crazyrog17 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Hey guys, Not new to Mac OS X, but newish to Hackintosh/OSx86. I bought parts that I understand should (will) work under Mac OS X. Hardware: Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR Socket 775 Intel P45 Intel ICH10R Realtek ALC888 Realtek 8111C JMicron ATA Processor and RAM: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz E7500 2GB Crutial DDR3 @ 1333MHz Video: ASUS EN9600GSO/DI/512MD3/V2 Nvidia 9600GSO 512MB PCIe x16 I've gotten so far as to boot the Snow Leopard Install Disc from an 8GB flash drive, install the OS and boot the installed OS from the flashdrive's bootloader. To make the flashdrive, I created a .dmg of the Snow Leopard Update Install Disc, which everyone understands can install a fresh copy of Snow Leopard without trouble, and restored it to the 8GB flash drive. I found, after some searching, a utility that 'magically creates a bootable flash drive to install snow leopard' for a Gigabyte motherboard that is akin to mine. The name of the .app is EP45UD3P Snow Leopard. Thanks to thee who created it. I really wish I could find the thread where I found it, or even the installer, but it's hectic downloading all of these .kexts and bootloaders and utilities... So, WHERE I AM NOW: Snow Leopard Installed: (CHECK) Everything working even after relentlessly reading post after post and installing, deleting, modifying, and trying every .kext in the book: (EMPTY BOX) What is working: -Full resolution and recognizes my monitor. (1920x1080 via DVI) -Leopard in general. -USB -SATA I believe the kexts loaded by the 'magic bootloader' are getting my video to work I've tried loading kexts by downloading them from my MBP, flash drive, install. No dice. Repeat. Either I'm missing something, or they don't load. I've even tried to (modify/delete conflicting/install more) kexts in the magic bootloader's bucket of extentions. I'm not sure the best way to go about this, but I've seen people edit their DSDT.aml and smbios and blasbglabslgh. I just need some direction to get me to the simplest way to get all parts of my system recognized in OS X. Let's start with a bootloader. I've heard of Boot Think, and that sounds good to me. It's possible that's what the magic bootloader's core is because it looks a lot like Bootcamp. There's a drop down menu to boot in verbose, with flags and to see the VESA 3.0 video options. I like the idea of a GUI bootloader so a caveman could figure it out if he had to. What I want to get working: Audio LAN PS2 ATA Perhaps I'll set up a How To when this is all done. I promise to keep good records of sites I visit from now on, too. =D THANKS! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190860-help-needed-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-bootloader-and-kexts/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofmickel Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Someone please help this person...and me too I have the EP45-UD3l board and EVGA 9400GT 512 video card. I need to get my bootloader installed correctly and the video card recognized. HELP! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190860-help-needed-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-bootloader-and-kexts/#findComment-1291602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyrog17 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Someone please help this person...and me too I have the EP45-UD3l board and EVGA 9400GT 512 video card. I need to get my bootloader installed correctly and the video card recognized. HELP! Do you have Snow Leopard installed yet? Could you boot the retail install disc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190860-help-needed-ga-ep45t-ud3lr-bootloader-and-kexts/#findComment-1291924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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