[GUIDE] EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation

[JaE-V]

Originally Posted by annihil8tion Guys I have had a working system for the longest time. SL 10.6.6 EVGA X58 Classified GTX 285 2GB SC 6GB Corsair My GTX 285 died. I have an XFX Radeon 5850... Naturally I cannot boot my system. What would be the easiest way to boot it with this card?

you'll have to delete the ati frame buffer files if you can't boot with -x for the system to startup

[Extremador]

So has anyone gotten 10.7 installed?

I followed the instructions here: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/...-107-lion.html But when it comes to rebooting to the "Installer" partition you make, my computer reboots.

[xxxslayeriiixxx]

Originally Posted by Extremador So has anyone gotten 10.7 installed? I followed the instructions here: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/...-107-lion.html But when it comes to rebooting to the "Installer" partition you make, my computer reboots.

im just going to qoute airwalk. i havnt tried installing Lion yet because i been pretty busy community organizing.

ok finally got around to installing Lion, good news is that it runs just fine with the name Extra folder from snow leopard and same dsdt. Bad news audio doesnt work out of the box. Have to edit legacy889hda or use the applehda.kext from snow leopard. FYI.. use chameleon 755 boot loader

[Extremador]

Is using Chameleon 755 going to make a difference though? I got Chimera for all this, and it gets to the installer just fine, starts installing, and sometimes (either at 18 minutes remaining, 12 or 9) it'll freeze or reboot and just... ugh!

I can never ffffing reach the end of it.

[convocator]

I followed the tonymac guide except for one change, before booting into the Installed partition I booted back into my SL partition and copied my /Extra to Installation folder(DSDT, Extensions, all that).

After that, Lion installed just fine and everything has been working great. I did use an ALC 889 patcher which for the life of me I can't relocate, it was on the tonymac forums though.

[JaE-V]

i have it running fine, go back to page 40 and read my post, i have an updated extras folder as well if anyone needs it

[xxxslayeriiixxx]

Originally Posted by JaE-V i have it running fine, go back to page 40 and read my post, i have an updated extras folder as well if anyone needs it

hey jaE-V, good lookin out for the EVGA x58 hackintosh community. Can you post up the updated EXTRA folder? ill update the first post soon.

[JaE-V]

Originally Posted by xxxslayeriiixxx hey jaE-V, good lookin out for the EVGA x58 hackintosh community. Can you post up the updated EXTRA folder? ill update the first post soon.

As soon as i get home tonight it will be up! There's also a new smbios as well...installation was a breeze

[JaE-V]

here you go guys

http://www.mediafire.com/?pfd015z2rqpg4g0


Remember grab the ionetworking family kext from 10.6 installation and install after your up and running for your ethernet ports..you can delete my card from the device section in the boot.plist

Version of chameleon i'm running

http://www.mediafire.com/?lcu7eccx4x2p1sc

[thedcmule2]

I followed this guide but used a different method to do things and it boots up a gray screen with an Apple logo and a circle loader but then it says "hold the power button to restart"...

I installed Kalyway onto an external hdd so I can boot into an osx to do this hacking on.

Basically I don't have a retail disc so I tried a retail dmg to grab the OSInstall.mpkg but that shouldnt matter.

dsdt.aml is just the default one from airwalk I couldn't find what "rtc" the original post was talking about.

evga x58 (not sure if exact biosversion/mobomodel is compatible)
gtx 285 sli (but Im only trying to load one so I put my <string> as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285</string> instead of GTX 285 DDL</string>
6gb ddr3 ram

any ideas on how I can fix this???