[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[Thorgal]

Updated to 10.7.1 without issues too. Removed sleep enabler and all went well.

 

Further good news as mentioned : at last good audio support, no longer only through the voodoo next. New Apple HDA combined with DD's script does all the magic.

 

Not working is sleep, at least not for me. Without the sleep enabler the machine won't sleep (duh), even with AppleRTC.kext in the cache (I pressume you mean the standard AppleRTC.kext, or does it have to be modded ?) Guess it's time for me to learn and patch the DSDT instead of relying on the sleep enabler.

 

As sleep wasn't working for me on 10.7.0 either (CMOS reset bug) I can say I'm really happy with 10.7.1.

 

PS: finally got OSX running on my 3ware 9690 Raid card too, it's now my main boot drive, talk about a speed upgrade

[bbchucks]

has anyone tried this sleepenabler for 10.7.1

http://blog.nawcom.com/?p=806

[tsunoo]

has anyone tried this sleepenabler for 10.7.1

http://blog.nawcom.com/?p=806

 

I downloaded this one http://download447.mediafire.com/s49ra6pp1...kext.10.7.1.zip

(may be it is the same)

AND IT WORKS!!

[tsunoo]

has anyone tried this sleepenabler for 10.7.1

http://blog.nawcom.com/?p=806

 

I downloaded this one http://download447.mediafire.com/s49ra6pp1...kext.10.7.1.zip

(may be it is the same)

AND IT WORKS!!

 

EDIT: It worked once and another it didn't. So it doesn't seem to work flawlessly

[InsanelyOne]

Hey guys. I've been doing lots of googling and searching but can't really find a suitable answer so I thought I'd just ask directly. I'm very interested in adding a 3rd monitor to my setup but am unsure about the addition of a second video card. I've got a 1GB GeForce 9500 GT and it has served me very well. I'm considering buying a second one just for simplicities sake.

 

Has anyone here got dual video cards working? I've got a rather generic Lion install via MAJ's HackInstaller. Have we progressed to the point where this just magically works now or will this require some tweaking?

 

I'm also considering one of those USB video adapters but that is as a last resort.

[veddernick]

Chimera has been updated to 1.5

[ronsega]

Noticed when using the time machine restore option in DD's script, after restore was done files did not get correct ownership. From the looks of it, most if not all files were owned by the logged in non-root user. Unsure if the process for the restore utility in the Mac OS X Lion installer got launched as a regular user? Had to use diskutility to do a "repair disk permission" for "apple installed" application/files.

 

Also after a few restores and configuration changes, finally got my GTX 580 running!

 

[bbchucks]

I downloaded this one http://download447.mediafire.com/s49ra6pp1...kext.10.7.1.zip

(may be it is the same)

AND IT WORKS!!

 

EDIT: It worked once and another it didn't. So it doesn't seem to work flawlessly

 

so is sleep working in 10.7.1 ?

[tsunoo]

Yes it is. the third and forth try were successful

[bbchucks]

the trick to fix sound in 10.7.1 is to run DD script after you installed 10.7.1 and chose option 3.Kext installer and allow HDA kext to be executed again.

no need to backrev or revert any files in SLE at all.

 

make sure to remove sleepenabler from 10.7.0..do the update to 10.7.1, then run dd's amazing script.

[star-affinity]

the trick to fix sound in 10.7.1 is to run DD script after you installed 10.7.1 and chose option 3.Kext installer and allow HDA kext to be executed again.

no need to backrev or revert any files in SLE at all.

 

make sure to remove sleepenabler from 10.7.0..do the update to 10.7.1, then run dd's amazing script.

 

Didn't seem to help for me. I can't even boot, get sound assertion error upon boot.

I've ran option 3 in the script again, and ”layout885.xml” and ”Platforms.xml” is in AppleHDA.kext/Contents/Resources bur still no go. It worked in 10.7 so don't know what else have changed.

[bbchucks]

Didn't seem to help for me. I can't even boot, get sound assertion error upon boot.

I've ran option 3 in the script again, and ”layout885.xml” and ”Platforms.xml” is in AppleHDA.kext/Contents/Resources bur still no go. It worked in 10.7 so don't know what else have changed.

did you add any old BACKREV kext files to your SLE folder? take that out. you dont need any old applehda files in SLE.

[four_ari]

I hope someone can help me.

 

I have the Gigabyte UD-5 board with an I7 chip running two hard drives.

 

Current drive is running a SL 10.6.1 version.

2nd drive is going to be my Lion drive.

 

I have followed these steps in the past to get my SL up and running.

 

My question is when i try and install the Lion drive during the step where i restart to the lion drive and it begin's to load all the Kexts after about 7 or 8 pages of loading the computer will reset. I have tried many times to install lion but have tried all avenues. Any help would be appreciated?

[star-affinity]

Edit:

Whoops, posted something on the wrong forum.

 

What I wanted to say is that I don't have anything else modified.

 

Something else must have changed with the 10.7.1 update. Since it worked in 10.7.

[luh3417]

1. If using a hard drive or flash drive, partition it as MBR. (GUID partitions cause the BIOS to lock up in my experience on Gigabyte boards.)

2. Mount Lion ISO/DVD. If you have a ESD download from the App Store, make sure it is in the default Applications folder or place it on the Desktop.

3. From script, run Create boot disk (menu #15) and select the default Boot Disk option.

4. Select a boot drive from the list of the storage devices and create the boot disk, skipping EFI strings setup. No other steps are needed to prepare this boot drive. However, you may install a DSDT patch file, if you wish.

5. Restart and boot into new drive, "Mac OS X Base System."

After I reboot off my USB stick, I see quite a long list of kexts being loaded. It ends, and then there are maybe a dozen lines I can't read, and the system reboots itself. I've tried everything I can think of, have done it 6 times, tried adding a DSDT, tried adding an EFI string, nothing helps. Anyone got any ideas I can try?

 

Tried booting off a different drive, tried using a HDD instead of a USB stick, same result. All I can think of is to point a movie camera at the screen to try to figure out where it is before it reboots. There's like 100's of lines of kext loading, then like a dozen more lines, then something about ACPI maybe, then blammo reboot.

 

EDIT: Tried changing from the 9600GT to a 7300GT graphics card. Same fail.

 

EDIT: Tried rebuilding the USB stick using a Mac Mini, fresh download, no EFI, no DSDT. Same fail.

 

EDIT: One thing I've noticed is Apple won't let me download Lion anymore, even with holding down the option key in the App Store. It doesn't like my 10.6.8 Hackintosh and it doesn't like my 10.7.1 on a real Mac Mini. I found an InstallESD.dmg Build number 11A511.

 

I'm really clutching at straws here. I guess the minimal Base System build doesn't have much, I'm guessing its trying to initialize the graphics. But the 7300GT is a very common card that works well with OS X.

 

EDIT: Found this list of graphics cards http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html that seems like better than random. Tried an old 8800GT which was on the list. Same fail. Do the above 5 steps work for everyone else? This is an ordinary Gigabyte EX58-UD5 F12 here, and it runs 10.6.8 with no problems.

 

EDIT: Did you know Quicktime Player now lets you record video, and doesn't even insist (as iMovie 11 still does) on you owning an iSight camera? Used it to record the dying moments.

 

EDIT: OK fixed it. I removed all drives from the computer except the drive targeted for install, and the USB stick I was booting off. But for me, again on the stock system this thread was started about, I had to insert a step 4 1/2 "make sure only the target drive and the boot stick are installed" then a step 6 1/2 "now put your original current snow leopard boot drive back in and boot off it".

 

EDIT: Followed along to step 12. Used the defaults. When rebooting into the patched Lion, again fail. System reboots itself. Let me point the webcam at it...

 

EDIT: OK almost all good now. Had to again remove the old Snow Leopard drive. I realize now the problem must have been all along that it had an incompatible version of Chameleon on it. Thanks for your help everyone.

 

EDIT: 10.7.1 from Software Update worked... after pmVersion=0

[Z4g0r]

update to 10.7.1

all ok

without sleep enabler

[digital_dreamer]

I hope someone can help me.

 

I have the Gigabyte UD-5 board with an I7 chip running two hard drives.

 

Current drive is running a SL 10.6.1 version.

2nd drive is going to be my Lion drive.

 

I have followed these steps in the past to get my SL up and running.

 

My question is when i try and install the Lion drive during the step where i restart to the lion drive and it begin's to load all the Kexts after about 7 or 8 pages of loading the computer will reset. I have tried many times to install lion but have tried all avenues. Any help would be appreciated?

Your symptoms sound like luh3417's posted below.

If your system is rebooting on boot, the bootloaders installed on various hard drives may be incompatible or the bootloader is not loading the right kexts for your system. Make sure your boot priority is correct or that you use the F12 drive selector at boot to select the correct drive.

 

Edit:

Whoops, posted something on the wrong forum.

 

What I wanted to say is that I don't have anything else modified.

 

Something else must have changed with the 10.7.1 update. Since it worked in 10.7.

You probably need netkas' QE_CI_Exotic patch for 10.7.1 for the 4890.

 

After I reboot off my USB stick, I see quite a long list of kexts being loaded. It ends, and then there are maybe a dozen lines I can't read, and the system reboots itself. I've tried everything I can think of, have done it 6 times, tried adding a DSDT, tried adding an EFI string, nothing helps. Anyone got any ideas I can try?

 

Tried booting off a different drive, tried using a HDD instead of a USB stick, same result. All I can think of is to point a movie camera at the screen to try to figure out where it is before it reboots. There's like 100's of lines of kext loading, then like a dozen more lines, then something about ACPI maybe, then blammo reboot.

 

EDIT: Tried changing from the 9600GT to a 7300GT graphics card. Same fail.

 

EDIT: Tried rebuilding the USB stick using a Mac Mini, fresh download, no EFI, no DSDT. Same fail.

 

EDIT: One thing I've noticed is Apple won't let me download Lion anymore, even with holding down the option key in the App Store. It doesn't like my 10.6.8 Hackintosh and it doesn't like my 10.7.1 on a real Mac Mini. I found an InstallESD.dmg Build number 11A511.

 

I'm really clutching at straws here. I guess the minimal Base System build doesn't have much, I'm guessing its trying to initialize the graphics. But the 7300GT is a very common card that works well with OS X.

 

EDIT: Found this list of graphics cards http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html that seems like better than random. Tried an old 8800GT which was on the list. Same fail. Do the above 5 steps work for everyone else? This is an ordinary Gigabyte EX58-UD5 F12 here, and it runs 10.6.8 with no problems.

 

EDIT: Did you know Quicktime Player now lets you record video, and doesn't even insist (as iMovie 11 still does) on you owning an iSight camera? Used it to record the dying moments.

 

EDIT: OK fixed it. I removed all drives from the computer except the drive targeted for install, and the USB stick I was booting off. But for me, again on the stock system this thread was started about, I had to insert a step 4 1/2 "make sure only the target drive and the boot stick are installed" then a step 6 1/2 "now put your original current snow leopard boot drive back in and boot off it".

 

EDIT: Followed along to step 12. Used the defaults. When rebooting into the patched Lion, again fail. System reboots itself. Let me point the webcam at it...

 

EDIT: OK almost all good now. Had to again remove the old Snow Leopard drive. I realize now the problem must have been all along that it had an incompatible version of Chameleon on it. Thanks for your help everyone.

 

EDIT: 10.7.1 from Software Update worked... after pmVersion=0

Thanks for posting this, as it may be helpful for others experiencing the same issues.

 

MAJ

[ronsega]

side question, does anyone have a success with Lion/FaceTime, I mean able to login.

[...]

Any advise for me?

 

There was a fix put in trunk for chameleon that fixes the facetime login error registration issue.

 

I applied the patch from this post to r1020 (the version used in DD's hackinstaller) and copied the new boot file and it works!

[luh3417]

Your symptoms sound like luh3417's posted (above).

If your system is rebooting on boot, the bootloaders installed on various hard drives may be incompatible or the bootloader is not loading the right kexts for your system. Make sure your boot priority is correct or that you use the F12 drive selector at boot to select the correct drive.

 

Thanks for posting this, as it may be helpful for others experiencing the same issues.

 

MAJ

Yes, hoped I might either get some help, or at least provide a detailed record that might help someone. Stay tuned for my upcoming adventures with the Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3...

 

I had thought selecting from Chameleon was adequate, but in fact, you have to go all the way back to the origin of the boot, and use BIOS boot priority or use F12. I think in your case you had the same recent Chameleon on both or all active drives. People actively hacking would never run into this problem.

[Lyle M]

Update:

Sorry about the delay in the upcoming release. There's just a lot of other issues going on right now.

I would suggest not installing a later RC5 revision as they require the renamed boot plist to work correctly and the current script won't work with it. If you are able to do the proper setups in a renamed boot plist manually without the script, then go for it.

 

MAJ

I keep forgetting to mention this in regards to editing the boot.plist file without the benefit of MAJ's Hackinstaller script.

I assume most of you know about the Chameleon.prefPane. But, just in case you don't...

 

I'm sure it's posted somewhere for easy download, but I get mine from the Chameleon sources HERE.

Once you've downloaded and compiled, the pref pane is located in this path:

~/chameleon/trunk/package/Configuration/PrefPanel/

Chameleon.prefPane let's you define the location/name of your boot.plist (Boot Setup:Boot Config Path). Once defined, you can do most of the edits within the lovely GUI.

 

Cheers,

Lyle

[luh3417]

 

Trying to boot the Lion USB stick (from first posting) on a Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3. Tried 2 different graphics cards. Then tried jamming a DSDT.aml I got from http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt.php into Extra on the USB stick but no change. Anyone got any ideas?

 

I did get one successful install off this USB stick (onto rig in my sig). Other posts show the GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 can be made to work.

[everdone]

The problem is not the video its the AppleTyMCEDriver.kext. I had this problem a long time ago with Core2Duo processors. There is a solution but I don't recall what that is. Temporarily, you can remove that kext to get the machine to boot.

[luh3417]

The problem is not the video its the AppleTyMCEDriver.kext. I had this problem a long time ago with Core2Duo processors. There is a solution but I don't recall what that is. Temporarily, you can remove that kext to get the machine to boot.

Great idea! I removed AppleTyMCEDriver.kext from the USB boot stick, and was able to install Lion. Many thanks. Somehow the OS seemed unhappy about the i5 CPU in the GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3. I need to find some threads about what kexts this board likes or needs.

 

Now I'm moving the drive back to my original EX58-UD5 to install the bootloader. Going to try minimal kexts plus a DSDT. Maybe I can generate the DSDT on the target system. I'd prefer to install a DSDT while on the helper system (using one from http://www.tonymacx86.com/dsdt.php, of course not generating one on the wrong machine) but I'm not sure I see a script option for that. Maybe I can just copy it into place (er, which directory should, I guess DSDT.aml live in... do I need to tweak its permissions...)

[everdone]

If you use a DSDT for the target motherboard from Tonymac's site, just copy and paste into the Extra folder. Or you can use the DSDT patcher (see the Forum Topic by same name a couple of lines down from Tutorial). I don't use DD's script for DSDT or Plist mods.

 

When I am building for a 'virgin' machine, I configure the harddrive on a working Hack (except for DSDT) and then transfer the HD to the new machine. If I have done the job correctly, the new machine boots into the Mac initial registration screen and I proceed from there. Should it not work, I try to determine the problem and take the HD back to the working machine for modification. Usually most everything works and I can go from bare HD to New Mac working in about 30 minutes. I prefer the 1366 hardware as I find it much more robust and stable than 1155 and 1156. I find it well worth the few extra dollars.

[RiverRat42]

EDIT: OK fixed it. I removed all drives from the computer except the drive targeted for install, and the USB stick I was booting off. But for me, again on the stock system this thread was started about, I had to insert a step 4 1/2 "make sure only the target drive and the boot stick are installed" then a step 6 1/2 "now put your original current snow leopard boot drive back in and boot off it".

 

Bingo! I unplugged all my other drives (had six more connected) and left just the USB stick and the SL install to be upgraded. Set the USB stick as the boot disk in BIOS and now Lion is installing. That constant rebooting was driving me nuts.

 

I noticed a different background when the bootloader came up this time around, so maybe the problem really was using the old bootloader from my SL drive. (DD mentioned that there might have been a bootloader conflict.) When I get around to doing the upgrade on my main drive maybe I'll try leaving the other disks plugged in and make sure I have the USB stick set as the boot drive in BIOS to verify that.

 

[Edit] I tried again and I got into the installer by selecting the USB stick as the boot device, but it locked up with about a minute to go. Had to start over with just the USB stick and the soon-to-be Lion drive.

 

Had to use the latest XNU-Sleep-Enabler to get past KP after upgrading to 10.7.1. No pmVersion required.

 

Next bit of troubleshooting: App Store is complaining that I'm not signed in using the account that was used to purchase software. Not true.

 

[Edit the 2nd] That wasn't too hard. Just plug the network cable into the other port on the mobo. It was in the port listed as en1 is system prefs. Switched it to en0 and the the app store started working. No need to monkey with deleting things in system prefs or plists.