more problematic than anything. (sounds like it screwed with your permissions)

 

CarbonCopyClone is free and all you need. before any update, if anything should go wrong, just restore from the exact clone, no need to reinstall all over.

 

Also make sure if you have a second monitor, that it is not on HDMI, but dvi instead.

 

If your mobo is v1.6 , I urge you to change to Carti Bios which removes the need for a lot of kext's

 

The kext's needed are "LegacyHDA.kext" in E/E and fakesmc and VoodooPowerMini in S/L/E that's it.

 

Once 0.8 CartiBios is released, VoodooPowerMini will not be needed for speedstep to function properly, in fact I have underclocked my quad to 2.8ghz and with speedstep , my geek score is 7235 at 39-40Cs idle temps

 

Hope this helps someone ;)

 

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pardon my ignorance, but unless the custom bios provides the same ease as the stell setup, I can't see myself doing it. By that I mean that if the cartribios is simply plug and play, then I would do it, but I've seen you or someone else mention that you have to do some additional setup afterwards. I'm computer savvy, but that is outweighed by my paranoia and laziness. I did the lifehacker setup in feb and aside from a small hiccup a few days after completion (hdd failed), I've had no real problems. I'm not being defensive/offensive here, I honestly want to know, but if everything is working fine (did lifehacker build exactly, nothing added, nothing removed...on 10.6.4) why should I switch to the cartribios?

I didn't delete sleepenabler kext is this what I did wrong did everyone else who updated successfully do this?

 

Yes in order to goto 10.6.3 and now 10.6.4 you should use version 3 of stalla's installer witch removed sleepenabler kext. I'm now using Cartri's Mac bios instead of this method don't need it anyway, sleep is working perfectly.

 

My update went without a hic-up.

pardon my ignorance, but unless the custom bios provides the same ease as the stell setup, I can't see myself doing it. By that I mean that if the cartribios is simply plug and play, then I would do it, but I've seen you or someone else mention that you have to do some additional setup afterwards. I'm computer savvy, but that is outweighed by my paranoia and laziness. I did the lifehacker setup in feb and aside from a small hiccup a few days after completion (hdd failed), I've had no real problems. I'm not being defensive/offensive here, I honestly want to know, but if everything is working fine (did lifehacker build exactly, nothing added, nothing removed...on 10.6.4) why should I switch to the cartribios?

 

If everything is working fine for you for now, that's great, but since Stell isn't supporting this anymore, there are more kext's to keep updated in the future. Also keep in mind a goal behind the carti bios is to incorporate a bootloader within. If you've come this far, there is no ignorance, only a little fear. :) There's so much knowledge on this thread alone to help like "Georgiles" who has a knol with all needed files. and even a youtube video

pardon my ignorance, but unless the custom bios provides the same ease as the stell setup, I can't see myself doing it. By that I mean that if the cartribios is simply plug and play, then I would do it, but I've seen you or someone else mention that you have to do some additional setup afterwards. I'm computer savvy, but that is outweighed by my paranoia and laziness. I did the lifehacker setup in feb and aside from a small hiccup a few days after completion (hdd failed), I've had no real problems. I'm not being defensive/offensive here, I honestly want to know, but if everything is working fine (did lifehacker build exactly, nothing added, nothing removed...on 10.6.4) why should I switch to the cartribios?

 

I switched to help with the alpha testing but other than that there is no current real need to change.

 

As currently available setting up a system with Cartri's mac bios is easy but not quite as easy as the Lifehacker method. A boot CD will be available but probably not until the bios is finished and the only if necessary. (goal is flash bios install SL no other tools needed) The so far released bios is a bit more vanilla than Lifehacker guide as only 2 kext files are needed in e/e other than that works about the same. Cartri mac bios for me cut boot time in half though. Each version of the alpha bios are getting more vanilla and fine tuning the install. I would highly recommended giving the next public release a try as it will then be clearly better than the current release 0.7m and the Lifehacker method.

 

Steps for install bios 0.7M

Install SL with Lifehacker or kakewalk installers.

Install Chameleon 2rc4 with dr. hurts installer.

Add the 2 kext provided by Cartri fakesmc.kext and LegacyHDA.kext to E/E

Add a smbios.plist and a com.apple.boot.plist to E, the ones in the lifehacker install will do just fine.

and for the graphics enabler to work you must ad pciroot 1 to com.apple.boot.plist.

Thats it your done.

Steps for install bios 0.7M

Install SL with Lifehacker or kakewalk installers.

Install Chameleon 2rc4 with dr. hurts installer.

Add the 2 kext provided by Cartri fakesmc.kext and LegacyHDA.kext to E/E

Add a smbios.plist and a com.apple.boot.plist to E, the ones in the lifehacker install will do just fine.

and for the graphics enabler to work you must ad pciroot 1 to com.apple.boot.plist.

Thats it your done.

 

I'm sure I can figure out how to do that...I won't though. I'm lazy.

I'm sure I can figure out how to do that...I won't though. I'm lazy.

 

And the point of your post? Who cares about your laziness?

 

and the point of your post? who cares about you being a smart ass. I responded to a response to a prior post.

 

That's right. Nobody cares reading nonsense here, mine or yours. Your response was nonsense filibuster and so was mine. I'm glad you got the point.

Updated to 10.6.4 from the Apple Menu - Software Updates.

No issues so far. Running 32-bit mode for older software.

 

Curious about trying the Cartri Bios.

Did you have a separate drive for this installation? Or will the Bios change impact all drives?

Did you have to reload all your applications and data after the modification?

 

Any feedback will help me plan my time, resources.

Thanks in Advance

Updated to 10.6.4 from the Apple Menu - Software Updates.

No issues so far. Running 32-bit mode for older software.

 

Curious about trying the Cartri Bios.

Did you have a separate drive for this installation? Or will the Bios change impact all drives?

Did you have to reload all your applications and data after the modification?

 

Any feedback will help me plan my time, resources.

Thanks in Advance

 

Will impact all drives but Linux and Windows friendly. (Windows will reload some drivers).

On an existing system flash bios load Chameleon 2rc4 and start removing all those now unneeded

kexts and DSDT.aml file. No need to reload any programs or the OS.

 

Clone your system just and give it a try just in case something goes fubar or you want to go back.

If your trouble free with current install might want to wait a couple of weeks (hopefully, soon at least) for the .8 bios release.

Updated to 10.6.4 from the Apple Menu - Software Updates.

No issues so far. Running 32-bit mode for older software.

 

Curious about trying the Cartri Bios.

Did you have a separate drive for this installation? Or will the Bios change impact all drives?

Did you have to reload all your applications and data after the modification?

 

Any feedback will help me plan my time, resources.

Thanks in Advance

 

 

You could still boot with the drive without changing anything after Carti Bios, but if you remove the dsdt.aml, you would have to add the "<key>PciRoot</key> <string>1</string>" to com.apple.Boot.plist.

Updating to the Carti Bios looks like the direction all of us should be heading eventually. Have I done it yet? No, but as soon as an update does not work, then I will. As for now, I have been able to update to 10.6.4 using only the lifehacker method and Stell's V3, so I see no reason to update the bios until I run into issues. Besides, at that point, hopefully flashing the bios and installing SL will be much easier. Im using time machine now for my daily backups...sounds like most people suggest Carbon Copy Clone...pretty easy to restore from an image i assume?

Updating to the Carti Bios looks like the direction all of us should be heading eventually. Have I done it yet? No, but as soon as an update does not work, then I will. As for now, I have been able to update to 10.6.4 using only the lifehacker method and Stell's V3, so I see no reason to update the bios until I run into issues. Besides, at that point, hopefully flashing the bios and installing SL will be much easier. Im using time machine now for my daily backups...sounds like most people suggest Carbon Copy Clone...pretty easy to restore from an image i assume?

 

I agree eventually we will have to flash to the Carti bios if we want the latest version. I've had my this hack up and running since last October so I've hit the software upgrade button at least 3 times. Although, I'm not entirely sure how much good or what it's done. How much harm is there in staying at 10.6.4?

 

I'm going to wait for the newest Catri 0.8 to come out and study the procedure very carefully before I flash. I guess the worse that could happen is that I would have to flash back to FB or whatever my board is now.

 

I liked CCC so much that I shot the guy 15 bucks. It works a lot better than Aconis does on my windows boxes. Having a cloned drive sitting in the USB dock gives you a lot of confidence.

Updating to the Carti Bios looks like the direction all of us should be heading eventually. Have I done it yet? No, but as soon as an update does not work, then I will. As for now, I have been able to update to 10.6.4 using only the lifehacker method and Stell's V3, so I see no reason to update the bios until I run into issues. Besides, at that point, hopefully flashing the bios and installing SL will be much easier. Im using time machine now for my daily backups...sounds like most people suggest Carbon Copy Clone...pretty easy to restore from an image i assume?

 

CCC is the only tool I now rely on for imaging drives. As a side thing I do, I need to have a bit by bit exact duplicate of the drive I am cloning. Super Duper is great and lets you update existing images with changes that have been made since the last clone, but for reliability, its hands down Carbon Copy Cloner. If you decide to go that route and do a re-image, I would recommend re-installing the boot-loader once up, just to be sure.

hey guys, i've been out of this game for a while, i bought a p5w dh deluxe a few years back and it's still going strong with snow leopard. i'm building 2 of these for a couple of friends though and as i read through the pages it looks like theres a variety of methods being utilized. i have no fear of flashing a new bios. this seems like the best thing/method to happen since boot132 actually. my request is, is there an up to date guide on doing the bios method? i'll be building these machines from scratch so i am not worried about past utilities. some sort of updated guide with only the things i'll need for the bios method would be great! does this documentation exist? or should i just get my {censored} together and dig around with trial and error? i've read through about 40 pages here and i think i see how the bios eliminates the needs for a lot of kexts but i'm confused as to whether or not eliminating the dsdt will affect other things.

 

mostly stuff like qe/ci, this shouldn't affect chameleon autodetecting that right? i understand having to pci root 1, but other than that does chameleon work fine without the dsdt? with this new bios does the onboard ethernet now work? or should i still get a couple of new cheap cards as recommended by the original guide.. anything that would save me hours of digging around would be awesome.

 

sorry if i sound lazy, but theres an overwhelming about of paths to take for this setup.

 

any help is greatly appreciated,

thanks

katie

hey guys, i've been out of this game for a while, i bought a p5w dh deluxe a few years back and it's still going strong with snow leopard. i'm building 2 of these for a couple of friends though and as i read through the pages it looks like theres a variety of methods being utilized. i have no fear of flashing a new bios. this seems like the best thing/method to happen since boot132 actually. my request is, is there an up to date guide on doing the bios method? i'll be building these machines from scratch so i am not worried about past utilities. some sort of updated guide with only the things i'll need for the bios method would be great! does this documentation exist? or should i just get my {censored} together and dig around with trial and error? i've read through about 40 pages here and i think i see how the bios eliminates the needs for a lot of kexts but i'm confused as to whether or not eliminating the dsdt will affect other things.

 

mostly stuff like qe/ci, this shouldn't affect chameleon autodetecting that right? i understand having to pci root 1, but other than that does chameleon work fine without the dsdt? with this new bios does the onboard ethernet now work? or should i still get a couple of new cheap cards as recommended by the original guide.. anything that would save me hours of digging around would be awesome.

 

sorry if i sound lazy, but theres an overwhelming about of paths to take for this setup.

 

any help is greatly appreciated,

thanks

katie

 

 

The simplest method, go by the lifehacker guide and use the V3 installer from stellarolla, it still applies up to 10.6.4. As for the parts, the board is the most important part, and you can stick to the lifehacker build if you like, or vary a little bit such as a different graphics card in Nvidia's line up, up to the 400 series (not supported yet!).

 

Myself I am using the Kakewalk installer I mentioned a few pages back, works great since Stella is no longer making his magic installer. And I did my original install on an Nvidia 650i board, that was a nightmare!

 

Simplest step, image the 10.6.3 to a USB drive, installer your bootloader, Kakewalk or Stell V3. Use the same BIOS outlines from lifehacker for the setup, and Install 10.6.3. Upon reboot, install Kakewalk or Stell V3 to the primary drive and restart without your USB drive in. You can then run whatever updates you want and its done! Hope that helps.

The simplest method, go by the lifehacker guide and use the V3 installer from stellarolla, it still applies up to 10.6.4. As for the parts, the board is the most important part, and you can stick to the lifehacker build if you like, or vary a little bit such as a different graphics card in Nvidia's line up, up to the 400 series (not supported yet!).

 

Myself I am using the Kakewalk installer I mentioned a few pages back, works great since Stella is no longer making his magic installer. And I did my original install on an Nvidia 650i board, that was a nightmare!

 

Simplest step, image the 10.6.3 to a USB drive, installer your bootloader, Kakewalk or Stell V3. Use the same BIOS outlines from lifehacker for the setup, and Install 10.6.3. Upon reboot, install Kakewalk or Stell V3 to the primary drive and restart without your USB drive in. You can then run whatever updates you want and its done! Hope that helps.

 

easy enough, should i start by flashing the bios? or do you not recommend doing that? if not does the kakewalk generate dsdt?

easy enough, should i start by flashing the bios? or do you not recommend doing that? if not does the kakewalk generate dsdt?

 

I myself am a guinea pig so I always like to stay updated. I would bring the board to the latest BIOS and set the settings from there. The only difference from Stell V3 and Kakewalk is that the guy that makes Kakewalk is going to be supporting it better as I have heard Stell is no longer going to update. Stell V3 includes Chameleon RC3, Kakewalk has Chameleon RC4. These two installers including everything for the EP45-UD3P, two kext's, DSDT, and the boot-loader. Beyond that, I would recommend asking them. I have been trying to find info on how to make this kind of installer personally but without success, this is my area of lacking...

I myself am a guinea pig so I always like to stay updated. I would bring the board to the latest BIOS and set the settings from there. The only difference from Stell V3 and Kakewalk is that the guy that makes Kakewalk is going to be supporting it better as I have heard Stell is no longer going to update. Stell V3 includes Chameleon RC3, Kakewalk has Chameleon RC4. These two installers including everything for the EP45-UD3P, two kext's, DSDT, and the boot-loader. Beyond that, I would recommend asking them. I have been trying to find info on how to make this kind of installer personally but without success, this is my area of lacking...

 

Thanks for the advice :D so you haven't tried that edited bios I see people talking about?

Hi guys

 

Have tried updating several times

 

Have reinstalled the os over the existing so I haven't done a clean install all with stell v3

 

every time I try and update to 6.4 I get this error message at the boot screen screen goes dim

 

"kernel panic

 

Panic CPUCaller0xffffff80002cfad3

 

Version mismatch between kernel and cpu PM"@/sourceCache/XNU/XNU-1504.7.4/OSFMK/i386/PMCPU.c:706"

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

 

 

Hi guys

 

Have tried updating several times

 

Have reinstalled the os over the existing so I haven't done a clean install all with stell v3

 

every time I try and update to 6.4 I get this error message at the boot screen screen goes dim

 

"kernel panic

 

Panic CPUCaller0xffffff80002cfad3

 

Version mismatch between kernel and cpu PM"@/sourceCache/XNU/XNU-1504.7.4/OSFMK/i386/PMCPU.c:706"

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

Another strange thing when I am running 6.3 itunes crashes almost instantly

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