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

[fishvic]

Installation works great!!

I have a small problem, istat and the boot screen shows 4 gb of ram, but about this mac shows 6gb. There is 3*2gb installed.

(I installed 10.6.0 and then updated to 10.6.2 without doing anything special)

Does somebody knows a way to fix it?

[maccompaq]

It's probably your graphics card. The ATI 48xx series requires some extra tinkering.

 

Here's some more info how to solve this.

Ignore "Step 1" as GraphicsEnabler is already active

 

 

 

Check the FAQ on puru.se

I downloaded and installed the QE CI Exotic cards 10.6.1 package from the reference you provided, but I still have the same results. The ati 4800 Controller.kext (inside the Extensions folder) shows a date of August 2009. So, I am wondering what happened. Before I installed the package, I upgraded to 10.6.2.

 

I still need to boot in SAFE Mode. What am I missing?

[Technosteve]

I downloaded and installed the QE CI Exotic cards 10.6.1 package from the reference you provided, but I still have the same results. The ati 4800 Controller.kext (inside the Extensions folder) shows a date of August 2009. So, I am wondering what happened. Before I installed the package, I upgraded to 10.6.2.

 

I still need to boot in SAFE Mode. What am I missing?

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=811768

 

ATI Flashing Tool just follow the instructions, you either flash your card or install the injector. Hope that helps all ATI owners.

 

Also any way you could add a theme to the default boot loader on your next update mrjanek?

[Meatwagon]

get the themes here. Chameleon themes, must make an user account to download themes.

[boxman]

long time lurker first time post

 

I tried both lifehacker and gigabyteOSX ( using both Hdd and USB stick) and although both work, I think the gigabyteOSX is, as its new name suggests, a Kakewalk.

Thank you Mrjanek

 

Have searched for some suggestions to make a bootable copy of the stable system I have, but ended up just installing on a new disk

I did have a question as to how to make the digital outputs work , they show in the system as combo but I can not select any digital output in the sound preferences.

Is these a kexts change I can make to do this to get 5.1 digital ( either optical or coax )

[Meatwagon]

 

this is my power management

[puteradq]

Dear mrjanek,

Thank you very much for your great iso. I managed to install SL into my GA-EP45T-UD3R. I tried both the EP45T-UD3LR and the EP45-UD3R bootloader and they both work. But with EP45T there's no sound and my pci card doesn't work. With EP45-UD3R boot everything works but the clock is running faster than normal. And when playing audio it clips every now and again.

 

I was wondering if you could kindly help me with my EP45T-UD3R board bootloader. Thank you very much.

 

GA-EP45T-UD3R

8G DDR3-1333 Kingston RAM

Asus 9800GT 512Mb Video (Works fine)

Leopard 10.5.8 on Hdd 1 and SL 10.6.2 on Hdd 2

Firewire PCI card

 

Best,

Puteradq

[ProfessorB]

I would like to thank you for making it easy to install OSX 10.6 on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L motherboard. Everything seems to be working perfectly except sleep. I can put the computer to sleep, but when I try to wake it by clicking the mouse, it reboots instead of waking up. I have noticed that others have had this same problem with this motherboard.

 

Do you, or does anyone else have a fix for the sleep problem?

I encountered the same problem with OSX 10.6 and 10.6.2. I have tried installing the sleepenabler kext for OSX 10.6.2, but it did not help. There are no other applications running.

 

Gigabyte EP45-UD3L ver. 1.0 Firmware X 7

8GB RAM Geil DDR2 6400 1.8V memory

GeForce 9600 GSO (768MB)

Samsung 500GB HD

[josh64fx]

I am having a little trouble installing on a P55m-UD2

 

I tried the USB and the CD method. When I boot it from the CD or USB, the darwin boot loader comes on, starts to load, Then I get a white screen for a second and the system reboots.

 

My specs are

 

Core i5-750

Gigabyte P55m-Ud2

4gb ddr3 ram

BFG GTS 250 1gb

Thanks!

[jaysee54321]

I am having a little trouble installing on a P55m-UD2

 

I tried the USB and the CD method. When I boot it from the CD or USB, the darwin boot loader comes on, starts to load, Then I get a white screen for a second and the system reboots.

 

My specs are

 

Core i5-750

Gigabyte P55m-Ud2

4gb ddr3 ram

BFG GTS 250 1gb

Thanks!

 

I'm trying to get a build going for a mate, with exactly the same specs as you except I'm using my old 8800GT instead. But symptoms are exactly the same. Power on, boot loaded loads, start boot of USB, white screen for a second, reboot. I'm using the USB method.

 

I'm wondering if maybe there is a newer bios? I don't really want to have to install windows just to update bios (download was an exe file) if I don't have to. Has anyone here had success with a P55M-UD2 bios v6?

 

Thanks,

John

[mikedddd]

I'm trying to get a build going for a mate, with exactly the same specs as you except I'm using my old 8800GT instead. But symptoms are exactly the same. Power on, boot loaded loads, start boot of USB, white screen for a second, reboot. I'm using the USB method.

 

I'm wondering if maybe there is a newer bios? I don't really want to have to install windows just to update bios (download was an exe file) if I don't have to. Has anyone here had success with a P55M-UD2 bios v6?

 

Thanks,

John

If you boot verbose do you get any information?

[virtualy insane]

Hi.

Thanks for your work but i couldn't make it work on my ex58-ud5.

 

I got this message:

 

kernel Warning - com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.

 

Removing InternalModemSupport.kext from IOSerialFamily.kext, fixing permissions and touch-ing /S/L/E just prevented showing the message described above.

 

Should I use kexthelper ? I don't understand what is it for except fixing permissions and touch-ing /S/L/E, does it do something else ?

 

By the way I wasn't able to correctly fix perms on the usb thumb without using vsdbutil.

 

As heard, I also tried to disable my mother board onboard Serial controller but strangely it is not provided by my bios interface (Award 6.00PG upgraded to "F9" should ask in Integrated Peripherals tab ?).

 

Thanks for help

[trwoolley]

I'm trying to get a build going for a mate, with exactly the same specs as you except I'm using my old 8800GT instead. But symptoms are exactly the same. Power on, boot loaded loads, start boot of USB, white screen for a second, reboot. I'm using the USB method.

 

I'm wondering if maybe there is a newer bios? I don't really want to have to install windows just to update bios (download was an exe file) if I don't have to. Has anyone here had success with a P55M-UD2 bios v6?

 

Thanks,

John

 

I just upgraded BIOS from F7 to F9 on my Gigabyte EX58-UD5 and I didn't need Windows to do it. Gigabyte supplies self-extracting exe files, so the latest version of Stuffit Expander (free) will unpack it. I put the expanded file (e.g. ex58ud5.f9) on a USB flash drive, then restarted. By pressing the <End> key during the POST seequence, I entered Q-Flash, an onboard BIOS updater. All the guidelines were in my manual. It was foolproof and easy.

[Meatwagon]

I would like to thank you for making it easy to install OSX 10.6 on a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L motherboard. Everything seems to be working perfectly except sleep. I can put the computer to sleep, but when I try to wake it by clicking the mouse, it reboots instead of waking up. I have noticed that others have had this same problem with this motherboard.

 

Do you, or does anyone else have a fix for the sleep problem?

I encountered the same problem with OSX 10.6 and 10.6.2. I have tried installing the sleepenabler kext for OSX 10.6.2, but it did not help. There are no other applications running.

 

Gigabyte EP45-UD3L ver. 1.0 Firmware X 7

8GB RAM Geil DDR2 6400 1.8V memory

GeForce 9600 GSO (768MB)

Samsung 500GB HD

 

 

I have the same board as you, what are your energy saver settings like? they should look like the photo i posted (about 4-6 posts up)

[josh64fx]

I am having a little trouble installing on a P55m-UD2

 

I tried the USB and the CD method. When I boot it from the CD or USB, the darwin boot loader comes on, starts to load, Then I get a white screen for a second and the system reboots.

 

My specs are

 

Core i5-750

Gigabyte P55m-Ud2

4gb ddr3 ram

BFG GTS 250 1gb

Thanks!

 

I got bios v7 and I tried the verbose mode but before I can read anything, the system restarts. is there a way to pause that?

[neoapple]

I am having the same problem as josh64fx. I have used a usb method to install 10.6 on a netbook that was very similar to this and had no issues. Yet, with this machine I have it begin to boot off the USB drive and no luck.

 

It flashes white and reboots. I have upgraded the BIOS to the new 7 from Gigabyte for my p55m-ud2. I have gone as far as exchanging the board to see if my board is defective... same result on the new board.

 

My specs are the following:

 

Patch retail 10.6 on a 8gb USB Sandisk Cruzer (following the Kakewalk direction to step by step).

 

Gigabyte P55M-UD2 (Rev. 1.0 updated to 7 BIOS), Intel i7 860, Cosair 4gb DDR3 XMS (2x2gb), WD 1TB SATA Drive, XFX 9400 GT 1GB PCI-E, Ultra 600 watt modular power supply.

 

Please help me find some sanity here.

 

 

[hondafanboy]

First I wanted to say, mrjanek you are amazing.

I had allot of problems following other guides to get SL working on my machine; which made me feel very stupid because I built this machine to run OSX, and running OSX it did with Leopard, but not very well.

The issue wasn't speed, or things not working.

Sound, video, any everything works perfectly; but I had problems with the screen saver locking up, and freezing the computer, and anything that remotely needed more then average processor power, caused the computer to stutter (especially apple software like Quicktime, itunes, final cut) you could see it mainly in the way the mouse was actting, also the computer will not lock all the time. This caused what I like to call "unneeded conversations" with my wife and I, when she would call herself being Sherlock Holmes and finding things on the computer.

 

With your method, I install SL, I had no problems pulling all my applications, and user profiles from my time machine hard drive; and when everything was finished it looked as if I did nothing at all. Only thing different on the surface, was the fact that the computer said 10.6.2, and not 10.5.9... and all the problems mentioned above disappeared completely.

Agian I would like to say your "the man, " I gave you some money via paypal (something I don't do very often)

 

I do happen to have one question, for some reason I'm unable to boot this thing in 32bit mode.

I tried to "<string>arch=i386 -legacy</string>," and just plain "<string>arch=i386</string>," but the computer seems to have a problem loading psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart, which appears to stop the boot altogether.

I was wondering if I was doing something wrong, or if it was not possible to boot into 32bit mode with your method?

[artmusic]

I do happen to have one question, for some reason I'm unable to boot this thing in 32bit mode.

I tried to "<string>arch=i386 -legacy</string>," and just plain "<string>arch=i386</string>," but the computer seems to have a problem loading psystar.driver.OpenHaltRestart, which appears to stop the boot altogether.

I was wondering if I was doing something wrong, or if it was not possible to boot into 32bit mode with your method?

 

I think that must be this:

<string>arch=x86_64</string>

[hondafanboy]

Thats for 64 bit, which it's currently set at now...

I'm talking about 32bit...

[mikedddd]

I'm trying to get a build going for a mate, with exactly the same specs as you except I'm using my old 8800GT instead. But symptoms are exactly the same. Power on, boot loaded loads, start boot of USB, white screen for a second, reboot. I'm using the USB method.

 

I'm wondering if maybe there is a newer bios? I don't really want to have to install windows just to update bios (download was an exe file) if I don't have to. Has anyone here had success with a P55M-UD2 bios v6?

 

Thanks,

John

 

I don't have the board you have (yet) so I can't definitively say why, but you might want to compare kexts with Tonymac's guide for P55 systems...

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/11/os-x-snow-leopard-install-using-retail.html

to see if there are any major problems that would keep you from booting?

Mike

[artmusic]

about 64 bit:

http://netkas.org/?p=127

[manse]

I updated to F10 a couple of days ago. So far no issues at all, as stable as before. It also cut my boot-time with a few seconds.

 

Wow you weren't kidding - gone to F10 & my boot time is loads faster now ;-)

 

Thanks

[maccompaq]

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=811768

 

ATI Flashing Tool just follow the instructions, you either flash your card or install the injector. Hope that helps all ATI owners.

 

Also any way you could add a theme to the default boot loader on your next update mrjanek?

According to the instructions, that ati flashing tool is only for HD 4870 and 4890 cards. Mine is a 4850.

[ProfessorB]

I have the same board as you, what are your energy saver settings like? they should look like the photo i posted (about 4-6 posts up)

 

Your suggestion worked perfectly. I had the first and last settings unchecked. Changing those setting allowed the system to wake from sleep correctly, instead of rebooting. I installed “PleaseSleep,” and the computer now goes to sleep automatically. Thank you very much for your help.

[maccompaq]

If someone wants support for a video card, check out the forum here or use the google search..

I spent a lot of time reading at the reference you provided, but I found no solution to my HD 4850. I chose that card, because Apple uses it in the higher end iMacs.

 

I keep checking for a solution, and I hope it is around the corner.