damn it the install failed and now I can't get the damn dvd to boot again

ok now if I just let the counter go it says systerm config file '/com.apple.boot.s/library/preferences/systemconfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist' not found

ok I got it work finally...

I installed sucessfully...but after I restarted I got

Boot:0 MBR
Boot:0 fine
Boot:1 error


So I put the disk in and booted

With... -v -s rd=diskXsY␣

it took a long time to boot...I was just about to restart and give up for the night when I saw the cursor pop up...Now its going through the welcome sequence...slowly. Does any one know how to to fix the bootloader?

Heya x986123. I sold my old rig and now i'm in the process of building one similar to what you've got going on here. I'm a little curious on your GPU in your sig where it says SLI dual GTX 260. Do you actually have two of them? If so just curious on how you got them working. My impression from searching around is that you can't actually get an SLI setup to boost graphics performance in OS X, but you can get dual cards recognized and running dual monitors.

MSI x58 Platinum SLI
 

Hi x986123!

I went to the Apple Store to buy 10.6 (not bad at $29!) and followed your tutorial. It's been about a week and a half since I got the same mobo and i7 but can't get Snow10.6 to boot up after the install. I've followed your instructions and nothing. I checked the BIOS settings... Set to S3 Execute Bit Support = enabled, HPET = enabled.

So when I do your install (I can't get iPC 10.5.8 its nowhere to be found ) iAtkos v7 does not boot up after install and seems to panic at kernel loading on startup. I had much more success w/ XxX osx 10.5.6 I installed onto a SATA 2.5" It startsup but is very unstable, I'm using it as a platform to do my installs as you describe in the turtorial for 10.6 to ultimately have 10.6 on a SATA 3.5" 1.5Tb. (the 3.5" is in SATA1 and the 2.5" in the SATA2). I put into the com.apple.Boot.plist flags for

This is my setup:

Mobo: MSI x58 Platinum SLI
Processor: Core i7 920 2.6ghz
RAM: 6 Gb A DATA 1333mhz
Optical Drive: removable USB DVDROM
HD1: Seagate 1.5Tb SATA
HD2: Hitachi 160Gb SATA (2.5")
Video Card: Visiontek Radeon HD 4890 OC 1Gb

I sometimes get (and its seems random) that the BIOS doesn't want to load and the whole machine gets stuck before the hardware test... but, when I move the SATA cables from SATA1&2 to SATA7&8 BIOS starts up again... I switch back and it operates normally again! Don't know what that may mean... Is there something I'm installing that I shouldn't in iAtkos v7? what were you exact selections with iAtkos 7? Am I installing Chameleon wrong?

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanx

PS: some pics this is as far as I've gotten

Check your messages, I sent you the link to the download. Its iPC 10.5.6.

Then follow my guide.

I have two of them, they are working using EFI strings. No SLI doesn't work on mac.

hmmmmm
 

I installed iPC 10.5.6, this is what I get when I place flags:

cpus=1 busratio=20 fsb=133 idehalt=0 -v -x -f

Just try Cpus=1 Busratio=20 -v
That should work. Also if you missed these during install, reinstall:

ICH10 Chipset
Jmicron Chipset
APIC Fix
Seatbelt 10.5.5
Voodoo kernel
RealtekR1000

That should cover most

okay will try
 

I'll be working on it on my end and see where I go. The list also helps a lot and I will give it a go again.

Thanx a bunch! =^)

No problem! If you need more help, I'd be glad to do so.

Hiya x986123 Mac OS Snow Leo
 

Well youl'll be happy to know that I got Mac OS Snow working on my MSI X58 Platinum board! Sweeeet! =^)
You were probably telling yourself "Its gotta work", and it does! I installed it using your method, however, I modified it slightly. I utilized my AMD Athlon 64 w/ 10.5.6 (which was iPC, by the by, jeje) and I followed your steps of installing the OSInstall, Bootloader, DSDT (msi-mobo), kexts, to the Tee (I also added the HDAAudio). It was much faster than installing a distro and restarting et al. sort of like installing off of a HardDrive! Once everything was installed I plugged the SATA into ICH10SATA1 and it booted up! no Panics, no Boot Strings, just beautiful!
Everything worked except for Video, so I installed QE_CI_for_Exotic_cards_10.6.1.pkg (for my ATi 4890 OC) and I Enabled QuartzExtreme and GL w/ OSX86Tools and rebooted, voila, brand new Mac w/ Full QE/CI on an overclocked Radeon and - perhaps, soon to be overclocked motherboard. =^) I could not be happier!
I know you could call my method of installation a "cheat" and I realize that some people might not have the option of installing off of another Mac but this is what I guess I had to do to get my motherboard working with Snow Leopard. Thanks a bunch for the help x986123, now I am up and running! Awesomeness.

Actually I do have another mac, I use it incase this install fails and I need to fix or backup files. Also, I make a second small (20gb) partition and have snow there, incase I need to fix something.

Have fun with your Hackintosh! Glad my guide worked for you!

MSI x58 Platinum SLI Snow Leo
 

Exactly thats what I was thinking to have as a fail-safe. Once I had my running install I would "dd" it to another partition.

I was also wondering -since I just got this mobo recently- How does it run at 3.6 Ghz? Is it stable? Any suggestions for a newbie OCer? I don't really want to push it. Do you usually have it fully OCed or do you switch according to how you use it?

Again, Thanks for the tips,

Happily Maccin' away =^)

I fully OC it to 3.6, stable, and its fast, at 34 degrees C.

I enabled power management and the "Core boost" or whatever it called so it can lower the CPU speed and increase it at will. Runs great, no issues.

I still can't get OSX installed. D:
 

Hey mate, I've read through your guide, and all the following comments, but try as I might, just can't get OSX to install. I've downloaded iPC, and followed your instructions as closely as I could, but it still didn't work. I can't seem to find that APIC (ACIP?) fix you mentioned anywhere. I've also tried XxX_X86, iDeneb v1.3, iDeneb v1.6 lite, and some varios Boot 132 methods; but alas, nothing. Think you could lend a hand?

The Apic/ACPI fix is in the "Fixes" or something part of the install DVD of iPC. It is located next to the Seatbelt.kext fix needed for the VooDoo kernel.

error
 

hi i need help, i´ve follow the steps and i got this error

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._1914974_n.jpg

I think you didn't repair permissions.

Going crazy
 

Hey man, this is an awesome guide that you laid out for the fellow X58 platinum users.
I'm only having one issue. The damn EFI string for my graphics card... i have an Nvidia GTX 275 (896MB VRAM) Dual DVI. I seriously can't figure out how to inject the hex code into com.apple.Boot.plist. if thats even where it goes. I saw on OSx86 wiki that the video card is supported, so i decided to give the hackintosh a try. I got as far as the screen when u select install OSX then the apple logo shows up and then the screen loads and goes Effing BLANK!!! .. ; ; Help me plz lol

Forgot to add what parts i got.

MSI Platinum X58 SLI
Nvidia GTX275
6GB DDR3 1600Mhz Memory
Creative Labs Fatality1 Sound Card.
Intel I7 920 Processor.
850W Corsair Power Supply.

yes
 

yes i did..! i ussed

sudo chown -R root:wheel *
sudo chmod -R 755 *

on "extra/extensions" and "system/library/estensions/" directory. One of the errors says something like this:
launchctl: please convert the folllowing to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvidsoryd.plist

and the another says:

**AppleSMBusPCI::start failed to get acpi path for provider


ACPI_SMC_PlatformPluggin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation failed

the error i think it is, is this!!
pd. the disk im installing its ide

I don't know, try a SATA drive then. I never got this error, are you using the kext's I listed?

Ups... i think it was permissions!! i ussed kext helper to repair...! and remake extenssions.mkext but still stuck, i think its

launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/ dashboardadvisoryd.plist...

.. :s ...
in other mather, i updated to 10.5.8 the other partition with ideneb patch.. everything works fine.. but i want SN :(

im ussing your kext, and i tried this to

http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/h...-pc-hackintosh

but i had to put jmicronATA to the kext of that link, because of the ide disk... but rigth now i have yours,,,

Im installing on an ide disk because the sata doesnt have gpt partition table, and i cant format, because i have vista, seven and leopard there

Install Snow... I think you messed up somewhere... Just redo it, and use all the kexts listed on the first page and repair permissions with kext utility.

im doing that---- hey i have an msi x58 pro not platinium

Hey there X. So I got my x58/i7920/gtx260 up and running. Thing runs SUHWEET. I actually didn't use your guide. I went with Empire EFI and was able to get as close to retail as I could. The only thing I'm still having trouble with is sleep. I've changed the bios settings to S3 and OS controlled, but my machine still shuts down when i try to sleep it. Someone mentioned sleepenabler kext somewhere in this thread. Are you using it in conjunction with the bios settings? I haven't tried it since updating to 10.6.2, but it didn't work before when I had it.

Also, you mentioned you had your 920 OC'd to 3.6 at upper 30's C. I've also got mine OC'd to 3.6 but it stays in the mid 40's. What are you using to cool it? I know 40's are fine, but the cooler the better right? Anyhow, kudos on this guide and also thanks for your help in the gtx 260 guide. Later!

Thanks InteliMacPro! It does run very nice. The cooler I use is the V8. It runs great in my HAF932 (very vented case) But after a while of use, the temp stays at 43 degrees. I under-clocked (still overclocked) to 3.3ghz for now because I don't need that much horsepower yet. My sleep seems to work fine, no sleep kexts needed.

Also, im quite surprised people have the same specs as me, some EXACTLY the same. And all of us doing Hackintosh installs. Haha. Hows Empire EFI going? Is it better than Chameleon/PC EFI? Does it have EFI64?

Also, with PC-EFI 10.5 and FakeSMC 2.5, I get as close to retail as possible too. With FakeSMC, your Hac thinks it has an SMC chip.
Check this out: http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5...91211at945.png

Nice. Mine thinks it's a Mac Mini though. I really like Empire EFI. I may have to try PC EFI though. I think I read somewhere in this thread that their bootloader made their sleep work. I just like that Empire EFI lets me install from the SL DVD so no need for iPC base. Is your RAM really running at 1600MHz? Can't seem to get mine above 1333 and then i read that the X58 Platinum only goes up to 1333.

You set your processor speed in system profiler manually, right?

Yea, I can push it there, but then CPU doesn't go to 3.6ghz... I just put that their because they are rated at 1600mhz, but right now their at 1333mhz, there is like no performance change though, I tested.

No, system profiler found it auto.

Hmmm. My system profiler just says 2.69. Then again about this mac sees my ram and system profiler doesn't... I just don't like entering the info. I want it to be auto detected like it should be.
I looked at the V8 but ended up going with a Cooler Master hyper N520. It was like 40 bucks and got good reviews. I'd love to eventually go to water cooling though.
I'm honestly wondering why your CPU speed is detected and mine isn't. We've got practically identical specs.

Maybe Chameleon/PC_EFI have some kind of fixes for this? I dunno, you might want to try if your up to it.

Thing is, I had to set "About this mac" CPU to Intel Core i7 manually, but with that, I had to enter speed manually. But It used to change auto, and System Profiler still changes it auto.

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5...91212at110.png

As you can see, my ram was auto detected, All I did was add a SMBIOS.plist to make sure it says DDR3, thats it.

I stumbled across this guide a few days ago and just got around to trying it out, however, I'm running into a slight problem and was wondering if anyone could help out. I currently have 10.5.7 installed on my system but wanted to try out 10.6 but when I try the posted installation method I get a warning and am unable to install on the partition I want. The warning says i must repartition the disk as 'GUID Partition Table' before I can continue. I realize that I could do this using the diskutil tool, however I have been using that particular hard drive for some other things and don't want to fully repartition the drive. I'm curious to know if there is some clever way around this or if reformatting is my only option. I've tried a poking around in a GParted live cd, with no luck.

Theres is a fix for MBR OSInstall.mpkg, search it on google, it exists.

im still having problems.. i think its because my graphic card--- ati 3870

Thanks for the intel on the cracked OSInstall.mpkg, x. I'm still having some considerable trouble getting this install to work. I have followed your instructions pretty rigidly but no luck, I keep getting kernel panics right when I boot up. I've tried to install all of the kexts in the /Extra/Extensions folder and I've also tried to install them in the S/L/E folder, repairing permissions whenever I do it. Really, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong :/

X, do you know of any reason this wouldn't work on x58m? Seems to be same components for the most part. I'm planning on starting in the next week or so. I've built pc's, but never a hack. So I'm a flat out noob. I'll be starting with non-formatted drives and going from there. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Hi,x986123. Good to see you again.
I'm still working on to get my Snow Leopard more perfect since I followed your guild to get it installed a few months ago.

The biggest problem I'm having is I can't get the vanilla AppleHDA.kext working since there's no Built-in Audio info in System Profile with VoodooHDA.kext which would stop Avid Media Composer from launching.

Is there anyway to fix that by modifying the DSDT?
I posted my full question here.
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=205748
If you could take a look,I'd so appreciate.

Thank you again for your wonderful guild which at least got my Hac in the first place :)

I was able to load SL, but after I go through the setup I am unable to log in. It doesn't recognize username or password. I re-setup and tried without a password, but no luck. Any thoughts?

MSI X58M
I7 920
BFG GTS 250 1gb
4gb DDR3
Retail Snow Leopard

I don't know, it should work. You need a password to install or edit things in terminal, so i suggest you get one, a really short one, if it is easier to memorize. Is the keyboard working? Is caps lock on?

I've tried multiple passwords, all easy to remember. Keyboard working, caps lock off, although after setup I get keyboard assistant. I've tried both setting up the keyboard and using it as is. No difference. From the install disk/utilities/reset password there is only a system administrator (root) user, so it seems the setup is not completing. Do you have to login after setup one time to finish setup? I also can't seem to boot into safe mode. Do you know what to look for in terminal to reset a password?

I'm not sure, but in terminal you type "Sudo passwd"
I think thats it, then type old password, and new one twice.

I have no idea whats happening to yours to be honest.

good thread

Thanks! Did it help you in any way?

Has anyone gotten sleep to work with an MSI mobo? I have an X58M and an X58PRO E, and neither one sleeps correctly. I have sleepenabler kext, I believe by Netkas. Just wondered if there was some trick for MSI's.

I have almost the same setup as many of you here,

x58 Platinum / i7 920 / GTX260 / DDR3 1600mhz RAM.

I seem to see lots of ways to go about installing mac os X, and I have a retail Snow Leopard (10.6) installation DVD, but I have NO ACCESS to a real mac whatsoever, so I can't even start any of these installations.

Help!? I'd like to use PC EFI. I may be able to get access to a mac for a short time but I need to know EXACTLY what I need to do. I'd like to install vanilla 10.6.

Thanks

check out empire efi. you don't need a real mac with it. it's basically a boot 132 cd with some drivers added. I've never gotten it to boot into the retail installer with video on the 260 though, so you may have trouble there. I haven't tried the latest release though, so maybe you'll have better luck. I think you need to type something in before you actually try to boot using the 260. Check it out here. Look for the R2 download for nvidia laptops and desktop 2xx graphics cards and follow the instructions. Post back if it gives you video in the installer. I just always swapped in a 8800gs and it got me into the installer.

Alright fully operational, I think.

I had to go back and wipe out and reinstall mac os after trying to change the refresh rate- no amount of graphics mode command lines on boot caused it to do anything other than go static booting without -x. Later on I will create a separate booter on a USB or something and try to see if I can get 120hz, but for now 60hz is fine. It works!

So, I can give you my steps.

1)downloaded and burned empire efi
2)booted to SL retail dvd with empire efi (GraphicsEnabler=Y PciRoot=0) and installed (only making sure to not select printer option)
3)booted to HD with empire efi (GraphicsEnabler=Y PciRoot=0)
4)used apple update to get combo 10.6.3 update and installed it
5)rebooted again with empire efi to HD (GraphicsEnabler=Y PciRoot=0)
6)ran myhack installer, choosing sensible options, leaving graphics enabler checked, afterwards updating the com apple boot list to include PciRoot=0 as it booted with PciRoot=1 and failed to give me video, and set "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32" (defaults 1024x768)
7)configured kexts with kext utility, added extra kexts from this forum first page, and VoodooHDA kext from this forum 2nd page. FakeSMC from netkas' site.
8)Ran osx86 tools just in case to repair permissions and touch extensions folder. Yay GUI!
8)booted from HD adding nothing to command line, everything seems to be working fine!!!

graphics are detected and seem to work 100% (other than I'm not sure about the refresh rate, I'm scared to try to change it). Any idea how I can test to see if it's working well or just working? any program suggestions with benchmarks I can relate to? I didn't use an EFI string as graphics enabler states that with option Y it will do its best to make up a good EFI string to use... so until I find a better option I'm using it. System profiler sees it as a gtx260 so...

USB is working, it even auto-detected drivers for my logitech pro 9000 that I forgot was still plugged in during install, firewire is active, ethernet is active, I don't have a wireless adapter so it's just a cable (idk if it is working in gigabit capacity like it could though, but that's not a big deal), audio is working in stereo with the voodoohda kext, the smc makes it think I am running a mac pro with a Xeon processor instead of an i7 but reads the clock speed right...

The only things I can't seem to make sense of are that the system profiler shows the ram as being DDR2 when it is DDR3, and it shows the i7 as having 4 cores (which I guess technically it does, but it should be able to use hyperthreading to show 8 cores?).

Thanks for the easy extensions list, i986123, and thanks intelimacpro for the empire efi tip... saved me from hours of pulling my hair out.

Nice. 4 cores is technically correct. Hardware-wise, hyperthreading doesn't count. Mine doesn't even read memory in system profiler. Says 6gb 1333 in about this mac, which is as high as this mobo supports last i checked. I did away with graphics enabler and am using NVEnabler. I don't boot with anything special in the boot.plist. Glad to hear it's working for ya!