Thursday, December 31, 2009
2010 New Years
just a short note, enjoy your new years eve and i hope all goes well for you all in the New Year!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Pre Install 1TB
So 2morrow i get me a new 1TB Hard Drive, and ill be doing a complete fresh install, ill post everything i have do to get it working @ 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. After this ill be leaving it and no more install's. Am still thinking about 1TB Time Machine, and will posting up my plans for some form of backup.
UPDATE: i went into the computer shop to get me my HARD Drive, and they didnt have any inthere! This shop named DragonPC, must have the worst website in the world, they have items in stock on there site, but go in and NOPE nothing there! there site is over stock of items they dont have on there. I have decided to leave alone for now and will not recommend them to anyone! So now i have to wait 2-5 days to get one posted out from Auckland, and cause i placed the order on NY eve i will not see anything till mmm thurs lastest!
UPDATE: i went into the computer shop to get me my HARD Drive, and they didnt have any inthere! This shop named DragonPC, must have the worst website in the world, they have items in stock on there site, but go in and NOPE nothing there! there site is over stock of items they dont have on there. I have decided to leave alone for now and will not recommend them to anyone! So now i have to wait 2-5 days to get one posted out from Auckland, and cause i placed the order on NY eve i will not see anything till mmm thurs lastest!
Changing Workgroups
i was trying to find out to get onto the same workgroup as my other windows machines, (MSHOME). In case you are too trying to work this out then here is the way
System Preferences->Network->Advanced->WINS
hope this helps!
System Preferences->Network->Advanced->WINS
hope this helps!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
10.6.2 IS WORKING!!!!
Well i made it! Working Snow Leopard 10.6.2 - All is working as can be, and no problems yet. This is one issue and that is every time i boot into snow leopard, i get a blue screen. I'm still looking into this, and there seems to be a couple of reasons but nothing really. All i need to do is turn my screen off and then on again straight away. Other than that i loving my system and planing some upgrades. Looking into Quad core and maybe better memory. Also i wish to know more about Time Machine. Below is a screen shot of my Current System ask i speak.
The guides i have used to do this are
#1 how-to-install-kext
#2 netkas.org
i recommend, that when you install and reboot to rerun the i hack you dont install the SleepEnabler.kext and that you update first before the final reboot. After rebooting then install the SleepEnabler.kext ver 6.2 and away you go.
UPDATE: just notice i had no sound and had to reapply my dsdt.aml file, and run permission's. also Changed DVI ports on my video card and i dont get the blue screen @ login. So everything thing is working perfect!
The guides i have used to do this are
#1 how-to-install-kext
#2 netkas.org
i recommend, that when you install and reboot to rerun the i hack you dont install the SleepEnabler.kext and that you update first before the final reboot. After rebooting then install the SleepEnabler.kext ver 6.2 and away you go.
UPDATE: just notice i had no sound and had to reapply my dsdt.aml file, and run permission's. also Changed DVI ports on my video card and i dont get the blue screen @ login. So everything thing is working perfect!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Basics of OSX86 for Noobs.
Found this @ ihackintosh
This guide is prepared for newbees of OSX86 who are interested to run OSX on their ordinary P.C. but not aware with OSX dictionary. Most of migrator comes from Windows platform & never heard about Kernel,Kext,Vanilla etc. Forums are the best place for finding information.I have collected some information from the major OSX86 sites about these basic terms lets take a quick look.
Q. What are kexts ?
Ans. Kexts, or kernel extensions are drivers that are installed to /System/Library/Extensions/.Kext files often have the “.kext” extension and allow for extra hardware support and and in the case of OSx86, to replace Appleʼs original drivers with ones that are optimized for use on PCs.
Q. What is a kernel ?
Ans. A kernel is in short terms the “core” of the operating system. It controls basically all low level operating functions. Kernels exist in all Linux and UNIX based systems, including Mac OS X. In Mac OS X the kernel is located in the root of your hard drive (/) and is named “mach_kernel” by default. If you have a vanilla based system (see below) then replacing the kernel is most likely not necessary, however if you have an AMD or SSE3 incapable processor then a patched kernel will likely be required.
Q. What is DSDT ?
Ans. DSDT is a part of ACPI. Actually DSDT tells OS how to interract with the hardware (simplified way of telling it). OSX has an incomplete ACPI implementation which supports only a subset of DSDT. By replacing DSDT we can declare essentially the same interface but in the way that OSX understands. This potentially can solve nearly any ACPI-related problem (except if OSX bypasses ACPI). Other usage case is emulating by the means of DSDT features or hardware components not present on your system. But this is limited to devices that use ACPI.
Q. What is DSDT patching?
Ans. This is an area very rarely delved into, and is something that some of even the most experienced users dare not venture. In reality, its not dangerous, it just can be painfully hard at times. DSDT is a table found in your computerʼs BIOS that controls ACPI (power, time, etc.) functions. Starting at OS X 10.5.6 Apple decided to start checking for faulty DSDTs when it boots. Obviously the PCs DSDT comes back as faulty so it will not boot. The only way to counteract this is to make a dump of the DSDT in the BIOS and patch it properly for Darwin. First of all, you need a modified bootloader that will support DSDT override. This installer includes just that, using the “Install PC_EFI v9 Chameleon Edition 1.0.12” checkbox. Now you need a patched DSDT file that will be copied to / dsdt.aml. To create DSDT dumps you can use the DSDT Patcher (also included in the Extras folder) but this is an advanced method, and often UOI plugins will include a DSDT file that you can install easily with this installer. However beware, even if you have the same motherboard DSDTʼs can vary by BIOS version so try to make sure that you have the same BIOS version as what is specified in the plugin.
Q. Difference between SMC & RTC ?
Ans. The SMC is basically System Management Controller. By resetting the SMC you can resolve some computer issues such as not starting up, not displaying video, sleep issues, fan noise issues, and blah-2. While The Real Time Clock (RTC) is a chip on the logic board that controls the date and time functions of the computer. If the computer is experiencing a booting issue, resetting the RTC may resolve it.
Q. What is a vanilla compatible system ?
Ans. A vanilla compatible system is a computer capable of running OSx86 with minimal modifications (no patched kernel, compatible with Apple software updates). You have a vanilla capable system if: you have a Core 2 based processor.
Q. What is EFI emulation ?
Ans. EFI is the Extensible Firmware interface found in real macs. EFI is basically the “BIOS” of a Mac. For a computer to be properly recognized as a mac and to have the most compatibility it must have EFI. The problem here is that PCs do not have EFI.Developers have counteracted this problem by using EFI emulation which enables basic EFI function calls through a specially modified bootloader. EFI distributions for OSx86 include PC_EFI and Chameleon. Nearly all OSx86 installs have some form of EFI emulation installed, so this is not necessarily something to worry about. EFI emulation is required to use vanilla (unpatched) kernels and kexts, and to use GUID partition maps and EFI strings (more on that below)
I found this very interesting and help me understand some parts alot more better! A must read for us newbies
This guide is prepared for newbees of OSX86 who are interested to run OSX on their ordinary P.C. but not aware with OSX dictionary. Most of migrator comes from Windows platform & never heard about Kernel,Kext,Vanilla etc. Forums are the best place for finding information.I have collected some information from the major OSX86 sites about these basic terms lets take a quick look.
Q. What are kexts ?
Ans. Kexts, or kernel extensions are drivers that are installed to /System/Library/Extensions/.Kext files often have the “.kext” extension and allow for extra hardware support and and in the case of OSx86, to replace Appleʼs original drivers with ones that are optimized for use on PCs.
Q. What is a kernel ?
Ans. A kernel is in short terms the “core” of the operating system. It controls basically all low level operating functions. Kernels exist in all Linux and UNIX based systems, including Mac OS X. In Mac OS X the kernel is located in the root of your hard drive (/) and is named “mach_kernel” by default. If you have a vanilla based system (see below) then replacing the kernel is most likely not necessary, however if you have an AMD or SSE3 incapable processor then a patched kernel will likely be required.
Q. What is DSDT ?
Ans. DSDT is a part of ACPI. Actually DSDT tells OS how to interract with the hardware (simplified way of telling it). OSX has an incomplete ACPI implementation which supports only a subset of DSDT. By replacing DSDT we can declare essentially the same interface but in the way that OSX understands. This potentially can solve nearly any ACPI-related problem (except if OSX bypasses ACPI). Other usage case is emulating by the means of DSDT features or hardware components not present on your system. But this is limited to devices that use ACPI.
Q. What is DSDT patching?
Ans. This is an area very rarely delved into, and is something that some of even the most experienced users dare not venture. In reality, its not dangerous, it just can be painfully hard at times. DSDT is a table found in your computerʼs BIOS that controls ACPI (power, time, etc.) functions. Starting at OS X 10.5.6 Apple decided to start checking for faulty DSDTs when it boots. Obviously the PCs DSDT comes back as faulty so it will not boot. The only way to counteract this is to make a dump of the DSDT in the BIOS and patch it properly for Darwin. First of all, you need a modified bootloader that will support DSDT override. This installer includes just that, using the “Install PC_EFI v9 Chameleon Edition 1.0.12” checkbox. Now you need a patched DSDT file that will be copied to / dsdt.aml. To create DSDT dumps you can use the DSDT Patcher (also included in the Extras folder) but this is an advanced method, and often UOI plugins will include a DSDT file that you can install easily with this installer. However beware, even if you have the same motherboard DSDTʼs can vary by BIOS version so try to make sure that you have the same BIOS version as what is specified in the plugin.
Q. Difference between SMC & RTC ?
Ans. The SMC is basically System Management Controller. By resetting the SMC you can resolve some computer issues such as not starting up, not displaying video, sleep issues, fan noise issues, and blah-2. While The Real Time Clock (RTC) is a chip on the logic board that controls the date and time functions of the computer. If the computer is experiencing a booting issue, resetting the RTC may resolve it.
Q. What is a vanilla compatible system ?
Ans. A vanilla compatible system is a computer capable of running OSx86 with minimal modifications (no patched kernel, compatible with Apple software updates). You have a vanilla capable system if: you have a Core 2 based processor.
Q. What is EFI emulation ?
Ans. EFI is the Extensible Firmware interface found in real macs. EFI is basically the “BIOS” of a Mac. For a computer to be properly recognized as a mac and to have the most compatibility it must have EFI. The problem here is that PCs do not have EFI.Developers have counteracted this problem by using EFI emulation which enables basic EFI function calls through a specially modified bootloader. EFI distributions for OSx86 include PC_EFI and Chameleon. Nearly all OSx86 installs have some form of EFI emulation installed, so this is not necessarily something to worry about. EFI emulation is required to use vanilla (unpatched) kernels and kexts, and to use GUID partition maps and EFI strings (more on that below)
I found this very interesting and help me understand some parts alot more better! A must read for us newbies
Back down to 10.6.0
after playing around with 10.6.2 i have been having issues that are not getting fixed! So i decided to do a fresh install, and leave it @ 10.6.2. Main issues for me in 10.6.2 are
#1 Can not shutdown correctly, i belive it has to with the SleepEnabler update i need. As i cannot find a good enough place to understand how to install.
#2 When i boot, i load into a blue screen, ive seen this before, and just press the power button to shutdown, reboot and away it went!
ill try and update soon with how i go in updating for 10.6.2 but for now ill leave it here and enjoy using.
#1 Can not shutdown correctly, i belive it has to with the SleepEnabler update i need. As i cannot find a good enough place to understand how to install.
#2 When i boot, i load into a blue screen, ive seen this before, and just press the power button to shutdown, reboot and away it went!
ill try and update soon with how i go in updating for 10.6.2 but for now ill leave it here and enjoy using.
installed Snow Leopard 10.6.2
So if you read my past post about installing snow leopard, i have now got a working snow leopard system with sound, network and nvidia GTX 260 install and working, this took me a number of installs and work arounds.
#1 when follow this guide, when you get to the section "DSDT, Audio and remaining fixes" do in click on "SleepEnabler" this is because when you update from 10.6.0 to 10.6.2 you machine will stop working. i found it easyer to just not install, update and then install this file.. i will update later the commands needed to install this update which will fix your Computer Shutdown, and Sleep.
#2 When you get "DSDT quick guide" just copy the file from your flash drive install, this will get your sound working!
Other than that everything is working.
#1 when follow this guide, when you get to the section "DSDT, Audio and remaining fixes" do in click on "SleepEnabler" this is because when you update from 10.6.0 to 10.6.2 you machine will stop working. i found it easyer to just not install, update and then install this file.. i will update later the commands needed to install this update which will fix your Computer Shutdown, and Sleep.
#2 When you get "DSDT quick guide" just copy the file from your flash drive install, this will get your sound working!
Other than that everything is working.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
First install of Snow Leopard
Well i tryed my first install of Snow Leopard. I found this great guide @ infinitemac. They have everything you need to understand how to install, All works, but not the sound, i am having troubles understand the final part.
open ES2L kit Tools then "DSDT_Patcher1.0.1e" folder and double click "DSDT Patcher"
- a terminal window will open then press any key to continue
- next it will ask "Which OS to emulate? [0=Darwin, 1=WinXP, 2=WinVista]" input "0" and press enter
- a new Debug folder will appear and inside it are a few files but we are interested in "dsdt.dsl"
- open your dsdt.dsl using your preffered texteditor so we can start editing
- also as reference, open my included dsl to copy from it directly or check how it's done
- on your keyboard press "command F (Find)" and look for "_WAK", right above it copy paste "DTGP" located on your dsdtfix file
- again "command F (Find)" and enter RTC, look for "0x04" below RTC and changed them to "0x02" - this fix is for CMOS Reset
- command F (Find) and enter Azalia, go to dsdtfix file and copy paste "HDEF" to your dsl replacing azalia.. again check my included dsl for reference - this is for ALC883 Audio
- when done and sure everything is correct, hit save or (command S) to save your dsdt.dsl
- to compile it to .aml, drag and drop it (dsdt.dsl) to iAslMe, you'll get 1 warning (PARM under IGD0) but hopefully you have 0 error
- look for Sessions folder and copy dsdt.aml to /Extra of your Snow Leopard
ill jump back onto it later, but did find that after the install, i had to use other old video card so i could install the Nvidia Drivers, after reboot all was fine. The other issue i had was learning to install needed drivers to read NTFS Windows Drive. Apart from this everything else worked great, and the howto guide was quick and easy. Please read this if you wish to move to Snow Leopard.
open ES2L kit Tools then "DSDT_Patcher1.0.1e" folder and double click "DSDT Patcher"
- a terminal window will open then press any key to continue
- next it will ask "Which OS to emulate? [0=Darwin, 1=WinXP, 2=WinVista]" input "0" and press enter
- a new Debug folder will appear and inside it are a few files but we are interested in "dsdt.dsl"
- open your dsdt.dsl using your preffered texteditor so we can start editing
- also as reference, open my included dsl to copy from it directly or check how it's done
- on your keyboard press "command F (Find)" and look for "_WAK", right above it copy paste "DTGP" located on your dsdtfix file
- again "command F (Find)" and enter RTC, look for "0x04" below RTC and changed them to "0x02" - this fix is for CMOS Reset
- command F (Find) and enter Azalia, go to dsdtfix file and copy paste "HDEF" to your dsl replacing azalia.. again check my included dsl for reference - this is for ALC883 Audio
- when done and sure everything is correct, hit save or (command S) to save your dsdt.dsl
- to compile it to .aml, drag and drop it (dsdt.dsl) to iAslMe, you'll get 1 warning (PARM under IGD0) but hopefully you have 0 error
- look for Sessions folder and copy dsdt.aml to /Extra of your Snow Leopard
ill jump back onto it later, but did find that after the install, i had to use other old video card so i could install the Nvidia Drivers, after reboot all was fine. The other issue i had was learning to install needed drivers to read NTFS Windows Drive. Apart from this everything else worked great, and the howto guide was quick and easy. Please read this if you wish to move to Snow Leopard.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Intalling with iATKOS v7
I thought ill post the settings i have with iATKOS v7 install disk. I added this settings in the Customize
Nvidia GTX 260
DVI/DVI
NV Enabler
Nvidia EVGA
System
ntfs-3G
Network
Wired Realtek 1000
with those settings you will get your system up and running, ill be posting my setup for Snow Leopard
Nvidia GTX 260
DVI/DVI
NV Enabler
Nvidia EVGA
System
ntfs-3G
Network
Wired Realtek 1000
with those settings you will get your system up and running, ill be posting my setup for Snow Leopard
Friday, December 11, 2009
Two OS / One Hard Drive
Well ive decided to upgrade to Snow Leopard, ill be using this same setup with a couple of changes, first ill have a Nvidia 8800GT, and a SATA 640Gig Hard Drive, setup to dual boot Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Found this at sevenforums.com
First install Windows 7. Then, create a new partition for your osx within Windows 7 , format it as fat32 or ntfs and set to to be "active".
Then run the osx installation and before you start the install, go to Utilities and "disk utility" , select the partition you created from Windows 7 and format it as Journaled (don't delete it!).
Then, install as you would normally, selecting this partition as your installation target. (don't forget to customize your OSX installation with the necessary drivers for you system.)
After installation is complete, you will need to repair your Windows 7 boot loader, cause you probably won't be able to boot Windows 7.
Insert the Windows 7 installation DVD, at the first installation screen select your language etc, and at the second screen select "repair computer".
This will bring the Windows 7 boot loader back, so you can boot Windows 7.
Now you won't be able to load osx!
So boot in Windows 7, and unhide your hidden 200MB partition:
1. In disk management, assign a drive letter for your 200MB hidden partition.
2.Download EasyBCD and add a new boot entry, select MacOS, Generic X86, Add, Save.
ill keep you dated as i make this happen!
EDIT:
After trying to work this out, i for the life of me could not get this working! i now belive the best way to install OSX86 is to have 2 Hard Drives! everything is alot easyer and life is simple!
First install Windows 7. Then, create a new partition for your osx within Windows 7 , format it as fat32 or ntfs and set to to be "active".
Then run the osx installation and before you start the install, go to Utilities and "disk utility" , select the partition you created from Windows 7 and format it as Journaled (don't delete it!).
Then, install as you would normally, selecting this partition as your installation target. (don't forget to customize your OSX installation with the necessary drivers for you system.)
After installation is complete, you will need to repair your Windows 7 boot loader, cause you probably won't be able to boot Windows 7.
Insert the Windows 7 installation DVD, at the first installation screen select your language etc, and at the second screen select "repair computer".
This will bring the Windows 7 boot loader back, so you can boot Windows 7.
Now you won't be able to load osx!
So boot in Windows 7, and unhide your hidden 200MB partition:
1. In disk management, assign a drive letter for your 200MB hidden partition.
2.Download EasyBCD and add a new boot entry, select MacOS, Generic X86, Add, Save.
ill keep you dated as i make this happen!
EDIT:
After trying to work this out, i for the life of me could not get this working! i now belive the best way to install OSX86 is to have 2 Hard Drives! everything is alot easyer and life is simple!
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