[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[everdone]

If you set the Mac HD as the first boot HD in BIOS, then during the Chameleon coundown you tap the space bar, you should see a screen were you can select which HD to boot from.

 

To share files, probably the easiest way is to create a small partition and format it FAT16. Both Mac and Windows can read/write to that partition.

[CruiSAr]

OK i am getting KP at this point. i think i remember reading something about the reason for this somewhere. ideas?

Which bootLoader are you using? Try installing another bootLoader

[I_Spectre]

Which bootLoader are you using? Try installing another bootLoader

 

 

using RC4 boot loader. this KP happens way after chameleon loads. no other boot loaders get this far.

[CruiSAr]

using RC4 boot loader. this KP happens way after chameleon loads. no other boot loaders get this far.

Try using Asere BLN 1.9, it is RC4 with a lot of bug fixes. Did you try booting a retail DVD using a bootCD? If this option boots the DVD with no KP's then chances are you can use the bootloader on the bootCD

[jhrfc]

Hi Crusair,

I've got the hacking bug now, I've got a new CPU cooler to overclock, and now I'm thinking of upgrading my graphics card, in my ud5 mobo. The gtx285 in your sig, how have you got it working, GFX string &/or enabler kexts and drivers. I'd be keen to keep as native as possible, as now I simply have a GFX string with my 9600 GT.

Thanks for any advice. (and apologies for of topic question, but this thread is where people who know hang out)

Jon

[Sidewinder33]

Hi Crusair,

I've got the hacking bug now, I've got a new CPU cooler to overclock, and now I'm thinking of upgrading my graphics card, in my ud5 mobo. The gtx285 in your sig, how have you got it working, GFX string &/or enabler kexts and drivers. I'd be keen to keep as native as possible, as now I simply have a GFX string with my 9600 GT.

Thanks for any advice. (and apologies for of topic question, but this thread is where people who know hang out)

Jon

 

I too have the GTX 285, I use Graphics Enabler for the first boot, then add a string after, and disable Graphics Enabler.

[CruiSAr]

Hi Crusair,

I've got the hacking bug now, I've got a new CPU cooler to overclock, and now I'm thinking of upgrading my graphics card, in my ud5 mobo. The gtx285 in your sig, how have you got it working, GFX string &/or enabler kexts and drivers. I'd be keen to keep as native as possible, as now I simply have a GFX string with my 9600 GT.

Thanks for any advice. (and apologies for of topic question, but this thread is where people who know hang out)

Jon

Well my GTX 285 Works OOB that is with my second setup with only fakeSMC in /Extra. I have GraphicsEnabler set to Yes in my bootPlist.

 

Efi strings work as well, you can use DD's script to add the one for the GTX 285 to the bootPlist. I got the PC version of this card cos Apple stocks it on their online store. Better safe than sorry...

 

Happy Hacking

 

Oh and its CRUISAR not CRUSAIR

[jhrfc]

Well my GTX 285 Works OOB that is with my second setup with only fakeSMC in /Extra. I have GraphicsEnabler set to Yes in my bootPlist.

 

Efi strings work as well, you can use DD's script to add the one for the GTX 285 to the bootPlist. I got the PC version of this card cos Apple stocks it on their online store. Better safe than sorry...

 

Happy Hacking

 

Oh and its CRUISAR not CRUSAIR

 

Thanks! my PSU is only 460W, I guess that would need replacing as well.

J

[CruiSAr]

Thanks! my PSU is only 460W, I guess that would need replacing as well.

J

Yeah if you intend to overclock, you will need a little more juice and the GTX 285 needs power too, 2 cables. I have 750 Watt but 650 should do just fine.

[mcloki]

A huge thanks to Digital Dreamer for this guide.

I just updated my Hackintosh to 10.6. So far it's working great.

The only problem I have is that my old Harmon/Kardon UBS Soundsticks give a rather tinny sound. My spare $5 logitechs give better sound.

 

Not that it's that big of an inconvenience. but if you know of a way to fix it could you point me in the right direction. All my searching hasn't turned up anything.

 

Thanks again Digital Dreamer.

Have a great day.

[luh3417]

I am happy you found my guide useful, thanks for the feedback, weird about the widget issue, never seen that before. About you drive, try updating the firmware or get a new one if you can.

 

Please post a boot log and a log right after your drive opens, will see if I can pin point the cause of the problem.

 

Regards

 

Charles

Charles,

 

Here is the boot log (didn't want to clutter the thread with 300 lines) http://rapidshare.com/files/367989619/system.log.html Mobo firmware is F12. But I think you meant to upgrade the LG GH20NS15 DVD drive firmware. There are no events in Console when the DVD drive cycles itself. Anyway, there is one strange thing in the log.

 

com.apple.kextd[10]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.

 

Owner is "503". I suppose its easy enough to fix. Just wonder if anyone else ran into that. I'm pretty sure I did a stock virgin install like described above.

 

Other strange behavior out of the gate is, something like a sleep of death. When I come back to the computer after its been inactive for maybe 20 minutes, and tap on the keyboard, it wakes up, by which I mean, it powers up and (re-) boots! I tried pushing the sleep interval out in the control panel. Anyone else run into this?

 

Cheers,

Jim

[Sidewinder33]

Hey Jim

I too have the deep deep sleep issue. I've tried a lot of different methods to resolve it to no avail. If you follow CruiSAr's guide in his sig for native power management it may work better. I personally haven't been able to get my sleep to work consistantly but native power management is your best bet.

 

@CruiSAr

just a heads up your dsdt works with f12 bios just fine if you want to update

[Denis Davydov]

I havent tested these ports yet so I dont know if it supports them but I am not sure. You can check and let me know. I have no use for those ports, the 6 blue ones are more than enough for me.

 

In order to use those pots, you will need to install the kext for them, DD provided that as well in his script.

 

hi.

 

can you please specify how do I install those? I have main HDD plugged in blue ports to work with AHCI whereas I use another one in Sata plugged in white ports to boot Windows.

After some time running ox-s i generally have two problems:

1) i can't restart (color circle keep spinning)

2) can't access hdd's from applications (like attaching files to e-mail), the same circle keep spinning and application does not respond (have to force quite).

 

I hope all these problems are because of sata hdd connected to white port with no additional kexts.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Regards,

Denis.

 

Edit:

 

It seems I have JMicronAT.kext installed (at least i see it in Extra/Stored-Kexts/_For_System/...).

Anyone has any ideas what can be wrong?

 

other kexts are:

ApplieIntelPIIXATA

fakesmc

HDAEnabler

JMicronATA

NulCPUPowerManagement

OpeHaltRestart

RealtekR1000SL

ATY_Init

IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector

LegacHDA

 

system: ex58-ud5 + i7 920 + 6 GB 1500Mhz + gts250 1 GB + 2 HDD (work in AHCI + SATA)

[everdone]

Denis:

 

The problem is likely related to sleep. The HDs are going to sleep and will not wake up. To verify open Energy Saver and set the HDs to NeverSleep.

[Denis Davydov]

Denis:

 

The problem is likely related to sleep. The HDs are going to sleep and will not wake up. To verify open Energy Saver and set the HDs to NeverSleep.

 

 

 

Thank you for the advice, i turned off HDs sleep and will post back if it will solve the problem.

[CruiSAr]

@CruiSAr

just a heads up your dsdt works with f12 bios just fine if you want to update

Lol, thanks already running f12 update, just havent had the time to change it in my sig...thanks anyways

 

Charles,

 

Here is the boot log (didn't want to clutter the thread with 300 lines) http://rapidshare.com/files/367989619/system.log.html Mobo firmware is F12. But I think you meant to upgrade the LG GH20NS15 DVD drive firmware. There are no events in Console when the DVD drive cycles itself. Anyway, there is one strange thing in the log.

 

com.apple.kextd[10]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.

 

Owner is "503". I suppose its easy enough to fix. Just wonder if anyone else ran into that. I'm pretty sure I did a stock virgin install like described above.

 

Other strange behavior out of the gate is, something like a sleep of death. When I come back to the computer after its been inactive for maybe 20 minutes, and tap on the keyboard, it wakes up, by which I mean, it powers up and (re-) boots! I tried pushing the sleep interval out in the control panel. Anyone else run into this?

 

Cheers,

Jim

I will check the logs out the moment I get some free time. Changing permissions should remove that from the log. I get those sometimes, makes no big difference to me though, system runs just as fine. With the issue concerning sleep, you need to make sure that start up automatically after power failure is active in enery saver and yes I was refering ot the DVD drive firmware.

 

hi.

 

can you please specify how do I install those? I have main HDD plugged in blue ports to work with AHCI whereas I use another one in Sata plugged in white ports to boot Windows.

After some time running ox-s i generally have two problems:

1) i can't restart (color circle keep spinning)

2) can't access hdd's from applications (like attaching files to e-mail), the same circle keep spinning and application does not respond (have to force quite).

 

I hope all these problems are because of sata hdd connected to white port with no additional kexts.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Regards,

Denis.

 

Edit:

 

It seems I have JMicronAT.kext installed (at least i see it in Extra/Stored-Kexts/_For_System/...).

Anyone has any ideas what can be wrong?

 

system: ex58-ud5 + i7 920 + 6 GB 1500Mhz + gts250 1 GB + 2 HDD (work in AHCI + SATA)

OK, you have only 2 hard drives so I dont understnd why you are using the white ports. There are 6 blue ports, I suggest you attach all your drives to those ports and drop third party kexts. If you want a rock solid system, DSDT patching is the way out. Having said that, the JmicronATA kexts should work fine probably in 32 bit mode. I am not sure if they are 64 bit compatible.

[Denis Davydov]

Lol, thanks already running f12 update, just havent had the time to change it in my sig...thanks anyways

 

 

I will check the logs out the moment I get some free time. Changing permissions should remove that from the log. I get those sometimes, makes no big difference to me though, system runs just as fine. With the issue concerning sleep, you need to make sure that start up automatically after power failure is active in enery saver and yes I was refering ot the DVD drive firmware.

 

 

OK, you have only 2 hard drives so I dont understnd why you are using the white ports. There are 6 blue ports, I suggest you attach all your drives to those ports and drop third party kexts. If you want a rock solid system, DSDT patching is the way out. Having said that, the JmicronATA kexts should work fine probably in 32 bit mode. I am not sure if they are 64 bit compatible.

 

I have multi boot (SATA: w7 + Kalyway 10.5.2; AHCI: retail os-x) and w7 was originally installed with bios settings as SATA (opposed to AHCI), i could not manage to make it work with AHCI, therefore I connect HDD with w7 using white ports.

 

Regarding DSDT patching, you mean your guide Guide with only FakeSMC in Extra ?

Can I just install it on top of os-x (Chamelion RC3, DD's guide) by copying your EXT_DSDT file to /Extra folder and getting rid of all kexts apart from fakesmc? I have plenty of software installed already and would like to avoid reinstalling os-x.

[CruiSAr]

I have multi boot (SATA: w7 + Kalyway 10.5.2; AHCI: retail os-x) and w7 was originally installed with bios settings as SATA (opposed to AHCI), i could not manage to make it work with AHCI, therefore I connect HDD with w7 using white ports.

 

Regarding DSDT patching, you mean your guide Guide with only FakeSMC in Extra ?

Can I just install it on top of os-x (Chamelion RC3, DD's guide) by copying your EXT_DSDT file to /Extra folder and getting rid of all kexts apart from fakesmc? I have plenty of software installed already and would like to avoid reinstalling os-x.

My guide isnt about dsdt patching, it is about using the patched DSDT so you can eliminate some kexts. Yes you can just replace the DSDT you have now, install the recommended bootLoader and remove the necessary kexts, the DSDT works from Bios f9 to f12. You can consult d00ds thread here for dsdt patching.

 

With relations to win7, you should be able to install it with AHCI enabled, the install sure takes some time but it should work.

[Sidewinder33]

In regards to installing W7 with AHCI, I read that when installing W7 the drive you want to install it on should be the only one attached for the install (I couldn't get it to install with my osx drive plugged in) I unplugged it, installed and then plugged my osx drive back in after installation, and it works great.

[everdone]

There should be no problem installing Win7 with AHCI enabled, I have made such an install on at least 5 different MBs. Win7 can also be installed with a OSX install on a different HD, just set the Win7 target HD as the first to boot in BIOS. Once Win7 is installed and working, set the OSX HD as first boot and Chameleon will allow booting from either Mac or Win7.

[Denis Davydov]

Thank you, everdone, Sidewinder3 ad CruiSAr for advices on w7 and AHCI and DSDT installation. Probably, I will be trying to do it this weekend.

 

EDIT: w7 was installed in AHCI (os-x hdd unplugged during installation).

The last question before I try pathced version of DSDT:

How do I check my bios version?

during start up there are some numbers, but they are not consistent (AHCI version 1.07.xx, some other 1.06.xxx),

does it mean I have version f6(f7)?

 

@CruiSAr: if i'm not mistaken, I saw you have a NTFS read\write, does it come with your patched DSDT file or some additional manipulations are required?

(I have external 1G drive in NTFS almost full I would like to read-write with os-x)

 

 

Regards,

Denis.

[tsigo]

Thanks to Digital Dreamer and CruiSAr for their guides, I almost got everything working perfectly on the first try.

 

Unfortunately my sound wasn't working. I noticed that the VoodooHDA kext that Cruisar said worked for him wasn't in the original DD script by default, so I downloaded Cruisar's, put it in the 10.6/Audio folder in DD's script, used the script to install it to /System, updated the cache with "Normal" mode, and rebooted. Kernel panic at boot.

 

So now I'm in the middle of a reinstall of OSX to start the whole process over again. What do I need to do specifically to get this board's audio working on 10.6(.2)?

 

Thanks.

 

Edit: I hadn't read Cruisar's FakeSMC guide before. I'm going to try that now.

 

Edit: All seems to be working! Thanks again.

[CruiSAr]

Thank you, everdone, Sidewinder3 ad CruiSAr for advices on w7 and AHCI and DSDT installation. Probably, I will be trying to do it this weekend.

 

EDIT: w7 was installed in AHCI (os-x hdd unplugged during installation).

The last question before I try pathced version of DSDT:

How do I check my bios version?

during start up there are some numbers, but they are not consistent (AHCI version 1.07.xx, some other 1.06.xxx),

does it mean I have version f6(f7)?

 

@CruiSAr: if i'm not mistaken, I saw you have a NTFS read\write, does it come with your patched DSDT file or some additional manipulations are required?

(I have external 1G drive in NTFS almost full I would like to read-write with os-x)

 

 

Regards,

Denis.

Yes I do have read/write NTFS support, I use NTFS 3G, google for it.

[tsigo]

I've been avoiding installing the "Mac Pro Audio Update" from software update. I noticed a few posts on this forum, but not this thread, that said it was causing problems. Is that still the case?

[CruiSAr]

I've been avoiding installing the "Mac Pro Audio Update" from software update. I noticed a few posts on this forum, but not this thread, that said it was causing problems. Is that still the case?

I have all the latest updates and I haven't experienced any issues at all, my setup uses the apple provided audio kexts so updating shouldn't be a problem.

 

Trial and error is the only way to learn, give it a shot.