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Apple OS X Mavericks (10.9) Developer preview @ Apple Dev Site or any other source
myHack 3.2 BETA 8 - Link
Chameleon 2.2 svn r2246 - Link
TonyMacx86 - Link
Multibeast for Mountain Lion
Installation Drive Setup:
Mount the OS X Mavericks 10.9.dmg (Your file might be named something different)
Right click on Install OS X 10.9 Developer Preview and click Show Package Contents
Navigate to /Install OS X 10.9 Developer Preview.app/Contents/SharedSupport/ and copy the InstallESD.dmg file to your desktop
You can unmount the OS X Mavericks 10.9.dmg
Insert your flash drive. Launch myHack.
Type in your machine's password
Select Create OS X Installer then Create OS X 10.9 Install Disk
Now select your flash drive
It will remove all existing data!
Now select Browse and select the InstallESD.dmg on your desktop
Navigate to your Flash Drive /myHack OS X Install Disk/Extra/
Delete everything except for the following:
Extensions
RemovedExtensions
In a new Finder window open your existing hackintosh's hard drive and it's /Extra folder
Copy everything from it to your myHack drive
Verify that you have the MacPro3,1 SMBIOSinstalled.
Launch Multibeast
Select the following:
On the next screen select your Flash Drive
Finish the installer
Installation Procedure:
Boot off of the Flash Drive
Work your way through the prompts
Choose your installation drive and continue
It will ask you if you want to use your own /Extrafolder.
Select yes and browse to the Flash Drive and select the /Extra folder there
The rest of the prompts will ask you if you don't want to install certain kexts. I took it's recommendation and didn't install any of them.
After the installation boot off of the Flash Drive and select the installation drive.
If the installation doesn't reboot. Click the Apple icon at the top of the screen and select reboot from there.
Post - Installation Procedure:
Work your way through the prompts.
Once you reach the desktop. run MultiBeast and select the following options:
Now install Chameleon 2.2 svn r2246
You're done! Reboot and boot off of your installation drive.
Notes:
Thanks to eriksmets for the following:
Don’t forget to remove /S/L/E/myhack.kext if you want native powermanagement to work. Sleep now works on my UP5 THSo far I haven't had any other issues.
Issues:
iMessages is the only thing that doesn't work for me.
So far I haven't had any other issues. If I do I'll post them here.
More information:
OS X Mavericks (10.9) - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH (Thunderbolt) - Video
Getting 3 monitors to work with 10.8.2 with a Kepler GFX card
Today I did a fresh install of 10.8.2 with TonyMac's latest Multibeast. Well after booting up the machine I had lost the ability to have my GTX 670 to push 3 monitors. Finally found a fix:
Ingredients
10.8.2 Supplemental Update - Link
MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0
Pre-patched - Link
or Patch it your self:
Download update from Apple - Link
Download edited Distribution file - Link
Open update from Apple using Flat Package Editor
Part of Auxiliary Tools for Xcode Developer Preview (OS X Mountain Lion) - Link
Replace the update’s Distribution file
Save
Procedure
Verify that your org.chameleon.Boot.plistis setup correctly
Locate org.chameleon.Boot.plist which is in /Extra
Edit using TextEdit
Make sure GraphicsEnabler is set to No.
Install the 10.8.2 Supplemental Update
Once the installer is finished leave it running. It wants to reboot but don't do that till after the next step.
Install the patched MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0
I have a few questions regarding the hardware and the installation of Mountain Lion:
1) The main difference in my setup is the use of a Samsung 830 SSD. Do I have to check ""TRIM Enabler"" in MultiBeast?
2) Do any of the MultiBeast settings change for the installation of 10.8.1?
3) Initially I plan on having only one monitor attached to the GTX 670 (or GTX 670Ti) If I ever to decide to attach a second monitor to the HD4000 graphics, do the following instruction still apply?
4) What is the benefit of having two Ethernet ports? One port can be a backup? Are two ports beneficial for a server?
Regards,
Grantwood
1) I would wait till you run Multibeast once then check the drive under system profiler to see if it has TRIM enabled. If it doesn't you can run Multibeast again to add TRIM Enabler.
2) Nope.
3) I would follow that guide and because it get AirPlay running on your machine. Connect both monitors to your GTX670
4) Yes and no. It depends on how you have it set up. I do a lot of transfers between my multiple network drives so I run the dual port Intel NIC in link aggregation.
Hey Alfa-
Just wondering - what ethernet card are you using? I'm noticing about a 20% decrease in speed when using the built-in ethernet on the Z77X-UP5-TH board.
Thx!
Yeah I've had issues with the onboard NIC too. I'm using the HP NC360T it was running on my old machine (Link). I'll do some comparison tests with the on board in a few days. I think a new patch for it will be out shortly. We'll see.
Tested using XBench with Thread testing turned off. Here are the xbench results: Link
Larger image of graph: Link
In conclusion we see that you don't get a huge boost in performance but you do see some increase. As someone who almost always ran the MacPro 3,1 SMBIOS I was surprised.
Backing up your running Hackintosh. A hackintosh must. No more reinstalling!
Ingredients:
Working Mac / Hackintosh
SuperDuper: Link (Free!)
2nd harddrive equal or larger than used space on boot drive
This drive will be wiped! All content will be lost!
Launch SuperDuper
The drop-down menu next to the word Copy select your boot drive.
Next in the drop-down menu next to the word To select the destination drive.
In the picture my boot drive is Lion. The drive I am backing up to is name Machintosh HDD 2.
Click Copy Now. Wait.
Once it's finished you'll have a backup drive. This way if you mess up your primary drive you can boot into the backup drive and use SuperDuper to copy your working installation back.
Notes:
Once the procedure is complete, it will show up in your bootloader. Chameleon or Chimera.
I recommend having an old SATA drive just for this. When you machine is up and running just make a copy of your bootdrive. Never have to worry about it again!
Install the latest version of Chimera to your boot drive. (Link)
Locate org.chameleon.Boot.plist which is in /Extra
In your org.chameleon.Boot.plist make sure GraphicsEnabler is set to No. Then below the GraphicsEnabler line copy and past the text from the text file.
Like so: (most of the string has been truncated)
Save and Reboot
In your BIOS change Primary Graphics to IGFX and set Internal Memory Size to 32mb and verify that DVMT Total Memory Size is set to MAX.
Save settings and Reboot.
Notes:
My Asus GTX670 Top (GTX670-DC2T-2GD5) works along side with the HD4000. No performance hit. In the BIOS you must set the HD4000 as the primary GPU. The additional card /s must be compatible with GraphicsEnabler=no.
Here is is machine pushing a GTX 670 + ATI 6870 + HD4000: Link
This guide was made on the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH. If you can't get the HD4000 to work go to this thread: Link and look for a better fitting EFI-string for your setup.
I recently sold my MSI Z77A-GD80 because of the Thunderbolt chip they were using. So I have no way of testing this out. But netkas has got OpenCL working!
Here is the screen shot posted on the netkas blog:
netkas's instructions on how to use the following files:
replace file inside GeForceGLDriver.bundle
Download links:
OS X 10.7.4 + 2012 MBP files: http://cl.ly/0E373b3p1a1n
OS X Mountain Lion: http://cl.ly/1I1y383i0T06
Forum thread: Link
Hopefully the Gigabyte Thunderbolt boards will be on sale from NewEgg next week. I'll order mine then. Can't wait to test this.
