My system is perfect- bad axe 2 Q6600.

[really_guest]

Firewire work ?

Gigabit ethernet work great?

Audio Out and Audio In are ok?

 

Please, can someone tell a couple of step for install Leo and 10.5.1 in this motherboard? I'll buy next week and I need (eventually) the right patch to apply for made this card perfect !!

 

Thank you very very much for you time and for you test!

[kalieaire]

Hmm, It'd be nice if someone posted some BIOS screenshots.

 

I tried with the ToH RC2 install, no dice.

 

I'm running the:

 

BX97520J.86A.2674.2007.0315.1546

version 2674 3/15/2007

 

Setup includes:

Intel Q6600 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad

HIS x1900 xt

Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500gb sata drive

8gb ECC 667mhz PC2-5300 DDR2 by Kingston

Pioneer 18x EIDE DVD-RW Drive

 

When I boot, I get a b0 error. I tried running the /usr/misc/script.sh and that didn't work, I also tried using FDISK myself to modify mbr records, and nope, still no workie.

 

I'm going to flash my bios and see if that helps. I'm pessimistic, but I'll report back in 30 minutes.

 

-----------------------edit

welp, it's at least 30 minutes later now

 

b0 error still. I'm running the latest bios from Intel:

 

version 2802 10/25/07

 

::sigh::

 

I'm next going to try an upgrade from a 10.4.8 JAS

[really_guest]

ok..before buy I think I wait ALL the BIOS && Hardware detail... kalieaire: your post IT'S VERY IMPORTANT!!

[kalieaire]

My friend, who runs BADAXE 1 D975XBX.

 

Works perfectly (minus sound)

 

Install Method?

 

-Tiger 10.4.10 => Leopard Upgrade (Also 10.4.8)

 

Installation Release?

 

- ToH RC2

 

 

Hardware List:

Intel D975XBX (BADAXE) [most current bios]

Intel E6600 2.4ghz

nVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB

Seagate 250GB SATA Drive (on SATA 0)

LG DVD-Writer w/ Lightscribe

 

Began installation, left for dinner, came back with install logged in. QE/CI works, Power Management works(suspend, hibernate, shutdown), Can run Dual Display, CS3, Lightroom 1.3, FinalCut Studio works too.

 

Did not run /user/misc/script.sh

Did not run postpatch

Did not use FDISK to set boot partition.

 

 

------He is currently testing a blank drive for installation. Will have more details in the morning to see if ToH will work with a Fresh Install.

 

really_guest, are you from roma?

[really_guest]

I've found this post in other forum:

 

I also noticed that the included AppleSMBios.kext crashed CS3. I kind of solved it. Downloaded the Intel 10.4.11 combo updater and installed it without any modifications. System Profiler now shows:

 

Modellnavn: Mac

Modellidentifiserer: (?)

Prosessornavn: Intel Core 2 Duo

Prosessorhastighet: 4 GHz (should be 3.33GHz)

Antall prosessorer: 1

Antall kjerner totalt: 2

Nivå 2-buffer (per prosessor): 4 MB

Hukommelse: 4 GB

Busshastighet: 1.07 GHz (should be 1.33 GHz)

Start-ROM-versjon: BX97520J.2797.2007

This is probably only cosmetic, and CS3 with vanilla AppleSMBios.kext runs with no problems.

 

Probably you need to setup somethings in BIOS and in KEXT.

 

Can someone post much more exhaustive informations ?

thx

[Kimi123]

My friend, who runs BADAXE 1 D975XBX.

 

Works perfectly (minus sound)

 

Install Method?

 

I am using the same board. Sound is running with AppleHDAPatcher_v1.16 and STAC9221D.txt. But I didn't get the network (Intel 82573L) to run. And with AHCI my drives are shown as removabel HD (orange icon). When I switch the SATA-Interface to IDE drives are shown as they should be.

 

GETTING BOOTSECTOR WITH TOH:

You have to run the script.sh from the Install-DVD 2x. Before running the 2nd time, unmount boot-disk with Disk Utility. Then go back in Terminal and run script.sh again.

 

Regards

 

HDA_XBX_LEO.zip

[jwalker46]

Every thing work!!!

 

Pakaya,

 

Would you please post a careful, detailed-for-idiots, step-by-step guide to your installation? For ex. (since the green demon is down), what is the complete name of the torrent, do you start with a blank disk, how precisely do you edit whatever you edited, etc? In principle, all of that is here on the forum, but in practice all to many "guides" say "edit X"without explaining how. So, since you have a successful install with a minimum of hassles, a detailed guide from you would be very, very helpful.

 

Please ?

[really_guest]

Yes, please, tell us step-by-step... I'm a really_idiot

 

Thank you for your time!

[BJMoose]

Guys/Gals, there are some really great "how to's", especially one by OneTrack in other threads on this forum...many posted within the last couple of days. No one is going to have an exact 'step by step' that will work for your particular system without any tweaks. This isn't like retail software that is supposed to work off the shelf for all systems. It is a hobby that takes some reading and a bit of trial and error...but there is a great deal of satisfaction when you finally get things up and running. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the info you're asking for here is out there already. Like the NIKE commercial says, sometimes you have to take a deep breath and "JUST DO IT!"

[BikeBoy]

Here's where I am, I can install TOH RC2, get the bootloader issue fixed and have a working 10.5 install. Once I try to install the efi v52, I get through everything, but upon reboot, the systems hangs on a blue screen with a mouse pointer. I can't get past this point. Any ideas? I'm running a BadAxe2, C2D 1.8, 7900GS.

 

Thanks,

G.

[really_guest]

ok BJMoose, we JUST DO IT, but it's JUST A COMMUNITY

 

Can you only tell us the bios version ? It's only single info. Thank you for all! I'll buy IT, JUST DO THAT

[jwalker46]

No one is going to have an exact 'step by step' that will work for your particular system without any tweaks.

 

BJMoose, Yes, someone will have an exact guide.....if I copy his system! So, since /this/ mobo and graphics card is a combo I would be happy to use, a more detailed "how-to" would be very handy.

 

I agree with you of course about the number of guides, but as a newbie, IMVHO, these forums and guides have become quite fragmented in "user-friendliness"....for ex., what is a kext, how to I find them, and WTF do I do with them? Yes, it /is/ "all there"...but as the forum expands the searching becomes progressively more difficult.

 

I do not quarrel with you....but I just have a more narrow focus (to get Leopard working "now").

[tasc]

kalieaire- b0 is usually the result of a problem with the bootloader, there is a section on the brazilmac guide that details how to restore the bootloader.

 

I'm running the latest bios available for this board, with most settings on default. I'm running HD's in IDE mode instead of AHCI, and I have HPET turned on under the PCI bus settings (although I don't think it really matters). I'm sure there are a number of members here with this board that are running Leopard fine on old versions of the BIOS - so I think you can assume that if you are having problems, the BIOS is probably not the answer unless you have made some major changes there.

[tman26]

I'm having an issue here with the same hardware.

 

I did the leopard-flat image install and all went well.

 

Went to boot up and I was getting the 0 HPET error so i removed the AppleCPUManagement kext and stopped getting that error.

 

But I started getting a new error.. "Exec format error" and I have no idea what it means and cant find ANY information on it.

 

Anyone have any idea?

[kalieaire]

kalieaire- b0 is usually the result of a problem with the bootloader, there is a section on the brazilmac guide that details how to restore the bootloader.

 

I'm running the latest bios available for this board, with most settings on default. I'm running HD's in IDE mode instead of AHCI, and I have HPET turned on under the PCI bus settings (although I don't think it really matters). I'm sure there are a number of members here with this board that are running Leopard fine on old versions of the BIOS - so I think you can assume that if you are having problems, the BIOS is probably not the answer unless you have made some major changes there.

 

 

Hey Tasc,

 

Thanks for the reply!

 

So I tried BrazilMac's guide located here:http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2008and went through the whole section for making it Bootable.

 

Actually, the script.sh of the ToH installation does all of this, believe it or not. But I decided to do it by hand.

 

Part 1) "diskutil list" - helps you find what partitions are active (they'll be listed as disk[0,1,2,3,x])"

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" (so whatever drive you want to edit, say disk0, using the fdisk command write "rdisk0 - if it's disk1, then use rdisk1, and so forth)

 

So now you need to decide what you want to boot from. You want to set the GUID partition active cuz this is where your MBR is supposed to go. Since it's the first partition, you'll type:

 

flag 1 or f1 short. (Most of these fdisk commands can be run with their first letter.) If you're still not sure which is the right partition, type:

 

print (this will give you a list of partitions, active ones are flagged with a *)-----After you've flagged it. You gotta implement it, yah?

 

Type:

 

w (to write)

 

q (to quit, if it asks if u want to do it and that it requires a boot, yeah, of course! )

 

-------I'm not done yet, so I'm now at the part "MAKING IT BOOTABLE"

 

(sidenote: too bad it's still not bootable)Ok, one gripe I have about this guide and other guides, they never tell you the location of the files. But it's ok. If you kiddies want to find stuff, you need to know BASH.BASH aka Bourne Again Shell is a command line interface, basically the one most of the world uses these days, and it's what you're using if you open terminal in the ToH install dvd.

 

To find a file, type:

 

find . -name boot1h (that's the entire command you need to enter with modifiers to find the file "boot1h", if you want to find something else, substitute boot1h with the string you're looking for, you can use the * too as a wild card flag)

 

If you read the BrazilMac guide as a newb, you would be pretty lost, and I don't blame you, it's just one of those things cuz the community is geared towards those that have already tooled around with Tiger in the beginning. If you look at the Tiger guides and forums, you'll find a lot of advice that can possibly apply here too.

 

------------back to workOk, so I used the find . -name boot1h command to find out where this mysterious boot1h file is. (Keep in mind, I don't know where startupfile or boot or anything else is either, but I can figure that out knowing how to find files in bash)

 

So the file is in /usr/standalone/i386, so to get there, just type:

 

/usr/standalone/i386 and you're here.

 

Next command:

 

umount disk0s2

 

This should unmount your partition so that you can edit it with the following commands.(the only problem I had here was this:

 

umount disk0s2

2007-11-22 03:10:43.833 diskutil[141:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

2007-11-22 03:10:43:876 DiskManagementTool[142:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

 

and I'm not sure that's supposed to be good.)Anyway, let's pretend nothing happened!

 

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2 bs=512 count=1 The rdisk0s2 reference is to your actual EFI Partition where the OS sits (at least that's how I interpreted the guide, let me know if I'm wrong)

 

The step after this is to run the startupfiletool. But since I'm running off the DVD I need to use the ./ modifier to run any binary. If you're doing the same, REMEMBER THAT.So, I'm still in the /usr/standalone/i386 dir

 

Now run this:

 

/usr/misc/./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s2 boot (yea, newbs, that's right, i used the ./ modifier in my path to glory!)

 

Now to bless the partition.

 

bless -device /dev/disk0s2 -setBoot -verbose (tricked you this time, it's not rdisk anymore!!)

 

Now to remount

 

diskutil mount /disk0s2Bless -mount /Volumes/whateveryourvolumenameisyoudillhole -setBoot -verbose

 

And you're supposed to be OK now to boot. yeah, this didn't work for me.Time for the Tiger to Leopard install.

 

Another thing to note.

 

I also tried GPARTED LiveCD and that didn't help, this was a solve for b0 and /com.apple.Boot.plist is not found error from the uphuck website.

 

What was most notable was that I kept getting.

 

umount disk0s2

2007-11-22 03:10:43.833 diskutil[141:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

2007-11-22 03:10:43:876 DiskManagementTool[142:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

 

when executing /usr/misc/script.sh -and-trying to mount and unmount my volumes. what the hell dood.

[pakaya]

Pakaya,

 

Would you please post a careful, detailed-for-idiots, step-by-step guide to your installation? For ex. (since the green demon is down), what is the complete name of the torrent, do you start with a blank disk, how precisely do you edit whatever you edited, etc? In principle, all of that is here on the forum, but in practice all to many "guides" say "edit X"without explaining how. So, since you have a successful install with a minimum of hassles, a detailed guide from you would be very, very helpful.

 

Please ?

 

I'll try to do a guide when I come back from holiday. At the moment 24hrs is not enough for me for a day! I am burnt out!! In the mean time do a bit of searching and try to DIY, I have to say that's the most exciting bit of hackintoshing. Yes all the heart breaks and successes.

[skn]

Pakaya,

 

According to Intel's website, there are two different configurations for Bad Axe 2 mobo.

Which one is yours? The one with Firewire + S/PDIF? If yes, is firewire supported?

 

Thank you!

[pakaya]

Pakaya,

 

According to Intel's website, there are two different configurations for Bad Axe 2 mobo.

Which one is yours? The one with Firewire + S/PDIF? If yes, is firewire supported?

 

Thank you!

 

Yes the latter. Firewire works fine, my maudio ozonic is connected through firewire.

[skn]

Yes the latter. Firewire works fine, my maudio ozonic is connected through firewire.

 

Nice! Thank you for the information!!!

[jwalker46]

Pakaya, What is "tharuga patching"? A search through all forums here for "tharuga" turns up only your own posts.

[tasc]

"Taruga" (not tharuga) made a patcher for the AppleHDA.kext to allow a number of sound cards to work under OSX. I believe he has contributed a number of other things as well, but this audio patcher is one of his most popular.

[jwalker46]

"Taruga" (not tharuga) made a patcher.....

 

tasc, Thank you ! It's amazing what a search can find with the right spelling.

[themerk]

I'd been wanting to upgrade my aging system for a while now, but didn't really have a compelling reason until I started running 10.4.8 on my AMD system a few weeks ago.

 

I just bit the bullet and ordered a Bad Axe 2 mobo, core 2 duo cpu and some ram from newegg.

 

My plan is to install some version of leopard, then do the efi patch, and then revert to vanilla and try to update to 10.5.1. Does that sound right?

[tasc]

That sounds right. Remember the EFI patch doesn't work with some patched kernels (Brazilmac), so you may need to do EFI patch and kernel replacement at the same time. I believe the later TOH kernels work fine with EFI patch.

[BJMoose]

That sounds right. Remember the EFI patch doesn't work with some patched kernels (Brazilmac), so you may need to do EFI patch and kernel replacement at the same time. I believe the later TOH kernels work fine with EFI patch.

This surprises me. I used efi v3, 4, and 5 with BrazilMac on mine and all of them worked. I did revert to the vanilla kernel to get as 'pure' as possible, but did not see the problem you speak about. Was there a revision to BrazilMac? Can you expand your thoughts on this?