ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.

[UnretroGamer]

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...

[adriangb]

Originally Posted by UnretroGamer 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...

Look at post #21 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=452036 You should delete all packages from /Volumes/Your mounted r/w disc image/System/Installation/Packages/ except the ones it says to install in that post. That will give you a basic install of OS X. Note that you must keep all the ones labled OSInstall... What you are getting rid of is printer drivers, additional languages, and some other stuff.
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.

[UnretroGamer]

Originally Posted by adriangb 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

Under Info it says my Disk Identifier is "disk3s1" and under Mount Point: Not mounted. I tried mounting and it says it cant be, to try runing First Aid on it. I did so and it still could not be mounted. What to do?

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?

[adriangb]

Originally Posted by UnretroGamer Under Info it says my Disk Identifier is "disk3s1" and under Mount Point: Not mounted. I tried mounting and it says it cant be, to try runing First Aid on it. I did so and it still could not be mounted. What to do? 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?

I don't know how you formated it with Windows, but just to be on the safe side do it in Disk Utility, then recopy those files from windows.

[UnretroGamer]

Originally Posted by adriangb I don't know how you formated it with Windows, but just to be on the safe side do it in Disk Utility, then recopy those files from windows.

When in Disk Utility, what should I format it as to Enable it to be mounted but still be able to copy files to it from Windows?

[adriangb]

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.

[adriangb]

You want Master Boot Record (MBR) and MS-DOS (FAT)

[adriangb]

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.

[UnretroGamer]

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

[adriangb]

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.