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

[weaksauce12]

Well, really simple, I didn't know what to do with boot1h; so I just ran the Chameleon installer straight forward.

Installed to the OSX HD. It also fixed a problem I had with needing the Kalyway DVD to boot the HD.

Just do a clone first, just in case..

Good luck

 

^ this

 

I think I'm just going to recommend the straightforward method and to have a backup. A few people have gotten weird results with it, but most people I've talked to have gotten successful 10.5.5 upgrades doing it the netkas way.

[pirloui]

hi ! do you know whant the "while sleep 1" means, i don't understand :censored2:

As bibendum said, and for what you do with it, you copy the whole line into the terminal app.

[dci693]

Well Iam using Azureus for both vista and OSX (same version) tested many times, using same torrent with 5000 seeds,

in Vista I get 200kb or so in OSX I never get pass 6kb WTF is wrong? I doubt it is a config what can be so different ?

I haven't used Azureus, but on XP I used utorrent. It recall thinking it was so darn slow, then realized that it wouldn't work automatically with my router and uPnP to automaticaly open ports. It could be the case that Azureus is working fine on Vista to open your ports, but not on OSX. I've had some weird issues with FolderShare, for example, which theoretically should use uPnP automatically, but do not. I had to manually open ports for it.

 

My suggestion, try using Transmission once to d/l a torrent. What kind of router do you have? And does it support uPnP? (In case you didn't know, Universal Plug n Play is a technology that allows applications to selectively open ports on your router dynamically, so you don't have to do it manually.)

[DickDuff]

Weaksauce, you can download Psystar's free Realtek1000 kext from their site. It's the only one I've found that will recognize both EP45 DS3R nics and bonjour works fine with it. They've made it available to everybody not just Psystar customers. Hope that helps a bit.

[dci693]

Weaksauce, you can download Psystar's free Realtek1000 kext from their site. It's the only one I've found that will recognize both EP45 DS3R nics and bonjour works fine with it. They've made it available to everybody not just Psystar customers. Hope that helps a bit.

He's already covered it. I don't know when he sleeps! :censored2:

[DickDuff]

He's already covered it. I don't know when he sleeps!

 

Thanks, but where did he say he resolved his Bonjour problem, unless it's in some other post that I'm missing (which is entirely possible too)? His Nics are recognized ok but according to his last post this is still a problem he's having with Bonjour networking and shares and afp.

[weaksauce12]

Weaksauce, you can download Psystar's free Realtek1000 kext from their site. It's the only one I've found that will recognize both EP45 DS3R nics and bonjour works fine with it. They've made it available to everybody not just Psystar customers. Hope that helps a bit.

 

Just tried it, I've got nothing. EFI-X = no Bonjor/AFP; EFI-X + Pystar's R1000.kext = no Bonjour/AFP. AFP is intermittent regardless, but mostly it doesn't appear. Odd issue.

 

He's already covered it. I don't know when he sleeps!

 

Oh he's referring to applying it to my EP45-DS3R from my EFI-X Mini Review above.

 

Also, I will NOT be posting an EFI-X review here on InsanelyMac. The mods have a clear policy on NO commercial products, which includes EFI-X. While I don't agree with it and I'm not happy with it, I have to respect the rules of the board and I do appreciate the commitment to the open-source activities here. I will post a link here when I get my guides up (General EFI-X Guide & EP45-DS3R Guide) somewhere else.

 

I am still working on the DS3L. As with all projects, it's a tad slow-going. This 10.5.5 update is being a tad quirky and I'm also putting Boot-132 through the paces with Stella's help. Stella is doing a masterful job getting a handle on Boot-132 and I'm learning a lot about it. Boot-132 will basically be "EFI-X for the DS3L" since our boards aren't supported by EFI-X. Switching to Boot-132 should help alleviate point update headaches as well. So, my apologies for getting the thread a bit messy with the EFI-X stuff, once I get everything sorted out I'll have a link up to the EFI-X stuff and the updates to the DS3L out. Thanks for the help and input everyone! It's much appreciated!

[DickDuff]

Too bad. Unfortunately I don't have EFI-X but I do have the EP45 DS3R board. I installed iDenebs latest 10.5.5 and used the HDA Enabler plus the Psystar Realtek kext and things are working ok. I still have Orange drive icons, no sleep, but shutdown and restart are fine. Bonjour was the one thing that was deiving me nuts too, but was lucky that it worked for me. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

[weaksauce12]

Too bad. Unfortunately I don't have EFI-X but I do have the EP45 DS3R board. I installed iDenebs latest 10.5.5 and used the HDA Enabler plus the Psystar Realtek kext and things are working ok. I still have Orange drive icons, no sleep, but shutdown and restart are fine. Bonjour was the one thing that was deiving me nuts too, but was lucky that it worked for me. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

 

No hey, it's cool - I appreciate the help! The issue is that with EFI-X, your system becomes a real Mac and not a Hackintosh because all of the Leopard files are 100% Leopard, no modified kexts of any kind. So it'd be like installing that kext on a Mac Pro or iMac, you know?

 

As dumb as I think Pystar is for making crappy clone machines and stealing software for the Hackintosh scene, at least they're giving back with these open-source kext updates. I do appreciate that. Perhaps next they could include some silent fans for their Crapintoshes lol.

[sup3r1or]

I haven't used Azureus, but on XP I used utorrent. It recall thinking it was so darn slow, then realized that it wouldn't work automatically with my router and uPnP to automaticaly open ports. It could be the case that Azureus is working fine on Vista to open your ports, but not on OSX. I've had some weird issues with FolderShare, for example, which theoretically should use uPnP automatically, but do not. I had to manually open ports for it.

 

My suggestion, try using Transmission once to d/l a torrent. What kind of router do you have? And does it support uPnP? (In case you didn't know, Universal Plug n Play is a technology that allows applications to selectively open ports on your router dynamically, so you don't have to do it manually.)

 

I use uTorrent as well actually on Vista, for my router I have D-Link Dir 300 Wireless router.

I will try to take a look in the options:S dont really know what I should check exactly.

 

Yes it does supports uPNP

[Sakamura]

No joy on the 10.5.5 upgrade going from 10.5.4. via the Netkas method. It seems to go fine but on reboot (any reboot) hangs eternally on the spinning apple thing. No combination of boot flags will get me to a desktop and playing with my bios settings which are as per guide make things worse.

 

A -v reveals it does not like Jmicron.

 

A tip for those trying to do it. When you find you do not have permission to edit or even get to the '/System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1'. Click it and press the 'Windows Key' and I together, then you can change the permissions to read/write for everyone. Rinse and repeat until you get to the file.

 

Spec was a perfect Kalyway 10.5.4 install as per guide but Chameleon EFI (the latest) was already installed so I didn't bother. (no idea what this boot1h file is or what to do with it).

GA P35-DS4 Rev 2 Bios Ver 13 (yes I know its a different board but the differences are minor).

Nvidia 8800 GT (EFI string was already installed manually)

Intel E8400

One Sata hard and Optical drive.

XP duel boot.

 

As I do not have a redundant drive I have no backup. So it look like a reinstall unless anyone has got any clever ideas. Please...

[admezor]

Had the same problem with the spinning wheel after applying the full combo update

 

I had to start in single user ( -s at the boot prompt ) then edit the 1 script in /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/

You'll need to chmod the script ( chmod 777 1 ) to edit it with vi or nano

Change the line Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext with dsmos.kext

chmod back to 500 ( chmod 500 1 )

then you can type exit to continue booting ( which worked for me )

 

The guide here covers this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=107340

 

... It seems to go fine but on reboot (any reboot) hangs eternally on the spinning apple thing. No combination of boot flags will get me to a desktop and playing with my bios settings which are as per guide make things worse.

[sup3r1or]

WeakSauce12, DickDuff

 

Did u managed to get microphone working on ALC889A? I have tried like 5 different kexts already and still no Luck:(

 

can anyone assist with this?

[BigCat400]

I've followed this guide (OP) top to bottom and everything works as far as I can tell.

 

Is there a way to move from this to 10.5.5? I have a GA-EP45-DS3L.

 

(Sorry if this has been answered but I just found this thread and it's quite long. Looks like there is no functionality to search within a thread.)

[weaksauce12]

I've followed this guide (OP) top to bottom and everything works as far as I can tell.

 

Is there a way to move from this to 10.5.5? I have a GA-EP45-DS3L.

 

(Sorry if this has been answered but I just found this thread and it's quite long. Looks like there is no functionality to search within a thread.)

 

The search is terrible, don't worry about it.

 

I do not have a good method for installing 10.5.5 yet. People are getting lots of different results with different installation methods. Some people are having success with the netkas method, while others are having success with the method admezor outlined a few posts above. As with anything, always be sure to have a full backup (via Time Machine or a SuperDuper clone) before making any major system changes. A few people have already PM'd me pleading for help with their systems because they upgraded, it wasn't successful, and they didn't have a backup. Remember that running a Hackintosh is risky business and you always should have a backup no matter what!

 

Also as I mentioned earlier, I am working with Stella on a Boot-132 method. I don't feel that Boot-132 is mature enough yet, but at the very least it will help us avoid many of these upgrade problems.

 

WeakSauce12, DickDuff

 

Did u managed to get microphone working on ALC889A? I have tried like 5 different kexts already and still no Luck:(

 

can anyone assist with this?

 

Are you talking about microphone support on the DS3L? The DS3L has ALC888 audio. iirc I've tested Mic support on the real panel successfully, but not on the front panel. I will test that tonight for you when I get home from work.

[BigCat400]

Thanks very much. Your guide is great.

[kai920]

As with anything, always be sure to have a full backup (via Time Machine or a SuperDuper clone) before making any major system changes. A few people have already PM'd me pleading for help with their systems because they upgraded, it wasn't successful, and they didn't have a backup. Remember that running a Hackintosh is risky business and you always should have a backup no matter what!

 

I'm not sure if I missed something in the thread, but could you explain (briefly) the difference between TM and a superduper clone? Can they work together? I'll be upgrading my video card sometime this week, and although I made a SD clone to an ext usb HD a few days ago, I will want to have a more recent backup in case something goes wrong. (In my case, I guess a SuperDuper bootable is enough?)

[BigCat400]

for the netkas method, to upgrade to 10.5.5 , should I use the combo update or just the update?

[BigCat400]

never mind. I just used the simple update and everything works (LAN, sound, video, restart, shutdown). I am now on 10.5.5.

 

The only failure I noticed during boot was a failure to load "PCGenUSBEHCI" or something like that. Not sure what that is for. My USB devices are working as well.

 

for the netkas method, to upgrade to 10.5.5 , should I use the combo update or just the update?

[dci693]

I'm not sure if I missed something in the thread, but could you explain (briefly) the difference between TM and a superduper clone? Can they work together? I'll be upgrading my video card sometime this week, and although I made a SD clone to an ext usb HD a few days ago, I will want to have a more recent backup in case something goes wrong. (In my case, I guess a SuperDuper bootable is enough?)

Time Machine does periodic backups of your data. I believe it skips most of the system files because you theoretically have those files on your Leopard installation disk and can reinstall from them. A SuperDuper clone does an exact copy of your Leopard partition, including all the occupied space, deleted files, system files, etc....including the empty space. So you can see that the two methods serve very different purposes.

 

Just note that for a SuperDuper clone to work on a hackintosh, you must follow the instructions weaksauce12 listed in his first post. You won't be able to boot from the SD clone until you install Chameleon EFI on it and mark your cloned Leopard partition as bootable.

 

To recover using a TM backup (I might be wrong on this because I've never tried it), you'd need to reinstall your hack, go to Disk Utility, then choose to do a migration from a previous setup. Choose your Time Machine backup as the source.

[Sakamura]

Had the same problem with the spinning wheel after applying the full combo update

 

I had to start in single user ( -s at the boot prompt ) then edit the 1 script in /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/

You'll need to chmod the script ( chmod 777 1 ) to edit it with vi or nano

Change the line Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext with dsmos.kext

chmod back to 500 ( chmod 500 1 )

then you can type exit to continue booting ( which worked for me )

 

The guide here covers this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=107340

 

Thanks for your help Admezor it's much appreciated. Unfortunately 'Dont steal Mac OSX.kext' is not there. I was praying I had got this wrong and it would be but I replaced it with dsmos.kext correctly and looking with nano confirms it. So it's something else .

[admezor]

If the script is still there then it hasn't completed - my guess is that this script is what's hanging the system with the spinning wheel. I'm no expert with OS X, but I'd also guess the system won't boot normally until this script runs and completes. As I recall, the script loads dsmos.kext as it completes and once it does finish, the sysem reboots - the script and the installatstartup directory are gone.

 

 

I'd suggest booting into single user and verify that dsmos.kext is in the extentions directory (I assume it is but it's worth checking) - the assumption is that even if the script is right, if the file isn't there you'd probably still get the spinning wheel.

 

If it's there, then I'd try running the script manually and see what happens. It should execute as is, but you may wish to chmod it to something like 755. At worst, you're at the same place as before, but perhaps you get a better idea of what the issue is with the script as it runs. At best, the script completes and all is well.

 

As a last resort, you might try editing the script to remove those last lines (including loading dsmos). It looks like it mostly just kills/replaces files, so if it can do that, then you might try just deleting or moving the installatstartup folder and script once it's done it's done what it needs to do. I have no clue what the end result would be - but as a last resort vs installing from scratch...

 

FWIW, I didn't have this issue with the smaller 10.5.5 update - everything went smoothly with it. Wasn't until I decided to try the full combo update on someone's suggestion that it helped them get QE/CI working with EFI strings.

 

Thanks for your help Admezor it's much appreciated. Unfortunately 'Dont steal Mac OSX.kext' is not there. I was praying I had got this wrong and it would be but I replaced it with dsmos.kext correctly and looking with nano confirms it. So it's something else .

[kai920]

Thanks for the explanation dci. When I left my house this morning, I set superduper to back up to my ext usb again after erasing it and repairing permissions. It should shut down afterwards, so when I get home this evening I will remember to install chameleon and mark the drive as bootable.

 

I have decided on the 9800gtx+ as a new video card. I don't expect the upgrade process to go smoothly but at least I will have a full backup to boot off of.

<br />Time Machine does periodic backups of your data. I believe it skips most of the system files because you theoretically have those files on your Leopard installation disk and can reinstall from them. A SuperDuper clone does an exact copy of your Leopard partition, including all the occupied space, deleted files, system files, etc....including the empty space. So you can see that the two methods serve very different purposes.<br /><br />Just note that for a SuperDuper clone to work on a hackintosh, you must follow the instructions weaksauce12 listed in his first post. You won't be able to boot from the SD clone until you install Chameleon EFI on it and mark your cloned Leopard partition as bootable.<br /><br />To recover using a TM backup (I might be wrong on this because I've never tried it), you'd need to reinstall your hack, go to Disk Utility, then choose to do a migration from a previous setup. Choose your Time Machine backup as the source.<br />

<br /><br /><br />

[mrjag]

My wife started up iTunes and a popup suggested that she install an update -- presumably to iTunes 8 -- so she clicked 'ok' and it presented 4-5 update options. She selected everything besides quicktime and then the update needed to reboot in order to continue the installation. She clicked the 'reboot later' option so that she could finish her web surfing and then later decided to reboot her computer to let the installer finish. OSX said she had available updates and asked if she wanted to update now and she said yes. Then it had a downloading progress bar and crashed to the grey reboot screen (I assume this is like the windows BSOD).

 

Has anyone else run across this problem? I've tried -x for safemode and still get the grey reboot screen. I've also tried -v and see a "failed to load extension com.orbyte.driver.pcgenusbehci" highlighted in yellow. I searched on that error message and didn't find anything that ties in with iTunes, which I think is the source of the problem. What is the best approach to diagnose and fix this problem, or -- *shudder* -- do I need to reinstall and avoid iTunes updates from now on?

[admezor]

OSX said she had available updates and asked if she wanted to update now and she said yes. Then it had a downloading progress bar and crashed to the grey reboot screen (I assume this is like the windows BSOD).

 

Has anyone else run across this problem? I've tried -x for safemode and still get the grey reboot screen.

 

It's always a good idea to post your system specs, complete as possible along with which OS X build you are using and whatever patches you've applied.

 

FWIW, iTunes 8 installed without issue on a couple of hack boxes here, so my guess is that she started the 10.5.5 update when she elected to install the 'available updates' and the well known AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext was installed as a result. If so, there are a number of posts and howto's on fixing it on the forums.

 

One way to do it is to boot your install dvd, then from the utilties menu open a terminal. Look in /Volumes/your_drive_name/System/Library/Extentions for AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext - if it's there you need to delete it:

rm -rf /Volumes/your_drive_name/System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext

 

You'll also want to check for dsmos.kext - 1st check to see if its installed: ls /Volumes/your_drive_name/System/Library/Extentions | grep dsmos.kext (if it is you'll see a response of dsmos.kext, if its not, you'll see a blank cursor.

 

If it is, then check the updates install script: cat /Volumes/your_drive_name/System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1 | grep dsmos - again, you'll either see a reply if it's there, none if it's not. If you don't see a response, you'll need to edit this script:

nano /Volumes/your_drive_name/System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1

Replace the line Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext with dsmos.kext

 

Some of this was borrowed form the link below - if you need help with some commands, a few are covered in it as well. Anyway, all of this assumes the 10.5.5 update is what got ya.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=107340