[Guide & Software] A Recipe for Delicious Leopard Soup - Now with Vanilla Flavor!

[OzTambo]

weaksouse12.... Congrats on an a great job... I have three hackintosh's all running ECS 945 mobo's I am now hunting around for this board..

 

I have heard many great things about the P35's but I am a cheap ass when it comes to my wife n kids machines...

 

But after too many shut down errors and or mouse artifact {censored} I am sold.....

 

Will let you know next week how it goes...

 

Looks like I will use

 

Core2Duo 6750

2 maxtor 320GB sata's

Nvid 8500 GT 512 (or if I have issues 7900 256MG)

she has the card reader 24 inch LCD and all the bells so you have sold me on your rig so I will see if I can get by with out screwing something up....

 

Anybody want and ECS 945 Mobo .....??????

[OzTambo]

weaksouse12.... Congrats on an a great job... I have three hackintosh's all running ECS 945 mobo's I am now hunting around for this board..

 

I have heard many great things about the P35's but I am a cheap ass when it comes to my wife n kids machines...

 

But after too many shut down errors and or mouse artifact {censored} I am sold.....

 

Will let you know next week how it goes...

 

Looks like I will use

 

Core2Duo 6750

2 maxtor 320GB sata's

Nvid 8500 GT 512 (or if I have issues 7900 256MG)

she has the card reader 24 inch LCD and all the bells so you have sold me on your rig so I will see if I can get by with out screwing something up....

 

Anybody want and ECS 945 Mobo .....??????

[OzTambo]

weaksouse12.... Congrats on an a great job... I have three hackintosh's all running ECS 945 mobo's I am now hunting around for this board..

 

I have heard many great things about the P35's but I am a cheap ass when it comes to my wife n kids machines...

 

But after too many shut down errors and or mouse artifact {censored} I am sold.....

 

Will let you know next week how it goes...

 

Looks like I will use

 

Core2Duo 6750

2 maxtor 320GB sata's

Nvid 8500 GT 512 (or if I have issues 7900 256MG)

she has the card reader 24 inch LCD and all the bells so you have sold me on your rig so I will see if I can get by with out screwing something up....

 

Anybody want and ECS 945 Mobo .....??????

 

 

 

weaksouse12.... Congrats on an a great job... I have three hackintosh's all running ECS 945 mobo's I am now hunting around for this board..

 

I have heard many great things about the P35's but I am a cheap ass when it comes to my wife n kids machines...

 

But after too many shut down errors and or mouse artifact {censored} I am sold.....

 

Will let you know next week how it goes...

 

Looks like I will use

 

Core2Duo 6750

2 maxtor 320GB sata's

Nvid 8500 GT 512 (or if I have issues 7900 256MG)

she has the card reader 24 inch LCD and all the bells so you have sold me on your rig so I will see if I can get by with out screwing something up....

 

Anybody want and ECS 945 Mobo .....??????

[y2flyy]

How to boot Kalyway 10.5.2 from a USB Flash Drive: Special thanks to Onetrack for the trick

 

This cuts the install time in half.

 

1. Set the BIOS to boot from USB-HDD first and set your USB drive as the first boot drive (you need BOTH settings!)

2. Boot to the Leopard desktop

3. Put your Kalyway 10.5.2 DMG on the desktop

4. Insert your USB Flash Drive

5. In Disk Utility, click on the Flash Drive (the root, not the partition name)

a. Click on the Restore tab

b. Select your Kalyway DMG as the Source (you can drag-and-drop the files for both this and the next step)

c. Select your Flash Drive (the partition name, not the root this time) as the Destination

d. Check the "Erase Destination" box

e. Click the Start button

6. Upon completion, install Chameleon EFI to the USB Flash Drive (available in the original tutorial package, in the Cloning folder)

7. Reboot and Kalyway will boot up (follow the guide from there)

 

You need, at minimum, a 4GB USB Flash Drive. Those run about $15 on Newegg. I have a fast model; it only took about 10 minutes to install Leopard, plus the initial bootup to Kalyway was extremely fast. Note that the "one minute remaining" message during installation still takes forever, haha. This is just a simple trick to increase the speed at which Leopard is installed. Enjoy!

 

Hi I have been reading and following this guide with a near-identical system (same motherboard and video card).

HOWEVER I really need help with the above steps. I do not have a SATA DVD Drive (when I try to install with my IDE DVD Drive) the Pc restarts during installation.

 

Anyways I purchase a 4gb thumb drive and followed these instructions. Everything restored correctly to the thumbdrive and Chameleon also installed correctly.

 

My problem seems to be with Instruction #1 where you state

"1. Set the BIOS to boot from USB-HDD first and set your USB drive as the first boot drive (you need BOTH settings!)"

For some reason I cannot find the TWO settings you speak of. I do see in the BIOS where I set USB-HDD to boot FIRST but what do you mean by SET YOUR USB DRIVE AS THE FIRST BOOT DRIVE. I do not see that option anywhere.

Could you please direct me to that option?

 

What happens when I try it it gives me an error non-system disk. Press any key to reboot.

 

Thanks WeakSauce for the amazing guide and everyone else for all of you alls input!

[dci693]

My problem seems to be with Instruction #1 where you state

"1. Set the BIOS to boot from USB-HDD first and set your USB drive as the first boot drive (you need BOTH settings!)"

For some reason I cannot find the TWO settings you speak of. I do see in the BIOS where I set USB-HDD to boot FIRST but what do you mean by SET YOUR USB DRIVE AS THE FIRST BOOT DRIVE. I do not see that option anywhere.

Could you please direct me to that option?

 

What happens when I try it it gives me an error non-system disk. Press any key to reboot.

 

Thanks WeakSauce for the amazing guide and everyone else for all of you alls input!

In the BIOS, in the same screen where you set the First Boot Device, you'll see an entry for "Hard Disk Boot Priority". Choose your USB-HDD from among the choices.

[y2flyy]

In the BIOS, in the same screen where you set the First Boot Device, you'll see an entry for "Hard Disk Boot Priority". Choose your USB-HDD from among the choices.

 

Thanks alot DCI! I really appreciate it!

[odisea]

Great tutorial, but just a tiny problem.(to me )

 

Everything goes fine from installation to using kalyway comboupdate, I mean from 5.2 to 5.3 all is running fine, but when I use the 5.4 upgrade may machine won't start.

 

So searching through the forum I found THIS (sorry it's in spanish), but what I did basically was:

 

- Run the 5.4 apple update, after finish do not restart

- Next, you need to install modbin 9.4 kernel it says with os86 tools so I did it

- Restart and had running 10.5.4

 

After that I followed the weeksauce12 tutorial, installing audio and video but now I couldn't start again because in the apple grey screen appears a little square that doesn't allows me to keep going.

 

What I see is that I had to install the 9.4 kernel manually, so is this a common problem?(updating to 10.5.4) because I followed to the letter like 5 times the tutorial but always got stuck there until applying the kernel.

 

Thanks a lot.

[dci693]

Great tutorial, but just a tiny problem.(to me )

 

Everything goes fine from installation to using kalyway comboupdate, I mean from 5.2 to 5.3 all is running fine, but when I use the 5.4 upgrade may machine won't start.

 

So searching through the forum I found THIS (sorry it's in spanish), but what I did basically was:

 

- Run the 5.4 apple update, after finish do not restart

- Next, you need to install modbin 9.4 kernel it says with os86 tools so I did it

- Restart and had running 10.5.4

 

After that I followed the weeksauce12 tutorial, installing audio and video but now I couldn't start again because in the apple grey screen appears a little square that doesn't allows me to keep going.

 

What I see is that I had to install the 9.4 kernel manually, so is this a common problem?(updating to 10.5.4) because I followed to the letter like 5 times the tutorial but always got stuck there until applying the kernel.

 

Thanks a lot.

You shouldn't need to install any other kernels. Installing the 10.5.4 update from Apple applies the vanilla kernel to your system. After you apply the 10.5.4 update, did you do the other 6 steps in that section before restarting?

[odisea]

Now you mention it I was so excited to get working the 10.5.4 update so I skipped the following steps, installing the AppleACPIPlatform.kext and CHUD.pkg so will try to complete the steps to see if finally works.

 

As for the kernel 9.4, without installing it manually I could never get working 10.5.4

 

Thanks, I'll keep you informed.

[jyoni17]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm running Leopard for a week now and almost everything works great.

 

I have one annoying problem.

My audio quality is great almost all the time, but I'm getting noise disruptions in these situations:

 

1) the first 2 seconds of the System Voice playback, try playing chess (it's in applications).

by default the System Voice will say its move. see if you are having disruptions too.

 

2) when i am switching between output devices (lineout, headphones) with PTHVolume, the sound gets crappy for 2 seconds.

 

3) when i'm having sound playback in the background and in the same time doing any disc activity like file manipulation like copying files in finder, the sound is crappy for 1-2 seconds. the problem does not occur if i am doing the exact same manipulation from terminal.

 

please help me solve the last (hopefully) of my problems.

[kevin l]

First off, thanks for the great tutorial weaksauce. I had successfully installed my OS X, everything works great accept for two issues:

 

1. About This Mac only shown Memory: 4 GB instead of Memory: 4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz

 

 

Oh, btw my memory are Crucial 4x1gb DDR2 800 MHz

 

2. Cannot mount my other hard drive where Vista is installed.

 

Please help as this is minor but kinda annoying.

 

Thanks,

[Wallyv]

Great guide weaksauce12, i used it all the way on my GA-EP35 board before noticing that the guide was for the p35 .

 

Only problem i encountered with following your instructions with my board was when i got to section IV. #5, installing various kext.

 

AppleSMBIOS.kext (System driver, updated for Memory)

AppleAHCIPort.kext (SATA driver #1 of 2)

IOAHCIFamily.kext (SATA driver #2 of 2)

IOBluetoothFamily.kext (Bluetooth driver #1 of 2)

IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext (Bluetooth driver #2 of 2)

 

It was after installing these kexts with kexthelper that when something went wrong. After a restart It went to the grey apple screen and then it came up with that error symbol (the O with the / in it). I boot with verbose mode and from what i remember it wasn't reading from the HDD, (it was just stuck at something, waiting on root device or something similar).

 

So i started over and followed the guide without using those kext and i disabled AHCI. When i did this after following your guide everything worked perfectly including my EVGA NVidia 8800GT, Sound, USB, and my PS/2 keyboard (though this one gave me some trouble as i kept forgetting to clear the kext cache) and also my IDE DVDRW works great. Also sleep comes back perfectly with Ethernet still working (even though I'm using on board LAN), also shutdown and restart work flawlessly.

 

What I am wondering though, is am I missing much by not enableing AHCI (i really have no idea what this is coming from an old computer which only had pata) and not installing AppleSMBIOS.kext

AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext (bluetooth is not of concern to me)?

[durkbusta]

I tried a reinstall this time without the bluetooth kexts. ( I even tested my bluetooth with isync and a nokia e70, which worked like a charm. ) This time the machine boots flawlessly, everything seem to work. Get a decent 175 on xbench. Thanks for the help !

[dci693]

First off, thanks for the great tutorial weaksauce. I had successfully installed my OS X, everything works great accept for two issues:

 

1. About This Mac only shown Memory: 4 GB instead of Memory: 4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz

 

Oh, btw my memory are Crucial 4x1gb DDR2 800 MHz

 

2. Cannot mount my other hard drive where Vista is installed.

 

Please help as this is minor but kinda annoying.

 

Thanks,

The memory thing is just cosmetic. I have 4gb Crucial Ballistix at 800mhz, and mine shows up as "4GB 800 MHZ RAM". There are instructions on how to change the display in this thread.

 

With the Vista HD thing, is this an internal HD? NTFS? OSX doesn't see it?

[bugleg]

installation to using kalyway comboupdate, I mean from 5.2 to 5.3 all is running fine, but when I use the 5.4 upgrade may machine won't start.

 

What I see is that I had to install the 9.4 kernel manually, so is this a common problem?(updating to 10.5.4) because I followed to the letter like 5 times the tutorial but always got stuck there until applying the kernel.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

I'm having the same troubles--how do you manually install 9.4?

 

I'm having the same troubles--how do you manually install 9.4?

 

Strike that--disabling AHCI cleared everything up. Does that cause other problems?

[y2flyy]

Hi Guys thank you all so much for the process of this guide. I FINALLY have 10.5.4 OSX running on a near identical system as WeakSauce.

Instead I have the Pentium Dual Core AllenDale e2200 2.2 ghz

 

Anyways I wanted to see if anyone can point me to how to install Vista on a SEPARATE hard drive

 

I have ONE hd with LEOPARD

 

And another blank drive that I want to install Vista on.

When I try to install Vista I get an error saying a "driver is not found"

 

 

 

Second question, like I said I have the same motherboard, etc... When I go in Leopard it tells me my CPU is RUNNING Dual-Core at ONLY 1.2 GHZ

When I go into the BIOS the multiplier is set very low (like 6x) and it shows only 1.2 ghz in the bios also!

When I change the multiplier to 11x to get the stock 2.2 ghz, leopard boots fine but it shutsdown after about 10 mins of usage by itself

 

BUt when I change it back to 1.2 ghz it runs fine and doesn't shut off

 

Looking at the CPU temp in the bios it is the same 79-80 degrees Celsius regardless if I set the CPU to 1.2 ghz or 2.2 ghz

So I guess its not overheating or anything

 

Could someone please help!

[kevin l]

The memory thing is just cosmetic. I have 4gb Crucial Ballistix at 800mhz, and mine shows up as "4GB 800 MHZ RAM". There are instructions on how to change the display in this thread.

 

With the Vista HD thing, is this an internal HD? NTFS? OSX doesn't see it?

 

I have 2 internel HDs, one is for Vista (NTFS) and the other for OS X. For some reason, I cannot see my Vista drive when i'm in OS X. It's simply cannot mount. The other thing is I followed weaksauce12's tutorial and partition my OS X drive as GUID. I don't know how to make dual boot work anymore.

[Johnny V]

First off, thanks for the great tutorial weaksauce. I had successfully installed my OS X, everything works great accept for two issues:

 

1. About This Mac only shown Memory: 4 GB instead of Memory: 4 GB DDR2 800 Mhz

 

Use PCWiz's OSx86 Tools to add the 'DDR2 800 Mhz" or anything you like.

 

 

I have 2 internel HDs, one is for Vista (NTFS) and the other for OS X. For some reason, I cannot see my Vista drive when i'm in OS X. It's simply cannot mount. The other thing is I followed weaksauce12's tutorial and partition my OS X drive as GUID. I don't know how to make dual boot work anymore.

 

On my Mac the Vista drive shows up as 'untitled'. Are you saying there is no icon at all?

 

When you boot are you tapping the F12 key to get to the windows with all the drives?

[Johnny V]

Hi Guys thank you all so much for the process of this guide. I FINALLY have 10.5.4 OSX running on a near identical system as WeakSauce.

Instead I have the Pentium Dual Core AllenDale e2200 2.2 ghz

 

Anyways I wanted to see if anyone can point me to how to install Vista on a SEPARATE hard drive

 

I have ONE hd with LEOPARD

 

And another blank drive that I want to install Vista on.

When I try to install Vista I get an error saying a "driver is not found"

Second question, like I said I have the same motherboard, etc... When I go in Leopard it tells me my CPU is RUNNING Dual-Core at ONLY 1.2 GHZ

When I go into the BIOS the multiplier is set very low (like 6x) and it shows only 1.2 ghz in the bios also!

When I change the multiplier to 11x to get the stock 2.2 ghz, leopard boots fine but it shutsdown after about 10 mins of usage by itself

 

BUt when I change it back to 1.2 ghz it runs fine and doesn't shut off

 

Looking at the CPU temp in the bios it is the same 79-80 degrees Celsius regardless if I set the CPU to 1.2 ghz or 2.2 ghz

So I guess its not overheating or anything

 

Could someone please help!

 

Disconnect all HD except the HD for Vista and check bios for DVD drive is the first bootable drive and HD second. Also if "driver is not found" shows I think it gives you an option to install the driver or what ever it has to do.

 

Geez 79-80 degrees Celsius...man-oh-man that's really hot. At idle should be in the mid 30's degrees. 70+ is the ceiling for most processors. What is the stock multiplier for e2200?

[dci693]

Second question, like I said I have the same motherboard, etc... When I go in Leopard it tells me my CPU is RUNNING Dual-Core at ONLY 1.2 GHZ

When I go into the BIOS the multiplier is set very low (like 6x) and it shows only 1.2 ghz in the bios also!

When I change the multiplier to 11x to get the stock 2.2 ghz, leopard boots fine but it shutsdown after about 10 mins of usage by itself

 

BUt when I change it back to 1.2 ghz it runs fine and doesn't shut off

 

Looking at the CPU temp in the bios it is the same 79-80 degrees Celsius regardless if I set the CPU to 1.2 ghz or 2.2 ghz

So I guess its not overheating or anything

 

Could someone please help!

I have two boxes both with E2180s. On my P35, the multiplier was correctly set at 10, but on my EP35 it was set to 8x initially. Why a board would do that, I have no clue. But you have something wrong in your system (obviously). As Johnny V said, 79-80C is CRAZY. The stock multiplier is 11x, I'm pretty sure. Is your CPU fan running? When you start up your PC after a period of being idle, what temp does the CPU start up at? Did you put thermal paste on your CPU during installation, or did it come on the heatsink already?

[kevin l]

Use PCWiz's OSx86 Tools to add the 'DDR2 800 Mhz" or anything you like.

 

 

 

 

On my Mac the Vista drive shows up as 'untitled'. Are you saying there is no icon at all?

 

When you boot are you tapping the F12 key to get to the windows with all the drives?

 

Everytime, I boot into OS X a popup window saying HD mount error with three options (Ignore, Report, Eject). Oh btw, my mothership is GA-P35-DS3L rev. 2

 

How do you dual boot with two drives one is MBR (Vista) and OS X (GUID) ?

 

Thanks man,

[lykos73]

need to name your Vista drive in vista. Go into my computer and select the main hard drive and change the name. Then the name will show up in Leopard as Vista. As for the mounting problem-Dose Vista shut down okay? If you force it to shut down it won't mount in Leopard. Some were on this site is a post about Writing to ntfs hard drives so that you can do that when you get the mounting problem fixed. I hope this helps you.

[Johnny V]

Everytime, I boot into OS X a popup window saying HD mount error with three options (Ignore, Report, Eject). Oh btw, my mothership is GA-P35-DS3L rev. 2

How do you dual boot with two drives one is MBR (Vista) and OS X (GUID) ?

 

Yes with two drives one is MBR (Vista) and OS X (GUID). Vista will start first if I don't hit the F12 key. To boot in OSX I tap repetaly F12 key until the disk window appears and select the OS X HD.

 

 

Hmm... not sure about the error you are getting...are the drive(s) SATA or PATA? Maybe that's the issue.

[MAX711]

Thanks for the great guide, everything works well except when I recently added a Linksys WMP54G PCI wireless card. The SystemProfiler doesn't "see" any PCI cards and so I cannot set it up. I've tried all the Ralink drivers but I think the problem is the system can't see the PCI card.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

My hardware setup...

[dubie]

I got my board here: http://3qstore.com/gap35ds3l.html

 

I found them when at the gigabyte site after I clicked "where to buy" I clicked region, then USA and they are at the top of the list and the only e-retailer left on that list that still has them. They ship same day. Granted, I am on the east coast and they are on west so shipping will be a while but their sale price is $84.99. I don't know how many they have left but the supply is drying up at most big e-retailers so this is one place who is still selling them and are a gigabyte official reseller.