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

[L3B3R]

FYI, there is a rumor that 10.5.7 may hit this Friday.

[mac kid from jersey]

FYI, there is a rumor that 10.5.7 may hit this Friday.

 

I think they just released a new seed to developers. So it might not come out this friday.

 

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/06/mac-os...-to-developers/

[digital_dreamer]

Version 3.4 of script is out.

 

Found a bug in boot cache updater. If you're having trouble updating the boot cache, this update will fix that issue.

 

 

regards,

MAJ

[cyonix]

has anybody got 2 graphiccards running on his ex58 board? have tried all stuff, but no progress

[Asterra]

In preparation for the arrival of 10.5.7...

 

What's a probable rundown of the steps that might best be taken, with regard to the guide outlined in this thread, in order to most likely ensure an actual 10.5.6 -> 10.5.7 update that works properly?

 

Far as I can tell, the best advice will be to do the 10.5.6 install a-la the guide, but make no further modifications. For example, don't make any personal attempts to force 10.5.6 to fully utilize the 4870 if that's the card you're using. Naturally, in my case, since I'm one of the few folks who never managed to achieve resolution change / QE/CI on this card, that is the chief aspect of 10.5.7 which I am anticipating. If things go well, I might even start looking into installing a second 4870! But, no, I've learned not to get ahead of myself when it comes to OSX.

 

In actuality, there is one kext which I must install in order to use OSX at all, and that is the one which adds support for a PS/2 keyboard. But I don't expect that to be a problem.

[Methuselah]

Hi,

I am a total NOOB to this forum, but I am extremely grateful to all you guys for the incredible amount of work you have done on this topic.

 

After reading through the topic and associated posts a couple of months ago, I decided to have a go a building my own "Hackintosh"

 

Hardware is the following :-

Antec P183 Case,

Antec Signature Series 650W Power Supply

GA-EX58-UD5 Mobo

Intel i7 - 920 CPU (2.66 Ghz)

Hightech ATI Radeon HD4670 Video Card - 512 Mb 128 bit GDDR3

Corsair XMS3 RAM - 6GB DDR3

Pioneer DVR-216BK 20x Dual/Single SATA DVR

2 x Seagate ST31000333AS Barracuda 7200.11 1TB HDD (For future RAID)

1 x Seagate ST3500320NS Barracuda 7200.2 500 GB HDD (For OS-X)

 

I have followed the procedure outlined by Digital Dreamer, and ran Version 3.3 of the X58 Mobo Patch Installer this morning (Australian time), got the Chameleon boot page, but wouldn't boot.

 

Then I tried with the -v and -x flags, which brought up several screens of text, it hung with an error message seeking the Firewire system. I moved five Firewire kexts from /system/library/extensions to a temporary folder, and tried a reboot.

 

This time it hung with the following :-

Couldn't allocate class "AppleHDAController"

Extensions "com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController" cannot be found

USBF 6.564 AppleUSBUHCI: inable to initialize UIM

 

I went into Terminal and brought up the system.log file in /volumes/Macintel500GB/private/var/log, but the contents don't resemble what I was seeing on the screen.

 

I then downloaded the revised X58 Mobo Patcher (v3.4) from Digital Dreamers earlier post today, but still ended up with the same error message.

 

I would like to print the log file, and see the full contents, however unless I am looking in the wrong place, the system.log file doesn't have the same last several lines as I had seen on the screen.

 

Any help greatly appreciated

 

BTW, I have used an Intel iMac and external USB case to install the OS, using the retail Leopard DVD and the Digital Dreamer script, all of which seemed to work according to the description provided - is there any way I can use a drive in the "Hackintosh" to edit the OS-X drive? I have a Linux Ubuntu installation which seems to read the drive structure and folders (including the EFI partition, however I don't know if Linux can write to a HFS+ file system, and I didn't want to find out the hard way that it won't work.

 

Again, many thanks for the amazing amount of information on this forum,

 

Please forgive me if I have infringed any part of the forum etiquette.

 

Thanks,

Methuselah,

Drouin, Australia

[bbchucks]

Hi,

This is the first time i'm installing hackintosh.

i went with the GA-EX58-UD5 Motherboard + ATI 4870 video card + I7 chip since i saw that DD provides excellent help! with constant updates.

 

i do not have any HDs with MacOS installed, i do have a macbook though.

 

i want to know if i should be using iDeneb 1.4 then follow this guide or if i should somehow use this guide without having an exisiting MacOS on it.

Did anyone create a Chamelon boot CD for this Mobo? that way i can just burn Chamelon's iso image and then eject and put the retail DVD in?

 

Also does anyone have any experience with iDeneb 1.4? which options do i choose?

 

obviously i think the most important is to get Network, video working.

 

any help is greatly appreciated!!

[joeblough]

BTW, I have used an Intel iMac and external USB case to install the OS, using the retail Leopard DVD and the Digital Dreamer script, all of which seemed to work according to the description provided - is there any way I can use a drive in the "Hackintosh" to edit the OS-X drive? I have a Linux Ubuntu installation which seems to read the drive structure and folders (including the EFI partition, however I don't know if Linux can write to a HFS+ file system, and I didn't want to find out the hard way that it won't work.

 

did you make sure to skip the step where the script extracts and patches the dsdt? if you did not, then you are trying to load the dsdt of the intel imac while booting the gigabyte board. that's not going to work too well.

 

if you didnt, you can delete /Extra/dsdt.aml and try booting again. once its up you can run the dsdt patcher against the gigabyte board.

[Methuselah]

Whoops, yes that's what I have done. I deleted the /Extra/dsdt.aml file and tried to reboot, it still hangs, I am attaching a picture of the screen, sorry for the quality.

 

Would I be better off starting again all over and not running the dsdt patch??

 

Thanks for your reply.

[joeblough]

Whoops, yes that's what I have done. I deleted the /Extra/dsdt.aml file and tried to reboot, it still hangs, I am attaching a picture of the screen, sorry for the quality.

 

Would I be better off starting again all over and not running the dsdt patch??

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

i think you are okay just deleting the dsdt.aml.

 

if i tell my hack to boot a nonexistent disk, it hangs in the same place yours is hanging. that lets me see all the boot messages. i see two differences: on mine, i get 2 complaints related to the sata ports:

 

   extension com.tgwbd.driver.LegacyAppleAHCIPortJMB36x is not loadable
  Can't determnine dependencies for come.tgwbd.driver.LegacyAppleAHCIPortJMB36x
  ...
  extension com.tgwbd.driver.LegacyAppleAHCIPortIntelICHx is not loadable
  Can't determine dependencies for com.tgwbd.driver.LegacyAppleAHCIPortIntelICHx

 

now those messages would kind of seem like the kexts didnt load, but apparently they do because my system boots. since you are not getting those messages at all it makes me wonder why the kernel is not even trying to load them at all.

 

it would be interesting to see what kexts and what versions are in /Extra/Extensions.mkext.

 

can you go back to your imac, mount the gigabyte disk and do

 

   cd /Volumes/<gigabyte_disk>/Extra
  mkextunpack -v Extensions.mkext

 

and post what you get?

 

also: what version of osx are you installing? if its not 10.5.6, are you running the combo updater before you run DD's script?

[neils]

I'm not trying to install from my older Pentium D Hackintosh anymore. I have been trying for days to get a distro working on my i7 system. So for no good. I have tried iPC Osx86. I booted with cpus=1 busratio=20. No luck, I get a kernel panick.

 

I also tried other distro's I still had somewhere on DVD, like Kalyway 10.5.2, Iatkos etc. I tried 6 different distro's so far, without luck. My BIOS was setup ok, AHCI-mode enabled etc.

 

Could somebody recommend me a working distro ? All I want is get to the desktop, so I can install a retail version on another harddisk.

 

I am downloading iDeneb1.4. It's gonna take another 4 days before it arrives according to my download program though. I don't want to wait another 4 days, just to find out this distro won't work either.

 

I read stories from people who said Kalyway actually worked for them. Are they talking about Kalyway 10.5.2 ?

 

A little help is very much appreciated. Alternative installation methods are welcome too ! If it's possible, I would like to avoid using any distro. Can't I just prepatch the harddisk I want to install OSX retail on ?

 

Many thanks in advance again guys.

[Methuselah]

Hi,

 

Terminal came up with "can't stat file Extensions.mkext", so I checked the Extra folder and there wa no file "mkext", but there was a file called "Extensions.mkext,previous", so I have extracted that and a text file from Terminal is attached.

 

Regards & thanks

 

Hi again,

 

Sorry, forgot to answer what Version of Leopard, my disk is V.10.5.1, so it looks like I need to start again, run the combo updater, then DDs script, then install in the Hackintosh and run the dsdt patch??

 

Thanks again

Terminal_Saved_Output_090508.txt

[joeblough]

Hi,

 

Terminal came up with "can't stat file Extensions.mkext", so I checked the Extra folder and there wa no file "mkext", but there was a file called "Extensions.mkext,previous", so I have extracted that and a text file from Terminal is attached.

 

Regards & thanks

 

Hi again,

 

Sorry, forgot to answer what Version of Leopard, my disk is V.10.5.1, so it looks like I need to start again, run the combo updater, then DDs script, then install in the Hackintosh and run the dsdt patch??

 

Thanks again

 

what version of DDs script are you using? if you don't have /Extra/Extensions.mkext then you are not going to get very far. if you have /Extra/Extensions then chameleon may be trying to boot from those extensions but we've found that booting from /Extra/Extensions does not work so well. his latest script does not create /Extra/Extensions but rather /Extra/Stored_Kexts (if i remember correctly)... chameleon will not find this directory at all. you really have to have /Extra/Extensions.mkext for this to work. its kind of a mystery to me why you don't have the proper mkext after running his script.

 

i dont know how well 10.5.1 would run on such a new board. i would run DDs script as it stands, but after the part where it launches and installs from your install disk, just run the combo updater for 10.5.6, and then resume his script.

 

edit: as a start you might try just mv Extensions.mkext.previous Extensions.mkext and then try booting again. the kexts in that mkext look okay to me at first glance.

 

edit again: yes, if you get the thing to boot, then run the dsdt patching stage from the gigabyte board. one thing we're not sure about is if patching and creating dsdt.aml 'freezes' some portion of your bios settings into the dsdt.aml. so if you need to change something in the bios, it may not take effect until you re-run the patcher (or delete dsdt.aml - its not even clear to me that the DSDT on these mobos is messed up enough to warrant patching, since it does boot with the DSDT that's in the bios...)

[bazilato]

I have a problem when I checked on the system info

 

it shows 1 processor and 4 cores

and when I lauch Geekbench it shows 0 processor and 8 cores

 

I need some help because I tried everything to get this thing fixed

DSDT seems to be ok

maybe a problem with AppleSMBIOS.kext or something else ?

 

And how did you manage to get DDR3 detection, I tried to inject SMBIOS.plist thanks to Chameleon 2 but it did not work (SMMemType=24)

[Methuselah]

Hi Joe (?),

 

Thanks for your help,

 

1) I am running Version 3.4 from DDs post a day or so ago.

 

2) I have created a .dmg of the Leo DVD and will run that from DDs install, then do a combo update and pick up the install after that as you suggest.

 

3) I will try your suggestion re mkext and reboot

 

4) If the thing boots up and can be rebooted, I will probably just leave it - if I don't run the dsdt patch and it all works, then we can assume the mobo doesn't need it??

 

Thanks again,

 

Sean.

[joeblough]

Hi Joe (?),

 

Thanks for your help,

 

1) I am running Version 3.4 from DDs post a day or so ago.

 

2) I have created a .dmg of the Leo DVD and will run that from DDs install, then do a combo update and pick up the install after that as you suggest.

 

3) I will try your suggestion re mkext and reboot

 

4) If the thing boots up and can be rebooted, I will probably just leave it - if I don't run the dsdt patch and it all works, then we can assume the mobo doesn't need it??

 

Thanks again,

 

Sean.

 

yeah, that's me. joe blough. pronounced "blow"

 

did you pick it up after DD mentioned that there was a problem with the kext packaging? i wonder if that is the cause for your missing Extensions.mkext? if you got it before may 6th at 11:49PM PST then maybe that's what happened.

[digital_dreamer]

I'm not trying to install from my older Pentium D Hackintosh anymore. I have been trying for days to get a distro working on my i7 system. So for no good. I have tried iPC Osx86. I booted with cpus=1 busratio=20. No luck, I get a kernel panick.

 

I also tried other distro's I still had somewhere on DVD, like Kalyway 10.5.2, Iatkos etc. I tried 6 different distro's so far, without luck. My BIOS was setup ok, AHCI-mode enabled etc.

 

Could somebody recommend me a working distro ? All I want is get to the desktop, so I can install a retail version on another harddisk.

 

I am downloading iDeneb1.4. It's gonna take another 4 days before it arrives according to my download program though. I don't want to wait another 4 days, just to find out this distro won't work either.

 

I read stories from people who said Kalyway actually worked for them. Are they talking about Kalyway 10.5.2 ?

 

A little help is very much appreciated. Alternative installation methods are welcome too ! If it's possible, I would like to avoid using any distro. Can't I just prepatch the harddisk I want to install OSX retail on ?

 

Many thanks in advance again guys.

When you say the distros aren't working, what do you mean? The distros' DVDs don't boot, or the OS installed by the distros won't boot?

I had Kalyway 10.5.2 up on the UD5. just a matter of selecting the right option.

 

Hi,

 

Terminal came up with "can't stat file Extensions.mkext", so I checked the Extra folder and there wa no file "mkext", but there was a file called "Extensions.mkext,previous", so I have extracted that and a text file from Terminal is attached.

 

Regards & thanks

 

Hi again,

 

Sorry, forgot to answer what Version of Leopard, my disk is V.10.5.1, so it looks like I need to start again, run the combo updater, then DDs script, then install in the Hackintosh and run the dsdt patch??

 

Thanks again

If that boot cache (mkext) file goes missing again, let me know. This is a serious issue that needs to be fixed.

My older v3.3 script had a bug whereas if you ran the "Update boot cache" without running the "Kext/kernel installer" first when launching the script, it wouldn't create the boot cache file. Perhaps, that's what happened here?

 

 

I have a problem when I checked on the system info

 

it shows 1 processor and 4 cores

and when I lauch Geekbench it shows 0 processor and 8 cores

 

I need some help because I tried everything to get this thing fixed

DSDT seems to be ok

maybe a problem with AppleSMBIOS.kext or something else ?

 

And how did you manage to get DDR3 detection, I tried to inject SMBIOS.plist thanks to Chameleon 2 but it did not work (SMMemType=24)

I wouldn't worry about those info stats too much. They don't affect performance.

I believe the AppleSMBIOS.kext still reports the DDR3 RAM type and speed. The SMBIOS.plist is used for Mac Model.

 

regards,

MAJ

[neils]

Good news. After downloading and installing Kalyway I got (after a succesfull install) stuck in a bootloop again.

 

I just didn't believe this was due to a wrong installation method. I only installed the Kabyl 64 bit Kernel. I know for a fact this kernel should be able to boot OSX, so I decided to look a bit further. All my BIOS settings were ok, but since I read quite a lof of stories about malfuntioning Gigabyte BIOS-versions I thought I might reset the BIOS, and try some things out. At first this didn't help, but after a 5th reset (and a 5 minutes break in between, I unplugged the power cable) Kayway finnally booted. Really weird. But hey, its running.

 

Tomorrow I'm gonna try to install my retail version using your script DD. I did went to a computershop 4 days ago, but the salesman garantied me I really have a retail version. So ofcourse I didn't buy a second Leo retail version. (I will buy Snow Leopard when it arrives ofcourse)

 

Since Kalyway also didn't want to boot at first I have a feeling the retail might also boot !

 

Tomorrow I will give an update.

[bazilato]

Thank you for your support

I managed to get a very nice and clean about mac as well as DDR3 using ideneb v1,4 Smbios.kext DDR3 1333

damn it was painfull before finding the solution

 

One last thing I need to resolve

When I put on Bios Onboard SATA/IDE = AHCI I have Kernel Panic and no KP when I set it on IDE veryyyy strange don't know what is happening ...

 

However when I use RAID Mode= AHCI - Onboard SATA/IDE= IDE or DISABLE I boot on MAC

 

I don't understand because I correctly installed AppleAHCIPort, ...

[Methuselah]

Hi again,

 

Still no joy, although I am now getting the Apple boot screen with the spinning spokes (previously had the Chameleon screen)

 

I reformatted the HSF+ partition, then ran DDs X58_Mobo_Patcher (V.3.4) to do the following : Install Boot Loader, Set Partition as active, run retail DVD installer (from .dmg image on iMac), then I exited the Patcher, ran the Combo update to Leo V. 10.5.6, went back into the patcher and ran Kext/Kernel installer, and updated Boot cache, then exited.

 

Unmounted the drive from iMac, and installed in Hack. Still no joy in booting, booted with th -v flag, and it hung looking for the Firewire system. Back to the iMac, made backup copies of the Firewire kexts then deleted them from /system/linrary/extensions.

 

Still won't boot the Hack, so back to the iMac and read DDs instructions again, noting the reference to the IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext and removable drives (I am using a USB/eSATA drive case), so made a backup copy of that kext and deleted it from /Extra/Stored_Kexts - tried to boot again, but no joy. Ended up with "Apple HDA Controller messages" - see my earlier post.

 

Into Terminal to see if I can find the system.log file - /volumes/Macintel500GB/privaye/var/log - file not listed.

 

CD /Extra/ ls - found "Extensions.mkext" Unpacked the file, see attached .txt file.

 

We seem to be getting somewhere, but I am obviously doing something silly.

 

Any further ideas??

 

With thanks and regards.

Extensions.mkext_090509.rtf

[fallbrooks13]

BusSpeed 533mhz & L2cache @ 512kb. seems wrong compared to other similar configs as mine.

 

i've installed many times and things seem to be running good but I'm noticing a problem...

 

Please shed light on this. I have read for hours and hours.

 

in my hardware info on system profiler it says....

 

Bus speed is 533Mhz

 

and L2 cache is reporting at 512kb

 

 

interesting thing is when I run the voodoo 9.6.0 kernel it reports L2 cache at 1mb, but bus speed is still 533Mhz.

 

vanilla 9.7.0 and vanilla 9.6.3 report L2 @ 512kb and bus speed @ 533Mhz

 

I see digital dreamers bus speed at 800mhz and L2 cache at 1mb. Why not mine?

 

Thanks guys

 

Found this... not sure if it pertains to my situation though.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...mp;#entry711287

 

Help

[leftpelvis]

Hi guys, this is my first post here after reading for some time.

 

Now i am a complete noob and have made many mistakes but am correcting them everytime with more reading and trial and error. I have gotten as far as installing Kalyway, then formatting a new HDD and installing a copy of retail OS X.

 

I then rebooted and attempted to boot into OS X retail install, all went well. Apple sign pop ups and the circle starts spinning underneth, does that for about ten seconds then a window pop ups telling me the computer need to restarts in english and many other languages. So i found out how to boot into safe mode so i did that and all went well, i was able to boot in and setup my user account and keyboard etc etc.

 

Boot into OS X with no kexts there, so i put a cd in with the X58 installer and ran that installing the kexts. Completed that and rebooted. Now it is still asking to reboot everytime and if i hold shift to get into safe mode it starts loading then just resets on me, so i am completely lost with what i am to do. I have read through alot of this thread and cannot find anyone with a similar problem, or if there is i have missed it.

 

The system i am running is -

 

X58 UD4P

i7 920

6GB Ram

MSI 8800 Ultra

1Tb Samsung drive

 

I have my Bios set to Achi mode (same settings as orignal post)

 

I am struggling to figure out a solution so any help would be greatly appreciated. If more info is needed on anything please say so and i will update. Cheers.

[Petruco]

Hi all!

First of all I would like to thank all the people involved in this project, I have finally installed 10.5.6 using retail dvd script provided by DDreamer. Thanks!

 

Second: Sorry for posting this message (my first message) to the general forum, sadly I realised of my mistake just after posting it.

 

Now down to my problem

 

I managed to finish the installation of 10.5.6 Retail using an IDE Hard Disk connected as USB external drive, because I was not able to boot up from the same IDE HD plugged to the ATA internal connectors of my box (GA-EX58-UD5 + i7 920 + 6Gb OCZ REAPER 1800MHz).

My 1TB SATA disk is correctly detected, but my 2xIDE HDs are not, although if I switch them through an external USB case they are perfectly recognised by OSX.

 

The weird thing is that KALYWAY 10.5.2 does recognise all the IDE drives correctly.

 

Could someone please help me? I would like to use the IDE drives if possible.

 

NOTE: I have tried to change the BIOS settings regarding SATA/IDE but it did not achieve nothing!

 

Thanks!

Petruco

[Hakintos]

Installation is achieved, thanks.

 

 

I have triple channel memory 6GB total ok, but not the third channel?

 

Does not play when you connect the pendrive, firewire LaCie extrem. Property system if it detects, but does not play for. In ideneb I have no problems.

[mangopeach]

I have an apple extreme base station with my Hackintosh plugged in via LAN - not wifi. I have no problems getting on the internet with dhcp but I can't use airport utility to modify any settings in my base station. I need to change some port settings but am stuck here.

 

Has anyone else experienced quirks with airport utility?

 

Are you guys (with airport gear) able to find your device and get into the control panel?