[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[LocusOfControl]

Three questions, for those with the EX58-UD5 + 10.6.2:

 

1. What are your typical startup times?
    
    
   
2. Does chameleon/variant have an oddly slow phase, before osX begins loading?
   ...eg. when typing boot options, the keypresses register with noticeable delay, and the "loading extensions.mkext" messages appear slower than later phases of the boot process.
    
    
   
3. Do you have device removal errors, with usb drives, after waking from hibernate? (not sleep)
   ...Note: I had to compile a modified chameleon variant before hibernate would work -- modification of aserebln's.
   

 

31 seconds between first and last message - it was 25s when I was using onboard LAN

 

Not really

 

 

I don't recall having this error on my board - although there lots of threads of you search for people with I think

ICH9 boards

[Sidewinder33]

Hey guys I have noticed something I read about oh so many pages ago on page 82, about someone having issues with their DVD drive polling/ checking for a disk randomly. It doesnt appear that that question was ever answered and I've noticed that my drive is doing it now also. Any ideas, has anyone else experienced this same drive access issue?

[LocusOfControl]

Hey guys I have noticed something I read about oh so many pages ago on page 82, about someone having issues with their DVD drive polling/ checking for a disk randomly. It doesnt appear that that question was ever answered and I've noticed that my drive is doing it now also. Any ideas, has anyone else experienced this same drive access issue?

 

My DVD drive is the really only flakey piece of kit I have at the moment

 

I used to have this and it used to cause a really annoying vibration that got worse until I touched the case, I

stuck a piece of folded card between the drive and the chassis. Since I got sleep working it doesn't happen

anymore. Instead the burner capability disappears and the drive doesn't open reliably after wake from sleep

 

Mind you if you look at the official apple support pages there are lots of people complaining about dvd drives in SL

 

This is what mine says - not heard of any fixes

 

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-216D:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.08

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 2000 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

[CruiSAr]

Hey guys I have noticed something I read about oh so many pages ago on page 82, about someone having issues with their DVD drive polling/ checking for a disk randomly. It doesnt appear that that question was ever answered and I've noticed that my drive is doing it now also. Any ideas, has anyone else experienced this same drive access issue?

My DVD drive does not exhibit this behaviour, it works flawlessly. I have a pioneer BL-DVD drive

[atlee]

Hey guys I have noticed something I read about oh so many pages ago on page 82, about someone having issues with their DVD drive polling/ checking for a disk randomly. It doesnt appear that that question was ever answered and I've noticed that my drive is doing it now also. Any ideas, has anyone else experienced this same drive access issue?

 

This is a guide section, that question should be posted in existing 10.6 install section, Anyway that DVD drive would be kext related ATA kext or SATA, basically something to do with a controller, That drive is popular i run a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-216. Does everything perfectly.

 

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Also i'm now using VoodooHDA.kext, IOAudioFamily.kext and OSvKernDSPLib.kext from /Extra folder, audio loads perfectly in Snow Leopard 64bit, Sound is perfect, clearer and much louder, Also i put the machine to sleep and woke it up, audio still perfect, Connections in Control panel show perfectly. Front audio and mic, Rear green out, Rear mic out, SPDIF-in and out. all good for me

 

DSDT + VoodooHDA, GFX String...I think i have a perfect setup now

[star-affinity]

ok well for audio i got everything working, DSDT + LegacyHDA.kext with removed BuiltInHDA key so now that it fully works with vanilla AppleHDA.kext 1.7.9a4 , 4 outs 2 ins, Green Headphones/Speakers, Pink Mic, Line-in, Digital, other holes for a 5.1 system which hasn't been tested but will do when i get myself a 5.1 set but i'm sure it will work by joining all 3 connections in the midi section.

 

I have the UD5, but can you please tell how you did it? How do i remove the built in BuiltInHDA key?

I'd alo like to try make it work with the vanilla AppleHDA.kext, since I once got a lockup (audio suttering, mouse cursor locked up) when listening to iTunes and browsing the web. This was when using an older AppleHDA.kext I think.

 

How do I know if I use DSDT?

Sorry for n00bie questions...

[pcace]

PS.: Next Question: Right now i use a nVidia 9800GT in my hackintosh. I'm thinking about adding a 260GTX to have one more openCL capable device. Is it possible to have both parallel working? would it improve renderingspped, when using openCL renderer?

 

Hey,

 

i did it right now! And its rendering like a charme!! (openCL). I Followed this Tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183349

 

 

 

Pcace

[LocusOfControl]

Hey,

 

i did it right now! And its rendering like a charme!! (openCL). I Followed this Tutorial: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183349

 

 

 

Pcace

 

 

So the obvious question is how did your performance improve eg as measured by open gl viewer?

[Generic George]

If your using a hackingtosh you might need a modified SATA kext or ATA kexts, just an idea i might be wrong.

 

Any more specific suggestions? What might need to be modified or where I could find how to modify things?

[callumj09]

What are people's experiences with RAID in OS X?

 

I'm considering buying 2 drives and setting them up in RAID0. I'm guessing I would be using software RAID.

 

Is it as reliable as a single drive? Thanks.

[Sidewinder33]

My DVD drive is the really only flakey piece of kit I have at the moment

 

I used to have this and it used to cause a really annoying vibration that got worse until I touched the case, I

stuck a piece of folded card between the drive and the chassis. Since I got sleep working it doesn't happen

anymore. Instead the burner capability disappears and the drive doesn't open reliably after wake from sleep

 

Mind you if you look at the official apple support pages there are lots of people complaining about dvd drives in SL

 

This is what mine says - not heard of any fixes

 

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-216D:

 

Firmware Revision: 1.08

Interconnect: ATAPI

Burn Support: Yes (Generic Drive Support)

Profile Path: None

Cache: 2000 KB

Reads DVD: Yes

CD-Write: -R, -RW

DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh

 

Hmm well my burner works great doesnt act up at all other than the random polling, and even then it hit or miss when it does that, the burning and reading capabilities still work great.

 

My DVD drive does not exhibit this behaviour, it works flawlessly. I have a pioneer BL-DVD drive

 

I was sitting on the fence about getting a BD Drive as I didnt know how osx would play with it since apple doesnt technically support it yet. I will probably step up sometime in the future when the burners come down in price.

 

This is a guide section, that question should be posted in existing 10.6 install section, Anyway that DVD drive would be kext related ATA kext or SATA, basically something to do with a controller, That drive is popular i run a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-216. Does everything perfectly.

Odd because I have never had any ata or sata kexts for it before I'll check around to see if my drive needs a certain one, thanks for the heads up.

 

P.s. As a sidenote I have a Lite On iHAS124

[Generic George]

What are people's experiences with RAID in OS X?

 

I'm considering buying 2 drives and setting them up in RAID0. I'm guessing I would be using software RAID.

 

Is it as reliable as a single drive? Thanks.

 

Raid 0 (striped) is LESS reliable than a single drive. If either drive goes then your raid is toast and you loose all your data on BOTH drives. Also Raid 0 only helps with writing throughput not reading.

 

In short Raid 0 is never a good idea if you ever care about what's on those drives. It's only really acceptable in a scratch drive (ie. one used for temp file and/or virtual memory files).

 

One of the main reasons to go with Raid 0 used to be that you would get the capacity of both drives added together as well as improved write performance, however given that now you can get a single 2 TB. Extra space really isn't that important.

 

Raid 1 (mirrored), does however make some sense, though it's kinda pricey. Since two drives only gets you the capacity of one, but it can survive either drive dying and it will help with read throughput. Which is helpful if it's your OS disk

 

I was sitting on the fence about getting a BD Drive as I didnt know how osx would play with it since apple doesnt technically support it yet. I will probably step up sometime in the future when the burners come down in price.

 

AFAIK, the drives work fine, though I believe you need Roxio's toast to burn BD disks. Apple's lack of support for Blu Ray means that you can't play back Blu Ray movies, not that you can't use a Blu ray drive.

[edvardlee]

Anybody has tried building a hackintosh with a Core i7 Socket 1156 using a MINI ITX MOTHERBOARD?

 

here is the new dfi mini itx motherboard http://www.compumusic.com/p647533.htm

 

DD: long time no talk again! would you have any insight on this?

 

this could potentially be so ground breaking. I mean well, until the core i7 mac book pros come out... but this could be a cheap alternative to have all that power in a little thing!

 

ed

[robo456]

Hey guys... coming back after a few months of enjoying 3 seperate hackintoshes... (dell inspiron 1525, a EP45-DS3R, and a EX58-UD5) One thing that I was curious about... All my machines have sleeping and what I think power management working. However, is there a definitive way to tell if the power/speed stepping is actually working?

 

I always turned my machines off in the past, but I was thinking about keeping one on at home to run some "media server" type stuff, but don't really want to if the machine is going to be running at 100% CPU throttle all of the time and risk burning something out. This was going to be on the EX58 machine, if it makes a difference. I basically used the guide in this thread to set it up.

 

Thanks!!

 

--rob

[atlee]

I have the UD5, but can you please tell how you did it? How do i remove the built in BuiltInHDA key?

I'd alo like to try make it work with the vanilla AppleHDA.kext, since I once got a lockup (audio suttering, mouse cursor locked up) when listening to iTunes and browsing the web. This was when using an older AppleHDA.kext I think.

 

How do I know if I use DSDT?

Sorry for n00bie questions...

[atlee]

My bundled 10.6.2 kexts + DSDT + com.apple.boot.plist attached (For GA-X58 User's)

 

Nothing in this package except for my DSDT is specified for my board.

 

ALC889 LegacyHDA.kext already modified by removing the HDA key. And also Vanilla AppleHDA.kext. Attached. (4 outs 2 ins) Use this or

 

use my VoodooHDA.kext + OSvKernDSPLib.kext + IOAudioFamily.kext + DSDT for better audio for both ALC889a and ALC888 and many other HD codecs. Already modified.

 

The DSDT has the CMOS fix and also Generic HD audio layout for all HD codecs.

 

Everything goes in /Extra, 100% VANILLA SETUP.

 

My_MACOSX_10.6_kexts.zip

ALC889a.zip

 

I will create my edited version of AppleHDA after i complete modifying it, i can create alc888 and alc889a if everyone wants, VoodooHDA is not loud enough and legacy works but shows wrong names for certain outputs and inputs so i'm going to create my version from basic. Hopefully i can work at getting all in/outs working, I'm currently studying so may take me sometime of editing.

 

But i will be back i promise. I haven't edited AppleHDA's in a long while but still understand abit.

[pcace]

So the obvious question is how did your performance improve eg as measured by open gl viewer?

 

Hmm, the OpenGL performance is only slightly better then before. (but only because i use the 260GTX instead of the 9800GT as the primary card i think).

 

BUT like i said the openCL Performance increased a lot - see sceenshots... 10716K Rays/Sec.....

 

 

Pcace

[LocusOfControl]

Hmm, the OpenGL performance is only slightly better then before. (but only because i use the 260GTX instead of the 9800GT as the primary card i think).

 

BUT like i said the openCL Performance increased a lot - see sceenshots... 10716K Rays/Sec.....

 

 

Pcace

 

 

I haven't seen that prog before, what are you using for your test ?

[pcace]

I haven't seen that prog before, what are you using for your test ?

 

This is an early early buggy development version of a small Luxrender version with openCL support! A milestone in opensource renderers... --> luxrender.net

or: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/index.php?ti...nder_and_OpenCL

 

"CPU Vs GPU ? No, thanks, CPU + GPU + Network rendering is better".....

 

 

pcace

[AutumnJazz]

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

 

So, is there any issue or advantage to running 64-bit currently?

[ClemsonJeeper]

So, this past weekend I went on vacation, and previously had my 10.6.2 install of Snow Leopard working just dandy on my rig. I come back and turn it on and just get the spinning ring on the boot logo. This usually lasted about 6 seconds tops, now its indefinite.

 

I added -v, and the last few log messages involve the RealTEK:

 

REALTEK: RealtekR1000::configureInterface(IONetworkInterface *interface)

REALTEK: ::start: returning `1`

 

and it just hangs.

 

I've tried resetting by pulling power plug for 30 seconds, using the CMOS reset button then setting the bare minimum settings to get booted (AHCI mode, etc). Nothing works, same thing - no error messages indicating what is failing.

 

I've tried disabling both the network devices, to no avail.

 

If I reboot, sometimes it gets a bit further, sometimes not as far, but the last message is usually REALTEK related.

 

Any help or am I boned and have to attempt a reinstall?

 

BTW, Kalyway boots just fine, and network comes up as well.

[everdone]

So, this past weekend I went on vacation, and previously had my 10.6.2 install of Snow Leopard working just dandy on my rig. I come back and turn it on and just get the spinning ring on the boot logo. This usually lasted about 6 seconds tops, now its indefinite.

 

I added -v, and the last few log messages involve the RealTEK:

 

REALTEK: RealtekR1000::configureInterface(IONetworkInterface *interface)

REALTEK: ::start: returning `1`

 

and it just hangs.

 

I've tried resetting by pulling power plug for 30 seconds, using the CMOS reset button then setting the bare minimum settings to get booted (AHCI mode, etc). Nothing works, same thing - no error messages indicating what is failing.

 

I've tried disabling both the network devices, to no avail.

 

If I reboot, sometimes it gets a bit further, sometimes not as far, but the last message is usually REALTEK related.

 

Any help or am I boned and have to attempt a reinstall?

 

BTW, Kalyway boots just fine, and network comes up as well.

 

A couple of things to try: shut the computer down and remove AC cord for about 30 seconds then try to boot. You can also boot with -x boot flag.

[ClemsonJeeper]

A couple of things to try: shut the computer down and remove AC cord for about 30 seconds then try to boot. You can also boot with -x boot flag.

 

It fsck'd the drive, found some issues (which I'm sure were caused by my multiple "just had to turn the system off" trying to debug this),

 

it got to

 

launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/pilotfish.plist

 

and hangs....

 

I've also tried -f -v to force all kext reload, but it still locks up.

[Ciaraan]

Hello there guys. I'm using the script to install an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 (basically the same board.)

First of all, thank you for all your hard work, Digital. As usual your scripts make Apple's installer look complicated.

 

Anyway, I'm having the strangest issue. either with arch=i386 or arch=x86_64, if I boot off my Snow leo disk with USB, my SATA leopard disc will appear on the desktop. But if i plug the Snow disc into Sata, it will hang at boot waiting for root device. I already tried SATA: AHCI and SATA: IDE mode. Any clues on how to fix this?

[atlee]

Hello there guys. I'm using the script to install an Asus P6T Deluxe V2 (basically the same board.)

First of all, thank you for all your hard work, Digital. As usual your scripts make Apple's installer look complicated.

 

Anyway, I'm having the strangest issue. either with arch=i386 or arch=x86_64, if I boot off my Snow leo disk with USB, my SATA leopard disc will appear on the desktop. But if i plug the Snow disc into Sata, it will hang at boot waiting for root device. I already tried SATA: AHCI and SATA: IDE mode. Any clues on how to fix this?

 

Asus P6T, it's not the SAME board, do a search buddy, Asus P6T totally different board, different brand, different chips. We will not tell you how to fix, this is a guide for a different board.