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Asus P6T7 Installation Walkthrough!
« Thread Started on Apr 5, 2010, 6:09pm »

OK guys, time to give something back to the OSX 86 community in the shape of a walkthrough, and to be more specific a walkthrough for a Asus P6T7 Supercomputer!

Asus P6T7 Walkthrough

Boot your Asus P6T7 Computer with Mac OSX Snow Leopard. This method will work for any computer, but the installer contains DSDT and other files specifically for an Asus P6T7 mainboard so the installer will have to be modified with your own DSDT files before you would be able to boot different hardware.

Please read!

1st of all, go out and buy a copy of Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Running OSX on a PC is not about piracy but is an extremely rewarding way of learning about OSX and computers in general.

You will need:

You will need 2 x USB Flash drives and access to a computer running OSX + a hard drive for the installation. One Flash drive can be around 1gig and will hold the extra files that I have prepared for the Asus P6T7 board and the other around 16 gigs will be used to install your Snow Leopard disk to.

STEP 1:

a. Plug the smaller 1 gig USB flash drive into a computer running OSX and open up disk utility from your Utilities folder. Format the USB stick as GUID partition table and name the disk:

P6T7_BOOTER

Right click the drive and select "Get Info" , click the padlock, authenticate and UNCHECK the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox. You are now ready to install the P6T7 software. Close the window.

b. Download the 64 bit P6T7 Installer software from here:

Download P6T7 BOOTER Software

and follow the instructions but install to the USB pendrive.

Make sure you do not install to the mac you are using otherwise it will no longer boot - you have been warned.

One last thing - You obviously don't want to see the 1 gig USB pendrive on your desktop all the time, so we can make it hidden by entering the following into the Terminal:

chflags hidden /Volumes/P6T7_BOOTER (then hit return)

Log out and back in and your 1 gig USB booter drive will have disappeared. You can see it again by using the "Show All Files" app or if you want to permanently show it again enter the following into the Terminal:

chflags nohidden /Volumes/P6T7_BOOTER (then hit return)

This will show the USB drive on the desktop again after you log out/in again.

You have completed the first part of the walkthrough - that was easy wasn't it!

Step 2 First option:

There are various options open to you here. Using a real mac,

a. Put your Snow Leopard disk into the DVD drive of a real mac and connect a hard disk drive that you will be installing to. A drive in a USB caddy is recommended.

b. Download the following free app called "Show all files" to your Applications folder. Double click it and select "Show".

Show All Files Download

c. Double click your OSX DVD and you should now be able to see all the hidden files on the DVD. Navigate to System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg and double click it. The installation should continue to the end. When it finishes, don't reboot but shutdown the computer and disconnect the drive with OSX on it.

d. Put the drive in your Hackintosh but set the bios to boot from the 1 gig flash drive you made earlier. It should find your OSX drive and boot it. Set up OSX as usual - you should now have a working system!

OR

Step 2 Second option:

Making a bootable copy of your Snow Leo disk on a USB pen drive.

a. Put your Snow Leopard disk into the disk drive of a real mac and open up disk utility.

b. Click on Mac OS X Install DVD from the left hand pane of disk utility then on New Image along the top panel. Where the drop down box says "Image Format" select "read/write" and Encryption select "none" then save the image to your desktop where you can easily find it. In the "Save As" box name your image "Snow_Leopard_Install" without the quotations.

c. When the image has been saved (it will take a while) it should appear in the left hand pane of disk utility.

d. Plug in your 16 gig USB flash drive and format it with the GUID partition format. When that has finished and it pops back onto your desktop, right click it and and click "get info". Click the padlock, authenticate and UNCHECK the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox.

e.Highlight your new Mac OSX disk image in Disk Utility and select "Restore" from the top menu of disk utility.
Drag your new disk image either from the desktop or the left hand pane into the source box and drop it in.

d. Similarly, drag your 16 gig flash drive into the destination box then click on "Restore".

Make sure that you uncheck the "Erase destination" box underneath.

You should now have a 16 gig USB flash disk that is basically equivalent to a Snow Leopard Install DVD.

Step 3 Making your USB drive bootable:

To make this bootable there is still a couple of steps left.

a. Download the following files from here and empty the contents directly onto your desktop.

Download Chameleon Files

b. Fire up the terminal (don't worry you can copy and paste my commands).
Type in the following:

diskutil list (then hit return)

You should see something like this:

Last login: Mon Apr 5 18:06:46 on ttys000
aquamac:~ aquamac$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *128.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_RAID 127.7 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OSX 134.2 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *128.0 GB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_RAID 127.7 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OSX 134.2 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh Server Raid *255.4 GB disk2
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk3
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS P6T7_OSX_BOOT 7.7 GB disk3s2
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk5
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk5s1
2: Apple_HFS ServerInstall 15.7 GB disk5s2
aquamac:~ aquamac$

It will show all the disks in your system, mine are as follows:

/dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1 & /dev/disk3 are the two Raid partitions of my OSX Install - we are not interested in them.

/dev/disk5 id our 16 gig USB Flash drive so that is what we are interested in.

Type into the terminal:

sudo su (then hit return)

enter you password to authenticate.

then you need to cd to your desktop. If you put the Chameleon files onto your desktop as I explained, then you can type into the Terminal:

cd ~/desktop (then hit return)

Into the terminal type:

fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk5 (then hit return)

then type:

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk5s2 (then hit return)

The number of your disk will change depending on how many disks you have. Your USB flash drive might be disk1, disk 2 or disk 3. If yours was disk 2 say, you would type: dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk2s2 instead (then hit return).

Then type into the terminal:

cp boot /Volumes/Boot\Snow_Leopard_Install (and hit return)

This should copy across your Chameleon boot with correct permissions to the USB stick.

There is one more thing left to do. Download this file and drag it onto your 16 gig USB stick.

P6T7 Extra File

You should have a fully functional USB stick that you can use to install Snow Leopard onto your P6T7 System. Set your bios to boot from this stick. You can use this any time you want to re-install OSX.

Once installed, remove this stick and revert to booting from the 1 gig USB BOOTER stick, setting that as your boot option.

A few notes and thanks:

1. The package from above will set up 2 x NVIDIA GTX 285 cards to run in slots 1 and 5 or 1 card in slot 1 or 5. It should also run GTX 280's and a fair number of other NVIDIA cards. If you have a different card that you have already set up, then swap your com.apple.boot.plist in the installer. It will automatically be installed to your USB pen drive when you install.

2. Thanks go to all the Chameleon developers and many others such as "Netkas" and "The King" for the many interesting and informative posts they have made on the many OSX 86 forums.

« Last Edit: Aug 3, 2010, 6:05pm by aquamac »