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Thanks weaksauce. i used this guide for my 10.5.4 install and it works great. Unfortunately the hdd TKO'd in my hack and i am forced to reinstall. I'd like to do the 123 method with a retail disk. Can i also have a copy of your draft? thanks for your awesome guides!

 

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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.

 

Just a message from Doug...

 

It's been customized for the DS3L, but it should work with the S2 for the most part.

 

hey Weaksauce my co-worker is giving me his ver1 mobo and I would like a copy of your boot-132 guide so I can test it on.

 

Sent. Please report back to me with your results, I don't have nearly enough Rev 1.0 testers, thanks! :P

 

b0bs, macboots, sarcoptic, mycalp, DavidJavid, stephenjbf - sent.

 

 

It looks like I'll be able to start tomorrow - my DS3L and 8800GT will be arriving. Only thing I'll be missing is the wireless card, which is shipping from China.

 

Is there a recommended way to set up Boot Camp or other dual-booting with boot132? I'd like to have both OS X and Windows available.

 

There is no Boot Camp in Hackintosh. Not only is it not supported, you simply don't need it. It's a PC, so just dual boot it. My recommendation? Get 2 drives, one for each operating system, then tap F12 in the BIOS to bring up the boot selector and choose which drive you want to boot. Easy as pie.

 

 

Status Update:

 

The script for the video is written and I've completed Section I of the written guide. It is very comprehensive and will be 20-30 pages long, if not more. Think of it as the "Hackintosh Bible" for the DS3L. I'm compiling all of the info and little tweaks that I've learned from this thread into one master resource with pages numbers and nice formatting with an easy-to-read font. It will apply to both the P35-DS3L and EP35-DS3L boards and will cover everything. I'm leaving no room for ambiguity in this guide; it's a very detailed step-by-step kind of thing with both text and video to help you learn and show you what to do. I'm also working on two software tweaks to improve the core structure. The good news is that Onboard Ethernet is now 100% supported and fully operational, including AFP/Bonjour shares and Wake from Sleep. The bad news is I still haven't updated the Kalyway guide here to 10.5.5; again just use the Netkas rm -rf trick and you'll be fine. That's pretty much all the Kalyway guide update will have. Just been super-busy on the BOOT-132 project. I have a week off over Thanksgiving and will film it, finish the written portion, and release it. Whew!

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Status Update:

 

The script for the video is written and I've completed Section I of the written guide. It is very comprehensive and will be 20-30 pages long, if not more. Think of it as the "Hackintosh Bible" for the DS3L. I'm compiling all of the info and little tweaks that I've learned from this thread into one master resource with pages numbers and nice formatting with an easy-to-read font. It will apply to both the P35-DS3L and EP35-DS3L boards and will cover everything. I'm leaving no room for ambiguity in this guide; it's a very detailed step-by-step kind of thing with both text and video to help you learn and show you what to do. I'm also working on two software tweaks to improve the core structure. The good news is that Onboard Ethernet is now 100% supported and fully operational, including AFP/Bonjour shares and Wake from Sleep. The bad news is I still haven't updated the Kalyway guide here to 10.5.5; again just use the Netkas rm -rf trick and you'll be fine. That's pretty much all the Kalyway guide update will have. Just been super-busy on the BOOT-132 project. I have a week off over Thanksgiving and will film it, finish the written portion, and release it. Whew!

 

 

Sounds awesome mate, that will be much appreciated among the community. I just got back from holidays and have thoroughly read the boot132 guide. Will be putting the PC together over the weekend and will give that method a shot, it sounds promising.

 

I know this has been brought up before, although with the boot132 method are the silicon (i think it is called) PCI sata cards still fine? I have a VIA 6421 (used with the 360) although I am pretty sure they are not compatible unless anyone knows any different? So I am considering purchasing a silica chip card. I have ran out of sata ports ! I have 3 HDD and 1 DVD, I would like to add my kreon flashed drive so I can just boot into windows and read 360 discs.

 

With 2x 500gb and 1x120gb SATA HDDs what would people recommend as a set up?

Obviously seperate 500gb HDD for each OS (vista+osx) but i was thinking of partitioning probably 100:400 on both and using the 100 as purely the OS and the 400 as storage for important data, and the 120gb as purely the backup of my osx install. Anyone from experience can think of a more effective setup, or would what I suggested be fine?

 

Thanks for everones help over the last few months, can't wait to get my system up and running, I have been a macbook enthusiast for quite some time so the power of an actual desktop over my laptop will probably blow my socks off.

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Sounds awesome mate, that will be much appreciated among the community. I just got back from holidays and have thoroughly read the boot132 guide. Will be putting the PC together over the weekend and will give that method a shot, it sounds promising.

 

I know this has been brought up before, although with the boot132 method are the silicon (i think it is called) PCI sata cards still fine? I have a VIA 6421 (used with the 360) although I am pretty sure they are not compatible unless anyone knows any different? So I am considering purchasing a silica chip card. I have ran out of sata ports ! I have 3 HDD and 1 DVD, I would like to add my kreon flashed drive so I can just boot into windows and read 360 discs.

 

With 2x 500gb and 1x120gb SATA HDDs what would people recommend as a set up?

Obviously seperate 500gb HDD for each OS (vista+osx) but i was thinking of partitioning probably 100:400 on both and using the 100 as purely the OS and the 400 as storage for important data, and the 120gb as purely the backup of my osx install. Anyone from experience can think of a more effective setup, or would what I suggested be fine?

 

Thanks for everones help over the last few months, can't wait to get my system up and running, I have been a macbook enthusiast for quite some time so the power of an actual desktop over my laptop will probably blow my socks off.

 

Yeah that setup sounds fine. As long as you have a backup drive backing up the data that's important to you, and as long as that backup drive is a separate drive and not a same-disk partition, then you're good to go!

 

I have a Silicon Image-based Rosewill 2-port SATA PCIe RAID card and it has been causing me big headaches in 10.5.5. I have a friend with one as well and he is experiencing similar problems. Our conclusion was that Silicon Image has not released a 10.5.5 driver - it works great on 10.5.4, but not 10.5.5. If you need RAID, it's probably worth investing in a company that actually keeps their Mac drivers up-to-date, like Highpoint (they have a special Mac line of cards).

 

Thats actually the guide I stumbled upon and used weaksauce. Everything is running great for me using Boot-132 including running it off the hard drive rather than USB key. I also got my 9600 GT working perfect. Thanks for all the help!

 

Right on! I'm working on a couple extra pieces of software as well as detailed walkthrough guides, so it's just a matter of wrapping all those things up. It's pretty comprehensive and I'm confident this will be a very stable release, especially with the video guide showing you exactly how to do it step-by-step. Glad to hear your rig is running well!

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Hi Weaksauce !

First, excuse my bad english (i'm french ..).

Can you send me the Boot 132 guide, in order to test it on my new hackintosh configuration ( P35 DSL, core 2 duo e7300 and Geforce 8800 gt 256 mo).

 

Thank you very much !

 

P.S.: If you can send it on my email : ohayon89@gmail.com , it could be really nice !!

THX !!

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I tried to update my GA-EP35-DS3L to 10.5.5 but I rushed too much and didn't pay attention. I searched for the rm -rf method, found a thread describing it and tried it. I should have known better... it didn't say to sudo anything first so the dirty kext couldn't be deleted. Permission denied. The system froze and wouldn't boot properly anymore.

 

Forunately I had a CCC image from last night. I restored that and have just one problem now. When I boot I get this:

 

>F0000080

<00000002

000000C1

00000048

*<00064028

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I used to get the Darwin bootloader where I now get all of that hex. I insert my Kalyway DVD and not hit any keys so it boots to my hard drive. Once it boots everything works beautifully. I tried using OSX86Tools to reinstall Darwin Bootloader hoping that was the problem but no luck.

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Shutdown and restart fly for me with the Boot-132 system...here is how my setup worked:

Installed 10.5 from retail disc

Update to 10.5.5 combo update from software update ( no fooling around in Terminal )

Now upon reboot it appeared to just sit there...your system appears to lock because 10.5.5 is a major update to the video setup. You should be able to boot with into safe mode which

 

From Safe mode:

Grabbed the kexts for Geforce 9600GT modified as needed and used kext helper to install kext DO NOT REBOOT YET!!!

Grabbed OSX86Tools and created/added the EFI string needed for my 9600GT

Reboot and video worked perfect

 

From there my system has been 100%

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Shutdown and restart fly for me with the Boot-132 system...here is how my setup worked:

Installed 10.5 from retail disc

Update to 10.5.5 combo update from software update ( no fooling around in Terminal )

Now upon reboot it appeared to just sit there...your system appears to lock because 10.5.5 is a major update to the video setup. You should be able to boot with into safe mode which

 

From Safe mode:

Grabbed the kexts for Geforce 9600GT modified as needed and used kext helper to install kext DO NOT REBOOT YET!!!

Grabbed OSX86Tools and created/added the EFI string needed for my 9600GT

Reboot and video worked perfect

 

From there my system has been 100%

 

You skipped the most important step...you have to install your video card driver after installing 10.5.5 but before rebooting :whistle:

 

Glad to hear you've got BOOT-132 working for you. I've got the final draft of the kit finished and working with a few more testers to ensure things are smooth. Gettin closer :D

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Ok, so the only thing that can brick the system now is an update of the video kexts? So it's still not totally safe to run the regular updates?

 

It will never, ever be safe to just "run updates" on a Hackintosh. That's the name of the game. The same is true even for EFI-X - you have to download their firmware updates before going to 10.5.6 and other updates. This is simply one of the hallmarks of owning a Hackintosh. Minor updates are almost always safe, however, and I continually test updates on my spare drive to make sure they work and work on writing up tutorials on patch updates if they don't.

 

hello ! i just wanna know how to get the 5.1 working ? ALC 888 with AppleHDAPatcherv1.20.app only gives me 2.1. Have you a solution ?

 

Thanks !

 

5.1 works on digital output, you just need to change your software settings for 5.1 output instead of stereo output. I don't know if 5.1 works on the 6-channel analog outputs, I only have stereo speakers on my desktop.

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It will never, ever be safe to just "run updates" on a Hackintosh. That's the name of the game. The same is true even for EFI-X - you have to download their firmware updates before going to 10.5.6 and other updates. This is simply one of the hallmarks of owning a Hackintosh. Minor updates are almost always safe, however, and I continually test updates on my spare drive to make sure they work and work on writing up tutorials on patch updates if they don't.

You da man! This thread is a lifesaver. :P

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Just wanted to say thanks for the excellent guide and resources!

 

I have 10.5.4 working perfectly on my GA-EP35-DS3L. I am also running a 3 disk software RAID 0 configured via Disk Utility as my boot volume which works excellent and is extremely fast. I installed the Chameleon EFI in order to get boot working off of software RAID. I was also able to do a time machine restore from my now dead MacBook Pro onto this new machine which worked flawlessly as well. All of my apps came over and worked perfectly - including VMware Fusion.

 

Motherboard: GA-EP35-DS3L F4 BIOS

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 Ghz

Memory: 4GB Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X4096-6400C5

Video: NVIDIA 7600GT (old card from my old machine, couldn't get an ATI HD2400XT working properly.)

HD: 3x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache in RAID 0

External USB Lacie HD for Time Machine :)

 

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Just wanted to say thanks for the excellent guide and resources!

 

I have 10.5.4 working perfectly on my GA-EP35-DS3L.

 

Just finished updating to 10.5.5. Used the Apple 10.5.5 Combo Update and removed the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext. I also had to replace "Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext" to "dsmos.kext" in /System/InstallAtStartup/script/1. After I booted I had to reinstall the AppleACPIPlatform.kext from your package Weaksauce in order to boot outside of safe mode, so I suspect installing the ACPI kext before boot would be safe.

 

Otherwise working perfectly again :(

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I would also like to request a link to weaksauce12's draft. I already have a 10.5.5 setup on GA-EP35-DS3L that works but could use quite a bit of improvement (like IDE not stable), I'd be more than willing to start from scratch again and report problems and workarounds.

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