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

[GMink]

I'm up and running!

100% Success, everything is working.

 

But I need help, because I can not change my Display resolution to 1600x900, I've tried with an entry in my com.apple.boot.plist

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=x86_64</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>3</string>

<key>Theme</key>

<string>Default</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1600x900x32</string>

<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>RestartFix</key>

<string>Yes</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

Didn t work. I can change resolution but there is no choice for 1600x900 for my Acer v203h (DVI with Adapter to the VGA in of the display).

 

I believe grfx acceleration is working properly but I couldn't make geek bench run.

 

Please help.

 

I may be mistaken but that key is only to change the bootloader screen resolution and not the resolution in OSX. The boot loader will only use VESA standard resolutions.

 

I'm not sure what you need to do if you can't select the correct screen resolution from within OSX for your monitor. Does your monitor not have a DVI input?

[kaymm2]

An update on my G41-ES2L. I just updated to 10.6.1 without issues. I didn't lose sound.

 

I don't know if it has anything to with SuperDuper before. But I have an extra drive in my PC called "Test HDD" I used SuperDuper! to clone it over to the Test HDD, booted off the test hdd. Sound would stop working once I booted off the 2nd drive. I don't get it. I thought that SuperDuper does an exact copy/clone. So when I tried update to 10.6.3 on the Test HDD, obviously sound doesn't work. It wasn't because of the update.

 

I'm at 10.6.1 right now and I don't wanna risk having to do a complete reinstall if I lose sound if I update to 10.6.2. I wanted to go to 10.6.1 at least so I can use the advanced features of my magic mouse. It needs 10.6.1 and the mouse update.

[tag1]

So here is my final build. Does the EX58-UD5 has onboard wireless? If not, can someone point me to a card that will allow Airport and wireless internet to work?

 

CM690II Advanced Case

 

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor - changed to the i920 because that is what the overclocking guide worked with

 

GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

XFX HD-489X-ZSFC Radeon HD 4890 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

 

Corsair 750W PSU

 

OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

 

G.SKILL PI Series 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI

 

SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD Burner

 

Megahalems

[kaymm2]

Hi kaymm2

 

Reapply the bootloader 2.1 after an update to 10.6.3

 

Good luck Ray

 

I tried that still no audio but that was on my cloned drive. I didn't want to mess up my real OSX isntall so I cloned it with Super Duper, booted with the cloned drive, installed the updates and then installed the 2.1 kakewalk boot loader. Still no audio.

 

I'm thinking it didn't work because of the how the drive was cloned. I'll try the real drive knowing it works with 10.6.1.

[Clausewitz]

Thanks all!

 

I got my Hackintosh up and fully operational today. EX58-UD5 - updated to most recent OS without losing sound (it just changed output to headphones - easily changed back). It is supremely satisfying to see it work so well.

 

Also, for whoever might be interested, the Rosewill USB wireless ethernet adapter in my sig worked just fine - super speeds, solid connection.

[hockeylove]

I tried that still no audio but that was on my cloned drive. I didn't want to mess up my real OSX isntall so I cloned it with Super Duper, booted with the cloned drive, installed the updates and then installed the 2.1 kakewalk boot loader. Still no audio.

 

I'm thinking it didn't work because of the how the drive was cloned. I'll try the real drive knowing it works with 10.6.1.

 

Why don't you do a fresh install on your cloned drive and apply the updates to that drive and see if the sound still works. That way you don't mess up your drive that is working right. If it works then apply the udates to the other drive.

[kaymm2]

Why don't you do a fresh install on your cloned drive and apply the updates to that drive and see if the sound still works. That way you don't mess up your drive that is working right. If it works then apply the udates to the other drive.

 

I just tested it on my on my real drive now. It doesn't work.... upgraded to 10.6.3, rebooted, installed kakewalk 2.1 bootloader. In system profiler it shows that there is an audio device but in Sounds, it says there isn't one...

 

I had to do a re-install of 10.6 again but thank god for Time Machine cause it transfered all the files and settings back to way it was before I upgraded. So it seems with my G41-ES2L, I can only go as high as 10.6.1. Since I can update to this without issues.

[thehaus]

I am looking for some useful advice and or help.

I was using iPC 10.5.6 on my old Asus P5n72-T MB with a q6600 over cloacked to 3.0ghz and ddr2-800 ram overclocked to 1066 with two SATA2 HDD and two SATA DVD drives. I put the OSX on an IDE drive.

 

That is the background.

 

I just bought a GA EP45-UD3L board and used all the same hardware but decided to first get everything running in default specs for the chips and board.

 

BTW, I am using a ATI Radeon 4870 512mb standard clocking.

 

I booted up in iPC 10.5.6 with everthing working fine. Amazed me that I didn't need to change a thing between the NVIDIA MCP chip based board and the Intel ICH10 board without any issues and need for kext's ?!

 

I used Kakewalk to create the ISO and burned one at max speed and the other at slow speed just in case.

 

I then made all the BIOS changes recommended in the guide, removed all my extra SATA HDD, USB drives, and USB hardware.

 

I then booted Kakewalk v2.1 bootloader CD I created with no issue. I replaced it with my Retail OSX SL 10.6.0 for $29 which I have used a few times without problem for loading my netbook.

 

It got to the install screen in SL and I formated a 500gb SATA drive to extended journ aled GUID and erased the drive multiple times.

 

I have tried installing SL to the drive 8 times or more. I have gone back and modified the bios each time and disabled ports and tried 32-bit and 64-bit HPET variations. I went to the configuration menu and removed languages, printers and X11. Fort some reason it get about 2/3 of the way through the install but then stops each time giving me an invalid error.

 

I can not figure for the life of me why this happens. Does anyone have any ideas??????????

 

Lastly, I tired doing the install of the Retail disk while in iPC 10.5.6 and my USB HDD with a retail 10.6.1 and get the same invalid installation error about 2/3's of the way in.

 

I then decided to use the Kakewalk bootloader and boot into my USB HDD that I made for my netbook and that worked fine. So, I decided last nite to image my USB netbook SL 10.6.1 that I made using Netbook Installer 0.8.4 RC1 to my 500gb SATA drive. I first used the bootloader to start us 10.6.1 and then imaged it over to the SATA HDD. I can now boot into the imaged 10.6.1 netbook version without problem. Crazy but hey it works for now.

 

I was then going to use Netbook Installer 0.8.4 RC1 and remove all its custom settings and then run Kakewalk and its bootloader. Does anyone have any ideas? Seems to reason that it shoudl work.

 

Oh, i forgot to mentiopn that i had a imaged USB key with 10.6.0 retail that I used for installing on my netbook so I tried to use it to install to my 500gb SATA drive and got the same invalid error.

 

My thinking on the invalid install error is that it has nothing to do with my retail disk or USB key. I have succesfully imaged the 500gb drive and booted into it with the Kakewalk bootloader so my drive hardware seem to be ok. I am thinking this may be a bios issue. I have the latest F9 bios. I even tried setting the ram to standard clock speeds and played with the virtual, C1, and C2 stuff in adv settings to no avail.

 

I would love to figure out my my retail SL will not do a full install. Does anyone have any ideas on this. Before you respond make sure you understand the extent of variations, elimations of hardware and devices, bios changes, etc, etc. Thanks for any help I can get on this.

 

Although I now have a working 10.6.1 I would like to ultimately do the outlined Kakewalk install method.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Haus

[gwendoline]

10.6.2 is running with no issue with kakewalk 2.1 cd and 10.6.2 combo update. (Still can't change my resolution to 1600x900 - didn't work properly with linux either!)

After updating to 10.6.3 audio is gone and all colors of the screen are darker now, grfx accelaration is not working properly. This also after installing the kakewalk boot loader.

 

Same issues when updating from 10.6 to 10.6.3 combo v1.1 directly.

 

Is there something wrong with my install?

 

1.) Booting kakewalk cd (i created the .iso for the ep45-ud3lr on a mac and burnt it with drive-utility).

2.) Set language to german (because i am from austria)

3.) Change it to SL Retail 10.6 cd.

3.) Partitioning hardrive to guid

4.) Wait until installation procedure is finished

5.) Reboot with kakewalk cd to the installation-drive

6.) Software update (Downloaded before: 10.6.3 combo v1.1) - no reboot!

7.) installing kakewalk boot from the cd - then reboot.

 

Machine is running, but having those issues i described. PLEASE HELP!!!

Do I forget something?

 

Board revision is V1.0 Bios F10 (if this matters)

[gwendoline]

Fixed Audio with Apple.HDA.kext (10.6.3 for ALC888) from kexts.com.

Removing LegacyHDA.kext was the breakthru.

 

Still Grafx seems to be much darker than before update.

Please help me!

[trwoolley]

Fixed Audio with Apple.HDA.kext (10.6.3 for ALC888) from kexts.com.

Removing LegacyHDA.kext was the breakthru.

 

Still Grafx seems to be much darker than before update.

Please help me!

 

- Gwendoline -

 

Mac OS 10.6.3 update creates new colorsync display profiles even on any standard Mac. It does not delete the old profiles, so go to System Preferences/Displays/Color and reselect your old display profile if you can remember which one it was. Or you may create a new display profile to suit your taste!

[tflournoy]

will it work with a dell dimension e310?

[tag1]

I was thinking about ordering this 30gb OCX Vertex SSD drive to boot my future hackintosh on in addition to 1tb and 250gb(for ubuntu) storage drives, but I am having second thoughts due to the price.

 

Can someone else who boots off a SSD drive tell me if it is worth it (or causes and problems with kakewalking/updating)

 

Also, clausewitz I sent you a PM incase you are stalking without being signed in.

[ProjectY]

Hi thehaus

 

a bit out of left field Please try swapping your Memory over from one slot to the other.

Good luck Ray

I am looking for some useful advice and or help.

I was using iPC 10.5.6 on my old Asus P5n72-T MB with a q6600 over cloacked to 3.0ghz and ddr2-800 ram overclocked to 1066 with two SATA2 HDD and two SATA DVD drives. I put the OSX on an IDE drive.

 

That is the background.

 

I just bought a GA EP45-UD3L board and used all the same hardware but decided to first get everything running in default specs for the chips and board.

 

BTW, I am using a ATI Radeon 4870 512mb standard clocking.

 

I booted up in iPC 10.5.6 with everthing working fine. Amazed me that I didn't need to change a thing between the NVIDIA MCP chip based board and the Intel ICH10 board without any issues and need for kext's ?!

 

I used Kakewalk to create the ISO and burned one at max speed and the other at slow speed just in case.

 

I then made all the BIOS changes recommended in the guide, removed all my extra SATA HDD, USB drives, and USB hardware.

 

I then booted Kakewalk v2.1 bootloader CD I created with no issue. I replaced it with my Retail OSX SL 10.6.0 for $29 which I have used a few times without problem for loading my netbook.

 

It got to the install screen in SL and I formated a 500gb SATA drive to extended journ aled GUID and erased the drive multiple times.

 

I have tried installing SL to the drive 8 times or more. I have gone back and modified the bios each time and disabled ports and tried 32-bit and 64-bit HPET variations. I went to the configuration menu and removed languages, printers and X11. Fort some reason it get about 2/3 of the way through the install but then stops each time giving me an invalid error.

 

I can not figure for the life of me why this happens. Does anyone have any ideas??????????

 

Lastly, I tired doing the install of the Retail disk while in iPC 10.5.6 and my USB HDD with a retail 10.6.1 and get the same invalid installation error about 2/3's of the way in.

 

I then decided to use the Kakewalk bootloader and boot into my USB HDD that I made for my netbook and that worked fine. So, I decided last nite to image my USB netbook SL 10.6.1 that I made using Netbook Installer 0.8.4 RC1 to my 500gb SATA drive. I first used the bootloader to start us 10.6.1 and then imaged it over to the SATA HDD. I can now boot into the imaged 10.6.1 netbook version without problem. Crazy but hey it works for now.

 

I was then going to use Netbook Installer 0.8.4 RC1 and remove all its custom settings and then run Kakewalk and its bootloader. Does anyone have any ideas? Seems to reason that it shoudl work.

 

Oh, i forgot to mentiopn that i had a imaged USB key with 10.6.0 retail that I used for installing on my netbook so I tried to use it to install to my 500gb SATA drive and got the same invalid error.

 

My thinking on the invalid install error is that it has nothing to do with my retail disk or USB key. I have succesfully imaged the 500gb drive and booted into it with the Kakewalk bootloader so my drive hardware seem to be ok. I am thinking this may be a bios issue. I have the latest F9 bios. I even tried setting the ram to standard clock speeds and played with the virtual, C1, and C2 stuff in adv settings to no avail.

 

I would love to figure out my my retail SL will not do a full install. Does anyone have any ideas on this. Before you respond make sure you understand the extent of variations, elimations of hardware and devices, bios changes, etc, etc. Thanks for any help I can get on this.

 

Although I now have a working 10.6.1 I would like to ultimately do the outlined Kakewalk install method.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Haus

[Awesome86]

Probably the stupidest question, but how do I use this? Is there any guide?

These are the steps I planned on my mind:

1. Install older distro in a smaller HD

2. From inside that older distro install the retail 10.6 on the target HD

3. Still inside that little distro, install kakewalk targeting the same HD used to install 10.6

 

AND THATS THAT? I mean, no need to install kernels, bootloaders, blah, blah and blah? If it is, then the name of this software is not in vain and someone deserves a donation.

 

Please guys, let me know if I'm right or wrong.

 

Someone should do a guide with pictures, I love guides with pictures, instantly makes me want to follow it.

[fyreblaize]

hey all, im pretty new to the hackintosh scene, so please bear with me. i've gotten the first steps working fine, the SL install boots up fine, but when it begins installing to my partition, it will work for about 5 minutes, then the screen goes black and after another 5 minutes or so my computer reboots with no record of osx being installed at all. I'm using a EX58-UD3R motherboard and nividia gtx 260 graphics cards (sli).

[ProjectY]

Hi

 

goto www.puru.se and download ALL the software , read the Guide in the .Zip file and the guide in the KakewalkBoot2.1 Good luck Ray

Probably the stupidest question, but how do I use this? Is there any guide?

These are the steps I planned on my mind:

1. Install older distro in a smaller HD

2. From inside that older distro install the retail 10.6 on the target HD

3. Still inside that little distro, install kakewalk targeting the same HD used to install 10.6

 

AND THATS THAT? I mean, no need to install kernels, bootloaders, blah, blah and blah? If it is, then the name of this software is not in vain and someone deserves a donation.

 

Please guys, let me know if I'm right or wrong.

 

Someone should do a guide with pictures, I love guides with pictures, instantly makes me want to follow it.

[hoskoau]

The basic steps are:

1. Create a boot CD or USB drive from a retail copy of SL

2. Reboot the system making sure the BIOS settings are correct to boot from the CD or USB.

3. Install SL (the bootloader is automaticly installed.

4. If your running an ATI card you might need to use the supplied ATI installer tool post install.

 

Thats it the guide is inculded in the setup files.

 

Probably the stupidest question, but how do I use this? Is there any guide?

These are the steps I planned on my mind:

1. Install older distro in a smaller HD

2. From inside that older distro install the retail 10.6 on the target HD

3. Still inside that little distro, install kakewalk targeting the same HD used to install 10.6

 

AND THATS THAT? I mean, no need to install kernels, bootloaders, blah, blah and blah? If it is, then the name of this software is not in vain and someone deserves a donation.

 

Please guys, let me know if I'm right or wrong.

 

Someone should do a guide with pictures, I love guides with pictures, instantly makes me want to follow it.

[tag1]

could someone please tell me if this 9800gtx+ GPU will work smoothly in a hackintosh? I was trying to find a GPU that is actually used in a mac but couldn't find it on newegg.com without the +

[Gurnemanz]

Finally did a build; that's not quite right, my stepson did the build and I stood by and tried to keep up. He thinks in machine language. I passed the tools and held the flashlight.

 

We scoured Insanely Mac for the most trouble-free builds within a reasonable budget. Many thanks to all you pioneers.

 

Software:

Kakewalk

Vanilla OSX 10.6

 

BIOS had to be edited to select AHCI rather than IDE hard drive

 

Hardware:

Gigabyte GA EP43 UDL3 mobo (EP45 will also work)

4 gigs of OCZ DDR2 ram (board will take 12 or more)

Seagate Barracuda 1T drive

nVidia9400-based BFG video card (9500 will also work)

LG commodity-grade DVD drive

CoolerMaster minitower case (it was on sale)

 

Results:

Booted and ran immediately on first try, but with no audio and some difficulties with web video.

Patches:

Used AppleHDAPatcherv1.20 and Kext Utility with the RealTek alc888.txt, and VoodooHDA.kext.

 

Perfect result. $600 and the machine thinks it's a MacPro. For that matter, so do I. It's simply the best and smoothest machine I've ever used.

 

You may want a more refined case. Stepson and I have been inside a good many boxen, so coping with sharp edges and bad angles wasn't terrible. If you have less experience, save yourself some blood.

 

BTW; never had good results before running NeoOffice. It was slow and unresponsive. No complaints now!

[fyreblaize]

hey all, im pretty new to the hackintosh scene, so please bear with me. i've gotten the first steps working fine, the SL install boots up fine, but when it begins installing to my partition, it will work for about 5 minutes, then the screen goes black and after another 5 minutes or so my computer reboots with no record of osx being installed at all. I'm using a EX58-UD3R motherboard and nividia gtx 260 graphics cards (sli).

 

update- its still the same problem, but it seems to be kind of random as to how far it makes it before the screen goes black. ususally its less than 1/4 of the way. Also, sometimes it will stay in this blank state for 20 minutes before restarting. either way, it still leaves no record of anything being installed on the harddrive

[JGKC9AYC]

The basic steps are:

1. Create a boot CD or USB drive from a retail copy of SL

2. Reboot the system making sure the BIOS settings are correct to boot from the CD or USB.

3. Install SL (the bootloader is automaticly installed.

4. If your running an ATI card you might need to use the supplied ATI installer tool post install.

 

Thats it the guide is inculded in the setup files.

 

Is that the ATI icon in the "Options" folder?

I didn't see anything in the guide about using it. Could you enlighten me, please?

Thanks.

[GrootWitBaas]

update- its still the same problem, but it seems to be kind of random as to how far it makes it before the screen goes black. usually its less than 1/4 of the way. Also, sometimes it will stay in this blank state for 20 minutes before restarting. either way, it still leaves no record of anything being installed on the hard drive

 

 

make sure you have =<4Gb memory. also keep the mouse moved around every min (maybe it goes into screen sleep). When it reboots you need to select the new installed disk.

 

More information on your system will make it easier for us to help you ... like USB or CD install method ....System specs ...any other steps you did.

[gofreakmedia]

I was thinking about ordering this 30gb OCX Vertex SSD drive to boot my future hackintosh on in addition to 1tb and 250gb(for ubuntu) storage drives, but I am having second thoughts due to the price.

 

Can someone else who boots off a SSD drive tell me if it is worth it (or causes and problems with kakewalking/updating)

 

Also, clausewitz I sent you a PM incase you are stalking without being signed in.

 

I use a 250gb file mate ssd in a different computer that runs 10.6 snow leopard on different equipment but it's near identical, it is much faster but unless you a running ssd drives in RAID you are not going to see mind blowing performance. My suggestion is for the speed vs the price I would get a western digital raptor drive - hope this helps

[hoskoau]

Yes it is,

 

If you load up SL the first time and greated with a very low resolution run that app and it should fix it up.

 

Is that the ATI icon in the "Options" folder?

I didn't see anything in the guide about using it. Could you enlighten me, please?

Thanks.