[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[mimio]

How large is that D620SLV1 ISO?

If it's reasonable size, I could download it and look at it for you.

Or, you could extract the kexts yourself.

 

When that ISO is mounted, there should be a Extra folder. Inside that folder may be a "Extensions" folder or some other named folder that contains the needed kexts. Those kexts may be missing and it's just compressed into a boot cache file (mkext file).

 

MAJ

 

Edit: Okay, I see you got audio. Do you know what chipset is used for your Ethernet?

 

Hey DD,

 

Actually I extracted VoodooHDA from that ISO. So everything is working perfect.

As for the network - mine is now working with Intel82566MM.kext from your distribution.

So basically everything works even in 64-bit mode.

 

 

my best regards,

Mimio

[bastardizer]

Sorry guys, I did try to search and scan through the thread...

 

I'm still on 10.5.7, and I have a goal to have a dual boot W7/OS X 10.6 system.

 

Ive used DD's way to get to 10.5.7 a while ago.

Is this a good way to go, and does anyone have any good ideas how to go about it?

 

Any pointers? Or perhaps in these 78 pages this have already been discussed, and I just cant find it?

Advice appreciated!

[AppleIIGuy]

Sorry guys, I did try to search and scan through the thread...

 

I'm still on 10.5.7, and I have a goal to have a dual boot W7/OS X 10.6 system.

 

Ive used DD's way to get to 10.5.7 a while ago.

Is this a good way to go, and does anyone have any good ideas how to go about it?

 

Any pointers? Or perhaps in these 78 pages this have already been discussed, and I just cant find it?

Advice appreciated!

 

well you can't do a straight update

 

You can clone you existing 10.5.7 drive to an external and install chameleon on that after you clone it to make it bootable

 

Once its bootable boot the external drive and install SL with dd's script then use migration asst to move all your settings/apps from the external drive

[bastardizer]

Thanks AppleII, I wasn't clear enough.

I do know how to migrate from my current setup, and understand that I can just update to get there.

 

My main concern is to do with how to run the script/format drive etc to accomodate dual booting with Windows 7.

I have one more internal drive thta's empty and an empty extrenal one as well to bump stuff around on.

 

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

 

Thanks Erik

[mimio]

Thanks AppleII, I wasn't clear enough.

I do know how to migrate from my current setup, and understand that I can just update to get there.

 

My main concern is to do with how to run the script/format drive etc to accomodate dual booting with Windows 7.

I have one more internal drive thta's empty and an empty extrenal one as well to bump stuff around on.

 

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

 

Thanks Erik

Hey there,

I have a dual boot for SL and Win7.

The installation was pretty easy as soon as I have 2 hdds

1. Install Win7 on hdd1

2. Install SL on hdd2

3. Put Chameleon into MBR of hdd2

4. Make hdd2 as a 1st bootable device

That's it. When you turn your computer on, Chameleon will be loaded and you can use its menu to select the volume to boot from.

Hope this helps.

[Budge]

OK...I used the USB Drive Install option found in the Installer menu. The patch installer is amazing! Thank you DD!

 

When I was exiting the menu after creating the USB Boot Drive, I got the following message in the Patch Installer:

 

./~extra/X58_patch_installer.sh: line 27: /Users/elliottfamily/Downloads/X58_Mobo_Patch_Installer/~extra/Logs/Install.log: Permission denied

logout

 

Is this normal?

Now if I understand correctly, I insert the USB drive into my new computer, boot it from the USB drive, format the new HDD with a GUID partition, and (1) install SL as usual, OR (2) run the Patch Installer again but on the new HDD?

 

Sorry if this is a noob question. I've been reading extensively for two weeks to learn as much as I can. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm here to stay, so I will gladly return the favor to anyone else that I can help. Thanks.

[El_Rocko]

Hi there!! I was just wondering, is there anyone running on Snow Leopard in 64 bits mode with EVERYTHING WORKING?

Just curious!

 

Thanks again

[taylorutah]

Since updating to 10.6.2 I have notice significant decrease in performance. I used to be able to play World of Warcraft while listening to iTunes, browsing the web and editing images in Fireworks. Now I have WoW open along with a single browser window typing this message and my cursor isn't keeping up with my typing!

 

I can still play Wow in windowed mode, but it is slow as hell now. My video settings in About this mac are still the same and everything reports as enabled.

 

Is there a known issue or fix for this?

 

Is there a new video card kext?

 

When I boot into my Windows 7 partition it is still screaming fast.

[bastardizer]

I know this isnt a thread for graphics issues but...

I have this gfx card ASUS GEFORCE 9500GT 1GB GDDR2 PCI-E VGA/DVI/HDMI

I had a bit of a struggle to get it working properly with 10.5.6 and 10.5.7

Now I tried to install 10.6.2 I cant get it to diaplay any other res than 1024x768, and my scren is 1920x1080

 

I might just have to get another gfx card (suggestion on what card appreciated!) or if someone has one I'd appreciate some pointers. I cant seem to get anything happening with the NVid kexts included in DD's sownload. Could there be a conflict?

 

Ideas and pointers appreciated!

[CruiSAr]

I know this isnt a thread for graphics issues but...

I have this gfx card ASUS GEFORCE 9500GT 1GB GDDR2 PCI-E VGA/DVI/HDMI

I had a bit of a struggle to get it working properly with 10.5.6 and 10.5.7

Now I tried to install 10.6.2 I cant get it to diaplay any other res than 1024x768, and my scren is 1920x1080

 

I might just have to get another gfx card (suggestion on what card appreciated!) or if someone has one I'd appreciate some pointers. I cant seem to get anything happening with the NVid kexts included in DD's sownload. Could there be a conflict?

 

Ideas and pointers appreciated!

Try using efi strings, DD's script can add efi strings for your card I think.

 

Hi there!! I was just wondering, is there anyone running on Snow Leopard in 64 bits mode with EVERYTHING WORKING?

Just curious!

 

Thanks again

Read here, here and here

[melee54]

I had a working 10.5.7 install on the UD3R version of this board up until about a week ago. I was dual-booting leopard with Win7 x64. I decided I would like to install XP x32 as well, so I disabled the HDD with Chameleon on it, disabled ACHI for the sake of installing XP, installed XP, and got both 7 and XP running fine. I re-enabled my HDD with chameleon, turned on ACHI again, and all of a sudden it seems I have lost my chameleon.

 

It will no longer boot.

 

What are my options at this point? Is there a way to reinstall the bootloader for chameleon somehow? It was still running the now outdated RC2. I used this installation guide from back in July..

 

I'm kinda bummed, I was just planning to install SL, too.

 

At this point, since I can not access my leopard, would I have to reinstall a distro so I can then install SL again?

 

Or if there's a way to reinstall the chameleon bootloader, that'd be good I guess. That way I could restore my SL image to a USB drive since my DVD drive is broken and clean install it.

 

Basically, what are my options at this point?

[VirusX]

I decided I would like to install XP x32 as well, so I disabled the HDD with Chameleon on it, disabled ACHI for the sake of installing XP, installed XP, and got both 7 and XP running fine. I re-enabled my HDD with chameleon, turned on ACHI again, and all of a sudden it seems I have lost my chameleon.

 

afaik you cannot change AHCI after a windows installation - I installed some time ago windows without AHCI and for mac osx I changed to AHCI. but with AHCI enabled - windows wouldn't boot up anymore.

 

how did you "disable" your hdd?

 

can you choose your leo-hdd with F12 at startup? is chameleon working then?

[melee54]

afaik you cannot change AHCI after a windows installation - I installed some time ago windows without AHCI and for mac osx I changed to AHCI. but with AHCI enabled - windows wouldn't boot up anymore.

 

how did you "disable" your hdd?

 

can you choose your leo-hdd with F12 at startup? is chameleon working then?

 

Sorry, I used the wrong word. By "disable", I meant to say that I switched the boot order of the HDDs while installing XP, that way chameleon would be disabled and I could boot directly into windows.

 

In the past I've been able to switch from ACHI / normal IDE. Windows simply installs the correct drivers. Well, in my experience anyway. EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, I originally installed Win7 in IDE mode then later added the ACHI drivers/registry entries.

 

i tried booting via F12 and selecting the chameleon HDD as you suggested, but the boot process hangs on "Verifying DMI pool data............."

 

 

Sounds like I need to format my entire system and start fresh :/

[fact]

Windows likes to take hold of the boot sectors of all available drives while installing. It is therefore not wise to leave a working mac drive connected to the controller while installing Windows even if it's not the boot drive. Physically disconnecting the drive is the only safe option here.

 

There is no need to format drives or any such drastic measures. You would have to boot from a boot-CD to get back into OSX and reinstall Chameleon either manually or by using DD's script.

 

You can boot XP in AHCI mode by adding a bunch of registry values and installing the appropriate driver (iaStor.sys). Google is your best friend here.

[LocusOfControl]

afaik you cannot change AHCI after a windows installation - I installed some time ago windows without AHCI and for mac osx I changed to AHCI. but with AHCI enabled - windows wouldn't boot up anymore.

 

how did you "disable" your hdd?

 

can you choose your leo-hdd with F12 at startup? is chameleon working then?

 

 

Hi

 

I believe you can install AHCI support for Windows after the event. I made the mistake of not doing this originally

and had to do it later. It can be a bit messy though, but should just be a case of installing the appropriate drivers

from somewhere (I forget where, either windows 7 disk or motherboard disk)

 

steve

[Windows04]

afaik you cannot change AHCI after a windows installation - I installed some time ago windows without AHCI and for mac osx I changed to AHCI. but with AHCI enabled - windows wouldn't boot up anymore.

 

how did you "disable" your hdd?

 

can you choose your leo-hdd with F12 at startup? is chameleon working then?

 

Actually, it's rather easy to install AHCI after the installation of windows (if you're using windows vista or windows 7).

 

Just follow these steps (directly taken from the microsoft support website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 )

 

1) Install the chipset drivers/SATA drivers of your motherboard (for our motherboard, the GA-EX58-UD5, you can find the drivers at the gigabyte site).

2) Close all programs

3) Go to the register editor (search regedit in the start menu) and go to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

4) Look for the key Start in the right pane and right click it. Then choose the option "Modify" and enter the value 0 (and make sure it's hexadecimal).

5) Close regedit and reboot.

6) Go directly to your bios and change the SATA mode to AHCI (if you don't do this directly after you changed the register, windows will give a BSOD at startup)

7) When windows is booted up, it will "detect new hardware" (the SATA ports which are in AHCI mode now). Just let it install the drivers (this can take a while, at least on our motherboard because we have 2 different SATA ports and we have a lot of SATA ports).

8) When all the drivers are installed, reboot windows for the last time and you're finished .

[ZoroLives]

My goodness this is a pain. Or a hobby I suppose, one mans poison etc... I "had" a bootable SNL drive. Now it seems to auto reboot after one second each time I select it in Chameleon. The last thing I did was to try moving my prefs file from the old leopard drive to the new SNL drive. Reason: I was trying to keep all my registered apps, registered. Now I am thinking that was my error.

 

I also cannot get a clean migration to happen because if I do it from the start I am still getting a failed process. If I install SNL, then use the migration assistant, the admin account I migrate leaves me with a confused system, with two admin accounts. There is no way that I can see to fix this once it has occurred.

 

Firewire does work but sound will not work. I guess what I Need is a nudge to where a good primer is. Sorry folks, don't want to waste anyones time with too much noobishness, I need a refresher on what the successful instal should look like as in, where to look for the kexts, and so how to read posts about what versions are working for others labors. I am shooting in the dark and I Need to keep shooting with the lights on.

 

If anyone has any thoughts on salvaging what progress I have made I would appreciate it. Otherwise it's time to pull it all down, again, and reformat the drive, again ... sheesh.

 

Thanks for any help or tips.

[LocusOfControl]

My goodness this is a pain. Or a hobby I suppose, one mans poison etc... I "had" a bootable SNL drive. Now it seems to auto reboot after one second each time I select it in Chameleon. The last thing I did was to try moving my prefs file from the old leopard drive to the new SNL drive. Reason: I was trying to keep all my registered apps, registered. Now I am thinking that was my error.

 

I also cannot get a clean migration to happen because if I do it from the start I am still getting a failed process. If I install SNL, then use the migration assistant, the admin account I migrate leaves me with a confused system, with two admin accounts. There is no way that I can see to fix this once it has occurred.

 

Firewire does work but sound will not work. I guess what I Need is a nudge to where a good primer is. Sorry folks, don't want to waste anyones time with too much noobishness, I need a refresher on what the successful instal should look like as in, where to look for the kexts, and so how to read posts about what versions are working for others labors. I am shooting in the dark and I Need to keep shooting with the lights on.

 

If anyone has any thoughts on salvaging what progress I have made I would appreciate it. Otherwise it's time to pull it all down, again, and reformat the drive, again ... sheesh.

 

Thanks for any help or tips.

 

 

For a start I would stop messing with Migration Assistant. I used it the very first time I installed SL and it made a mess

similar to yours, I seem to recall it even copied across some third party kexts from the /Extra folder I had then.

 

I would start with a clean install of SL and then use Carbon Cloner to selectively migrate apps across if you must.

By now you should have had enough install practise and it shouldn't take you an hour to install SL

[Budge]

Help please. I used DD's script to make a bootable USB Drive for Snow Leopard to install on a new machine. I understand that I'm supposed to boot from this USB. But once I boot to the USB drive, do I just run the SL install, or do I run the script again and install SL during that process? Thanks.

[raymondh]

I've read that some are having problems on crashing on wake from sleep. I'm still running 10.5.7 and haven't tried SL yet but I did just install Windows 7. Windows 7 crashes every time it wakes from sleep on my UD5 with F7 bios. Maybe it isn't the OS but the bios or board that causes the crash.

[ZoroLives]

For a start I would stop messing with Migration Assistant. I used it the very first time I installed SL and it made a mess

similar to yours, I seem to recall it even copied across some third party kexts from the /Extra folder I had then.

 

I would start with a clean install of SL and then use Carbon Cloner to selectively migrate apps across if you must.

By now you should have had enough install practise and it shouldn't take you an hour to install SL

CCC, didn't think of that, thanks. I didn't realize MA was such a pain, now I do.

 

I still have a very hit or miss time getting sound working in SNL though. Once in all the starting over scenarios - JUST ONCE , did I get sound working. Sigh. It's possable, I just don't know what I did differently that one time.

 

Back to the beginning again.

[LocusOfControl]

CCC, didn't think of that, thanks. I didn't realize MA was such a pain, now I do.

 

I still have a very hit or miss time getting sound working in SNL though. Once in all the starting over scenarios - JUST ONCE , did I get sound working. Sigh. It's possable, I just don't know what I did differently that one time.

 

Back to the beginning again.

 

Sound is a bit more involved, I would get everything running without it first. You can always add it later

and ask then

[ZoroLives]

Sound is a bit more involved, I would get everything running without it first. You can always add it later

and ask then

One more question, I thought I could use an ISO to greatly speed this process up. As it is now I do the ten minute disk reading install process. I had an iso on a thumb drive but if I remember correctly, DD said it would not work because he had not written the installer script to look at other drives. I may have misunderstood though because I think I Was reading that step six could be used to look for a properly named ISO image.

 

Sound right?

 

Thanks

[LocusOfControl]

One more question, I thought I could use an ISO to greatly speed this process up. As it is now I do the ten minute disk reading install process. I had an iso on a thumb drive but if I remember correctly, DD said it would not work because he had not written the installer script to look at other drives. I may have misunderstood though because I think I Was reading that step six could be used to look for a properly named ISO image.

 

Sound right?

 

Thanks

 

 

I don't know is the answer. I didn't use a script to install, nor did I use any iso's or usb thumb drives etc.

you don't really need it. All you need is a working leopard partition and the SL DVD. I did the install manually

 

To be honest I've seen this a few times, scripts and wizards can be useful initially to get you started but people

can become hooked on them and you end up learning the script rules rather than the underlying software.

It maybe me so no disrespect, but I prefer to do things by hand so I learn what is happening, it really isn't hard.

(but it did take a bit of effort to do lots of reading and research and trial and error etc)

 

Having said that, coming from a unix background many years ago when we used to write application harnesses etc

there is a use for scripts but IMHO it is automating repetitive stuff that you know how it works already.

 

I'm not trying to put you off the DD script by the way, just think of it as a leg up, then learn the real mechanics of the

underlying install. This will allow you to fix things when they go wrong.

[melee54]

Windows likes to take hold of the boot sectors of all available drives while installing. It is therefore not wise to leave a working mac drive connected to the controller while installing Windows even if it's not the boot drive. Physically disconnecting the drive is the only safe option here.

 

There is no need to format drives or any such drastic measures. You would have to boot from a boot-CD to get back into OSX and reinstall Chameleon either manually or by using DD's script.

 

You can boot XP in AHCI mode by adding a bunch of registry values and installing the appropriate driver (iaStor.sys). Google is your best friend here.

 

What boot-cd would you recommend to again access my leopard partition? Would Empire EFI work alright?