Kakewalk: Minimal effort install (EP45, EX58, P55, G41)

[mrjanek]

So have you guys been able to use the 1.3 ISO then ?

 

If none of you have tried, don't spose any of you have a 1.2 or 1.1 you can put on Rapidshare or something for me could you ?

 

Jamie

 

Just tried the 1.3 ISO on two computers here and it's working just fine.

Somehow the GigabyteCD's compatibility is not as good as the USB method. It's possible that it's because of your graphics card. Try searching for any information specific to that graphics card. It might need some special fix.

I also suggest trying GigabyteUSB, as trying any of the previous GigabyteCD versions won't help. I've just added a couple of files to 1.3.

[Tristan]

So have you guys been able to use the 1.3 ISO then ?

 

If none of you have tried, don't spose any of you have a 1.2 or 1.1 you can put on Rapidshare or something for me could you ?

 

Jamie

 

PM sent.

[mrjanek]

The kernel panic still persists with the new installer!?! =(

 

kernal trap @ some address

The error code is 0x00...002 (w/ ... = 0s)

The BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

 

Just tried booting GigabyteUSB v1.3 and there's not a single problem.

Everything is working. Take a picture of the kernel panic screen and post it here.

 

Also try formatting your USB drive and redo the whole process of restoring Snow Leopard and installing GigabyteUSB according to the guide.

[ThePhoenixUK]

Just tried booting GigabyteUSB v1.3 and there's not a single problem.

Everything is working. Take a picture of the kernel panic screen and post it here.

 

I would try the USB but I don't have access to a MAC so can;t prep the stick etc.

 

The error I was getting was a checksum error as soon as your ISO attempts to load ISOLinux in order to boot your disc, not sure why to be honest. Just got a 1.1 ISO pm'd to me so gonna try that and see if any better, spose it could be my dvd drive for some reason, though I had no trouble booting the iso's of empire efi, etc. But got the GTXxx Nvidia no display on setup problem with that one.

 

 

 

Jamie

[artmusic]

as I wrote, sucessfull install with the usbguide 1.2 on my

 

Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR

GeForce 9800 GT 1 gb

8 GB ram

2 SATA Drives

2 DVD Burner- 1SATA , 1 IDE

 

but I have afterwards many trouble with the network connection- always interruption and disconnecting- so I have to restart and trying different things with no effort.

So I tried this package (EP45TUD3LR_Snow_Leopard_v4.zip) from this topic http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196304 and after applying my network errors are gone !

[mrjanek]

but I have afterwards many trouble with the network connection- always interruption and disconnecting- so I have to restart and trying different things with no effort.

 

I find the supplied network driver Realtek1000SL.kext to be relativly stable and fast. It is also the best solution for getting Bonjour support (Essential for any network) in 64-bit . Did you remove it from /System/Library/Extensions? If not, it's still in action.

[CreativeBR]

Hi,

 

Is this Guide works for a EP45C-UD3R (bios f5f) using DDR3 memos???

 

I'm trying the gigabyte.iso method (i dont have a 8gb+ flashdrive at hand to try the USB one) and just after i change the burned CD to the SL DVD/f5/enter i got a black screen asking me to turn off the computer in many languages and then my bios get corrupted...

 

Thanks a lot for the help.

 

CreativeBR

[ThePhoenixUK]

OK, getting somewhere now, had the same problem with the 1.1 ISO, so tried a different DVD drive in my PC and got same thing, then tried the same disc in my laptop and it boots the GiagbyteCD menu fine.

 

So it's obviously my PC, I have tried changing a few things in my BIOS to try and help and can't think what it is that's causing it.

 

To recap, every time I try to boot from one of these discs the ISOLinux prompt fails to boot the disc and states Image Checksum Failed, Sorry.....

 

I have the EP45-UD3R Board with the F11 BIOS.

 

Your help is much appreciated guys.

 

Jamie.

[Tristan]

OK, getting somewhere now, had the same problem with the 1.1 ISO, so tried a different DVD drive in my PC and got same thing, then tried the same disc in my laptop and it boots the GiagbyteCD menu fine.

 

So it's obviously my PC, I have tried changing a few things in my BIOS to try and help and can't think what it is that's causing it.

 

To recap, every time I try to boot from one of these discs the ISOLinux prompt fails to boot the disc and states Image Checksum Failed, Sorry.....

 

I have the EP45-UD3R Board with the F11 BIOS.

 

Your help is much appreciated guys.

 

Jamie.

 

Hmm...I assume your DVD drives are all SATA? Also, are your drives set to AHCI? From your signature, I see you have one 500GB drive and 2x1TB; I don't suppose they are in RAID, are they?

 

I'm trying to think of BIOS settings that might possibly interfere with the boot.

[worf17]

Just tried booting GigabyteUSB v1.3 and there's not a single problem.

Everything is working. Take a picture of the kernel panic screen and post it here.

 

Also try formatting your USB drive and redo the whole process of restoring Snow Leopard and installing GigabyteUSB according to the guide.

 

I have tried reformatting the thumb drive again to no avail. My digital camera is busted so I'll just simply copy and paste the whole error message:

npvhash=4095

Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT 2009; root :xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_X86_64

vm_page_bootstrap: 9644450 free pages and 84126 wired pages

kext submap[0xffffff7f80600000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000600000]

standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us

mig_table)max_displ = 73

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002cbf74): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80004f65c3, type 14=page fault, registers:

CR0: some address, CR2: some address.... continues to a total of a 4 by 6 table of registers

Error code: 0x00000000000...0002

 

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

some address : some other address... continues to a 2 by 11 table of addresses

 

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Unknown

 

Mac OS version:

Not yet set

 

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE-X86_64

 

System uptime in nanoseconds: 58848295

[mrjanek]

I have tried reformatting the thumb drive again to no avail. My digital camera is busted so I'll just simply copy and paste the whole error message:

 

Can you list the contents of the USB drive?

 

Open terminal and "cd /Volumes/USBDRIVE"

Then type "ls -la"

 

Then post the results from that command.

[worf17]

Can you list the contents of the USB drive?

 

Open terminal and "cd /Volumes/USBDRIVE"

Then type "ls -la"

post the results from that command.

 

total 37160

drwxrwxr-x 19 jackwalsh staff 1054 1 Jan 17:04 .

drwxrwxrwt@ 8 root admin 272 1 Jan 20:16 ..

-rw-r--r--@ 1 jackwalsh staff 15364 3 Aug 06:26 .DS_Store

drwx------ 3 jackwalsh staff 102 1 Jan 16:42 .Spotlight-V100

d-wx-wx-wt 3 jackwalsh staff 102 1 Jan 20:16 .Trashes

-rw-r--r-- 1 jackwalsh staff 0 1 Jan 16:42 .com.apple.timemachine.supported

---------- 1 jackwalsh staff 0 23 Jun 2009 .file

drwx------ 2 jackwalsh staff 204 1 Jan 20:16 .fseventsd

drwxr-xr-x 2 jackwalsh staff 68 18 May 2009 .vol

drwxrwxr-x@ 3 jackwalsh staff 102 27 Apr 2009 Applications

drwxr-xr-x 4 jackwalsh staff 238 31 Dec 23:57 Extra

drwxr-xr-x 3 jackwalsh staff 102 1 Aug 02:07 Install Mac OS X.app

drwxr-xr-x@ 5 jackwalsh staff 238 3 Aug 06:26 Instructions.localized

drwxrwxr-t@ 10 jackwalsh staff 340 3 Aug 05:26 Library

drwxr-xr-x@ 5 jackwalsh staff 306 3 Aug 06:26 Optional Installs.localized

drwxr-xr-x@ 4 jackwalsh staff 136 3 Aug 05:13 System

drwxrwxrwt@ 2 jackwalsh staff 68 18 May 2009 Volumes

drwxr-xr-x@ 2 jackwalsh staff 1326 3 Aug 05:29 bin

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 jackwalsh staff 320320 1 Jan 17:04 boot

dr-xr-xr-x@ 2 jackwalsh staff 68 23 Jun 2009 dev

lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 jackwalsh staff 11 1 Jan 16:46 etc -> private/etc

-rw-r--r--@ 1 jackwalsh staff 18672224 1 Aug 01:49 mach_kernel

drwxr-xr-x@ 5 jackwalsh staff 170 3 Aug 05:26 private

drwxr-xr-x@ 2 jackwalsh staff 2176 3 Aug 05:29 sbin

lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 jackwalsh staff 11 1 Jan 17:01 tmp -> private/tmp

drwxr-xr-x@ 8 jackwalsh staff 272 3 Aug 05:11 usr

lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 jackwalsh staff 11 1 Jan 17:02 var -> private/var

[CreativeBR]

Now i'm stuck with the 2 methods:

 

1) USB: I have got an 60GB HDD (PATA) into a USB 2.0 case but the restore Snow DVD to USB stick procedure is getting an i/o error at the end of the restore (from both DMG created or from the snow DVD directly).

 

2) gigabyte.iso: My DVD ROM is IDE so if i set GigaSata to AHCI the device disapears and i cant boot from it. If i set it to IDE it boots but stuck in that black screen with a white message to reboot the pc. I have followed all the BIOS settings from the guide.

 

2b) gigabyte.iso: I have also tried to boot the CD burned with the gigabyte.iso from an external USB Lg DVD unit (in this case i could set the gigaSata to AHCI in BIOS). It booted nicely but i got a different screen that dont ask me to replace de CD with the Snow install DVD. This new screen has a list of memo/video info and a boot option that lead me to something like a "bootloader not found error".

 

Any kindly sould could give me a help... I dont know what else i can do.

 

{}s

 

CreativeBR

[bobross]

Any chance this will work with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R? If so what option would I pick? If not, can someone point me to an install as easy as this? I got my SL on a 8GB stick just waiting to go.

 

 

thanks!

[Dwyane]

for install winxp with hd sata, you need

Drive sata for controller sata for winxp

First boot from cd and press f6 for install drive sata

 

 

I have done this, but still no partition shown to select where I want to install windows...

As mentioned I did tried to disconnect other drives, same result

and I did disable Controller IDE, my CD doesn't work.

 

What else can I do?

[ThePhoenixUK]

Yup, all three HDD's are SATA as is my DVD-RW drive.

 

They are not in RAID and everything is setup in the BIOS with regards to AHCI, that's what's confusing me.

 

Jamie

 

EDIT:

 

OK, now we are making progress, just had a play with it and my BIOS for the last hour and narrowed down the problem, it did not like me having the DVD-RW I was booting the CD from in my secondary gigabyte sata controller, I discovered if I set that controller to IDE the disc would boot, but not if set to AHCI or RAID, so moved the drive into my main Intel ICH Sata controller that my HDD's are on and the disc would boot, no matter that option the controller was set to.

 

However..... (You knew this was comig lol) When the Snow Leopard disc boots, the chameleon appears, the timer circle at the bottom, then a min later I get the screen go dull and a big prompt saying Power Off & Restart Your PC. I have tried a few BIOS Options particularly on that secondary controller to see if I can get past it, I can't. The worse thing is every time I get that prompt and then restart my PC, I find my BIOS has been reset to defaults. I don't know if it corrupts it or something as my board has Dual-BIOS onboard to prevent corruption as if it detects corruption it uses the copy held on the second chip to restore my primary bios chip.

 

Any ideas guys, I hate getting this close but not quite getting there.

 

Also, I already have Windows 7 installed on this HDD, I have seperated off 200GB of space on the drive as I want to dual boot 7 and SL, am I doing this right ??

 

Many thanks guys, I'm really learning something here lol

 

Jamie.

[Tristan]

Yup, all three HDD's are SATA as is my DVD-RW drive.

 

They are not in RAID and everything is setup in the BIOS with regards to AHCI, that's what's confusing me.

 

Jamie

 

EDIT:

 

OK, now we are making progress, just had a play with it and my BIOS for the last hour and narrowed down the problem, it did not like me having the DVD-RW I was booting the CD from in my secondary gigabyte sata controller, I discovered if I set that controller to IDE the disc would boot, but not if set to AHCI or RAID, so moved the drive into my main Intel ICH Sata controller that my HDD's are on and the disc would boot, no matter that option the controller was set to.

 

However..... (You knew this was comig lol) When the Snow Leopard disc boots, the chameleon appears, the timer circle at the bottom, then a min later I get the screen go dull and a big prompt saying Power Off & Restart Your PC. I have tried a few BIOS Options particularly on that secondary controller to see if I can get past it, I can't. The worse thing is every time I get that prompt and then restart my PC, I find my BIOS has been reset to defaults. I don't know if it corrupts it or something as my board has Dual-BIOS onboard to prevent corruption as if it detects corruption it uses the copy held on the second chip to restore my primary bios chip.

 

Any ideas guys, I hate getting this close but not quite getting there.

 

Also, I already have Windows 7 installed on this HDD, I have seperated off 200GB of space on the drive as I want to dual boot 7 and SL, am I doing this right ??

 

Many thanks guys, I'm really learning something here lol

 

Jamie.

 

Interesting, am learning something here too; so it's sensitive to the SATA controllers. Before that prompt Power Off & Restart Your PC, do you see any loading activity? When the chameleon appears, type "-v" without the quotes and see if that brings up the loading of kexts. Are you doing this with the GTX 260 installed?

 

Now about the HDD, if you've Windows 7 installed, it's probably formatted as MBR. I believe that you need a GUID drive on which to install SL (though there may be workarounds). What I did on my secondary hackintosh was first install SL on its own GUID drive, then restore it to the MBR partition I wanted.

 

EDIT: Perhaps try just having two SATA devices installed - one DVD-RW drive and one GUID formatted HDD - on the primary SATA controller. You can connect the other drives later.

[worf17]

Now about the HDD, if you've Windows 7 installed, it's probably formatted as MBR. I believe that you need a GUID drive on which to install SL (though there may be workarounds). What I did on my secondary hackintosh was first install SL on its own GUID drive, then restore it to the MBR partition I wanted.

 

Wait maybe this might be my problem as well?

[Tristan]

Wait maybe this might be my problem as well?

 

If you don't have a GUID disk, when the SL installer loads, you will notice that you cannot install on any drives. I'm not sure if it'll cause problems with booting the installer though. What I did was disconnect my MBR drive (just pulled out the SATA cable), leaving only one GUID formatted HDD.

 

It seems that the workaround to get SL on an MBR drive involves getting an edited installer package for SL which isn't recommended. I'd suggest installing to a GUID disk and restoring it to the MBR partition. I'm keeping this old 120GB 5400rpm notebook HDD with SL on it just for this purpose.

 

Are you still getting the KP on boot?

[ThePhoenixUK]

OK, did the -v as you suggested then took a quick video of the screen and a quick picture, hopefully it hasa what you need as it froze after displaying that uptime thing, and again, as soon as I restarted it had toasted my BIOS back to optimised defaults.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvCPgw-Lm-8

 

As for the HDD thing, I do have a spare SATA HDD laying around to do that, if I get it installed, how would I go about doing what you suggest ?

[Tristan]

OK, did the -v as you suggested then took a quick video of the screen and a quick picture, hopefully it hasa what you need as it froze after displaying that uptime thing, and again, as soon as I restarted it had toasted my BIOS back to optimised defaults.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvCPgw-Lm-8

 

As for the HDD thing, I do have a spare SATA HDD laying around to do that, if I get it installed, how would I go about doing what you suggest ?

 

Okay, try setting HPET to 64bit in BIOS and booting again. The BIOS reset thing happened to me too; I believe it's something to do with the DSDT.aml file on the installer but live with that for now since you can correct that after you've installed SL.

 

Once you've installed SL on the spare SATA HDD (formatted as GUID), you can re-connect the MBR drive, boot into SL and use Disk Utility to restore SL onto the partition of your choice on the MBR drive. But I would do that only after I'm sure my SL is working, i.e. I can boot to SL on the spare SATA HDD.

[ThePhoenixUK]

Got ya, and I already set HPET to 64Bit as per the instruction guide, it does not seem to help.

 

Jamie

[Tristan]

Got ya, and I already set HPET to 64Bit as per the instruction guide, it does not seem to help.

 

Jamie

 

What are your other settings for the CPU? I just checked mine, and only have Virtualization and No-Execute Mem Protection enabled in my BIOS. HPET is set to Supported and 64bit. I'm not sure if setting it to 32bit and booting with the "-x32" flag will work but it's worth a shot.

[ThePhoenixUK]

Same CPU Settings, no good, set HPET to 32Bit and booted with the -x32 -v flags and no go again, gets that same no HPET Assigned to CPU 1 Kernel Panic shown on my screenshot.

 

Jamie

[Tristan]

Same CPU Settings, no good, set HPET to 32Bit and booted with the -x32 -v flags and no go again, gets that same no HPET Assigned to CPU 1 Kernel Panic shown on my screenshot.

 

Jamie

 

I'm guessing you need NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in the /Extras/Extensions folder of the boot disc. I looked through the .iso file of the disc and don't see any extensions really. Perhaps you can build one with the proper extensions, i.e. edit the .iso, add the extensions, rebuild the .iso and then burn it.

 

'tis strange though, because I used the CD as well and it worked fine for me. mrjanek might be able to shed some light on this?