[HOW TO] INSTALL ON GIGABYTE/ASUS/COMPATIBLE BOARDS

[newbmac]

To mtotho:

Thanks for this quide, but I found some problems:

1) i found that if you install all 7 kext for AHCI support system will crash. you need only 4 of them.

2) i cant remove those orange icons, if you install 2 kext to fix them system wiil crash =(

 

Finally I downloaded Kalyway 10.5.2 disk image, and it is really working, no more orange drives and shutdown problems. everything is working finy, exept usb ports. I Cant understand my usb mouse, keyboard and remote device are working, but if i insert usb flash or hard drive nothing happens. Can somebody help me?

 

 

 

I believe this was addressed in this thread already.

 

Additionally, there is a USB error discussion thread in these forums that deals with this and explains what to do to fix.

 

Try doing a search next time...

[Yakow]

I already fixed this problem. I updated bios on my DS3L board to the last version F8f and now everything is working , but thanks anyway newbmac I will search for this thread

[bpeugh]

Kalyway 10.5.3 Update seems to work. I did a clean install of Kalyway 10.5.2, the Kalyway 10.5.3 update, the video kext, the audio kext and finally the SMBIOS and everything seems to work except for sleep/restart/shutdown.

[dci693]

Kalyway 10.5.3 Update seems to work. I did a clean install of Kalyway 10.5.2, the Kalyway 10.5.3 update, the video kext, the audio kext and finally the SMBIOS and everything seems to work except for sleep/restart/shutdown.

That's worrisome because I have the same board as you and I'm still on 10.5.2. Sleep works 100% for me (though I have to press the power button to get it back to life). Restart/shutdown are 50/50. I'm running the F6 bios though and I have a diff video card entirely so that might affect it also.

[newbmac]

Lately, i think the best way to upgrade is to just wait for the new install releases with the latest version.

Just structure your data so it resides not on the boot drive, and when you feel like upgrading just reinstall from scratch

[Tesla]

Hey, I followed your guide and it is fantastic. However, my XP just crashed and I was wondering if i could reload XP or would that mess up my OSX load

[agentjk]

First off Awesome Guide. I am a complete noob to all of this and install went smooth first time. Here is my system

 

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L v.2

Intel Q6600 2.4

evga e-GeForce 8800GT 512MB DDR-3

4 GB Corsair DDR2 6400 w DHX

 

Installed as sole OS on a Western Digital WDJ800 80GB

 

On-board LAN worked perfect out of box.

8800GT didn't work out of box but after following the instructions it worked fine.

On-board sound didn't work but following after following the guide instructions it worked fine.

 

There is one problem however and this might be operator error. I tried the NORMAL update and when I restarted it gets to the grey loading screen and stays there forever. I read that the first boot usually fails so I tried again, same thing. And by forever I mean over an hour.

 

I also tried to boot into safe mode, but I get the same loading screen. I booted to the DVD and ran a repair disk in the "Disk Utility" and it said the disk appeared to be fine. But now I have been at the loading screen for over an hour?

But as I said I'm a noob so no telling what I've done.

 

10.5.1 worked perfect though and could not have done it without this guide, so thank you. My friends will be stoked to see this. Any thoughts on the update though?

[newbmac]

First off Awesome Guide. I am a complete noob to all of this and install went smooth first time. Here is my system

 

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L v.2

Intel Q6600 2.4

evga e-GeForce 8800GT 512MB DDR-3

4 GB Corsair DDR2 6400 w DHX

 

Installed as sole OS on a Western Digital WDJ800 80GB

 

On-board LAN worked perfect out of box.

8800GT didn't work out of box but after following the instructions it worked fine.

On-board sound didn't work but following after following the guide instructions it worked fine.

 

There is one problem however and this might be operator error. I tried the NORMAL update and when I restarted it gets to the grey loading screen and stays there forever. I read that the first boot usually fails so I tried again, same thing. And by forever I mean over an hour.

 

I also tried to boot into safe mode, but I get the same loading screen. I booted to the DVD and ran a repair disk in the "Disk Utility" and it said the disk appeared to be fine. But now I have been at the loading screen for over an hour?

But as I said I'm a noob so no telling what I've done.

 

10.5.1 worked perfect though and could not have done it without this guide, so thank you. My friends will be stoked to see this. Any thoughts on the update though?

 

What's a normal update?

 

If you mean you ran the Apple Software Update and it failed, that's the problem. almost never is the apple software update safe to use...

[dukebound85]

Anybody with an ASUS P5W DH upgrade to 10.5.3?

 

I tried the Kalyway combo update from the "Green Demon" and I tried using http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=107340.

 

Neither worked. Both give me the same error regarding AHCI. I keep getting the "waiting for root device" message over and over and over.

 

I can switch my BIOS to Standard IDE instead of AHCI and then boot up. I've read about a few others with this problem, but I'm puzzled as to why only certain people have trouble using AHCI after this upgrade.

 

I guess I will wait for the next upgrade or until someone figures out why this error is occuring. I hate having to restore again and again.

 

Cheers!

 

yea i had the same problem on my ds3l board. 10.5.2 works great (with kalyway 10.5.2 update) but the kalyway 10.5.3 update doesnt work. i get then "waiting for root device" message over and over

 

any chance for a guide to install 10.5.3?

 

thanks for the great work!

[Tinet]

Ok. to address some issues.

 

@AHCI issue: With all ICH9 motherboards.. With AHCI enabled only the first 2 sata ports work(in leopard). As far as i know, there is not a fix.. but is being worked on. I have tested both with AHCI and without and have noticed only slight performace gains. Although in the bios it takes long, AHCI does load leopard faster.. and some may say it runs only ever so slightly smoother. I personally use it without AHCI and i find no problems whatsoever.

 

@Onboard Lan issue: The Realtek Drivers aswell as the RtlR1000 driver from this site are not meant to address the 8111B driver and leopard. Leopard already works with this device. I myself have had issues with it.. but were mainly cause by other things. Basically to fix it i finagled with it.. doing various things such as; unplug+replug, restart, disconnect power to mobo for an hour (helps hard rest the NIC adapter), set wake on lan in window(only for dual boot), reset router, setting manual DHCP then setting back to automatic.

 

Some where along the line of doing these things repeatedly it started working. It in fact started working after Unplugging the ethernet cable for 10 seconds and replugging it.

 

@IDE DVD drive: I was unsuccesful with 2 different drive. Other claim it to work so i just put it as it works.

 

 

 

I still have 2 important issues with this mobo (P5W-DH Deluxe)

 

1-Not USB support at all. That means, I have to attach the peripherals BEFORE start up Leopard. If not, they aren't going to be mounted on my desktop. No chance to solve this in other way.

 

2-Not sound at all. Strange thing, The sound pane appears with in and out sound recognition, but no sound at all. Try to change pins, but no success. I try with kaliway 10.5.2 DVD installation. It has the option to enable the exact sound chipset ALC882M for this specific mobo, but nothing happens. Tried to path with Tazruga's patcher (v1.20) and your codec dump,(ALC882_0x1043e601) with same results. Nothing.

 

Any ideas or clues?

 

 

In the other side, IDE DVD works perfect in this mobo. In fact, if you check the BIOS you realise that it needs an ATAPI CD-ROM to boot properly. I'm using a Pioneer 112D (firmware 1.22) recognized as a Superdrive provided from Apple!!

 

Cheers.

 

 

 

Now working with:

 

Asus P5W-DH Deluxe⎜Quad Q6600 2,4 Ghz⎜4GB DDRII 667 SDRAM⎜ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256MB

Kaliway 10.5.2 (9C7010)⎜Darwin 9.2.0 as a Mac Pro 3.1

[dukebound85]

for the sound, did you go to sys preferences->sound-> output tab and make sure its on the right output?

[keypox]

hey i just bought this gigabyte board, but am curious about using the kalyway 10.5.2 install disc? Also i have a 8800gt do i just use the nvinject-512 on said disc to get it to work? Thanks

[cjgrode]

I still have 2 important issues with this mobo (P5W-DH Deluxe)

 

1-Not USB support at all. That means, I have to attach the peripherals BEFORE start up Leopard. If not, they aren't going to be mounted on my desktop. No chance to solve this in other way.

 

2-Not sound at all. Strange thing, The sound pane appears with in and out sound recognition, but no sound at all. Try to change pins, but no success. I try with kaliway 10.5.2 DVD installation. It has the option to enable the exact sound chipset ALC882M for this specific mobo, but nothing happens. Tried to path with Tazruga's patcher (v1.20) and your codec dump,(ALC882_0x1043e601) with same results. Nothing.

 

Any ideas or clues?

In the other side, IDE DVD works perfect in this mobo. In fact, if you check the BIOS you realise that it needs an ATAPI CD-ROM to boot properly. I'm using a Pioneer 112D (firmware 1.22) recognized as a Superdrive provided from Apple!!

 

Cheers.

Now working with:

 

Asus P5W-DH Deluxe⎜Quad Q6600 2,4 Ghz⎜4GB DDRII 667 SDRAM⎜ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256MB

Kaliway 10.5.2 (9C7010)⎜Darwin 9.2.0 as a Mac Pro 3.1

 

My sound is showing up as well but not working. Everything else is perfect though. I have GA-p35-DS3L, 4GB, 8800GT P(512mb), E6750 C2D.

 

I have tried everything in this thread but nothing....

[nintenno]

so i got my p35 d3sl, but i have one main issue (besides shutdown and sleep because vanilla kernel)

its my dvd drive (the one that was suggested in this guide)

it wont work properly with AHCI on. Now i updated both my bios and the drive's firmware, but to no avail.

i installed all ktexts needed too! any suggestions?

[mr.mcgoo]

Anybody with an ASUS P5W DH upgrade to 10.5.3?

 

I tried the Kalyway combo update from the "Green Demon" and I tried using http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=107340.

 

Neither worked. Both give me the same error regarding AHCI. I keep getting the "waiting for root device" message over and over and over.

 

I can switch my BIOS to Standard IDE instead of AHCI and then boot up. I've read about a few others with this problem, but I'm puzzled as to why only certain people have trouble using AHCI after this upgrade.

 

I guess I will wait for the next upgrade or until someone figures out why this error is occuring. I hate having to restore again and again.

 

Cheers!

 

I did a clean install of 10.5.2 then used a update package to get to 10.5.3. I had 3 problems afterword: orange hdd icons, lost gfx hardware CI and QE, and Time Machine no longer works.

 

I suggest using this package: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=109102

 

Everything else worked out of box and now restart, shutdown, and sleep (wake works occasionally) work great.

 

Specs below

[newbmac]

Anyone know if all this will work with the new Gigabyte board GA-EP35-DS3L

[nathan7]

Anyone know if all this will work with the new Gigabyte board GA-EP35-DS3L

 

I am counting on it, just ordered one. From the reading I have done, it should. Nothing is ever sure with OSX86 until you have done it yourself. I am upgrading from a fully working but no sleep Biostar Micro775SE. I am hoping to gain sleep and some upgradeability for when the quads are cheaper.

[newbmac]

I am counting on it, just ordered one. From the reading I have done, it should. Nothing is ever sure with OSX86 until you have done it yourself. I am upgrading from a fully working but no sleep Biostar Micro775SE. I am hoping to gain sleep and some upgradeability for when the quads are cheaper.

 

 

 

Could you please report back as well as update the WIKI on this motherboard?

[newbmac]

Nathan7 any update?

[nathan7]

Got the GA-EP35-DS3L. It works great. It booted my existing install from my old board no problem. I am screwing with different install methods and drivers. I used all the BIOS settings from this guide. I am having a slight issue with the SATA ports. With vanilla 10.5.4 driver all 4 SATA ports work fine, but it causes a problem with the way I configure my Users folder as a partition with /etc/fstab. With an AHCI fix set of kexts I downloaded, only first 2 ports work. Either way AHCI and NCQ work fine.

 

I also keep /Applications as its own partition with /etc/fstab, but strangely it is not affected with all 4 ports 10.5.4 vanilla but /Users is. The Finder thinks /Users has been moved or deleted, but it is mounted as /Users and looks fine. For now, I Super Duped my Users partition onto an IDE drive, changed the UUID in /etc/fstab, and all is well. For those curious how to do this:

 

While logged in as your user, use Terminal:

cp -R /Users/(your user name) /Volumes/Users/

If you have more Users, do the same with their home folder while logged into each. I do this to preserve individual users' permissions. I am sure there is a better way.

 

Login as root, not sudo -s.

 

Copy /Users/Shared folder to Users partition.

cp -R /Users/Shared /Volumes/Users/

Delete the contents of /Users or rename to Users2 and leave the contents intact. Create empty Users folder with same chown and chmod for a mount point.

 

Create /etc/fstab like this:

UUID="put your Users partition UUID from Disk Utility Information here" /Users hfs rw 1 2

This instructs the system to mount the partition at /Users.

 

Repair permissions before you reboot, just to be sure.

 

When you reboot, everything should seem normal. You can verify it is working by doing "mount" in Terminal. Look for something like this:

/dev/disk2s2 on /Users (hfs, local, journaled)

If you do this, please use your own knowledge to avoid any errors I may have made in my description, and be safe with your data. I like this setup because I can reinstall OS and be back in my home user account quick and easy by just making my /etc/fstab. On a fresh install, I just leave the vanilla user data and /Users folder in place. It mounts the Users partition at /Users and it supersedes the vanilla Users folder.

 

The procedure to do the same for /Applications is very similar. There is a macosxhints.com tip on this somewhere that is more detailed.

[newbmac]

Got the GA-EP35-DS3L. It works great. It booted my existing install from my old board no problem. I am screwing with different install methods and drivers. I used all the BIOS settings from this guide. I am having a slight issue with the SATA ports. With vanilla 10.5.4 driver all 4 SATA ports work fine, but it causes a problem with the way I configure my Users folder as a partition with /etc/fstab. With an AHCI fix set of kexts I downloaded, only first 2 ports work. Either way AHCI and NCQ work fine.

 

I also keep /Applications as its own partition with /etc/fstab, but strangely it is not affected with all 4 ports 10.5.4 vanilla but /Users is. The Finder thinks /Users has been moved or deleted, but it is mounted as /Users and looks fine. For those curious how to do this:

 

While logged in as your user, use Terminal:

cp -R /Users/(your user name) /Volumes/Users/

 

If you have more Users, do the same with their home folder while logged into each. I do this to preserve individual users' permissions. I am sure there is a better way.

 

Login as root, not sudo -s.

 

Copy /Users/Shared folder to Users partition.

cp -R /Users/Shared /Volumes/Users/

 

Delete the contents of /Users or rename to Users2 and leave the contents intact. Create empty Users folder with same chown and chmod.

 

Create /etc/fstab like this:

UUID="put your Users partition UUID from Disk Utility Information here" /Users hfs rw 1 2

 

This instructs the system to mount the partition at /Users.

 

Repair permissions before you reboot, just to be sure.

 

When you reboot, everything should seem normal. You can verify it is working by doing "mount" in Terminal. Look for something like this:

/dev/disk2s2 on /Users (hfs, local, journaled)

If you do this, please use your own knowledge to avoid any errors I may have made in my description, and be safe with your data. I like this setup because I can reinstall OS and be back in my home user account quick and easy by just making my /etc/fstab. On a fresh install, I just leave the vanilla user data and /Users folder in place. It mounts the Users partition at /Users and it supersedes the vanilla Users folder.

 

The procedure to do the same for /Applications is very similar.

 

Thanks for the update. This is the board you got correct?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128337

[MacUser2525]

While logged in as your user, use Terminal:

cp -R /Users/(your user name) /Volumes/Users/

 

If you have more Users, do the same with their home folder while logged into each. I do this to preserve individual users' permissions. I am sure there is a better way.

 

cp -Rp the p is to preserve the owner permissions on all the files copied.

Login as root, not sudo -s.

 

Copy /Users/Shared folder to Users partition.

cp -R /Users/Shared /Volumes/Users/

 

Delete the contents of /Users or rename to Users2 and leave the contents intact. Create empty Users folder with same chown and chmod.

 

Create /etc/fstab like this:

UUID="put your Users partition UUID from Disk Utility Information here" /Users hfs rw 1 2

 

This instructs the system to mount the partition at /Users.

 

Repair permissions before you reboot, just to be sure.

 

When you reboot, everything should seem normal. You can verify it is working by doing "mount" in Terminal. Look for something like this:

/dev/disk2s2 on /Users (hfs, local, journaled)

 

 

If you do this, please use your own knowledge to avoid any errors I may have made in my description, and be safe with your data. I like this setup because I can reinstall OS and be back in my home user account quick and easy by just making my /etc/fstab. On a fresh install, I just leave the vanilla user data and /Users folder in place. It mounts the Users partition at /Users and it supersedes the vanilla Users folder.

 

The procedure to do the same for /Applications is very similar.

 

The moving the user to its own partition can be done in the System Preferences Account options, you need to unlock the account then right click on it choosing the Advanced Options then it allows you to choose the path to your new location you copied too. You want to make sure to delete the old account location once you have rebooted to make sure you have done it properly otherwise it will want to still keep saving your downloads to the old location for some strange reason.

[ottoman1384]

hopefully somewhere here can help me out. how do i make a bootable backup of my main os harddrive?

 

i've used both superduper and ccc without any luck. it wont start up. thanks.

[verdant]

hopefully somewhere here can help me out. how do i make a bootable backup of my main os harddrive?

 

i've used both superduper and ccc without any luck. it wont start up. thanks.

 

This works for me: (my setup is on MBR rather than GUID i.e.GPT)

 

1. Boot main volume to be cloned with maxmem=2048 and cpus=1, then run CCC 3.1.

 

2. After cloning operation is complete, attempt rebooting from cloned volume with -v -f....if this fails then:

 

3. Without erasing cloned OS X volume, I just boot from the iATKOS v1.0ir3 (10.5.1) Install DVD again, choosing no other options except for the Darwin bootloader only....

 

Bootloader -

 

Darwin X86 bootloader N

 

Darwin EFI -

 

Darwin EFI bootloader Y

 

and run Install. Reboot cloned volume with -v -f. If this boots OK into OS X, the Repair Permissions...

 

It should work using only the Darwin EFI bootloader on iATKOS v2.0i (10.5.2) too....I hope.....

[ottoman1384]

thanks. im going to try it out now. i want to make a bootable backup so that i can try to install 10.5.3 i dont want to ruin this setup i have because it works fine.

 

This works for me: (my setup is on MBR rather than GUID i.e.GPT)

 

1. Boot main volume to be cloned with maxmem=2048 and cpus=1, then run CCC 3.1.

 

2. After cloning operation is complete, attempt rebooting from cloned volume with -v -f....if this fails then:

 

3. Without erasing cloned OS X volume, I just boot from the iATKOS v1.0ir3 (10.5.1) Install DVD again, choosing no other options except for the Darwin bootloader only....

 

Bootloader -

 

Darwin X86 bootloader N

 

Darwin EFI -

 

Darwin EFI bootloader Y

 

and run Install. Reboot cloned volume with -v -f. If this boots OK into OS X, the Repair Permissions...

 

It should work using only the Darwin EFI bootloader on iATKOS v2.0i (10.5.2) too....I hope.....