One of the top questions on the forum these days seems to be how to get the functionality of iBoot when booting from the hard drive. For novices, it seems like the process ends after the Combo Update. But iBoot was designed as an installation tool only- not as a permanent solution for post-installation. It is NOT a boot crutch. By using it as such, you are limiting the functionality and upgradeability of your system. Fortunately, MultiBeast contains the same drivers and files as iBoot and can allow most things to work without using a DSDT.
We created MultiBeast to solve the post-installation problem. When installed, the following MultiBeast options will allow boot from a 1 TB or less hard drive or partition, universal audio, network, and graphics. These are not the only drivers available, and may not give optimized performance. However, these options will allow you to be rid of iBoot as a boot crutch.
ATI Graphics
NVIDIA Graphics
To benefit from our most recommended and DSDT-optimized solutions for post-installation, submit a
CustomBeast request. If your build has compatible hardware, we'd be happy to build you a personalized customized post-install solution.
Good luck, and see you on the forum!
-tonymacx86 & MacMan
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40 comments:
Great post !!! I hope this helps some guys new to OSX86 !
I just LOVE my OSX build. I could not have done it without tonymacx86. I have donated and am forever grateful! Beats Winslow (Windows) anyday!
great post !!! now i can boot wihout iboot
i have an issue
i installed multibeast with above settings but
sound is not coming
and with every other multibeast setting,
i cant boot wihout iboot
is there any sound enabler other than multibeast which can work for me?
@Anonymous- try a different version of VoodooHDA + System Utilities.
Great blog post :) it's nice to see a screenshot of what I should go for when I use multibeast with my ATI graphics card by the end of the week :) speaking of, are there any plans to offer custombeast to ATI users? If not, that's cool; my build isn't exactly unique, so I'm sure I can figure out what to check off in multibeast. The ATI screenshot definitely looks helpful!
Hi, Tony,
Firstly, Thank you for all the contributions to the communities.
Secondly, maybe it will be better to further explain the difference between iboot and multibeast and what each of the plugin will do and why we have to use them. If I can recall the first time I came across your blog, I was also confused about the difference between iboot and multibeast and the reason why more stuffs are working booting using iboot compare to booting after install multibeast. so I just use the iboot cd to boot into snow leopard before I have figure out the difference. To learn this point it might take some time for the new comers, I know this sounds basic but I think this is a key concept for people to understand the reason we install extra kernels in our mac os x compare to the originals.
CLEAN PICTURE GREAT WORK TONY
Thanks a ton for this tony
why just 1tb HDD? I have a 2TB HDD, it will not work?
thanks!
Is there a reason why an older version of iBoot would work on my motherboard but not the most recent?
I just tried this and now my fully working computer (except for booting via iboot) is stuck at the apple screen. I can't boot with iboot or in safe mode either. Yikes! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Love what you are doing!
I5 760, gigabyte p55m ud4, 5770
Just successfully build the first of "LGA 1156 Builds for OS X", but with Sapphire ATI HD5770 Vapor x as graphic. Everything run smooth, except one little thing: after installing the "Chameleon Instant Menu" option with Multibeast the system hangs on the white Apple after the BIOS till I press Enter (no more "press any key to enter startup option" and progress bar). I tried to remove Instant Menu = Yes from com.apple.boot.plist and put back Timer=no but with no luck. Any ideas?
After that everything runs OK, but I notice I have grahicenabler=yes on the same file. Shouldn't I have NO with the HD5770?
Thanks!
Which Chameleon should I choose if I have ATI card and Sandy Bridge?
Hello.. thanks for everything you do.
A question: with CustomBeast I'd get better optimized drivers than if I'd choose to go Multibeast only?
thanks!
not the same as iboot. cannot boot after selecting under nvidia graphics. Is it probably system dependent related to p55 system only?
I have a HP Mini 1000 netbook and I am able to boot the netbook using Legacy iBoot, but the Easybeast ( in 3.3) does not appear to support the Atom processor. I can see that you support i3/i5/i7s clearly, but I dont see anything about Atom. I suspect you did at one time as I see screenshots that show unsupported cpu support, is that right?
I was able to boot using iBoot but like a lot of others can not seem to make easy beast work for me. Is there a DSDT that a noob like me can use for the HP Mini 1000 and get boot support?
The video, camera and sound all work great, no wireless lan or boot from HDD. Where can a newbie like me start? Installed SL 10.6.3 from factory media and ran the 10.6.6 combo update OK. Please advise and Thank you in advance.
I followed the instructions for the NVidia graphics, but now i can't boot to the HD regularly, in verbose mode or single user mode without a kernel panic, so it got me nowhere. The last thing i see in the hex code is something about the sleep kext, and I want to delete that but not sure I'll be able to boot up again (even when using iBoot).
What are the perspectives of Geforce 560Ti - in what timespan you could expect it to be supported, if at all?
Hey Tony, thanks for all the hard work, right now im running an asus n82jq and i have all working and running great except for 2 things that are driving me nuts, i cant get sleep/hibernate to work at all and the wireless n card only works on wireless g settings, wireless n connects but i get no connectivity, could you please help me?
does this apply to the mobile versions of the card? if it does that would be awesome
Is there anyway to get iBoot to boot off of a USB stick? :| The DVD drive on my Hackintosh is messed up and I can't boot into it (long story).
i used your ati chart but for some reason my mouse and touchpad on my laptop don't work,when i use iboot everything works,how can i fixed that
hi guys. let tony busy with his project. he don't know your combination hardware. iboot & multibest is great tools to install & run osx atleast.
you should do trial & error. try tick 1 by 1 on multibeast (but remember what u ticked)
everytime i install or remove driver, i will run multibeast/system utilities/rebuild caches.
me myself everything works fine except my sound & screen going blue every booting. i have to logout(cmd+shift+q) & login again. i managed to find out the start-up application caused blue screen & for sound, after remove applehda.kext in S/L/E & using vodoohda, now my hackintosh running perfectly. google & download DSDT auto-patcher for userDSDT instead-of easybeast.
hi man, i from colombia, south america, i testing the osx86 on my pc intel dg31pr with graphics chip integrated and run very well, now and reinstallin with a nvidia geforce 9400gt, i hope that work successfully. thnx for this great job, you're the bests guys
Hey guys, just completed my install of OSX 10.6 with update to 10.6.7 and multibeast on MSI-P55-GD80 with MSI ATI 5770. install went great but now i cant boot into OSX without iboot disk... when i try boot it just give "your computer needs to be restarted" message.
I have used UserDTDS and downloaded the MSI-P55-GD80.aml file and selected system utilities, and have tried all the bootloader options but still no luck booting into osx without iboot cd
And those who had to use the legacy version of iBoot how can they get iBoot functionality from MultiBeast, if Multibeast doesn't install the right version of Chameleon? I think its name is anVAL. I'm sorry for my english, I'm italian. I have a Asus P5SD2-VM, with Nvidia graphics and integrated audio that work with iBoot legacy + Retail Snow Leopard updated to 10.6.7, but ethernet that doesn't work anyway. Thanks for your help.
Similare problem for me. My Asus G53SW, a sandy bridge based laptop, I can boot with legacy but when installation is done. It reset the system at boot time. Installed bridge helper, did not help; But using the iBoot to run forces the system to assume a macproc 3?1 profile and ignores the cpu and memory type.
Any help is really appreciated. thanks
Artimess
I have an Asus G53SW series model with i7Q 2630 CPU, the only way I can boot is legacy iBoot and after post installation and installing bridge helper, I cannot still boot without iBoot. I wonder, if there is any possibility of adding a feature to MultiBeast to circumvent recurrent booting from disk.
Thanks,
Artimess
Hi,
Thank you so much for the help, everything worked but during the boot up, I no longer have the loud fan but still, the black screen and nothing appears, I installed everything said on the top and I'm using a hd 6000 series card.
Thanks
Fresh install it is for you then!
Well ANY HELP ANYBODY might be offer on this would be greatly appreciated,
I've got snow installed using iBoot and multi beast and it'd booting from the hd with sandy bridge! On the othe partition on the same disk I've got windows 7 booting fine from hd.
HERES THE PROBLEM;
Snow will only boot from the hd when it feels like it, by that I mean probably every 7 or 8th attempt will boot it and the rest of the time it just hangs on the grey screen with the apple logo.
I've tried re-running 10.6.7 combo update, Multibeast and sandy and running kext utility or whatever it's called afterwards, when I do this it seems to boot first time and then goes back to how it was before,
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!
ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE GREATLY APPRICATED NOW I'M SO CLOSE TO FINISHING MY INSTALL IT'S JUST THE FINAL TWEEK THAT I CANT GET RIGHT!
Dont know why but can't seem to login to post this!
i have the same problem as artimess. after i installed 10.6 the usual method, i updated but the 10.6.3 update screwed my laptop, however this isnt the issue, the issue is even before i update to 10.6.3 multibeast didnt install any bootloader, i tried both easybeast and the other install with no luck. The only way to boot is via boot cd(iboot or something similar).
I have an acer 3830T with core i5 2410M and intel hd 3000 graphics. Waiting for a reply. Thanks.
My thing is i install evryrything fine, then i boot from iBoot and everything works, full audio, full graphics with QE/CI support and multibeast, mess it all because is an old laptop and there is no DSDT for it and EasyBeast it wont boot... :(
alright i tried this but im still not able to boot from my hdd actually i got an error screen when trying to boot
[IMG]http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv64/Alenialdijana/c33d1971.jpg[/IMG]
which chameleon bootloader for sandy bridge
my config
p8p67 rev 3.0
i5-2500k
ati-5670
8gb ram
1 tb hdd
I was having soooooo much grief! Dell XPS M1530 wouldn't do the restart cycle. The tick-boxes in the network submenu fixed the problem. I'll be sending you a £drink Tony!!
Virtualbox 4.1.6, Ubuntu 10.4.03 host, Intel I5 on Asus P68/Z68/3GEN motherboard (Sandy Bridge), OSX 10.6.3 retail DVD.
I would like to boot 10.6.3 with multibeast rather than iboot as an initial step towards updating beyond 10.6.3, which is why I came here. I am stuck at grey apple logo, no disc activity during boot.
I don't have another machine (pre-sandy-bridge) and this is my first experience with iboot/multibeast so I am not sure how to troubleshoot the problem below:
I assume I should use Multibeast 3.10.0 rather than 4.2.1 at this stage? Due to Sandy Bridge CPU should I instead to buy 10.7.2 retail and directly install that rather than trying to get 10.6.3 going first and taking upgrade path?
This thread (set up with multibeast to replce iboot) seems best next step for me so I can boot without iboot. I tried Multibeast 3.10.0 (differs from screenshot at start of this thread?) but can't get only to the grey apple logo, no (virtual) disc activity. I'm unsure of which options to select given I'm using virtualbox.
Any advice?
i also was unable to boot from hdd until i was reading a post on how to work around this by copying the boot file from iboot and realized that my original org.chameleon.boot.plist was missing the smbios key.
Kernel
mach_kernel
Kernel Flags
busratio=23
Kernel Flags
npci=0x2000 darkwake=0 PCIRootUID=1
GraphicsEnabler
Yes
Instant Menu
Yes
Legacy Logo
Yes
EthernetBuiltIn
Yes
so i just edited it by adding the smbios key and made sure the smbios.plist was in the extra folder and i'm now booting from hdd.
Kernel
mach_kernel
Kernel Flags
busratio=23
Kernel Flags
npci=0x2000 darkwake=0 PCIRootUID=1
SMBIOS
smbios.plist
GraphicsEnabler
Yes
Instant Menu
Yes
Legacy Logo
Yes
EthernetBuiltIn
Yes
Hide Partition
hd(1,3)
hope this helps someone and thank you tonymac.
Having trouble booting from hdd, system specs are:
Mobo: Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z Gen3
CPU: Intel Celeron G530
4GB DDR3 1333 ram 2x2GB
Any help would be great. Also I had everything working before updating to 10.6.8 from 10.6.3 minus the booting from hdd.
Using iboot to start, everything works perfectly. Then, after applying Multibeast (only EasyBeast option was checked), KP shows up.
How do I get the "bootable only" function from MultiBeast from a perfect installation?
thanks for the great Multibeast. I was finally able to have SL up on my Thinkpad t60p. But I've out of luck with graphics beyond the default 1024x768x32. It has a ATI FireGL v5025, deviceid 71D4.
I tried to following a few posting about configuring /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext by
1. replacing 'x71DE1002' in Contents/Info.plist with 'x71D41002'
2. replacing '****DE71' with '****D471' in Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeonX1000.
3. running the kext utility.
But it results in system keeps asking me to restart. So I have to reverse back.
Would you mind pointing me to the right direction?
thanks a lot.
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