[GUIDE] Scripted Yosemite/Mavericks Install on Gigabyte Mobos

[Sidewinder33]

will it boot off the other drives when they are in? Is it possible that the bios arent set to use a Hdd as a boot priority (would be odd but I know when I was mucking with stuff I sometimes took it off the boot priority list. Also what bios version are you using?

[Jon G]

It will boot the 10.5.7 installation, and it will boot into xp64bit - all installations are on separate drives.

 

I can use f12 to select any drive to boot off of so I'm sure I'm booting the correct drive.

 

The issue started when I had the v9 firmware, I'm now on v12 firmware.

 

- jon

[CruiSAr]

I've looks at the thread and I really really want to do it (less hassle once its set up) but I'm pretty novice at coding and hackintosh manipulating in general. I have a hard time understanding all that dood says in his thread. I've tried reading it over several times but just can't get my head around it completely. But that is my goal to get there some time

Yeah his thread is bit geeky, lol....I have hooked up a short setup guide you can use, just click on the link in my signature that says guide with only fakeSMC in Extra.

 

It uses 100% native power management and requires only fakeSMC in Extra to boot. You can actually just replace your DSDT with the attached one in the guide and get rid of the kexts that you wont need by removing them and updating boot caches...(just be sure you know what you are doing and that you have a backup setup to boot from if anything should go wrong)

 

Some people have experienced KP's with iCal helper when using this setup, if you experience a KP as well, try using the patched PC Efi V6 bootloader from Prasys' blog.

 

It will boot the 10.5.7 installation, and it will boot into xp64bit - all installations are on separate drives.

 

I can use f12 to select any drive to boot off of so I'm sure I'm booting the correct drive.

 

The issue started when I had the v9 firmware, I'm now on v12 firmware.

 

- jon

If you can access your SL drive from Leo, then I suggest you copy over the necessary files /Extra folder etc etc and try a reinstall, it will only take 15 minutes. You can also try reinstalling the bootLoader again.

[Sidewinder33]

Hey CruiSAr,

I just tried your guide used DD's Script to remove all the kext's but the fakesmc and the ethernet. I got a kp after I rebooted (i removed the kexts and updated the boot cache and then moved the dsdl into the /extra) but it looks like something is up with my #4 cpu.

 

Heres a screeny

What do you think?

 

Edited for botardedness

[CruiSAr]

Hey CruiSAr,

I just tried your guide used DD's Script to remove all the kext's but the fakesmc and the ethernet. I got a kp after I rebooted (i removed the kexts and updated the boot cache and then moved the dsdl into the /extra) but it looks like something is up with my #4 cpu.

 

Heres a screeny

No screen attached, the DSDT was patched as of bios F9m version, I see you have version 12...maybe that could be the issue.

 

EDIT: You also need a modded bootLoader for the setup to work, sorry, I forgot to mention that...check the link in the guide.

[Sidewinder33]

No screen attached, the DSDT was patched as of bios F9m version, I see you have version 12...maybe that could be the issue.

 

EDIT: You also need a modded bootLoader for the setup to work, sorry, I forgot to mention that...check the link in the guide.

 

I added the three files from the link you posted into the ~extra .... folder in DD's installer bootloader folder

 

I'm gonna downgrade to F9 to see if thats the cause

 

damnit i didnt reload the bootloader using the script i changed it in the folder and never loaded it... ugh

[CruiSAr]

I added the three files from the link you posted into the ~extra .... folder in DD's installer bootloader folder

 

I'm gonna downgrade to F9 to see if thats the cause

 

damnit i didnt reload the bootloader using the script i changed it in the folder and never loaded it... ugh

Lol....ok try that and let me know if it works...did you have CSTATES and Turbo ratios Enabled when you booted the first time? I assuming the answer is no since you got the KP.

If everything works well, you should see something like this in verbose mode

 

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=2 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=4 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=6 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=1 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=3 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=5 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=7 Enabled

 

3/19/10 10:43:28 PM kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 1112

3/19/10 10:43:28 PM kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete

[Jon G]

If you can access your SL drive from Leo, then I suggest you copy over the necessary files /Extra folder etc etc and try a reinstall, it will only take 15 minutes. You can also try reinstalling the bootLoader again.

 

tried to reinstall the bootloader - no luck. The weird part is that the same preboot CD I previously used successfully will no longer boot - same type of a hang... just stops after it says done mounting.

 

-jon

[CruiSAr]

tried to reinstall the bootloader - no luck. The weird part is that the same preboot CD I previously used successfully will no longer boot - same type of a hang... just stops after it says done mounting.

 

-jon

Ok try flashing the bios again, maybe to an older version, I find F8e and F9m to be very good...Try clearing CMOS as well

[Sidewinder33]

Lol....ok try that and let me know if it works...did you have CSTATES and Turbo ratios Enabled when you booted the first time? I assuming the answer is no since you got the KP.

If everything works well, you should see something like this in verbose mode

 

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=2 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=4 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=6 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=1 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=3 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=5 Enabled

3/19/10 10:43:26 PM kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=7 Enabled

 

3/19/10 10:43:28 PM kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 1112

3/19/10 10:43:28 PM kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete

 

I think I'm good. Only fakesmc, ethernet, and audio kexts installed. Everything is working so far I'll go reboot to double check (i typically dont boot in verbose to save time but i'll double check . I hadnt been a botard I would have been up and running the first try

 

Edit: Everything is up and running great, i updated to F11 and everything still works great all the cpu's are enabled and I Think its good to go. Now if only DD's script could make the DSDL thats patched like that

 

Thank you so much for the help CruiSAr you've been a huge help

[MikeBuzzsaw]

If you are using kexts for shutdown and restart then try updating boot caches again, you can also check the logs to see why the system restarts instead of shutting down.

 

 

I'm not using anything kexts for shut down. This started happening recently and I haven't messed with any of the kexts. Whenever I shut down, it justs reboots. No idea what's causing this.

[CruiSAr]

I think I'm good. Only fakesmc, ethernet, and audio kexts installed. Everything is working so far I'll go reboot to double check (i typically dont boot in verbose to save time but i'll double check . I hadnt been a botard I would have been up and running the first try

 

Edit: Everything is up and running great, i updated to F11 and everything still works great all the cpu's are enabled and I Think its good to go. Now if only DD's script could make the DSDL thats patched like that

 

Thank you so much for the help CruiSAr you've been a huge help

Thats good news, no need to thank me, just sharing my experience, real thanks should go to DD, d00d and Steve

[Sidewinder33]

One thing that I have noticed is theres still a sleep issue. I can let it go to sleep and also command it to sleep, if I wake it within a few minutes it works just fine, but if i let it sleep for some time (just tested 2 hours) it is actually off and hitting the power button turns the comp back on. Not sure whats going on. Do I have to edit the dsdl to try s1? instead of using s3.

[CruiSAr]

One thing that I have noticed is theres still a sleep issue. I can let it go to sleep and also command it to sleep, if I wake it within a few minutes it works just fine, but if i let it sleep for some time (just tested 2 hours) it is actually off and hitting the power button turns the comp back on. Not sure whats going on. Do I have to edit the dsdl to try s1? instead of using s3.

Oh sorry, you need to go into energy saver and make sure start up automatically after a power failure is active, that should fix things

[Sidewinder33]

I've got that enabled but still no luck. I just tried pulling it out of sleep after about 10 mins and it was off ... not just sleeping. If I change the sleep type in the bios to S1 vs S3 does that make a difference in OSX or is that all managed by the dsdt?

 

In all reality I don't really need sleep, just trying to cool the cpu's and save some power at night. On all my actual macs i never put it to sleep.

[CruiSAr]

I've got that enabled but still no luck. I just tried pulling it out of sleep after about 10 mins and it was off ... not just sleeping. If I change the sleep type in the bios to S1 vs S3 does that make a difference in OSX or is that all managed by the dsdt?

 

In all reality I don't really need sleep, just trying to cool the cpu's and save some power at night. On all my actual macs i never put it to sleep.

S1 (POS) Power on standby is used when you dont want the machine to deep sleep, meaning power to the CPU and RAM is maintained even though the system appears to be sleeping.

 

S3 (deep sleep) saves everything to RAM and Powers off the CPU.

 

I think if you want your system to wake on Alarm then S1 will be best. I tried sleeping the system with S3 whiles I had iCal with an alarm event running, it didnt work. I am convinced this is due to the sleep state.

 

Try using S1 and see what happens, I havent tried the DSDT with S1 enabled in BIOS thoughi, you might get a KP, maybe you wont.

[Sidewinder33]

S1 (POS) Power on standby is used when you dont want the machine to deep sleep, meaning power to the CPU and RAM is maintained even though the system appears to be sleeping.

 

S3 (deep sleep) saves everything to RAM and Powers off the CPU.

 

I think if you want your system to wake on Alarm then S1 will be best. I tried sleeping the system with S3 whiles I had iCal with an alarm event running, it didnt work. I am convinced this is due to the sleep state.

 

Try using S1 and see what happens, I havent tried the DSDT with S1 enabled in BIOS thoughi, you might get a KP, maybe you wont.

 

Well tried it with S1 enable in the bios and no change, changed it back to S3, and actually I found an odd situation, I had a script (Rip3) that aided in allowing the machine to go to sleep when idle. (I had it in there from my previous install) When I disabled it, sleep doesn't work at all now. When I tell it to go to sleep it looks like its is going to sleep (fast shutoff no closing of programs) and it just shuts off completely. Also the idle time sleep doesn't work. Oh well I have too much {censored} going on at night anyway the comp doesnt need to sleep

[I_Spectre]

Are you using hard drives with multiple partitions? I think I read sometime back that having partitions on a huge disk that start after the ITB mark sometimes gives the error you are having, but with that said, it shouldnt affect your graphics as the OS loads

 

 

ok so i went in a different direction. i changed in the bios from AHCI to raid because i dont get the EBIOS error and chameleon loads correctly. i now get this hang up point:Waiting on root device. i think it is waiting on a boot drive kext, not sure but in hangs here in normal boot and -x. any thoughts?

 

[CruiSAr]

ok so i went in a different direction. i changed in the bios from AHCI to raid because i dont get the EBIOS error and chameleon loads correctly. i now get this hang up point:Waiting on root device. i think it is waiting on a boot drive kext, not sure but in hangs here in normal boot and -x. any thoughts?

OSX will only boot with AHCI mode, you are getting this error because it cant find your Hard Disk

 

Well tried it with S1 enable in the bios and no change, changed it back to S3, and actually I found an odd situation, I had a script (Rip3) that aided in allowing the machine to go to sleep when idle. (I had it in there from my previous install) When I disabled it, sleep doesn't work at all now. When I tell it to go to sleep it looks like its is going to sleep (fast shutoff no closing of programs) and it just shuts off completely. Also the idle time sleep doesn't work. Oh well I have too much {censored} going on at night anyway the comp doesnt need to sleep

Lol at censored....ok sorry to hear you still cant get it to work the way you want it to. I have never used any programs to aid idle sleep,mine has always worked with sleep enabler or native power management.

 

Ah well, at least you now have a minimal kexts setp system ...congrats

 

I'm not using anything kexts for shut down. This started happening recently and I haven't messed with any of the kexts. Whenever I shut down, it justs reboots. No idea what's causing this.

Mike, can you please state your setup, ie. kexts dsdt etc...then I might be able to find out what is causing the problem. You can also try to shutdown and when it boots back into OSX copy and post the logs into a text file and attach it.

[Sidewinder33]

Lol at censored....ok sorry to hear you still cant get it to work the way you want it to. I have never used any programs to aid idle sleep,mine has always worked with sleep enabler or native power management.

 

Ah well, at least you now have a minimal kexts setp system ...congrats

 

hahah ya I noticed that too apparently we cant say Sh*t hahaha, ya mines always been finicky with sleeping, no real sweat off my back, and hell ya for minimal kexts, now to see if my update happiness gets me in trouble hahaha. Thanks again for all the help.

[Jon G]

Ok try flashing the bios again, maybe to an older version, I find F8e and F9m to be very good...Try clearing CMOS as well

 

Fashed the bios. cleared the cmos using the button at the back of the mother board.

 

Still not working. same issue. The preboot CD acts a little different though - after it says done mounting the curosor continues to spin and the HD light is on - but the CD stops spinning.

 

completely at a loss as to what the issue is.

 

 

-jon g

[luh3417]

@cruisar I am stunned by the speed and simplicity of this flawless install I just did with your guide. Many thanks!

 

Boot whines a bit about AppleHDAWidget.cpp FWIW. Also, I let Apple's Software Update run and update from 10.6.0 to 10.6.2, no problemo. It ran a second time and updated hella more software and again no problemo.

 

When people get 10.6.3 update (soon), do post the confirmation.

 

One completely bizarre issue, the DVD drive tray opens and closes repeatedly every 30 seconds. Just wanted to throw that out there in case anyone has any ideas. It was happening with the old install too so its unrelated to the guides here.

[CruiSAr]

@cruisar I am stunned by the speed and simplicity of this flawless install I just did with your guide. Many thanks!

 

Boot whines a bit about AppleHDAWidget.cpp FWIW. Also, I let Apple's Software Update run and update from 10.6.0 to 10.6.2, no problemo. It ran a second time and updated hella more software and again no problemo.

 

When people get 10.6.3 update (soon), do post the confirmation.

 

One completely bizarre issue, the DVD drive tray opens and closes repeatedly every 30 seconds. Just wanted to throw that out there in case anyone has any ideas. It was happening with the old install too so its unrelated to the guides here.

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

[I_Spectre]

OSX will only boot with AHCI mode, you are getting this error because it cant find your Hard Disk

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

 

[borissatan]

hey guys

 

my hack has been working very well now for a while, so thanks to everyone who helped me. however the main problem i have is that I need to be able to dual (actually triple) boot between osx (which is is on one physical drive with chameleon bootloader) and xp/ubuntu (which is on another physical drive with grub bootloader). At the moment I have to manually plug in the drive i wish to use and unplug the drive i'm not using or it doesn't work, which is no good long term.

 

so how can i leave all my drives connected and triple boot? i'm guessing my bootloaders are conflicting or something.

 

also how do i read my windows files from within os x and vice versa?

 

i'm sure this has been posted loads of times before but the search here is {censored} - any help much appreciated!!!

 

cheers

 

matt