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

[raymondh]

Has anyone tried this http://www.kexts.com/view/69-gigabyte_ga-ex58-ud5.html ?

[tstm]

I did a fresh SL install on a dual-partitioned drive (first visible partition being the old 10.5.6 install and the second one being the new SL one)

 

I followed the instructions and got it to boot - once. After I completed the steps of selecting 8, 9, 10 and 11 to go to /Extra and rebooted, I'm greeted with the following lines on boot:

 

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out
Kext com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X module stop pointer is outside of kext range (stop 0x77846053 - kext at 0x81eed000-0x81ef3000)..
Kext com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X can't unload - module stop returned 0xdc008007

 

Im thinking dsmos.kext is having some kind of issues? It does load (gives some success info to the console) but it doesn't seem to work.

[sh269]

Update...

 

Since no one answered my questions, I decided it was best to follow DD scripts and reinstall OSX on the EX58 motherboard. Though I did need my original EFIX install to do this successfully since 10.4 could not run the scripts in order to install Leopard on a secondary device.

 

To my pleasant surprise it worked flawlessly. Well... almost. Everything is working on the motherboard except for one thing. My FW800 card from SIIG.

 

So my question is, does anyone know of a way to get this to work? For the time being, everything else works. On board LAN works, eSATA ports work. Just not the SIIG FW800. So if anyone could point me in the direction to get this card to work, I would be very grateful!

 

Thanks!

[LeifErikson]

Try to completely power off you computer, that might help

Does networking still work an a windows system?

 

Cheers, Mike

 

Nope, seems like my ports are messed up.

the status LED on the ports work though, so I don't know.

 

Can anyone recommend a good PCI-E NIC that'll work on OSX? inexpensive preferred

[HawgGuy]

Can anyone recommend a good PCI-E NIC that'll work on OSX? inexpensive preferred

 

Per my post 2 pages back:

 

TRENDnet Gig ethernet card for cheapskates - 12 bucks

 

 

 

Card works natively with Snow Leo 32/64 bit no extra kexts.

[knightprozac]

Nope, seems like my ports are messed up.

the status LED on the ports work though, so I don't know.

 

Can anyone recommend a good PCI-E NIC that'll work on OSX? inexpensive preferred

Update your bios man. I heard people saying the ethernet ports were buggy and sometimes stopped working in early bios versions. If the bios update doesn't fix it then press the button on the back to reset the cmos and that should fix it.

[LeifErikson]

Per my post 2 pages back:

 

TRENDnet Gig ethernet card for cheapskates - 12 bucks

 

 

 

Card works natively with Snow Leo 32/64 bit no extra kexts.

 

nice! but sadly, my only available PCI slot is occupied by my USB card and the other slot is being blocked by my GPU

 

Update your bios man. I heard people saying the ethernet ports were buggy and sometimes stopped working in early bios versions. If the bios update doesn't fix it then press the button on the back to reset the cmos and that should fix it.

 

I had F8

updated to F9E, which is the latest I saw on the site. Updated and I got 10.*.*.* IPs, still no net. but both ports say they're connected. I reset the CMOS, and then I got self assigned IPs, rebooted and back to 10.--- IPs

 

Edit: I disconnected my ethernet cables and OSX still said "Connected" with a 10. IP and a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask and no router IP. then I left my cables disconnected, rebooted and it still remains the same.., that's weird and lame

[edvardlee]

- I've long advocated that the DD script be modified to use on other motherboards.

- Guess 1: the DD script itself doesn't need to be modified, just the folders full of kexts.

- Guess 2: the dsdt utility would work on these other motherboards. Not clear to me why blackOSX uses this complicated process involving Koalala's ACPI patcher, while DD just invokes a program that creates the dsdt.aml in one shot.

- If there is enough interest I suggest we start another thread for this. Please reply, or start the thread, if you are interested. Though maybe this is the wrong place to ask.

- This current thread is already very long. To some degree discussion of non- UD5/Gigabyte/i7 motherboards has been tolerated. Maybe not as enthusiastically, or at least, there are far fewer people who own those motherboards, at least reading this thread.

- I tried to get my EP35-DS3P to work using the DD script. Got SL to install once I unchecked printers and languages. Tried using the dsdt utility, EFI string graphics, and the same set of kexts that blackOSX uses for the EP45-DS3, but I get the same kernel panic during boot.

- To answer your initial question, one sanity check for graphics is to look at Apple Menu... About This Mac... More info... Graphics/Displays and see if Quartz Extreme says Supported.

- Am I right here that with other motherboards on can simply go through the (SL) DD script including dsdt, at which point its mostly a matter of retrying different subsets of kexts until it works?

 

 

Hello there,

i would be delighted to have a thread for this DFI lan party Jr T3H6 mobo. but i can verify here everything works with the same exact kexts that DD supplies. the only one that does not work is Sound (HDA enabler) i just used voodoo.hda and i have high end audio interface cards.

 

I have heard in SL, they don't show QE and CI in system profile. or maybe it doesn't show for me because it's not supported. If anybody has a way to get ati 3870 to work with QE CI support pls post! i can't imagine why it works flawlessly on 10.5.8 but not SL? it has to be a kext driver thing and not how SL is supported. netkas has remained very silent about this too for some reason. I guess i'm gonna have to get 4870 or wait out till a new patched natit arrives.

 

I also tried GEforce 9800 GT but could not get it to work. i did EFI strings via DD's kext. but i get a "error parsing plist" on bootloader. any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yo Maj,

Your mailbox was full for a couple of days so hopefully this gets through. I did get help from the forums posting there and maybe you saw it.

 

So the post is here again, that means your mailbox is still full!

 

I gave up on trying to get the 3870 to work. i got it to boot but no QE CI support. i went over to microcenter and got a geforce 9800 GT. So i followed a couple of methods to get it working. All of them point towards getting an EFI string and sticking it in the boot.apple.com.plist.

 

1) got my efi string through aqua mac's tutorial. (i'm assuming you know what is)

2) also tried it the efi string from your script.

3) attached the efi string using your script

4) also tried attaching efi string using osx utility

 

Of course these were not done at the same time. but on seperate installs.

 

The card boots up but i get no QE CI and on bootloader i get "error parsing plist"

 

I have heard hat the 4870 card has a more convenient install method. maybe u can let me know how if you know? they are about the same price and i do prefer ATI cards. Somebody talked about just replacing device ID in 4800.kext and installing evo.enabler? can anybody verify that and maybe give better instructions?

 

I have gotten sound working with an updated vodoo.hda and i don't use ethernet. so now everything works! except darn old Graphics card. hope u can help me out.

[MC_Junkie]

Yes I want to try this, but I am a relative newbie so this is what I have done so far.

 

Formated 8gb stick and copied over your boot stick

 

Got as far as DMI pool.

 

What are the bios settings for this install?

 

Anybody want to try my USB stick image for GA-EX58-UD5 for Snowleopard 10.6 Build 10A432?

 

You can download it here: http://www.snowx86.com/downloads/Boot.dmg

I've never done this before, but I think you should be able to restore this image on a USB stick with Disk Utility.

 

What's working:

- GA-EX85-UD5

- Sound with DSDT patch found in this thread (thanks Aschar)

- ATI cards (ATY_init by Netkas)

- Ethernet

- Reboot / Shutdown (didn't try sleep)

 

Don't forget this step:

[knightprozac]

I disconnected my ethernet cables and OSX still said "Connected" with a 10. IP and a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask and no router IP. then I left my cables disconnected, rebooted and it still remains the same.., that's weird and lame

When your doing your testing you should do it in windows to eliminate the possibility of an kext incompatibility causing a problem when you've fixed the original problem. Try testing your ethernet cable on another machine that you know has working ethernet and see what happens.

 

Did your ethernet ever work? If it did, what kinds of things were you doing around the time it stopped working? If you can't get it to work in windows then try searching in windows support forums for the motherboard since it'll likely be hardware related. You might need to have it replaced on warranty.

[LeifErikson]

When your doing your testing you should do it in windows to eliminate the possibility of an kext incompatibility causing a problem when you've fixed the original problem. Try testing your ethernet cable on another machine that you know has working ethernet and see what happens.

 

Did your ethernet ever work? If it did, what kinds of things were you doing around the time it stopped working? If you can't get it to work in windows then try searching in windows support forums for the motherboard since it'll likely be hardware related. You might need to have it replaced on warranty.

 

Noted.

 

My ethernet did work. perfectly. but when I installed a new hdd and a PCI usb card it worked once i booted back and then i rebooted and it stopped. It can't be the card or the hdd, right?

[knightprozac]

My ethernet did work. perfectly. but when I installed a new hdd and a PCI usb card it worked once i booted back and then i rebooted and it stopped. It can't be the card or the hdd, right?

It could possibly be an incompatibility with the card, although it's unlikely. Still it wouldn't hurt to disconnect both the HD and the card and see what happens.

[tstm]

It appears that the 4.0 RC installer does not work from inside Snow Leopard. I have SL installed on my MacBook Pro, and I'm trying to install SL on my desktop disk via USB. The SL install does not have all the files required to run the script, I get the following error in install.log:

 

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

 

And when listing what's inside /usr/standalone/i386 I get:

Firmware.scap boot.efi

 

The whole fdisk section of the logfile goes as follows:

 

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> Disk: /dev/disk3	geometry: 77825/255/63 [1250263728 sectors]
Offset: 0	Signature: 0xAA55
	 Starting	   Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [	 start -	   size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [		 1 - 1250263727] <Unknown ID>
2: 00	0   0   0 -	0   0   0 [		 0 -		  0] unused	  
3: 00	0   0   0 -	0   0   0 [		 0 -		  0] unused	  
4: 00	0   0   0 -	0   0   0 [		 0 -		  0] unused	  
fdisk: 1> Partition 1 marked active.
fdisk:*1> Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1> Invalid command 'y'.  Try 'help'.
fdisk: 1>

 

Is there any way to go around this issue for now?

[Windows04]

Hi Digital_Dreamer, are you gonna build support for the Chameleon RC3 in your script?

[digital_dreamer]

It appears that the 4.0 RC installer does not work from inside Snow Leopard. I have SL installed on my MacBook Pro, and I'm trying to install SL on my desktop disk via USB. The SL install does not have all the files required to run the script, I get the following error in install.log:

 

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

 

And when listing what's inside /usr/standalone/i386 I get:

Firmware.scap boot.efi

 

The whole fdisk section of the logfile goes as follows:

 

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> Disk: /dev/disk3	geometry: 77825/255/63 [1250263728 sectors]
Offset: 0	Signature: 0xAA55
	 Starting	   Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [	 start -	   size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [		 1 - 1250263727] <Unknown ID>
2: 00	0   0   0 -	0   0   0 [		 0 -		  0] unused	  
3: 00	0   0   0 -	0   0   0 [		 0 -		  0] unused	  
4: 00	0   0   0 -	0   0   0 [		 0 -		  0] unused	  
fdisk: 1> Partition 1 marked active.
fdisk:*1> Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1> Invalid command 'y'.  Try 'help'.
fdisk: 1>

 

Is there any way to go around this issue for now?

The "could not open MBR file" error is meaningless, as we are not writing with a new MBR file, but merely editing existing MBR sectors.

EDIT:

I'll add that the error simply states that the boot code isn't available for writing Intel bootable partitions. Apple doesn't use that code anyway, as the EFI boot code is built into the firmware.

 

As for the "Invalid command 'y'" error, fdisk is in 'interactive' mode. If the partition you are wishing to set active is not able to unmount, fdisk will ask if you want to write the update anyway, at which point we would say "yes" with a 'y'. However, because the partition was able to successfully unmount, the "yes" response is invalid in this case and, therefore, ignored. I try to cover all cases.

 

There's nothing wrong with this log. Are you experiencing issues with setting a partition active?

 

Hi Digital_Dreamer, are you gonna build support for the Chameleon RC3 in your script?

It's already included.

Plan up getting the new thread up TODAY!

 

MAJ

[vahtryn]

Yes I want to try this, but I am a relative newbie so this is what I have done so far.

 

Formated 8gb stick and copied over your boot stick

 

Got as far as DMI pool.

 

What are the bios settings for this install?

 

I'm in the same boat. I get to verifying DMI pool data and just sits there. I can't even boot off of USB anymore. I have to go switch to raid, then create a volume to erase the drive. Then set it back to AHCI in order to boot off USB again.

 

-edit-

 

Booted off the flash key and all is good, can get to the operating system. Install chameleon 2.0RC3 and I get this:

 

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: testing

boot0: done

boot1: error

[mcloki]

Thank you for the guide. I got my PC up and running. It's running 10.5.7 fine right now and before I start to update to Snow Leopard, I'm going to make another backup 10.5.7 partition just in case anything goes wrong.

 

Thanks a ton.

[tstm]

There's nothing wrong with this log. Are you experiencing issues with setting a partition active?

I found the bug in the script that was causing problems. The unmount_EFI() function did not properly unmount the EFI partition in SL, and thus the rm -rf command in the same function deleted the whole directory and all contents. What I did, was change the row

umount /Volumes/EFI > "$TEST_LOG" 2>&1

 

to:

 

diskutil unmount /Volumes/EFI > "$TEST_LOG" 2>&1

 

and got significantly further. I still have some issues with graphics (Radeon 4870). The SL installation sounds come up fine (and it responds to keyboard etc), but the screen stays at the verbose command prompt..

[morganpl]

#1

 

Question (DD, anyone)? 

 

 

I only lick the DSDT. The script has found a fixs only added to the DSDT: HPET and RTC. Is DSDT was still something rich? Other changes?

 

Can anyone modify the DSDT for graphics, audio and network for UD5 (adding, of course, previously DTGP Method)? What do you think in conjunction with the Snow-em ....?

 

If your question was not sorry!

 

 

#2

 

Does anyone have KP despite SleepEnabler.kext is installed in S / L / E to wake up your computer?

 

#3

 

Does anyone have a mouse lag when running iTunes? (when play music, streem etc)

[knightprozac]

It's already included.

Plan up getting the new thread up TODAY!

 

MAJ

Your freakin awesome man. I dunno how you manage to keep so up to date with everything.

[digital_dreamer]

Does anyone know why the forum is not accepting new topics? Or, may there be some criteria that needs to be met before the thread is posted? I've tried posting the new thread a few times, but no luck, it just returns to the main Tutorial page. Is there a limit to just one topic per user, or something?

 

MAJ

 

tstm,

Thanks for your comments. That issue has been fixed a while back and is the result of not forcing the unmount when it fails. I don't know of anyone using the 'diskutil unmount' command for the EFI partition. The 'umount' is lightweight and incredibly quick, which is rather valuable when you have to check for the existence of a boot.plist in all EFI partitions on a system without a noticeable delay.

[LeifErikson]

It could possibly be an incompatibility with the card, although it's unlikely. Still it wouldn't hurt to disconnect both the HD and the card and see what happens.

 

I don't know why I didn't try it before, but I removed the PCI USB card and it worked. I guess it was recognizing the USB card as a NIC? I don't know, but the point is, is that it works now. thanks a ton guys

 

If anyone cares, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16815166001 that's the USB card I installed.

 

Sweet, now to try and upgrade to Snow Leopard on my second hdd.

 

On another note,I have another small problem, sometimes my video goes out, I get like pink lines and sometimes other colours. I'm using an nvidia 9800GTX+ 512MB and the NVkush.kext

 

usually it happens when video editing or using photoshop

 

[digital_dreamer]

I only lick the DSDT. The script has found a fixs only added to the DSDT: HPET and RTC. Is DSDT was still something rich? Other changes?

Come again? I hope you're sober.

 

Can anyone modify the DSDT for graphics, audio and network for UD5 (adding, of course, previously DTGP Method)? What do you think in conjunction with the Snow-em ....?

Yes, that has been done. Was that your question?

I plan on implementing those hacks for the DSDT in a future release of the script.

Does anyone have KP despite SleepEnabler.kext is installed in S / L / E to wake up your computer?

Not tested.

Does anyone have a mouse lag when running iTunes? (when play music, streem etc)

Sounds like you have a nVidia graphics card. Is this from Snow Leopard?

You probably need a disabler that includes a blacklist for the AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext, or you can just delete it from S/L/E.

 

regards,

MAJ

[TwistedSystems]

Does anyone know why the forum is not accepting new topics? Or, may there be some criteria that needs to be met before the thread is posted? I've tried posting the new thread a few times, but no luck, it just returns to the main Tutorial page. Is there a limit to just one topic per user, or something?

 

MAJ

 

This might explain the no go on posting new topics. Rules state that existing topics can be commented on, but new topics will have to be approved before they are posted. Maybe pm a mod and ask for it to be approved, without having to wait so long. Hope it helps.

[morganpl]

MAY sorry, may be poorly expressed .... I began to learn about editing DSDT and add the hacks to handle ALC889A, 8111D, and graphics card for my/our EX58-UD5. I read that, I need to add DTGP Method in DSDT, because without the hacks for video, net, audio, etc. will not work. I edited the DSDT from /Extra and did not find DTGP. (installed snow thanks to your script ... thx). You wrote that you plan to add the hacks in the future, and it is great news:)

 

Sounds like you have a nVidia graphics card. Is this from Snow Leopard?

You probably need a disabler that includes a blacklist for the AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext, or you can just delete it from S/L/E.

regards,

MAJ

 

I downloaded THIS kext, but after adding the system had lost my network card (in general was not present). After throwing kexta update the boot cache, restart, the situation has not changed. Switched off the computer, disconnected the power, and repeatedly pressed the POWER. When I restart, network card to work properly obtained and renewed the IP from router (DHCP with static IP assignment) 

I turned off kest from terminal: 

sudo -s
  kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext/
  mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext/ /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUpstreamUserClient.disabled/

and is ok, only the KP after awakening ....this is not a rule that every time I wake up the KP, is once and another time the system wakes up properly. I'll picture it will add to the post.