[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[VirusX]

you should NOT set kext dev mode =1 for mavericks. afaik that's only for yosemite.

I'd suggest setting log=true in clover config.plist. Booting takes longer but a boot log is written onto the thumb drive. You can post the log here or maybe better: to the clover discussion thread and get help there.

I don't know how clover works/behaves with fusion drives though.

[iLeopard_PC]

Hi all,

I have installed Yosemite on my PC with hack installer and, also, a lot of works (Palit GTX 560 sucks). Now i'm in trouble because OSX doesn't reboot (screen goes black) and i always need to power off PC. What can i do?

 

I have another question: how can i see if in my PC speedstep is working? (i have an edited DSDT and I hope speedstep is working)

 

PS. there are instructions for Nvidia not supported like Palit GTX 560: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/288582-new-nvidia-retail-driver-install-solution/

[itdoesnotwork]

you should NOT set kext dev mode =1 for mavericks. afaik that's only for yosemite.

I'd suggest setting log=true in clover config.plist. Booting takes longer but a boot log is written onto the thumb drive. You can post the log here or maybe better: to the clover discussion thread and get help there.

I don't know how clover works/behaves with fusion drives though.

 

kext dev mode does not seem to do any harm.

Could successfully boot into my recovery install using your clover settings and my current dsdt.aml. Don't know yet exactly what caused my problems and have to investigate. However, trying to install Yosemite results in an apple error report after install...

 

Still did not manage to boot into my fusion drive install via clover on usb drive. All guides out there seem to be useless for non-UEFI boards. Only thing I did not try is installing the whole bootloader to the FD efi partitions, because I'm afraid I could loose access to chameleon.

 

Don't know if this is a problem with the way my FD was made bootable by hackinstaller. Strange thing is that I only manage to get the Boot OS X helper partition (only 1 of them) to show in clover. Probably this is the problem, because clover only sees the "boot" files there and does not manage to make use of those partitions like chameleon does...

[@ROBASEFR]

Using this DSDT for over 4 years now so I recommend the latest specific for our MOBO v6 from "dood"from this topic:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/196771-ga-ex58-and-ga-x58a-dsdt-native-power-management-modifications/

 

DSDT_GA_EX58_UD5_F9m_S3_v6.zip

 

[VirusX]

Interesting. I tried booting Mavericks with my Yosemite config.plist which is the same but kext-dev-mode and it would just hang during boot. So I always thought that you can't boot into Mavericks with kext-dev-mode=1 set.

 

How far exactly do you get when installing Yosemite? You start the installation which just copies a few files onto the hard drive and then you have to boot from that new partition/hard drive ("Install Mac OS X Yosemite") for the second part of the installation. Where does this 'apple error' occur? Have you found anything about that error here in the forums?

 

 

@ROBASEFR: I used that DSDT many years too before I switched to clover but now, I can't see any reason why I still need it because clover does all the patches. Is there a special reason why you still use the DSDT or is it just a "it works and never change a running system" kind of thing? (This is my argument too: my config.plist works for me - I still don't know/have the time to test if there are unnecessary things in it).

 

What the DSDT is supposed to fix:

Using a DSDT.aml can bring you closer to actual Apple hardware functionality;
- No CMOS reset after reboot without ElliottForceLegacyRTC.kext or similar (CMOS reset during wake as of 10.7.0, see item 24 below for a fix)
- Audio without additional kexts (ALC889A audio option A with 10.6.x)
- Sleep using native power management without SleepEnabler.kext
- Lower CPU temperatures using native power management without NullCPUPowerManagement.kext
- Turbo plus one clock ratio
- Shutdown without EvOreboot.kext or similar
- Enable the power button to sleep and wake the computer

CMOS reset, sleep, power management and reboot/shut down is working with clover. audio with toleda's patch. I don't know about that Turbo plus one clock ratio...

When I press the power button, nothing happens though. I never used/needed that before so I guess this could be a reason. But there's probably also a clover patch for that out there...

[Emilo]

Thank you VirusX,

 

I have been running DSDT free with your confing.plist and noticed that AppleLPC.kext was not loading.

This kext is responsible for power management. When loaded my temperatures go down 10ºC during idle.

To load it check the following in Clover Configurator/Acpi/Fixes/Old Way/FakeLPC

 

If you enable EIST, C1E, C2, C4, C6, Turbo in BIOS you will see more frequencies switching in HWMonitor under load (max multi+1 and max multi+2).

Also, theoretically Clover requires 0x3e7 value in Cpu/Latency field to enable SpeedStep and 0x3e9 value to disable it but I found it doesn't change anything in my case.

 

If you want to see "Intel Xeon" in "About This Mac" put 0x501 value in Clover Configurator/Cpu/Type field.

 

Edit: OSX refuses to boot from "Recovery Partition" when "Turbo" is enabled in BIOS.

[leatherman]

Many thanks to DD for the new script for Snow Leopard! 
Will try to install it this weekend.
 

[star-affinity]

 

7) Once you have found the perfect clover config, install clover to your hard drive/EFI partition of the hard drive, copy the kexts to the clover/kexts/10.10 folder and replace the standard config plist with your perfect one.

 

Do you recommend doing a standard install of Clover (I have the EX58-UD5 mobo) or do a customized one? Aha, I now see your post above where you show your custom selections:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/185097-guide-scripted-yosemitemavericks-install-on-gigabyte-mobos/page-222?do=findComment&comment=2076443

 

Edit:

One more question – if I understand correctly I'm supposed to install Clover on the EFI partition of the OS X hard drive I want to boot from? How do I reach the EFI partition – using diskutil in the Terminal?

 

Hmm… now I downloaded and ran Clover Configurator.app which has a tool called ”Mount EFI” – pretty neat. So, now when I have the EFI partition mounted I guess that's where I'm supposed to install Clover? Right now I have it installed on the partition where OS X is – can I just delete ”boot, EFI and EFI-Backups” from there to remove clover from that partition? Also, what about the ”Apple_Boot Recovery HD” seen when doing ”distil list”, shall I just leave that be?

 

Thanks for helping out!

 

Edit 2:

Okay, now I found the option ”Install Clover in the ESP” when customising the Clover installation:

 

”Install Clover in the ESP (EFI System Partition) of the target volume

 

Need to format ESP as Fat32 on Mac first.”

[VirusX]

exactly, you can check "Install Clover in the ESP" to install it on the EFI partition. My screenshots from that linked post are from my install onto the usb thumb drive.

 

about deinstalling clover: I have never tried to do that so I can't give advice on that. I guess you could just leave those folder on your hard drive (they shouldn't hurt your install) and boot from the EFI partition. 

 

the apple recovery HD is made by the yosemite/mavericks installer. It's a backup of all the system files and with that you can reset the system files to the original install while keeping your personal data and apps. pretty neat.

 

 

hope your install went smooth and everything is working!

[star-affinity]

exactly, you can check "Install Clover in the ESP" to install it on the EFI partition. My screenshots from that linked post are from my install onto the usb thumb drive.

 

about deinstalling clover: I have never tried to do that so I can't give advice on that. I guess you could just leave those folder on your hard drive (they shouldn't hurt your install) and boot from the EFI partition. 

 

the apple recovery HD is made by the yosemite/mavericks installer. It's a backup of all the system files and with that you can reset the system files to the original install while keeping your personal data and apps. pretty neat.

 

 

hope your install went smooth and everything is working!

 

Thanks for getting back to me!

 

I'm almost there, but I have sleep issues. Something happens after the computer has been asleep for a while. It wakes up (by itself) but the screen stays dark and the fans go hard. If I press the power button the fans go down but then after 10 secs or so up again. The only way is to force shut down the computer and then turn it back on again.

 

Anything you recognise?

 

I've tried to add my old DSDT.aml (that was working fine with Chameleon) but I guess that shouldn't be needed? I'm not sure if things get more stable sleep wise with the DSDT, have to try some more.

 

The only kexts I have are FakeSMC.kext, realtekALC.kext, and RealtekRTL81xx.kext

 

Hmm… it seems that adding the DSDT into the mix breaks the audio that was set up by Toledo's script. Maybe just run the script again?

 

Anyway, like you see I'm not there yet. I was having a very stable system with Mavericks and Chameleon (and the DSDT) so I guess it should be possible to achieve the same with Yosemite and Clover.

 

Thanks again for helping out!

[VirusX]

I'm not sure if that is the problem I had before. The problem I encountered with sleep was that my computer woke up every ~2 hours for less than a minute (without turning on the screen) and then went back to sleep. I've described that issue here and we got it solved. kinda  But in my case the fans didn't go crazy.

 

You should try to obtain a log of the stuff the system is doing while waking up. Afaik can DarwinDump create such a log? Not exactly sure here but I'm sure you'll find a little tool for that. Or maybe you can activate logging with Apple's preinstalled "Console" app. It would be interesting to see which command triggers the wake (in my case it was "RTC (Alarm)"). It sounds a bit like one of those darkwave states/powernap features. Computer wakes up, looks for new updates and emails etc, and should go back to sleep. But it shouldn't spin the fans like crazy...

 

You probably had a sound patch in your DSDT and that doesn't like toleda's patch... I'd try to fix that sleep issue first without the custom DSDT.

Good luck

[star-affinity]

I'm not sure if that is the problem I had before. The problem I encountered with sleep was that my computer woke up every ~2 hours for less than a minute (without turning on the screen) and then went back to sleep. I've described that issue here and we got it solved. kinda  But in my case the fans didn't go crazy.

 

You should try to obtain a log of the stuff the system is doing while waking up. Afaik can DarwinDump create such a log? Not exactly sure here but I'm sure you'll find a little tool for that. Or maybe you can activate logging with Apple's preinstalled "Console" app. It would be interesting to see which command triggers the wake (in my case it was "RTC (Alarm)"). It sounds a bit like one of those darkwave states/powernap features. Computer wakes up, looks for new updates and emails etc, and should go back to sleep. But it shouldn't spin the fans like crazy...

 

You probably had a sound patch in your DSDT and that doesn't like toleda's patch... I'd try to fix that sleep issue first without the custom DSDT.

Good luck

 

Okay, I'll look into the sleep problem first.

Hmm… now I can't get audio back even if removing the DSDT and running Toleda's audio script again (setting it to ”Audio 1”). After restarting I don't have the audio outputs in System Preeferences > Audio that I did when it was working. :-/

 

I was thinking – would you mind sharing your config.plist that you have in EFI/EFI/CLOVER? If I'd get that maybe thing will get sorted. I mean, we have the same motherboard. Or maybe you have the config.plist adjusted for your ATI graphics card?

 

Edit:

 

Aha, you already shared it on page 222. Will download that and try (adding my serial no. etc.).

 

Edit 2:

Things are again working fine audio wise since I replaced my config.plist with yours. I must have fiddled with something in mine… Will now try test how well sleep works. By the way, have you tried updating to Yosemite 10.10.1? Shouldn't be any problems I guess. Seems to be mostly smaller fixes.

[VirusX]

cool, I hope this also fixes your sleep issues

I haven't installed 10.10.1 yet because I need a stable machine since I'm currently writing my thesis on it. I will check this weekend if people have reported some problems with the update. Otherwise I will install it. Maybe you can test for me

[star-affinity]

cool, I hope this also fixes your sleep issues

I haven't installed 10.10.1 yet because I need a stable machine since I'm currently writing my thesis on it. I will check this weekend if people have reported some problems with the update. Otherwise I will install it. Maybe you can test for me

 

Yes! Sleep seems to work fine with the new config.plist. Some selections were different in the Acpi section, and under ”New way” I had nothing selected, while in the config.plist from you there are several. So now everything seems stable!

 

I might give the update a shot – I'll do it for you as a thanks for your help.

Will do a backup first of course.

 

Edit:

Update to 10.10.1 worked without issues!

 

Edit 2:

Noooo!!! Now it happened again! Had the computer sleeping over night and now in the morning I noticed the fans was going (not like crazy, but more than normal) and I couldn't wake – display stayed dark. Caps-lock not lighting up either and that usually means the computer isn't responding. Had to force restart.

 

I did find some stuff in the log showing that things happened during the night (”Wake reason: RTC Alarm” was there like you said you had trouble with):

 

20/11/14 01:33:19,000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)

20/11/14 01:33:19,000 kernel[0]: RTC: Maintenance 2014/11/20 00:33:17, sleep 2014/11/19 22:45:22

20/11/14 01:33:19,002 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: assertion failed: 14B25: launchd + 160118 [55B9FF23-B298-321A-B776-CF7676586C04]: 0xe

20/11/14 01:33:19,000 kernel[0]: Previous sleep cause: 5

20/11/14 01:33:19,000 kernel[0]: USBF:    3372.424    AppleUSBEHCI: setPowerState - PCI device still has PME status bit set. PMCSR is 0x8000

20/11/14 01:33:19,003 SyncServer[783]: [0x7f95bbd07940] |SyncServer|Warning| Refreshing watchdog because of a calendar time change alert.

20/11/14 01:33:19,002 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: assertion failed: 14B25: launchd + 160118 [55B9FF23-B298-321A-B776-CF7676586C04]: 0xe

 

20/11/14 01:33:19,228 SubmitDiagInfo[452]: Couldn't load config file from on-disk location. Falling back to default location. Reason: Won't serialize in _readDictionaryFromJSONData due to nil object

 

 

Also found this in the log:

 

Attempt to set push wake topics without dark wake enabled: ()

 

Shall I try changing the ”darkwake” setting in the ”Boot” section of the config.plist perhaps? I think I had it set to ”darkwake=0” when using the Chameleon boot loader under Mavericks when sleep was stable. But maybe this has more to do with Yosemite?

 

Are you saying that you can have your computer in sleep over night without it problems?

 

I also have this issue with the name of the computer changing (adding a number) all the time, but I guess that's another story (maybe because I started on a fresh install for Yosemite and the router gets confused with my computer name being the same for this installation):…

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6626663?start=0&tstart=0

[VirusX]

Before you change any dark wave settings, you should check out my post here about the RTC (Alarm). Maybe that solves that problem.

The name of the computer changing can be related to that. Bonjour services and broadcasting. Read it and maybe post there. 

[bbchucks]

updated to 10.10.1 via appstore with no problems.  I'm amazed!

 

Do you guys recommending updating Clover or just leaving it as is since it's working fine?

[VirusX]

well... never change a running system. In case everything works as you want, there's no reason to update clover.

But I have to admit, that I regularly update clover as well, because they work daily on it with tons of improvement under the hood. Most of the fixes don't concern us though with our old main boards. I suggest checking the change log of clover every now and then and if they have major improvements / new patches that you want, you can update.

As always, I recommend installing a new version of clover onto a usb thumb drive first before updating the clover install on your main hard drive.

[bbchucks]

well... never change a running system. In case everything works as you want, there's no reason to update clover.

But I have to admit, that I regularly update clover as well, because they work daily on it with tons of improvement under the hood. Most of the fixes don't concern us though with our old main boards. I suggest checking the change log of clover every now and then and if they have major improvements / new patches that you want, you can update.

As always, I recommend installing a new version of clover onto a usb thumb drive first before updating the clover install on your main hard drive.

 

Thanks, yah your tip on putting clover on USB drive is the best tip ever! =)

[star-affinity]

Before you change any dark wave settings, you should check out my post here about the RTC (Alarm). Maybe that solves that problem.

The name of the computer changing can be related to that. Bonjour services and broadcasting. Read it and maybe post there. 

 

Did the mDNS swap (per mnfesq's instructions/download). Now the computer name stays fixed! Let's see how it sleeps overnight… Thanks!

 

Sounded like a clever idea to use sleep watcher otherwise… Isn't it strange that doesn't seem to be working consistently?

[NCDiveBum]

New to Hackintosh so I'm sure this is a very stupid question. Trying to install Yosemite on my system (Mavericks worked just fine) but have had numerous problems using the U n i b e a s t method. This script looks very promising but I am unclear how I would do a fresh install. What do I boot into to run the script? Do I boot to a bootable USB that I make from OS X and then run the script from another USB drive? Will I need to partition the target drive first? Basic setup here:
* Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 system board
* Intel i7-4790k - 4GHz (overclocked to 4.3)
* 16 GB 1600Mhz RAM
* eVGA GTX 760 - 2 GB Video
* 450 GB SSD

Had no problems installing Mavericks even without pulling anything out. Yosemite installs fine using U n i b e a s t, but boot loader will NOT boot to the SSD (have tried Chameleon, Clover). Still getting errors about not being able to find kernel in /System/Library/Kernels/kernel even though the kernel is there and I do not have the "Kernel" argument in org.chamelion.Boot.plist. Finally, no sound using the on-board audio.

Can anyone help me with the script usage?

[hooda]

I hope its not for gigabyte only.. i'll try it out for other gigabyte. thanks DD. nice stuff.

[VirusX]

Did the mDNS swap (per mnfesq's instructions/download). Now the computer name stays fixed! Let's see how it sleeps overnight… Thanks!

 

Sounded like a clever idea to use sleep watcher otherwise… Isn't it strange that doesn't seem to be working consistently?

yeah the idea with the sleep watcher sounds like the perfect approach. I haven't tried it (yet) because that other patch is working fine for me (never change a running system...) and the results weren't as good with everyone.

[star-affinity]

yeah the idea with the sleep watcher sounds like the perfect approach. I haven't tried it (yet) because that other patch is working fine for me (never change a running system...) and the results weren't as good with everyone.

True. If it works well, let it be (although I rarely myself can't stay away from updating things just for the sake of it…).

 

Sleep worked fine overnight! Now I just have one problem left – getting iMessage to work (being able to log in) in Yosemite.

[VirusX]

great news!

regarding iMessage: there are some tutorials here in the forums about that. Basically you should set the MLB, ROM and Serial Number in Clover (use Clover Configurator for easy editing) to the values you got a genuine mac and if it still doesn't work ("call apple support") - call the hotline and let the apple rep fix it

If you have questions about that - post in the according threads..

 

@NCDiveBum, I don't know anything about your installation method using tools that are not approved here in the forums. If you want to make a fresh install with clover, read my instructions a few pages back.

[bbchucks]

Before you change any dark wave settings, you should check out my post here about the RTC (Alarm). Maybe that solves that problem.

The name of the computer changing can be related to that. Bonjour services and broadcasting. Read it and maybe post there. 

i updated to Clover 3021 and noticed the upgrade gui actually now has an option to disable the DNSResponder.

 

I got my sleep working after using dsdt file from another PC.  looks like everything works!  thank you VirusX for your help!