[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[Cinfulet]

Thx Cruisar for your answer but tell me if I make something wrong.

I download all the attached files from DD's script.

I attach my HD in sata port (on onother mac)

Inialize GUID partition OSX journaled

double click on mobopatcher

choose Extra installation

choose chamaleon rc3 bootloader

set partition active

install snow leopard

install kext

build cache

exit

power off this mac

attach this drive to the machine as described

and then set in bios this HD to boot

 

first boot is the chamaleon , i press button and i write -v arch=i386

few second and appear what i writed before...

 

i try also an EFI method, no chance

I don't know really what i do for have such a mistake..

[luh3417]

I don't know really what i do for have such a mistake..

Are you using the method in post #1, or the CruiSAr method here in post 2081 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...97&st=2080# Pick one and stick to it, don't mix them together. If you are using the CruiSAr guide, I don't see you mention EXT_DSDT etc.

[CruiSAr]

CruiSAr method, updated to 10.6.3 using Apple's Software Update. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...97&st=2080# Note his instruction to go to Energy Saver and check Startup automatically after power failure.

 

Noticed that the Ethernet was running slow. Went to System Preferences... Network... Ethernet... Advanced... Ethernet... Configure MANUALLY and forced it to 1000bt and Full Duplex, its about 5x faster now, proper gigabit speeds approaching 80 megabytes/sec. Not sure if this was the case in 10.6.0 and 10.6.2 or happened after the 10.6.3 update, CruiSAr users check your gigabit and report back.

 

One thing that worked in 10.6.0 and after 10.6.2 updates but went south after 10.6.3 was my 9600GT. Can't really understand why, this is such a simple install technique. FakeSMC is still in /Extra and Realtek is still in S/L/E and the dsdt is still in place, so how did 10.6.3 mix me and how to get the proper monitor resolution back.

 

I hit space during bootup and entered -s to boot into single user mode, then typed buildcache. This got me 1920x1200 back. But onevery strange problem remains: all the fonts look strangely pixellated, like they're the wrong resolution, or they're not anti-aliased. Click on the following picture. Some of the letters are too thin, some are too fat. The finder uses Lucida Grande. Its acting like the mac is faking this font. No console messages about Lucida. Actually all fonts in all apps are acting this way, so must be related to graphics not fonts. Font Book thinks all my fonts are fine. Sorry to take this thread out into the weeds, its just strange that 10.6.3 did this to me. Trying http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87105 and http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=111606.

 

CruiSAr says "The guide also uses automatic Efi string injection meaning you wont need to generate efi strings for your GPU." So when does the injection occur? After the initial install, can I change graphics cards repeatedly, hoping to find one that fixes the font problem, and it adapts and re-injects, or do I need to re-install or re-inject somehow?

Updated to 10.6.3 without any issues, everything worked as it did before. What I meant by auto efi string injection is simple, when you set GraphicsEnabler to yes in your com.apple.boot.plist file, chameleon upon loading will automatically generate the device properties for the graphics card. This can be found in the chameleon documentation.

 

You can change the graphics cards to check if that is what is causing the issue. Internet has always been fast although I encountered a situation once after a fresh install where it was very slow, I removed the ethernet from system preferences, rebooted and that solved the issue.

 

Thx Cruisar for your answer but tell me if I make something wrong.

I download all the attached files from DD's script.

I attach my HD in sata port (on onother mac)

Inialize GUID partition OSX journaled

double click on mobopatcher

choose Extra installation

choose chamaleon rc3 bootloader

set partition active

install snow leopard

install kext

build cache

exit

power off this mac

attach this drive to the machine as described

and then set in bios this HD to boot

 

first boot is the chamaleon , i press button and i write -v arch=i386

few second and appear what i writed before...

 

i try also an EFI method, no chance

I don't know really what i do for have such a mistake..

I dont think you followed my guide correctly, like I replied earlier, you did not install the right bootLoader, you need to install RC4 not RC3, the 3 boot files needed for the system to boot with the attached DSDT file are based on RC4 and not RC3.

 

You also need to move some kexts to their respective repository folders. If this is confusing then you can use mkext tool to build your extension.mkext for the /extra folder and use kexthelper to install the realtek kext to S/L/E.

 

No matter which procedure you use, the outcome will be the same, you are definitely not following the guide correctly. My guide shouldnt take more than 15 minutes of your time.

[luh3417]

I haven't quite found the full Chameleon documentation but it must be somewhere on the chameleon website which I'm not allowed to post a link to. Also found this summary http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/cha...umentation.html This in particular is what I should have known "GraphicsEnabler=Yes|No Automatic device-properties generation for graphics cards."

 

Thread readers with just one computer surfing the internet will not notice the Ethernet problem I pointed out since its rare to have an internet connection that requires Fast Ethernet (100 mbit) or gigabit. It will only be apparent to LAN users. I noticed it transferring BD backups from the i7 Mac to a Windows 7 machine. Windows 7 and Linux readily tell you the actual MB/sec of a file transfer.

 

So, thanks, I will try different graphics cards. Maybe there is a place they discuss Chameleon injection problems on 10.6.3?

[webbyboy]

thanks!!!

 

 

 

BTW Anybody knows how to make sleep work properly? I've tried to make it to go to sleep but it can't recover back normally.

 

 

anyone knows how to make sleep work properly?

[luh3417]

anyone knows how to make sleep work properly?

If you are using CruiSAr method, http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...97&st=2080# Note his instruction to go to Energy Saver and check Startup automatically after power failure.

 

If not I suggest you download this entire thread (Options, on the right, near the top), then search through it for 'sleep' to see what other people tried.

[Charliefoxtrot]

First, let me thank DD and all the people who contributed to this thread. Great work.

 

I had 10.6.2 working perfectly for several months on my machine, but accidentally (and stupidly) updated to 10.6.3 without any pre-planning. I'm using Cham 2 RC 3 and the S/L/E install. Now when I boot, I get instant kernal panic. I even get a KP when I boot with -s, -v, or -f flags. I went as far as to try the boot cd with no joy. I've posted a picture of the KP and would greatly appreciate any help I could get. Perhaps I'm hosed and need to start over. If you can get me up and running and are working on a project that accepts Paypal donations, I'll make a donation to your project. Thanks in advance and here's the picture.

[luh3417]

@Charliefoxtrot You might wait for advice from the heavyweights, but my guess is, it would help if you had a second mac, or perhaps also adequate, a spare hard disk. You could then conceivably put your boot disk into the second mac (don't boot off it of course) (maybe even just on an external USB) and run part of the DD script over it again. Or if you don't have a second mac you could put a spare hard disk in your mac and get it to boot any old OS X distro just for the time being so you can point DD's script at your failed 10.6.3. But take your time and wait for better advice. Try downloading this entire thread (Thread Tools in upper right of window) and reading through it for similar issues. The 10.6.3 stuff is all from the last week. I like to boot off just an SSD and keep my data on separate hard drives. And my Time Machine backup, I hope you have one of those. If you have a TM backup you're sure of, you could wipe the drive, do a CruiSAr install (see above), and then at that point, Migration Assistant will bring everything back.

 

@CruiSAr I seem to have a collection of lame graphics cards, a 9600GT, an 8800GT, neither of which work, and an ATI 4830 which I didn't try but read was also cursed. Anyway fortunately I had an old 7300GT and the font issue is solved! Of course, the issue is really with the netkas that is part of chameleon that is part of the installs in this thread.

 

I wanted to say that this new i7 930 overclocks like a dream. I wonder what the new 32nm i7's will do.

[CruiSAr]

First, let me thank DD and all the people who contributed to this thread. Great work.

 

I had 10.6.2 working perfectly for several months on my machine, but accidentally (and stupidly) updated to 10.6.3 without any pre-planning. I'm using Cham 2 RC 3 and the S/L/E install. Now when I boot, I get instant kernal panic. I even get a KP when I boot with -s, -v, or -f flags. I went as far as to try the boot cd with no joy. I've posted a picture of the KP and would greatly appreciate any help I could get. Perhaps I'm hosed and need to start over. If you can get me up and running and are working on a project that accepts Paypal donations, I'll make a donation to your project. Thanks in advance and here's the picture.

If you read the text info accompanying the KP, you can see that sleepEnabler is the culprit. You need to install a new version that is compatible with 10.6.3, there is link a few posts back where you can get the new sleepEnabler.

 

You can either remove the old sleepEnabler completely by removing it form your Stored kexts folder and rebuild caches or replace it with the 10.6.3 compatible sleepEnabler.

[Charliefoxtrot]

@Charliefoxtrot You might wait for advice from the heavyweights, but my guess is, it would help if you had a second mac, or perhaps also adequate, a spare hard disk. You could then conceivably put your boot disk into the second mac (don't boot off it of course) (maybe even just on an external USB) and run part of the DD script over it again. Or if you don't have a second mac you could put a spare hard disk in your mac and get it to boot any old OS X distro just for the time being so you can point DD's script at your failed 10.6.3. But take your time and wait for better advice. Try downloading this entire thread (Thread Tools in upper right of window) and reading through it for similar issues. The 10.6.3 stuff is all from the last week. I like to boot off just an SSD and keep my data on separate hard drives. And my Time Machine backup, I hope you have one of those. If you have a TM backup you're sure of, you could wipe the drive, do a CruiSAr install (see above), and then at that point, Migration Assistant will bring everything back.

 

@CruiSAr I seem to have a collection of lame graphics cards, a 9600GT, an 8800GT, neither of which work, and an ATI 4830 which I didn't try but read was also cursed. Anyway fortunately I had an old 7300GT and the font issue is solved! Of course, the issue is really with the netkas that is part of chameleon that is part of the installs in this thread.

 

I wanted to say that this new i7 930 overclocks like a dream. I wonder what the new 32nm i7's will do.

 

Luh, thanks for the advice. Right now I'm leaning towards a clean install and a time machine backup like you mentioned, but I'll wait and see if any of the guru's have any advice.

[luh3417]

Luh, thanks for the advice. Right now I'm leaning towards a clean install and a time machine backup like you mentioned, but I'll wait and see if any of the guru's have any advice.

Having said all that, if you do have your TM backup for emergencies, you have little to lose by trying to fix your existing install. I actually think there's a 95% chance you can fix it. Just get the right kexts in the right place and you should be fine.

[mrycar]

Well, have two different installs, both DSDT based, one using Dood's approach and another based on Cruisar's famesmc. So far with the upgrade to 10.6.3, everything works except the Video card. The 9800gt card shows up properly in profiler, just no QE/CI capability.

 

Been generating EFI strings as well as using GraphicsEnabler to no avail. Anyone here have a fix?

[luh3417]

Well, have two different installs, both DSDT based, one using Dood's approach and another based on Cruisar's famesmc. So far with the upgrade to 10.6.3, everything works except the Video card. The 9800gt card shows up properly in profiler, just no QE/CI capability.

 

Been generating EFI strings as well as using GraphicsEnabler to no avail. Anyone here have a fix?

I have a 9600GT, and an 8800GT, neither of which work, and an ATI 4830 which I didn't try but read at netkas was also cursed. Anyway fortunately I had an old 7300GT and that worked.

 

Do you think the problem is at netkas or related to DSDT?

 

How do you confirm QE/CI in SL?

[mrycar]

I have a 9600GT, and an 8800GT, neither of which work, and an ATI 4830 which I didn't try but read at netkas was also cursed. Anyway fortunately I had an old 7300GT and that worked.

 

Do you think the problem is at netkas or related to DSDT?

 

How do you confirm QE/CI in SL?

 

 

Easy confirmation, open up the widgets and try to add a new one, if it splashes with ripples its on, else off.

 

Try to run aperture, it doesn't work,

 

In my case the screens do not refresh.

unless you movethem off screen and on again.

 

am currently hardcoding ID's into nvdanxxhal.kext's plists

[jhrfc]

Thread readers with just one computer surfing the internet will not notice the Ethernet problem I pointed out since its rare to have an internet connection that requires Fast Ethernet (100 mbit) or gigabit. It will only be apparent to LAN users. I noticed it transferring BD backups from the i7 Mac to a Windows 7 machine. Windows 7 and Linux readily tell you the actual MB/sec of a file transfer.

 

I found I had to set my Realtek1000 manually to 1gb full duplex otherwise i was getting 10mb. your right you may only really notice on LAN traffic eg to a time capsule etc.

[Cinfulet]

Hi Everybody!

FINALLY I SOLVED my MYSTAKE!!!

Was not problem of bootloader or problem to not follow guide...I became really crazy!

The problem was in BIOS setting inside the bast...d overclocking menu i try out to put this mentioned TURBO disabled and now i got my OSX inside this amazing system!!!

Thanks again for the support ! but also fortunately that i didn't stop to try try try try!!!!!!!

 

I will tell you how is going the setup of all my HW!!!

CHEEERS

best regards

Matteo

[L3B3R]

Luh, thanks for the advice. Right now I'm leaning towards a clean install and a time machine backup like you mentioned, but I'll wait and see if any of the guru's have any advice.

Have you downloaded the newest package in post 1 from December? If not, download that and add your efi strings and new sleepenabler.kext and openhaltrestart.kext. I got the same KP you did when I tried using the script package prior to the December one.

[Charliefoxtrot]

Have you downloaded the newest package in post 1 from December? If not, download that and add your efi strings and new sleepenabler.kext and openhaltrestart.kext. I got the same KP you did when I tried using the script package prior to the December one.

 

Thanks. I just went the extreme method and did a fresh install.

[RiverRat42]

Updated to 10.6.3. Used the 10.6.x sleepenabler and I can get into OSX, but I have no mouse cursor. The mouse works, I just can't see it.

 

Using an Sapphire HD 4870 1gb graphics card. Under 10.6.2 used EVOEnabler.kext with no problems. Tried adding LegacyATI4800Controller.kext with no apparent change in behavior. Still no mouse cursor.

[ѕӎѳѳ₮ңӌ]

My apologies if this has been already answered in the 116 pages, I have attempted to search through this thread, others and indeed google.

 

What is the best way to get a ATI Radeon 4870x2 to work on 10.6.3? Use netkas's "exotic" package? Or can I set this up with EFI strings?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

[maiatico6]

Hey guys,

I just updated to 10.6.3 using Chameleon RC3 and DD's script, I checked through the forums and from what I read the only issue between updated from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3 was sleepenabler.kext. So I fixed the issue and got the universal sleepenabler and I am successfully able to boot into 10.6.3. However, I have been having the strangest issues since the update.

 

~The color profile never stays after I log out or reboot, so every time i turn on my computer I have to manually go to the display color profiles and select the calibrated option. This is pretty annoying

 

~Random crashing/gray screen of death. There seems to be no rhyme or reason but occasionally when shutting down/restarting or even plugging in a normal flash drive, I sometimes crash. This never happened with 10.6.2, and the problem doesnt occur consistently so I cant recreate the situation.

 

~System freezes. Occasionally, Ill just get beachballed for 5 minutes, and then the system speeds back up to catch up with any buttons I had pressed or actions.

 

~Monitor reboot. When I shut down or reboot, I have to physically turn my monitor off and on now for it to even display my bios. Otherwise I just get a blue screen of no incoming connections.

 

So overall, most of these problems seem extremely arbitrary and I dont see how 10.6.3 could even be the culprit behind these quirks. But I really need this hackintosh to work, I am a film student and have a lot of editing to get done for University. Honestly, I am getting to the point where I'm tired of my system getting bricked every time apple releases the smallest update and thinking about paying the obnoxious $240 and getting an efi-x.

 

Any help would be most appreciated,

Thanks

 

 

My system

Bootloader: Chameleon v2 RC3

Mobo: Gigabyte x58-ud5 (f7)

Graphics: nVidia GTX 260

RAM: 6gb OCZ DDR3

HDD: WD Caviar Black 1tb

[tsunoo]

Hey guys,

I just updated to 10.6.3 using Chameleon RC3 and DD's script, I checked through the forums and from what I read the only issue between updated from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3 was sleepenabler.kext. So I fixed the issue and got the universal sleepenabler and I am successfully able to boot into 10.6.3. However, I have been having the strangest issues since the update.

 

~The color profile never stays after I log out or reboot, so every time i turn on my computer I have to manually go to the display color profiles and select the calibrated option. This is pretty annoying

 

~Random crashing/gray screen of death. There seems to be no rhyme or reason but occasionally when shutting down/restarting or even plugging in a normal flash drive, I sometimes crash. This never happened with 10.6.2, and the problem doesnt occur consistently so I cant recreate the situation.

 

~System freezes. Occasionally, Ill just get beachballed for 5 minutes, and then the system speeds back up to catch up with any buttons I had pressed or actions.

 

~Monitor reboot. When I shut down or reboot, I have to physically turn my monitor off and on now for it to even display my bios. Otherwise I just get a blue screen of no incoming connections.

 

So overall, most of these problems seem extremely arbitrary and I dont see how 10.6.3 could even be the culprit behind these quirks. But I really need this hackintosh to work, I am a film student and have a lot of editing to get done for University. Honestly, I am getting to the point where I'm tired of my system getting bricked every time apple releases the smallest update and thinking about paying the obnoxious $240 and getting an efi-x.

 

Any help would be most appreciated,

Thanks

 

it could be a bug of 10.6.3

See there =>

http://www.macgeneration.com/news/voir/149...-avec-la-10.6.3

 

 

Updated to 10.6.3. Used the 10.6.x sleepenabler and I can get into OSX, but I have no mouse cursor. The mouse works, I just can't see it.

 

Using an Sapphire HD 4870 1gb graphics card. Under 10.6.2 used EVOEnabler.kext with no problems. Tried adding LegacyATI4800Controller.kext with no apparent change in behavior. Still no mouse cursor.

 

Try this

you can go to the "universal access" to set a bigger mouse cursor (a normal size will be hardware generated a bigger size will be software generated)

[RiverRat42]

A little follow-up on my previous post...

 

I grabbed a spare HDD and installed OSX from scratch. Started with the 10.6 retail DVD, went on to the 10.6.2 combo update and then the 10.6.3 combo update. I left most of the kexts at the default settings in the script (v4.22 current download) except I used the 10.6.x SleepEnabler from http://code.google.com/p/xnu-sleep-enabler/. After each update I reran the kext loader, did a super combo build, and restarted before moving on to the next update.

 

10.6.3 booted right up! Everything seems to be working fine although I haven't actually tested sleep yet.

 

Now that I know it actually works with my hardware, I went back to my original HDD, updated the bootloader to EFI 10.5, loaded the exact same kext configuration and got garbage on the screen. There is exactly zero difference in the hardware from one to the other! GA-EX58-UD5 (F9e) with Sapphire HD 4870. I'm even using HDDs with the same model number (WD1001FALS, Caviar Black 1TB, 32MB cache).

 

Just for kicks I grabbed yet another HDD (this one not the same model), did a fresh install from the DVD, and jumped straight to the 10.6.3 combo updater with no problems.

 

I still don't have any idea why the original install got hosed. Maybe I forgot to load the kexts right away after the update and before rebooting, although I would think that loading them later would fix that. Of well. Hopefully I'll be able to transfer my apps.

 

A little lesson learned regarding backups... if you are doing drive duplication with something like SuperDuper, don't forget to set that drive up with the script first! I thought I had a good backup but apparently I never put the boot loader on it. So much for just swapping drives to get back up and running. Doh!

[Cinfulet]

Hi Everybody!

I'm here again to ask you how to get working my hack with an ASUS ENGTX 295.

I look for inside this forum but seems is really complicated and for a newbie like me, i get crazy. Anyway following one of those tutorial seems that i just to put a mod ATY_init kext to get the desktop and than make a efi string for my GPU.

If Anyone get working his 295 and want to help me it's reallt welcome!

THANKS

cinfulet

[Mozgovvert]

I used that script a long time ago and then installed 10.6.0. Will it be ok to update the system to 10.6.3 using software update?