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

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Limited87
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Hey. need help Plz

 

i´m having issues with a HDD.

My Problem:

If i connect my third Hdd (Samsung 1TB) to any sata port the Bootloader won´t load it stuck @ "\"

 

Ps: I Newest version of Bootlaoder

Pps: The HDD work´s in Vista fine

Any Solutions ???

 

Oh man,

I've forgotten that the bootloader hard disks with more than one TB doesn´t supports

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Edit: Using this guide, I was able to get Snow Leopard Installed on my USB hard drive. I did find out that the Adaptec 31205 controller card is NOT supported in Snow Leopard and that there are currently no drivers available for download. It's not a simple recompile of the BSD drivers as well since Darwin uses a different kernel level drivers than standard BSD. :P

 

I downloaded the ISO and tried to boot to CD but that's where my issues begin.

 

My specs are as followed:

 

Intel Core i7 920 + Gigabyte EX58-UD4P + 12GB DDR3-1600 + 2x ATi Radeon 4890 1GB (I know CF doesn't work in OS X) + Adaptec 31205 PCI-E x8 RAID + 4x Fujitsu MAY2036RC 36.7GB SAS in RAID5.

 

I have retail images of both Leopard and Snow Leopard. The issue is this:

 

1. If I select Snow Leopard on the External HD, it reboots the machine.

2. If I select Leopard, it loads but then kernal panics and displays a Gray Screen of Death.

 

The installers are on an 80GB external USB hard drive and each are on a seperate partiton. Does this affect the bootloader in anyway since both install partitions are detected via the Kakewalk CD.

 

I believe that both are gold, retail images (i.e. 10.x.0). Is there a way to apply the combo/Intel updates to get them to the latest versions? (i.e. 10.5.7 & 10.6.2 respectively). I do have access to a Mac running Snow Leopard and a Windows partition as well. Also, as long as the machine boots into the installer, I can worry about the controller card not being supported later as I have access to other hard drives that I can boot from the onboard controller.

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Hi Mrjanek, great jop, super simple 4 old gits.

 

just my 2 cents worth. gigabyteusb.dmg ver 1.7 and 10.6 worked a treat on the

EP45-UD3LR mb bios F7, with E7600 3.06 gighz processor, 4 gig 800mhz ram.

gigabyte 7300gt video card either dvi or vga but not both, all resolutions

All sound works, but one does not get welcome sound on first boot,

need to select internal speaker, in preference.

 

Weirdness with pci cards VIA 6306 FireWire did not work, but does in 10.5

VIA 6307 FireWire does work and VIA 6214L USB works too. (combo card)

Broadcom WI-FI (minipci on pci) card (id 0x4320) mostly works ( led does not light) but works perfect in 10.5

And here's the weirdness both pci cards together don't work, mostly, but just once they did. :D

Either card on it's own OK, Bios pci set to auto. I figure it's all this 64 bit stuff :P

 

I'm an old git by the way 6502 and all that, so these days it needs to be simple or I get lost.

 

" I can feel my mind going Dave "

 

or as Sir Terry Prachett would say " I'll tell you when to pull that plug "

 

I tried the 10.6.2 combo update, having read about the chameleon bootloader being able to handle it.

But got KP on restart, gave it the -v next time and it seemed to be the 7300gt card that it didn't like.

 

Oh well back to 10.6 it was 99% I'll live with out the firewire. :)

 

peace and Lsd4all

 

j kat

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Hi to all of you from Rome! I'm tryng to make my hackinstosh and I founded this wonderful guide for my hardware that you can see in my sign... I would like to make dual boot with xp and snow leo but I'm not so expert so I'm gonna make some questions that could appear silly to all of you but I'm teaching myself now, Hope you will help me:

1) Have I to install in the first xp and after snow?

2) in the step 3 point 7 the guide spekas about boot cd, is it the snow disc? but I have to take it from a torrent, in a particular distro or the original or what or where?

3) In the installation I have to select something particular drivers or something like that?

4) for this intallation is it necessary an old installation of leo or it can works starting from zero?

So guys thank to all of you in advance and I hope I will have my hack...

Ciao :D

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Hi to all of you from Rome! I'm tryng to make my hackinstosh and I founded this wonderful guide for my hardware that you can see in my sign... I would like to make dual boot with xp and snow leo but I'm not so expert so I'm gonna make some questions that could appear silly to all of you but I'm teaching myself now, Hope you will help me:

1) Have I to install in the first xp and after snow?

2) in the step 3 point 7 the guide spekas about boot cd, is it the snow disc? but I have to take it from a torrent, in a particular distro or the original or what or where?

3) In the installation I have to select something particular drivers or something like that?

4) for this intallation is it necessary an old installation of leo or it can works starting from zero?

So guys thank to all of you in advance and I hope I will have my hack...

Ciao :)

bon giorno!

 

Windows XP can't be installed on the same disk as Snow Leopard because Mac OSX needs a GUID partition table and XP can only work on MBR partition. However, if you install it on separate disk then that's fine, no problem. It can work starting from zero, you don't need Leopard 10.5.

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bon giorno!

 

Windows XP can't be installed on the same disk as Snow Leopard because Mac OSX needs a GUID partition table and XP can only work on MBR partition. However, if you install it on separate disk then that's fine, no problem. It can work starting from zero, you don't need Leopard 10.5.

 

Ok thanks a lot, and about the boot cd (step 3 pooint 7) and drivers I wrote could you help me?

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Anybody got it working with a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 with Bios B7? Could you please post the bios settings? I have been trying for several days but no luck.. Tried the USB and cd method. I get a white screen for a second after the darwin boot loader and it just reboots.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

Thanks

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Anybody got it working with a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 with Bios B7? Could you please post the bios settings? I have been trying for several days but no luck.. Tried the USB and cd method. I get a white screen for a second after the darwin boot loader and it just reboots.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

Thanks

 

There is tons of support for that specific board on this forum and on the Tonymac P55 forum as well. I would suggest it is likely your graphics setup that is the issue, Nvidia always works best for me. Could you give more details of your hardware.

 

Hope that helps.

 

P.

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I have snow leopard on an usb stick. How do I install it with Kakewalk? Do i have to put kakewalk.dmg on another stick or can i put it on the same? I don't have a dvd-reader on the computer i would like to install snow leopard on, that's why i need to install from usb.

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josh64fx
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There is tons of support for that specific board on this forum and on the Tonymac P55 forum as well. I would suggest it is likely your graphics setup that is the issue, Nvidia always works best for me. Could you give more details of your hardware.

 

Hope that helps.

 

P.

 

Core i5 750

Gigabyte P55M-UD2 Bios v7

4gb DDr3

BFG Nvidia GTS 250 1gb OC

WD 640GB Black hard drive

Samsung sata DVD burner

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I have snow leopard on an usb stick. How do I install it with Kakewalk? Do i have to put kakewalk.dmg on another stick or can i put it on the same? I don't have a dvd-reader on the computer i would like to install snow leopard on, that's why i need to install from usb.

 

 

read the install guide... follow it step by step. shouldnt have any problems.. you need osx to use kakewalk.

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mrjanek, how do I get my computer to recognize my HD 4850? I can boot ok in SAFE Mode, but I only have one resolution. Can I edit the plist to make the card recognizable? The ati 4800 controller kext is in the Extensions folder.

 

I have upgraded to 10.6.2.

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Core i5 750

Gigabyte P55M-UD2 Bios v7

4gb DDr3

BFG Nvidia GTS 250 1gb OC

WD 640GB Black hard drive

Samsung sata DVD burner

 

Aperently there are support issues with i3 and i5 please check out this forum. It has solutions specific to your hardware.

 

here

 

Hope that helps.

 

P.

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zeigerpuppy
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Hi there,

 

everything working realtively well with my UD7A here but I am getting random crashes.

Can't seem to trace it to any particular setting. I have tried turning off turbo memory and set the bios settings as suggested. Any other ideas?

I installed using the Gigabyte USb method, haven't changed to kakewalk.

Hardware is all new, temperatures are good.

 

A little stuck!

I get varying uptimes, heavy use seems to make it happen earlier, but varies from 10min to 2 days

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Hi mrjanek,

first of all thanks for the bootloader, I managed to use it with a 965p-dq6 too, the system started without problems. Now I am using it on a ex58-ud3r and it works well.

 

I have 2 questions, pardon me if I am a noob. I used to put chameleon bootloader in a separate partition, to keep my system clear and to be able to change my hardware only modifying my cham partition.

Now, to be able to use the new hardware fast I just copied your dvd into my cham partition (wich I think is something unusual/lame), and it boots wonderfully, with all the hardware otb, but, I wanted to know if this is a fully functional solution.

 

The second question is: Would you please consider making an installable version of your bootloader for separate bootloaders partitions? I tried to add voodoomonitor.kext in preboot.dmg but it's not working.

It might work installing your kexts in the boot disk partition, but I would rather not do it.

 

If you need a donation for this just let me know.

 

Thanks

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