Kakewalk: Minimal effort install (EP45, EX58, P55, G41)

[madxmat]

I installed bootloader ver 1.4 and 1.5 to my USB with SL installer and everytime i got grey screen with "You will need to restart..." message. When i used ver 1.3 it was ok but i have lost it so is it possible to get it, anyone have it?

 

And one more question, when I did a image restore to USB it took about 14 hours!? So something is wrong propably with the USB stick.

[ThePriestOSX]

@ mrjanek > Thanks for the amazing work.

 

I would like to ask something about upgrade to the latest bootloader installer:

1. is it the latest one 1.5?

2. can i use it to update over 1.4?

 

& anther thing regarding 1.4 bootloader:

 

my hard disk appears under unknown controller but works gr8 but the icon seems like to be as a USB HDD icon? is it a bug or should i do something.

 

note: I connected my SATA HDD to the orange SATA controller on MB not the purple one.

 

CPU Name is intel core to Quad Xeon 2.4 GH, but my CPU is Core to Quad Q6600 2.4

is that normal or should i do something

 

thanks

 

my PC parts are:

 

MB: Gigabyte EP45-UD3P

Bios V: F9

CPU: Intel Core to Quad Q6600 2.4 GH

HDD: 320 GB SATA

VGA: PCIe Gigabyte 9800GT 1024 MB

RAM: 4 GB

[fintan6]

If you've already got SL installed, then download and install GigabyteBoot

 

 

 

Hm. I just tried installing the EP45-UD3P package in GigabyteBoot and everything works.

Try searching for the error it seems like I could be common.

 

I found the solution to the boot0: error in case anyone else is having the same problem. My primary drive was greater the 1TB. I repartitioned to less than 1 TB and reinstalled GigabyteBoot. Working great now.

 

mrjanek - In your update notes for 1.5 Beta, you mentioned you got rid of OpenHaltRestart.kext. However after updating with GigabyteBoot the kext is still in my Extra/Extensions folder. Is this correct or should I delete it?

 

Thanks.

[Jason_B]

Talking to you guys from my fresh hackintosh

 

Q9650

EP45-UD3P

WD 250gb HD (snow leopard)

WD 640GBx2 Raid 0 (Winows Vista)

Gtx 275 Graphics card

Corsair 4Gb Dominator 1066mhz. (Have it running at 800mhz for my 4Ghz overclock on the CPU)

 

So far everything is working great! To get into my snow leopard system I hold F12 at start up, select HD Group and then select my 250 Gb. It boots up to windows without pushing any keys through the bios and start up menus. This is fine for me .

 

But a wierd issue I am having is that Snow Leopard once inside the OS, it is not recognizing my HD? The HD is not showing up on my desktop, but it shows up as a device in finder?

 

This is truly amazing, thanks!

[amonthofsundays]

I would first like to start off by thanking mrjanek for his work, this is exactly what I have been looking for and I will most certainly be donating. This is going to be my first Hackintosh and Im going to build it for a i7 920 but was looking to save a little money on the mobo cost by going with a GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R. I saw the user "Formal" ask if this mobo will work with this installer without receiving a direct answer but then saw the hackintosh in Formals sig was using that mobo. Would either mrjanke or Formal be so kind as to let me know if this installer will work well with this motherboard? Thanks very much.

 

-Chris

[mikedddd]

A problem and a question.

 

Problem. I've installed on a EP45-UD3R and all is well, except when my computer goes to sleep it disconnects all USB drives and I get an error message. This was with the 1.3 installer, updated to 10.6.2. Never noticed this before because I hadn't put it to sleep with a connected USB drive.

 

Question. Why did you change from the Chameleon bootloader in 1.5?

 

Thanks

Mike

[comrad]

On a GA-P35-DS3 I've got 10.6.2 running out of the box at the end.

Using your GigabyteUSB method! (hardware specifications in my signature)

I choosed one of your DSDTs and Chameleon 2 for that 8GB stick & an untouched 10.6 retail SL DL-DVD,

which I integrated onto the stick following your guide+method. Thanks!

 

After install and the first boot in that new 10.6.0 I had to repair sound issues.

For the sound chip I inserted a different VoodooHDA.kext, and finally

psystar's kexts for halt/restart (OpenHaltRestart) & the the one which displays

metal-shaped HDD icons instead of orange colored HDD icons on the desktop (OpenBlockDevice).

Before a full Apple update to 10.6.2 I injected the well known NullCPUPowerManagement.kext!

 

My BIOS is at F10 - I found a DSDT for my board made with F14 BIOS,

and I used that DSDT file. And there where no KP, no HALT, no errors relating to that DSDT.aml while rebooting...

 

All the changes made on the "BigMac"-hackintosh I made on the stick too, whose were mainly targeted

to the /Extra folder

 

My (not so little) iMac has a score of about 4.300 - this Hackintosh has one of about 6.400 (geekbench 2.1 64bit)

Amazing!

But note: The iMac is still at 10.5.8 coz' I have to sort+save 350GB of my data before I can do

a fresh 10.6 install. I don't do an upgrade, I prefer to start from scratch on that machine too.

 

I have to thank you again, mrjanek!

 

And: Thanks to all of the others, whose help I needed & found in the forums or on their websites,

last but not least to netkas!

 

My KEXTs in /Extra/Extensions are these

(but NOTE: these are for my GA mobo, NOT exactly for the GA mobo-class refers to that thread):

 

 

There remains one little issue about running now a 32bit kernel:

Since I red this article, I gave up to search further for a solution of this "issue".

[iwcham1979]

Guys, this is important. Will this card work properly:

 

Gainward 9800GTX+ 512MB TV Dual DVI

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1613/gain...dex3.htmlThanks.

[Meatwagon]

Hey

I did the USB Install guide twice with my UD3LR but I am always getting "Verifying DMI Pool Data ....". So it doesn't boot. I wanted to do the CD Install guide but the Link is broken...

 

i had this problem go into your bios, under boot, make sure USB is set to or HD, but then hit enter and specifify which USB or HDD is 1st priority. should work after that.

 

I ran the update package from system update, immidiate kernel panic after reboot. So i reinstalled overtop of the old OS, salvaged all my programs, What do i have to do, to get up to date? Specs are in the sig.

 

thanks

[mrjanek]

A problem and a question.

 

Problem. I've installed on a EP45-UD3R and all is well, except when my computer goes to sleep it disconnects all USB drives and I get an error message. This was with the 1.3 installer, updated to 10.6.2. Never noticed this before because I hadn't put it to sleep with a connected USB drive.

 

Question. Why did you change from the Chameleon bootloader in 1.5?

 

Thanks

Mike

 

1. The issue with USB and sleep should be fixed since 1.4

 

2. AsereBLN's bootloader is based on Chameleon RC4. The difference is that it adds some more features and compatibility.

[Renzy]

why doesn't the usb even boot on my ep45t ud3lr lol, i boot to usb and get a kernal panic? should I update to latest BIOS maybe?

[mrjanek]

I found the solution to the boot0: error in case anyone else is having the same problem. My primary drive was greater the 1TB. I repartitioned to less than 1 TB and reinstalled GigabyteBoot. Working great now.

 

mrjanek - In your update notes for 1.5 Beta, you mentioned you got rid of OpenHaltRestart.kext. However after updating with GigabyteBoot the kext is still in my Extra/Extensions folder. Is this correct or should I delete it?

 

Thanks.

 

1. Great! I'll add this to the FAQ.

 

2. It's safe to remove OpenHaltRestart.kext. I forgot to delete it before making the package It's only present on EP45-UD3P. I'll upload a new package without it soon.

[AznCQ]

Hey OP,

 

Would this install work on a EP45-DS4P mobo? I heard that the mobo was simliar to a UD3R (correct me if I'm wrong).

 

Also what happens if you have an ATI card for example the ATI Radeon HD4870, I know that in Leopard when i did vanilla installs, my display would always {censored} out due to missing ATI kexts. How could I get it working?

[philmrmac]

Showing hard disk icons on the desktop is an option.......Finder->Preferences.

 

But a wierd issue I am having is that Snow Leopard once inside the OS, it is not recognizing my HD? The HD is not showing up on my desktop, but it shows up as a device in finder?

.........

[mikedddd]

Thanks to all for their help, esp. mrjanek.

I ran the gigabyteboot, I believe I am at 1.5 now. Only fakesmc, jmicronata, and legacyhda in my extensions for the extras folder. Boots, runs, actually bumped my Geekbench by 2-3%.

Only problem is when I wake from sleep, I still get the error message re:disconnecting drives. Since my time machine is a USB drive, I really don't have an option. I guess I could disable sleep...Anyone have a suggestion?

 

Oh, one thing that may be helpful-as your versions increase, my copies of them do as well, since my first trial was 1.1, I think. First success, and beer to you, was 1.3. Perhaps you could include the version # in the file name? It would keep me from downloading duplicates, if nothing else.

 

Regards,

Michael

 

I would first like to start off by thanking mrjanek for his work, this is exactly what I have been looking for and I will most certainly be donating. This is going to be my first Hackintosh and Im going to build it for a i7 920 but was looking to save a little money on the mobo cost by going with a GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R. I saw the user "Formal" ask if this mobo will work with this installer without receiving a direct answer but then saw the hackintosh in Formals sig was using that mobo. Would either mrjanke or Formal be so kind as to let me know if this installer will work well with this motherboard? Thanks very much.

 

-Chris

 

I would love to know this as well. I have a I7 with a biostar MB that I'm having trouble trying to install SL. May just have to stick with Win7. But I'd be willing to try a $100 MB, if not one of the $250+ ones that seem to be compatible.

 

Mike

[trwoolley]

mrjanek -

 

I am beginning my GA-EX58-UD5 Hackintosh build, so I should be ready to install SL from GigabyteUSB soon. I am unsure how to upgrade my USB thumb drive from GigabyteUSB 1.4 which I prepared a few days ago to GigabyteUSB 1.5. What I have done is to trash the boot file and Extra folder from the Snow Leopard thumb drive, then installed GigabyteUSB 1.5 over again on the drive. Is this not a good method? Should I have started from scratch - erased the thumb drive, partition over again, restore SL, then install GigabyteUSB 1.5?

 

In any case I find that the new GigabyteUSB 1.5 has installed a new folder "Resources" at the root of my thumb drive, and the Extra/Extensions folder now is missing OpenHaltRestart.kext (as expected) but also NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. Is this correct?

 

I am hesitant to boot from my thumb drive when I finish my build to install Snow Leopard until I know I have the correct files installed from GigabyteUSB 1.5 along with the Snow Leopard install.

 

Thanks for the great help!

[Benzini82]

Many thanks for your work for this INstall method.

 

I installed yesterday on the following system

 

GA-EP45-UD3L

E8400

Generic 4gb DDR2

ATI Radeon 4890

64gb SSD

 

updated to 10.6.2 no worries

Almost everything works just fine. Graphics were fixed with the 'exotic cards .pkg'

Sleep and Shutdown work fine.

 

The only thing I can't get to work is restart. It hangs after a few seconds..

 

anyone help with this?

[strukt]

I am also wondering if it is possible to install on a GA-EX58-UD3R?. I ordered that motherboard by mistake!

 

EDIT: Never mind, I did order the GA-EX58-UD5 instead and I will send the other one back.

[chen.wz]

Hi mrjanek,

 

Thanks for the work!

 

I installed fine with your guide, ud3p + 8g ram + 9600gso, everything was woking. However, after upgrading to 10.6.2, I got black screen. System didn't freeze, I can move the mouse, just can't get to the desktop. It is a vga lcd on the 9600gso. I don't know what to do to get over it, can you help? Thanks!

 

Kevin

[mrjanek]

I am beginning my GA-EX58-UD5 Hackintosh build, so I should be ready to install SL from GigabyteUSB soon. I am unsure how to upgrade my USB thumb drive from GigabyteUSB 1.4 which I prepared a few days ago to GigabyteUSB 1.5. What I have done is to trash the boot file and Extra folder from the Snow Leopard thumb drive, then installed GigabyteUSB 1.5 over again on the drive. Is this not a good method? Should I have started from scratch - erased the thumb drive, partition over again, restore SL, then install GigabyteUSB 1.5?

 

It should be fine just installing over the previous files.

 

In any case I find that the new GigabyteUSB 1.5 has installed a new folder "Resources" at the root of my thumb drive

 

The resources folder is something I forgot to delete before packaging, doh!. You can safely delete it if you want as it has no function.

 

and the Extra/Extensions folder now is missing OpenHaltRestart.kext (as expected) but also NullCPUPowerManagement.kext. Is this correct?

 

Correct!

[680i-osx]

mrjanek:

Firstly thanks for your effort and commitment!

Your work is precious!

 

I tried to install SL with both v1.4 and v1.5 of the gigabyteUSB, both were easy to install SL in my hackintosh, but both led in to the problem I described some posts ago. During the OSX installation it says that there is no "EX58-UD5" component. I proceeded the installation anyway and most things do work but not the network controllers...

Everything else is correctly detected and works as they should.

I did everything described in the "guide.pdf" included in the gigabyteUSB dmg, my SL image is from the genuine OSX install DVD I bought from Apple.

My system:

- EX58-UD5

- i7 920

- 6GB DDR3

- GTX285 1GB

- 5 SATA HDs

- SATA BD-ROM

- USB mouse/keyboard

...

Do you have any clue of what can be done to fix it?

 

Again, thanks to share your work with everybody!

[joergd]

Hi all,

 

I just wanted to report a successful update to 10.6.2. I recently had problems with the update due to my NVidia GeForce 7300 card. I upgraded to a Captiva 9800GT with 512 MB and everything is fine now.

 

Next task is Dual-Booting WinXP. Later on: Ubuntu 9.10. Any ideas on good threads dealing with that?

 

Many thanks,

 

J. Daehn

 

Specs: Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR (Bios F7), Intel C2Q Q8200 boxed, 4GB OCZ PC1066 @ 1066 / 2,1V, Captiva 9800GT with 512 MB, HDD Samsung 1TB HD103SJ, DVD LGGH22NS50 (not recommended due to Bluebirds issue!)

 

Guys, this is important. Will this card work properly:

 

Gainward 9800GTX+ 512MB TV Dual DVI

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1613/gain...dex3.htmlThanks.

 

Probably yes. Anything 9800GT whatever should be fine. I just got this one

 

Captiva GeForce 9800GT

 

and it solved the problems I had with a Captiva 7300 and an update to 10.6.2.

 

HTH,

 

J. Daehn

[brendenallen@gmail.com]

Hi, I have a EP45-UD3L. Everything works except sleep. could it be my bios settings?

[mrjanek]

I proceeded the installation anyway and most things do work but not the network controllers...

 

Ah, ok!

Go to /System/Library/Extensions/ (of your SL partition)

Find the file RealtekR1000SL.kext and delete it. Reboot!

 

If that works please report back and I'll change this in the installer package.

Sorry about these problems. It's not that easy as I only have the EP45-UD3LR motherboard myself

[joergd]

Just one hint

 

Keyboard remapping on a PC Keyboard (from a tip I wrote on MacOSXHints a while ago on my MacMini (being anonymous), a little rewritten for Proxi 1.5.4):

 

Proxi Download

 

Remapping the keys on a PC KEyboard

 

Remap the function keys on a standard PC keyboard

 

"There are several hints [ . . . ] on remapping the function keys on a standard PC keyboard when used with a Mac (in my case, a Hackintosh). The standard key map does use F8 to F12, but lacking are volume controls, shut down switch, and others. Several people suggested using ControllerMate or Keyboard Maestro to handle this problem. Here's another solution...

 

Somewhere, I found a hint suggesting to use Griffin's Proxi to solve this problem. After installing Proxi, start it, select "Proxi Editor" from the Window Menu, create a new trigger by clicking on "Components", then select Hotkey Monitor and drag it to the "triggers" area. Then select the new trigger, rename it and then select "Components" again and drag "Key press" to the tasks area. I choose to set up volume control on F4/F5, and mute on F3. This works like a charm."

 

Also, if you are German and want to use the @-Symbol the normal way via AltGr-q, then you should follow the instructions in this link:

 

Lutz Maders Homepage

 

HTH,

 

J. Dähn