Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[objectivegiant]

Originally posted by: albert1028

If by combine both, you mean this step...

f. Click "Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag"
i. Click on the "GFX String" button (unless you have your own driver) and install the ATI or Nvidia card
of your choice; you also also do a "Custom GeForce hex" for a card like a Quadro FX 5600,
then click "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the graphics "GFX String Creator" by clicking on the greenexit button.
ii. Click on the "Ethernet Strings" button, then click , "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the Ethernet String Creator by clicking on the green exit button.
iiB. THen in the boot editor click the "Combine Hex Strings" and select the two .hex files you saved from the previous 2 steps. Then follow what is left below! This should help.
iii. In the second textbox on the left ("Please enter the graphics mode..."), type in "2560x1600", but
without the quotes
iv. In the textbox on the right ("Please enter the timeout..."), type in "5" without the quotes
v. Click "Apple changes to com.apple.Boot.plist"

... then yes. That's exactly what I did.

I tried booting in verbose mode and the last line item that loads seems to be related to ethernet. Here's a link to a picture I took of the screen when it stopped... SCREENSHOT

Does this help?

I have bolded the parts that should be followed. There were updated instructions on the 11/21. But try following the instructions above and note that I have bolded the instructions I have modified from your post.

Let me know...

Thanks, Albert! I'll give that a try this afternoon.

 

[sjwaste]

Quick Q. If I have a functioning, booting system, is there any good reason I'd want to use that PC EFI v9 Chameleon app? Or is that if I were reinstalling?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
Quick Q. If I have a functioning, booting system, is there any good reason I'd want to use that PC EFI v9 Chameleon app? Or is that if I were reinstalling?

It's if you were reinstalling. It has some extra features over the older Chameleon we were using, which I am taking advantage of in the new program.

 

[Kaido]

Does anyone have a DFI BloodIron P35-T2RL motherboard? Need a tester.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: mosslack
I've run into this before, I've had sometimes when OS X would let me install to a MBR partitioned drive and sometimes it won't. Must have something to do with the phase of the moon is all I can figure.

You partitioned the drive as MBR using OSX, right, and the Mac partition as Mac Extended Journaled?

When you try to install OSX, did you first try to use Disk Utility to reselect and reformat just the Mac partition?

Yep, partitioned the drive into 3 partitions using MBR in while booted using the boot 132 cd and Leo DVD. 1st parttion OS X (formatted Mac Extended Journaled) , 2nd partition Vista, third Data. Formatted 2nd and 3rd partitions as DOS. Put the Vista DVD in and setup Vista on the 2nd partition, rebooted with the boot 132 cd and stuck in the Leo DVD to setup OS X. Once I got to the point of choosing the drive to install on their was an exclamation mark on the OS X partition saying there was a problem with that drive. Went into disk utility and reformatted again as Extended Journaled and tried again. This time it said straight out the disk had to be formatted as GUID.

Anyway, I did some reading and found out that Vista x64 will install on a GPT disk, so I thought I would give that a try. Setup the disk again, same scheme except for having the EFI partition as number 1, installed Vista first, worked fine, then installed OS X, but Darwin didn't overwrite the Vista bootloader and now unless I use the boot 132 CD it will always boot up in Vista. This was all last night, I haven't done much with it today.

Edit: I did try to install Chameleon again, but got the same results. Looks like it's just meant to be that I can't dual boot off a single drive!

 

[objectivegiant]

Originally posted by: albert1028

If by combine both, you mean this step...

f. Click "Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag"
i. Click on the "GFX String" button (unless you have your own driver) and install the ATI or Nvidia card
of your choice; you also also do a "Custom GeForce hex" for a card like a Quadro FX 5600,
then click "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the graphics "GFX String Creator" by clicking on the greenexit button.
ii. Click on the "Ethernet Strings" button, then click , "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the Ethernet String Creator by clicking on the green exit button.
iiB. THen in the boot editor click the "Combine Hex Strings" and select the two .hex files you saved from the previous 2 steps. Then follow what is left below! This should help.
iii. In the second textbox on the left ("Please enter the graphics mode..."), type in "2560x1600", but
without the quotes
iv. In the textbox on the right ("Please enter the timeout..."), type in "5" without the quotes
v. Click "Apple changes to com.apple.Boot.plist"

... then yes. That's exactly what I did.

I tried booting in verbose mode and the last line item that loads seems to be related to ethernet. Here's a link to a picture I took of the screen when it stopped... SCREENSHOT

Does this help?

I have bolded the parts that should be followed. There were updated instructions on the 11/21. But try following the instructions above and note that I have bolded the instructions I have modified from your post.

Let me know...

That seemed to get me one step closer. Now when I boot, I land on what I think is the login screen but with a black background and a mouse pointer. This is where I was at when using an outdated version of the Weaksauce's package. I'm guessing there's a conflict with the video driver or something. I booted once in verbose mode but couldn't really see anything that would signal an issue. The screen goes blank shortly after the last entry and then I end up on the black screen (or blue screen... sometimes) with the mouse pointer. What do I try next?

Edit: I just booted with "-v -f" and the one thing I did notice is that one of the last things on the screen is a message something to the effect of "display: family specific matching fails".

 

[albert1028]

Originally posted by: objectivegiant

Originally posted by: albert1028

If by combine both, you mean this step...

f. Click "Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag"
i. Click on the "GFX String" button (unless you have your own driver) and install the ATI or Nvidia card
of your choice; you also also do a "Custom GeForce hex" for a card like a Quadro FX 5600,
then click "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the graphics "GFX String Creator" by clicking on the greenexit button.
ii. Click on the "Ethernet Strings" button, then click , "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the Ethernet String Creator by clicking on the green exit button.
iiB. THen in the boot editor click the "Combine Hex Strings" and select the two .hex files you saved from the previous 2 steps. Then follow what is left below! This should help.
iii. In the second textbox on the left ("Please enter the graphics mode..."), type in "2560x1600", but
without the quotes
iv. In the textbox on the right ("Please enter the timeout..."), type in "5" without the quotes
v. Click "Apple changes to com.apple.Boot.plist"

... then yes. That's exactly what I did.

I tried booting in verbose mode and the last line item that loads seems to be related to ethernet. Here's a link to a picture I took of the screen when it stopped... SCREENSHOT

Does this help?

I have bolded the parts that should be followed. There were updated instructions on the 11/21. But try following the instructions above and note that I have bolded the instructions I have modified from your post.

Let me know...

That seemed to get me one step closer. Now when I boot, I land on what I think is the login screen but with a black background and a mouse pointer. This is where I was at when using an outdated version of the Weaksauce's package. I'm guessing there's a conflict with the video driver or something. I booted once in verbose mode but couldn't really see anything that would signal an issue. The screen goes blank shortly after the last entry and then I end up on the black screen with the mouse pointer. What do I try next?

I had that issue as well. You can open up a window by clicking "apple-o" and use the window and drag it across the screen.

After that, just install 10.5.5 and everything else that was suppose to be installed.

I ran into that issue but after i installed 10.5.5 and EFI Studio and OSX86Tool, it has been working real well!

See if that works!

 

[objectivegiant]

Originally posted by: albert1028

Originally posted by: objectivegiant

Originally posted by: albert1028

If by combine both, you mean this step...

f. Click "Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag"
i. Click on the "GFX String" button (unless you have your own driver) and install the ATI or Nvidia card
of your choice; you also also do a "Custom GeForce hex" for a card like a Quadro FX 5600,
then click "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the graphics "GFX String Creator" by clicking on the greenexit button.
ii. Click on the "Ethernet Strings" button, then click , "Save as Hex" instead of ["Import String to Boot Editor"], and then save the file to your desktop as a .hex, exit out of the Ethernet String Creator by clicking on the green exit button.
iiB. THen in the boot editor click the "Combine Hex Strings" and select the two .hex files you saved from the previous 2 steps. Then follow what is left below! This should help.
iii. In the second textbox on the left ("Please enter the graphics mode..."), type in "2560x1600", but
without the quotes
iv. In the textbox on the right ("Please enter the timeout..."), type in "5" without the quotes
v. Click "Apple changes to com.apple.Boot.plist"

... then yes. That's exactly what I did.

I tried booting in verbose mode and the last line item that loads seems to be related to ethernet. Here's a link to a picture I took of the screen when it stopped... SCREENSHOT

Does this help?

I have bolded the parts that should be followed. There were updated instructions on the 11/21. But try following the instructions above and note that I have bolded the instructions I have modified from your post.

Let me know...

That seemed to get me one step closer. Now when I boot, I land on what I think is the login screen but with a black background and a mouse pointer. This is where I was at when using an outdated version of the Weaksauce's package. I'm guessing there's a conflict with the video driver or something. I booted once in verbose mode but couldn't really see anything that would signal an issue. The screen goes blank shortly after the last entry and then I end up on the black screen with the mouse pointer. What do I try next?

I had that issue as well. You can open up a window by clicking "apple-o" and use the window and drag it across the screen.

After that, just install 10.5.5 and everything else that was suppose to be installed.

I ran into that issue but after i installed 10.5.5 and EFI Studio and OSX86Tool, it has been working real well!

See if that works!

I already have everything installed once. I just went back and retried the EFI string as you mentioned. 10.5.5 is already installed.

Very odd... Apple+O for me doesn't do anything. I still have a mouse I can move around but no other interface elements. Just a blue background. =\

 

[mugs]

The video cards in the OP are no longer available at Newegg... what's the cheapest currently available dual monitor card that will work without putting any effort into it?

 

[keodk]

mugs, i'm searching for an answer to the same question (almost). Just in my case a video card that works and is passively cooled. Any help would be appreciated

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: mugs
The video cards in the OP are no longer available at Newegg... what's the cheapest currently available dual monitor card that will work without putting any effort into it?

I liked my 7200 GS so much on my P35 that I went and bought another one for my 945 based Hack. It does dual monitors and is passively cooled as well. As I recall was between $25-$30 US at NewEgg. HTH

 

[keodk]

mosslack, thanks for your reply. would i be a problem to use the this one that i've already got from another pc: Sparkle 8800 GT http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3165&p=2
How important are the RAM? i have som Crucial Ballistix. Are they as good as the Transscend that Kaido suggested?

I'm really excited and looking forward to the new guide.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: keodk
mosslack, thanks for your reply. would i be a problem to use the this one that i've already got from another pc: Sparkle 8800 GT http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3165&p=2
How important are the RAM? i have som Crucial Ballistix. Are they as good as the Transscend that Kaido suggested?

I'm really excited and looking forward to the new guide.

The 8800 GT is on the list of cards supported in the 1 click installer from the 11-30-08 updated package so I assume it would be fine. As to your question about RAM I have no idea as I went with the cheapest available at NewEgg for mine. HTH

 

[keodk]

Thanks again for your answer mosslack. I'll try with the crucial ballistix and the 8800 GT that I already have

 

[albert1028]

I already have everything installed once. I just went back and retried the EFI string as you mentioned. 10.5.5 is already installed.

Very odd... Apple+O for me doesn't do anything. I still have a mouse I can move around but no other interface elements. Just a blue background. =\

I would just reinstall everything and do it with the extra details that we discussed and than see what you get. You have the eVGA 8600GT right?

 

[objectivegiant]

Originally posted by: albert1028

I already have everything installed once. I just went back and retried the EFI string as you mentioned. 10.5.5 is already installed.

Very odd... Apple+O for me doesn't do anything. I still have a mouse I can move around but no other interface elements. Just a blue background. =\

I would just reinstall everything and do it with the extra details that we discussed and than see what you get. You have the eVGA 8600GT right?

I have an Asus 7300GT 512MB Silent gfx card.

I might use the PCWiz's Universal OSx86 Installer this time to see if that makes a difference.

 

[dlock13]

Originally posted by: dlock13

Originally posted by: swilso
@ dlock13 go to this site .... http://wiki.osx86project.org/w...p/HCL_10.5.2/Portables

and search your model laptop (i.e. P-7811FX). Someone supposedly got it working with ideneb 10.5.5 looks as though everything works except the LAN and webcam in ichat.

Not going to lie, but I've no idea how to install with iDeneb. Is there some instructions I should be following specifically for this laptop?


Also, I heard OS X needs it's own HDD drive, and I've only got one in my computer. Is it possible to partition it and have Vista on one part, and OS X on the other? Or should I just wait till I can afford a much cheaper laptop drive?

I'm going to bump this in hope for someone's help!

 

[swilso]

Originally posted by: dlock13


I'm going to bump this in hope for someone's help!

Did you read through this, on the page I linked to:
* Install Method: iDeneb 10.5.5
* Chipset: Mobile Intel PM45 Express
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 / 2.26 GHz - Fully working
* Audio: Sigmatel HD SmartAudio 221 - Internal speakers working using AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
* LAN: Marvell Yukon 88E8057 - Unsupported
* Video: nVidia GeForce 9800m GTS - Fully working (QE/CI, Native Res) using the guide here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/i...view=findpost&p=938402
* SATA & IDE: Fully working
* Imaging: Gateway USB 2.0 Webcam working with CamTwist application (although not in iChat).


Best thing to do is experiment, or try to find another laptop with the same chipset that has a guide for it and follow it and see how it goes. First thing to do is get iDeneb 10.5.5

Then look up each of your parts and see if you can get them working. The only laptops I have are macbooks so I don't really know how else to help

 

[dlock13]

Originally posted by: swilso

Originally posted by: dlock13


I'm going to bump this in hope for someone's help!

Did you read through this, on the page I linked to:
* Install Method: iDeneb 10.5.5
* Chipset: Mobile Intel PM45 Express
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 / 2.26 GHz - Fully working
* Audio: Sigmatel HD SmartAudio 221 - Internal speakers working using AppleAzaliaAudio.kext
* LAN: Marvell Yukon 88E8057 - Unsupported
* Video: nVidia GeForce 9800m GTS - Fully working (QE/CI, Native Res) using the guide here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/i...view=findpost&p=938402
* SATA & IDE: Fully working
* Imaging: Gateway USB 2.0 Webcam working with CamTwist application (although not in iChat).


Best thing to do is experiment, or try to find another laptop with the same chipset that has a guide for it and follow it and see how it goes. First thing to do is get iDeneb 10.5.5

Then look up each of your parts and see if you can get them working. The only laptops I have are macbooks so I don't really know how else to help

I'm attempting to use several install methods at the moment. Do you know of where I can find a guide for installing on this chipset? I've googled and just cannot seem to find a comprehensible guide for this.

 

[swilso]

Originally posted by: dlock13


I'm attempting to use several install methods at the moment. Do you know of where I can find a guide for installing on this chipset? I've googled and just cannot seem to find a comprehensible guide for this.

I can't find a guide either. Someone made a post on a site I just read saying the new macbooks use a PM45 chipset ? Don't know if this is true or not?

If so you may need 10.5.5 like ideneb because it may have more stable drivers for that chipset.

For a simple guide to dual boot on your laptop, I found this that may help .. http://wiki.osx86project.org/w...ex.php/Vista_Dual_Boot

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: mosslack
Anyway, I did some reading and found out that Vista x64 will install on a GPT disk, so I thought I would give that a try. Setup the disk again, same scheme except for having the EFI partition as number 1, installed Vista first, worked fine, then installed OS X, but Darwin didn't overwrite the Vista bootloader and now unless I use the boot 132 CD it will always boot up in Vista. This was all last night, I haven't done much with it today.

Edit: I did try to install Chameleon again, but got the same results. Looks like it's just meant to be that I can't dual boot off a single drive!

Hmm... okay it must be that retail OSX /Boot-132 can't install to an MBR disk for whatever reason. I know the 'distro' versions of OSX work on MBR, and it's odd since the OSX installer says to use MBR for installing to disks with Windows.

I've only been installing Windows on a separate disk lately.

One thing to keep in mind- as long as you do have Vista and OSX installed on the same drive, you can hack Vista's bootloader to boot OSX; try EasyBCD or the Chain 0 method.

 

[dlock13]

I shall try installing iDeneb tonight as I need to clear space off my HDD to partition it. At the moment, I have Vista installed, so how would I go about partitioning this to allow Leopard to be installed on the other partition?


Also, I have a question regarding another system I have.

It runs:
AMD 3200+
MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard
1 GB of some type of RAM
7800GT

Now, the problem is that I've tried a few distros to install, but I keep getting an error saying, "OHCI controller will be unloaded across sleep." I've no idea what this is, and I've tried searching for this as well, and honestly, unless I just suck terribly bad at searching, I cannot find any solution to this problem either.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap

Originally posted by: mosslack
Anyway, I did some reading and found out that Vista x64 will install on a GPT disk, so I thought I would give that a try. Setup the disk again, same scheme except for having the EFI partition as number 1, installed Vista first, worked fine, then installed OS X, but Darwin didn't overwrite the Vista bootloader and now unless I use the boot 132 CD it will always boot up in Vista. This was all last night, I haven't done much with it today.

Edit: I did try to install Chameleon again, but got the same results. Looks like it's just meant to be that I can't dual boot off a single drive!

Hmm... okay it must be that retail OSX /Boot-132 can't install to an MBR disk for whatever reason. I know the 'distro' versions of OSX work on MBR, and it's odd since the OSX installer says to use MBR for installing to disks with Windows.

I've only been installing Windows on a separate disk lately.

One thing to keep in mind- as long as you do have Vista and OSX installed on the same drive, you can hack Vista's bootloader to boot OSX; try EasyBCD or the Chain 0 method.

I thought I had the answer, but it didn't work. I reinstalled again with the MBR setup and just used Super Duper to copy a good 10.5.5 install over to the OS X MBR partition. Ran Chameleon and thought that should work, but still Vista's bootloader is unrelenting. I may play around with the Vista bootloader some to see what I can do, it's not a big deal, but something I've wanted to do for some time now. BTW, in reading some on the subject, it is the retail version which cannot be installed to an MBR partitioned disk. I've used Kalyway and others and it works just fine. I have a Kalyway install on my GA-945GCMX-S2 Hack with Windows XP, OS X, and about 8 different flavors of Linux all on the same drive. I used Boot It NG for the boot manager on that one.

 

[Kaido]

Status Update:

-Dumped Disabler in favor of CPUPMdisabler (Disabler killed AFP/Bonjour)
-Finalized core package
-Developing some new tools & a new 1-Click feature
-Streamlining the written guide
-Learning ScreenFlow for screen recording to do the video tutorial

Definitely on track for Saturday :thumbsup:

 

[randomlinh]

saturday is so far away... how many new features do you keep sneaking in, haha. I'll have everything tuesday... a day or two to test... but I won't be home for the weekend =(