[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[borissatan]

Not sure why you MUST use AHCI, if you search it does seem to be the easy option, I've never had a problem

with it. Not sure how you find it adds an extra 3 minutes either. I timed my boot from pressing the power

switch to desktop and that only came to just under a minute with AHCI

 

I haven't used DD's script so I'll leave that to others but if you have access to a SL machine and are comfortable

with terminal and basic unix then you can easily install by hand, there's nothing magic about it

Cheers for the quick response :censored2:

 

I don't understand it either but AHCI is REALLY slow searching through my disks. I'm on BIOS 7, maybe I need to upgrade that?

I'm just coming back to unix - its ten years since I used it in any depth so I'm almost starting from scratch really.

I've just made another two usb install discs which I'll try out later when I get home. This is such a painful way to do it but I haven't got much choice, unless someone can recommend an alternative?

There are a few bits of the instructions I find a bit confusing - will post some more questions tomorrow if these dont work.

Cheers

 

MAtt

[everdone]

Cheers for the quick response

 

I don't understand it either but AHCI is REALLY slow searching through my disks. I'm on BIOS 7, maybe I need to upgrade that?

I'm just coming back to unix - its ten years since I used it in any depth so I'm almost starting from scratch really.

I've just made another two usb install discs which I'll try out later when I get home. This is such a painful way to do it but I haven't got much choice, unless someone can recommend an alternative?

There are a few bits of the instructions I find a bit confusing - will post some more questions tomorrow if these dont work.

Cheers

 

MAtt

Here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=195248 is a different method. I didt't run it all the way through but I did go as far as the Installer on my UD3R board. As far as AHCI is concerned, I don't know a reason, but it must be in that mode for the install to work.

 

I noticed you have an IDE DVD drive, SATA is the better choice to start with (at least until the JMicron kext is loaded). You didn't indicate which video card but Nvidia ones are the easiest to get working. The usual result with an ATI card is once the install is done and one is booting into SL for the first time, everything loads and you get to the point where one should see the Apple Welcome screen and the video goes dark! It's actually working, but there is no video.

[LocusOfControl]

Here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=195248 is a different method. I didt't run it all the way through but I did go as far as the Installer on my UD3R board. As far as AHCI is concerned, I don't know a reason, but it must be in that mode for the install to work.

 

I noticed you have an IDE DVD drive, SATA is the better choice to start with (at least until the JMicron kext is loaded). You didn't indicate which video card but Nvidia ones are the easiest to get working. The usual result with an ATI card is once the install is done and one is booting into SL for the first time, everything loads and you get to the point where one should see the Apple Welcome screen and the video goes dark! It's actually working, but there is no video.

 

I should point out that ATI 4870 (red ones) are also easy ;-)

trick is to use pcefi boot file and have GraphicsEnable=Y in com.apple.boot.plist before hand

[LocusOfControl]

By the way there seems to be a Mac Pro Audio update via software download to reduce cpu load - thought it was 10.6.3

at first

 

Just installed it and audio still working after reboot - I'm using native apple audio so don't know what it will do

to 3rd party sound

[atlee]

Many thanks. I tested it and here are my results (greetings go to d00d and dd also!)

- Reboot doesn't work

- No Network card (I didn't try to put the realtek kext to S/L/E/ because it is not in your zip file)

- Sound as you said doesn't work AND text in the different ComboBoxes are only in english instead of the french Mac OS X standard texts.

 

I know d00d is reading this thread... I will try again, as soon as Snow Leopard 10.6.3 comes.

 

=============

 

By the way, using DD kexts: The sound comes via S/PDIF out and it works great with iTunes and DVD Viewer, but the sound crashes as soon as I see AVI files or Flash video (youtube) and only under 10.6.2 (64 bits). With SL 10.6.1 it was correct (using SL 32 bits). Can somebody helps?

 

I have revision 1.7 of this board, Everything works fine for me, You must have a different revision, My network works out of the box, My restart, shutdown, sleep all working perfect without any extra kexts, latest BIOS

My sound also works with the included VoodooHDA 0.253, but 0.254 is also out but does not work, might have to edit it abit.

 

I only use a English setup.

 

The only kexts needed for my setup are:

fakesmc - required to boot

orangeiconfix - to fix orange icon, not needed really. but looks correct in terms of what icon shows.

 

hope all gets everything working, If your network does not work, use DD's Realtek1000 kext.

[tsunoo]

I have revision 1.7 of this board, Everything works fine for me, You must have a different revision, My network works out of the box, My restart, shutdown, sleep all working perfect without any extra kexts, latest BIOS

My sound also works with the included VoodooHDA 0.253, but 0.254 is also out but does not work, might have to edit it abit.

 

I only use a English setup.

 

The only kexts needed for my setup are:

fakesmc - required to boot

orangeiconfix - to fix orange icon, not needed really. but looks correct in terms of what icon shows.

 

hope all gets everything working, If your network does not work, use DD's Realtek1000 kext.

 

- using the newest sound update for Mac Book Pro.. it seems that my sound problem is away (using DD kext) (I'm only testing since 5 min.)

 

I have revision 1.7 of this board

hummm.. I don't know which revision I have but I can tell that I bought my PC one year ago (Jan 09) . So I suppose it is one of the first board.

 

 

My sound also works

perharps are you using analog output... I'm using SPDIF and was not successful with your DSDT

 

By the way: BIOS is f9m

 

Any way: thank for your post it was worth to try and it took me only 5 min to test.

[star-affinity]

By the way there seems to be a Mac Pro Audio update via software download to reduce cpu load - thought it was 10.6.3

at first

 

Just installed it and audio still working after reboot - I'm using native apple audio so don't know what it will do

to 3rd party sound

 

How did you do to get native audio working?

No stability issues?

What kexts etc. do you have?

 

Thanks for helping.

[LocusOfControl]

How did you do to get native audio working?

No stability issues?

What kexts etc. do you have?

 

Thanks for helping.

 

 

By native I mean no kexts other than the apple SL kexts - you only need FakeSMC for decryption

 

You need to edit your DSDT to describe your hardware, take a look at d00d's thread, page 1, everything you

need is there, you just need to invest the effort to understand and do this

 

I've found it more stable as you are using apple's software as opposed to third party software IMHO

 

Note I only use 2.1 sound which is all I need

[atlee]

By native I mean no kexts other than the apple SL kexts - you only need FakeSMC for decryption

 

You need to edit your DSDT to describe your hardware, take a look at d00d's thread, page 1, everything you

need is there, you just need to invest the effort to understand and do this

 

I've found it more stable as you are using apple's software as opposed to third party software IMHO

 

Note I only use 2.1 sound which is all I need

 

Well d00d's audio fix does allow you to use native appleHDA but because he only gave you the green jack, you only will have 2.1 sound. I could do the same and i might but change his green jack to correspond with my green jack by changing the hex number, but i wish there was someway to get the card to fully run natively, but i guess apple never released a 7.1 soundcard right?

 

VoodooHDA is good but very low in sound.

appleHDA is louder and clearer, i will have to fiddle.

 

I've also run the update through software update and all is well.

 

Josh

[star-affinity]

By native I mean no kexts other than the apple SL kexts - you only need FakeSMC for decryption

 

You need to edit your DSDT to describe your hardware, take a look at d00d's thread, page 1, everything you

need is there, you just need to invest the effort to understand and do this

 

I've found it more stable as you are using apple's software as opposed to third party software IMHO

 

Note I only use 2.1 sound which is all I need

 

Alright, thanks!

2.1 audio if good enough for me.

Can't I just grab your DSDT? At least the audio part of it?

[LocusOfControl]

Alright, thanks!

2.1 audio if good enough for me.

Can't I just grab your DSDT? At least the audio part of it?

 

 

Mine is quite hacked and trimmed to about 1800 to 1900 lines (2 versions) specific for me so I'd prefer

not to share just yet as it doesn't look like d00d's in most places, don't want anyone blaming me for anything.

I'm just waiting till after 10.6.3 to knock out another couple of hundred lines

 

however, here is my HDEF (same as d00d's)

 

           Device (HDEF)
           {
               Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
               Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
               {
                   Return (Package (0x02)
                   {
                       0x0D, 
                       0x05
                   })
               }

               Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
               {
                   Store (Package (0x04)
                       {
                           "layout-id", 
                           Buffer (0x04)
                           {
                               0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                           }, 

                           "PinConfigurations", 
                           Buffer (Zero) {}
                       }, Local0)
                   DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                   Return (Local0)
               }
           }

 

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196771

[borissatan]

Here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=195248 is a different method. I didt't run it all the way through but I did go as far as the Installer on my UD3R board. As far as AHCI is concerned, I don't know a reason, but it must be in that mode for the install to work.

 

I noticed you have an IDE DVD drive, SATA is the better choice to start with (at least until the JMicron kext is loaded). You didn't indicate which video card but Nvidia ones are the easiest to get working. The usual result with an ATI card is once the install is done and one is booting into SL for the first time, everything loads and you get to the point where one should see the Apple Welcome screen and the video goes dark! It's actually working, but there is no video.

 

 

Yeah I'm using a passively cooled 9400GT 1GB graphics card.

 

Ok more craziness this evening.

 

FIRSTLY:

 

DigDreamer method: Made two more usb EFI installations today on an SL Mac Pro and when I plug them into my machine at home the computer locks up. It doesnt matter when I do it (eg before power on, during boot, in BIOS control, selecting boot device, etc) is this normal???

 

I certainly can't use either to boot from AHCI or no AHCI.

 

I had a peak at them in Gparted and they look fine with a 200MB-ish EFI partition (boot flag selected on both - although it wasnt on one for some reason) and the installations looked fine to my untrained eyes at work before i brought them home.

 

Is this normal behaviour? I would have thought the pc would just ignore any USB device it couldnt boot from, no?

 

SECONDLY:

 

I tried the Kakewalk method. Oh how excited I got to see there was a windows iso. (windows legacy iso). I burnt that and ran it and it started to load and got as far as saying @mounted@ and just stopped. Didn't get anywhere near asking for SL Install disk.

 

This is starting to really irritate me do I really need to go pick up a sata DVD burner? It's something I'll use about once a decade (once I've got this bloody thing working!!)

 

Cheers

 

Matt

[everdone]

Yeah I'm using a passively cooled 9400GT 1GB graphics card.

 

I have not used the EFI method on 10.6.x as I found it to be very 'flakey', namely, it didn't work as I expected as I had used EFI on an EP45 board with 10.5.

 

I would suggest investing in an 8gb thumb drive and using the USB stick method. Since you have access to a Mac, make an image of the OSXInstall DVD and restore it to the USB drive. Run the Kakewalk installer and install to the USB drive.

 

Once home, boot from the USB drive and you will arrive at the Mac Installer. You also have access to the utilities menu so you can use Disk Utilities to partition the HD. Do a custom install and install just the basic plus the Kakewalk material that was installed to the drive earlier. No need for additional languages, fonts or print drivers.

 

Once installed you should be up and running when it reboots.

[Qianlong]

I wanted to ask if the white jmircon powered sata ports on the UD5 should be used or not. I'm running out of blue sata ports and was wondering if it was ok to hook a sata drive to the jmicron ports.

I'm not planning to use raid or anything like that.

 

I remember reading about the white jmicron port problem on the older 10.5 thread, I'm not sure if it has been solved with Snow Leopard??

 

Thankx

[atlee]

GA-X58-UDR3 users please find my latest DSDT which is patched completly without errors using all d00d's methods, and also my kexts i'm using at the moment.

 

I'm running 10.6.2 with Chameleon RC4-AsereBLN-1.1.8, also i have the latest updates and everything is still working, my sleep works and awakes, my restart works and also my shutdown works.

 

KEXTS_2.zip

[star-affinity]

Mine is quite hacked and trimmed to about 1800 to 1900 lines (2 versions) specific for me so I'd prefer

not to share just yet as it doesn't look like d00d's in most places, don't want anyone blaming me for anything.

I'm just waiting till after 10.6.3 to knock out another couple of hundred lines

 

however, here is my HDEF (same as d00d's)

 

           Device (HDEF)
           {
               Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000)
               Method (_PRW, 0, NotSerialized)
               {
                   Return (Package (0x02)
                   {
                       0x0D, 
                       0x05
                   })
               }

               Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
               {
                   Store (Package (0x04)
                       {
                           "layout-id", 
                           Buffer (0x04)
                           {
                               0x0C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                           }, 

                           "PinConfigurations", 
                           Buffer (Zero) {}
                       }, Local0)
                   DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                   Return (Local0)
               }
           }

 

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=196771

 

OK, thanks.

I'm using the DSDT.aml file from d00d and like you said it has the same HDEF setup as you posted above, but I don't get any audio at all.

Not even the external FireWire audio card I have is found.

 

Any ideas?

So what kexts do you have except for the Apple ones? Just fakesmc.kext and all is still working?

[Dancing Fool]

That looksl like an MDworker kernel panic. if you installed SL from Leopard then you should have disabled spotlight. Read DD's post installation steps

 

 

Gigabyte EX58-UD5

NVidia GTX285

Intel core i7 985

WDCaviar Black 1 TB

Have the MacOSX install dmg on my flash drive. It begins the install and I see a lot of code lines flash by. It eventually stops and I think the last line says "go to exit" but I am not sure because it is gone in a flash. Then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am a newbie and do not know how to add kexts to my install. i would like very specific instructions for how to add kexts and or scripts in terminal to my installation file.

 

Very much appreciate any help

Dana

[ThomasRolinger]

I just went through this tutorial and set everything up, working great. One problem though:

 

I have 4 harddrives in my setup: 2x 250GB WD's used for operating systems; at the moment, only one of them has anything on them and that is the drive I used to install SL and what not; the other will be used for Windows and at the moment, is formatted as NTFS and is void of any OS. The other two drives are 1TB WD's.

 

On my first boot into SL, the two 1TB drives were unformatted. I got into SL just fine and everything was working smoothly (no kernel panics!). I decided to would like to make use of my storage drives, so I formatted the 2x 1TB's in disk utility as I normally would for any drive using my actual Mac (formatted as mac os extended journal). The drives mounted perfectly fine and everything seemed good; all 4 drives were detected and shown. I decided to test rebooting the machine to make sure I wasn't experiencing an extreme struck of luck. The problem comes in when I get to the "Verifying DMI pool data..." screen. It hangs up there and skipped the screen that allows me to enter into BIOS. I know that this is caused by hardware issues. So I unplugged both of the 1TB drives and I can boot perfectly fine into SL; still worked even having the NTFS formatted drive plugged in, so it is isolated to the 2x 1TB drives.

 

So, is there something I did wrong to make the computer hang up on the verifying DMI pool data? Is there a particular way I am supposed to format the drives? Is it a known problem for rebooting to hang after doing such things?

 

Any help is appreciated. System specs:

 

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5

Core i7

GeForce GTX285

2x WD Caviar Black 1TB

2x WD Caviar Blue 250GB

 

I am relatively new to this particular subject, so if you need any more relevant information about what I am running, just ask.

[CruiSAr]

Gigabyte EX58-UD5

NVidia GTX285

Intel core i7 985

WDCaviar Black 1 TB

Have the MacOSX install dmg on my flash drive. It begins the install and I see a lot of code lines flash by. It eventually stops and I think the last line says "go to exit" but I am not sure because it is gone in a flash. Then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am a newbie and do not know how to add kexts to my install. i would like very specific instructions for how to add kexts and or scripts in terminal to my installation file.

 

Very much appreciate any help

Dana

Well I have never used the USB method to install so I cant really help in that area. It's recommended to install from a working Leo or SL install or to use a bootCD. Empire Efi works best, I have tried it myself and I will vouch for it as it works on my hardware. Google for it.

 

As for adding kexts to your install....you will need help from a more advanced user. Maybe Steve or DD might be able to help.

[atlee]

Well I have never used the USB method to install so I cant really help in that area. It's recommended to install from a working Leo or SL install or to use a bootCD. Empire Efi works best, I have tried it myself and I will vouch for it as it works on my hardware. Google for it.

 

As for adding kexts to your install....you will need help from a more advanced user. Maybe Steve or DD might be able to help.

 

I installed my SL from USB drive approx 8GB in size and used it with Empire EFI to boot, i had to use an older empire efi or you can use boot132 bootcd, but all works quite well.

[CruiSAr]

So, is there something I did wrong to make the computer hang up on the verifying DMI pool data? Is there a particular way I am supposed to format the drives? Is it a known problem for rebooting to hang after doing such things?

 

Any help is appreciated. System specs:

 

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5

Core i7

GeForce GTX285

2x WD Caviar Black 1TB

2x WD Caviar Blue 250GB

 

I am relatively new to this particular subject, so if you need any more relevant information about what I am running, just ask.

Well your issue could be reltated to one thing. What order have you plugged the sata cables into the sata ports?

 

2x WD Caviar Black 1TB could be pluggd into ports 0 and 1 thus the waiting for DMI pool Data. This happens when the system cant find boot Loader on the first boot Device.

 

2x WD Caviar Blue 250GB could be pluggd into the sata 2 and 3 ports.

 

This is my suggestion, plug the SL drive into sata port 0 and the windows drive into port 1 and the other 2 drives into ports 2 and 3. This way you dont need to go into your bios to select the first boot device.

 

WD Caviar Blue 250GB : port 0

WD Caviar Blue 250GB : port 1

WD Caviar Black 1TB : port 2

WD Caviar Black 1TB: port 3

DVD Drive: port 4

 

You can skip the above suggestion and just go into your bios and select your SL drive as the first boot device and you wont be stuck at the waiting for DMI pool data screen. Note though that every time you reset your bios or update, you will need to go and set the first boot device again.

 

Hope this helps

[zoro2]

Hey all, thanks for all the past help in resurrecting my drives. Been error free for the most part for .. a month?

 

Regarding the discussions on DSDT, I have the DSDT SE app, don't know if there is a better one but this seems a good choice. I have seen some discussions about this but not an actual tutorial. Is there a link for this?

 

My sound has been working well. My first installation had some problems and I had to reinstall a few times to get it all working. Now I am getting back into some pro audio stuff and now I am noticing that the sound may not be set up as well as I thought.

 

Using a Focusrite Saffire DSP, a Sure Mic, and Logic Express I have been recording some audio books. The problem is that, during playback (Mic disconnected) I have my KRK monitors outputting sound via the Focusrite driver for out as well as input. But they also have the system alerts set at very high volume. I can adjust the sound for the tracks via the Focusrite Saffire control panel. But I am no longer able to touch the sound level for system. There appears to be no settings to adjust the system volume when used with these drivers. I thought I was going to blow my speakers the other day, or my hears. I was listening to what I recorded and an alarm I had set went off with just a click - sounded like a gunshot.

 

I have looked in the obvious place, the system/sound panel. There is a setting for system sounds that is separate from input driver selection and output driver selection. It very clearly says "Sound Effects" and allows a choice of all the same sources as the IN and the Out. So in theory I should be able to choose Focusrite driver for audio in, Focusrite driver for line out and line out (the normal speaker output) for system alerts. But it is not working this way. The system alert and system sounds work through the same as the external, whatever that is set to. Just now I have set the output to non Focusrite as I don't have a recording session scheduled at the moment.

 

Back to DSDT. Assuming this will tell me all I Need to know once I follow a tutorial and find errors pertaining to my sound board, is this rather large file something that I could take and paste into a word processor , edit, and return as save (and use)? What I really want to know is whether it would work to use Panorama, my favorite database app to make something for creating a macro to crunch the data in a very large file rapidly. Pan is Ram based and it imports a 10k text file faster than you can get your finger off the mouse button. It crunches data and exports it just as fast. But again, I need to read more about what has to be done, what sort of errors I should be looking for, etc.

 

Thanks.

[ThomasRolinger]

Well your issue could be reltated to one thing. What order have you plugged the sata cables into the sata ports?

 

2x WD Caviar Black 1TB could be pluggd into ports 0 and 1 thus the waiting for DMI pool Data. This happens when the system cant find boot Loader on the first boot Device.

 

2x WD Caviar Blue 250GB could be pluggd into the sata 2 and 3 ports.

 

This is my suggestion, plug the SL drive into sata port 0 and the windows drive into port 1 and the other 2 drives into ports 2 and 3. This way you dont need to go into your bios to select the first boot device.

 

WD Caviar Blue 250GB : port 0

WD Caviar Blue 250GB : port 1

WD Caviar Black 1TB : port 2

WD Caviar Black 1TB: port 3

DVD Drive: port 4

 

You can skip the above suggestion and just go into your bios and select your SL drive as the first boot device and you wont be stuck at the waiting for DMI pool data screen. Note though that every time you reset your bios or update, you will need to go and set the first boot device again.

 

Hope this helps

 

ahhh that makes sense. I'm pretty sure I have my 1TB's hooked up in the 0 and 1 ports. I'll rearrange them when I get a chance and report back. Thanks!

[borissatan]

I have not used the EFI method on 10.6.x as I found it to be very 'flakey', namely, it didn't work as I expected as I had used EFI on an EP45 board with 10.5.

 

I would suggest investing in an 8gb thumb drive and using the USB stick method. Since you have access to a Mac, make an image of the OSXInstall DVD and restore it to the USB drive. Run the Kakewalk installer and install to the USB drive.

 

Once home, boot from the USB drive and you will arrive at the Mac Installer. You also have access to the utilities menu so you can use Disk Utilities to partition the HD. Do a custom install and install just the basic plus the Kakewalk material that was installed to the drive earlier. No need for additional languages, fonts or print drivers.

 

Once installed you should be up and running when it reboots.

 

Hey Okay I've tried them all now! Kakewalk, Empire EFI etc all seem to do the same thing:

 

If AHCI is disabled they boot fine (from cd or usb) to the OS selection screen - then when I try to install OS X I get the grey "please restart your puter" screen.

 

With AHCI enable neither the CD or USB will boot - I get the "mounted" thing with CD and the USB drives do not even flash so are not even recognised in AHCI mode.

 

Why on earth would USB drives not be recognised in AHCI mode???!! This is truly baffling. They're drives I've formatted on a SL Mac Pro.

 

Could it be my BIOS revision which is F7?

 

I've also upgraded my optical drive to a SATA one but it made no difference so that was a waste of time.

 

Please help someone!

 

Matt

 

Oh yeah and I've tried connecting my SATA DVD drive to various of the six main SATA ports (0,1, and 5) but it makes no difference.

 

AAARRGGHHH

[ThomasRolinger]

Well I am able to boot in SL fine now with my 1TB drives hooked up. A weird problem now is the screen with the Gigabyte logo, where I am able to press del to enter BIOS, is completely skipped during start up, so I can't get into BIOS. I did a CMOS clear and was able to get in, but as soon as I restored my settings, it does the same thing. The only things I am changing from factory standard settings are what is shown here http://idisk.mac.com/digital_dreamer/Publi...Peripherals.gif

 

SATA RAID/AHCI MODE to AHCI and Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to AHCI.

 

Any idea why the BIOS/logo screen is being skipped? The computer beeps and starts up normally, but it just skips to the screen right after the logo.

 

Also, I am having some trouble getting my internet working. As far as I know, BIOS (when I am able to get into it) is detecting the connection in my ethernet port just fine, and I have the Realtekr1000SL.kext in the appropriate location, as well as updated the boot cache and rebooted.

 

Any suggestions are appreciated.