Adventurous noob meets P6X58D-E Mobo; victory uncertain

[this.impetus]

Hardware:

i7 930

Asus P6X58D-E

ATI Radeon 5870 HD

6GB Corsair DDR3

Currently on-board high-def audio, have Asus XONAR for later

 

SATA1: 80GB Corsair SSD

SATA2: 2TB Caviar Green

SATA3: 500GB Seaquest

SATA4: 160GB something-or-ther [mp3 storage]

SATA5: LG 48x Lightscribe

SATA6: ASUS 48x

 

With iAtkos V3 S2 I invariably receive:

"efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL trying stringdata

No SMBIOS Replacement found.

Patched DMI Table."

 

I've tried:

-v -x

-v -x arch=i386

-v -x PCIRootUID=1

-v -x CPUS=1

-v -x GraphicsEnabled=yes/no

-v -x BusRatio=20

 

as well as various combinations thereof; I'm guessing, and blindly.

 

I'm a web-developer; I'm very computer savvy but I don't know jack about how my computer works before it's up and running.

 

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1) I have to use the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] bootloader; with the disc outside of the drive, boot fails (i have a screen shot of this if anyone wants it).

2) Provided I do keep the disc in the tray, it boots but without internet. After some messing around following tutorials I was able to tweak my Marvel Yukon 2 kext, whereupon my puter could recognize my ethernet ports but there was still no throughout put (ie. yellow connection, up from red).

 

If there are details you need me to provide that I've overlook just ask, I reallllllly want to solve this.

[klaus881]

Hardware:

i7 930

Asus P6X58D-E

ATI Radeon 5870 HD

6GB Corsair DDR3

Currently on-board high-def audio, have Asus XONAR for later

 

SATA1: 80GB Corsair SSD

SATA2: 2TB Caviar Green

SATA3: 500GB Seaquest

SATA4: 160GB something-or-ther [mp3 storage]

SATA5: LG 48x Lightscribe

SATA6: ASUS 48x

 

With iAtkos V3 S2 I invariably receive:

"efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL trying stringdata

No SMBIOS Replacement found.

Patched DMI Table."

 

I've tried:

-v -x

-v -x arch=i386

-v -x PCIRootUID=1

-v -x CPUS=1

-v -x GraphicsEnabled=yes/no

-v -x BusRatio=20

 

as well as various combinations thereof; I'm guessing, and blindly.

 

I'm a web-developer; I'm very computer savvy but I don't know jack about how my computer works before it's up and running.

 

I've also used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Using some mash-up of the flags above, I can successfully boot with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and install the update to 10.6.6. However, two problems arise:

 

1) I have to use the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] bootloader; with the disc outside of the drive, boot fails (i have a screen shot of this if anyone wants it).

2) Provided I do keep the disc in the tray, it boots but without internet. After some messing around following tutorials I was able to tweak my Marvel Yukon 2 kext, whereupon my puter could recognize my ethernet ports but there was still no throughout put (ie. yellow connection, up from red).

 

If there are details you need me to provide that I've overlook just ask, I reallllllly want to solve this.

 

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Another way is to boot into iAtkos DVD, choose the utils menu and select Chameleon or another bootloader to install to harddisk. Without that even an all in one distribution is not able to satisfy your needs.

[mulcyber]

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=201...SLanguage=en-us

 

That is where you can download the user guide for your motherboard which is the type of resource you need to get Hackintosh working on your computer. In Windows, mostly all you have to do is change the boot order of your dvd in Bios. With a Hackintosh install, one nearly always needs to change other fields in the Bios.

With Linux and Windows one often doesn't need to go searching for device drivers (kexts).

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t=#entry1500570

MaLd0n re: P6X58D-E " <a href="http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/</a> Tonymac have enough documentation."

He is one of the experts on this forum. http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/

[url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] is at 3.3 now and [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] at 2.7 and there is considerably more support for the ATI 5xxxx series of graphics cards than there used to be. If you put 5870 in the Search box at the top of these posts, you will find people sharing their experiences in getting the 5870 to work. Don't forget to repair permissions and rebuild the cache after installing a kext. Kext Helper b7, is a good utility.

Often Hackintosh can get two monitors to work, less often three.

 

DSDT.aml : This reminds me a bit of the oldtime config.sys file that Windows used. I think you should obtain an (exact) one for your computer and use it in 'userdefined DSDT' in [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url].

MaLd0n recommends dsdt-autopatcher. Sometimes you can find a DSDT.aml for your system in a DSDT database.

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.6.4 Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

 

sus P6X58D-E Intel X58 / ICH10R

• CPU Intel i7 LGA1366 3.07 Ghz
  
• BIOS ver.0303, SATA in AHCI mode
  
• RAM 6 GB DDR2 1066 Mhz
  
• LAN Marvell 88E8056 Gigabit
  
• Audio Realtek ALC889
  
• Firewire IEEE 1394 VIA VT6308
  
• DVD SATA
  
• Harddisk SATA 2 TB Samsung
  
• Graphics Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E
  

Sleep works OK

 

Mac OS X Update 10.6.5 OK (restore Audio)

 

Boot partition must be < 1 TB for Chameleon 2.0 RC4 from [28] P6X58D_Premium_files.zip

 

[url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 2.3 for support files

 

 

It seems like some of the files for the P6X58D may also work?!

Chameleon usually has a three parts. It has to be installed from the boot cd to the hard drive.

Docs I've read say one file goes to the MBR, one to the boot sector of the partition and then there is a /boot folder created. Instructions from manual install,

1. Extract the Chameleon archive and open a Terminal window there.

 

 

2. Use sudo -s to assume root privileges.

 

 

3. Install boot0 to the MBR:

 

fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk*

 

4. Install boot1h to the bootsector of your OS X partition:

 

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk*s2

 

5. Copy the ‘boot’ file to your root partition:

 

cp boot /

 

6. Make sure your OS X partition is flagged as active.

 

* = The HDD number in Disk Utility. This readme is found in /Bootloader, inside zip file below.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...aded&start=

Attached File(s) P6X58D_Premium_Files.zip ( 7.83MB ) Number of downloads: 1787

a dsdt.aml is included in the zip file in /Extra but it may not be exact enough, because you have a -E

 

If there are details you need me to provide that I've overlook just ask, I reallllllly want to solve this.

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/779-p6x58d-e_asu...ersion_405.html

 

I found this download which states it has a dsdt.aml for P6X58D-E

"This file is for ASUS P6X58D-E Bios version 405 ! Maybe it will work with older/newer Bios versions !"

 

So you need to check your Bios version. You have to register at kexts.com in order to download file.

 

I saw to possible edits to get your marvell ethernet working,

LAN: Marvell Yukon 88E8056 (open IONetworkingFamily.kext->Plugins->AppleYukon2.kext->Info.plist, search for IOKitPersonality Yukon-88E8053, change the IOPCIPrimaryMatch from 0x436211ab to 0x436411ab). The other Gigabit Ethernet port runs using skge.kext.

 

http://osx86.co/f57/how-to-snow-leopard-re.../post29505.html

This looks like a similar edit but more comprehensive to info.plist located at

/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist