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Comment on Hackintosh, Networking updates by oldag

oldag — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:16:20 +0000

If you can read this, you are not a nascar fan.

Comment on Successful replacement of my Macbook Pro’s keyboard – some tips by oldag

oldag — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:45:33 +0000

if you can read this, you are not a nascar fan.

Comment on Successful replacement of my Macbook Pro’s keyboard – some tips by cantankerouscoder

cantankerouscoder — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:41:53 +0000

Wow, why didn’t I think of that? Actually, I had. But, much like retarded internet trolls such as yourself, neither my wife nor 2 year olds in general take much interest in listening to what I say unless something happens to finally break. Now run along back to your mother’s basement.

Comment on Successful replacement of my Macbook Pro’s keyboard – some tips by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:34:23 +0000

So… Your computer was on the KITCHEN counter next to a drink, and your SON knocked over said drink, and yet, this is all your wife’s fault? How about telling your dumbfuck son to stop throwing shit up on counters or keeping your computer in, oh say, AN OFFICE. Crazy ideas, huh?

Comment on Hackintosh – it’s alive! by cantankerouscoder

cantankerouscoder — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:48:55 +0000

I’m fairly sure what’s in smbios.plist has nothing to do with how Mac OS actually uses the machine.

I’ve never used Easybcd. Chameleon does what I want, but I suppose it’s something to consider for the future.

Sorry, I misread what you said. Regardless, getting the hpet to work correctly did require a dsdt change, as there was a section covering it inside the dsdt.

I never did use the onboard ethernet for this motherboard. It does not work out of the box & does require a 3rd-party driver (which I discussed in another post — it appears to be a different driver than the one you’re using). I use a wireless card (DWA 556) which *does* work out of the box, with no additional drivers. There’s source out there for the realtek driver — if I ever manage to install ethernet in my house near where my workstation is, then yeah, I’ll probably break down & fix the driver myself.

Comment on Hackintosh – it’s alive! by Stephen Harris

Stephen Harris — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:15:23 +0000

To close this off. I booted up today and the self-assigned message was gone, it now said connected and had a DNS server and my Router’s IP address etc. Mail worked. I guess the polling for the DHCP server isn’t all that efficient. I wish I knew how to start the search connection to the server manually.It now says 12GB 667 Mhz DDR2 Sdram instead of DDR3 at a faster Mhz. Well, still something to learn.

Comment on Hackintosh – it’s alive! by Stephen Harris

Stephen Harris — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:45:01 +0000

I also installed to two drives, Windows 7 second. I only used 6GB of ram for the SL install because I had read that there were installation problems if you used 12GB. For the Win7 install I inserted the additional 6GB. I have had this recognized afterwards, as 4GB of ddr2, 12GB of ddr2 and 12GB of ddr3. I have never edited the symbios file. I don’t know if it can be automatically regenerated after reading the bios. I’m not sure that what is reported actually had to do with what the machine uses.

I formatted the Mac drive with disk utility, GUID partition table and into one partition. It created an EFI, the main drive, and a 128mb partition even though I selected one partition. At first I had to use Iboot to boot SL. Then I ran Cameleon and can boot directly from the hard drive now. That means something was written to the hard drive. I believe that is what Easybcd reads. I can dual boot using Easybcd. I used to dual boot win xp and ubuntu. I used the dd command to put the 512 bytes in a .bin file on my Windows C: drive. It was simple to add Ubuntu to the XP boot.ini I think Easybcd boots SL from a file on the Mac hard drive, not the MBR. “Systems that support EFI require that the boot partition must reside on a GPT disk. Other hard disks can be either MBR or GPT.”
“When I boot chameleon, i see 3 choices — mac os, the system partition (which is the boot partition), and the windows data partition. This is how Windows 7 installs. Are you seeing something else?”

That is what I see when I use the iboot boot disk which now identifies itself as Chameleon RC.4. I have gotten an error from trying to boot the Win7 drive from there. I use Easybcd which boots directly to Win7 or to SL, = Chameleon, F8 gives me the option of booting to Windows Data, Windows Reserved or Snow Leopard. I think the Win 7 boot files are actually located on the Windows Reserved partition. Anyway, I don’t experiment with that anymore because something failed to work.
I’m not aware of describing power problems. The tutorial had me change the bios to AHCI, enable sata and esata, and put HPET into 64 bit mode. I thought HPET was related to power, maybe not. It was in the Power Management section of the bios.
My question was, what kext did you use to enable the onboard ethernet,
en0 and en1 so that you could connect to the internet? You said you used a vanilla kext. Which one is it, for this motherboard, it should be a RealTex and some number after RL? I think that Chameleon, since it was installed before Windows was installed probably points to the wrong Win partition. But I don’t care, I already have a solution.

Comment on Hackintosh – it’s alive! by cantankerouscoder

cantankerouscoder — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:57:16 +0000

The amount of ram reported in “About this Mac” actually has only to do with what you put in your smbios.plist file. There’s some way to get it to auto-detect, but I didn’t do that — I just edited my smbios file. (I have 6GB of DDR3).

Regarding Chameleon, I’m multi-booting with no troubles, but I’m using a 2nd drive. If you’re using MBR partitioning, that can definitely throw a wrench in to things. If you’re using GPT partitioning, I’ve heard of people having issues booting windows (7, presumably — vista can’t boot from GPT partitions) with that, too. I’m not sure what “automatic detection” you’re referring to here. When I boot chameleon, i see 3 choices — mac os, the system partition (which is the boot partition), and the windows data partition. This is how Windows 7 installs. Are you seeing something else?

I haven’t had the issues with power management you describe. To get power management to work reliably, however, you have to supply a modified dsdt, which I described in my other post.

Comment on Hackintosh – it’s alive! by Stephen Harris

Stephen Harris — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:44:49 +0000

I have the same motherboard except the bios is FB and Revision 2.0 and the i7-950. I used the MultiBeast tutorial because it enjoyed the most success. I’ve had trouble with the Ethernet. At first no En’s, then it wouldn’t connect to the internet because of a self-assigned IP address. I spent hours on different combinations. Finally, I connected and could do email, and I locked it. After a later reboot I lost the connection and it now reported 4GB of ddr2 ram instead of 12GB of ddr3 ram. I used RL8169 for the kext? Also I can dual boot with Easybcd, as I installed Windows second. I do get a Chameleon boot screen but it doesn’t boot to the smaller Windows boot partition, that is, no automatic detection. It misses ntldr. I turned off xxxHPET in Power Management in the bios. Hackintosh reminds me of the Redhat 6 days.
My video worked, I think it was Nvidia enabler.

Comment on DSDT and kext information for my Hackintosh by cantankerouscoder

cantankerouscoder — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:55:28 +0000

Sorry, I’m not going to provide copyrighted BIOS binaries (or patches thereto). The source patch I’ve provided is sufficient for you to make your own modifications and get the exact same results I’ve gotten.