guaterickie Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I have FINALLY gotten leopard to work with my motherboard and components. Before i go on here are my system specs: GIGABYTE GA-P35 S3L - Audio Working (needs patching), Ethernet works (needs Realtek driver in iATKOS dvd), SATA works (in AHCI), Jmicron seems to work. Time Machine works. EFI does NOT work.. Core 2 Duo E6550 2GB RAM 8800GTS 320MB - works with NVinject 320 QE/CI IDE DVD Writer IDE 10 GB Drive - For Time Machine SATA 150GB Drive - 120GB for OSX and 30GB for NTFS Ok here are my questions Any way to get EFI working with me? Has anyone tried EFI with this Mobo? I really want it to work but i get a mach kernel missing when i try to boot leopard. Here is my second question which really confuses me. I have installed OSX 3 times in this mobo now i think. Everytime i get it working perfectly it stops working when i reboot for some reason. The first time i got it working i had a MAC partition and a Windows partition of 60GB on same drive. For some reason when i took the windows partition out OSX would not boot anymore. I wanted to investigate so i used gparted and created the 60GB NTFS partition and didnt install anything and OSX booted up fine...i dont know why this is but its weird. The second time when i reinstalled i thought it out and made three partitions on my 150GB drive. 120GB for OSX, 29GB for Time Machine, and 1GB for a NTFS partition since it only seemed to boot up with an NTFS partition on the drive. I installed and everything worked fine. My 10GB partition would be for windows since all i would be doing is gaming so i didnt need much space. Anyway when i booted into OSX i installed all updates, audio, and applications and configured Time Machine. After configuring Time Machine i restarted and OSX would not boot up anymore. i tried doing many things. I even tried system restore to see if one of the applications messed it up but it would not boot up. I reinstalled AGAIN into the setup i have now which is working fine. I have 120GB for OSX named MAC HD. made a 30GB NTFS partition and have the 10GB drive for Time Machine. I reinstalled after installing anything to verify that it worked and its working fine. Here is my question: I want to merge the 30GB NTFS partition with the 120GB partition so i can have it all on the hard drive but i think that if i boot up then it will not work again. I dont want to risk losing everything but since i have Time Machine i figure i can try it and restore if it doesnt work and make the NTFS partition anyway. do you guys think it will work? Why do you guys think i HAVE to have the NTFS partition on there. its very weird. one time i tried installing leopard just on the one hard drive and it wouldnt boot up. PLEASE HELP! i want to make it work! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I have FINALLY gotten leopard to work with my motherboard and components. Before i go on here are my system specs: GIGABYTE GA-P35 S3L - Audio Working (needs patching), Ethernet works (needs Realtek driver in iATKOS dvd), SATA works (in AHCI), Jmicron seems to work. Time Machine works. EFI does NOT work.. Core 2 Duo E6550 2GB RAM 8800GTS 320MB - works with NVinject 320 QE/CI IDE DVD Writer IDE 10 GB Drive - For Time Machine SATA 150GB Drive - 120GB for OSX and 30GB for NTFS Ok here are my questions Any way to get EFI working with me? Has anyone tried EFI with this Mobo? I really want it to work but i get a mach kernel missing when i try to boot leopard. Here is my second question which really confuses me. I have installed OSX 3 times in this mobo now i think. Everytime i get it working perfectly it stops working when i reboot for some reason. The first time i got it working i had a MAC partition and a Windows partition of 60GB on same drive. For some reason when i took the windows partition out OSX would not boot anymore. I wanted to investigate so i used gparted and created the 60GB NTFS partition and didnt install anything and OSX booted up fine...i dont know why this is but its weird. The second time when i reinstalled i thought it out and made three partitions on my 150GB drive. 120GB for OSX, 29GB for Time Machine, and 1GB for a NTFS partition since it only seemed to boot up with an NTFS partition on the drive. I installed and everything worked fine. My 10GB partition would be for windows since all i would be doing is gaming so i didnt need much space. Anyway when i booted into OSX i installed all updates, audio, and applications and configured Time Machine. After configuring Time Machine i restarted and OSX would not boot up anymore. i tried doing many things. I even tried system restore to see if one of the applications messed it up but it would not boot up. I reinstalled AGAIN into the setup i have now which is working fine. I have 120GB for OSX named MAC HD. made a 30GB NTFS partition and have the 10GB drive for Time Machine. I reinstalled after installing anything to verify that it worked and its working fine. Here is my question: I want to merge the 30GB NTFS partition with the 120GB partition so i can have it all on the hard drive but i think that if i boot up then it will not work again. I dont want to risk losing everything but since i have Time Machine i figure i can try it and restore if it doesnt work and make the NTFS partition anyway. do you guys think it will work? Why do you guys think i HAVE to have the NTFS partition on there. its very weird. one time i tried installing leopard just on the one hard drive and it wouldnt boot up. PLEASE HELP! i want to make it work! those times when it wouldn't boot up afterwards, did you try booting from the dvd? What I mean it boot from the dvd drive, but when it tells you "Press any key to install Os X (countdown)" just let it run out, and it should boot your install. missing kernel hmm.... make sure your com.apple.boot.plist looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string></string> <key>Timeout</key> <string>8</string> </dict> </plist> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-589709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Oh sorry i forgot to mention that it will only boot up if i have the DVD in the drive. The only time that i didnt have to boot up with the DVD was the very first time i installed it with a 90GB partition of windows preinstalled and then installing mac os x. for some reason i could boot up just fine without the dvd in there but now i have to have it in the drive in order for it to boot. As for the boot.plist file when i install mac os x with EFI and i get that error how do i get to the boot.plist file? One last thing, when i want to install EFI what do i choose? im using iATKOS v1.01 r2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-589794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 install pc_efi_v80. com.apple.Boot.plist is in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration Here is a guide I wrote to installing efi: PC_EFI: *********************** begin pc_efi install guide: *********************** this assumes that you have two working computers. The "new" one is the one you are modifying, and the "old" one is the one that works. boot from brazilmac-patched dvd (or any osx86 leopard install dvd) .... takes a while (maybe 15 minutes) ... while you are waiting: -download EFI Pack from http://rapidshare.com/files/75234066/EFI_Pack.zip.html -copy EFI Pack and brazilmac patch to thumbdrive (but keep thumbdrive plugged in to the old (working) computer now that the install dvd has loaded up, choose english and press enter. wait while it is "preparing installation" for about 30 seconds then go to Utilities -> Disk Utility (it is slow. everything is slow) choose the hard drive you are installing on go to the partition tab choose 1 partition from "Volumes Scheme". Choose 1 partition even if you want more. The beauty of GUID is that you can add and remove partitions, like for other operating systems choose your name (I chose Mac OS X Leopard) go to options, choose GUID Partition Table here is the scary part: click "Apply" once its done, find the name you chose (Mac OS X Leopard for me) in the sidebar and select it, then click info. write down the Disk Identifier (mine is disk1s2) **go back to the old computer (let the new one be) and open up EFI.sh on thumbdrive/EFI Pack change to this: Patch="/Volumes/thumbdrivename/EFI Pack/pc_efi_v80" (change thumbdrivename to the name of your thumbdrive, duh) find this: EFI="/dev/rdiskXsY" and replace X and Y with what you got from the disk identifier from disk utility on the new computer (so i put /dev/rdisk1s2) find this: DRIVE="/dev/diskX" and change X to the number you got from disk identifier (so i put /dev/disk1) now copy brazilmac patch to thumbdrive, open up 9a581PostPatch.sh change Patch to "/Volumes/thumbdrivename/brazilmac patch/leopatch" change Leo to "/Volumes/leopardvolumename" --be smart by changing "leopardvolumename" to the name of your leopard partition, etc. now save the files and eject the thumbdrive **go to new computer in sidebar of disk utility, click on your volume and click unmount quit disk utility now plug the thumbdrive into the new computer go to Utilities -> Terminal cd /Volumes <press enter> cd thumbdrivename <press enter> (put a forward slash [ \ ] before spaces, apostrophes, etc) cd EFI\ Pack <press enter> ./EFI.sh <press enter> It should say stuff, but no errors. this is important. read through what it tells you, and make sure there are no errors. if you get something like "file does not exist" then check the path names if its all good, continue. if not, fix it. i said "N" to the reboot so i could check for errors. now that there are none: reboot <press enter> wait a little while for it to reboot(maybe 3-4 minutes if it appears to freeze and then pull the plug (no harm done, it will still work) at bios post, choose boot disk (means pressing F12 for me), and choose the volume with leopard on it if everything is as it should be, you will get this: "System config file 'blahblahblah' not found". This is GOOD! if you get "verifying DMI Pool Data" and it hangs, you are in bad shape. make sure you didn't miss any steps, or screw them up. Use common sense, i MAY have missed something (lol haha). if your good, move on. *********************** end pc_efi install guide: *********************** Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-591209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 eh i dont have two working computers...sorry Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-591265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 well you don't need two working computers. Just figure out the disk identifiers (disk0s2 or whatever) before you restart, and edit the script before you start. 2 computers is just easier in case it changes. the "old, working" computer is just used to edit the script. you don't even need that! just print out the EFI shell.sh script, and enter each command by hand. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-592884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 hey man i got it working but i dont know if EFI is in fact installed. i started a new thread because this one was dead but just go to the new topic its still on page one in this forum. just need to confirm its installed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-592909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahwahman89 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Use Kalyway's instead is my suggestion to you... iATKOS proved problematic for my P35-DS3R. Kalyway works like a charm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-593482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevy2410 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Kalyway worked way better for me as well. I have the same hardware as you. I was able get everything to work except Lan. Using GUID and EFI. Chevy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-593519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 wait you have a ga-p35 s3l? sweet ok ive already started the download for kalyway. downloading at about 30/40 kbp/s so it will be done in like a day....will have to wait. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-593582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 how to know if you have efi installed: Terminal: ioreg -p IODeviceTree -b -n efi | grep "efi" -C 4 => +-o Root <class IORegistryEntry, retain 13> +-o / <class IOPlatformExpertDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, retain 23> +-o efi <class IOService, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 7> | | { | | "firmware-revision" = <01000010> | | "bootloader-build" = <"ToH","bootlo"> | | "name" = <"efi"> | | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI32"> | | "firmware-vendor" = <4100700070006c0065000000> | | } | | => You have efi. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-593858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 thats weird because people have told me there is other ways of checking but that one isnt successful Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-594020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstition Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 thats weird because people have told me there is other ways of checking but that one isnt successful Use the Kalyway 10.5.1 install. You can use the vanilla kernel. You'll need to patch audio, but LAN worked for me with no patching. Sleep/restart/shutdown is still problematic for me, and sometimes I get a flashing screen after boot with NVinject 0.2.1 (edited for my card) and my 6800GS card, but a restart fixes that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83046-success-with-a-gigabyte-ga-p35-s3l-some-questions-though/#findComment-594111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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