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

[Photo_OSX86]

Many Thanks to MrJanek for all the work! My system is working well except for a few hiccups. Regardless there is a donation coming your way soon!

 

Recently got my first build together with a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R, but kakewalk has been by far the easiest Hack method I have tried. I did retail install of 10.6 on BIOS version 1.0. Not sure which revision of Kakewalk I used, was the most current as of March 13 2010.

 

-EX58-UD3R

 

-i7920

 

-6GB Corsair XMS3 1600 MHz Ram

 

-2x 1TB Caviar Black, on one partition

 

-Added a 1.5 TB Samsung HDD after using SL for a while, have one partition at 1.2 TB and have no problems booting

 

-Samsung SATA DVD

 

-XFX GTX 260 Black Edition 896 MB, worked OOB :-)

 

-Dual monitor OOB :-)

 

-Haven't tried firewire or e-sata yet

 

-Only booting into SL, no windows HDD or partition.

 

Issues:

 

-Biggest problem, random closing of all programs. Blue screens flash and then regular wallpaper comes back and programs have closed. It happens while using Photoshop and Word and happened before adding the 1.5 TB HDD. I can post the log if someone can help. Temps at idle seem to be stable at 34 C. Looking for a program to monitor temps while in SL but I don't think that's the problem.

 

-No Audio, it's a simple fix I'm sure. Just didn't work OOB and haven't gotten to it yet.

 

-Orange HDD icons, again simple fix just haven't gotten to it.

[hoorayforeverything]

For GA-X58A-UD3R users:

This first half is intended to be mildly inspiring, yes Kakewalk will likely work with your GA-X58A-UD3R.

I installed Kakewalk (w/OS10.6) for the GA-X58A-UD7 on my GA-X58A-UD3R and it installed almost flawlessly.

However, even after updating to 10.6.2 I still didn't have any sound. After loading the LegacyHDA.text into Extras and the AppleHDA.text into the S/L/E folder and then modifying the dsdt.aml file (using DSDTSE) as per Lyle M's post I got sound working great.

 

Then I edited the smbios.plist to make it reflect MacPro4,1 (though does this really change anything, performance-wise?)

 

The System Profiler showed all the hardware correctly (save the CPU, which is being displayed as a Xenon ¿perhaps because I have it listed as MacPro4,1?) and even had the memory listed correctly (DDR3 1600). No restart or sleep issues. Everything seemed to function the same as my Apple MBP.

 

The issues:

 

Since I wanted to dual boot W7 and 10.6.2 I wanted a flashier boot-loading screen, so I installed PC EFI 10.6 after everything was pretty much running.

Everything boots fine and I can select W7 or OS10.6.2 through the GUI now, though I do get a brief error string when booting into OSX and now my RAM can't be described by the System Profiler. This is a fairly minor problem since my computer can obviously still access the RAM.

 

The one issue I do seem to be having is that some USB peripherals seem to bottleneck after a few seconds. For example on a USB memory stick a memorex stick, which admittedly I'm not sure is USB1 or 2, transfer rates are good to begin with, but after only a short period, speeds slow down to the low B/sec rate. My Toshiba USB2 HDD starts with a fast transfer rate, but also drops to about half rate, though still a decently useable speed. My iPod, when iTunes is opened, is detected by iTunes, then Auto-syncs (despite this option being disabled) and then is no longer accessible via iTunes (though the device is still listed in iTunes, no changes can be made or music played). The iPod, despite still showing up in iTunes does not appear anywhere in the Finder or desktop. So, the iPod is pretty much unuseable with this computer. I'm guessing it's all related to a common USB issue, anybody have a suggestion? or two? or three? for the slow-veeeerry slow transfer rates and the iPod (Nano5G) access problems?

 

Yay.

 

EDIT: I reinstalled the bootloader that came packaged with Kakewalk and now my iPod works, and my USB transfer rates seem to have improved. Guess I should have just left well-enough alone! Okay, thanks goodbye.

[bobby fabulous]

Thanks very much for the input mate, appreciated!

 

 

Unfortunately, the sound will not work over HDMI, as there is currently no support in OS X. You should use the SP-DIF instead.

[paulo dourado photo]

For GA-X58A-UD3R users:

This first half is intended to be mildly inspiring, yes Kakewalk will likely work with your GA-X58A-UD3R.

I installed Kakewalk (w/OS10.6) for the GA-X58A-UD7 on my GA-X58A-UD3R and it installed almost flawlessly.

However, even after updating to 10.6.2 I still didn't have any sound. After loading the LegacyHDA.text into Extras and the AppleHDA.text into the S/L/E folder and then modifying the dsdt.aml file (using DSDTSE) as per Lyle M's post I got sound working great.

 

Then I edited the smbios.plist to make it reflect MacPro4,1 (though does this really change anything, performance-wise?)

 

The System Profiler showed all the hardware correctly (save the CPU, which is being displayed as a Xenon ¿perhaps because I have it listed as MacPro4,1?) and even had the memory listed correctly (DDR3 1600). No restart or sleep issues. Everything seemed to function the same as my Apple MBP.

 

The issues:

 

Since I wanted to dual boot W7 and 10.6.2 I wanted a flashier boot-loading screen, so I installed PC EFI 10.6 after everything was pretty much running.

Everything boots fine and I can select W7 or OS10.6.2 through the GUI now, though I do get a brief error string when booting into OSX and now my RAM can't be described by the System Profiler. This is a fairly minor problem since my computer can obviously still access the RAM.

 

The one issue I do seem to be having is that some USB peripherals seem to bottleneck after a few seconds. For example on a USB memory stick a memorex stick, which admittedly I'm not sure is USB1 or 2, transfer rates are good to begin with, but after only a short period, speeds slow down to the low B/sec rate. My Toshiba USB2 HDD starts with a fast transfer rate, but also drops to about half rate, though still a decently useable speed. My iPod, when iTunes is opened, is detected by iTunes, then Auto-syncs (despite this option being disabled) and then is no longer accessible via iTunes (though the device is still listed in iTunes, no changes can be made or music played). The iPod, despite still showing up in iTunes does not appear anywhere in the Finder or desktop. So, the iPod is pretty much unuseable with this computer. I'm guessing it's all related to a common USB issue, anybody have a suggestion? or two? or three? for the slow-veeeerry slow transfer rates and the iPod (Nano5G) access problems?

 

Yay.

 

EDIT: I reinstalled the bootloader that came packaged with Kakewalk and now my iPod works, and my USB transfer rates seem to have improved. Guess I should have just left well-enough alone! Okay, thanks goodbye.

 

 

a few questions:

 

did you use the thumbdrive or cd option?

as far as partitioning, i'll be installing onto an 80Gb SSD. should I partition the whole drive? partition at all? or partition an amount for the OS? if so, how much?

[tria]

Yes, it will work just fine with those specs. I've tried it with a lot of different Nvidia GPUs (8800GT, 9400GT, 9500GT).

 

I have an Asus en9800gt and when QE/CI was enabled the screen got squashed (displaying 1280x768 on a 1024x768) and I couldn't change the screen settings. I found a solution with SwitchResX but lost QE/CI in the process...everything works fine but it would be nice to play a couple of games on it....Any solustions?

[AznCQ]

Just tried this on a EP45-DS4P and everything went smoothly (just selected UD3P). Radeon 4870 works, however I do have an issue with firewire.

 

Under firewire in system profiler, it says unable to list firewire devices. Also if I plugin in somethign with firewire, nothing gets detected.

 

Any idea how I can get firewire working? some diff kexts i can use?

 

EP45-DS4P

C2D E8600

Raden 4870

[ddorbuck]

For GA-X58A-UD3R users:

This first half is intended to be mildly inspiring, yes Kakewalk will likely work with your GA-X58A-UD3R.

I installed Kakewalk (w/OS10.6) for the GA-X58A-UD7 on my GA-X58A-UD3R and it installed almost flawlessly.

However, even after updating to 10.6.2 I still didn't have any sound. After loading the LegacyHDA.text into Extras and the AppleHDA.text into the S/L/E folder and then modifying the dsdt.aml file (using DSDTSE) as per Lyle M's post I got sound working great.

 

Then I edited the smbios.plist to make it reflect MacPro4,1 (though does this really change anything, performance-wise?)

 

The System Profiler showed all the hardware correctly (save the CPU, which is being displayed as a Xenon ¿perhaps because I have it listed as MacPro4,1?) and even had the memory listed correctly (DDR3 1600). No restart or sleep issues. Everything seemed to function the same as my Apple MBP.

 

The issues:

 

Since I wanted to dual boot W7 and 10.6.2 I wanted a flashier boot-loading screen, so I installed PC EFI 10.6 after everything was pretty much running.

Everything boots fine and I can select W7 or OS10.6.2 through the GUI now, though I do get a brief error string when booting into OSX and now my RAM can't be described by the System Profiler. This is a fairly minor problem since my computer can obviously still access the RAM.

 

The one issue I do seem to be having is that some USB peripherals seem to bottleneck after a few seconds. For example on a USB memory stick a memorex stick, which admittedly I'm not sure is USB1 or 2, transfer rates are good to begin with, but after only a short period, speeds slow down to the low B/sec rate. My Toshiba USB2 HDD starts with a fast transfer rate, but also drops to about half rate, though still a decently useable speed. My iPod, when iTunes is opened, is detected by iTunes, then Auto-syncs (despite this option being disabled) and then is no longer accessible via iTunes (though the device is still listed in iTunes, no changes can be made or music played). The iPod, despite still showing up in iTunes does not appear anywhere in the Finder or desktop. So, the iPod is pretty much unuseable with this computer. I'm guessing it's all related to a common USB issue, anybody have a suggestion? or two? or three? for the slow-veeeerry slow transfer rates and the iPod (Nano5G) access problems?

 

Yay.

 

EDIT: I reinstalled the bootloader that came packaged with Kakewalk and now my iPod works, and my USB transfer rates seem to have improved. Guess I should have just left well-enough alone! Okay, thanks goodbye.

 

Hey Great post detailing the steps you took on your GA-X58A-UD3R. I have the same motherboard and followed the steps outlined in your post and others to try and fix the audio issue. I have a question about the dstl.aml file part of your post. Did you just import Lyle's created dstl.aml into DSDTSE and not make any modifications to his code install it into your system? I'm a little fuzzy on the exact process to work with the dstl.aml files and I'm trying to get my head around them. Thanks for any info. Doug

[xmachine]

Just a couple of quick questions before I attempt install.

 

...

 

2)My current setup is 2x320GB in RAID 0 with 1x640GB for swap/storage. Currently is running Windows 7 on the RAID array, which I don't mind wiping but will my RAID array work with install?

 

That may depend on your setup. For example, if you're using the onboard RAID function then it wont work because the install instructions say to set the SATA RAID mode to AHCI....pretty much breaking your existing array.

 

Good luck

[Crabhunter]

Hi mrjanek

I have used your method to install on a ep45-ds3r and updated successfully to 10.6.2.

 

The only thing that doesn't work is sound (alc889a).

 

It seems to have installed alc888, but obviously the device isn't present.

 

What is my best option for adding sound?

 

I've had no luck doing it the long way or with "distros", your way has got me the furthest.

 

Mike

[dlereaux]

HOW TO BOOT TO RETAIL Disk after installing.......... w/o boot disk.....

 

is there a way to boot to the retail disk by using the command line when you are starting up? It says for a split second to 'hit any key'.......

 

It would be REALLY nice if that was a feature.

[Branislav Lukac]

Hi,

 

i have problem with installation Snow Leopard on G41M-ES2L. I using CD method. I have 4GB RAM, integrated VGA, HDD 160GB. Problem is after installation kakewalk package on HDD. After first reboot from HD i get kernel panic. (something ahout AHCI). I have loaded optimal settings in bios, S3, HPET 64 bit.

 

Where i do mistake? please help with bios settings (i have F6).

[seaghost]

small bug found in the first slot, Firewire not working

Kakewalk, EP45-UD3LR, Q6600, 2x2 Corsair 1066 Mhz, Palit GTX 275, PCI Firewire Card Texas Instruments

 

 

Same issue as you, i have wireless card in that slot, and i was asking myself why isn't working, it worked perfect with previous mainboard, now i know why. Thanks

[sP3C7RuM]

Hi,

 

i have problem with installation Snow Leopard on G41M-ES2L. I using CD method. I have 4GB RAM, integrated VGA, HDD 160GB. Problem is after installation kakewalk package on HDD. After first reboot from HD i get kernel panic. (something ahout AHCI). I have loaded optimal settings in bios, S3, HPET 64 bit.

 

Where i do mistake? please help with bios settings (i have F6).

 

 

have you changed the raid setting in bios to AHCI? it should have something along the lines of RAID, AHCI, Native IDE, etc. this has to be set to AHCI

[aledesma]

Hey will this work for SL server???? you don't know how sweet that would be!

[fies76]

Same issue as you, i have wireless card in that slot, and i was asking myself why isn't working, it worked perfect with previous mainboard, now i know why. Thanks

 

 

@seaghost and @Courage

you have to deactivate hpet support in bios and add the NullCPUPowerManagement.kext,

than both pci slots will work

[minnie]

How Fantastic!

 

EP45-UD3LR

Q6600

9800 Graphics

 

Pulled out and replaced a faulty Intel motherboard, installed from USB stick with your v2.0.

New system up, running and recording within 2 hours, most of which was spent re-seating cpu and cooler.

 

I have built many osx86 machines, including very first release on this site.

This is the best, easiest, simplest method I know of.

 

Despite a meagre contribution I'm a donator, and you deserve every cent.

Many Thanks

 

PS:-

Can anyone tell me....

I'm booting the OS in 32 bit mode for Universal Audio dsp card compatability.

Only change from the guide I made was to change the boot flag to 32 bit.

It seems to run fine left at that but should I be changing bios hpet to 32 bit mode as well,

or just leave it set at 64 bit as instructed in guide?

 

 

Nice One!

[tealmachine]

I am using a EX58-UD4P and have followed your guide to the best of my ability and it keeps hanging at start up. I started with -v and it looks like it was hanging up at the audio kernel or whatever loads after it. I am not sure what is going wrong. I downloaded your newest package and have dual nvidea 260gts on the board. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[tealmachine]

ok to be more specific to my last post, it hangs when booting on the line

sound assertion "0 !=widget->setUnsolicited ( true )" failed in "/sourcecache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-174.1.1/AppleHDA/AppleHDACodecGeneric.cpp" at line 890 goto handler

 

nothing comes up after this line it just hangs here and stops on this line every time. I have re installed it 3 times with Kakewalk and it hangs on this line in start up every time.

 

again I am using the UD4P motherboard and a geforce 260 graphicscard

[mR.GeeK]

I'm Glad i paid attention to the setup part of Kakewalk.... i have a simple question, i tried to answer it myself by going through part codes and digging through hardware and online for this piece of information but just could't get it!!!

 

What about the Ep45-Extreme?? v 1.0??? is there anyway to install SL on it with the kakewalk walkthrou??

Maybe one of the other motherboards share the same specs??? i don't know.... can anyone plz gimme a clue??

 

Thnx

[everdone]

The likely problem is your video card. In an earlier post you stated you are using two, remove one and see if the machine will boot to video. The line it is hanging on appears right before video switches to Mac GUI (sound assertion is not the problem). there are posts where dual video cards are possible. Get your machine working with one and then explore your dual options!

ok to be more specific to my last post, it hangs when booting on the line

sound assertion "0 !=widget->setUnsolicited ( true )" failed in "/sourcecache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-174.1.1/AppleHDA/AppleHDACodecGeneric.cpp" at line 890 goto handler

 

nothing comes up after this line it just hangs here and stops on this line every time. I have re installed it 3 times with Kakewalk and it hangs on this line in start up every time.

 

again I am using the UD4P motherboard and a geforce 260 graphicscard

[tsponge]

So all my new tech arrived today... below is what I got/have

 

Gigabyte X58A-UD5

Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.8Ghz

3 x 2GB Kingston DDRIII-1600 HyperX RAM DIMMS

1 x 160GB Samsung HDD

Nvidia 8800GTX

Zalman HP-750 750W PSU

 

So I whipped the above together, ran all the bios config stuff and checked all was well.

Then I live booted into Ubuntu and did some file copying to another HDD

I then followed the instructions that accompany the USB method download and before I knew it I was in a Mac OS "live install session" being asked what my language of choice is. Shortly after my 160GB HDD was formatted and ready to go.

I entered the installer, selected the HDD to install, was presented with a status bar which below informed me that there was 31 minutes remaining and then BAMMM!! BLACK SCREEN, COMPUTER RESET and back to square one...

 

How after visually monitoring the system closely just before the time it resets, up until the time it resets I notice that the black screen occurs exactly when the HDD is accessed for the first time by the installer (little HDD activity light on the front blinks for the first time since installer starts and machine is reset)

 

This leads me to believe that the problem is occurring between the sata controller and the HDD. Would this be a reasonable assumption?

Could it be that this motherboard came with the addition of the SATAIII-6GBPS controller? Should I be using the X58A-UD7 installer instead?

 

While I leave the above issue to float around in your minds, I shall disable the SataIII controller though the BIOS and see if it makes a difference. Is there anything else I can disable in the BIOS to try and resolve this issue?

 

I will also in the meantime try installing W7 so that it can be determines whether the problem lies with the Kakewalk install, my hardware setup or my ignorance/stupidity in overlooking something small.

 

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and ideas

[paulo dourado photo]

So all my new tech arrived today... below is what I got/have

 

Gigabyte X58A-UD5

Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.8Ghz

3 x 2GB Kingston DDRIII-1600 HyperX RAM DIMMS

1 x 160GB Samsung HDD

Nvidia 8800GTX

Zalman HP-750 750W PSU

 

So I whipped the above together, ran all the bios config stuff and checked all was well.

Then I live booted into Ubuntu and did some file copying to another HDD

I then followed the instructions that accompany the USB method download and before I knew it I was in a Mac OS "live install session" being asked what my language of choice is. Shortly after my 160GB HDD was formatted and ready to go.

I entered the installer, selected the HDD to install, was presented with a status bar which below informed me that there was 31 minutes remaining and then BAMMM!! BLACK SCREEN, COMPUTER RESET and back to square one...

 

How after visually monitoring the system closely just before the time it resets, up until the time it resets I notice that the black screen occurs exactly when the HDD is accessed for the first time by the installer (little HDD activity light on the front blinks for the first time since installer starts and machine is reset)

 

This leads me to believe that the problem is occurring between the sata controller and the HDD. Would this be a reasonable assumption?

Could it be that this motherboard came with the addition of the SATAIII-6GBPS controller? Should I be using the X58A-UD7 installer instead?

 

While I leave the above issue to float around in your minds, I shall disable the SataIII controller though the BIOS and see if it makes a difference. Is there anything else I can disable in the BIOS to try and resolve this issue?

 

I will also in the meantime try installing W7 so that it can be determines whether the problem lies with the Kakewalk install, my hardware setup or my ignorance/stupidity in overlooking something small.

 

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and ideas

 

unplug all your other drives

plug your drive into regular sata2 port

try again

[SaViGnAnO]

dude, you rock, this made my day, 10.6.2 working perfect on my EP45-UD3P

[0.thewake.0]

Hey all!

 

I'm about to pull the trigger on a kakewalk install and was hoping someone would look over my hardware....

 

thank you so much!!

 

[PrinceDwi]

I just wanted to post my success with Kakewalk CD Method. =)

 

I'm currently running my Hackintosh with -

 

Intel i7 920 2.66 ghz OC to 4.2 ghz 1.360v

Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 6 GB

Gigabyte X58A-UD5 with F5 BIOS

Western Digital Velociraptor 300 GB HDD

BFG nVidia Geforce GTX275 OC

 

All I did was use Kakewalk CD, popped in my Snow Leopard disk, installed OSX, installed Kakewalk in OSX for the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 (improperly typed as the EX58A-UD7), and then ran Apple's Update Software utility on 10.6.2. All is running well in my camp. Thank you so much for your hard work!

 

Only thing is that while I can choose between my front and rear channel speakers, they won't output to both for 5.1. But nevertheless, I have audio working, and the OS loves the components =3 Hopefully something will be done about this!