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I ended up purchasing a 500GB hd for $66 and trying the Boot 132 method on it. I originally intended it to just be a test, but it worked so well that I migrated my user (not settings) and re-installed Final Cut Studio/Adobe Creative Suite, etc...

 

Now the vanilla install is my main drive..

 

Patrick

 

Bah, my first 40GB drive was like $160 from CompUSA. $66 for 500gb...sheesh :P

 

Yeah I've been using FCP6 non-stop for the past week without a hitch...it's really helping me kill the itch to get one of those shiny new aluminum Macbooks - I know it wouldn't be anywhere near as fast as this rig :D

 

Reply #1000 to this thread!

 

I just wanted to say thanks again weaksauce for a fantastic guide that's given so many of us a happy hackint0sh :)

 

I think bibendum might have beat you to it - look in the upper-right corner :D Although it did show 1,000 on the main page for post #1001, so that's kind of weird! haha

 

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Thanks! Almost to 100,000 hits too...that's crazy-talk! ;) I've got some Rev1.0 testers I'm working with now - the guide should be out this weekend pending testing, and then I'm focusing my attention full-time on the BOOT132 guide. Really excited about it - rock solid + super easy installation!

 

Beaten to comment #1000! Oh no!

 

weaksauce, can I get a copy of the draft of your BOOT132 guide? I've been doing my homework for a while and I'm ready to put together my hack with your guides, and I want to use the most recent, easy, and reliable methods around. Thanks a lot!

 

Sent!

 

Woah I just read about your boot 132 guide, man I can't wait for it.

But I guess I'll have to buy a ide to usb case for my 160gb hd hehe.

 

Yup, no IDE on the BOOT132 system - gauranteed Kernel Panic if you do. I'll point it out in the final guide, but I'll also say it here - you can't use an IDE drive directly, but you can use a USB enclosure or a SATA adapter. I don't recommend the SATA adapter anymore because I've heard of some people having problems with it, so now I just recommend the USB enclosure. A 160gb 7200rpm is only $42 on Newegg, so it should't be out of reach for anyone to switch to a SATA drive. This ensures system stability.

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How hard would it be to modify this to work with other hardware? Do you just put the kexts in a folder on the USB drive?

 

Not hard at all. It's almost as simple as putting kexts in a folder on the USB drive - you have to use a BOOT132 build tool to create a special image file called initrd.img that contains the kexts for your motherboard. Galaxy has released a great tool that I really like called Slimbuild, where you just drop your kexts in an Extensions folder, run a Terminal command to activate the build script, and then out pops an ISO. Mount the ISO and drag-and-drop the initrd.img file onto your formatted USB stick to replace my file. I've added this tutorial for my guide for anyone that wishes to tweak the default install to suit their needs. So far the P35-DS3L Rev2.0 and EP35-DS3L boards have been tested with great success and I have a P35-DS3L Rev1.0 tester now to finalize the beta testing, but I've had at least one DS3R user try it without success, so you'll have to customize the BOOT132 system for your particular motherboard.

 

The good news with the DS3L systems are that everything works now. Only the legacy ports are not supported - onboard IDE, Parallel, and SATA. Someone did write a driver for PS/2 and it is incorporated in my BOOT132 package, so PS/2 keyboards and mice work out-of-the-box. All the SATA ports work, Onboard Ethernet works 100% (Internet, AFP/Bonjour, Wake from Sleep), Sleep/Restart/Shutdown all work 100% now, it's great! I am concerned about upgrading to 10.5.6 because of the DSDT and Audio issues, but we'll cross those bridges when the time comes. The only major bug I've found so far is that the AppleHDA audio drivers "pop" under 10.5.5, so I recommend getting that $8 Syba USB sound card if you're planning on using analog audio output on the rear jack on 10.5.5. Can't win em all I guess! It's a very solid system and again, I've been using it to edit video and have been running Compressor all day long and everything is VERY good. Plus no installation issues with any pograms - Adobe CS3, FCS2, even Temperature Monitor works normally without having to change the System Voice. Pretty spiffy ;)

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I would first like to the maker of this guide for it and those others that have helped by contributing to this thread. I am now on my third board after the other two have gone down and this guide and thread have been most helpful to me in getting it working again or after I have downloaded the wrong update from Apple. Just have a few questions if I could.

 

What model is the Syba for the Boot-132 audio that is mentioned here?

Has anyone tried to get it to install off of XxX 10.5.5 or iDeneb 10.5.5?

What is a good video card people have been using with this board that is under $100? I am still using a Sapphire 2600 Pro XT.

 

Once I get my board back in sometime the end of next week I would be more than willing to try out the new guide and Boot-132 package and give my feed back as a semi-noob.

 

Thanks again everyone!

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I would first like to the maker of this guide for it and those others that have helped by contributing to this thread. I am now on my third board after the other two have gone down and this guide and thread have been most helpful to me in getting it working again or after I have downloaded the wrong update from Apple. Just have a few questions if I could.

 

What model is the Syba for the Boot-132 audio that is mentioned here?

Has anyone tried to get it to install off of XxX 10.5.5 or iDeneb 10.5.5?

What is a good video card people have been using with this board that is under $100? I am still using a Sapphire 2600 Pro XT.

 

Once I get my board back in sometime the end of next week I would be more than willing to try out the new guide and Boot-132 package and give my feed back as a semi-noob.

 

Thanks again everyone!

 

Thanks :(

 

Regarding Sound, here is the $8 Syba USB sound card:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16812186035

 

You only need this if you're using BOOT132 on a DSL board with Analog Output on the Rear Port. It has an occasional "pop" before you play audio due to a bug in the AppleHDA audio driver under 10.5.5. Simple and inexpensive fix that will work with all future versions of Leopard as well (plug-and-play native support). Digital output doesn't have the popping problem, and for some reason I haven't gotten it on the front headphone jack.

 

Regarding your Video Card, What driver did you use for the 2600XT? I picked one up for testing S-Video output, but when I try to install Retail Leopard it just gives me a scrambled video screen. I may need a newer Leopard disc (mine is 10.5.0, bought it way back when it was first released).

 

Regarding BOOT132, I would say don't bother with XxX or iDeneb; the BOOT132 system is super easy and is rock solid. I believe I have something like 22 beta testers right now - it's a VERY stable system. I just have to document it. Which I'll get to after this updating this guide. And then do my Time Capsule guide. Oye.

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And the audio in works on the Syba USB, correct?

As for the video card, I believe I got a kext off of Rovershack. This is what he said,

 

Just checked Newegg, and that is the one. It's working great. I even got sleep to work now that I am using the new NATIT.Kext from netkas.org.

SAPPHIRE 100218L Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail

 

 

Thanks :D

 

Regarding Sound, here is the $8 Syba USB sound card:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16812186035

 

You only need this if you're using BOOT132 on a DSL board with Analog Output on the Rear Port. It has an occasional "pop" before you play audio due to a bug in the AppleHDA audio driver under 10.5.5. Simple and inexpensive fix that will work with all future versions of Leopard as well (plug-and-play native support). Digital output doesn't have the popping problem, and for some reason I haven't gotten it on the front headphone jack.

 

Regarding your Video Card, What driver did you use for the 2600XT? I picked one up for testing S-Video output, but when I try to install Retail Leopard it just gives me a scrambled video screen. I may need a newer Leopard disc (mine is 10.5.0, bought it way back when it was first released).

 

Regarding BOOT132, I would say don't bother with XxX or iDeneb; the BOOT132 system is super easy and is rock solid. I believe I have something like 22 beta testers right now - it's a VERY stable system. I just have to document it. Which I'll get to after this updating this guide. And then do my Time Capsule guide. Oye.

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Just finished building a pretty new Hack in a clear case and I have your current guide to try, but I would also like a copy of your rough draft boot 123 method if you don't mind. I don't have to go back to work until Wednesday and need something to do. Thanks!

 

Just a message from Doug...

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Hi weaksauce,

 

I have a nvidia 8500 GT 512mb, and a rev 1 Motherboard

 

I managed to install using the BOOT132 method. I used the DVD method as I want to be able to install it on a frind computer too.

 

First I don't have the priority thing in my BIOS I have HDD and Additional cards ... This is how the menu looks like (in the end with the original drive too installed)

 

Hard Disk Boot Priority

1. Bootable Add-in Cards

2. SCSI-0: P0 - Samsung ....

3. SCSI-1: P1 - ST3.....

 

I configured First, second, third boot device to specify USB-HDD/CD/HDD. I can take a picture if you want to see how it looks.

 

Used the Boot CD, installed leo, Reboot using the Boot cd and entered the setup part. I had Sound wich is nice. One thing in the guide - I have PS2 keyboard and mouse so AppleKey is ALT instead of Windows Key.

 

Finished the setup, plugged in the USB reboot and the first failure. My PS2 keyboard and mouse was not recognized. Used USB ones to continue the install - but I prefer the PS2 so I can double click the mouse to start the PC.

 

Went forward, with XII, XIII and after updating to 10.5.5 I rebooted. Not so clear in guide and I assumed that is safe to update and reboot with boot132. Well it was not, the system didn't start any more ... as I understood from the -v log the network drive was not present. It was hang at some mDNSResponder starting. (usualy in -v log 3 lines above the mDNS is something about the pystar driver)

 

Started again the installation. This time didn't restarted after 10.5.5, went on with video and network setup. After reboot I see that the pystar network driver is there. All working.

 

Put back the original Drive.

 

this is my config now:

 

1 boot from USB drive - > configure to boot by default from 81 - HDD2

2. Main Boot drive (booting without USB pluged in) Samsung - has WinXP, VISTA, old Kalyway install, store partition

3. Leo drive

 

So when I want to boot vista i remove the USB.

 

Now, As I told U I wanted to have PS2 ... was working with the initial CD boot so I copy from the CD INITRD.IMG to USB drive initrd.img (i renamed to smaller case not sure if it maters). Now the PS2 works also when booting from USB.

 

Hope this report helps, thanks a lot for the guide and for the research work!

 

And now for the questions:

 

1. What is the difference between the original USB initrd.img and the one from the BOOT CD ?

 

2. If we have drivers and stuff on the USB drive in the initrd.img ... why we have to install the video, and network after update? Shouldn't those be taken from the USB? Are those safe of being overridden by updates?

 

 

Thank you again, hope this helps.

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Hi Weaksauce,

Thanks for the Boot 132 link.

I spent yesterday afternoon doing an install using the 132 method.....put it on a fresh 80 gig drive....still have my

Kalyway 10.5.4 and it works great.

The Boot 132 method worked real well on my EP-DS3L..... hope you don't mind me posting here :D .

My only glitch with the install is that my airport is not detected on regular boot.

If I boot with "-f" which I think flushes the cache on boot, the card shows up and everything works fine.

Is there any problem booting with "-f" as a normal start-up procedure?

Any thoughts?

I did some digging and it seems that this is an common problem but have found no fixes yet.

I have a Buffalo PCI wireless that works well when it is seen by the os. I have tried it in different PCI slots but no joy...I don't think this is a hardware problem or a PCI problem.

I am looking forward to your Kalyway 10.5.5 update.

I have no wireless troubles with your Kalyway 10.5.4 install.

 

My system Setup:

Weaksauce....Kalyway install to 10.5.4 or

Boot 132 install to 10.5.5

Gigabyte EP35-DS3L with F5 BIOS

Q6600

4GB ram (Corsair DDR2-800)

Gigabyte 7600GT 256

SATA 80GB HD (OSX install on this with GUID)

SATA 500GB HD for Timemachine

SATA Lite On DVD-/+RW drive

Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54S PCI wireless

RME HDSP 9632 PCI sound card (all the way up to 192!)

ADS Pyro PCI Firewire (three ports)

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And the audio in works on the Syba USB, correct?

As for the video card, I believe I got a kext off of Rovershack. This is what he said,

 

Just checked Newegg, and that is the one. It's working great. I even got sleep to work now that I am using the new NATIT.Kext from netkas.org.

SAPPHIRE 100218L Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail

 

I believe so, I use a USB mic but I'll dig up my old analog mic and test it out.

 

Just finished building a pretty new Hack in a clear case and I have your current guide to try, but I would also like a copy of your rough draft boot 123 method if you don't mind. I don't have to go back to work until Wednesday and need something to do. Thanks!

 

Just a message from Doug...

 

Sent!

 

I'd love to try the beta too, pretty please.

 

Sent!

 

FYI to all, the core guide is finished and tested by 20+ beta testers or so, everything is really good. I just need to package it up nicely and finish the extra sections. Just crunched on time and working on the 10.5.5 guide update for the Kalyway method first :)

 

Hi weaksauce,

 

I have a nvidia 8500 GT 512mb, and a rev 1 Motherboard

 

I managed to install using the BOOT132 method. I used the DVD method as I want to be able to install it on a frind computer too.

 

Yup posted a message on the other board with the core guide. Basically your USB stick doesn't seem to support full booting capability within the BIOS. Try a different stick (newer, larger, different brand, whatever).

 

Hi Weaksauce,

Thanks for the Boot 132 link.

I spent yesterday afternoon doing an install using the 132 method.....put it on a fresh 80 gig drive....still have my

Kalyway 10.5.4 and it works great.

The Boot 132 method worked real well on my EP-DS3L..... hope you don't mind me posting here :P .

My only glitch with the install is that my airport is not detected on regular boot.

If I boot with "-f" which I think flushes the cache on boot, the card shows up and everything works fine.

Is there any problem booting with "-f" as a normal start-up procedure?

Any thoughts?

I did some digging and it seems that this is an common problem but have found no fixes yet.

I have a Buffalo PCI wireless that works well when it is seen by the os. I have tried it in different PCI slots but no joy...I don't think this is a hardware problem or a PCI problem.

I am looking forward to your Kalyway 10.5.5 update.

I have no wireless troubles with your Kalyway 10.5.4 install.

 

Yup posted a message on the other board with the core guide. Basically, try extracting the wireless kext from your Kalyway installing and using Kext Helper to install it on your BOOT132 system. I'm guessing that the Kalyway build has a pre-loaded wireless kext for general compatibility installed on it.

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My Hackintosh parts are slowly coming in. I'm reading and rereading your guides in anticipation.

 

One question that has to do more with the hardware:

The 8800GT I picked up from eBay comes superclocked. Is that going to work okay? I know that you need to make changes in the BIOS when you overclock a CPU; will I need to change anything about my graphics card?

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My Hackintosh parts are slowly coming in. I'm reading and rereading your guides in anticipation.

 

One question that has to do more with the hardware:

The 8800GT I picked up from eBay comes superclocked. Is that going to work okay? I know that you need to make changes in the BIOS when you overclock a CPU; will I need to change anything about my graphics card?

Unlikely. The changes are already coded into the video card.
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Major kudos to Weaksauce on two excellent guides. Both work as advertised with the Boot 132 method being far away the easiest of the two. Plus I cloned the HD using SD and the clone worked without anything else being done to it! Even an ATA drive at that, just had to change the priority in the CMOS so the Boot 132 flash drive would see it instead of the SATA drive. I do have a question though, do you think this will work on a GA-945GCMX-S2 board? I have a friend who has one and wants to use it on his. I think we will give the cloned drive a shot and see what happens! Thanks again.

 

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