[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[CruiSAr]

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.

The issue with bios screen is common, I get it too but if you hit delete repeatedly when the computer restarts you will be able to get into the bios, it i snot really a big deal though. I also think there is something about the Bios Logo settings in Bios, look for that and probably you can extend the time it stays on the screen. I dont really care about the logo screen as it just increaes my boot time

 

If LAN is not active in SL then shut down the computer and pull out the PSU chord for like 20 seconds. This will allow SL to detect your onboard LAN.

[@ROBASEFR]

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.

 

 

 

Hi there, I had the same trouble every time I change the bios ! You can solve it by plugging in an PC keyboard (only) and run in to the Bios settings with the Delete key. Then you can Disable de bios screen in the Advanced Bios Features -Full Screen LOGO Show[Disabled]

 

My internet troubles gone away when I pluged out for 20 sec the power cord ! It's happening some times, but i got rid of this bug for a while ! Since I got the latest Realtek1000SL.kext from Bit Shoveler !

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/117-realtekr1000...!!.html

 

[callumj09]

Is anyone able to tell me what's going wrong here? I'm completely baffled.

 

 

I'm 90% sure it's graphics related. I couldn't get the built-in graphics enabler to work at first so I used EvoEnabler in E/E to boot and that worked for a while, but then just stopped working for some reason resulting in that KP. I tried switching back to the built-in with Asere bootloader and I get the same KP. Seems it's not enabling the card...

 

This is what my boot.plist looks like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>y</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v arch=i386</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

I tried booting the installer from my flash drive to see if that still worked - and it did. It has to be graphics related... But I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?

 

Thanks

[atlee]

Is anyone able to tell me what's going wrong here? I'm completely baffled.

 

 

I'm 90% sure it's graphics related. I couldn't get the built-in graphics enabler to work at first so I used EvoEnabler in E/E to boot and that worked for a while, but then just stopped working for some reason resulting in that KP. I tried switching back to the built-in with Asere bootloader and I get the same KP. Seems it's not enabling the card...

 

This is what my boot.plist looks like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>y</string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v arch=i386</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

I tried booting the installer from my flash drive to see if that still worked - and it did. It has to be graphics related... But I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

Have you used ATY_Init.kext in Extra folder?

[@ROBASEFR]

Is anyone able to tell me what's going wrong here? I'm completely baffled.

 

 

I'm 90% sure it's graphics related. I couldn't get the built-in graphics enabler to work at first so I used EvoEnabler in E/E to boot and that worked for a while, but then just stopped working for some reason resulting in that KP. I tried switching back to the built-in with Asere bootloader and I get the same KP. Seems it's not enabling the card...

 

This is what my boot.plist looks like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
   <key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
   <string>y</string>
   <key>Kernel</key>
   <string>mach_kernel</string>
   <key>Kernel Flags</key>
   <string>-v arch=i386</string>
   <key>Timeout</key>
   <string>5</string>
  </dict>
  </plist>

 

I tried booting the installer from my flash drive to see if that still worked - and it did. It has to be graphics related... But I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?

 

Thanks

What kind of ATI graphics card do you have ?

[ThomasRolinger]

Hi there, I had the same trouble every time I change the bios ! You can solve it by plugging in an PC keyboard (only) and run in to the Bios settings with the Delete key. Then you can Disable de bios screen in the Advanced Bios Features -Full Screen LOGO Show[Disabled]

 

My internet troubles gone away when I pluged out for 20 sec the power cord ! It's happening some times, but i got rid of this bug for a while ! Since I got the latest Realtek1000SL.kext from Bit Shoveler !

 

http://www.kexts.com/view/117-realtekr1000...!!.html

 

 

Hm, plugging out isn't doing anything for me. And that is the same kext I have already, so it isn't working either. I should have another OS running soon so I can see if it is related to the OS or the hardware. Are there any other suggestions for getting it to work, in terms of not having another OS to check it for?

[Johnnybrav0]

Hi will this work process work with Gigabyte x58a-ud5? I just put a system together and I'm really new at hackintosh. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

i7 920 2.66

BFG Nvidia 260 GTX

OC 6 gig ddr3.

[LocusOfControl]

Hm, plugging out isn't doing anything for me. And that is the same kext I have already, so it isn't working either. I should have another OS running soon so I can see if it is related to the OS or the hardware. Are there any other suggestions for getting it to work, in terms of not having another OS to check it for?

 

 

You should be able to check if it's working from your bios

 

ie do the cable test in integrated peripherals next to the lan settings

 

I've used it in the past to determine if it is a bios problem

 

 

 

PS surprisingly I got this problem moving cables about, some cards prefer cat5e to cat6 and vice versa

it seems, try a few different cables?

 

PPS I don't get this anymore as I turned the onboard LAN off and replaced it with a proper NIC

[bbchucks]

So i have the sapphire 4870 card with 1dvi, 1hdmi and 1vga port..unfortunately there isn't a way of to have two monitors working.

 

i'm working around that issue and looks like we can purchase either the Sewell Minideck or EVGA's UV Plus 16. which allows you to use USB to connect a 2nd or third monitor.

 

does anyone have any recommendations as to which one? or currently use this? i know the Sewell has a higher resolution support.

[rumz]

This is a little off topic as I'm still running Leopard. Just thought I'd throw this out there though (since the Leopard thread is pretty dead)-- I had an install of 10.5.7 running perfectly (created back in July 2009). This morning I tried to wake it up and the machine powered up but no video. Forced power off (power button for 4 seconds), rebooted, got the gray apple logo as usual after booting from chameleon, same thing. screen goes black, monitor goes into standby. Appears to be some sort of video problem (Win7 boots up just fine, so I don't think it's a hardware issue).

 

I'm running an ASUS GeForce GTS 250 for the video card, and it's been running just fine using an EFI string. (Edit: I did recently purchase a 24" monitor which is now my primary, with a 20" running on the second DVI port. It's been running fine this way for over a month though.)

 

Is it possible that one of my files has simply been corrupted or something? I just find it strange that one day it suddenly stopped working without any changes to the system / configuration.

 

I'm just looking for general feedback-- I was holding off on creating a fresh install of 10.5.8 (for stability and compatibility) and of 10.6.2, but it looks like I'll be working to get those up and running today. I just wondered what would cause something like that.

[ThomasRolinger]

You should be able to check if it's working from your bios

 

ie do the cable test in integrated peripherals next to the lan settings

 

I've used it in the past to determine if it is a bios problem

 

 

 

PS surprisingly I got this problem moving cables about, some cards prefer cat5e to cat6 and vice versa

it seems, try a few different cables?

 

PPS I don't get this anymore as I turned the onboard LAN off and replaced it with a proper NIC

 

Yeah I am in BIOS now. It flashes the link detected and cable length for about 1 second and then flashes away, and comes back. Is that supposed to happen, or is it supposed to be a continuous stream of the link detected and cable length info? I just put this machine together last weekend, so I haven't had any chance to test it elsewhere. Booting into OSX and looking at the ethranet card info in the system profiler shows that it "sees" both ports.

[LocusOfControl]

Yeah I am in BIOS now. It flashes the link detected and cable length for about 1 second and then flashes away, and comes back. Is that supposed to happen, or is it supposed to be a continuous stream of the link detected and cable length info? I just put this machine together last weekend, so I haven't had any chance to test it elsewhere. Booting into OSX and looking at the ethranet card info in the system profiler shows that it "sees" both ports.

 

 

Don't you have 2 LAN ports ?

 

I think if you leave it in test mode it should retest every few seconds (from memory - I haven't done this

for a while). If you are seeing a real cable length showing ie no break or error then it means that it's

probably not your bios.

 

What do you see in the advanced part of Network prefs, do you have proper MAC addresses or are they all

ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ?

 

PS you say that Realtek1000SL.kext is in an appropriate location, that's in /S/L/E right? Do you have a UD5 or

the other one, I couldn't tell from your signature

 

PPS Has it ever worked for you with that kext, and if so did you change anything in /S/L/E or DSDT or boot.plist

recently?

[ThomasRolinger]

Don't you have 2 LAN ports ?

 

I think if you leave it in test mode it should retest every few seconds (from memory - I haven't done this

for a while). If you are seeing a real cable length showing ie no break or error then it means that it's

probably not your bios.

 

What do you see in the advanced part of Network prefs, do you have proper MAC addresses or are they all

ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ?

 

PS you say that Realtek1000SL.kext is in an appropriate location, that's in /S/L/E right? Do you have a UD5 or

the other one, I couldn't tell from your signature

 

PPS Has it ever worked for you with that kext, and if so did you change anything in /S/L/E or DSDT or boot.plist

recently?

 

Ahhhh, probably a huuge noob mistake, but I guess I forgot to activate the ethranet ports in SL; I am coming from using an iMac for the past several years where I never had to do such things.

 

Great! Everything seems to be working just fine now. Thanks.

[borissatan]

Yay i finally got into SL but sadly not the way I wanted to.

 

None of the boot loader methods via cd or usb would work on my machine in AHCI mode. My motherboard seems to dislike anything non-SATA at startup, even SATA dvd drives. Very irritating. AHCI seems to be causing you the same problems I outlined above I'd recommend giving up and doing it the SATA HDD way.

 

So today I built two 10.6.0 installs using the DD script, steps 1-7, brought the HDDs home, installed one and it all booted up lovely, seemed to allow me to configure my 9400GT on second boot, network worked first time, audio too.

 

However, while swapping some sata cables around between my four drives I seem to have broken my main install - it now gets stuck booting at the: Running fsck on the boot volume... stage

 

Please can someone help me with this as I have no idea why this broke it or how to fix it?

 

My other install works but only if the broken install disk is not connected! Weird.

 

Also should I use Software Update to update the OS to 10.6.2?

 

 

 

aha fixed it!

 

fsck -fy did the trick.

 

so this is some sort of forced system integrity check is it? my linux is baaad...

 

 

so am i safe to install 10.6.2?!

 

(I'm clearly not safe to do anything!!!)

[@ROBASEFR]

Hm, plugging out isn't doing anything for me. And that is the same kext I have already, so it isn't working either. I should have another OS running soon so I can see if it is related to the OS or the hardware. Are there any other suggestions for getting it to work, in terms of not having another OS to check it for?

You could try a live Debian CD 5.03 !

[LocusOfControl]

Yay i finally got into SL but sadly not the way I wanted to.

 

None of the boot loader methods via cd or usb would work on my machine in AHCI mode. My motherboard seems to dislike anything non-SATA at startup, even SATA dvd drives. Very irritating. AHCI seems to be causing you the same problems I outlined above I'd recommend giving up and doing it the SATA HDD way.

 

So today I built two 10.6.0 installs using the DD script, steps 1-7, brought the HDDs home, installed one and it all booted up lovely, seemed to allow me to configure my 9400GT on second boot, network worked first time, audio too.

 

However, while swapping some sata cables around between my four drives I seem to have broken my main install - it now gets stuck booting at the: Running fsck on the boot volume... stage

 

Please can someone help me with this as I have no idea why this broke it or how to fix it?

 

My other install works but only if the broken install disk is not connected! Weird.

 

Also should I use Software Update to update the OS to 10.6.2?

 

 

 

aha fixed it!

 

fsck -fy did the trick.

 

so this is some sort of forced system integrity check is it? my linux is baaad...

 

 

so am i safe to install 10.6.2?!

 

(I'm clearly not safe to do anything!!!)

 

I realise this is a trivial question but looking through your past posts it wasn't obvious.

Are you connecting your SATA drives to the blue ports? (you should be)

 

Don't want to worry you but there was a post on this site hinting that IDE installs will have issues

with 10.6.3 when it comes out. I haven't tried 10.6.3 so don't know if it is true!

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y...sl=it&tl=en

[@ROBASEFR]

Hi will this work process work with Gigabyte x58a-ud5? I just put a system together and I'm really new at hackintosh. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

i7 920 2.66

BFG Nvidia 260 GTX

OC 6 gig ddr3.

Here is a link to an USB boot image for EX58A-UD7 very similar to your mobo!

http://www.kexts.com/view/216-gigabyte_ga-...%28v1.2%29.html

 

There are some kext working for your MOBO so pick theme up for the Extra folder !

Good luck

[septicdeath]

I thought I would give this a try, but my machine wont boot. I have a add-on FW-800 (1394B) card that the default OSX drivers work with (I had it in my mac pro to give me more FireWire 800 ports, no drivers, OOTB works). Anyways, I've seen the threads here that mention to update your bios to the most recent for both the Intel and a few gigabyte boards, but since I know that this isn't the onboard FW, I don't see why/how that can fix it.

 

I am running:

 

EX58-UD5

i7 920

12 GB (6x2 OCZ)

500GB Sata Drives

DVD/RW Sata

GeForce 8800GT (Mac)

 

 

 

During the boot of the procedure here, my system defines the devices from the DDST file, and starts loading drivers, but eventually gets to a

 

FireWire GUID 000000000000000000 is invalid

 

and It continues to output this until the entire screen is is filled with them and doesn't move past it.

 

Can someone point me in the correct direction.

 

The card is a generic pci-express IEEE 1394B controller cards (2 800, 1 400 ext, plus pins for 1 more int fw400) with a label "Best Connectivity" on the yellow box.

 

Thanks in advance.

[borissatan]

I realise this is a trivial question but looking through your past posts it wasn't obvious.

Are you connecting your SATA drives to the blue ports? (you should be)

 

Don't want to worry you but there was a post on this site hinting that IDE installs will have issues

with 10.6.3 when it comes out. I haven't tried 10.6.3 so don't know if it is true!

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y...sl=it&tl=en

 

Yeah I'm using the blue ports for everything.

 

I have no IDE parts in my system now, all SATA.

 

I've upgraded to 10.6.2 and it all seems pretty stable.

 

I have two current issues:

 

I've installed my layla20 multichannel audio interface package but it hasn't appeared in the audio/midi setup utility. Any ideas? I've tried both PCI slots.

 

Secondly, booting fails if I have any other SATA disc connected besides my boot disk - it's as if it's looking at those other disks for something and failing - even disk that have no EFI partition. What do I need to do to correct this?

 

Boots fine with only the boot disk connected.

 

Cheers!

 

Matt

[LocusOfControl]

Yeah I'm using the blue ports for everything.

 

I have no IDE parts in my system now, all SATA.

 

I've upgraded to 10.6.2 and it all seems pretty stable.

 

I have two current issues:

 

I've installed my layla20 multichannel audio interface package but it hasn't appeared in the audio/midi setup utility. Any ideas? I've tried both PCI slots.

 

Secondly, booting fails if I have any other SATA disc connected besides my boot disk - it's as if it's looking at those other disks for something and failing - even disk that have no EFI partition. What do I need to do to correct this?

 

Boots fine with only the boot disk connected.

 

Cheers!

 

Matt

 

Good that you have your SATA working with AHCI

 

Can't help you with the audio I'm afraid, my needs are only basic audio!

 

I assume your entry for boot-uuid in com.apple.boot.plist (the one in Extra) matches the real UUID

(as shown in disk utility - it does change every time you format/partition your drive, best not to assume

and check)

 

 

 

 

 

I thought I would give this a try, but my machine wont boot. I have a add-on FW-800 (1394B) card that the default OSX drivers work with (I had it in my mac pro to give me more FireWire 800 ports, no drivers, OOTB works). Anyways, I've seen the threads here that mention to update your bios to the most recent for both the Intel and a few gigabyte boards, but since I know that this isn't the onboard FW, I don't see why/how that can fix it.

 

I am running:

 

EX58-UD5

i7 920

12 GB (6x2 OCZ)

500GB Sata Drives

DVD/RW Sata

GeForce 8800GT (Mac)

 

 

 

During the boot of the procedure here, my system defines the devices from the DDST file, and starts loading drivers, but eventually gets to a

 

FireWire GUID 000000000000000000 is invalid

 

and It continues to output this until the entire screen is is filled with them and doesn't move past it.

 

Can someone point me in the correct direction.

 

The card is a generic pci-express IEEE 1394B controller cards (2 800, 1 400 ext, plus pins for 1 more int fw400) with a label "Best Connectivity" on the yellow box.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

does the address etc of your PCI Firewire card match that in your DSDT?

 

Could you cut and paste your DSDT entry for Firewire here?

[borissatan]

Good that you have your SATA working with AHCI

 

Can't help you with the audio I'm afraid, my needs are only basic audio!

 

I assume your entry for boot-uuid in com.apple.boot.plist (the one in Extra) matches the real UUID

(as shown in disk utility - it does change every time you format/partition your drive, best not to assume

and check)

 

I'm finding the whole plist thing really confusing. I don't exactly understand what they are for and which ones need adjusting.

 

How do I switch between 32 bit and 64 bit? Is it just by getting rid of arch=i386 -> 64 bit, and in which plist?

 

No idea how to sort out the drives thing. I get a kernel not found error in the bootloader if I try to boot of my boot disk with another drive connected.

 

 

does the address etc of your PCI Firewire card match that in your DSDT?

 

Could you cut and paste your DSDT entry for Firewire here?

 

Could this be affecting my PCI audio card? I tried running the option 7 in the script again after installing my audio card but it made no difference.

 

 

Also I really need to get windows xp back up and running on here asap so I can do some audio work.

 

Can I get windows running virtually inside OS 10.6 successfully with this setup or do I have to boot separately in windows each time?

 

I wonder how easy it is to install windows xp with AHCI switched on?!

 

Anyway I really need to understand this plist thing before i move on so I can keep my drives and boots in order. Any links to a good explanation?

 

Cheers!

[LocusOfControl]

I'm finding the whole plist thing really confusing. I don't exactly understand what they are for and which ones need adjusting.

 

How do I switch between 32 bit and 64 bit? Is it just by getting rid of arch=i386 -> 64 bit, and in which plist?

 

No idea how to sort out the drives thing. I get a kernel not found error in the bootloader if I try to boot of my boot disk with another drive connected.

 

 

 

 

Could this be affecting my PCI audio card? I tried running the option 7 in the script again after installing my audio card but it made no difference.

 

 

Also I really need to get windows xp back up and running on here asap so I can do some audio work.

 

Can I get windows running virtually inside OS 10.6 successfully with this setup or do I have to boot separately in windows each time?

 

I wonder how easy it is to install windows xp with AHCI switched on?!

 

Anyway I really need to understand this plist thing before i move on so I can keep my drives and boots in order. Any links to a good explanation?

 

Cheers!

 

Think of the boot.plist in Extra simplistically as a config file required for chameleon booting, it overrides the native

apple boot.plist.

 

There are options to capture the various chameleon command line options such as -v and arch=i386 etc

One of these options is called boot-uuid, this must match the uuid of your boot drive or you will get a hang

on boot as shown by the message 'waiting for root device' that you may see when booting with verbose (-v)

option. I was working on the assumption that you could boot with one disk because the OS wouldn't be

'confused' seeing as there was only one disk, whereas multiple disks may cause ambiguity. Just a guess and

trying to rule out the obvious possibilities first!

 

Did you check your value ?

 

OS X will boot in 64 bit by default unless you set the flag arch=i386 by manually typing at boot or alternatively

putting it in your boot.plist

 

With your audio card, I'm assuming you have the onboard Azalia turned off and you have an appropriate kext

that supports your PCI card loaded?

 

Sorry, I'm not familiar with DD's script, but personally I would avoid running a script multiple times if I wasn't

sure it was idempotent.

 

I believe you can run windows in parallels or fusion but I haven't tried it, I have windows 7 on a different HD,

I wasn't a fan of XP. I believe you can install later versions of xp with AHCI but I think it is easier to do so

if you do so with AHCI set initially. Certainly that is the case with win 7, I originally installed in IDE mode but

then had to mess around with drivers to get AHCI support bootable. I think from memory only certain SP's

of xp support it and you may have to make a new install disk (forgot the name for this) or go all the way through

adding patches etc - better to ask someone with more recent experience!

 

It would help if you stated any errors you get explicitly, saying KP doesn't really help much by the way

[borissatan]

Think of the boot.plist in Extra simplistically as a config file required for chameleon booting, it overrides the native

apple boot.plist.

 

There are options to capture the various chameleon command line options such as -v and arch=i386 etc

One of these options is called boot-uuid, this must match the uuid of your boot drive or you will get a hang

on boot as shown by the message 'waiting for root device' that you may see when booting with verbose (-v)

option. I was working on the assumption that you could boot with one disk because the OS wouldn't be

'confused' seeing as there was only one disk, whereas multiple disks may cause ambiguity. Just a guess and

trying to rule out the obvious possibilities first!

 

Did you check your value ?

 

OS X will boot in 64 bit by default unless you set the flag arch=i386 by manually typing at boot or alternatively

putting it in your boot.plist

 

With your audio card, I'm assuming you have the onboard Azalia turned off and you have an appropriate kext

that supports your PCI card loaded?

 

Sorry, I'm not familiar with DD's script, but personally I would avoid running a script multiple times if I wasn't

sure it was idempotent.

 

I believe you can run windows in parallels or fusion but I haven't tried it, I have windows 7 on a different HD,

I wasn't a fan of XP. I believe you can install later versions of xp with AHCI but I think it is easier to do so

if you do so with AHCI set initially. Certainly that is the case with win 7, I originally installed in IDE mode but

then had to mess around with drivers to get AHCI support bootable. I think from memory only certain SP's

of xp support it and you may have to make a new install disk (forgot the name for this) or go all the way through

adding patches etc - better to ask someone with more recent experience!

 

It would help if you stated any errors you get explicitly, saying KP doesn't really help much by the way

 

Yep sorry I'm being a little vague - can't always remember the exact errors by the time i've got it back up and running each time.

 

Yeah I'm also supposing it's probably pointing at the wrong drive and defaults back to the the correct drive when there's only one. The UUID appears to be correct in both options 1 and 2 of the plist script option though for disk0s1 (EFI) and disk0s2 (OSX).

 

I've just tried hot plugging another (non-bootable so no EFI partition) disk in the boot disk EFI partition is cyclicly mounting and unmounting every few seconds. Some sort of conflict going on but I've never seen anything like it before.

 

On the audio front, this may sounds daft but how do I turn off Azalia?! Also in about this mac->more info there is no mention of the card in the PCI cards section.

 

Cheers M

[everdone]

I'm finding the whole plist thing really confusing. I don't exactly understand what they are for and which ones need adjusting.

 

I wonder how easy it is to install windows xp with AHCI switched on?!

 

Anyway I really need to understand this plist thing before i move on so I can keep my drives and boots in order. Any links to a good explanation?

 

Cheers!

The plist you are concerned with is the one in /Extra. Using DDs script the plist in his plist folder is loaded when you first load the bootloader (option 1). After the initial bootloader install, if you reload a bootloader, his script will ask if you want to change the plists by default if you hit return at this point it will not overwrite the existing /Extra plist. You also have the option here to overwrite the plist if desired.

You can also modify the plist in /Extra from DDs script, there is a specific option to do so.

 

With arch=i386 as a boot flag, SL will boot into 32 bit mode - remove that flag and it will boot into 64 bit mode.

 

To straighten out the booting process be sure the OSX install that has the boot loader is set in BIOS as the first HD to boot.

 

XP will install in AHCI mode - I've done it. When you are ready to install XP, unplug the drive with Mac (if possible have only the target XP drive connected). Once XP is installed, reconnect the Mac drive (set to boot first). When you boot the computer the chameleon bootloader screen will appear, during the 'countdown' hit the space bar and you will presented with a choice of bootable drives. If you want XP use the arrow keys to highlight its icon and then hit return. You will boot into XP.

[LocusOfControl]

Yep sorry I'm being a little vague - can't always remember the exact errors by the time i've got it back up and running each time.

 

Yeah I'm also supposing it's probably pointing at the wrong drive and defaults back to the the correct drive when there's only one. The UUID appears to be correct in both options 1 and 2 of the plist script option though for disk0s1 (EFI) and disk0s2 (OSX).

 

I've just tried hot plugging another (non-bootable so no EFI partition) disk in the boot disk EFI partition is cyclicly mounting and unmounting every few seconds. Some sort of conflict going on but I've never seen anything like it before.

 

On the audio front, this may sounds daft but how do I turn off Azalia?! Also in about this mac->more info there is no mention of the card in the PCI cards section.

 

Cheers M

 

 

OK not sure what the drive issue is without more info you might find?

 

The Azalia setting (ie onboard audio) in the bios, integrated peripherals I think