[Guide & Software] Complete Intel Bad Axe 2 Walkthrough with Software

[weaksauce12]

I have an xbmc box on all my tvs! I am still waiting on the last of my badaxe2 build to arrive, but excited to see how the shares will work, and will be trying this osxbmc for sure. I dont know that I will ever put my boxes for sale, you can't beat em for what they can do for the price, HUGE bang for the buck. Esp if you can TSOP them on your own and use big scrap hard drives!

 

Now just need to figure out what to do with a pile of 8gb ide drives that are in such high demand. (anyone?)

 

Hah I know, right? I have them on all my TVs, plus one for travel/outdoor movie nights (gotta love cheap projectors!), and one that I'm saving to install into a DIY arcade cabinet (all those emulators plus an X-Gaming pad!). XBMC-OSX definitely has the potential to replace them though, especially if they integrated an HD player (HD-DVD/Blu-ray 5.25" reader drives are about $250 right now). Combined with Hackintosh, we could have a very nice HD player!

 

I'm building a Vista-based HTPC this weekend, so I'll see how that compares. The acid test will be to see if my wife likes it; she's the Tivo queen. I snagged two TV tuners on sale at Circuit City this week, so hopefully it will be a good replacement (DVD player + File player + Tivo). If it doesn't work out so well, I see Tivo + XBMC-OS X/Hackintosh being the killer combination to beat. I store all of my DVD movies digitally on my file server and then stream them to my Xboxes right now, so it would be great to have all of that in one box. But if that doesn't work out, at least there will be an XBMC "HD" available on Leopard

[apooo]

hi,

 

if you want you can try my appleahciport.kext. it´s the "old" 1.07 version and it works with my native leopard install with all 8 sata ports, especially with the 4 marvell ports!

 

if it doesn´t start, try "-f" (force driver to load) as startoption at startup, this worked for me!

 

apoo

AppleAHCIPort.kext.zip

[weaksauce12]

hi,

 

if you want you can try my appleahciport.kext. it´s the "old" 1.07 version and it works with my native leopard install with all 8 sata ports, especially with the 4 marvell ports!

 

if it doesn´t start, try "-f" (force driver to load) as startoption at startup, this worked for me!

 

apoo4

 

I installed that kext using Kexthelper on my EFI 8.0 experimental installation and I only got a blinking cursor on reboot. Didn't work for me

 

I don't even get the option to press a key to get into the boot menu...

[funstuie]

I am back up and running after 5.2 update. Following the guide I linked earlier it worked fine and booted first time.

 

Just done all updates and reinstalled all my apps.

[weaksauce12]

A note on Time Machine:

 

Macworld is reporting that Time Machine can restore an entire disk, although it is (1) very time-consuming and (2) not bootable. Just as an FYI. Full article with TONS of good info about Time Machine can be found here:

 

http://www.macworld.com/article/132118/200...memachine1.html

 

@ funstuie - nice, congrats! I'm still tinkering with EFI 8.0 so I'll get to the 10.5.2 update eventually; very glad to know it works for you!

[apooo]

hi,

 

if you want you can try my appleahciport.kext. it´s the "old" 1.07 version and it works with my native leopard install with all 8 sata ports, especially with the 4 marvell ports!

 

if it doesn´t start, try "-f" (force driver to load) as startoption at startup, this worked for me!

 

apoo

 

press F8 at the very beginning, just after the intel bootagent, then you will see the darwin bootloader (efi), then you can type "-f" to force the driver to load. since then it works for me

[bibendum]

Just wanted to report that I replaced my x1950XT with an EVGA e-GeForce 8800GT superclocked edition. I used the 10.5.2 kexts and NVInject found here: http://scottdangel.com/blog/?p=21

 

Got it from Tiger Direct for $279. Haven't noticed a HUGE increase in performance, but it's a single slot card, and it let's the Hack properly wake from sleep. Plus for those Motion users out there, it has an 8K texture limit...

 

I'm quite pleased.

 

Patrick

[weaksauce12]

press F8 at the very beginning, just after the intel bootagent, then you will see the darwin bootloader (efi), then you can type "-f" to force the driver to load. since then it works for me

 

I'll have to try it on a fresh 5.2 install, the F8 trick doesn't work after installing the kext on my experimental EFI 8.0 build

[Leoopardoo]

All, Just out of curiosity... what appleSMBIOS.kext are you using ? I have efi v8 with default appleSMBIOS.kext (not the one included in efi v8 from Netkas)

 

Here is my profiler info:

 

Hardware Overview:

 

Model Name: Mac

Model Identifier:

Processor Name: Intel® Core2 CPU 6600 @

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM

Memory: 2 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

 

In case i use appleSMBIOS.kext from Netkas I get some additional info however my HW is detected by Gbench as Hackintosh which I don't like.

[alamoa]

Hi everyone with 10.5.2 I think it is time to say by by to tiger and move on to Leo. After reading loads os threads and post about Leo in the BA2 I would like a final peace of advice from the more experienced people here. As you can see from my specs below I may have a very compatible system but I am not quite sure which way to go weaksauce's or kalyway.

 

Today I am runinng a dual boot xp/tiger install in a partitioned 160gb HD and have another 250gb hd for the files. After five month I never needed to boot into xp again and for the leo install I will say by by to windows as well. So going for a clean install I can see that Kaly looks very straight forward

 

1.live bios setings in default (or should I disable ACPI?)

2. boot via kaly 10.5.1,

3. Format the driver as HFS+ with GUID

4. Install OSX onto HFS+ partition using vanilla kernell,Vanilla_ACPI_fix, nvinject_gfnvidia_desktop, and Boot_efi_guid selections only.

5. Upgrade to 10.5.2 kaly

6. Upgrade kernel with Kaly

7. Upgrade graphics from apple

8. Patch sound with Taruga's

 

Am I missing something up there?

 

I also kave weaksauce's guide and files and as lots of people I am also waiting anxiously revision 2 with efi_8.Now the 1 milion dollar question :-)) what are the main diferences between kaly and weaksauce's for a complete n00by like me? From my point of view it looks advanced installing and it seems to give you more control over the install.

 

Anyway, thanks in advance for the counceling

 

 

Alamoa

[weaksauce12]

Hi everyone with 10.5.2 I think it is time to say by by to tiger and move on to Leo. After reading loads os threads and post about Leo in the BA2 I would like a final peace of advice from the more experienced people here. As you can see from my specs below I may have a very compatible system but I am not quite sure which way to go weaksauce's or kalyway.

 

Today I am runinng a dual boot xp/tiger install in a partitioned 160gb HD and have another 250gb hd for the files. After five month I never needed to boot into xp again and for the leo install I will say by by to windows as well. So going for a clean install I can see that Kaly looks very straight forward

 

1.live bios setings in default (or should I disable ACPI?)

2. boot via kaly 10.5.1,

3. Format the driver as HFS+ with GUID

4. Install OSX onto HFS+ partition using vanilla kernell,Vanilla_ACPI_fix, nvinject_gfnvidia_desktop, and Boot_efi_guid selections only.

5. Upgrade to 10.5.2 kaly

6. Upgrade kernel with Kaly

7. Upgrade graphics from apple

8. Patch sound with Taruga's

 

Am I missing something up there?

 

I also kave weaksauce's guide and files and as lots of people I am also waiting anxiously revision 2 with efi_8.Now the 1 milion dollar question :-)) what are the main diferences between kaly and weaksauce's for a complete n00by like me? From my point of view it looks advanced installing and it seems to give you more control over the install.

 

Anyway, thanks in advance for the counceling

 

 

Alamoa

 

If you're going to try Kaly, you might as well try the new 10.5.2 release. Let us know how it goes

[Team Scream]

Heya Sauce and Everyone else.

 

Ok news flash and update, as I look back I realize that I have not yet posted in this thread (I dont think) but I read and read read this thread multiple times, I actually tried your guide before I tried hackintosh on any other machine I have and I was not successful, but I just identified the reason why tonight.

 

The machine I am typing this message on is my beloved BadAxe2 system which has a QX6600, 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistix, several hard drives, 2 DVD drives, a BFG8800GTX Ultra with 768MB ram and is completely water cooled with a Koolance Exos2 system (CPU, north and south bridge, GPU and RAM all have water blocks on them).

 

Well long story short after at least 4 attempts to get this thing up on Leopard I finally did it and heres how.

 

First let me state for the record that Weaksauce12's guide obviously works as evidenced by the numerous people who have successfully followed the guide and have working systems, and I believe that mine would have worked as well using his guide except that every time I tried to do it I tried with GUID as the partition scheme and it never worked.

Finally I threw in the towel and decided to try Kalyway 10.5.1 and even that failed at first, so then I said ok one more try but this time with MBR as the partition scheme and viola it worked!

 

So heres what I did.

 

Booted using Kalyway 10.5.1

Partitioned my drive using MBR (1 partition)

Installed Kalyway with Vanilla checked and MBR checked, and NVinject (desktop) checked.

Got to a good desktop after install

Installed NVinject 0.2.1

repaired permissions, rebooted

Installed the audio fix using Weaksauces script.

Repaired permissions (just in case)

rebooted

set the total VRAM in my NVinject.kext plist using the Property List Editor in xCode tools

repaired permissions

rebooted

 

Now I have a 3rd hackintosh system working as it should moderately overclocked to 3.4 Ghz.

System Profiler correctly shows my video card RAM as 768 MB.

Geekbench scored 6585

LAN/Internet worked out of the box, no mods necessary

Used Apple Update to get all of the relevant updates EXCEPT 10.5.2

Sound works perfectly (I have not checked nor do I care about Mic Input at this point).

Dell 20" running at 1680x1050 60hz

I will dig in tomorrow night and see what can be done about the other SATA ports, but for now this is all good news.

 

So for anyone with a BadAxe2 who wants an easy build, this is it.

 

It would be nice to have it running on a GUID partition but for now at least I know it can be done with my system.

 

Sauce,

Are you up and running on GUID? if so what did you do to make that happen?

Also I cant seem to find the post where someone mentioned getting all the SATA ports to work but I am very interested in making that happen as well

 

For those of you who are a little uneasy about overclocking, this board with the right memory and the right HSF will over clock very well.

Mine is a moderate 400Mhz per core OC and there is more room but I like manageable temps and ultra stability so I backed it down a bit from my highest 3.7GHz OC.

 

Anyway,

 

Sauce you are a good man for being so dedicated to the cause, this is an incredibly fun hobby and I look forward to helping anyone who needs help in any way I can.

 

Here we go.

[Guest badaxe]

Heya Sauce and Everyone else.

 

Ok news flash and update, as I look back I realize that I have not yet posted in this thread (I dont think) but I read and read read this thread multiple times, I actually tried your guide before I tried hackintosh on any other machine I have and I was not successful, but I just identified the reason why tonight.

 

The machine I am typing this message on is my beloved BadAxe2 system which has a QX6600, 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistix, several hard drives, 2 DVD drives, a BFG8800GTX Ultra with 768MB ram and is completely water cooled with a Koolance Exos2 system (CPU, north and south bridge, GPU and RAM all have water blocks on them).

 

Well long story short after at least 4 attempts to get this thing up on Leopard I finally did it and heres how.

 

First let me state for the record that Weaksauce12's guide obviously works as evidenced by the numerous people who have successfully followed the guide and have working systems, and I believe that mine would have worked as well using his guide except that every time I tried to do it I tried with GUID as the partition scheme and it never worked.

Finally I threw in the towel and decided to try Kalyway 10.5.1 and even that failed at first, so then I said ok one more try but this time with MBR as the partition scheme and viola it worked!

 

So heres what I did.

 

Booted using Kalyway 10.5.1

Partitioned my drive using MBR (1 partition)

Installed Kalyway with Vanilla checked and MBR checked, and NVinject (desktop) checked.

Got to a good desktop after install

Installed NVinject 0.2.1

repaired permissions, rebooted

Installed the audio fix using Weaksauces script.

Repaired permissions (just in case)

rebooted

set the total VRAM in my NVinject.kext plist using the Property List Editor in xCode tools

repaired permissions

rebooted

 

Now I have a 3rd hackintosh system working as it should moderately overclocked to 3.4 Ghz.

System Profiler correctly shows my video card RAM as 768 MB.

Geekbench scored 6585

LAN/Internet worked out of the box, no mods necessary

Used Apple Update to get all of the relevant updates EXCEPT 10.5.2

Sound works perfectly (I have not checked nor do I care about Mic Input at this point).

Dell 20" running at 1680x1050 60hz

I will dig in tomorrow night and see what can be done about the other SATA ports, but for now this is all good news.

 

So for anyone with a BadAxe2 who wants an easy build, this is it.

 

It would be nice to have it running on a GUID partition but for now at least I know it can be done with my system.

 

Sauce,

Are you up and running on GUID? if so what did you do to make that happen?

Also I cant seem to find the post where someone mentioned getting all the SATA ports to work but I am very interested in making that happen as well

 

For those of you who are a little uneasy about overclocking, this board with the right memory and the right HSF will over clock very well.

Mine is a moderate 400Mhz per core OC and there is more room but I like manageable temps and ultra stability so I backed it down a bit from my highest 3.7GHz OC.

 

Anyway,

 

Sauce you are a good man for being so dedicated to the cause, this is an incredibly fun hobby and I look forward to helping anyone who needs help in any way I can.

 

Here we go.

 

 

I have used the exact method above to get leopard running on my rig

kaly 10.5.1

d975xbx2

6gb ram kingston 800mhz

e6320 overclocked to 2.8ghz

2 sata hard disks on the intel sata ports

sound output working

7950gt 256mb

 

E6320 + Badaxe 2 + 7950gt + 6gb ddr2 - Geekbench Score 3838

 

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/38480Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)

Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Build 9B18)

Model: Hackintosh

Motherboard: Mac Pro

Processor: Intel® Core™2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz

Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6

Logical Processors: 2

Physical Processors: 1

Processor Frequency: 2.80 GHz

L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB

L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB

L2 Cache: 4.00 MB

L3 Cache: 0.00 B

Bus Frequency: 1.06 GHz

Memory: 6.00 GB

Memory Type: 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

SIMD: 1

 

Integer (Score: 3211)

Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 2324, 1.0, 102.1 MB/sec

Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 4702, 1.9, 192.7 MB/sec

Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 2209, 1.0, 7.07 MB/sec

Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 4038, 1.9, 13.2 MB/sec

Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1943, 1.0, 7.98 MB/sec

Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3828, 1.9, 15.3 MB/sec

Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 2014, 1.0, 16.6 Mpixels/sec

Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3932, 2.0, 33.1 Mpixels/sec

Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1658, 1.0, 27.8 Mpixels/sec

Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3328, 2.0, 54.3 Mpixels/sec

Crafty Chess single-threaded scalar -- 2371, 1.0, 1.20 Mnodes/sec

Crafty Chess multi-threaded scalar -- 4146, 1.7, 2.01 Mnodes/sec

Lua single-threaded scalar -- 2902, 1.0, 1.12 Mnodes/sec

Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 5561, 1.9, 2.14 Mnodes/sec

 

Floating Point (Score: 5266)

Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 2092, 1.0, 1.39 Gflops

Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 4220, 2.0, 2.76 Gflops

Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 3317, 1.0, 1.60 Gflops

Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 6614, 1.9, 3.01 Gflops

Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 2312, 1.7, 2.77 Gflops

Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 4802, 3.1, 4.99 Gflops

LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 830, 1.0, 739.1 Mflops

LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 1671, 2.0, 1.47 Gflops

Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 3960, 1.0, 591.4 Mflops

Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 5895, 1.8, 1.09 Gflops

Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 5637, 1.0, 13.2 Mpixels/sec

Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 10958, 1.9, 25.3 Mpixels/sec

Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 7287, 1.0, 5.77 Mpixels/sec

Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 14133, 1.9, 11.1 Mpixels/sec

 

Memory (Score: 3163)

Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 4335, 1.0, 5.31 GB/sec

Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2801, 1.0, 1.92 GB/sec

Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 2184, 1.0, 8.15 Mallocs/sec

Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 3083, 1.0, 6.38 GB/sec

Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 3414, 1.0, 3.52 GB/sec

 

Stream (Score: 2385)

Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 2374, 1.0, 3.25 GB/sec

Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 2617, 1.0, 3.39 GB/sec

Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 2494, 1.0, 3.24 GB/sec

Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 2478, 1.0, 3.34 GB/sec

Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 2074, 1.0, 3.13 GB/sec

Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 2772, 1.2, 3.86 GB/sec

Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 2211, 1.0, 3.06 GB/sec

Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 2066, 1.3, 3.87 GB/sec

[apooo]

does anybody have a usb ir receiver which works with the original ir remote from a macbook? what about the manta tr1?

 

apoo

[The Baron]

does anybody have a usb ir receiver which works with the original ir remote from a macbook? what about the manta tr1?

 

apoo

 

I've got the Mantra, worked great under Tiger, but if you go to the forum http://in.mypocket.com/index.php?showforum=15 you'll see that it's not such good news with Leo. Bruno may update it, but I'd look elsewhere for now...

[tuukka H]

I also have manta tr1 but I think that it is the same that comes with mce 2005 package (remote and receiver). Receiver works great with my system. Only thing is that mira by twistedmelon is not working with leo (it never will). So I just said goodbye to my mira and bought remote buddy. It is something like 100 times better than mira. It can do everything (ok not everything but everything that you can do with remote )

[weaksauce12]

Heya Sauce and Everyone else.

 

Ok news flash and update, as I look back I realize that I have not yet posted in this thread (I dont think) but I read and read read this thread multiple times, I actually tried your guide before I tried hackintosh on any other machine I have and I was not successful, but I just identified the reason why tonight.

 

The machine I am typing this message on is my beloved BadAxe2 system which has a QX6600, 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistix, several hard drives, 2 DVD drives, a BFG8800GTX Ultra with 768MB ram and is completely water cooled with a Koolance Exos2 system (CPU, north and south bridge, GPU and RAM all have water blocks on them).

 

Well long story short after at least 4 attempts to get this thing up on Leopard I finally did it and heres how.

 

First let me state for the record that Weaksauce12's guide obviously works as evidenced by the numerous people who have successfully followed the guide and have working systems, and I believe that mine would have worked as well using his guide except that every time I tried to do it I tried with GUID as the partition scheme and it never worked.

Finally I threw in the towel and decided to try Kalyway 10.5.1 and even that failed at first, so then I said ok one more try but this time with MBR as the partition scheme and viola it worked!

 

GUID is not a feature supported by EFI 5.2 (MBR only), so that's why you could never get it working!

 

Sauce,

Are you up and running on GUID? if so what did you do to make that happen?

Also I cant seem to find the post where someone mentioned getting all the SATA ports to work but I am very interested in making that happen as well

 

For those of you who are a little uneasy about overclocking, this board with the right memory and the right HSF will over clock very well.

Mine is a moderate 400Mhz per core OC and there is more room but I like manageable temps and ultra stability so I backed it down a bit from my highest 3.7GHz OC.

 

Anyway,

 

Sauce you are a good man for being so dedicated to the cause, this is an incredibly fun hobby and I look forward to helping anyone who needs help in any way I can.

 

Here we go.

 

I'm using an experimental build running EFI 8.0. EFI 8.0 supports both GUID and MBR. But it has some issues that I'm trying to work out with the help of others. People are having good results with iATKOS and Kalyway, so for now if you want EFI 8.0 (for GUID and SuperDuper support), I would suggest going with one of those.

 

As far as full SATA support, only a few people have it working...and none know why. I hope we can get it working at some point in the future since I have a lot of smaller drives that I could put to good use!

[Guest badaxe]

No matter what i do i cant get guid working on my badaxe 2 using the kalyway 10.5.1 disk ???

[Team Scream]

Right on Sauce,Hey let me ask you this...I want to clone my boot drive and I have both CopyCat-X and SuperDuper.I have used SuperDuper and I get all the way to the point where it wants to restart then it fails.I read here that SuperDuper is not stable with 10.5.x yet so that explains that.With CopyCat-X it wont let me clone to an external USB or FireWire drive?What do you know about CopyCat-X that I may be missing?Thanks bro.

I'm using an experimental build running EFI 8.0. EFI 8.0 supports both GUID and MBR. But it has some issues that I'm trying to work out with the help of others. People are having good results with iATKOS and Kalyway, so for now if you want EFI 8.0 (for GUID and SuperDuper support), I would suggest going with one of those.

Hey just saw this, I installed using Kalyway 10.5.1 but with GUID selected It would not boot, I could not get it running unless I chose MBR which is where i am at now....how are people getting Kalyway to work with GUID?

[alamoa]

Ok some news

 

I just finished installing I am in (kally all the way)10.5.2 - mbr. The only problem I had was with my media and had to install it twice. I still have to make sound work but I think it will not be a problem. I dont know if i will do the graphics update today (too much excitment for a day, the install took almost three hours.

 

when I repair permissions i have the following message - usr/x11/lib/libx11.6.2.0.dylib should be irwxr-xr-x

 

Now I will install my brazilian keyboard and all the apps. later I will write a full report.

 

Thanks to weaksauce, Kally, devin and all the people at the forum.

[alamoa]

Ok now the guide:

 

as I said above I used the steps below:

 

1.left bios setings in default

 

2. boot via kaly 10.5.1,

It took me about one hour with darwin to get to disk utility (had problems with errors becuse of a faulty dvd media

cleaned the media reinstaled again and succeeded).

 

3. Format the driver as HFS+ with MBR (i was conservative here)

 

4. Install OSX onto HFS+ partition using vanilla kernell,Vanilla_ACPI_fix, nvinject_gfnvidia_desktop, and Boot_mbr_guid selections only. Got to a good install and used kaly patch to get back to original install.repaired permissions.

 

From now one I used Devins guide

 

5. Upgrade to 10.5.2 kaly -kernel

6. Upgrade kernel with Kaly

7. Tried to Patch sound with Taruga's 1.16/1.20 -It does not work at all

 

Everything is working but the sound (using small usb speakers), repairing permissions still gives me "usr/x11/lib/libx11.6.2.0.dylib should be irwxr-xr-x. So far all the apps work well. very straightforward.

[Nano07]

Hi Guys,

 

A quick update on my system install.

 

I had originally installed Kalyway 10.5.1 Vanilla + MBR

 

Now, I managed to get KalywayIntelCombo10.5.2 update (340Mb) and installed that, restarted, applied Software update to get the graphics and some other updates for Ilife and othe soft, restarted again and everything working fine (even sound was not messed up!)

 

Thought I'd share my painless experience :-)

 

Cheers

[Leoopardoo]

All,

 

just moved to 10.5.2 using Netkas tutorial (had to restore IONetworkingFamily.kext from 10.4.9 and apply audio patch again) and updated with GFX update via software update - all without any issues !!

 

In addition, now I have sleep fully working with 8800gt 512mb and no hack.in.t0sh info in system profiler (applied latest appleSMBIOS.kext from Netkas).

 

Also the overall score in Xbench1.3 is higher (see my sig. below), however the score in GeBench is lower - 3192 (3207 in 10.5.1)

 

All apps seems to work so far (iPhoto, CS3, dvd player... etc), have to do some further tests.

 

Now its time to do some tricks with efi strings to get my osx more genuine than before

[weaksauce12]

Right on Sauce,Hey let me ask you this...I want to clone my boot drive and I have both CopyCat-X and SuperDuper.I have used SuperDuper and I get all the way to the point where it wants to restart then it fails.I read here that SuperDuper is not stable with 10.5.x yet so that explains that.With CopyCat-X it wont let me clone to an external USB or FireWire drive?What do you know about CopyCat-X that I may be missing?Thanks bro.Hey just saw this, I installed using Kalyway 10.5.1 but with GUID selected It would not boot, I could not get it running unless I chose MBR which is where i am at now....how are people getting Kalyway to work with GUID?

 

SuperDuper works fine on Leopard, it was updated a week or two ago - make sure you have the latest version!

 

I personally have not gotten Kaly to work, but I'm not sure if I had a bad copy or not since it didn't work on any of my machines. Again, there are several others who HAVE gotten it working, so take it FWIW. From what I understand, EFI 8.0 has a bug related to GUID on the Bad Axe 2 specifically. Check out BJMoose's guide; he got EFI 8 working on his machine and so have many others:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry527657

 

Some people have even gotten the Retail Leopard DVD working! I'm currently working on different installations of EFI 8.0, trying to figure out the best way to implement it. I have no ETA right now on an EFI 8 release from me, so if you want EFI 8.0 I would definitely suggest using BJMoose's guide.

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SuperDuper works fine on Leopard, it was updated a week or two ago - make sure you have the latest version!

 

I personally have not gotten Kaly to work, but I'm not sure if I had a bad copy or not since it didn't work on any of my machines. Again, there are several others who HAVE gotten it working, so take it FWIW. From what I understand, EFI 8.0 has a bug related to GUID on the Bad Axe 2 specifically. Check out BJMoose's guide; he got EFI 8 working on his machine and so have many others:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry527657

 

Some people have even gotten the Retail Leopard DVD working! I'm currently working on different installations of EFI 8.0, trying to figure out the best way to implement it. I have no ETA right now on an EFI 8 release from me, so if you want EFI 8.0 I would definitely suggest using BJMoose's guide.

 

That is why my choice was MBR. also I had some trouble with my kally disk and had to reinstall twice