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swilso · Nov 15, 2008

I have an issue now trying to boot from the CD, only gets to PCI devices listing .... (in the bios still) and lists the usb controllers network etc. i thought i would disconnect my PCI wireless card see if it made a difference and it didn't. I did successfully boot from the cd before and successfully install leopard ... ?

Kaido · Nov 15, 2008

Originally posted by: swilso
I seen a previous user did -f to flush the cache, i tried this and it works when I boot up with the -f flag. Without -f leopard won't detect it? hmm. I was suprised because this card has shown great compatibility.

Yes, the other card was with a Buffalo wireless card. Very odd. Perhaps they are killing off 3rd-party wireless card support with the post-10.5.5 Airport update?

Kaido · Nov 15, 2008

Uploaded a new package. Includes the better EFI Studio tool, not the old one with only like 10 cards listed. Will be adding 9800GTX & Quadro FX 5600 support in the next release.

Added a DSDT file for EP35 users. Added CPU-X to the Tools folder, it's just like CPU-Z for Windows - pretty awesome

Needed:
1. IDE testers (for Jmicron driver stability check)
2. More EP35 users to test the new DSDT for EP35 boards

Closer and closer to perfection

scootermaster · Nov 15, 2008

Originally posted by: Kaido
Uploaded a new package. Includes the better EFI Studio tool, not the old one with only like 10 cards listed. Will be adding 9800GTX & Quadro FX 5600 support in the next release.

Added a DSDT file for EP35 users. Added CPU-X to the Tools folder, it's just like CPU-Z for Windows - pretty awesome

Needed:
1. IDE testers (for Jmicron driver stability check)
2. More EP35 users to test the new DSDT for EP35 boards

Closer and closer to perfection

Thanks so much! When I get a free second I'm going to finally do this. Just too much work -- and now too much sunshine; gotta love 90 degree November days in SoCal -- to mess with computers.

Kaido · Nov 15, 2008

Originally posted by: scootermaster
Thanks so much! When I get a free second I'm going to finally do this. Just too much work -- and now too much sunshine; gotta love 90 degree November days in SoCal -- to mess with computers.

Cold and rainy here in New England, I'm gonna enjoy my day off and tinker around with my Hack inside

thepieces · Nov 15, 2008

anyone happen to have a WD external USB 2.0 hard drive? the write /copy speeds on this thing in leopard are half as slow as winxp. My other devices are fine. Thanks

swilso · Nov 15, 2008

[SOLVED] Anyone know the reason why I can not boot from the boot-132 disc anymore? I had the setup as sata DVD on sata 0 and HDD on sata 1. This works and boots, i get into leopard but my HDD is not detected at all in disk utility nor is it in the BIOS, where did it go??? I switch the connections around how I initially had it when i installed osx so HDD is on sata channel 0 and DVD on sata 1. Now it freezes at PCI devices listing .... (list network+usb controllers) down to ACPI controller then stops and sits on that screen forever. I tried a clean HDD does exactly the same thing.
One HDD already has leopard on it, the one with the issues with the wireless and I can boot into this just fine so the HDD is not dead, either is the sata ports. My BIOS is identical to the recommended BIOS settings also ... Have no idea ???

EDIT: This is quite frustrating , i can get to the darwin bootloader screen from the USB although I cant load the cd :S ? is there a command I can type to access the leopard disc once at the bootloader screen? I have wiped my osx install so now i am down to having nothing installed, and cant get osx back on.

EDIT EDIT: No idea how I did it, but I copied the new ds3l kit boot cd onto my usb - tried to boot it gave me a non system disc error. so i popped a copy of it on a dvd in and boom it worked? but it wouldnt load directly from the dvd despite having the correct boot order as well only would freeze at the pci devices listing screen .. :S strange considering the first time i did this method it worked flawlessly with the instructions.

Kaido · Nov 16, 2008

A user linked me to a trick to auto-unmount a chosen disk or partition at boot:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23056

This way you can hide your Leopard DVD partition, your Windows partition, your other Hackintosh drive, whatever.

Kaido · Nov 16, 2008

FYI the BootCD works on both the Leopard DVD and on partitions, so you don't need the USB stick at all anymore

mohkahn · Nov 16, 2008

Man.... I just couldn't wait for the final guide (like always. } so I finally took the plunge and burned the boot132cd.iso. Then I partitioned my kalyway hackintosh disk into 2 and put leopardretail.dmg on the 2nd partition, which was about 11gb, but finally was showing as 7+gb.. (Here I must mention though that I could not rename my old main hackintosh drive, which had a running kalyway system about 130+ or 140gb, as it was grayed out)

anyway put in the bootcd, and when I got to first hd 80 and second hd81.. I kept putting 9f or 9e, mine was showing 9e. it won't go any further, then i just put 80 or 81... and i don't know which one worked, but screen changed to ask me, which partition i wanted to use. I clicked to leopard, the 11gb partition on which I had put the retail image and voila installer is right now " Installing Mac OSX on the volume "Leo" and 3 minutes remaining..

here I must mention and ask: as per instructions I had taken out boot132cd and had put in my retail image DUAL LAYER dvd, which is burned as an iso.. but the computer just spit it out for some reason? should it have been iso? or should I burn another dual layer dvd as a leopardretail.dmg, incase in future I don't want to install from harddisk and just wish to straight install from retail dvd. as I don't mind the little bit extra time.

Damn, this could not have been easier.. I did not choose to uncheck any programs at the time of installation, so everything is going on the system now. wish me luck kaido and thanks a tonne and might be back if I stumble on any problems.. must share the happy news immediately..

and man, don't you ever sleep, ur bulb says u are online... it's like 4am in US? right?...

Kaido · Nov 16, 2008

Originally posted by: mohkahn
Man.... I just couldn't wait for the final guide (like always. } so I finally took the plunge and burned the boot132cd.iso. Then I partitioned my kalyway hackintosh disk into 2 and put leopardretail.dmg on the 2nd partition, which was about 11gb, but finally was showing as 7+gb.. (Here I must mention though that I could not rename my old main hackintosh drive, which had a running kalyway system about 130+ or 140gb, as it was grayed out)

anyway put in the bootcd, and when I got to first hd 80 and second hd81.. I kept putting 9f or 9e, mine was showing 9e. it won't go any further, then i just put 80 or 81... and i don't know which one worked, but screen changed to ask me, which partition i wanted to use. I clicked to leopard, the 11gb partition on which I had put the retail image and voila installer is right now " Installing Mac OSX on the volume "Leo" and 3 minutes remaining..

here I must mention and ask: as per instructions I had taken out boot132cd and had put in my retail image DUAL LAYER dvd, which is burned as an iso.. but the computer just spit it out for some reason? should it have been iso? or should I burn another dual layer dvd as a leopardretail.dmg, incase in future I don't want to install from harddisk and just wish to straight install from retail dvd. as I don't mind the little bit extra time.

this could not have been easier.. I did not choose to uncheck any programs at the time of installation, so everything is going on the system now. wish me luck kaido and thanks a tonne and might be back if I stumble on any problems.. must share the happy news immediately..

and man, don't you ever sleep, ur bulb says u are online... it's like 4am in US? right?...

80 & 81 are for Hard Drives, 9e/9f/ef are for DVD drives. It varies with each boot and with your DVD model. Whatever, you only have to do it during install & setup, right? What you did was select your pre-partitioned drive (using 80 or 81), then it took you to the partition menu. The BootCD has a very, very simple bootloader. Physical drives are numbered (like 80 for Drive #1) and then partitions are read and listed on the screen for you to select. After you install Leopard, when you boot up select the drive you installed Leopard to, then the partition you installed Leopard too. My software kit takes care of adding the bootloader to the hard drive and setting an automatic timeout so you don't have to manually type this in everytime

Doesn't matter what you burn it as, as long as it's burned as an image file. If you pop it into Kalyway, you should see the installer stuff on the disc when you open it's folder - that means you did it right. If it ejects, just put it back in again; you might have hit the button twice on accident, thus it ejected after it was inserted. The way you boot a Leopard DVD is you type in the 9e/9f/ef/whatever at the second boot prompt, instead of the 80 or 81 for the hard drives. It's not a very elegant system, but it works and it's ony temporary for installation and setup. EFI-X has a much nicer BootGUI, but then, those are $199 and blank CDs are 10 cents

As far as software installation goes, make sure you use the 600mb 10.5.5 update, not the 300 meg version. Also, don't reboot until you've installed everything in the Software folder - otherwise your system won't boot! So just let the finished 10.5.5 window sit until you're all done with the driver package. Basically, you have to install Audio (Taruga), DSDT (correct file for your board model & Chameleon), Kexts (all the kexts with Kext Helper), and Tools (EFI Studio & OSx86Tools). Once you finish OSx86Tools, you can hit reboot. Then just grab the rest of the updates (reboot as necessary) from Software Update and uncheck Automatic Updates in System Preferences and you're good to go!

And no, I don't sleep. Borg never sleep

mohkahn · Nov 16, 2008

vow.. man o man.. wish i had half your energy. here is my first problem. Someone else at insanely have it too, don't know how to fix it..

after I do this"Now it boots up to the Leopard setup screen. Go ahead and set it up and get to the desktop. Tip: When it asks for your Apple account or for registration (address and all that), just press the Apple Key (Windows key on Windows keyboards) plus Q and a prompt will appear, click Skip and you can skip it"

then I restart and I get this screen again...
BOOT from CD/DVD:
>F0000080
<00000002
000000C1
00000048
*<00064028
J_

Thanks. Borg..

Sophie424 · Nov 16, 2008

mosslack · Nov 16, 2008

I also took the plunge and burned me a boot cd, after having successfully went the usb stick method and having it work first time, I was a little surprised when I experienced so many problems with this latest attempt. I had a bios setting wrong and I tried to reboot after installing 10.5.5, I think the sound update was the reason it won't work. Anyway, after like 7 tries I have it installed and working great. Oh yeah, I couldn't get the kext helper to install all the kext in that folder, it wouldn't even install one. Kept saying it was not able to log in as root because my password didn't match. I ended up using the kext installer in OSx86 Tools to get them installed. I'm curious to know is it the dsdt.aml file that makes this install unique? I did some reading and found this file is different for each mobo. I used the USB stick method to get a 10.5.5 vanilla install working on my 945 based Hack and it works great. Thanks for all your hard work on this, Borg or not, you da man!

Just a message from Doug...

Ub3rSlug · Nov 16, 2008

I'm waiting until Black Friday to buy up a Hackinotsh for myself. I might get some pieces early, though. I was just wondering if the hardware specs on your "Monster" rig are going to change significantly (namely MB and Graphics Card) when your finalized guide comes out. Keep up the good work!

Kaido · Nov 16, 2008

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Error: 35 with hard disks.

Have 10.5.5 working fine following the guide (usb-stick version).

I just added my new 320G Samsung. Disk utility saw it fine, I partitioned (1 partition) with GUID, no errors.

Started up SuperDuper, try to make full copy of my working disk onto the 320:
- Failed to erase HD320.

Log: (Error on last line below)

Just switch over to the latest DSDT method.

Kaido · Nov 16, 2008

Originally posted by: mosslack
I also took the plunge and burned me a boot cd, after having successfully went the usb stick method and having it work first time, I was a little surprised when I experienced so many problems with this latest attempt. I had a bios setting wrong and I tried to reboot after installing 10.5.5, I think the sound update was the reason it won't work. Anyway, after like 7 tries I have it installed and working great. Oh yeah, I couldn't get the kext helper to install all the kext in that folder, it wouldn't even install one. Kept saying it was not able to log in as root because my password didn't match. I ended up using the kext installer in OSx86 Tools to get them installed. I'm curious to know is it the dsdt.aml file that makes this install unique? I did some reading and found this file is different for each mobo. I used the USB stick method to get a 10.5.5 vanilla install working on my 945 based Hack and it works great. Thanks for all your hard work on this, Borg or not, you da man!

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).

swilso · Nov 16, 2008

Ok, I got everything working now (kind of)

I thought i'd make a comment on IDE.
In my case I have a samsung SH-D162 (as most people know it this is the kreon flashed xbox 'backup' drive) and a 200gb samsung HDD. Both do work with my leopard install (following this guide) although only when they are connected separately :S ? When they are both connected on the IDE ribbon I can see both drives in the bios and in leopard in system profiler (under Hardware > ATA > ATA Bus) I can access the HDD although when I insert a disc into the DVD drive it doesnt do anything .. nothing at all. Could the motherboard be overloaded? I also am using all 4 sata channels (3 HDD and 1 DVD).
When the IDE DVD drive is connected to the IDE ribbon by itself its fine, i insert the same disc and it reads it perfectly. Trying to get vmware or parallels going at the moment to test out ripping a 360 game.

I am not to fussed as I can pop the IDE HDD into my enclosure and plug it in my USB, I thought this may help Kaido or others interested in IDE feedback.

There is one other little flaw with my install, and that is my wireless (PCI) Asus WL-138G V2 - i have it working fine now, although it won't brake 50kb/sec downloading. my net is 1.5mbps so it should quite easily hit 150kb/s does anyone have a suggestion for this? I am downloading of a usenet site (not torrents) via a mac download manager speed download (it does the same thing in safari or firefox also) and when I download the same file on my macbook it hits 150kb/s so I know it is a small issue with the PCI wireless card.

EDIT: I reversed master and slave and even tried cable select = same results as above. Strange the dvd drive is listed in system profiler but wont load/work :S ?

Just realised the SH-D162 didn't work all along? it is detected by leopard though in system profiler although won't work. I will have to check if 2 IDE HDD will work, or if the SH-D162 will work in parallels.

Sophie424 · Nov 17, 2008

Following the current DS3L-Kit -- everything works OK until step 9(d): Install Kext Helper. After entering my password correctly, I get:

We failed to login as root, check your password

I tried enabling root user (using Directory Utility), same result. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Edit: Used OSx86 Tools instead of Kext Helper (thanks, mosslack) and it completed OK.

Kaido · Nov 17, 2008

Originally posted by: Sophie424
Following the current DS3L-Kit -- everything works OK until step 9(d): Install Kext Helper. After entering my password correctly, I get:

We failed to login as root, check your password

I tried enabling root user (using Directory Utility), same result. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Edit: Used OSx86 Tools instead of Kext Helper (thanks, mosslack) and it completed OK.

Odd, you're the third person to have this issue. It only seems to happen on fresh installs, not upgrades from the USB or USB-HDD install. I'll have to look into this...

mohkahn · Nov 17, 2008

Ok Kaido: back with more questions: So install works great everytime, but i can't boot without the
bootcd in the dvd rom:

Would appreciate if you can help with the following:
1) install 600mb 10.5.5 and don't restart.. OK.

2)install the taruga. ok.

3)DSDT: i don't know where to paste it in? i can't find the root of the boot drive. I pasted it in my leo folder, but I got a no smoking icon at the startup..

4)DSDT: chameleon.. can install without problem.

5)Tools: install efi studio (video and ethernet) and install osx86: here I have few questions

a) I have tried to use these 2 software from your old bootfile named "toolkit.img" which is about 3620kb, and also the new version.. I am not sure which version is correct.

b)osx86 software gives me some kind of an error when I put "5" seconds as waiting time before boot.

c) my sound and ethernet are working out of the box, is it recommended that I install ethernet driver and sound card driver (at step one)

6) last but not least.. how can i make sure that the system can boot without cd? do I have to copy, initrd.img somewhere on the harddisk?

you can ignore this questions, if it's not important:
in your old boot132 folder, there is BOOT, MBOOT.c32 and syslinux.sys.. I guess I don't need to
copy and paste them to anywhere on the harddisk?

thanks a tonne mate....

Kaido · Nov 17, 2008

Originally posted by: mohkahn
Ok Kaido: back with more questions: So install works great everytime, but i can't boot without the
bootcd in the dvd rom:

Would appreciate if you can help with the following:
1) install 600mb 10.5.5 and don't restart.. OK.

2)install the taruga. ok.

3)DSDT: i don't know where to paste it in? i can't find the root of the boot drive. I pasted it in my leo folder, but I got a no smoking icon at the startup..

4)DSDT: chameleon.. can install without problem.

5)Tools: install efi studio (video and ethernet) and install osx86: here I have few questions

a) I have tried to use these 2 software from your old bootfile named "toolkit.img" which is about 3620kb, and also the new version.. I am not sure which version is correct.

b)osx86 software gives me some kind of an error when I put "5" seconds as waiting time before boot.

c) my sound and ethernet are working out of the box, is it recommended that I install ethernet driver and sound card driver (at step one)

6) last but not least.. how can i make sure that the system can boot without cd? do I have to copy, initrd.img somewhere on the harddisk?

you can ignore this questions, if it's not important:
in your old boot132 folder, there is BOOT, MBOOT.c32 and syslinux.sys.. I guess I don't need to
copy and paste them to anywhere on the harddisk?

thanks a tonne mate....

You just need to copy the appropriate dsdt.aml file for your board into your root drive, otherwise known as the main folder of your boot drive. Just click on your boot drive on the desktop and it will open up with a bunch of folders like Library, System, User, etc. Simply drop the dsdt.aml file in that window alongside those other folders. It's a simple drag-and-drop operation.

It seems like you've skipped a lot of steps. My recommendation is to start over from scratch. Download this:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/try4jf5grif/DS3L-Kit.zip

Follow the instructions in the readme inside that zip file. Don't use any other files. Just burn the BootCD, install Leopard, and then at the desktop install the 600mb 10.5.5 update and the stuff inside the Software folder. That's all, nothing more. Follow the instructions step-by-step because you'll only get partial support on things like your Ethernet if you don't.

Kaido · Nov 17, 2008

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

Kaido · Nov 17, 2008

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!

scootermaster · Nov 17, 2008

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]

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