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

[cableguy187]

Hi guys,

I usually don't ask for help and try to work it out myself but I am stumped..

 

I have an I7 930, GTX 470, x58a ud7, 6 gig corsair 1600 ddr3..

 

i have tried everything and get quite far into loading from the osx dvd and then get the "restart your computer" screen??

 

I have disabled the usb3 and everything else not needed, set the HD to port #0 and dvd to port #1 on the sata connections, triple checked the bios settings (all ok) and updated the bios.

 

Any other suggestions?

[GrootWitBaas]

Hi guys,

I usually don't ask for help and try to work it out myself but I am stumped..

 

I have an I7 930, GTX 470, x58a ud7, 6 gig corsair 1600 ddr3..

 

i have tried everything and get quite far into loading from the osx dvd and then get the "restart your computer" screen??

 

I have disabled the usb3 and everything else not needed, set the HD to port #0 and dvd to port #1 on the sata connections, triple checked the bios settings (all ok) and updated the bios.

 

Any other suggestions?

Try 4GB memory only (remove 2gb) then try again

[Going Bald]

Hi guys,

I usually don't ask for help and try to work it out myself but I am stumped..

 

I have an I7 930, GTX 470, x58a ud7, 6 gig corsair 1600 ddr3..

 

i have tried everything and get quite far into loading from the osx dvd and then get the "restart your computer" screen??

 

I have disabled the usb3 and everything else not needed, set the HD to port #0 and dvd to port #1 on the sata connections, triple checked the bios settings (all ok) and updated the bios.

 

Any other suggestions?

 

I would bet it's the video card. Check here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1500646

and see if you can get it working. You should be able to boot with -x and use generic driver to at least get into SL desktop so you can load video drivers

[chhuong]

Okay total Noob here! i have a few questions. I just installed osx using this kakewalk. My setup, is

core i7 920,

gigabyte ex58 ud5,

6 gigs of ram,

1tb hdd,

sapphire ati 4870,

 

so everything installed without problems all i did was select my MB. what are some kexts that i will need to update? as of right now, everything seems to be working, but not sure what to look for or to test against to see if everything is fully functional.

 

Actually 1 problem, after awaking from sleep my usb keyboard is no longer working. Any ideas on a fix for this??

 

Also wondering if there is any way to change the boot screen from the gray apple screen?

 

Any help is appreciated!

[cableguy187]

Try 4GB memory only (remove 2gb) then try again

 

Yep, tried 2 gig, and 4 gig..

 

I would bet it's the video card. Check here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1500646

and see if you can get it working. You should be able to boot with -x and use generic driver to at least get into SL desktop so you can load video drivers

 

Yeah, i found that post but I didn't understand if the attached files were the bootloader or if I needed to add them to a boot loader?

 

Sorry but maybe this is a bit past my skillset

[skees]

Recently did a Kakewalk USB install of 10.6.3 on EP45-UD3L with 2GB RAM and GeForce 9500 GT.

 

Install went smooth and so far every thing looks to be working great with one exception so Far iCal ... Also i imported my 10.5.8 G4 user settings and files from a local HD. On the first boot and at some periodic rate i get an error dialog "UpgradeUser quit unexpectedly" (see attached error.txt). I seem to also constantly get error message saying "iCal Helper failed" and when i try launch iCal i get "iCal cannot be opened because of a problem, see attached error.txt for Apple error reports for all events.

 

One common theme to all of these errors is:

Symbol not found: _AOSNotificationCreateSessionPriv

 

I went back and did another install on USB disk with out any User settings migration and created a new user to see if i got any of the errors. I did not get the UpgradeUser but still get both iCal errors.

 

I was using iCal with it set up to point to a beehive webdav and it would be very nice if i could get it to work again.

 

Over all the process was excellent and remarkably clean and simple ... cudos for a job well done here!

 

Thanks for any help with iCal.

error.txt

[nicktoast]

Sorry if this has been posted but there's 163 pages here. lol.

 

Will this work with the GA-G41M-ES2H?

[cableguy187]

Ok, I pulled out my 8800gts from my working mackintosh and the install is about halfway completed.

 

So, after I get the os working, what would be the next step to get my 470 up and running??

 

Or, is there another compatible card I could buy? Money is not an object.. About to go and buy the 27 in iMac and be done with it lol, Just as a matter of principal, I want to finish what i started !!

[cableguy187]

I would bet it's the video card. Check here:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...00#entry1500646

and see if you can get it working. You should be able to boot with -x and use generic driver to at least get into SL desktop so you can load video drivers

 

I have tried understanding the above mentioned fix for my 470 but I need to start from scratch I think... I cant even get the installation to start ( tried boot disk as usb did not work)

I keep getting the restart your computer error.

 

Is there a good noob guide someone could point me to I am happy to do more reading and keep trying but I can not get any further at this point

[Going Bald]

I have tried understanding the above mentioned fix for my 470 but I need to start from scratch I think... I cant even get the installation to start ( tried boot disk as usb did not work)

I keep getting the restart your computer error.

 

Is there a good noob guide someone could point me to I am happy to do more reading and keep trying but I can not get any further at this point

 

The "You Must Restart Your Machine" in multiple languages is known as a kernal panic and occurs when the system doesn't know what to do and can't continue - same as Windows "Blue Screen of Death". At this point, you have a couple of viable minimal effort options - if you are in a hurry and want it working NOW, then replace the video card with a supported card: i.e. the nVidia GTX285 or the ATI 4870 are the latest that OS X natively supports, but there are alot of older (less expensive) cards that you can use - see here: http://www.insanelymac.com/osx86db/search?category=4

If you are in no hurry, you can wait until the end of July or sometime in August when the MacPro 5,1 comes out and see what cards are supported - yours might be one of them. Alternatively, you can put more skull sweat into it and study up until you are fairly confident you know what is what, sit down and make a step by step guide for yourself from directions given on the various forums and just "Go For It!" If you never try you can never succeed.

[jmag999]

I have been using this install with no problems for some time now. My motherboard is a EX58-UD5 with an nvidia card. I haven't booted into OSX in a couple of weeks and have since updated the bios to F12. Now when I boot I get (4) EBIOS read error: Device timeout messages before it boots into OSX. Everything works fine after that. Does anyone know how I would go about finding out what is causing this? It takes a long time to boot as each message takes ~30s to appear. I still get the messages even when booting from the kakewalk boot disc. I assume it has something to do with the bios, but I have reset all the settings and ensured all the settings matched the ones listed in the install document. Thanks for any help!

[GrootWitBaas]

I have been using this install with no problems for some time now. My motherboard is a EX58-UD5 with an nvidia card. I haven't booted into OSX in a couple of weeks and have since updated the bios to F12. Now when I boot I get (4) EBIOS read error: Device timeout messages before it boots into OSX. Everything works fine after that. Does anyone know how I would go about finding out what is causing this? It takes a long time to boot as each message takes ~30s to appear. I still get the messages even when booting from the kakewalk boot disc. I assume it has something to do with the bios, but I have reset all the settings and ensured all the settings matched the ones listed in the install document. Thanks for any help!

try reinstalling the kakewalk boot loader from the 1st post

Sounds like a corrupted boot file. Also run disk utility and repair all permissions.

Hope this helps you

[davegod75]

I have been using this install with no problems for some time now. My motherboard is a EX58-UD5 with an nvidia card. I haven't booted into OSX in a couple of weeks and have since updated the bios to F12. Now when I boot I get (4) EBIOS read error: Device timeout messages before it boots into OSX. Everything works fine after that. Does anyone know how I would go about finding out what is causing this? It takes a long time to boot as each message takes ~30s to appear. I still get the messages even when booting from the kakewalk boot disc. I assume it has something to do with the bios, but I have reset all the settings and ensured all the settings matched the ones listed in the install document. Thanks for any help!

[jmag999]

try reinstalling the kakewalk boot loader from the 1st post

Sounds like a corrupted boot file. Also run disk utility and repair all permissions.

Hope this helps you

 

Unfortunately, neither of these ideas helped. Do EBIOS errors come from Chameleon?

[hahler2]

Ok I updated my computer from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 and I'm getting a kernal panic now and the computer won't boot. I'm running a EP43-DS3L board and using an Nvidia 9800 GTX+ video card. How do I fix this? I'm kind of a noob and have no idea where to go from here.

 

Also, I have some very important data on my hard drive that I can't remember if I backed up online or not. I should be able to pull the hard drive and put it in an external hard drive bay and mount in on my Macbook Pro so I can at least recover the data correct?

[frostit]

I have the ASRock x58 board with the 920 i7 and the video card is the EVGA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB I'v been trying to install osx 10.6.3 with no success I can get it to install but cant get it to boot I've worked at this long enough and I'm ready to pay someone 50$ to do it or get me what I would need I live in northern MI amztroyer@aim.com

[skees]

Recently did a Kakewalk USB install of 10.6.3 on EP45-UD3L with 2GB RAM and GeForce 9500 GT.

 

Install went smooth and so far every thing looks to be working great with one exception so Far iCal ... Also i imported my 10.5.8 G4 user settings and files from a local HD. On the first boot and at some periodic rate i get an error dialog "UpgradeUser quit unexpectedly" (see attached error.txt). I seem to also constantly get error message saying "iCal Helper failed" and when i try launch iCal i get "iCal cannot be opened because of a problem, see attached error.txt for Apple error reports for all events.

 

One common theme to all of these errors is:

Symbol not found: _AOSNotificationCreateSessionPriv

 

I went back and did another install on USB disk with out any User settings migration and created a new user to see if i got any of the errors. I did not get the UpgradeUser but still get both iCal errors.

 

I was using iCal with it set up to point to a beehive webdav and it would be very nice if i could get it to work again.

 

Over all the process was excellent and remarkably clean and simple ... cudos for a job well done here!

 

Thanks for any help with iCal.

 

 

OK it was the Full migration from the Old PPC system ... i did a fresh install and created a new user and everything worked fine. iCal is up and no more errors ... i was able to then use migrate assistant and migrate my user and settings successfully but i had to manually copy or reinstall all extra apps and redo network settings/

[hoskoau]

I still don't have audio working on both of my x58a-ud7 board based hacks running 2.2

 

Has anybody had success??

[yossfab ab]

I still don't have audio working on both of my x58a-ud7 board based hacks running 2.2

 

Has anybody had success??

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[ProjectY]

Ok I updated my computer from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 and I'm getting a kernal panic now and the computer won't boot. I'm running a EP43-DS3L board and using an Nvidia 9800 GTX+ video card. How do I fix this? I'm kind of a noob and have no idea where to go from here.

 

Also, I have some very important data on my hard drive that I can't remember if I backed up online or not. I should be able to pull the hard drive and put it in an external hard drive bay and mount in on my Macbook Pro so I can at least recover the data correct?

 

Hi hahler2

1) Reinstall KakewalkBoot2.2

 

2) Reboot

 

3) if you have NullCPUPowerManagement in Extra/Extensions then remove it. And Reboot.

Ray

[AaronDCanuck]

X58A-UD3R rev2.0 and Kakewalk 2.2 (Thumb Drive). Halts at Verifying DMI Pool Data. Verified all settings in BIOS are according to the guide. They are Guidetastic.

 

UPDATE:

 

INSTALL SUCCESS!

 

1) Installed LATEST Kakewalk 2.2 from THIS thread onto thumbstick - NOT the one from the Kakewalk homepage.

2) Plugged thumbstick in to the black USB port closest to the PS/2 ports - Thanks to Phorte for that one!

3) In BIOS, set First Boot Device as Hard Disk

4) Under Hard Disk Boot Priority moved the thumbstick to 1

 

That seemed to do the trick. Sleep works! Now just gotta get sound and ethernet working...

[dsmevolution]

 

Kakewalk is a simple method for installing Snow Leopard on a PC.

If you're happy with my work please consider donating Thanks a lot!

 

 

Compatible motherboards:

• Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR
  
• Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR
  
• Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
  
• Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
  
• Gigabyte EX58-UD5
  
• Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
  
• Gigabyte EX58A-UD7
  
• Gigabyte EP45-UD3L
  
• Gigabyte EP45-DS3L
  
• Gigabyte P55M-UD2
  
• MSI P55M-GD45
  
• Gigabyte G41M-ES2L
  
• Gigabyte EX58-UD4P
  
• Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
  

USB Method:

1. Create an image of your Snow Leopard disc.

2. Restore the image to your thumb drive.

3. Run the "Kakewalk" installer. Point it to your thumb drive.

4. Reboot. Boot from your thumb drive. Install Snow Leopard.

5. You're up and running!

 

CD/DVD Method:

1. Burn Kakewalk.iso to a disc.

2. Boot from the disc. Follow onscreen instructions. Install Snow Leopard.

3. Install KakewalkBoot.pkg from BootCD

4. You're up and running!

 

DOWNLOAD KAKEWALK

Download this to get instructions on how to install Snow Leopard on your PC using Kakewalk.

 

DOWNLOAD BOOTLOADER

This is for those of you who have already installed Snow Leopard with Kakewalk and want to upgrade to the latest bootloader.

 

Kakewalk recent changes:

v2.2
- Added support for X58A-UD3R
- Fixed sound with G41M-ES2L in 10.6.3
- Fixed issues with X58A-UD7 (Orange HDDs, Sound)

v2.1
- Fixed sound for all ALC888 boards in 10.6.3
- KakewalkCD should now work in Leopard

v2.0
- Added support for EX58-UD4P
- Added AsereBLN Booter 1.1.9
- Fixed installation issues with P55M-UD2
- Removed IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext from multiple motherboards

 

 

MrJanek,

 

I don't know if you're still watching this thread, but I wanted to let you know that your utility also worked for my Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

 

I just selected the EP45-UD3L and installed like normal. Needed to change a few things in the BIOS, but everything worked out of the box, including my nVidia card! Thanks for a great piece of work!

[Bakk15]

Woaw.

 

what an easy install, very good job.

 

I've a Gigabyte EP45T UD3LR

after i have no sound, is that normal ?

and i have this product :

http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*164342/action*2563

 

it worked very find on my P5B-E plus on snow leopard

but i can't get it to work on this motherboard. Do you have an idea why ?

 

regards, and thanks for this easy way to get mac os x

[ProjectY]

Woaw.

what an easy install, very good job.

I've a Gigabyte EP45T UD3LR

after i have no sound, is that normal ?

and i have this product :

http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*164342/action*2563

it worked very find on my P5B-E plus on snow leopard

but i can't get it to work on this motherboard. Do you have an idea why ?

regards, and thanks for this easy way to get mac os x

 

Try This

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6098673/10.6.4%20T...EP45T-UD3LR.zip

 

Ray

[danno73]

unable to get the kakewalk legacy installer to work past the initial splash page with the instructions -

 

KAKEWALK

 

1. Eject the CD

2. Insert Snow leopard DVD

3. Wait for it to spin up and press F5

4. Select disc and enter

 

I do what it says and insert snow leopard DVD then press F5. Nothing happens. Cant get past this stage!!!!

 

My system specs (freshly built just now) -

 

Gigabyte EX58A-UD5, Gigabyte 9800 video card, WD Raptor 300GB (for OS), WD 2TB Blacl drive for storage, I7 920 processor, 6GB Corsair Ram

 

I have followed the kakewalk bios modifications.

 

please advise on solution to installer issue? thx