[GUIDE] Retail OS X Install (10.5.8) on Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (Core i7) Mobo

[rafa3d]

5)Which plist should I edit the com.apple.Boot.plist ?

 

my com.apple.Boot.plist have this:

<key>Kernel</key>
   <string>mach_kernel</string>

 

6. Right EFI strings for video card.

what is this? The one in the com.apple.Boot.plist I created my for my 9800GTX so I'm pretty sure is fine.

 

My Chameleon Parition Looks like this (I have to use diskutil to mount it) what do you think same as you?

 

The com.apple.Boot.plist must be something like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs$

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>busratio=20 boot-uuid=4CDE6034-884A-42E9-8F0E-29D797BCD78E</str$

<key>device-properties</key>

<string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060....</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

1. First of all, I dont see kernel flags in your plist file. As you see is required busratio=20 and the correct boot-uuid with your RAID volume.

 

2. The graphics string is added to your plist...is long..so in terminal will appear ....$ cutted.

 

3. Respect the spaces and return carriage, if you do bad the plist file will be unredearble for the system.

[dorenthe7]

hey guys I've got my new

Intel I 7 920

with the UD5 motherboard..

and I tryed to install MACOS

but I got the

Still waiting for root device

message...

Could somebody help me please ?!

[tstm]

hey guys I've got my new

Intel I 7 920

with the UD5 motherboard..

and I tryed to install MACOS

but I got the

Still waiting for root device

message...

Could somebody help me please ?!

 

You might have the wrong UUID in your com.apple.boot.plist (that was my problem when I first tried EFI boot).

 

If you're using wolfienukes method, either remove the com.apple.boot.plist and regenerate it or simply choose to edit it when the script asks you to. The UUID should be filled in automatically.

 

You can also go and manually edit your com.apple.boot.plist in the EFI partition. You can get the correct UUID by writing:

diskutil info "/Volumes/<volume_name>" | grep "UUID"

into a terminal. <volume_name> should be replaced by the name of the volume you are installing to.

[dorenthe7]

thx's a lot

 

I've downloaded this

Download Gigabyte X58 Mobo Boot-132 Installer (10MB)

 

I don't know if I try the WOLFIENUKE'S one...

I pluged in my harddisk and I installed MACOS with the retail DVD...

 

I try now your .....

diskutil info "/Volumes/<volume_name>" | grep "UUID"

 

I hope it works for me...

 

You might have the wrong UUID in your com.apple.boot.plist (that was my problem when I first tried EFI boot).

 

If you're using wolfienukes method, either remove the com.apple.boot.plist and regenerate it or simply choose to edit it when the script asks you to. The UUID should be filled in automatically.

 

You can also go and manually edit your com.apple.boot.plist in the EFI partition. You can get the correct UUID by writing:

diskutil info "/Volumes/<volume_name>" | grep "UUID"

into a terminal. <volume_name> should be replaced by the name of the volume you are installing to.

 

 

I'd tryed both of them... remove and to write it down in the terminal...

but still waiting...

 

the message comes after error : firewire unable....

 

You might have the wrong UUID in your com.apple.boot.plist (that was my problem when I first tried EFI boot).

 

If you're using wolfienukes method, either remove the com.apple.boot.plist and regenerate it or simply choose to edit it when the script asks you to. The UUID should be filled in automatically.

 

You can also go and manually edit your com.apple.boot.plist in the EFI partition. You can get the correct UUID by writing:

diskutil info "/Volumes/<volume_name>" | grep "UUID"

into a terminal. <volume_name> should be replaced by the name of the volume you are installing to.

 

ok hehe

I had something wrong in the BIOS...

It is working....

But now it can't find my keyboard I have a PS2 and a USB connected...

I reach MACOS , awesome

[rafa3d]

Hi People. Just to comment that VMWare Fusion 2.02 is running smooth and Screenflow 1.5.1. in The UD5, with Chameleon, Kext from DD and kernel voodoo 9.6 renamed.

[digital_dreamer]

<snip>

It is working....

But now it can't find my keyboard I have a PS2 and a USB connected...

I reach MACOS , awesome

I don't know if I have uploaded it, yet, but check to see if there is a PS2_Keyboard_Mouse folder in kexts/Misc_Patches.

I have a ApplePS2Controller.kext for a ISO and ANSI keyboard, as well as the AppleACPIPS2Nub.kexts.

If they are not there, my apologies, and I'll get them uploaded sometime.

 

In the mean time, try these two places:

PS2 Driver for stock ACPI for Leopard

Hacked PS/2 Driver

 

best regards,

MAJ

[mangopeach]

Maj or other fellow overclockers... did you do all your overclocking and stress testing (burn in) first before doing the retail install? What software does serious stress testing while also monitoring system temps at the same time? I put the "ultimate boot cd 4.11" on a thumbdrive which has stress test software on it, but no temps. What are y'all using for cpu tuning?

 

 

.. anybody? What program(s) can stress test the cpu and show temperature?

[digital_dreamer]

In the interim, I reformatted the drive (disk 1) and named the partition Mac. Tried running the script again with the same result. Here is what diskutil returns, which should allow me to specify Mac as the volume?:

 

Last login: Mon Apr 6 18:40:14 on console

Macintosh:~ Office$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk0

1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Leopard 40.0 Gi disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS Leopard Backup 40.0 Gi disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS File Storage 385.2 Gi disk0s4

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk1

1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac 50.0 Gi disk1s2

3: Apple_HFS Mac Backup 50.0 Gi disk1s3

4: Apple_HFS File Storage 830.9 Gi disk1s4

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk2

1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS Mac OS X 30.0 Gi disk2s2

3: Apple_HFS Mac OS X Test 30.0 Gi disk2s3

4: Apple_HFS File Storage Backup 405.2 Gi disk2s4

/dev/disk3

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *7.8 Gi disk3

1: Apple_partition_map 30.0 Ki disk3s1

2: Apple_Driver_ATAPI 607.5 Mi disk3s2

3: Apple_HFS Mac OS X Install Disc 1 7.2 Gi disk3s3

Macintosh:~ Office$

 

Again, any help is appreciated. Tx.

I was thinking about this issue and may suggest that all you would need to do is just use underscores in place of your spaces during the install. I'm glad this happened, as it gives me a change to get it fixed up. But, I'm sorry it had to happen to you.

 

I wanted to just provide a list of the drives available and one would select from that list, but wolfienuke already had that type of setup and I didn't want to create the impression I was taking ideas from him. So, I did a different implementation, one that was a bit more difficult and required more patches and fixes to get around those names with spaces.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

.. anybody? What program(s) can stress test the cpu and show temperature?

I like running prime95 and there's a Mac OS X binary, so no Windows needed.

Go here: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)

They have a forum, too.

 

Marcel Bresink's Temperature Monitor - Core i7 ready.

 

regards,

MAJ

[mangopeach]

I like running prime95 and there's a Mac OS X binary, so no Windows needed.

Go here: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)

They have a forum, too.

 

Marcel Bresink's Temperature Monitor - Core i7 ready.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

thx for chiming in MAJ - i know that talking about overclocking in this thread is bordering on being off-topic. I just happen to be at that phase in the build for my UD5. Btw, I found this blog post about overclocking and voltage to be really eye opening.

 

MAJ, did you finish all your overclocking before or after your "final" retail install? My fear is that by fiddling with bios settings after getting osx retail +wolfie all perfect that I will break it. Is this a valid concern or is this noobish paranoia?

 

thx

mango

[thx4dat]

Try a name that is not a prefix of another disk's name (not "Mac", not "Mac OS", not "Mac OS X"). You can always change it later, so just use a unique name for your install partition.

 

One guy, this genius math guy, names his hard drives after mexican food: Taco, Burrito, Salsa, etc. cool

[memp]

I'm glad this happened, as it gives me a change to get it fixed up.

You can just replace the existing DISK_LN= line with

DISK_LN=`echo "$DSKUTL_LS" | grep -i -E "$TARGETDRIVE[ ]+[^ ]+ [^ ]+[ ]+disk"`

 

I wanted to just provide a list of the drives available and one would select from that list, but wolfienuke already had that type of setup and I didn't want to create the impression I was taking ideas from him.

Why not? Shouldn't the goal be to create the best install scripts and not scripts that are as different as possible? I think this only adds to confusion: I used your script first. Guess what, I was unable to select a disk with wolfienuke's script after that. I actually had to look at the script in order to realize that I had to enter a number and not a name...

 

BTW: Tried F7a, sleep not fixed

[bernito]

That was the first thing I checked (the mach_kernel name) when you mentioned you couldn't boot. But, I had forgotten wolfienuke's script expects it to have the .voodoo suffix. Thanks for the heads up on that. I had renamed mine to mach_kernel some time ago in an effort to get VMware Fusion running. I'll rename it back to .voodoo to be compatible with wolf's script.

Guys like you are a real asset to the community with your ability to work through these issues.

 

 

Really good work! Those Geekbench scores look great for stock speed.

 

 

 

Don't use the refresh rate argument (The "@" is for refresh and I wouldn't want 32Hz ). I've never had success with that setup. I can't remember, but with Chameleon 2, it either immediately reboots or ignores it. In fact, I've found that you can't get by with just the resolution, but need to include color depth, as well. In PC-EFI v8 and v9, we could input 1280x1024 and be fine, but now you got to have 1280x1024x32

 

 

Wow. Just tried this out and you're right. Odd, as I was working with RAW on my D70 just a month ago. I only shoot RAW myself. So, what changed.

 

 

Doesn't look like your BIOS is looking at the right partition or drive for booting. Make sure the BIOS is set to see your boot partition.

 

regards,

MAJ

 

 

 

 

 

Hmmmmm.. That's interesting, indeed. I haven't figured this one out, yet.

What version of bash is in Terminal?

type BASH (enter)

What version appears? (bash-3.2$)

 

Sorry, you're having trouble with this. This isn't something I anticipated. The script should ignore any leading and trailing spaces, so that shouldn't be a issue. Upper and lowercase are ignored, as well. Can you try using underscores, instead of spaces in your drive names?

Did you try, as memp suggested, the following in Terminal?

diskutil list | grep "ANY OF YOUR HARD DRIVES"

 

Additionally, could you put the diskutil list in code tags, so we can see all characters?

 

BTW, when you change the HD name, you don't need to reformat.

 

EDIT: Okay, I think I know what's going on here.

Basically, as memp alluded to. Because you have several partitions that have the same prefix 4 "Mac", 2 "Mac OS", and 2 "Leopard", the script returns more than one result to try against. Since the first try is not a match, it fails. Ouch. Okay, back to work...

All I can suggest now is to use unique names for the install, then rename when finished.

 

Will try to rename as I am tired of getting your smart ass spelling critique ! Unfortunately my brand new Corsair HX620W ps already bit the dust so will need to wait until tomorrow or thurs to know if it works. Maybe my old rig isn't so bad after all!

[dorenthe7]

I don't know if I have uploaded it, yet, but check to see if there is a PS2_Keyboard_Mouse folder in kexts/Misc_Patches.

I have a ApplePS2Controller.kext for a ISO and ANSI keyboard, as well as the AppleACPIPS2Nub.kexts.

If they are not there, my apologies, and I'll get them uploaded sometime.

 

In the mean time, try these two places:

PS2 Driver for stock ACPI for Leopard

Hacked PS/2 Driver

 

best regards,

MAJ

 

thx dreamer...

I just had to unplug and replug the Mouse and Keyboard

ok... no I'm in ! shake shake

 

without Wifi (EDIMAX 7128G,

 

http://www.edimax.nl/nl/produce_detail.php...1&pl2_id=44

 

and Grafik ( ATI 4870 )

[digital_dreamer]

You can just replace the existing DISK_LN= line with

DISK_LN=`echo "$DSKUTL_LS" | grep -i -E "$TARGETDRIVE[ ]+[^ ]+ [^ ]+[ ]+disk"`

Why not? Shouldn't the goal be to create the best install scripts and not scripts that are as different as possible? I think this only adds to confusion: I used your script first. Guess what, I was unable to select a disk with wolfienuke's script after that. I actually had to look at the script in order to realize that I had to enter a number and not a name...

 

BTW: Tried F7a, sleep not fixed

Heh, heh. It was that "Can't verify EFI partition" bug, huh?

Thanks for the tip.

 

Will try to rename as I am tired of getting your smart ass spelling critique ! Unfortunately my brand new Corsair HX620W ps already bit the dust so will need to wait until tomorrow or thurs to know if it works. Maybe my old rig isn't so bad after all!

I wondered if that 'spell Checker' would get any use! Did the spelling police show up?

Again, sorry, for that issue. None of this is your fault, but mine. I just didn't test for similar names with spaces. But, boy did I test for everything else and various combinations.

 

Are you RMAing that PSU?

 

Best of wishes,

MAJ

[andycorleone]

The com.apple.Boot.plist must be something like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs$

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>busratio=20 boot-uuid=4CDE6034-884A-42E9-8F0E-29D797BCD78E</str$

<key>device-properties</key>

<string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060....</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

1. First of all, I dont see kernel flags in your plist file. As you see is required busratio=20 and the correct boot-uuid with your RAID volume.

 

2. The graphics string is added to your plist...is long..so in terminal will appear ....$ cutted.

 

3. Respect the spaces and return carriage, if you do bad the plist file will be unredearble for the system.

 

Thank you for your help Mate,

I edited the plis as you sugestions, I think my problem with EFI is it can foud the boot.plis (don't really know if he look for it in the EFI or in the RAID install partition)

 

 

 

Could you please post which steps did you use to install chameleon RAID?

I meat What did you use mount the Hiden partition an the Chameleon install or Manually intall Chemeleon? CarbonCC from a install? Retail from DVD? which Patches?

 

Cheers

Andy

 

Really Apreciate any help this is my last light before I give up the RAID and just buy a single WD RAPTOR

[dorenthe7]

Hi,

I've copied all of the kext files from the { GA-EX58-UD5_Kexts folder }

 

to the EFI Boot installer and installed the Retail DvD with the Run-Patcher by DREAMER.

 

following I modified the harddisk with the EFI Boot installer.

 

After that I made this -->

Remove kext cache on new install:

sudo rm -r /Volumes/YOUR_HDD_NAME/System/Library/Extensions.mkext

 

Repair permissions:

sudo diskutil repairpermissions /Volumes/YOUR_HDD_NAME

 

but it's not working ?! Why....

[mattrb]

Thank you for your help Mate,

I edited the plis as you sugestions, I think my problem with EFI is it can foud the boot.plis (don't really know if he look for it in the EFI or in the RAID install partition)

 

 

 

Could you please post which steps did you use to install chameleon RAID?

I meat What did you use mount the Hiden partition an the Chameleon install or Manually intall Chemeleon? CarbonCC from a install? Retail from DVD? which Patches?

 

Cheers

Andy

 

Really Apreciate any help this is my last light before I give up the RAID and just buy a single WD RAPTOR

 

Instead of asking people this question, someone made a tutorial for chameleon 2 RAID. link.

 

The patches? What u talkin about?

 

The Carbon copy should work but I am not sure. Just reinstall, it only takes 30 minutes.

 

 

Use typical wolfienuke/maj efi boot partition kexts too. Ask us questions after you read the tutorial.

[rafa3d]

Thank you for your help Mate,

I edited the plis as you sugestions, I think my problem with EFI is it can foud the boot.plis (don't really know if he look for it in the EFI or in the RAID install partition)

Could you please post which steps did you use to install chameleon RAID?

I meat What did you use mount the Hiden partition an the Chameleon install or Manually intall Chemeleon? CarbonCC from a install? Retail from DVD? which Patches?

 

Cheers

Andy

 

Really Apreciate any help this is my last light before I give up the RAID and just buy a single WD RAPTOR

 

Hi, you know sometimes is not easy to follow fail-success process, but what I think I did:

 

1. Once chameleon is executed fine from RAID, the RAID is known by the system.

2. Just put the kernel mach_kernel.voodoo as mach_kernel.

3. Install KEXTs with OSXUTIL.

4. Edit your plist in consequence, with kernel flags as I indicated before.

 

Next time you boot chameleon has to go to the kernel and execute normally the system.

 

The point is that I think I dont use EFI, all the process of partitions I think is not needed.

 

If problems continue I will try to make a fine tutorial from zero.

[bastardizer]

NETWORK:

Do you feel you get the proper speed over your network (Ethernet)?

I have a feeling I'm not. Im downloading a Linux distro torrent with plenty of seeders but I dont get any where near the speeds I'm used to on XP...

 

And From Sunet, the swedish University Network, they are directly connected to the main swedish backbone with GB connections, I only get 410 kb DL speed. I'll compare it with the XP in a bit. Would be interesting to hear your experienses.

[tstm]

NETWORK:

Do you feel you get the proper speed over your network (Ethernet)?

I have a feeling I'm not. Im downloading a Linux distro torrent with plenty of seeders but I dont get any where near the speeds I'm used to on XP...

 

And From Sunet, the swedish University Network, they are directly connected to the main swedish backbone with GB connections, I only get 410 kb DL speed. I'll compare it with the XP in a bit. Would be interesting to hear your experienses.

I have a gigabit connection to my home (Linux) server, and I can get average transfer speeds up to 75MB/s (600Mbit/s) from an AFP share on said server. So, my network card is working fast enough (this is a _lot_ faster than what I get using Vista & Samba on this same hardware - but that might be a TCP window size issue or something)

 

Oh, and I'm using the integrated network card on the GA-EX58-UD5 (BIOS F5).

[bastardizer]

Oh........ 75 MB's a sec... So I suppose that ought to mean I should look for the speed issues elsewhere huh?

 

Gb at home, what are you a Jedi knight?

[mac kid from jersey]

NETWORK:

Do you feel you get the proper speed over your network (Ethernet)?

I have a feeling I'm not. Im downloading a Linux distro torrent with plenty of seeders but I dont get any where near the speeds I'm used to on XP...

 

And From Sunet, the swedish University Network, they are directly connected to the main swedish backbone with GB connections, I only get 410 kb DL speed. I'll compare it with the XP in a bit. Would be interesting to hear your experienses.

 

I thought I had the same issue. It just turned out to be my airport express.

 

You could also try switching to the other ethernet port.

[dorenthe7]

during the retail DvD install, my systems breaks down !

Always 14 minutes to finish the installation..

what could it be ?

the background screen in MacOS would be overwritten.

 

I try to install Mac on my Intel I7 , on a other harddisk.

 

If somebody can follow me and can help please help me

[digital_dreamer]

Hi,

I've copied all of the kext files from the { GA-EX58-UD5_Kexts folder }

 

to the EFI Boot installer and installed the Retail DvD with the Run-Patcher by DREAMER.

 

following I modified the harddisk with the EFI Boot installer.

 

After that I made this -->

Remove kext cache on new install:

sudo rm -r /Volumes/YOUR_HDD_NAME/System/Library/Extensions.mkext

 

Repair permissions:

sudo diskutil repairpermissions /Volumes/YOUR_HDD_NAME

 

but it's not working ?! Why....

You used the EFI Boot installer (wolfienuke's script) to install the boot-132 kexts? That isn't going to work.

Either you use the kexts in wolfienuke's script and use his script or use the DD's kexts and his script. One or the other. They don't work together.

Additionally, saying it's not working and asking "why?" is not going to get you a satisfying response. It's similar to going to the doctor and telling him that you don't feel well and expecting him to magically figure out the rest. Not going to happen until he asks you a lot of questions. So, make it easier on him by telling him up front the details of your symptoms, exactly what you have done and exactly what happened up to your last action.

We need details.

 

regards,

MAJ

[bastardizer]

Do you guys have noisy headphone outputs? Like digital Noise?

I do big time... I just hope that I dont have the same {censored} on my audio outputs in the rear ( no not y rear, the computers rear dumbass)...