Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[Ub3rSlug]

So the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P be fully supported when the final version on Thanksgiving weekend arrives? Adding any other motherboards to this list?

 

[Sophie424]

Hackintosh generally working great.

I find that Shutdown does not work after a Sleep / Wake cycle. Someone else had posted the same issue. Is this a common issue?

Thanks!

 

[Sophie424]

Are the video card fixes installed by this procedure specific to the motherboard? Or just to the video card?

I am asking because I have a INTEL BOXDG31PR mobo setup mostly working (from an earlier boot-132 + Chameleon install, guided by menoob.com) and I want to try to get its video working fully. Right now Quartz is diabled. Also have some sleep (re-boots) and shutdown (very slow) difficulties on that one.

btw, I would gladly do a full re-install following this guide if that mobo was supported

 

[albert1028]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Upcoming Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H motherboard...looks like the ultimate mATX:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Pro...ductName=GA-E7AUM-DS2H

No ETA or price yet, but dang...16gb in an mATX :Q

Hey Kaido. Do you think you'll have support this board? I've wanted to build a SFF version of a hackintosh!! I'm crossing my fingers!

 

[albert1028]

Sorry, hit the button twice. Please Delete

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Are the video card fixes installed by this procedure specific to the motherboard? Or just to the video card?

I am asking because I have a INTEL BOXDG31PR mobo setup mostly working (from an earlier boot-132 + Chameleon install, guided by menoob.com) and I want to try to get its video working fully. Right now Quartz is diabled. Also have some sleep (re-boots) and shutdown (very slow) difficulties on that one.

btw, I would gladly do a full re-install following this guide if that mobo was supported

Onboard video on the DG31PR will never work with QE/CI- if that's the video you're talking about. There is no work-around- GMA 3100 is just not fully supported.

As far as any compatible PCIe card, just use EFI-Studio exactly as in Kaido's guide, and choose the right model card/RAM amount from the drop down.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: albert1028

Originally posted by: Kaido
Upcoming Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H motherboard...looks like the ultimate mATX:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Pro...ductName=GA-E7AUM-DS2H

No ETA or price yet, but dang...16gb in an mATX :Q

Hey Kaido. Do you think you'll have support this board? I've wanted to build a SFF version of a hackintosh!! I'm crossing my fingers!

$135 on Newegg right now.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Hackintosh generally working great.

I find that Shutdown does not work after a Sleep / Wake cycle. Someone else had posted the same issue. Is this a common issue?

Thanks!

I think this may be due to the IDE driver. Working on it.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Ub3rSlug
So the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P be fully supported when the final version on Thanksgiving weekend arrives? Adding any other motherboards to this list?

Yes and yes:

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 1.0
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Rev 2.0
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6

A couple other Gigabytes and some DFI boards...I don't know if all of them will be ready for the Thanksgiving release, but I will add them in the future. Basically if you have a board you want added, I need to get a custom DSDT and kext pack from you to build it in. The guide will only be for the DS3L series, but if you're creative you can adjust the settings for your particular board.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Are the video card fixes installed by this procedure specific to the motherboard? Or just to the video card?

I am asking because I have a INTEL BOXDG31PR mobo setup mostly working (from an earlier boot-132 + Chameleon install, guided by menoob.com) and I want to try to get its video working fully. Right now Quartz is diabled. Also have some sleep (re-boots) and shutdown (very slow) difficulties on that one.

btw, I would gladly do a full re-install following this guide if that mobo was supported

Onboard video on the DG31PR will never work with QE/CI- if that's the video you're talking about. There is no work-around- GMA 3100 is just not fully supported.

As far as any compatible PCIe card, just use EFI-Studio exactly as in Kaido's guide, and choose the right model card/RAM amount from the drop down.

Yup, that's it exactly. Just get yourself a good PCI Express video card and then install EFI Studio or OSx86Tools for it. Here is a 256mb Zotac 7300GT with DVI & VGA, fully capable of playing 1080p (with a minimum 2ghz dual-core CPU & 2gb RAM):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814500048

 

[Sophie424]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Hackintosh generally working great.

I find that Shutdown does not work after a Sleep / Wake cycle. Someone else had posted the same issue. Is this a common issue?

I think this may be due to the IDE driver. Working on it.

Fwiw, I only have SATA in my setup.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Sophie424

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Hackintosh generally working great.

I find that Shutdown does not work after a Sleep / Wake cycle. Someone else had posted the same issue. Is this a common issue?

I think this may be due to the IDE driver. Working on it.

Fwiw, I only have SATA in my setup.

Yeah but the IDE driver may still be causing a conflict. Go ahead and delete it, then reboot your computer.

 

[Sophie424]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Fwiw, I only have SATA in my setup.

Yeah but the IDE driver may still be causing a conflict. Go ahead and delete it, then reboot your computer.

In /System/Library/Extensions/

I did: sudo rm -r LegacyJMicronATA.kext

Rebooted - 1st time got stuck (before -f prompt):

Rebooted again with -f : booted up fine

Sleep -> goes to sleep
Power button -> wakes up
Shut down -> fails (black overlay crawls down, have to push power button)

I then rebooted with -f -v, and on shutdown noticed the following:
- WARNING: ether_detach_inet6 can't detach ipv6 from vmnet8
vmnet: netif-vmnet8: SIOCPROTODETACH failed: 16
..
unmount of /home failed (45)
unmount of /net failed (45)
done
CPU halted
panic (cpu 1 caller ...): "A driver releasing a(n) AppleHDACOntroller has corrupted the registry ..."

Does that help? --- Sophie

 

[Sophie424]

Curious quirk (video?) when booting with "-f" -- my disk icons on the desktop have a nice color (light orange) icon. When I boot without the "-f" I get a boring grey disk icon. I like the orange one, can live happily with the grey ... but wonder if less innocuous things may vary as well. Anyone else notice this? I have 8600GT fanless.

 

[Zaap]

Orange hard drives means drives are mounting as "external" drives under AHCI SATA. You can use any icon on the hard drives you wish- including the orange ones in normal ACHI mode- just get info and copy/paste.

 

[sjwaste]

So does this not work at all installing from an IDE DVD drive or to an IDE HD? In other words, is it recommended to order SATA drives along w/ the retail copy of Leopard?

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
So does this not work at all installing from an IDE DVD drive or to an IDE HD? In other words, is it recommended to order SATA drives along w/ the retail copy of Leopard?

I didn't actually install via IDE, but I have backed up my install to an IDE drive and successfully booted from it. Just as Kaido says, ran SD and Chameleon on the backup and it booted just fine.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: sjwaste
So does this not work at all installing from an IDE DVD drive or to an IDE HD? In other words, is it recommended to order SATA drives along w/ the retail copy of Leopard?

I didn't actually install via IDE, but I have backed up my install to an IDE drive and successfully booted from it. Just as Kaido says, ran SD and Chameleon on the backup and it booted just fine.

Well, I'm due for an HD upgrade anyhow, and if I were to try this, it'd be a good time to do that.

Is this setup dual bootable, or should I basically get a 2nd HD and switch depending on what OS I want to boot?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: sjwaste
So does this not work at all installing from an IDE DVD drive or to an IDE HD? In other words, is it recommended to order SATA drives along w/ the retail copy of Leopard?

I didn't actually install via IDE, but I have backed up my install to an IDE drive and successfully booted from it. Just as Kaido says, ran SD and Chameleon on the backup and it booted just fine.

Well, I'm due for an HD upgrade anyhow, and if I were to try this, it'd be a good time to do that.

Is this setup dual bootable, or should I basically get a 2nd HD and switch depending on what OS I want to boot?

Well, there's an IDE driver available, but the last one was buggy and we're still testing the new one (jmicronATA.kext). IDE has a history of being buggy on Hackintoshes, especially if you have 4GB of memory in your system. Save yourself the headache and just go all-SATA. It's $42 for a 160gb 7200rpm SATA hard drive and $25 for a SATA DVD burner.

Yes, you can dual-boot, but it's easier/better to just get a second hard drive. I'll have a section in my guide for both methods.

 

[Kaido]

Final Guide ETA is Saturday, November 29th, 2008. That's Thanksgiving weekend, I'll have some time off to wrap things up

Package will include Video Tutorial (quick overview of the board, BIOS settings, and Leopard installation method), a comprehensive PDF tutorial, a 1-Click installer app, and a download package with some goodies (BIOS files, testing tools, etc.). The install will be pretty simple:

1. BootCD + Leopard DVD (reboot)
2. Chameleon + 1-Click Installer + 10.5.5 (reboot)
3. Taruga + Software Update (reboot

Easy enough...

 

[sjwaste]

So would this be a decent platform to work on iphone/ipod touch apps? Basically I'm hesitant to lay out the cash for even a mac mini until I give app development on this platform a test-drive. I like this setup b/c other than the OSX purchase, and I'm happy to give Apple my money for that, it's all upgrade hardware for my existing E2200/DS3L/7900GT system. Bonus that it's currently stable at 3.2 GHz, which would cost quite a bit to buy from Apple, and unknown if I'd stick with the platform.

Thank you for your hard work. This couldn't have been easy.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Final Guide ETA is Saturday, November 29th, 2008. That's Thanksgiving weekend, I'll have some time off to wrap things up

Package will include Video Tutorial (quick overview of the board, BIOS settings, and Leopard installation method), a comprehensive PDF tutorial, a 1-Click installer app, and a download package with some goodies (BIOS files, testing tools, etc.). The install will be pretty simple:

1. BootCD + Leopard DVD (reboot)
2. Chameleon + 1-Click Installer + 10.5.5 (reboot)
3. Taruga + Software Update (reboot

Easy enough...

I presently use F12 to switch HD's, I have a removable HD rack so I can swap ATA drives. I have a SATA version on the way as well. I look forward to your guide on how to do this without another HD as I've searched high and low for such a beast.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
So would this be a decent platform to work on iphone/ipod touch apps? Basically I'm hesitant to lay out the cash for even a mac mini until I give app development on this platform a test-drive. I like this setup b/c other than the OSX purchase, and I'm happy to give Apple my money for that, it's all upgrade hardware for my existing E2200/DS3L/7900GT system. Bonus that it's currently stable at 3.2 GHz, which would cost quite a bit to buy from Apple, and unknown if I'd stick with the platform.

Thank you for your hard work. This couldn't have been easy.

Yup, it's pretty good. Keep in mind that it's a Hackintosh (i.e. there are quirks, updates sometimes ruin the system so you gotta be careful about them, etc.) and always run a backup. Your E2200/DS3L/7900GT will be perfect for this, just snag another drive to install Leopard on

 

[Sophie424]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Orange hard drives means drives are mounting as "external" drives under AHCI SATA. You can use any icon on the hard drives you wish- including the orange ones in normal ACHI mode- just get info and copy/paste.

Ah, I see. Any idea why booting with "-f" might cause this switch? Anyone else have similar behavior?

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: sjwaste
So would this be a decent platform to work on iphone/ipod touch apps? Basically I'm hesitant to lay out the cash for even a mac mini until I give app development on this platform a test-drive. I like this setup b/c other than the OSX purchase, and I'm happy to give Apple my money for that, it's all upgrade hardware for my existing E2200/DS3L/7900GT system. Bonus that it's currently stable at 3.2 GHz, which would cost quite a bit to buy from Apple, and unknown if I'd stick with the platform.

Thank you for your hard work. This couldn't have been easy.

Yup, it's pretty good. Keep in mind that it's a Hackintosh (i.e. there are quirks, updates sometimes ruin the system so you gotta be careful about them, etc.) and always run a backup. Your E2200/DS3L/7900GT will be perfect for this, just snag another drive to install Leopard on

I think that's definitely something I'm willing to live with, and even have a little bit of fun working on, with the knowledge that I have most of the hardware and a fairly cheap upgrade path ($300 for the HD, an external that I've wanted for a while, SATA DVD drive, the OS, and some cables) to get to a point where it's working well for folks.

Basically, I had an issue w/ downloading a torrent and installing it. I was looking for a way to do it w/ retail because even though it's not exactly what Apple is looking for, it supports their effort by purchasing a license.

If it works out and I like the platform, I have my eye on the new Macbook. But I don't want to spend $1300 on an experiment. The impetus is the ability to write apps for the iphone.