Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: mohkahn
Thanks man.. Cheers and have a nice morning there in the U.S..
Me off to bed.. Will hose down the hard disk another wash over the weekend. Since another problem I just noticed that there was a huge file on the desktop having many of my mac software that is nowhere
to be seen, so I guess files are disappearing on this system as well.. Better do a fresh install.

By the way, it seems the DUAL LAYER disk I burned in .iso format using IMGBURN did not get burned properly. Hackintosh says it's blank DVD, Vista does not even let me open it. Going to buy some more Dual layer disks, but wonder what will be the best proper way to burn such disk on mac or vista? So that i can surely have a hard copy. right now I have to rely on old external 16gb HD, install kalyway, then extract image from that HD, create another partition, use the image to restore it to that partition, use boot CD and so on and so on......

So help appreciated as always.. Thanks..

I believe my version 7 Toast will do DL DVD's on the Mac side and if not version 8 or higher for sure. On the Windows side Nero is about the best I've seen. HTH

Just a message from Doug...

 

[Sophie424]

Just followed Kaido's latest (below) in a fresh install, and it worked like a charm (I have not yet tested audio):

1. Install Kexts, Strings, DSDT, Chameleon
2. Install 10.5.5
3. Reboot
4. Install Taruga for audio
5. Reboot

Kaido, sorry for the delay in testing this. Happy Thanksgiving, All!

 

[leglez]

Well I finally got ahold of a new flash drive. I am going to try this again today. Does anyone have the bios F8 installed and the newest version working?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: leglez
Well I finally got ahold of a new flash drive. I am going to try this again today. Does anyone have the bios F8 installed and the newest version working?

You're too late! We don't use flash drives anymore! Chameleon DSDT came out and can load BOOT-132 from the hard drive now, no need for copying everything to the hidden EFI partition.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Just followed Kaido's latest (below) in a fresh install, and it worked like a charm (I have not yet tested audio):

1. Install Kexts, Strings, DSDT, Chameleon
2. Install 10.5.5
3. Reboot
4. Install Taruga for audio
5. Reboot

Kaido, sorry for the delay in testing this. Happy Thanksgiving, All!

You know what, I think I'm just going to keep Taruga audio separate from the installer package. It has to be re-installed after every point update anyway because the Apple updates overwrite it.

 

[leglez]

So even if we are installing off the hard drive we don't need the flash drive?

 

[swilso]

Originally posted by: leglez
So even if we are installing off the hard drive we don't need the flash drive?

Yep. Just need the boot-cd and the install package with chameleon etc on it.

 

[leglez]

Oh ok awesome. Can anyone point me to a guide on how to install off the hdd? All the ones I am finding are still saying that you have to use the flash drive. I haven't burnt the boot cd yet so I haven't really looked at it. But it says:

"So you burn the BootCD (a simple ISO image file), pop it in your computer and boot it up, then swap it out with a retail copy of Leopard at the prompt and install like normal. After installation is finished, you reboot with the BootCD in again, setup Leopard after the welcome screen like usual, and then eject the BootCD at the desktop."

How do you go about swapping out the boot cd with the retail copy of leopard if the retail copy of leopard is partitioned on your hard drive?

 

[Zaap]

Just set up two retail install systems using Kaido's guide- boot-132 and chameleon. Went off without a hitch! Thanks again for all your hard work, Kaido in compiling all of this info into such a great guide. The peeps who own these two systems are gonna love them. I've done non-retail installs on the EP35-DS3L before, but not retail on the P35-DS3L- it works great! A really nice board.

Did the full command-line system update, it went flawlessly.

Did the 'open every app in the system folder at once' test (open your apps folder, Apple-A, then Apple-O): the systems didn't even break a sweat.

Final Cut Pro 6 runs beautifully.

Just for the sheer fun of it at work today, we tried to boot and install a beta of sno-kitty on one of these just to see what would happen. The result: weirdest kernel panic I've ever seen. First a normal kernel panic screen, then a black overlay crawled down from top to bottom of screen, followed by flashes of rapidly changing code at the very bottom of the screen. Later may try a pre-install on a working system, then transport it over to a Hack and see what happens, but for now, retail 10.5.5 working great.

This weekend I'm going to finally do a retail/Boot-132/chameleon install on my DQ6 and see how that goes- currently it's running 10.5.5 great with iDeneb, but now I want everything retail.

 

[swilso]

Get the new DS3L package, there is a text file in it. Follow those steps, you don't swap the discs as osx is a partition. From the OP it says for the HDD installation method:

"Insert your USB stick into the back of the computer and make sure your BIOS is setup so that USB is both #1 Priority and #1 on the list in order. Boot up and it will bring you to a text bootloader prompt. Select Leopard and hit enter."

You don't use the USB stick for the new method so ignore that and make your disc drive the 1st boot device to boot the boot132 disc (in BIOS). Then select leopard and hit enter as kaido said, I assume this would be once boot132 has loaded up.

 

[scootermaster]

Figured out what those weird beeps were: My CPU fan is wonky. (Frys return, ugh). If it doesn't magically fix itself (it starts and stops) I'll just go get a new one, I guess.

But more weird is that it really doesn't seem to like it when it boots without ethernet plugged in. I got that weird video thing. I haven't checked to see if it still does that with IDE disabled, I but I doubt that's the issue. Along those same lines, I just copied 60 gigs worth of stuff from two IDE drives (master and slave) and it seems to have all gone off without a hitch. So that's good!

 

[leglez]

Dang. I thought it worked this time, but once again when I get to the Kext Helper part I get the "We failed to login as root, check your password"

 

[leglez]

:| I am getting closer and closer it seems. This time I installed leopard and everything. As soon as it booted I installed the kexts and for some reason it worked fine this time. Unlike in the past where it would still give me the "We failed to login as root, check your password" error. So I thought everything was going to be good. I decided to install all the software first and then I thought I would reboot and make sure it worked fine and then install the 10.5.5 update and all other apple updates. Everything was going good, and then I get to the OSX Tools. I put all the settings in and go to save it, hit Ok to restart. And then a spinning (loading) wheel comes up on the screen and it stays like that for a good 3 minutes or so. So I go ahead and power off and back on. Now whenever it gets to the apple loading screen it spins for a minute or so and then gives me a kernel panic. Any ideas?

 

[swilso]

Originally posted by: swilso
Hi,
Does someone know why I can't monitor my CPU temp with temperature monitor? I can monitor all my HDDs but not my CPU. My BIOS details are identical to this install and I have made sure smart fan control is enabled but still no option to monitor the CPU ??
I have an E7300 CPU (a 45nm cpu, has anyone else got temperature monitor running on a 45nm cpu?).

Is there a different program other than temperature monitor to monitor the CPU temps of my hackintosh? temperature monitor just doesn't want to work for me. I installed the extended x86 support and it was no different. My temp sensors are working fine in BIOS.

Any idea why i can only view my 3 HDD temps not my CPU temp? In the Window>Show system info drop menu it recognises my CPU as an e7300 although won't report any temp sensors.

 

[swilso]

Originally posted by: leglez
:| I am getting closer and closer it seems. This time I installed leopard and everything. As soon as it booted I installed the kexts and for some reason it worked fine this time. Unlike in the past where it would still give me the "We failed to login as root, check your password" error. So I thought everything was going to be good. I decided to install all the software first and then I thought I would reboot and make sure it worked fine and then install the 10.5.5 update and all other apple updates. Everything was going good, and then I get to the OSX Tools. I put all the settings in and go to save it, hit Ok to restart. And then a spinning (loading) wheel comes up on the screen and it stays like that for a good 3 minutes or so. So I go ahead and power off and back on. Now whenever it gets to the apple loading screen it spins for a minute or so and then gives me a kernel panic. Any ideas?

What happens if you load up with the -f -v flags? At the x86 kernal screen where is waits couple seconds and says press any key to enter startup options > press something there and try -f -v

Did you install the DSDT.aml (i think it is called or something similar) to your mac HDD ??

 

[leglez]

yep installed DSDT.aml to the root. I am going to try -f -v real quick.

 

[leglez]

The last line when booting with -f -v is:
localhost mDNSResponder-161.1 (date & time here) starting.

Is that wall of text saved somewhere in a log that I could grab and upload so you guys could see it? I don't have a digital camera so I can't take a picture of the text.

I searched around and found a couple people with similar problems on InsanelyMac, but no one really had an answer

 

[swilso]

What resolution did you type into osx86 tools? I found this ... (error related to the persons resolution)

http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2850

Not sure if it would help, if you scroll down someone had a similar error as you. Sorry can't help more.

 

[swilso]

Anyone having issues with temperature monitor and have a 45nm processor I found this (basically 45nm CPUs are not supported by temperature monitor):

"As confirmed by Intel, the Digital Thermal Sensors (DTS) which measure the core temperatures no longer behave linear enough in this processor generation to be used to display absolute readings in low temperature ranges. The readings are too inaccurate to be useful. Only in high temperature ranges where the core is about 20 centigrades below its specified maximum temperature limit, the sensors can be used to detect overtemperature situations. For this reason, Temperature Monitor will completely suppress display of core sensors for the affected processors. "

"You can enable inaccurate temperature display for the affected processors for testing purposes. However, we don't recommend nor support this:

1. Ensure that the driver for extended x86 support is installed and quit the application.
2. Open a Terminal window and enter one of the following commands:

When using Temperature Monitor:

defaults write com.bresink.system.tempmonitor EnableCoreTempReadingsForCPU10670 1

To return to normal operation, quit the application and use one of the following commands:

defaults delete com.bresink.system.hardwaremonitor EnableCoreTempReadingsForCPU10670

defaults delete com.bresink.system.tempmonitor EnableCoreTempReadingsForCPU10670"



I got this info from here: http://www.bresink.com/osx/0Te...ureMonitor/issues.html Alternatively you can download an older version from the archives and it should read 45nm CPUs by default.

 

[leglez]

I typed in: 1920x1200x32@60Hz. Which is exactly what I am running currently. In that post they said to "rename natit.kext to natit.post (mv)." Any idea where that would be? I did a quick search of the hard drive just now and nothing came up. So any more ideas?

I went to: System/Library/Extensions and looked for natit. It isn't there so I am guessing this install doesn't use that.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: leglez
:| I am getting closer and closer it seems. This time I installed leopard and everything. As soon as it booted I installed the kexts and for some reason it worked fine this time. Unlike in the past where it would still give me the "We failed to login as root, check your password" error. So I thought everything was going to be good. I decided to install all the software first and then I thought I would reboot and make sure it worked fine and then install the 10.5.5 update and all other apple updates. Everything was going good, and then I get to the OSX Tools. I put all the settings in and go to save it, hit Ok to restart. And then a spinning (loading) wheel comes up on the screen and it stays like that for a good 3 minutes or so. So I go ahead and power off and back on. Now whenever it gets to the apple loading screen it spins for a minute or so and then gives me a kernel panic. Any ideas?

I think rebooting before you installed the 10.5.5 update was the problem. Kaido said some people were having problems running 10.5.0 with video, so install the software first, then do the 10.5.5 update, then reboot. Only thing is you will have to redo the audio again after the reboot because the update messes it up. HTH

Just a message from Doug...

 

[leglez]

Ok thanks I am going to try one last time before I go to bed. Also should I click restart in the OSX Tools window or the restart in the 10.5.5 update window?

 

[mosslack]

Doesn't really matter

 

[leglez]

Well I tried again and I left the resolution empty in OSX Tools. I then installed 10.5.5 after everything else, and now when I reboot it just spins and nothing happens after that.

 

[mohkahn]

@Mosslack: Thanks.

Bought a new DL disk and burnt it use it toast. Verification of the disk failed, but it seems to have been burnt correctly, since I can see the icons in the file.. Will only know when I try to install from it in few days.