[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[LocusOfControl]

I'm not finding "cpus=1" in the boot.plist but this brings up a good question. Just which com.apple.boot.plist is being used?

 

To narrow things down, I disconnected 2 of my 3 hard drives so only the drive with SL is connected. I tried restarting the computer and I get this:

 

boot 0: GPT

boot 0: testing

boot 0: testing

boot 0: error

 

 

I manually installed Chameleon and it still won't boot. Maybe I'll try one more time with your script and see what happens.

 

But here lies my confusion. There are 3 potential com.apple.boot.plist files that could be involved here.

 

1. The one on the Empire EFI cd I'm using to boot the machine.

2. The one in the /Extra folder on my hard drive.

3. The one in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration on my hard drive.

 

I've double checked all three and none have "cpus=1". As a matter of fact, none of them have "-v" in the KernelFlags section either yet when my computer boots, it's always in verbose mode.

 

So can someone help me out here. When I boot off the Empire EFI cd and then select my SL installation from the list I'm presented with, just what com.apple.boot.plist file is being used when SL boots? One would presume the one in /Extra but why is it booting in verbose mode when I don't have the "-v" switch in the KernelFlags section?

 

Thanks again for everyone's help!

 

 

It may be a silly question but are you sure you have all cpu cores enabled in your bios?

 

CPU Cores Enabled under MB Intelligent Tweaker

 

options are 1, 2, 3, 4 cores

 

 

also do yourself a favour and download the chameleon RC2 package and manually install it as per smc13 suggestion

There are instructions in the RC2 package - you will need to use the RC 3 or better boot file or netkas PCEFI boot file

as the RC2 boot file won't boot SL

 

If you do that then you will be able to boot from your HD and you will know which boot.plist is being used

 

I'm guessing your seeing verbose because you haven't got any themes on your CD?

[pcace]

Are you really using RealtekR1000.kext ?

 

Is it really installed in /Extra as your picture shows

 

Are you running in 32 bit mode or 64 bit mode?

 

Have you tried turning the power switch off for 30 s?

 

Hi,

it doesnt help me. I installed it to my Sys folder... but still no Ethernet. Im running the system in 64bit mode. And i plugged off the power cord for ~10 minutes....

 

Anything else i can do?

 

Thanks!

 

 

PS.: in the bootlog everything about the realtek LAN is:

 

1/23/10 11:36:15 AM	kernel	com_chucko_R1000: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:77:de:6f
1/23/10 11:36:15 AM	kernel	com_chucko_RealtekR1000: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:77:de:6d
1/23/10 11:36:15 AM	kernel	AirPort_Brcm43xx: Ethernet address 00:22:15:56:b3:30

 

Looks like it works.. but it doesnt...

[_lenI_]

Hi,

 

I used this pack, for installing SL to a Intel WX58BP mobo with i7-950 and a ATI 4870 and I have almost success.

Unfortunately the under SL the SATA drives can't be seen. So, right now I have a thumbdrive with SL! Lol! But I can't install directly the SL to the SATA HDD, because of, I do not know why.

 

( Off course BIOS switched to AHCI mode and I try manual edit of kext config files, because of the ICH10R bridge, but the hardware can't be seen, and the SL says in the Sysprofiler: There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices!)

 

If anybody has idea where, can I find some help, please feel free!

Anyway the pack is very good, thx for this!

 

[uPDATE 01.24 - 13:16 CET]

Reinstall with a MAC OSX V10.6 RETAIL (2Z691-6428-A) Succes with WX58BP!

I use a MacBook and a Verbatim 8GB Thumbdrive for the preparation, and this package.

I use recommended parameters, but after KEXT creation I Remove JMicron KEXT because of the lack of this dev. on the MOBO.

I switch every CORE on and activate HPET in bios.

 

After all, the boot up, installer started, and after the START a window appeared, that says something was not be able to initialized. I do not exactly remember the words, but I choose Intitialize, because it was the AHCI subsystem. After choice, DiskUtility started automaticly, and I start HDD partitioning.

After this I run the patch installer to the HDD, and install OSX to there.

 

...

[LocusOfControl]

Hi,

it doesnt help me. I installed it to my Sys folder... but still no Ethernet. Im running the system in 64bit mode. And i plugged off the power cord for ~10 minutes....

 

Anything else i can do?

 

Thanks!

 

 

PS.: in the bootlog everything about the realtek LAN is:

 

1/23/10 11:36:15 AM	kernel	com_chucko_R1000: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:77:de:6f
1/23/10 11:36:15 AM	kernel	com_chucko_RealtekR1000: Ethernet address 00:24:1d:77:de:6d
1/23/10 11:36:15 AM	kernel	AirPort_Brcm43xx: Ethernet address 00:22:15:56:b3:30

 

Looks like it works.. but it doesnt...

 

Check your network settings in system preferences, do you have an IP address?

 

Hi,

 

I used this pack, for installing SL to a Intel WX58BP mobo with i7-950 and a ATI 4870 and I have almost success.

Unfortunately the under SL the SATA drives can't be seen. So, right now I have a thumbdrive with SL! Lol! But I can't install directly the SL to the SATA HDD, because of, I do not know why.

 

( Off course BIOS switched to AHCI mode and I try manual edit of kext config files, because of the ICH10R bridge, but the hardware can't be seen, and the SL says in the Sysprofiler: There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices!)

 

If anybody has idea where, can I find some help, please feel free!

Anyway the pack is very good, thx for this!

 

 

Make sure you are using the blue sata ports with AHCI enabled

[InsanelyOne]

It may be a silly question but are you sure you have all cpu cores enabled in your bios?

 

CPU Cores Enabled under MB Intelligent Tweaker

 

options are 1, 2, 3, 4 cores

 

 

also do yourself a favour and download the chameleon RC2 package and manually install it as per smc13 suggestion

There are instructions in the RC2 package - you will need to use the RC 3 or better boot file or netkas PCEFI boot file

as the RC2 boot file won't boot SL

 

If you do that then you will be able to boot from your HD and you will know which boot.plist is being used

 

I'm guessing your seeing verbose because you haven't got any themes on your CD?

 

 

All cores are enabled. I have the same issue whether or not hyperthreading is turned on.

 

I've ruled out a hardware problem. I installed Vista and it shows all the cpu cores as expected. CPU-Z reports nothing out of the ordinary and also shows 4 cores.

 

I've tried over and over installing the bootloader on my drive to no avail. It refused to boot directly from the drive. I started over on a second hard drive and installed SL using DD's script. Exact same issues on the second install. Refuses to boot off the drive. Regardless of whether I set the drive as the initial boot drive, whether I set it to boot from HD before CDROM in the BIOS. No matter what, I can not boot off of my HD's. As a matter of fact, the one and only way I can boot is off of the Empire EFI boot CD. I've tried about 4 other boot CD, including using the one created by DD's script and the machine will not boot. FYI, the drives are plugged into the blue SATA sockets, not the white ones.

 

I'm getting awfully discouraged.... I've never had so many problems with a Hackintosh. I specifically choose this hardware because I thought it would be easy to setup. I'm horrified at the thought of having to run Windows.

 

Thanks again to all that have offered suggestions.... any other suggestions are appreciated.

 

(Just as a side note, I'm a very experienced software engineer with over 25 yrs working in Unix, Windows, and OS X. In the past that has served me well with figuring out problems but this time I'm baffled.)

[LocusOfControl]

All cores are enabled. I have the same issue whether or not hyperthreading is turned on.

 

I've ruled out a hardware problem. I installed Vista and it shows all the cpu cores as expected. CPU-Z reports nothing out of the ordinary and also shows 4 cores.

 

I've tried over and over installing the bootloader on my drive to no avail. It refused to boot directly from the drive. I started over on a second hard drive and installed SL using DD's script. Exact same issues on the second install. Refuses to boot off the drive. Regardless of whether I set the drive as the initial boot drive, whether I set it to boot from HD before CDROM in the BIOS. No matter what, I can not boot off of my HD's. As a matter of fact, the one and only way I can boot is off of the Empire EFI boot CD. I've tried about 4 other boot CD, including using the one created by DD's script and the machine will not boot. FYI, the drives are plugged into the blue SATA sockets, not the white ones.

 

I'm getting awfully discouraged.... I've never had so many problems with a Hackintosh. I specifically choose this hardware because I thought it would be easy to setup. I'm horrified at the thought of having to run Windows.

 

Thanks again to all that have offered suggestions.... any other suggestions are appreciated.

 

(Just as a side note, I'm a very experienced software engineer with over 25 yrs working in Unix, Windows, and OS X. In the past that has served me well with figuring out problems but this time I'm baffled.)

 

My experience was a bit similar the first time I installed chameleon

 

what is location and the cksum for your boot file?

 

 

I found that most problems I had were basically as follows

 

1 - boot file in wrong place, I'm guessing yours is in / if you are using /Extra ?

2 - wrong boot file

3 - wrong permission on / mine is 755 Root Wheel

4 - UUID of boot disk doesn't match value in boot.plist

5 - wrong permission of some file in the /Extra directory or sub directories - should be 755 Root Wheel

6 - Is your drive bootable?

7 - wrong or missing kexts in Extensions

8 - permissions on kexts (including contents)

 

seems a bit magical at first but it's only a unix hack - I came from a unix mainframe background too,

(system V and BSD on Sparc's) you'll get used to it after a while, just common sense really

 

When you boot from your hard disk with -v do you not even see the quick scrolling text followed by the

kexts loading?

 

Are there any other messages?

[everdone]

All cores are enabled. I have the same issue whether or not hyperthreading is turned on.

 

I've ruled out a hardware problem. I installed Vista and it shows all the cpu cores as expected. CPU-Z reports nothing out of the ordinary and also shows 4 cores.

 

I've tried over and over installing the bootloader on my drive to no avail. It refused to boot directly from the drive. I started over on a second hard drive and installed SL using DD's script. Exact same issues on the second install. Refuses to boot off the drive. Regardless of whether I set the drive as the initial boot drive, whether I set it to boot from HD before CDROM in the BIOS. No matter what, I can not boot off of my HD's. As a matter of fact, the one and only way I can boot is off of the Empire EFI boot CD. I've tried about 4 other boot CD, including using the one created by DD's script and the machine will not boot. FYI, the drives are plugged into the blue SATA sockets, not the white ones.

 

I'm getting awfully discouraged.... I've never had so many problems with a Hackintosh. I specifically choose this hardware because I thought it would be easy to setup. I'm horrified at the thought of having to run Windows.

 

Thanks again to all that have offered suggestions.... any other suggestions are appreciated.

 

(Just as a side note, I'm a very experienced software engineer with over 25 yrs working in Unix, Windows, and OS X. In the past that has served me well with figuring out problems but this time I'm baffled.)

 

I would suggest that you begin again. Start with only one HD installed. Use the working bootCD and get into the SL installer. Use DiskUtilities and partition the HD (partition, do not merely Erase) however you desire (I normally use only one partition). Install SL without print drivers and extra languages. When done reboot using the bootCD. Open the plist folder in DD's install folder and make sure the boot.plist is configured as you desire. Run DD's script to install a boot loader, make drive active, install kexts and DSDT mod. Exit the script, remove the bootCD and restart the computer. The computer should boot into SL.

[InsanelyOne]

My experience was a bit similar the first time I installed chameleon

 

what is location and the cksum for your boot file?

 

 

I found that most problems I had were basically as follows

 

1 - boot file in wrong place, I'm guessing yours is in / if you are using /Extra ?

2 - wrong boot file

3 - wrong permission on / mine is 755 Root Wheel

4 - UUID of boot disk doesn't match value in boot.plist

5 - wrong permission of some file in the /Extra directory or sub directories - should be 755 Root Wheel

6 - Is your drive bootable?

7 - wrong or missing kexts in Extensions

8 - permissions on kexts (including contents)

 

seems a bit magical at first but it's only a unix hack - I came from a unix mainframe background too,

(system V and BSD on Sparc's) you'll get used to it after a while, just common sense really

 

When you boot from your hard disk with -v do you not even see the quick scrolling text followed by the

kexts loading?

 

Are there any other messages?

 

So far no matter what I've done, when I attempt to boot from my hard drives I get this:

 

boot 0: GPT

boot 0: testing

boot 0: testing

boot 0: error

 

 

 

Now other weird {censored} is happening. When I boot my (sort of) working SL installation it takes 4-5 minutes to come up. When I check the console log I see this:

1/23/10 8:07:49 PM	VMware Fusion Start Menu[211]	Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	/usr/libexec/hidd[60]	Timeout waiting for IOKit to be quiet 
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	/usr/libexec/hidd[60]	IOHIDEventQueueCreate: Unable to allocate queue memory from IOHIDSystem. (0x10000003) 
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	WindowServer[85]	Unable to create event queue via hidd: (0xe00002bd)

 

As you can see there was a 4 minute lag... during that time the computer was just showing a blue screen and was unresponsive.

 

And now when I boot using the Empire EFI boot cd and then pop in the Snow Leopard install disc, it does the same thing. Takes about 5 minutes for the first screen to appear (where you choose the installation language). But the screen is totally unresponsive so now I can't even do an install that way.

 

Going to try again doing an install onto a different (smaller) HD using DD's script.

 

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Update: SUCCESS AT LAST!!!

 

I did the install on my 500GB Western Digital drive and everything worked exactly as advertised. My system is fully functional and booting off the hard drive.

 

For whatever reason it wouldn't work on either of my 1.5 TB Seagate drives.

 

 

Thanks again to everyone for your input and advice. Persistence paid off!

[LocusOfControl]

So far no matter what I've done, when I attempt to boot from my hard drives I get this:

 

boot 0: GPT

boot 0: testing

boot 0: testing

boot 0: error

 

 

 

Now other weird {censored} is happening. When I boot my (sort of) working SL installation it takes 4-5 minutes to come up. When I check the console log I see this:

1/23/10 8:07:49 PM	VMware Fusion Start Menu[211]	Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	/usr/libexec/hidd[60]	Timeout waiting for IOKit to be quiet 
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	/usr/libexec/hidd[60]	IOHIDEventQueueCreate: Unable to allocate queue memory from IOHIDSystem. (0x10000003) 
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	WindowServer[85]	Unable to create event queue via hidd: (0xe00002bd)

 

As you can see there was a 4 minute lag... during that time the computer was just showing a blue screen and was unresponsive.

 

And now when I boot using the Empire EFI boot cd and then pop in the Snow Leopard install disc, it does the same thing. Takes about 5 minutes for the first screen to appear (where you choose the installation language). But the screen is totally unresponsive so now I can't even do an install that way.

 

Going to try again doing an install onto a different (smaller) HD using DD's script.

 

If I were you or anyone with unix terminal experience I would take a clean fat 32 formatted HD, attach it to

your ex58-ud5 blue sata port. Boot into SL by whatever works for you and manually install SL & chameleon

onto the new HD (having first formatted it as HFS+ & GUID). If you have access to SL you already have the

hard part done!

[pcace]

Check your network settings in system preferences, do you have an IP address?

 

no. no IP adress. The stange thing is, that there is an MAC Adress...

 

P.

[InsanelyOne]

If I were you or anyone with unix terminal experience I would take a clean fat 32 formatted HD, attach it to

your ex58-ud5 blue sata port. Boot into SL by whatever works for you and manually install SL & chameleon

onto the new HD (having first formatted it as HFS+ & GUID). If you have access to SL you already have the

hard part done!

 

Guess I updated my post after you responded. All is well now... for whatever reason I couldn't get SL to boot on my 1.5 TB drives.

[Rob7R]

All cores are enabled. I have the same issue whether or not hyperthreading is turned on.

 

I've ruled out a hardware problem. I installed Vista and it shows all the cpu cores as expected. CPU-Z reports nothing out of the ordinary and also shows 4 cores.

 

I've tried over and over installing the bootloader on my drive to no avail. It refused to boot directly from the drive. I started over on a second hard drive and installed SL using DD's script. Exact same issues on the second install. Refuses to boot off the drive. Regardless of whether I set the drive as the initial boot drive, whether I set it to boot from HD before CDROM in the BIOS. No matter what, I can not boot off of my HD's. As a matter of fact, the one and only way I can boot is off of the Empire EFI boot CD. I've tried about 4 other boot CD, including using the one created by DD's script and the machine will not boot. FYI, the drives are plugged into the blue SATA sockets, not the white ones.

 

I'm getting awfully discouraged.... I've never had so many problems with a Hackintosh. I specifically choose this hardware because I thought it would be easy to setup. I'm horrified at the thought of having to run Windows.

 

Thanks again to all that have offered suggestions.... any other suggestions are appreciated.

 

(Just as a side note, I'm a very experienced software engineer with over 25 yrs working in Unix, Windows, and OS X. In the past that has served me well with figuring out problems but this time I'm baffled.)

 

 

Use the bootloader installer included on the Empire EFI disk. Mount the DVD and browse the disk to the "post Installation" folder. Run the bootloader installer in this folder & point to HDD. Reboot and then it should allow boot from HDD. Once your able to boot successfully from the HDD then you can run DD's script to install his bootloader. I had to do it this way for some reason.

[atlee]

Digital Dreamer your a good man, i haven't been in the MacOS x86 scene for a while now but since i just bought a new core i7 lately i have been reading into your topic for a while and successfully installed Snow leopard 10.6 retail and updated to 10.6.2, Your script installer works perfect for my board.

 

Specs:

GA-X58-UDR3 - Working

6GB DDR3 1600Mhz Corsair XMS C9 - Working

Core i7 920 @ 2.7Ghz - Working

Sound ALC888 - Not working, will read into it soon

Geforce 9800GT 512MB QI/CE Enabled - Working

Realtek LAN - Working

DVD Burner - Working

Firewire - Working

SATA - Working

 

My CPU shows at correct speed, memory at correct speed and Video card also 100% working.

 

Bootloader used - Chammelon RC3 as this is the only version that detects my hardware correctly.

 

DIGITAL can i force this system to load 64bit? any advantage?

[LocusOfControl]

no. no IP adress. The stange thing is, that there is an MAC Adress...

 

P.

 

 

So why don't you try to configure it manually then to see what happens?

 

Or try pressing the assist me button

[fallchild]

My audio didnt work so i dragged HDAenabler.kext and LegacyHDA.kext over to kext utility and it installed them to s/l/e and i rebooted. Audio worked fine but then somewhere down the line i rebooted and then the audio didnt work anymore. I repeated what i did again and still no audio. Any ideas?

[VirusX]

hey, I'm back and still struggling getting 5.1 surround sound to work. as described above, voodooHDA.kext is in system and appleHDA.kext is removed as well as any other audio kexts!

I even installed a "voodooHDA.prefpane". (attached)

could someone with working 5.1 sound point me in the right direction and/or upload their kext(s)?

thanks in advance!

if someone is interested, I succeeded!

5.1 surround sound with AppleHDA and HDAEnabler from D_D's script in S/L/E and the following guide:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=87336&st=0

[AutumnJazz]

How do I prepare my flash drive? Format it like the lifehacker guide explains? (Then, of course, using the script from the OP.)

[fallchild]

Thats cool Virusx but.. how do i go about getting any sound at all. I installed HDAenabler, LegacyHDA.kext and i just tried Voodoohda.kext. Still no luck. I installed using kext utility

[CruiSAr]

Does this use PC EFI?

Does what use PC EFi?

[AutumnJazz]

I'm trying to install via an 8gig USB key, and I'm running into some difficulties. I formatted the USB flash drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I choose Extra, Chameleon RC4, and then install from retail. I can get into the installer, continue, accept, etc. choose the USB key, and so on. Then I get an error, "An unknown installation error occurred." I tried it a few times, same error. Any ideas?

 

Installing on a Macbook with 10.6 (vanilla, no updates).

[_lenI_]

How do I prepare my flash drive? Format it like the lifehacker guide explains? (Then, of course, using the script from the OP.)

 

Yes! But U should use a OSX DiskUtility for partitioning, or any other sw which can create GIUD partition map.

So, DiskUtility is the best way! After partitioning, close DiskUtility and start the X58 script and go on step by step!

Do not forget point 3 witch activate the partition for boot!

 

Good luck!

 

I'm trying to install via an 8gig USB key, and I'm running into some difficulties. I formatted the USB flash drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I choose Extra, Chameleon RC4, and then install from retail. I can get into the installer, continue, accept, etc. choose the USB key, and so on. Then I get an error, "An unknown installation error occurred." I tried it a few times, same error. Any ideas?

 

Installing on a Macbook with 10.6 (vanilla, no updates).

 

As I experienced it is because default install need more than the space available on the thumb drive! So, when U start the installer, U should customize the installation! U will find a customize button (at bottom on left side on the installer window ) after U select the destination drive. May it is in the same window, unfortunately I do not remember, but it is there! After pushin' U will get the customizable list, and opt out multilang, print support, almost everything but essential components.

 

Good luck!

 

I'm trying to install via an 8gig USB key, and I'm running into some difficulties. I formatted the USB flash drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I choose Extra, Chameleon RC4, and then install from retail. I can get into the installer, continue, accept, etc. choose the USB key, and so on. Then I get an error, "An unknown installation error occurred." I tried it a few times, same error. Any ideas?

 

Installing on a Macbook with 10.6 (vanilla, no updates).

 

As I experienced it is because default install need more than the space available on the thumb drive! So, when U start the installer, U should customize the installation! U will find a customize button (at bottom on left side on the installer window ) after U select the destination drive. May it is in the same window, unfortunately I do not remember, but it is there! After pushin' U will get the customizable list, and opt out multilang, print support, almost everything but essential components.

 

Good luck!

[VirusX]

Thats cool Virusx but.. how do i go about getting any sound at all. I installed HDAenabler, LegacyHDA.kext and i just tried Voodoohda.kext. Still no luck. I installed using kext utility

hey fallchild,

try HDAEnabler.kext AND AppleHDA.kext included in D_D's script in System/Lib/Extensions.

remove legacy and voodoo first! I read that they block each other from loading correctly. e.g. with applehda in S/L/E, voodoohda won't load properly.

If you still have AppleHDA.kext in /S/L/E, then Voodoo.kext won't load.

another method would be using DSDT-patching:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...097&st=660#

 

btw: do you have the right kexts?!

I hazard to guess you don't have the 10.6.2 version of AppleHDA.kext, which is what is needed to work with the supplied audio kexts in the script. Remove any current AppleHDA.kext you have in S/L/E, including any that have the .orginal or .duplicate suffix.

Then, download the 10.6.2 version of AppleHDA.kext. Drop into S/L/E, repair permissions and reboot.

 

best regards,

MAJ

[digital_dreamer]

Now other weird {censored} is happening. When I boot my (sort of) working SL installation it takes 4-5 minutes to come up. When I check the console log I see this:

1/23/10 8:07:49 PM	VMware Fusion Start Menu[211]	Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	/usr/libexec/hidd[60]	Timeout waiting for IOKit to be quiet 
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	/usr/libexec/hidd[60]	IOHIDEventQueueCreate: Unable to allocate queue memory from IOHIDSystem. (0x10000003) 
1/23/10 8:11:35 PM	WindowServer[85]	Unable to create event queue via hidd: (0xe00002bd)

 

As you can see there was a 4 minute lag... during that time the computer was just showing a blue screen and was unresponsive.

I had a issue like this on a Apple motherboard. The Firewire port was fried and the boot time was an extra 3-4 minutes, followed by the log message "Timeout waiting for IOKit to be quiet." I guess in your case, it was lack of support for >1TB drives in the bootloader you were installing.

 

Guess I updated my post after you responded. All is well now... for whatever reason I couldn't get SL to boot on my 1.5 TB drives.

Wish we could have told you before and saved you the trouble, but the older versions of Chameleon (RC2?) lacked support for >1TB drives. Oh, well.

 

...Your script installer works perfect for my board.

 

DIGITAL can i force this system to load 64bit? any advantage?

Cool.

Just remove the "arch=i386" from the kernel flags in the boot plist and the bootloader will attempt boot into 64-bit by default.

 

regards,

MAJ

[AutumnJazz]

Yes! But U should use a OSX DiskUtility for partitioning, or any other sw which can create GIUD partition map.

So, DiskUtility is the best way! After partitioning, close DiskUtility and start the X58 script and go on step by step!

Do not forget point 3 witch activate the partition for boot!

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

As I experienced it is because default install need more than the space available on the thumb drive! So, when U start the installer, U should customize the installation! U will find a customize button (at bottom on left side on the installer window ) after U select the destination drive. May it is in the same window, unfortunately I do not remember, but it is there! After pushin' U will get the customizable list, and opt out multilang, print support, almost everything but essential components.

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

As I experienced it is because default install need more than the space available on the thumb drive! So, when U start the installer, U should customize the installation! U will find a customize button (at bottom on left side on the installer window ) after U select the destination drive. May it is in the same window, unfortunately I do not remember, but it is there! After pushin' U will get the customizable list, and opt out multilang, print support, almost everything but essential components.

 

Good luck!

 

Awesome, thanks! I'll try it in a bit.

[atlee]

Ok Digital so i removed the flag and wulla now my sanow leopard has booted into 64bit kernel so now it's loaded all 64bit extensions, my video has gone to 1024x768, GFX no longer recognised, Do i have to go find a 64bit modified file? For Video and Sound?

 

Well i used your DSDT patcher i know we have different boards but UDR3 and UDR5 pretty much exactly the same except for memory slots and diff board heatsinks.

 

Well after patching i can boot but i can not restart no more and it hangs, doesn't kernal panic but hangs, pauses on little loading circle, CMOS hasn't reset yet but i guess i will just read how to patch DSDT to match my board so i can get my GFX, Sound, LAN working.

 

LAN is fully working, GFX and Sound isn't. Also i'm running 10.6.2 so my GFX went back to not recognised.

 

***Update, Shutdown works, Restart doesn't but my Motherboards CMOS does not reset no more so awsome, what a pain that was.

 

Kind regards

Josh