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ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
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Hi, this is my first post in this forum, but I'm not completely clueless, so be a little patient.
First I'll explain my situation: I finally ordered my first build (ASRock x58 Extreme+ i7 920+GeForce 9800 GT 1GB+2x2GB OZC Gold 1600MHz DDR3) and am expecting it to arrive in the next few days (I live in Argentina, so I have someone bringing it in from the USA). The motherboard specs are as follows: North bridge: Intel x58, obviously South bridge: Intel ICH10R Onboard audio: Realtek ALC890 Onboard network card: Realtek 8111DL Note: I have a Sound Blaster Gateway OEM Audigy (I believe it only differs from the normal models in that it identifies differently, and therefore is only compatible with Gateways windows drivers, but I'm guessing OS X won't care) that I could get, if it makes audio easier. So, on to the actual stuff. From what I know, the best (meaning most vanilla) install consists of a GPT drive with chameleon (or PC EFI, which one should I pick?) on the EFI partition, along with a modified DSDT, the com.apple.boot.plist with GraphicsEnabler=yes and EthernetBuiltIn=yes. Note on this last item: would it be possible to no use the EthernetBuiltIn=yes and just modify the DSDT? I think I would like to use GraphicsEnabler=yes, since it gives some more flexibility. Oh, and a modified smbios.plist (can this be replaced with some DSDT?) So... what I have found up to now: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...post&p=1290690 states that using a patched DSDT (which he attached to his post, and I downloaded and modified ever so slightly) and AppleDecrypt, ATAPortInjector.kext, Disabler.kext, dsmos, IONetworkingFamily, LegacyAppleAHCIPort and LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage he has everything working in Leopard, except firewire, ATA drives and ALC890 with HDA. First of all: don't dsmos and AppleDecrypt do the same thing? And I wouldn't need any of these anyways since I prefer to use fakesmc (like the post farther down recommends. In that post there is no dsdt attached, so I suppose he is using the same one. So now it seems I would be needing: fakesmc (can this be replaced with something in DSDT?) PlatformUUID (I'm pretty sure even chameleon can do this, buy DSDT is obviously preferable) OpenHaltRestart (I need it that the system shuts down correctly an reboots correctly) RealtekR1000 (for the 8111DL, can I DSDT this?) IONetworkingFamily (to solve depencies with RealtekR1000) So it would be that, and getting ALC890 working. From the looks of the .dsl, speedstepping HT and the four cores should be working. I'll attach my DSDT.dsl. I got no errors compiling, but I would seriously appreciate if someone gives a peek at it (since I don't trust myself enough). If I finally get a good install going, I'm willing to try and create an installer for my fellow -or future- ASRock x58 Extreme users, so they can have a effortless installation :) . I'm in no hurry -yet- since as I said earlier, I don't even have the hardware yet, but I'm a very impatient person, and get mad when I have to wait to long for an answer ;) . Thanks in advance |
And this goes...where?
Hey there that's a pretty hefty post you got there...I was wondering, where do I put the "dsdt.dsl" file that you attached? I'm guessing you attached it so that others (like me with an ASRock X58 Extreme) could use it. I got Mac OSX installed onto the hard drive with iAtkos v7 that uses Chameleon and stuff.
My problem is that if I don't do anything, Chameleon boots into Leopard itself and it just shows a shiny silver Apple but hangs there forever...If I set busratio=20 cpus=1, first of all it runs slow, and second...when I boot with that, it hangs on the same shiny silver apple screen but now with the loading circle that is dark gray, stays there forever too. Then if I set 1CPU in BIOS, and take off speed step, and HT and Virtualization...then if I put "busratio=20" it hangs with loading circle. If I boot with same BIOS settings and put boot-flag "busratio=20 cpus=1" then now it shows loading circle for five minutes and then over the shiny apple, after five minutes it will show a white cancel symbol. (/) Either way I can't get into the OS. Man and I was excited too when I saw the thing boot from the DVD, I thought I was in the club for sure. Hey but if you have your system working I would REALLY appreciate some help/support. Tell me everything i must do, I don't mind starting over, you will help me and many other people with ASRock X58 Extremes out if you have it working. I want to know where I should put the DSDT file you attached, whether it is compatible with my system, and what I should and should not check in the "customize" during installation to make my system work. What more do I need to make it work...and how would I install those things that I need. My System: Diablotek 650W PSU ASRock X58 Extreme Motherboard i7 920 D0 6GB of G.skill 1600MHz DDR3 RAM Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS Video Card I have SATA Hard drives, and one IDE DVD Drive, and one, SATA DVD Drive I scavenged the SATA drive from an old PC hoping that was the problem but no. PLEASE HELP! I would love to join the club and have mah i7 920 Mac. :] |
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Well I'll start out by assuming the following:
So boot in to OS X and download this bootloader: Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7.zip In the .zip you will find the same files as for chameleon. Install them to your drive (you know fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0 & dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsX). Now restore the disk image I attached at the bottom to your USB drive (or I guess you can restore it to your OS X partition WITHOUT checking "Erase destination", if you must have it on your HDD, but I recommend using a USB, it allows for much greater flexibility). You should be good to go! Sound won't be working, I had to use VooodooHDA.kext, google it, it's easy to install. I'm missing that, sleep and being able to identify as a Mac Pro 4,1 (2009). I don't know about your graphics card, or DVD drives (the SATA one should work, but I can't verify that myself). The graphics injection should work, worst case is you use an EFI string (generate it with EFI Studio or OS X86 Tools). Evreything works for me (except that for some reason my i7 is really hot, it's gets up to 80ºC on stock settings with an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 pro rev 2 while r-encoding or running prime95!) but that's not OS X (it's the same on Windows 7 x64 and the BIOS) I recommend just for once you watch your BIOS post and boot in verbose. Feel free to ask any questions! Links: Disk Image Lizard, manage your boot-loader |
The DSDT is very modified, but it should work fine on your setup (I even updated my BIOS and it still works!)
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dude thanks for everything sorry that it took me forever to respond its that I posted that thinking you would never answer or something. plus i lost the bookmark to this post.
anyways I'm going to try it now, seems a little confusing but if I get lost I will just post my questions here. I really hope this helps others with the ASRock X58 Extreeme around the internet just as me! Here goes nothing! |
It's fine, just keep me posted with any trouble/things that are unclear. I'm more than happy to help, it feels good to be on the other side for once ;) .
Just so you know, you shouldn't install the boot-loader to the disk where you have Windows installed (if you do), it will mess up the Windows boot-loader. I just noticed the commands I posted would put boot0 on disk0, and you want it on your USB drive. There are many guides on this, google them first! Good luck! |
no i dont know...lol, this is crazy confusing. Let me tell you what I have:
* I have the Empire EFI v1.085 for Intel Core i7 9xx series. * I have iAtkos v7 burned on a DVD perfectly, no corruption. * I have iDeneb 1.6.158 LITE EDITION burned on a DVD perfectly, no corruption. * I have a 2GB Flash Drive. * I have the [Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7.zip] downloaded. * I have the [Disk Image] downloaded. * I have the [Lizard, manage your boot-loader] downloaded. * I DO NOT have a Snow Leopard or Leopard retail disk. I don't know what to do with all this. Please explain better. You have all the assumptions correct except I do not know how to do a proper install of chameleon. Let me tell you my problem again, when I install iAtkos or iDeneb 1.6 LITE, After installation, it hangs on the Shiny Apple logo, and the loading circle....it doesn't pass that screen. Your instructions were a little bit unclear to me. So I burned the Empire EFI I got, to a DVD and booted from it, I wondered why it was so small and it was that it required a full Retail OSX DVD which I do not have. I was looking for a solution like iAtkos or iDeneb which include the OS. I cannot download the Retail DVD because (1) I do not have Dual Layer burner for such a large file (2) I do not have a 8GB+ Flash Drive and (3) I do not have an external HDD. So is there any way you can help me with the ones I already downloaded (iAtkos v7 or iDeneb v1.6 LITE EDITION). Also even if I did get into the OS I didn't get the step where you said: "So boot in to OS X and download this bootloader: Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7.zip In the .zip you will find the same files as for chameleon. Install them to your drive (you know fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0 & dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsX). Now restore the disk image I attached at the bottom to your USB drive (or I guess you can restore it to your OS X partition WITHOUT checking "Erase destination", if you must have it on your HDD, but I recommend using a USB, it allows for much greater flexibility)." yeah I didn't get that whole chunk. If you could translate that, it also would be great. Now what I was thinking was that I can get into OSX with iDeneb or iAtkos when booting from the DVD. It's just that after I go through the installation, my problem was booting from the HDD. But I think that all you need me to do is use the Disk Utility, which I can use before installation when I boot from the DVD. Would that work? Booting from the DVD and just keep doing the steps that you said? Can I install the Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7.zip from there, and restore the Disk Image to my OSX partition (since I don't have a big flash drive)? I also dont get the "fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0 & dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsX" what do I do with that code, and I also don't know how to "restore" the image to the OSX partition or Flash Drive. Sorry for being such a n00b but this will help many others just as it will help me. I really appreciate you putting your time into it for me. It is a learning process. :] |
Oh and I forgot to add one last thing. If I boot with the EmpireEFI. If I remove that DVD and put in lets say an iDeneb or iAtkos DVD (which contain the OS) it says something along the lines of "cannot find mach_kernel" or something like that. I think it was "mach_kernel"....
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That means it can't find the OS's kernel (named mach_kernel and placed on the root of the DVD/HDD).
I need to ask you a question, do you have any access to a mac? This would make the whole thing much easier. From what I can see in your post you don't. If you dont, please try this: copy the folder inside of Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7.zip to the pen drive (format it as FAT32, so that mac and windows can read it) and copy the contents of the disk image too (the Extra folder is what you need). Now your pen drive should contain two folders, Extra (that you copied from the .dmg), and the extracted Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7.zip. Also, copy the entire .dmg just in case Boot from your iAtkos DVD, and do this: open Disk Utilility, select your pen drive's partition and click the "i" in the toolbar. Take note of your "Disk Identifier" and "Mount Point" . Look at this example: Name : FLASH DRIVE Type : Volume Disk Identifier : disk4s2 Mount Point : /Volumes/FLASH DRIVE File System : MS-DOS (FAT32) Connection Bus : USB etc, etc. So this case it is disk4s2 and /Volumes/FLASH DRIVE (FLASH DRIVE is the actual name of the partition, not the drive) Now format your internal HD as GUID with partitions to your liking (at least one HFS+ one for OS X) Now open terminal and write: cd /Volumes/(insert your mount point here)/Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.7/ fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0 dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2 cp boot / cd /Volumes/(insert your mount point here)/THE FOLDER WITH THE FILES FROM THE .DMG cp -pR Extra / Done, now install iAtkos (don't select any options except the base system or whatever it is called). When it is done, try and boot. If it dosen't, try repeating the steps WITHOUT installing iAtkos again (just reboot). I do recommend you just buy a Snow Leopard DVD for 25$ (if you have a DVD-DL reader). Quote:
Just so you now, if you select a drive in disk utility you get a "restore" tab. This allows you to copy one drive to a other, or a disk image to a drive. |
The fact that you can't get a retail DVD is a problem. Could you download it -you know from where-, convert it to a read/write dmg and delete languages, printers, etc, etc, and then burn it to a single layer DVD? You wil need a mac to do this (you can always do it in an Apple store) or a bootable install of OS X on your machine, following the steps I gave you should get you there. I think it's a real waste to use iAtkos or iDeneb when you could be running retail, it's so much better. I don't know if installing any one of those without selecting anything except the base system will do the trick, but try it.
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Thanks, i understand all that. :]
I will try it after I'm done eating, the only hitch I've got is, how do I extract the files from the EFIUSB.dmg? I cannot boot into OSX and don't have access to an OSX device. Are those the same files as in the "empireefi 1.085" i got from here, which is a .zip which contains two iso's, and inside of the iso are three folders: Extra, Post-Installation, usr. If it is not the same, how do you suggest i get the files out of the "EFIUSB.dmg" you told me to download? P.S. If you REALLY (and I mean REALLY) need me to get access to a Mac, I have two friends who have Macs.....but they are very possessive of there MacBooks and use them daily...so even if I do get my hands on one it will not be for too long. So it's not like I can stay troubleshooting with you on forums for a whole day or anything like that... |
I will download the Snow Leopard retail from I know where. But you have to tell me which files I should delete to make it fit on a single DVD, with it still working.
After I will burn the result to a DVD, then just load EmpireEFI, stick in the modified retail Snow Leopard, install, and then reboot. That would be it am I correct? Then of course we will work out the nooks and crannys after, like sound, video, etc... |
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I'm pretty sure I formatted it to FAT32 like you said. What should I do reformat it and put the files back on? Or should I uncheck Quick Format and format it as FAT32 withou Quick Format? Or should I just try to format it as a different type? |
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The files on the .dmg I gave you are not the same as EmpireEFI. These are made specifically for the ASRock x58 Extreme w/ a core i7 920. This translates to faster boot times, a more vanilla install and evreything just "working better". If you can wait, I'll reboot into OS X (installing games on windows right now, lol) and save those files to a .zip, so that you can open them in windows. |
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You want Master Boot Record (MBR) and MS-DOS (FAT)
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Hey, I fixed up my DSDT a lot (it was a mess of useless fixes and warnings...). So here is the "cleaner" version, also with correct CPU info. AppleLPC now loads and there are no _CST evaluation errors, but S3 sleep doesn't work for me, but since it wont work in Windows 7 either, I suppose this is OS independent. The only thing I can mange to guess is that the P-States are motherboard independent (they are processor related), but the C-States are not therefore the code I copied is "approved" by OS X, but since it is not correct for our board it won't sleep right. If this where the case, I guess we would have to get the correct info from the SSDT, but just looking at it didn't give me any clue as to how to do this. All that still doesn't explain why Windows acts similarly (Windows won't turn off the fans or MB at least, but OS X will make y debug LED display 03 when I try to wake), but hey, coincidence exists, right?
Anyways, I hope sleep does work for all of you, since I think this is the last "big" problem we have. Oh, and by the way, this is for BIOS version 1.9, but I checked not not much code has changed in the DSDT since 1.8, so I guess it should work too if you don't want to update. |
I am back!!!!
Hey I'm back after a while. I have been working on school very diligently (still have to actually) we never did get that thing solved...I'm still where I left off because my windows HDD(160GB) is packed to the brim.. I don't have enough space to download OSX. My secondary HDD (160GB) is empty but I'm saving it just for OSX...... I will see If I can just partition the secondary for enough space to download leopard, then burn it, strip it to fit it to a DVD, and install like a retail via Empire EFI....when I can
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Put it on the second partition, and make the first one (well, second counting the EFI partition) something like 100GB, so that you have 60 left to work with (more than enough). Once you've installed OS X on the first partition, you can delete the second one.
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I'm pleased to announce that I got HD audio (non vooodo) working 100%! Just use the attached DSDT and LegacyAppleHDA |
Great! Do you think I can use your DSDT for my system? The only difference is the Graphic card, s I have the 9500GT. Thanks!
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Yes, you should be able to use it without problems. You'll need to use GraphicEnabler=Yes or an EFI string.
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"You'll need to use GraphicEnabler=Yes or an EFI string."
how you suggest to do that? Can you please post your spec? I actually use iAtkos v7 with asrock X58 extreme, i7 920, 9500GT. I'm trying with Snow, do you have any suggestion? Again thanks. |
My specs? Well, ASRock x58 Extreme obviously, Core i7 920, PNY GeForce 9800 GT, Dlink DWA-556 and XClio case. What do you want them for? The only thing in the DSDT should be the motherboard and processor.
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Hi. Actually no way for me to use snowleopard, i can only start with iAtkos x.5.7 with one core only. In order to have all cores working I have deleted alias from my DSDT but I was able to start one time only with all 8 cores enabled. Can you suggest an online guide for snow 10.6.2?
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Just use my DSDT. There are no guides for the x58 Extreme. Try setting the active procesors to 1 in the BIOS to boot.
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Hi all, I tried back over the summer to get osx working on asrock x58 extreme, i7 920 system. I can reliably install iatkos v7, and boot as long as cpus=1 busratio=20, however I gave up after that, because I couldnt't get a different dsdt.aml to work, or allow me to boot with everything enabled. My win7 rc1 expires in 2 days and being a poor college student I figured I give osx a shot for the time being. I have ubuntu on here aswell at the moment, and a laptop with xp, ubuntu and kalyway 10.5.7 aswell, along with plenty of friends with macbooks etc.
I tried the dsdt.aml that you linked to in your first post adriangb at some point a while ago when I tried to get osx to work, but I must have been doing something wrong. If you could tell me how to install the dsdt.aml properly that would be amazing (assuming it would work with iatkos?). Thanks! gfx are radeon 4890, 3x2gb ocz platinum 1600. |
There are plenty of guides on installing DSDT's, the general procedure is to put it in (your Chaemaleon partition)/Extra/DSDT.aml.
Use the one in this link (and the kext if you want audio, remember to use the needed kexts for the board, fakesmc, JmicronATA, etc): http://www.infinitemac.com/attachmen...0&d=1266286201 |
Adriangb, can you write a list of all kext for our board?
Concerning the DSDT.aml actually I use DSDTSE ver.1.2. The point is that I'm not sure if that progr install the DSDT in the extra folder of Chameleon or just in the root. |
It depends where you set it in your com.apple.boot.plist (DSDT=/Extra/DSDT.aml).
I use a folder with my current kexts and only a mkext on my usb drive, and that's all I have now (I don't know if I posted it on this thread, but I'm in the middle of a trip), so I would have to unpack it, and for some reason mkext tool won't do it. I'll try with mkextunpack and report back. Nope, won't work either. I'd have to look at that folder, sorry guys! The ones I think I remember are: http://www.kexts.com/view/9-fix_for_..._leopard).html http://www.kexts.com/view/161-fakesmc_version_2.5.html http://www.kexts.com/view/14-jmicronata.html (I don't know if everyone needs this, I do. but I got it from the empire efi CD, I don't know if this one will work) That should do the basic. Obviously this is with a modified DSDT |
Thanks adriangb! So are you using empire efi or chameleon?
I also remember I selected a jmicron driver, along with a number of others from the iatkos install cd. |
Empire EFI is basically a modified Chameleon (using PC EFI if I'm not mistaken) and a bunch of kexts. It's designed to work on all systems, but not necessarily well.
So the answer is, no one should be using Empire EFI as a main boot-loader, only to install OS X. I use aserebln's modified Chameleon 2 RC4 (v1.1.9). Make a other bootable drive and then try eliminating kext one by one from your current kext folder, and if you cant boot, use the other drive to restore the last one :) |
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First thx for the help so far. I play around with the same board and similar config... ati 4870 in my case. however, is it possible to post the bios settings? (version 1.9 is installed) i'm just not sure what to enable or disable and a "running setting" would be nice. so far thx again, bigmac edit: ... no one should be using Empire EFI as a main boot-loader, only to install OS X ... that is what i try right now. which version of empire efi could you recommend? ... i tried 1.08 for i5 and 1.02(1.04?) for x58 / i7 so far ... but it seems that the installer doesn't load. or does this take a couple hours? thx edit2: changed rebel to empire, was a mistake. will try that later... thx again for the download. |
Don't confuse Empire EFI with Rebel EFI. Rebel EFI is a rip off that uses other peoples work. Empire EFI is open, free and it credits the contributers.
I think I originally used 1.085, but the newest version should be fine (or better). Get it from prasys.co.cc. I think it boots in verbose, so after you select the OS X disc, you should see some lines of text for 7 minutes -at most- and then the installer should show (if it doesn't, post the text it shows here and I'll have a look at it). Alternatively, you could try the disc image I think posted on this thread. If you don't have a mac you can restore it to a USB drive at a Apple store or something. I would say this is what you want: http://www.mediafire.com/?g2kznm0dxgz |
Hi again.
I've burned 1.085 to CD... bootet PC and inserted empire efi than switched to SL Install DVD. First interaction was: "Starting Darwin x86 press any key to continue..." -> now i get the console output on my screen. first crash of the process was: virtual bool IOHIDEventSystemUserClient::initWithTask ... not priviliged to open IOHIDSystem for mapping memory. second crash was: i didn't write it down but it was at the recognition of the ethernet card i guess (realteak ethernet someting) third crash was: again like first one. and after a while: serialATAPI device reconfiguration did not complete successfully. (failedCommandInfo = 0x1) ... drive has stopped responding... disk1s3: media is not present i suspect my sata dvd rom as defect. i tried to make a 2 paritioned usb stick with empire efi and snow leo dvd on it without success (as seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0o4KfcTaRo&feature=player_embedded# ) i have access to a macbook, but i can't get my hackintosh pro running :( thx again edit: i tried a different dvd, samsung sata dvd with the result EBIOS read error: Error 0xbb Block 0x0 Sectors 0 in the Empire EFI BIOS "switch to snow leo dvd" screen. edit2: i found another tutorial for a bootable usb / snow leo stick. especially because of the section about the dsdt file i think i didn't understand everything correct by now... so, i have to create for my system a specific boot envrionment to install snow leo? this includest especially the dsdt file, right? thx |
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If you have a mac book, you could even create a USB boot drive that is specific for your system before you even install OS X. A key component in this is the DSDT file. The errors you got with the DVD's seem quite "random" (I mean to say I don't think they are related to OS X itself, they'r probably BIOS settings or hardware problems. A "easy" check is to burn some Linux distro live CD, and try to boot it. If it does boot, then it means that OS X should boot on that hardware. This doesn't cover BIOS settings thou, since Linux is less restrictive than OS X on that front.
What have you set in your BIOS? Can you post a shot of every screen? If it could help you, I can post a image of my most current USB drive -which I haven't used for a while, but should work anyways- so that you can know what the problem is (meaning if it is related to Chameleon). I seem to remember I had that EBIOS read error when I tried to use a DVD-DL OS X DVD on a single layer IDE drive. At the moment I thought maybe it meant that OS X couldn't continue to load from that drive since later on it can't read it (my IDE drives don't work). Hey, here is a zip file (I recently noticed that disc images aren't better since they don't copy boot0 and boot1h they don't serve there purpose -and maybe that is why UnRetroGamer didn't get anywhere :(, sorry I'm new at this too), so once you have installed boot0 and boot1h, then just extract this zip onto your drive. Why is the archive in a 7z, inside a .zip ? Because a plain old ZIP was 1.50MB and that's the limit for infinitemac (it was probably 500B over or something crazy like that!). So use peazip or something to extract it. |
hi again.
i tried what you said but it seems that i am too stupid... i now try the usb tutorial here: http://prasys.co.cc/2009/08/installi...ard-for-osx86/ (atm recover dvd image to usb partition which takes as mac os x says 16 hours ? (i unchecked erase partition because of tutorial) ... macbook pro with ssd drive and a supertalent 8 gig usb stick) and i try around with my bios settings... will shoot photos later and paste them here. greets bigmac edit: i now tried with "myhack 1.0 final" ... resulting in kernel panic here are my bios settings http://gallery.me.com/raesener/100019 user: hackintosh pass: bigmac thx so far |
Try this: plug your HDD's into SATA 1&2 (maybe I'm just paranoid, and think that everything can go wrong?) and the DVD into 3. Then set C-States to C6 and cores to All and activate EHS. Then try to boot with Empire EFI.
Edit: My kexts are fakesmc (because we all need it) IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector (orange icon fix) IONetworkingFamily (for RealtekR100 dependencies) JMicronATA (?? SATA or my IDE drives, I get a KP without it) LegacyHDA (for ALC890 HDA audio) RealtekR100 (for ethernet). So it would seem that fakesmc and JMicronATA would suffice for booting. |
thx for the answer. will check that later and edit this post... about 3 pm [mest + 1 (berlin) (i hope it's +1 ^^)]
ok, i tried with cd boot with no success and now i try again with usb stick... can't find mach_kernel at the moment |
If you'r in Berlin I guess we aren't that far off (in time that is), I'm in UK now (and that's why I can't be of much help).
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hi again,
ok, i tried with cd boot with no success and now i try again with usb stick... can't find mach_kernel at the moment... i'm from mannheim btw ... but time is like in berlin ^^ edit: i editet boot.plist to -> hd(0,2) mach_kernel ... now it boots from install dvd i guess ... currently at "System uptime in nanoseconds: ... " --- seems like a crash, but i hope i'm wrong ^^ -> ok, that's a kernel panic in text mode ^^ edit2: i think somehow my mainboard is broken ... :) ... maybe i try a new asrock or maybe a more compatible one... is there one? |
Have you tried Windows/Linux? If those don't work either, that yes, it's probably the motherboard.
It should never be hd(0,2) mach_kernel using a USB stick with Chameleon, unless the kernel is on the same partition as OS X. Chameleon sees it's own disk as 1, so the disk listed as disk0 in disk utility is hd(0 in Chameleon. Is the KP the same one? |
hi...
yes win7 x64 did run well ... though some installation issues with a raid card; so normally the board should be ok. but, after a "soft off" the bios doesn't boots correctly and there is no video output. if i pull off the power cord and put it back into the power supply the pc starts correctly. so one out of these two components is defect i guess... however i maybe change the board tomorrow, but first i would like to try exactly your bios settings if this is possible... or someone else reading haz a asrock x58 extreme? the hd(0,2) error was with a selfmade bootstick with one gpt partition. i'm still confused what really is necessary and what are the steps to make a good mac-os-install-usb-stick. but, it seems that the KP has to do with the radeon 4870. netkas.org seems to be the right point of informations about snow leopard and radeon cards, but i'm still not sure what to do. there is a guide which tells me to set -x flag oder -pci0 flag, but still same KP. so long. thx for staying with me edit: -x means boot in safe mode. didn't help me woth several versions of empire efi (including legacy 1.085 f.e.) |
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:) ... no no, you're a good helper.
i try a different grafics card today and maybe tomorrow change the mainboard. thx so far, will post my results. edit: changed radeon 4870 to a geforce 6200 ... boots fine and installation fails at the end. (seems normal that there is a error message at the end of the installation process ... system boots :) ) so for my understanding: you have a usb boot stick to boot your OS with the dsdt file etc on it? |
Hi again,
finally my system works. i changed the ati radeon 4870 to a geforce gts250. Thanks to you, adriangb, i have sound too ;) hardware: asrock x58 extreme core i7 920 6 gig ddr3 ram geforce gts250 2 * sata raptor 10000rpm LG dvd burner (sata) BIOS Settings: everything to AHCI, disable eSATA CPU Config, everything enabled, C6 State, Version 1.9 what i've did: 1. burn Empire EFI 1.08 i5/i7 CD 2. Change CD to Leopard Install DVD 3. Installation complete and reboot (with Empire EFI) 4. Install Updates to 10.6.2 (via USB Stick) and reboot (empire efi again) 5. install myHack 1.0 Final Release with default settings 6. change com.Apple.Boot.plist in /Extras entry: PciRoot from 1 to 0 7. get archive.zip from adriangb and copy dsdt.aml to /Extras and kext to /Extras/Extensions 8. download, install and use pfix 3.0 from same homepage where myHack is from 9. reboot & done niiiiiiiiiiice!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I'm happy to see you got everything working :)
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hi again,
did you get managed to get speedstep and standby working? and can you maybe upload your uncompiled dsdt file that i can play a little bit with it? thx in advance ps: performance is great... for example from local raid 0 (2 * 74gb raptor) it plays smoothly 10 movie trailers in 1080p simultaneously :) |
Speedstep yes, sleep no. Can't you uncompile it yourself? I don't have my DSDT with me, and I wont until I get my pen drive and own computer with iasl (tomorrow). And I can't test if it uncompiled well or anything!
Sorry. |