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

[mtotho]

also, remember, if u get b0 error, or if u cant boot without dvd, see post above. you formatted as guid and ur partition is mbr, or vice versa.

[osc4r]

Thanks for the quick answer dude! However, got a new problem lining up, but I hope it's going to be solved in about half an hour.

 

After the whole problem with the b0 error I tried several methodes to solve it. First in Leopard itself, which didn't work out, after that via the DVD with F8 / -s / -v way.

I did the trick with: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 and made partition #1 active (no other partitions on my disc, just OS X only).

 

After that I got the com.boot.apple.plist error, which was kinda weird. I reinstalled Leopard, with the method I used when it did work, and I got the same error again!

 

Now i'm installing while first doing a Zero Out Data, to remove all files on the disc. Hope this helps, otherwise it's a {censored}, Leopard in the 5 minutes I had it installed was awesome!

[mtotho]

oscar, if ii were u, and that doesnt work. I would start totally over. Use a third party program to reformat the whole drive. In the installer i would use MBR unless ur totally sure of what ur doing with GUID.

[blackduke]

I've got it to work. So, installed ONLY the GUID driver, nothing else.

Works, got audio to work in 2seconds, LANworks out of the box as you say.

 

I'm trying to get video to work

 

 

I'm searching the Radeon 3850/3870 thread, but can seem to get my 3850 to work.

No one at the IRC channel helping as well. If anyone know what links to install and what bios to setup, let me know.

Thanks.

[larrygates]

Geese, im gone for 1 seconds and there is a ton of problems.

 

@Larry, do you have AHCI enabled?

As far as AHCI goes, I've done enabled and disabled. I believe the same behavior. I've Acronis(ed) the XP volume to a working backup (same problem). I've disabled the IDE Leopard Drive in the BIOS (same problem). Disconnected drive (I think that solves the problem of winlogon.exe error). I'm not certain though.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[mtotho]

@larry. Hmm, make sure xp drive is boot. Insert the install disk.. wait for everything to load.. then run the repair and it should fix startup.

 

@blackdude. I cant really help u, i would just be searching as well and i assume u are doing a suffiecient enough job. If you have some spare money, you may want to consider the 7600gt or something.

[cobraf]

sorry guys for being away.

 

It seems i was wrong on the 8gb issue but i know why i was buffled by this.

 

only thing i do remember that i looked on my own install and it said 32 but although i did set hpet to 64 bit so i guess it does work in 64 bit its just the info in about my mac.

 

[danone]

Hi,

 

I have successfully installed oxs on my P35-DS3. But I have still the problem that I can't reboot. The screen becomes black and that's it - no beep nothing. I have to press the reset button. After that my USB keyboard doesn't work. I have to press the reset button a second time and then the usb keyboard is working again.

 

Any ideas what's wrong.

 

I have also tried the fix mentioned on irc but no success at all.

 

Cheers,

danone

[Bob The King]

After the whole problem with the b0 error I tried several methodes to solve it. First in Leopard itself, which didn't work out, after that via the DVD with F8 / -s / -v way.

I did the trick with: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 and made partition #1 active (no other partitions on my disc, just OS X only).

 

Ay up, I had this exact problem.

 

Solution:

1) Pull out a windows xp disk and boot to the screen where it lets you create your partitions. Delete all your existing partitions, then create new partitions but don't go to the next screen to format them. Once you've done that, Press F3 or whatever it is to quit.

 

2) Fire up the leopard DVD, open up disk utility then select the last partition you created. Click the erase tab, select volume format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), for the name, ensure you call it a 1 worded name, e.g. 'leopard' or 'mac' (without the ' '). If I used two words it simply wouldn't boot for me, I initially was calling my drive 'Macintosh HD' and I was getting either the b0 error or blinking cursor.

 

Hope that helps

[keplenk]

Hey guys,

 

I just successfully installed kalyway on my pc and it works flawlessly. I didn't even download any kext .. all were given from the kalyway dvd. I tried GUID / MBR .. all kinds of combinations like IDE mode / AHCI .. just playin around and all works

 

One other thing .. Restart, Shutdown, sleep (I think) works 100% .. I'm really feeling lucky I have a P35-DS3L F5 Bios

 

Regarding the sleep .. Im not sure if its the actual sleep. When I click sleep, the system has the same symptoms of Shut down .. like no fans are spinning .. no lights .. when I press keys in the keyboard or hover my mouse, nothing happens. But .. when I push the power button, the system turns on and its already in the desktop. I'm 100% sure that it didn't go to the boot process. I just see what I left from .. like the apps I opened and stuff.

 

Is that the real sleep?

 

One more thing, is it normal that my Hard drive ICON (boot drive is SATA) is orange. It looks like the icon for external USB hdds except I dont see the USB logo. Its just plain orange. I checked system profile and everything is detected correctly. On the other hand, my IDE hdd icon looks right (the true gray hdd icon).

 

Is it just a Kalyway thing?

 

Oh BTW, I had the b0 error at first. I noticed that I mistakenly connected my SATA devices in SATA ports 2 and 3 instead of 0 and 1. When I switched to 0 and 1, I had to reinstall everything and it worked fine. b0 error gone!

 

Another thing I noticed that when I boot up, my screen always flickers. Like it flickers about 3-4 times before reaching the actual desktop. When I reach the desktop, it doesnt flicker anymore. I've tried installing the 10.5.2 installer from scottdangel blog .. it worked but I still have that flickering problem. Is that normal?

 

Thank you very much for your help.

 

These are my specs:

 

GA-p35-DS3L / e2180@stock

2gb ddr2 800mhz 1.8v - A-data vitesta 5-5-5-18 (the cheap ones)

Palit Daytona 7300LE - will be switching to Inno3D 7600GT tomorrow

Samsung SATA DVD burner - *successfully burned ilife08 using disk util

80gb - Western Digital SATA 7200rpm

80gb - Maxtor IDE hdd 7200rpm

CoolerMaster Elite 340 (?)

17" Dell (Trinitron) Flat CRT

[blackduke]

two problems.

 

 

1. computer shuts down after half an hour of no operation?

It just shuts down. I'm not working on it, i came to it, it's shut down. Did that like 5-6 times already.

 

 

2.white menus cause of gfx card.

 

maybe mtotho or someone else can help me, no reply at the 3850 topic OR at the IRC channel OR at the http://netkas.org/?p=48 where my comment isn't approved yet.

 

I've installed the featured files and it it stated

p.p.s. for 3850 card solution is in changing devid in bios, modified bios is in comments

 

how do I change the graphic card BIOS and edit the devid property?

I'm not running dual windows and the software mentioned is win-only.

 

please please please.

the card works but I still have the white menus (aka no text on menus showing).

 

 

thank you in advance people.

[mohkahn]

""" Onboard lan DOES not work for your board. There is currently no fix that i know of for that board. You must use an alternative.to test audio, go to System preferences, sound, and see if u can see anything in there, press on the different sounds and see if it makes sounds. There is a fix for your audio on the Kalyway dvd.

About you destroying your vista partition. I clearly stated to use vista, windows, or some thirdparty program to partition your hard drive. You cannot just expect the crappy disk utility in leopard to magically partition your drives for you. Im sorry, i will try to make it more clear in the guide. AHCI is not that important. You should be able to get a perfect install from that board (minus the Internet). Just buy a $7 SUPPORTED NIC card from newegg or something.""""

 

AT Mttho, thank you man. your reply is much appreciated.

 

1=Once i have made 2 partitions, how can i make sure that leopard will be installed on the second partition and won't screw up the bootloader. I ask, cos initially I was dual booting winxp and vista and leopard wiped both of them out and also did not install, after reboot it was giving me "b0 error"" i also installed it along with just vista and i was still getting the same error. am i doing something wrong?

 

2) what brand card do you recommed, that is proven working i hope, that you already know of?

 

3)do you recon, i should invest in 80gb an extra SATA driver, (i don't game or save lots of stuff) will that work, my board has 4 sata, but 1 is taken by current harddisk and another by dvdrw..

 

Thanks much again and have a nice day.

[legolas96]

is there any of GA-P35 boards with microphone support and maybe firewire ??

im thinking of buying one of the following boards:

 

GA-P35-DS3P (my favorite)

GA-P35-DS3R

GA-X38-DS4

im going to install 3.0 ghz core2 duo and 8gb ram

what do you think?

[dci693]

One other thing .. Restart, Shutdown, sleep (I think) works 100% .. I'm really feeling lucky I have a P35-DS3L F5 Bios

Interesting. I have the F6 BIOS and my "sleep" just shuts down the Mac, whereas "Shut down" closes all apps, but leave my system fans running.

One more thing, is it normal that my Hard drive ICON (boot drive is SATA) is orange. It looks like the icon for external USB hdds except I dont see the USB logo. Its just plain orange. I checked system profile and everything is detected correctly. On the other hand, my IDE hdd icon looks right (the true gray hdd icon).Is it just a Kalyway thing?

I think so. Try running the script in mtotho's first post to set things back to factory defaults.

Another thing I noticed that when I boot up, my screen always flickers. Like it flickers about 3-4 times before reaching the actual desktop. When I reach the desktop, it doesnt flicker anymore. I've tried installing the 10.5.2 installer from scottdangel blog .. it worked but I still have that flickering problem. Is that normal?

Maybe it's because you're rocking a Sony Trinitron CRT! I haven't seen one of those in years. Among the heaviest monitors you can imagine (I know, I had a Samsung 955F 19" Trinitron at one point). But they are beautiful displays with great colors.

 

mtotho, thanks again for this fabulous guide. My hackintosh is working great.I wanted to ask about a few things in your guide and offer up some things I've noticed.

• I see that you now have a warning in your guide to remove the ethernet cable from the machine before installing Leopard. I did the Kalyway install 2x, both with the cable inserted. First time, LAN did not work. The 2nd time, LAN worked immediately - the only difference was I enabled the onboard LAN boot ROM. After a few days I disabled it since it added a few seconds to the boot time. A day later, my LAN no longer worked (it would not detect that my cable was attached). I then re-enabled the boot ROM and magically it worked again. By the way, I did try removing and re-inserting the LAN cable to no effect. All the while, if I booted into XP the LAN connection worked fine.
  
• Regarding XP and AHCI, on my set up (with XP Pro SP2) if I install XP with AHCI off, turn AHCI on and install Leopard, then boot into XP (leaving AHCI on) it doesn't blue screen. XP prompts me to install drivers for an "Unknown PCI device". I can cancel out of the dialog box and contnue working. If I disable AHCI and booting into XP again, I don't get the prompt to install drivers. AHCI adds a few seconds to my boot time, so I see no advantage to enabling it. (In fact, once when I had it enabled my BIOS would no longer detect my DVD drive.)
  

These anomalies may be due to my unique combination of equipment, but it might be interesting for someone reading this forum. Here's my equipment:CPU: Intel E2180 (O/C'd to 2.35Ghz), 2gb Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 667, XFX GeForce 7100Gs (cheap fanless PCIe board), Seagate 7200.10 320gb and 7200.9 200gb IDE drives, Samsung SH-S203B SATA DVD drive, Gigabyte GA-P35-DSL with F6 BIOS, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU fan, Antec Sonata II case, Antec Earthwatts EA430 PSU.

[hookid]

I made a thead but figured I would post here also since I did use this guide while installing.

 

E6600

7600 GS

2GB Corsair XMS (6400)

Gigabyte DS3 (original version)

600W Ultra Power Supply

WD Raptor 16MB cache

 

10.5.1 Kalway DVD

 

I installed OSX following the DS3L guide someone posted on the site and changed all the bios settings as instructed. OS X installs perfectly with no problems. I take the disk out and try to boot from the HD and it starts to boot up and I get a mouse cursor that is stuck in the upper left of the screen and I get a loading cursor that I can move around. After a certain amount of time the screen just goes black and I have to restart.

 

Never have seen the OS X log in screen.

 

Anyone seen this problem before and might know how I can figure out what is wrong?

 

Thanks

[toro0117]

Excellent guide. Follow most of the steps and It works like a charm. Thanks.

 

MB: GA-P35-DS3R

 

CPU: E2160 OC to ~3GHz

 

RAM: Patriots extreme 2GB

[mtotho]

@Blackdude. Your computer is going to sleep.. and you are not able to awake from it. Go into System preferences. Power Management and turn off sleep. I also dont think you can do anything like that in the bios

 

@Anybody. With AHCI enabled, your Sata hardrives turn into the external hard drive icon. (on osx86 anyway)

 

@Graphic stutter upon boot. It mine does a version of the same thing, on both XP and Leopard.. it is just how ur video card loads and how the os loads the drivers.

 

@Cobraf or anyone else. HPET 32/64 Bit is just powermanagement. It doesnt make ur os 32 bit of 64 bit.. infact it wont change anything in your OS. I have yet to see any performance difference between the 2 and between either of them and it being turned off. It is just one of those things, you may as well use it if your only running 64 bit OS.

 

also, someone asked if one could use a microphone. Anything you can use on a mac, u can use on a pc, its not like a retarded brother. Also my webcam is hooked up to my leopard install. It has a microphone in it. Before i installed any drivers for it.. the microphone portion of it worked.

[Revolve]

Thanks for the great guide. I'm having problems though. Every time I try to install I get the failed install screen at the very end. I've followed all the instructions in this guide. I'm using the Kalyway dvd and also using ACHI mode and partitioning as GUID. Any input would be great

 

System specs:

GA-P35-DS3L

Intel E6550 Core 2 Duo

2GB Corsair XMS2 Twin2x

WD 320GB SATA

LiteON SATA DVD burner

[mtotho]

revolve. As u did not specify.. and i can never be sure.. You made sure to select GUID in both the hard drive format and the customize options.

 

Also.. on that nice hardware there should be no problem... IDK much about GUID for that board.. you may need to try mbr. AHCI should be fine as long as ur only using 2 drives

 

 

@legolas again.. i forgot to mention.. Firewire ports are very compatible with leopard.. but why in gods name would anyone ever use firewire (except for a true mac user who continually tries to convince themselves that it is better than USB 2)

[Revolve]

mtotho, I selected both options, the one in the partition options and the one on the kalyway DVD customizations.

 

Also I tried to install with mbr and the system would only boot with the install DVD.

 

Thanks for your response.

[mtotho]

So the install succeeded at least with MBR? Only booting with the DVD in sounds like an old case of Partition formatted as MBr and you selected GUID in Customize (default). It should not be this hard for this board.. i am sure u are making a simple mistake

 

look, im not good at pulling solutions out of my ass, especially when u have a perfectly working setup. I can just speculate what is wrong, you may just want to test some stuff out urself.

[Revolve]

yeah, it succeded with MBR, I thought I might have partitioned as MBR and selected GUID in customize so I tried to install with an MBR partition again making sure to select mbr in customizations and the install again succeded but no go on the boot without the DVD. I'm at a loss here. Should be a piece of cake install like you said.

[mtotho]

only thing i can thing of is disc damage or iso corruption. It may be worth it to try without AHCI, u dont need to reinstall or anything, AHCI can be enabled/disabled whenever u want to.

 

also, i have noticed u have no told us ur video card. I am not a big fan of video card being the problem.. and with these symptoms i dont think they are.. but just in case.

[Revolve]

I disabled AHCI still no luck. Also I've burned a few DVD's just to make sure one wasn't corrupted. Maybe it's a corrupt iso I dunno

 

Video card is a geforce 7300gs PCI-E

 

Edit: Should I flash my bios? haven't done that yet

[mtotho]

Did u let the disk check run in the install (worth a try) Also, try updating ur bios to the latest