Asus Sabertooth X58 Mountain Lion

[Magdog321]

hey guys.

Recently i tried to upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion. long story short, i tried everything i could think of and failed miserably. So i decided to get out my spare 1TB HDD and try a clean install to see if i could pin point a problem or create any useful info for anyone with similar specs as me. I have wrote down step by step exactly what i went through.

My Specs are:

Motherboard - Asus Sabertooth X58
CPU: Intel I7 970 Hexacore
Graphics: Asus NVidia GTX 550Ti
Primary Drive: Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD
Secondary Drive: WD 1TB
RAM: 16GB 1600 MHZ G.Skill Ripjaws

So here we go (sorry its going to be a long one)

Removed all RAM except from 1 4GB Stick. Removed all extra SATA. Removed all USB besides my 8GB stick i made earlier with unibeast 1.5.
Set Drives to AHCI in BIOS.
Booted from USB with 'PCIRootUID=0'
Opened Disk Utility
Erased and formatted 1TB hard drive. Named Mountain Lion, Format = Mac OS Extended (Journaled), GUID Partition Table selected. 1 Partition. Closed Disk Utility.
Ran installation of OSX onto drive 'Mountain Lion'
Installed ok, Took about 20 mins.
Reboot from USB selecting Mountain Lion using 'PCIRootUID=0' again.
Boot successful. Going through welcome screen, set up etc.
Opened Disk Utility, Split current partition 'Mountain Lion' into two. (could of done this earlier) New partition name 'Mountain Lion 2'
Downloaded and installed Superduper drive cloner.
Cloned Drive 'Mountain Lion' onto 'Mountain Lion 2'
Downloaded Google Chrome (for some reason Safari wont let me download my DSDT from here)
Downloaded Multibeast 4.6.1 and DSDT for my motherboard BIOS 1304
Placed Multibeast and my DSDT on the desktop.
Opened Multibeast and installed userDSDT only. (trying to pin point any problems)
Reboot from drive.
Kernel Panic at the white apple screen.
Reboot with verbos.
Kernel panic (same when i tried updating from lion previously) see attached 'VERBOS 1'
Reboot in safe mode.
Kernel panic again.
Reboot from USB selecting 'Mountain Lion' in safe mode.
Boot Successful. Resolution is normal (1920 x 1080). Graphics are very slow.
Ran Multibeast and installed only 'AppleACPIPlatform Rollback'.
Reboot from Drive Mountain Lion.
Boot Successful. Graphics performance better. External Sound card working fine. No onboard sound detected in settings.
Ran Multibeast and installed Patched Apple HDA Realtek ALC892 kext, NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support 10.7.2 + Combo Open CL Enabler and set system definition to Mac Pro 3.1.
Reboot from drive 'Mountain Lion'
Kernel Panic.
Reboot from same drive with Verbose.
Verbose stuck for 10 mins. See attached VERBOSE 2.
Reboot from USB selecting 'Mountain Lion'
Kernelk Panic.
Reboot again from USB with verbos this time.
Verbose stuck again but got a little but further than before. Left for 5 mins. see attached VERBOSE 3.
Reboot the same again to see if verbos is different.
Verbose is stuck exactly the same.
Reboot from hard drive in safe mode.
Boot successful, Resolution lower than last safe mode (1024 x 768)
Ran Multibeast and installed 'AppleACPIPlatform Rollback' again just for good measure.;
Reboot from drive.
Kernel Panic at white apple screen.
Reboot from drive in safemode.
Boot successful.
Ran multibeast and installed 'Patched AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement' kext OSX 10.7.4.
Reboot from drive.
Kernel panic at white apple screen.
Reboot same with verbose.
Verbose stuck again but slightly differnet than before. See attached VERBOSE 4.
Didnt know what else to try at this point.

Booting from USB selecting 'Mountain Lion 2' (no DSDT or Multibeast used on this one yet).
Boot successful.
Downloading Chrome, Multibeast 4.6.1 and DSDT again.
Ran Multibeast and installed userDSDT then 'ApplePCPIPlatform Rollback' Seperatly.
Reboot from drive 'Mountain Lion 2'.
Boot successful.
Graphics look ok, Sound working throuigh USB externel soundcard, no onboard sound, No internet connection.
Split Partition 'Mountain Lion 2' into two with disk utility and used Superduper drive cloner to clone 'Mountain Lion 2' onto my new partition named 'Mountain Lion 3' (just so ive got something to fall back on when kernel panics start happening again).
Ran Multibeast and installed Realtek Gigabit Ethernet kext.
Reboot from drive 'Mountain lion 2'.
Boot successful. Internet connection working.
Ran Multibeast and installed 'Patched AppleHDA ALC 892'.
Reboot from same drive.
Boot successfull. On board sound working.
Ran multibeast and installed 'NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support, 10.7.2 Combo Open CL Enabler'.
Reboot from same drive.
Kernel Panic.
Reboot from same drive in safe mode.
Boot successful.
Ran Multibeast, Installed FakeSMC NVIDIA Plugin. (dont really know what it is for but thought it was worth a shot).
Reboot from same drive.
Kernel panic again.
Lost the will to live.
Booting from drive 'Mountain Lion 3'
Boot successfull.

At this point i decided to stop. im going to put my original SSD back to my working install of OSX Lion 10.7.3.

It seems like the NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support kext in multibeast is causing kernel panics for me. Perhaps it needs tweaking for 10.8? i dunno anyway. Im going to try remove this Kext from my working lion install and then upgrade to mountain lion again and see what happens.

In the mean time I hope this information can be useful to people for whatever reason.

Thanks. Luke.

 

[ronf89]

Thanks for all your logs. It does seem that that kext is the culprit. Any idea what that kext is called? I'm looking in /System/Library/Extensions and I don't see one with a similar name. Though there is one that could be for 5xx and one for 4xx...but I'm no kext expert and have very little experience in that realm so I have no idea, lol.

 

[Magdog321]

Thanks for all your logs. It does seem that that kext is the culprit. Any idea what that kext is called? I'm looking in /System/Library/Extensions and I don't see one with a similar name. Though there is one that could be for 5xx and one for 4xx...but I'm no kext expert and have very little experience in that realm so I have no idea, lol.

im no expert either. multibeast gives this info about the kext: 'This combo patch is for 10.7.2 or later. /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle is patched using info from netkas.org and cmf. /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAGF100Hal.kext/Contents/Info.plist is patched using MacMan's research.'

so im guessing its 'GeForceGLDriver.bundle' and/or 'NVDAGF100Hal.kext/Contents/Info.plist'

 

[Magdog321]

btw that is for the '10.7.2 + Combo OpenCL Enabler' option under 'NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support' in multibeast. there is a different one called '10.7.0 / 10.7.1 netkas OpenCL Enabler'. multibeast gives this info about it: ''This will patch the 10.7.0 / 10.7.1 /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle using patch info from netkas.org.''

 

[tot31]

IIRC, I read somewhere saying that ML supports nvidia 5XX OOB, so I think you don't need that 'NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support' file from Multibeast. Anyway I installed ML into my Asus P6T using this...This Mountain-Lionize script was made for all Asus X58 boards...Yes I also have tried using Unibeast 1.5.1 to install but I got a lot of issues...

 

[Magdog321]

IIRC, I read somewhere saying that ML supports nvidia 5XX OOB, so I think you don't need that 'NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support' file from Multibeast. Anyway I installed ML into my Asus P6T using this...This Mountain-Lionize script was made for all Asus X58 boards...Yes I also have tried using Unibeast 1.5.1 to install but I got a lot of issues...

perhaps that is why my graphics seem fine without it

 

[ronf89]

IIRC, I read somewhere saying that ML supports nvidia 5XX OOB, so I think you don't need that 'NVIDIA 4xx/5xx Support' file from Multibeast. Anyway I installed ML into my Asus P6T using this...This Mountain-Lionize script was made for all Asus X58 boards...Yes I also have tried using Unibeast 1.5.1 to install but I got a lot of issues...

Where does one find this Mountain-Lionize script?

 

[Magdog321]

After i went back to my working install of Lion, i deleted any kext that began with 'NVDA' and 'GeForce' then ran the mountain lion install again.
after this i still couldent boot but i COULD boot in safe mode. so after booting in safe mode i ran multibeast and installed the 'AppleACPIPlatform Rollback' Kext and booting is now successful. after a few multibeast kexts everything is working fine exept when the display or computer goes to sleep. after a display sleep i get a reall messed up glitchy screen (this goes away after login) and after my computer sleeps i get a black screen that i cant get out of without a reboot.

 

[cnote]

Iv'e done two attempts at Unibeast Mountain Lion install from 10.7.4. Crashed back both times to 10.7.3

Here are my multibeast settings, note I used 5,1 Mac Pro not 3,1? Solid performance in 10.7.4....

 

[cnote]

ASUS x58 Sabertooth attempt to load Mountain Lion

My Hack has two HDs, Disk 0 (labeled "Lion") and Disk 1 (labeled "Mountain Lion"). Both are currently running 10.7.4

I plan to download (again-3rd try) Mountain Lion onto Disk 1. After downloading it goes into auto reboot. I will cancel the reboot and run Chimera 1.11 and boot Disk ("Lion"). From "Lion" I will run Multibeast 4.6.1 loading the settings onto Disk 1 ("Mountain Lion"). Here is a screen shot of the settings I plan to use in Multibeast.

Any suggestions or questions; please don't post if your comments are not related to the "Asus x58 Sabertooth" motherboard.

Thanks!