[How To] Install Leopard Retail DVD on ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 (core i7)

[ChipX]

First, which BIOS? I installed with the 150x BIOS. I had to hack around asus' site to get it.. but it's there.

Second, I installed without issue on a 10.5.4 retail DVD.

Third, I used -x option at boot to make it boot after install, before I installed the video drivers.

 

Also, I used all SATA devices... not PATA drives (disabled that and the SAS controller). I disabled everything in the BIOS that I was suppose to disable.

 

Hope that helps.

 

I will try tomorrow again, im using 1403 bios and i tried with 15xx bios too.. i cant even make it to the install :S but tomorrow i will try with another dvd, just in case its something with the DVD..

Thank you for your help

i will post news about it

[cometman]

You'll have to excuse me if my analysis is wrong right now - it's past 3AM, and I'm quite tired... In any case, my first thought is: have you turned off all cores (single core, no hyperthreading)? And are you running on the voodoo kernel - with the busratio=20 flag of course..?

 

Good luck,

AiBear

 

 

Yes i am doing all these things...I am doing exactly what the guide says, explicitly. Does ANYONE have an idea? Maybe I need to get a retail disk? As I am using a torrented 10.5.6? Thats the only thing I can imagine (knowing very little about hackintoshes"

[passw]

hi and thank you for this guide...

 

Is there anyone else that have a faster time then real time ?

 

a minute in 10.5.7 P6T is around 40/45 sec....

 

 

what can i do solve this???

 

//Maxpop

[ayacode]

Yes I've just now noticed this timing issue as well.

 

It's throwing off my clock =(.

 

About to try to go back to the voodoo kernel to see if it will fix the issue for now.

[passw]

Yes I've just now noticed this timing issue as well.

 

It's throwing off my clock =(.

 

About to try to go back to the voodoo kernel to see if it will fix the issue for now.

 

 

Did the Voodoo kernel work???

[adhir]

hi and thank you for this guide...

 

Is there anyone else that have a faster time then real time ?

 

a minute in 10.5.7 P6T is around 40/45 sec....

what can i do solve this???

 

//Maxpop

 

This is solved by installing Chameleon V2 bootloader (confirmed by a handful of people including myself).

[passw]

This is solved by installing Chameleon V2 bootloader (confirmed by a handful of people including myself).

 

 

Chameleon did solve the issue with time.

[Berkut]

Guys any suggesions on which .kexts are needed on EFI partition to get Marvel IDE controller to work on 10.5.7?

[passw]

hi...

 

i've read that BIOS 0502 is really crappy. SO DONT UPDATE...

 

Sleep and shutdown don't work for me...power still on after shutdown.

 

Anyone else that have the same sleep/shutdown problem???

 

Any solution??

 

Chameleon RC1 did solve the timing problem (clock)

and now i got full speed again using 100Mbit/FiberLAN.

 

Geekbench result: 8453

 

...

 

Anyone know how to downgrade BIOS (P6T Deluxe V2) ?

 

I've tried to do it in WIN XP and in bios and floppy, says its to old BIOS.

 

 

//Maxpop

[digital_dreamer]

<snip>

 

- the vanilla kernel doesn’t seem to support overclocking. I run my i920 at 4.2 Ghz and the system clock was completely off… everything ran way too fast. Dock popped up too fast, gifs and videos played at twice the speed, clock ran at twice the speed... simply everything was affected. I was able to fix that problem by going back to the mach_kernel.voodoo, now everything works as it should again.

 

AFAIK there is no way to make the vanilla kernel detect the overclocked CPU and adjust to the clockspeed of it, so no vanilla kernel for me.

 

<snip>

 

 

hi and thank you for this guide...

 

Is there anyone else that have a faster time then real time ?

 

a minute in 10.5.7 P6T is around 40/45 sec....

what can i do solve this???

 

//Maxpop

 

 

Yes I've just now noticed this timing issue as well.

 

It's throwing off my clock =(.

 

About to try to go back to the voodoo kernel to see if it will fix the issue for now.

These system clock issues are a result of using the vanilla kernel (9.7.0) and an older bootloader. Either upgrade to Chameleon 2.0 or go back to the Voodoo-based 9.6.0 kernel.

 

regards,

MAJ

[mincingleprechaun]

Sorry but this might be a double post.

Hi, first post.

 

I have successfully followed this guide to end up with a working Asus P6T Deluxe V2 system from a 10.5.6 retail DVD but I have a few questions.

 

In System Profiler it says it's an imac. Is there a way to change that to Mac Pro? I would like to run final cut and I think it only runs on Mac Pro's and Macbook Pro's.

 

I have not been able to get my asus en9600gso with 512megs to function beyond a very basic 1024x768 setting. I tried creating a custom config OSX86Tools and it didn't change anything. I think I am doing something wrong. I haven't been able to find anything super useful to get a start with that. Admittedly I have been pretty engaged with getting this system up and running throughout the week. I will continue to research.

 

This successful install was fresh on a new HDD. I have another HDD that I was using during the week that I've been unable to get completely setup. I completed the guide but made some mistakes and had to go back and re do some things. I also updated to 10.5.7 in the step where it said update to 10.5.6 since I was already starting from that point. Currently when I boot with -v -f it will hang on a Waiting for root device... or what ever that error is. I think i can make it all the way to the desktop if I use the rd(0,1)/mach_kern... command line. Question below...

 

I also have a 1 gig ATI 4870 card that I would like to use with this machine and I would like to use the other HDD install to get it going. Currently it wont even make it to the desktop with that card. It hangs with a corrupted screen. I have not tried safe mode or anything yet. I was more concerned with getting a system up and running. Do I need to start from scratch again with this failed install? Can I just go to step D and begin the patching/ EFI creating/updating process? I can get it to the desktop, just not with -v -f.

 

That's alot of questions but then I've been unable to post for the entire week.

 

Thanks to everyone who helped refine this guide! If anyone has questions about getting it going on the V2 board I might be able to help. There were a few weird things about getting the bios correct I ran into along the way. The main thing was that my successful installs only occured if I went and rechecked the boot order and HDD settings. Otherwise it would hang.

 

Billy

 

p.s. from the looks of the FINALCUT system requirements it will run on any mac so i guess the first question isn't a concern...

[lurscher]

bios 1403 works like a f*cking charm..

[mincingleprechaun]

hi...

 

i've read that BIOS 0502 is really crappy. SO DONT UPDATE...

 

Anyone know how to downgrade BIOS (P6T Deluxe V2) ?

 

I've tried to do it in WIN XP and in bios and floppy, says its to old BIOS.

 

 

//Maxpop

 

Not sure if your at 502 or that's how your board came but I think there is a bios recovery feature in the board. It involves pulling the cmos battery or moving a jumper for a minute and then putting it back. I think it reverts to the shipped bios. I don't have the manual with me. The mod on the asus forum says updating from windows is a bad idea. There is a bios updater in the Tools menu of the bios, Easyflash or something. You can do it with a usb drive. That's how I updated.

 

Sleep doesn't work for me but I also haven't completely sorted the graphics card. Sometimes when I was following the guide I would leave the computer for awhile and when I came back to work again the screen would flash before I could do anything. I think it's at least trying to go to screen saver or dim the video but the card isn't responding correctly.

 

Shutdown/restart works fine for me. I am using bios 403 or something that starts with 4.

 

good luck

[blase]

I'm on the P6T WS Pro board, and have everything up and running except for firewire (LSI Agere FW3227 chip). It seems the DSDT.aml is messing that up.

But I can't remove the dsdt.aml without removing hyperthreading and all cores. Is there a way to either modify the dsdt.aml to not interfere with firewire, or remove it and still enable hyperthreading?

[scott_donald]

Hi all!

 

Not posted really anywhere on here before, and I have been struggling to get a friends ASUS-P6T Deluxe up and running smoothly using a vanilla cd install.

 

I use an already running Mac to install OSX 10.5.6 to a hard drive, then install Chameleon into the EFI partition and have several kexts in there to do their 'magic' as it were. I've been at this a while and am now looking at a near perfect Mac desktop. (Thanks to lots of guys on here, in this topic and in the Gigabyte X58 topic also)

 

Couple of things puzzle me - in the boot.plist in the EFI partition I have had to add the -f flag in. If I don't put it in, my ethernet will show on next reboot but say no cable is plugged in. Also, I'll get orange hard drive icons. If I then reboot with the flag -f intact, icons revert back to normal metal ones, and ethernet comes back as normal.

 

Sound seems to stay unaffected luckily. Other things of interest are that my e-sata port works initially (Chameleon sees it and gives it me as a boot drive option) but when Mac OS has started it doesn't seem to get picked up. USB can be flaky too - sometimes if a USB drive is plugged in at boot it will work fine, if no USB devices are plugged in at boot if you then plug one in nothing gets picked up. Any ideas?

 

I could probably revert to moving certain kexts over to the S/L/E location, and have everything working but I am aiming at having an untouched OS X system - is this even possible really?

 

Over my experimenting, I have had different results - swapping out kexts and so forth. I've had USB behaving at one point, e-sata working but I don't really know enough about which kext deals with what.

 

Heck, I only just learnt that to get the kexts on the EFI drive to 'override' the kexts on the S/L/E I had to change version numbers! (Thats how I got sound working, spent ages and was happy once I had that up and running...lol)

 

It's all fun though, and I've certainly learnt a lot. Oh one last thing, for shutdown to work properly am I right in thinking I need the OpenHaltRestart.kext on the EFI partition too? Restart works fine, but shutdown I just get the computer screen going off, and some tower lights but the fans stay on. - I then have to reboot to turn off properly with the switch.

 

Cheers anyway, and apologies for going on but I've been at this a while now and would appreciate further insights.

 

If you need to know what kexts I am using on the EFI partition they are as follows:

AD2000b.kext <= audio patcher

AppleACPIPlatform.kext <= was getting 'using 16384 buffer' error before using this

AppleDecrypt.kext <= magic

AppleSMBIOS.kext <= sorts out some system info stuff

Disabler.kext <= magic

HDAEnabler.kext <= sound patcher

LegacyAppleAHCIPort.kext <= not sure on this

LegacyAppleIntelPIIXATA.kext <= not sure on this either

LegacyAppleYukon.kext <= network patcher

LegacyHDAPlatformDriver.kext <= audio patcher

LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage.kext <= not entirely sure about this - fixes drive icons?

LegacyJMicronJMB36xSATA.kext <= just realised i shouldn't be using this! could be my issue with esata?

System.kext <= matches running kernel (9.7.0)

seatbelt.kext <= stops kernel panic on DMG files

 

Addition:

Took out the LegacyJMicron kext above, and added OpenHaltRestart, but no change - still have sleep/shutdown issues. E-sata port no change either - I think it maybe using a Marvell chipset for the e-sata so I will hunt around for a kext for it. Random DMG files are causing Kernel Panics (examples: Firefox, Transmission) but other DMGs work fine (and yes, I have replaced seatbelt.kext with 10.5.5 version in both EFI partition and S/L/E and ensured my mach_kernel & system.kexts match).

 

More Additions:

Edited the plist in LegacyAppleAHCIPort, and copied an existing entry in there and pasted it towards the bottom. Changed the hardware id to match the Marvell controller, and the device descriptions, and then updated the kext in my EFI. Repaired permissions, rebooted and I now have e-Sata working and the Marvell controller showing in the system profiler.

 

USB still plays up, but I can live with that for now. Still getting kernel panics with some DMG files, so going to start experimenting with seatbelt/system kexts and different kernels to see if can stop it altogether - just need to find a 10.5.5 seatbelt.kext. The one I had downloaded when I looked at it didn't seem to have right information, so have binned that for now. I might even try booting without System.kext and seatbelt.kext present in EFI and see what that does.

 

Further Additions:

Seems I had a mismatch of System.kext, mach_kernel & seatbelt.kext. As long as all three match (ie are for the correct kernel you are running) you shouldn't get dmg file kernel panics. Mine is now resolved, and im now using the 10.5.7 kernel updated system & kernel. Not tested sleep yet, but I don't hold out much hope. Also noticed a post regarding the DSDT patch, apparently I may have done that wrong...looks like I need to do a force compile on it. Maybe thats why the ASUS-P6T system doesn't run as quick as it should? I'll try and give it a whirl.

 

Hey I'm doing well. answering most of my own questions. Great isn't it? I'd still be waiting at root device if I was looking for answers elsewhere.

 

wow... i am impressed...

 

keep us updated... seems to be best setup on here i have seen in detail... wish i was home to give it a try myself...

[bluebear1608]

could someone pls post the basic slim build disk image (with the neccesary kext to get this running) for me? im on windows and having difficulties creating it. I've already made 3 boot disks that doesnt work. Thanks (btw, im using the 10.5.1 osx disk)

[ohsht]

I've successfully upgraded to 10.5.7 with the combo updater. All I had to do to get back to the previous functionality was fix the Yukon kext as indicated in the tutorial.

 

So now I'm still running the 9.5.0 voodoo kernel on my Chameleon 2 RC EFI partition. Whenever I try to boot using the new vanilla kernel, even with -v -f -s, it ultimately just reboots before getting to the login screen. I can see that it's loading a lot of stuff, but it doesn't panic - it just reboots. The problem is it goes by too quickly for me to see what's going on.

 

Is there any log file where we can look at to trace what's happening as the kernel loads, and what could be going wrong?

 

Any other ideas?

 

Thanks.

[dummy15]

Guys any suggesions on which .kexts are needed on EFI partition to get Marvel IDE controller to work on 10.5.7?

 

I solved it by downloading this kext http://my.ukrweb.info/files/AppleVIAATA6111_6145.kext_.zip and putting it on my EFI partition.

 

Hope this will help you as well

[lilyl]

I have successfully installed 10.5.6 retail plus 10.5.7 upgrade onto my P6T(none Deluxe version) using a mixed method. On my mac, I installed the retail and upgrade directly to my harddisk like the Gigabyte thread does, and then move the drive to P6T system and just to step D from this thread...

 

It seems mostly the system works OK, Since I am using original kernel 9.7.0, I have the bus/clock speed problem, so I'd like to try Chameleon instead of EFI partition bootloader but the Chameleon fail on me, no boot.

 

So I wonder if there is other way the fix it? (I know voodoo 9.6.0 works, but I just feel more comfortable if I can keep the 9.7.0 vanilla). Thanks.

[gizmo99uoft]

The entire screen goes apple blue.

 

I am on 10.5.7 on (videocard:9800 GTX) and as I was using my RIG, I see this blue screen come down from the top of the screen to the bottom.

 

The entire screen goes apple blue. I recovered by putting the computer to hibernate and waking it up.

 

Any ideas why this is happening? I am not using any video kext since 9800 gtx is native supported

[passw]

hi...

 

Any solution to get firewire working???

 

//Maxpop

[darkentity]

hey ppl, thanks for this great job u make

 

i have aproblem to install it on "p6t deluxe v2"

can someone help me to get a proper boot 132 iso for my board

 

10x

[tuck1989]

Hi,

Quick question for anyone following this guide for the asus p6t DELUXE. I'm about to purchase new hardware, and I was wondering whether sleep/shutdown/restart is working normally on this board after the 10.5.7 update? Sorry if this has already been answered but I couldn't find it anywere.

 

Also considering purchasing the GA-EX58-ud5, but my loyalty to asus has me undecided.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice

[Andrew McNaughton]

Hi guys,

 

First of all a big thank you to M J who's guide here really got me through a lot of the problems. Especially the DSDT bit as it's so cool getting OS X to utilise all the cores and HT.

 

I cheated a bit and used a MacBook Pro to prepare my OS X installation. I prep'd the drive with GPT and a single partition. I used a SATA-to-USB bridge to achieve this. I wanted to get my PC working perfectly via USB before I commit to opening it up and hooking in to one of the Intel SATA ports. I prep'd it with 10.5.6 (9G66) retail edition and updated to 10.5.7 with the Delta update. I then installed Chameleon 2.0RC1 (thanks to the guys that make this... very cool). Right away Chameleon worked and revealed my RAID volume partitions too, recognising their names and installed OSes. I then proceed to iron out the creasing, tuning the install with various kexts and DSDT file til I got to the point of making this post.

 

I'm still to crack a couple of niggling problems including the biggest... getting OS X to see everything on the chipset besides the USB bus. I have my ICH10R in RAID mode. I'm not planning on expecting OS X to sit on the RAID volume as I have a separate SATA drive for it but, considering Chameleon can see the logical volumes with Vista, XP and Windows 7, I thought it would have worked right away. My system won't boot with the ICH10R set to AHCI. I don't want to set it to AHCI anyway. I don't see why it can't work in RAID mode if Chameleon can see the RAID volume and its partitions. Am I going to be able to achieve this? Has someone done it already and I've not found their post yet?

 

Another issue I have is that while OS X is now seeing my Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT thanks to CoreVidia 1.1, it's putting my HDTV in 1080i instead of 1080p. Any suggestions on what I need to do to fix this? No options seem to be relevant in the Display pane of System Preferences. Do I need to tweak something in CoreVidia? Windows Vista/XP/7 have no issues displaying at 1080p on my HDTV connected via HDMI/DVI.

 

Tiny problem which I am going to search for help with is the memory being listed as DDR2 in OS X rather than DDR3.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Andrew McNaughton]

Update: By adding in an entry for the ICH10R to the 10.5.7 vanilla AppleAHCIPort.kext and the other little additions to the IOATAFamily.kext then updating the mkext - BOOM! my ODD mounted the OS X DVD I had in it and then I got warnings about my Intel RAID disks. No biggy about the Intel RAID disks I can live without those, but delighted about making this progress. I now have an optical drive. I'm about to edit the Chameleon kexts to see if I can see DVDs when in Chameleon.

 

The ICH10R's IOPCIPrimaryMatch needs to be 0x28228086.

 

It would be amazing to see the RAID disks work in OS but I really don't need them right now since I have OS X on a separate non-RAID SATA drive anyway.

 

Update 2: Uh oh... looks like I'm a victim of my own success now. Can't boot. Stuck at 'still waiting for root device'. I'm guessing that means the activation of my ICH10R in OS X is now leading to it getting confused. I think it can see the Intel RAID volume and/or its constituent disks and this is blocking it from continuing the boot from the USB bridge. Argh! I may have to do without my ODD then. I wonder if the SATA drive would work if it were natively connected. I could try this before withdrawing the 0x28228086. Will update when I see if this helped.

 

Update 3: It's on an Intel SATA port now but now I experience a different problem. The Chameleon boot loader is giving an error for boot1. Not sure what that means right now as I'm exhausted for today. Will need to figure it out later. I'll need to dismantle my PC again to get it back onto the USB bridge. I've installed MacDrive to read the HDD but i'm not sure what to do to the /usr/standalone/i386 contents to resolve this issue. Any help welcomed. Thanks in advance. Nite nite.

 

Next day Update: I just reverted to USB bridge. This boots ok and I have no ODD. I guess this will have to do if I am determined to keep my Intel RAID for Windows... which I am. If I decide to commit to Mac OS X then I need simply withdraw the RAID volume and I think that I'd have a full SATA-propulsion Hackintosh. It feels nippy enough with USB 2.0. I just wanted to achieve it and have it as an option. I'm happy enough with my MacBook Pro as a dedicated OS X system.

 

If anyone needs thinks I could advise them to get their ASUS P6T working, please feel free to ask.