Unibeast works, Multibeast doesn't (Gigabyte GA-EP45C-UD3R)

Hi all,

I'm revisiting my Hackintosh after getting varying results back in the early Snow Leopard days. I'm using a Gigabyte GA-EP45C-UD3R, and I'm having trouble booting after removing the Unibeast USB drive. The system will either hang at "Verifying DMI pool data," (I think I've resolved this) or will get to the OS X Grey Apple screen and cycle the grey wheel endlessly. Multibeast had installation problems, but finally worked after I installed a Bootloader (pretty sure I shouldn't have to do this). I followed this guide to create a DSDT, and Multibeast failed every time.

Unibeast works great though. The machine boots quickly, and networking and video are working fine, although I'm not sure about audio (haven't tested it, and it's not a deal-breaker).

What are Unibeast's default boot flags? Should I try booting with those flags? Should I be looking elsewhere? My boot.plist is attached.

Thanks!

The current Unibeast has one default flag: PCIRootUID=1

Give it a try. If it fails, then boot -v and take a picture of the hang and post it.

You "org.chameleon.Boot.plist" has extraneous characters at the beginning: yh n<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

The "yh n" should not be there.

Looks like it's hanging on a couple things (from boot -v):

Sound assertion in AppleHDADriver at line 1077
Sound assertion in AppleHDADriver at line 1052
ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - failed to locate SMC driver

All of this sounds vaguely familiar to me. I'm guessing this has something to do with the Audio and Power Management. Do you happen to know how to fix this?

Thanks for your help; it's much appreciated.

I assume you fixed the "org.chameleon.Boot.plist" file.

Have you tried booting -v PCIRootUID=1 ?

The sound assertion error a lot of people have. It is not an issue.

Boot with -v and when the text stops, take a picture and post it.

Yup, fixed the org.chameleon.Boot.plist.

I added PCIRootUID=1 to the Kernel Flags in Boot.plist.

(Somewhat blurry) picture attached.

At the top of the picture, it says it has a problem with the GeForce.kext. At the bottom, it says "Waiting on DSMOS" but the message "DSMOS has arrived" doesn't show up.

Boot using your USB drive. Fire up Multibeast and install only FakeSMC.kext and Chimera.

Then open Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter the following:


Reboot without the USB drive but using -v

Tried your instructions, and I don't think anything has changed unfortunately. Screenshot attached.

Is this a fresh installation or an upgrade? I'm leaning toward another installation if it isn't an upgrade.

I think with your problems with Multibeast, you don't have installed the needed kexts to boot. Unibeast can boot your drive because it has the needed kexts onboard.

If you can, reinstall. Download the latest Multibeast and install only the following three items:

- UserDSDT and DSDT-Free Installation
- Network: Lnx2Mac's Ethernet
- Audio: Realtek without DSDT - ALC885/889a

It's a fresh install, and I've reinstalled twice.

It looks like Multibeast 5.1.3 is not installing FakeSMC (it's not in my Extensions folder). Multibeast fails over and over and over, then finally says it succeeds. I'm guessing there's a bug in Multibeast 5.1.3 that's not letting it install the kexts I need.

Any thoughts on installing them manually with a utility like Kext Utility?

Thanks again for the help.