Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[swilso]

With the kext helper I had the same issue. Although I went into Directory Utility inside Utilities folder in Applications - Click the lock to make changes then clicked the option "edit" at the top of the screen and select enable root user, set a password for it tried it again and nothing. Restarted the computer (making sure I had already completed all the other steps, got into leopard from the bootcd) tried the kext helper thing again and it worked fine although if i typed in the actual root user password it didnt work, i had to type in my leopard user password.
Hope that helps.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: Kaido
New Project Blog:

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/

The thread is almost 20 pages long and has over 350 posts, so I figured it would be easier to consolidate everything into a single, up-to-date resource. The finished files will be hosted there as well.

ETA Thanksgiving on the final package

Will the "final" package have any functional differences than what we've done above, or will it just be a different procedure - same result? I'm wondering because I don't want to bother loading my brand spankin' new Hack [thanks Kaido!] with stuff if I'm just going to reinstall in two weeks.

[Also, I'll be posting my findings when I have time to better test things like IDE and DiNovo keyboards]

Same package, just stuck together in a single installer app.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Just a message from Doug...

There's nothing unique about this install other than I've tried to slap it together in a coherant way so others can follow it DSDT is required for 10.5.6; the .6 update won't run without it, so we're future-proofing now instead of later. Yes, you have to make a dump for each motherboard model. Currently I have them for the P35 and EP35 in the latest package. The P35 DSDT dump has been tested on both the Rev 1.0 and Rev 2.0 P35-DS3L boards successfully.

Are you trying to install this package on your 945? If so, that would explain the odd problem you're having. You simply need to make a DSDT dump for your particular board. There are several tutorials (and scripts) on Insanely; once you've got your dump, just add it to the root drive (drag and drop, real easy) and then install the Chameleon in my package (loads up the DSDT file at boot).[/quote]

No, I didn't try it on the 945, but I do have it running very nicely with the USB stick method. Now that I know it's not dependent on the dsdt file I will give it a try. Will also look into making a dsdt file for the 945. Thanks

Just a message from Doug...

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I think the admin issue with Kext Helper etc. may be due to 10.5.5 disabling admin privledges or something after installing. For those of you with that error, try re-installing completely from scratch, then install the SOFTWARE portion, THEN install the 10.5.5 update. For some reason this only happens to a few people, but this may resolve it. Please report back with your results!

Can do, but I hate to mess up what I have. Can I do it on a ATA drive? I've successfully booted from a backup ATA drive so I assume it would be okay.

Just a message from Doug...

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Kaido
I think the admin issue with Kext Helper etc. may be due to 10.5.5 disabling admin privledges or something after installing. For those of you with that error, try re-installing completely from scratch, then install the SOFTWARE portion, THEN install the 10.5.5 update. For some reason this only happens to a few people, but this may resolve it. Please report back with your results!

Can do, but I hate to mess up what I have. Can I do it on a ATA drive? I've successfully booted from a backup ATA drive so I assume it would be okay.

Just a message from Doug...

Yup, ATA is looking fine so far. I've had no reports of glitches other than one person not being able to run their IDE DVD/IDE HDD at the same time, but that may be hardware-related.

 

[Pneumothorax]

Kaido, before I end up buying another gigabyte P35 board, are you planning on making any other quick and easy hackintoshes on Gigabytes P45 boards? I'm seriously considering a P45 board for my 2nd hackintosh and I'd like your input. Thanks!

 

[frabjousdey]

Anyone have the Dell 1505 PCIe WLAN card? OS X freezes as soon as it loads to desktop, with the menubar all black.

Do I need any special drivers to make it work?

 

[frabjousdey]

Oops, never mind - it was my graphics card, not my wireless card.

 

[swilso]

Does anyone else osx install freeze when they load parallels or vmware? I have used both and both of them randomly freeze up my system. I am running an XP virtual install and my osx keeps crashing ?

 

[scootermaster]

Weird:

I just plugged in the little USB Bluetooth dongle that came with my Dinovo Media Desktop Laser. Works great, even in Bios (i.e. it pairs the keyboard at boot, it seems). Works wonderful in OSX (I can assign the expose functions to one of the bazillion buttons on the MX1000). The shuttle control buttons work great (play, pause etc) as do the function keys and volume button. Sleep works great. The other keys ("media", "home" and "search") don't seem to work.

But the weird thing is: bluetooth doesn't work. Or, at least, the hack has no idea that I have bluetooth. Do I need specific drivers for the dongle to "enable" bluetooth (even though it's obviously working since I'm typing this right now).

Other than that, I LOVE THIS MACHINE!

Edit: Some things I've noticed (haven't tested empirically a ton, so I could have the causes wrong).

1). When you sleep, it wakes up from sleep fine, but when you shutdown, after having slept, it crashes and you have to power down. (Doesn't seem to do that if you haven't slept).

2). Having ethernet unplugged seems to really mess with the video (like, it boots black, but when it "refreshes" the screen shows up. I tried to activate screen saver from system prefs, but it crashes. (There's a chance this was because I moved my bluetooth dongle from the front of the machine to the back, but I doubt it. That and plugging in the ethernet are the only two things that changed. Well, other than putting the main HD in the cage and screwing the case together).

3). The motherboard doesn't seem to like IDE cables plugged in with no drives attached to them. Who knew?

4). Copying some files from an IDE drive to the main SATA drive, and installing some extension to Safari -- the one you need to watch shows from ABC.com -- crashed the machine.

That's about it!

 

[mohkahn]

Damn.... By far the best and the simplest method ever man. Great job.

Everything is working perfectly fine. Let me share, what stupid mistake I was making. Using 0sx86 software to put 5 seconds delay and make system boot from harddrive, I kept putting the number 5 without quotes ("5"), so if anyone else is unable to get their system working, having kernel panics or seeing error message at osx86 step, remember to put quotes with 5..

I must say the system takes slightly longer to boot (105 seconds) compare to kalyway, but then it's 7gb, compare to 4.3gb of kalyway. And file copying is really fast compare to kalyway and even xp/vista.

Here is some info for your guys reference.

System score of Xbench: 142. (kalyway score was 123-126)
System: Leopard retail 10.5.5.
MB: GA-EP35-DS3L.. Rev.1.0 Flash version 6b.. Latest..
E6550 cpu, 160gb sata-hd, sata dvd,
cheap 8400gs graphic card.
4gb, kingston RAM.
The above simple system cost Little less than
US$500. I bought the MB only few months ago,
everything else was bought last year.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Pneumothorax
Kaido, before I end up buying another gigabyte P35 board, are you planning on making any other quick and easy hackintoshes on Gigabytes P45 boards? I'm seriously considering a P45 board for my 2nd hackintosh and I'd like your input. Thanks!

At the moment, no. At some point in the future I would like to get an EP45-DQ6 board, but my justification for upgrading is to get a special video editing card and a super RAID card, so it will be awhile before I make that move. Making your own kit isn't super difficult if you're willing to do some research. Basically you have to do 2 things:

1. Find appropriate drivers (kexts, audio codec, etc.)
2. Make a DSDT dump for your specific board

You can probably find an existing guide with software for the board you want, so you can snag the drivers from there. Then just download the DSDT tool and make your own dsdt.aml file. You *may* need to make your own BootCD - mine has the basic DS3L drivers so that it will boot up without Kernel Panicing. So it's a bit of effort, but it's definitely not impossible - just requires some homework, that's all.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: frabjousdey
Oops, never mind - it was my graphics card, not my wireless card.

What happened there?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: swilso
Does anyone else osx install freeze when they load parallels or vmware? I have used both and both of them randomly freeze up my system. I am running an XP virtual install and my osx keeps crashing ?

Nope, I run 2 VM's 24/7 and it's rock-solid. Have you run memtest? Are you overclocking? Do you have the latest updates for both applications? What are your full hardware specs?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Weird:

I just plugged in the little USB Bluetooth dongle that came with my Dinovo Media Desktop Laser. Works great, even in Bios (i.e. it pairs the keyboard at boot, it seems). Works wonderful in OSX (I can assign the expose functions to one of the bazillion buttons on the MX1000). The shuttle control buttons work great (play, pause etc) as do the function keys and volume button. Sleep works great. The other keys ("media", "home" and "search") don't seem to work.

But the weird thing is: bluetooth doesn't work. Or, at least, the hack has no idea that I have bluetooth. Do I need specific drivers for the dongle to "enable" bluetooth (even though it's obviously working since I'm typing this right now).

Other than that, I LOVE THIS MACHINE!

Edit: Some things I've noticed (haven't tested empirically a ton, so I could have the causes wrong).

1). When you sleep, it wakes up from sleep fine, but when you shutdown, after having slept, it crashes and you have to power down. (Doesn't seem to do that if you haven't slept).

2). Having ethernet unplugged seems to really mess with the video (like, it boots black, but when it "refreshes" the screen shows up. I tried to activate screen saver from system prefs, but it crashes. (There's a chance this was because I moved my bluetooth dongle from the front of the machine to the back, but I doubt it. That and plugging in the ethernet are the only two things that changed. Well, other than putting the main HD in the cage and screwing the case together).

3). The motherboard doesn't seem to like IDE cables plugged in with no drives attached to them. Who knew?

4). Copying some files from an IDE drive to the main SATA drive, and installing some extension to Safari -- the one you need to watch shows from ABC.com -- crashed the machine.

That's about it!

Logitech has traditionally had a weird implementation of Bluetooth. First of all, your Bluetooth keyboard shouldn't work in BIOS, if that tells you anything - it uses software to pair once the OS is loaded up, so obviously they have some extra goodies in their Bluetooth dongle that provides that additional functionality. For the rest of the buttons that don't work, you might want to try something like ControllerMate to assign functions to them: (it's a bit complicated to learn, but well-worth it and VERY powerful)

http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/

Regarding those other problems, those may be related to the IDE driver. IDE caused a ton of problems in the Kalyway install and this is why I wanted everyone to test it a lot - the BOOT-132 installation was rock-solid before, absolutely no quirks, and now you're experiencing a ton of bugs. IDE caused a TON of weird issues with Leopard in the past, so all of those bugs that you're experiencing could be a result of that. Try disabling IDE in the BIOS and then trying all of those functions again to see if they have the same results (if they do, also try removing the Jmicron kext from the extensions folder, rebooting, and trying again).

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mohkahn
By far the best and the simplest method ever man. Great job.

Everything is working perfectly fine. Let me share, what stupid mistake I was making. Using 0sx86 software to put 5 seconds delay and make system boot from harddrive, I kept putting the number 5 without quotes ("5"), so if anyone else is unable to get their system working, having kernel panics or seeing error message at osx86 step, remember to put quotes with 5..

I must say the system takes slightly longer to boot (105 seconds) compare to kalyway, but then it's 7gb, compare to 4.3gb of kalyway. And file copying is really fast compare to kalyway and even xp/vista.

Thanks!

Actually, there's NOT supposed to be any quotes with that number! It's just the number itself. That's a very odd bug lol.

 

[Sophie424]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
1). When you sleep, it wakes up from sleep fine, but when you shutdown, after having slept, it crashes and you have to power down. (Doesn't seem to do that if you haven't slept).

Happens to me too. I get a bios-ish message on the screen saying to power-down or push restart button.

 

[frabjousdey]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: frabjousdey
Oops, never mind - it was my graphics card, not my wireless card.

What happened there?

The damn thing works half the time and is broken the other half of the time. It seems to behave a little better when the case is on its side and open: overheating problem? Regardless, it always runs 100% in Windows, which suggests that the card isn't broken, this model just doesn't want to play nice with OS X.

Unfortunately, the purchase off eBay came with a one-week warranty and I'm going out of town tomorrow - no time to deal with RMA and reshipping.

I may try and resell it to someone building a Windows box, then just pick up a vanilla 8800GT... or just put up with it until someone releases drivers for the 4870 or GTX 280 next year.

Everything else works beautifully. If anyone asks me about it, I'll be pointing them straight to your blog. My crafty girlfriend got a kick out of building the system with me and is thinking about building her own. Thanks again.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Weird:

I just plugged in the little USB Bluetooth dongle that came with my Dinovo Media Desktop Laser. Works great, even in Bios (i.e. it pairs the keyboard at boot, it seems). Works wonderful in OSX (I can assign the expose functions to one of the bazillion buttons on the MX1000). The shuttle control buttons work great (play, pause etc) as do the function keys and volume button. Sleep works great. The other keys ("media", "home" and "search") don't seem to work.

But the weird thing is: bluetooth doesn't work. Or, at least, the hack has no idea that I have bluetooth. Do I need specific drivers for the dongle to "enable" bluetooth (even though it's obviously working since I'm typing this right now).

Other than that, I LOVE THIS MACHINE!

Edit: Some things I've noticed (haven't tested empirically a ton, so I could have the causes wrong).

1). When you sleep, it wakes up from sleep fine, but when you shutdown, after having slept, it crashes and you have to power down. (Doesn't seem to do that if you haven't slept).

2). Having ethernet unplugged seems to really mess with the video (like, it boots black, but when it "refreshes" the screen shows up. I tried to activate screen saver from system prefs, but it crashes. (There's a chance this was because I moved my bluetooth dongle from the front of the machine to the back, but I doubt it. That and plugging in the ethernet are the only two things that changed. Well, other than putting the main HD in the cage and screwing the case together).

3). The motherboard doesn't seem to like IDE cables plugged in with no drives attached to them. Who knew?

4). Copying some files from an IDE drive to the main SATA drive, and installing some extension to Safari -- the one you need to watch shows from ABC.com -- crashed the machine.

That's about it!

Logitech has traditionally had a weird implementation of Bluetooth. First of all, your Bluetooth keyboard shouldn't work in BIOS, if that tells you anything - it uses software to pair once the OS is loaded up, so obviously they have some extra goodies in their Bluetooth dongle that provides that additional functionality. For the rest of the buttons that don't work, you might want to try something like ControllerMate to assign functions to them: (it's a bit complicated to learn, but well-worth it and VERY powerful)

http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/

Regarding those other problems, those may be related to the IDE driver. IDE caused a ton of problems in the Kalyway install and this is why I wanted everyone to test it a lot - the BOOT-132 installation was rock-solid before, absolutely no quirks, and now you're experiencing a ton of bugs. IDE caused a TON of weird issues with Leopard in the past, so all of those bugs that you're experiencing could be a result of that. Try disabling IDE in the BIOS and then trying all of those functions again to see if they have the same results (if they do, also try removing the Jmicron kext from the extensions folder, rebooting, and trying again).

Huh. I don't have any bluetooth devices (except my iPhone, and we all know that doesn't count) so in some sense, having it work in Bios but not in OSX isn't a bad tradeoff. Although I've used Bluetooth file transfer for moving small files between my Powerbook and desktop (easier than email or memory key).

As for bootup, mine is pretty darn fast; the longest portion, I believe, is the P35 initializing the AHCI drivers for SATA.

I already disabled the IDE drivers in Bios, and I'll see what happens when removing the kext. I'm going to re-enable it for a bit to move more files over -- even if it's buggy, it's nice being able to hang an older IDE drive off the machine and copy files over. Like gigs of Mp3s, for example .

I got tons of weird Bios system beeps when I had the IDE cable off the mobo with nothing plugged in. The combo of the P35 and my Antec case gives REALLY annoying beeps.

Back to Bluetooth: I've googled for drivers for the dinovo, but most of those are oriented in getting the keyboard buttons to work (or, more specifically, the Edge to work). While I have an Edge, I'm not using it, and I don't really need any more of the keys to work (the transport controls work and those are the ones I can't live without). So is there any "driver" I can install for the Logitech dongle, or is this the best it's going to get? If it's the latter, is it worth getting a "supported" Bluetooth dongle, and if so, is it going to a). make things more complicated (like pair on reboot/sleep, or something) and b). am I going to lose my keyboard in Bios (more importantly than Bios, if I decide to dual-boot via F7, I'm obviously not going to want to have to plug in a PS2 keyboard every time to do that).

 

[Kaido]

FYI looks like IDE is still causing problems. Getting reports of Kernel Panics and all the weird old bugs.

Oh well

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I think the admin issue with Kext Helper etc. may be due to 10.5.5 disabling admin privledges or something after installing. For those of you with that error, try re-installing completely from scratch, then install the SOFTWARE portion, THEN install the 10.5.5 update. For some reason this only happens to a few people, but this may resolve it. Please report back with your results!

Okay, I did a complete re-install and used the following procedure (ref quickie instructions)

Steps 1-7 as they are

Next I installed all the Kext using Kext Helper, worked fine.

Installed 10.5.5 combo update (No reboot yet)

Installed Audio

Installed DSDT.AML for my board

Installed Chameleon

Used EFI Studio to install Video and Ethernet

Tried to use OSx86 Tools to edit the boot.plist file, but got the following error

AppleScript Error

/bin/sh: /Volumes/Local: No such file or directory (127)

Rebooted. Everything seems to work okay, tried the OSx86 Tools again, but got the same error. Did the minor updates and things seem to work just fine. Will have to edit the boot.plist file by hand I guess.

Just a message from Doug...

BTW I installed this on the SATA drive. Figured I could always use the backup ATA drive to restore it from is things went horribly wrong. 8^)

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Kaido
I think the admin issue with Kext Helper etc. may be due to 10.5.5 disabling admin privledges or something after installing. For those of you with that error, try re-installing completely from scratch, then install the SOFTWARE portion, THEN install the 10.5.5 update. For some reason this only happens to a few people, but this may resolve it. Please report back with your results!

Okay, I did a complete re-install and used the following procedure (ref quickie instructions)

Steps 1-7 as they are

Next I installed all the Kext using Kext Helper, worked fine.

Installed 10.5.5 combo update (No reboot yet)

Installed Audio

Installed DSDT.AML for my board

Installed Chameleon

Used EFI Studio to install Video and Ethernet

Tried to use OSx86 Tools to edit the boot.plist file, but got the following error

AppleScript Error

/bin/sh: /Volumes/Local: No such file or directory (127)

Rebooted. Everything seems to work okay, tried the OSx86 Tools again, but got the same error. Did the minor updates and things seem to work just fine. Will have to edit the boot.plist file by hand I guess.

Just a message from Doug...

BTW I installed this on the SATA drive. Figured I could always use the backup ATA drive to restore it from is things went horribly wrong. 8^)

1. Try installing ALL the Software before 10.5.5
2. Try copying OSx86Tools to your Apps folder, THEN running it

 

[mosslack]

Did as you suggested and this time it worked. Why does copying it to the apps folde make a difference?

Just a message from Doug...

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Final Draft - Upgrade Guide:

This will update your USB boot stick installation as well as your USB-to-HDD method posted earlier. If you're using the USB boot stick method, you won't have an Extensions.mkext file in step #7, but you may have an Extra/Extras/Extra Content folder in there, and you can delete that instead.

http://www.mediafire.com/?shar...a335cae1508bd5622028d6

1. Unzip to desktop
2. Inside the "DS3L-Kit" folder, open the "Software" folder
3. Open the "Audio" folder, drag the ALC888.codec.txt onto the frog icon and install
4. Open the "DSDT" folder, copy "dsdt.aml" to the root of your boot drive (with Library, System, Users, etc.) and install Chameleon to the boot drive
5. Open the "Kext" folder, open Kext Helper and install all of the kext files
6. Open the "Tools" folder, install EFIStudio (Video Card + Ethernet) and OSX86Tools (boot resolution + boot timeout) like usual
7. Inside the bot drive, open "Extras" and delete the Extensions.mkext file inside
8. Reboot

Added 10.5.6 compatibility (thanks to DSDT) and switched back to the Taruga audio method (no audio "pop" on analog output). Once this is tested on the Rev1 P35 as well as the EP35, and we get enough people testing IDE (including users with 4GB RAM to check for that bug), this will be named the final release. Then I'll wrap up the guide, record the tutorial video, and release it!

Hey is there anyway to do this install from the harddrive. I am having trouble with my leopard retail disk, well it could also be my dvd drive. As it works in mac with ahci but not in windows. It does install kalyway fine though.

Could I use a kalyway install on 320gig HD. And install from the same said 320GB HD? I am getting as far as the install screen. The grey one with the apple in the middle along with a 0/ through the apple. Meaning it locked up . I have checked and double checked all the bios settings.

 

[swilso]

Originally posted by: Kaido


Nope, I run 2 VM's 24/7 and it's rock-solid. Have you run memtest? Are you overclocking? Do you have the latest updates for both applications? What are your full hardware specs?

I am pretty sure it is IDE related. I am running overclocked on an e7300 although it is pretty solid at 3ghz. I got an IDE error in parallels once before.

I have since disconnected my IDE HDD with only the IDE DVD drive (which doesnt work in leopard anyway) connected and vmware hasn't skipped a beat now.
Does that Dell 1505 you mentioned kaido run at full bandwidth ? has anyone tried it with all new updates and have it running at full bandwidth? My WL-138G V2 was spose to have 100% compatibility as reported by most users although the speeds are shocking. I might buy a long arse ethernet cable even and run it to my PC.