Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[Kaido]

I have a weird 10.5.6 bug on my UD3P, and a fresh install confirms it - screensaver comes on, even when it's set to "never"! Goofy little bug - anyone else have this?

 

[Kmax82]

I don't have that on UD3P, but I have that happen on my P35 board.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I have a weird 10.5.6 bug on my UD3P, and a fresh install confirms it - screensaver comes on, even when it's set to "never"! Goofy little bug - anyone else have this?

I'll find out this weekend as the last of my parts arrived today from NewEgg. I was going to wait and do everything on the weekend, but I already have the CPU and RAM installed. Don't know if I'll get to the rest of it though...

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
I don't have that on UD3P, but I have that happen on my P35 board.

Did you install using the HDD method or direct from DVD? I think the HDD method messes up permissions somehow...

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I have a weird 10.5.6 bug on my UD3P, and a fresh install confirms it - screensaver comes on, even when it's set to "never"! Goofy little bug - anyone else have this?

I'd rather have that than the "password thingee only comes up once you've logged in/out" bug.



(We've missed you around here, bigguy!)

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: Kaido
I have a weird 10.5.6 bug on my UD3P, and a fresh install confirms it - screensaver comes on, even when it's set to "never"! Goofy little bug - anyone else have this?

I'd rather have that than the "password thingee only comes up once you've logged in/out" bug.



(We've missed you around here, bigguy!)

Did you install from HDD or DVD, scooter? Tracking this one last bug down

 

[suklee]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: Kai920
Does anyone know a fool-proof way to upgrade from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6?

buy a real mac? I don't think it's possible to have a foolproof way. Hell, even the real macs had issues. Really, I've found the best thing is to break down and have an extra HDD lying around to test your setup.

I've come to the conclusion from this though that I don't think I can keep up w/ my hackintosh, it's gotten more frustrating than I have time to deal with =(

I've got 2 other HDs in my system, a 36GB Raptor with Vista on it, and another 500GB is mostly for storage. Maybe I can trash the Vista install, but then again like you I don't want to go through all the trouble =)

Our next computer purchase will definitely be a Mac though..

 

[Kaido]

Not that anyone cares, but ATI 4800-series cards and Core i7 is supported in 10.5.7

http://netkas.org/?p=84

 

[mosslack]

I'm happy to report that my UD3P is up and running now. I'm presently installing the minor updates, but no major hang ups so far. This is by far the fastest Hack I have built to date, at least as far as booting is concerned, and I haven't even OCed it yet!

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: Kaido
I have a weird 10.5.6 bug on my UD3P, and a fresh install confirms it - screensaver comes on, even when it's set to "never"! Goofy little bug - anyone else have this?

I'd rather have that than the "password thingee only comes up once you've logged in/out" bug.



(We've missed you around here, bigguy!)

Did you install from HDD or DVD, scooter? Tracking this one last bug down

I had a DVD iso image on a HD partition.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
I had a DVD iso image on a HD partition.

Okay, I'm done final testing, but I think the bug is simply this:

1. When you install Leopard from an existing OS X install (HDD-method, either with an ISO or DVD), it copies Leopard over with what we'll call "temporary permissions"
2. Those "temporary permissions" are initialized during Leopard setup
3. By installing a Combo Update & Drivers to a fresh Leopard install, pre-setup, you overwrite those "temporary permissions" and screw up the whole permissions system
4. This leads to oddball errors due to screwed up permissions (despite Repair Permissions), such as login bugs and screensaver bugs

The solution is simple: install Leopard via DVD or HDD, use a BootCD for initial setup, THEN install the Combo Update & drivers. Verifying it over the next couple of days to make sure it works.

scooter, if you have a spare drive and some free time, give this method a shot and let me know if it fixes your error!

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: scootermaster
I had a DVD iso image on a HD partition.

Okay, I'm done final testing, but I think the bug is simply this:

1. When you install Leopard from an existing OS X install (HDD-method, either with an ISO or DVD), it copies Leopard over with what we'll call "temporary permissions"
2. Those "temporary permissions" are initialized during Leopard setup
3. By installing a Combo Update & Drivers to a fresh Leopard install, pre-setup, you overwrite those "temporary permissions" and screw up the whole permissions system
4. This leads to oddball errors due to screwed up permissions (despite Repair Permissions), such as login bugs and screensaver bugs

The solution is simple: install Leopard via DVD or HDD, use a BootCD for initial setup, THEN install the Combo Update & drivers. Verifying it over the next couple of days to make sure it works.

scooter, if you have a spare drive and some free time, give this method a shot and let me know if it fixes your error!

I totally do and I do. I bought another 640 and put it in an enclosure...but all it's got is some time machine backups and nothing has changed. So I can use that. While my monitor issues seemed to have gone away (10.5.6? QT fix?) the mouse is still somewhat laggy (I haven't done the fix with all the new Kexts, I just did the one here you install the older QT files from the french version).

Also, sleep is waaaaay messed up. If I manually select sleep, using a keyboard button or the menu, it puts the thing to sleep, no worries. But if it tries to sleep via timing out (i.e. after the screen saver goes on) it rarely does. Any and all apps hang it up (unread Adium messages, Bittorrent clients, etc). There should be a list of apps that keep the thing away (i.e. obviously BT, not no reason for Adium).

The last thing is the CD drive seems to seek -- even if there's nothing in the drive -- waaaaay too often. Once every 90 seconds or something I hear it doing something.

So I'm certainly willing to back my data up and start from scratch!

 

[KeypoX]

hey Kaido, it seems my retail disk is damaged can i just use ipc and only install base system? And follow your guide? gonna try

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
So I'm certainly willing to back my data up and start from scratch!

Give this a try:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ryyznyjgdtd/Win-DS3L.zip

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: scootermaster
So I'm certainly willing to back my data up and start from scratch!

Give this a try:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ryyznyjgdtd/Win-DS3L.zip

One more sleep related thingee: When it "wakes up" from sleep, it's like I've never logged in. All my apps are closed and stuff. So I'm wondering if it's resetting itself or hibernating or dying and being revived by a 18th-level Cleric or what.

But I'll check that out!

(Although I'm not sure what exactly I'm supposed to do with it. )

 

[KeypoX]

ok its not my retail disk. Its my actual hard disk. The error is" installer is experiencing errors installing onto the disk may be damaged"

Its driving me crazy, i have tried formatting and formatting. I am now trying to use gparted and get rid of the efi partition and try again. This is on a seagate 320 less than a year old from newegg.

EDIT: I dunno why i tried this but changing a bios setting seemed to work. jezz i spent all day on this. Im sick 'in bed' lol. So not a lost day

I changed to enabled SATA Port0-1 Native mode. Even though usually i follow Kaidos advice and keep it disabled, and never had a problem before.

Now its time for the headache, i mean fun of trying to get the 4870 to work.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
ok its not my retail disk. Its my actual hard disk. The error is" installer is experiencing errors installing onto the disk may be damaged"

Its driving me crazy, i have tried formatting and formatting. I am now trying to use gparted and get rid of the efi partition and try again. This is on a seagate 320 less than a year old from newegg.

Have you checked to make sure your HD is not on the list of bad drives from Seagate? I don't have a link, but you should be able to do a google for it.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: KeypoX
ok its not my retail disk. Its my actual hard disk. The error is" installer is experiencing errors installing onto the disk may be damaged"

Its driving me crazy, i have tried formatting and formatting. I am now trying to use gparted and get rid of the efi partition and try again. This is on a seagate 320 less than a year old from newegg.

Have you checked to make sure your HD is not on the list of bad drives from Seagate? I don't have a link, but you should be able to do a google for it.

i thought those were just the 1TB drives? This drive has had osx, vista, ubuntu on it. It just had ubuntu 8.10 working fine.

I am searching now on how to fix this. The repair in disk utility reports no errors. Partitioned as GUID.

Man this sucks, soon as they release 4870 support i can't install

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: KeypoX
ok its not my retail disk. Its my actual hard disk. The error is" installer is experiencing errors installing onto the disk may be damaged"

Its driving me crazy, i have tried formatting and formatting. I am now trying to use gparted and get rid of the efi partition and try again. This is on a seagate 320 less than a year old from newegg.

Have you checked to make sure your HD is not on the list of bad drives from Seagate? I don't have a link, but you should be able to do a google for it.

i thought those were just the 1TB drives? This drive has had osx, vista, ubuntu on it. It just had ubuntu 8.10 working fine.

I am searching now on how to fix this. The repair in disk utility reports no errors. Partitioned as GUID.

Man this sucks, soon as they release 4870 support i can't install

Several different ones were reported with bad firmware from 160 Gb to 1.5 Tb. Here is the link you need to check:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seag...earch.jsp?DocId=207931

HTH

 

[KeypoX]

ah thanks, it seems mine is not affected. Well at least when i put in my Serial number i get a blank page.

I did get leopard installed by enabling SATA Port0-1 Native mode in the bios. But i could not get the 4870 to work. I dont know why other people seem to work and some people have some problem as me.

Of course insanely mac is insanely slow. So no checking for updates right now

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
ah thanks, it seems mine is not affected. Well at least when i put in my Serial number i get a blank page.

I did get leopard installed by enabling SATA Port0-1 Native mode in the bios. But i could not get the 4870 to work. I dont know why other people seem to work and some people have some problem as me.

Of course insanely mac is insanely slow. So no checking for updates right now

fwiw, so far it looks like the most luck is with the 4850 series.

 

[KeypoX]

my 4870 works on dvi 1 with dvi. The opengl framework does not need to be replaced. Just install package, shutdown and reboots with -f

 

[mosslack]

Is there a cloning issue with the UD3P? I can't seem to make a bootable copy at all.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Is there a cloning issue with the UD3P? I can't seem to make a bootable copy at all.

The bootloader doesn't copy over because it's not on the boot partition, it's on a hidden EFI partition. All you have to do is re-install it after cloning. You can use Uinstaller or the standalone package here: (just make sure to selected the newly-cloned drive as the target)

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?p=309

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: mosslack
Is there a cloning issue with the UD3P? I can't seem to make a bootable copy at all.

The bootloader doesn't copy over because it's not on the boot partition, it's on a hidden EFI partition. All you have to do is re-install it after cloning. You can use Uinstaller or the standalone package here: (just make sure to selected the newly-cloned drive as the target)

http://pcwizcomputer.com/weaksauce12/?p=309

Nope, that's not it, I made sure that was done just like I've done a bunch of times on the DS3L. I don't believe it's hardware related either as here is what I did. I took both the UD3P main HD and backup HD over to the DS3L where I booted up the system using the UD3P main HD. Once Leopard was booted up I used SD to clone the main UD3P HD to the backup UD3P HD and reinstalled the bootloader on the backup UD3P HD. Then I tried to boot from the backup UD3P HD but it would not boot. To confirm this I will do an install on the UD3P using the DS3L package to see if it can then clone and boot from the backup drive. If I can get a bootable HD using he DS3L package on the UD3P, I would have to say it's related to either the way both systems are setup in bios or the kext used in the UD3P package. I will post the results when I'm done. Have to get to the bottom of this as it's driving me nuts! Short trip, I know