iATKOS v2.0i released! Rating Options

[apowerr]

iATKOS v2.0i has been released by the OSx86 Türk Team and is currently on the Green Demon. If you aren't registered at the Demon, be sure to grab the torrent as soon as possible because unregistered users can only access recent torrents.
Readme:

Attention:

1- This DVD is designed for Intel architectures.
Minimum requirements: Intel SSE3 CPU, 512MB RAM, 12GB free space on target partition.

2- This DVD includes Apple's OS X Leopard 10.5.2 (9C7010) installation.

3- Make sure that the md5 checksum of your iATKOS iso image matches the one posted on our website. Otherwise you may have a faulty DVD image. Use quality media/burner and burn slowly.


Information:

- This release supports GPT (Guid Partition Table) partition map scheme. You can change your partition table type to GPT via Disk Utility or some other partition managers. We advice Parted Magic Live CD which is based on GParted.

- This release also includes Darwin EFI emulation boot for MBR (Master Boot Record) harddrives. Intel Core CPUs can use stock kernel and stock ACPIPlatform with EFI emulation on MBR and with GPT. This increases stability and performance.

- Intel CoreDuo Processors have appropriate SpeedStep Technology which is stable in OS X. If you have such processor, you can enable throttling feature using the "SpeedStep" package which you can find under system drivers section. Note that speedstep kernel is included in iATKOS main system, so don't select any of the kernels with speedstep support if you don't want to have kernel panic.

- There are some boot options for some various hardware. Boot DVD, press F8 and enter:
nforce -v
for nForce motherboards with intel SSE3 CPU
nforce_core -v
for nForce motherboards with Intel Core CPU
toh -v
for booting with ToH 9.2.0 kernel which works nice on many types of hardware


Installation:

1- Run Disk Utility via Utilities menu and erase the target partition for clean install. Do partitioning if you need to.

a- You can choose MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (Guid Partition Table) via partitioning options. If you want to change your existing partition table type, know that all your existing data on disk will be gone.
b- For Windows fellows that has not tested this amazing system yet and that does not want to loose their windows software, porn and virus&trojan archive on D:\, should use Parted Magic Live CD for preparing an active primary target partition and after that, just erase it via diskutil. Jump to Step 2.

2- Select the destination for installation.

3- Click customize and select what you need.

4- Click Install.

Install time is about 20 minutes.



Multiboot:

iATKOS 2.0i has no integrated procedure for multibooting but preparing a multiboot GPT or MBR system with this release is easier than ever.

Here is a ''How To'' for GPT and MBR triple boot including Mac-Vista-Linux.

- MBR (Master Boot Record) triple boot -

- Change your partition table type to MBR (msdos type) and create 3 primary partitions by using Parted Magic Live CD or iATKOS Disk Utility. HFS+ format for OS X target, Fat32 for the others.
Note: %99.99999 of the PC harddrives already have MBR partition map scheme (msdos type) which you can change it to GPT via Parted Magic CD or iATKOS Disk Utility if you like to.

- Add boot flag to Vista or Linux target and install the OS' in any order you like. For linux, do not install bootloader to MBR, install it to linux root.

- Boot iATKOS 2.0i DVD and install OS X to its target as usual.

- Now you need to repair Vista. Add boot flag to Vista partition, boot Vista DVD, select repair, add boot flag to OS X partition, thats all.

Now you have triple boot on MBR.

Note: Adding boot flag to MBR partitions: Boot Parted Magic Live CD, right click to partition, select flags and click to boot.

- GPT (Guid Partition Table) triple boot -

- Change your partition table type to GPT (Guid Partition Table) and create 3 partitions by using Parted Magic Live CD or iATKOS Disk Utility. HFS+ format for OS X target, Fat32 (msdos) for the others.

- Boot iATKOS 2.0i DVD, install only bootloader to OS X target. ***

- Boot Vista or Linux media and install the OS' in any order you like. For linux, install the bootloader to linux root.

- Boot iATKOS 2.0i DVD and install OS X as usual.

Now you have triple boot on GPT, thats all.

As you see, preparing multiboot system on GPT is more practical and easier.
Darwin on GPT will see other OS' as Foreign Boot.

*** For pro-users: You can re-install Darwin bootloader by booting the iATKOS DVD with -s. Boot with -s and enter darwin command, follow the instructions. For MBR HD, you can add boot flag via fdisk after darwin installation.


Known Issues:

1- Jmicron IDE controllers are known to have issues with OS X.

2- Some 965 chipset MSI and ASUS motherboards (desktop and laptop) have issues with this OS. ACPI errors while booting with DVD and also with hd. There will be patches for those uncompatible devices and there is also a patch for 1.0ir2.

3- This dvd may not include all the necessary drivers required by your setup. Additional steps may be needed to be taken by the user to setup and use such components.

4- Be sure that the labels of your hfs+ partitions are not similar. ie. Mac 1, MacOS or Leopard X, Leopard Y. Installer may fail to determine the target partition to install the system if the labels match.


Unsuccessful Installation and Related Symptoms:


1- I get the error "com.apple.Boot.plist is not found" while booting the DVD

--> You are probably trying to boot from an unsupported controller.
~ You should use usb dvd rom drive, or you may need sata-ide convertor for your dvd rom drive (jmicron).

2- System freezes at grey screen by booting the DVD.

--> You probably have an unsupported chipset.
*965 chipset ASUS or MSI motherboard/laptop
*many VIA, SIS, ATI chipset motherboards
~ Change your hardware
~ A patch can be possible for 965 ASUS/MSI hardware, so keep on watching this community.

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For additional Help and instructions, here is the website and irc channel.

web: http://www.uphuck.com
IRC: irc.atlantis-irc.net #uphuck.DVD #osx86.turk

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Good luck, if you enjoy your Mac OS X86 Leopard System, buy a real Mac

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The Official uphuck forums can be found here.
Thanks OSx86 Türk Team, we appreciate your hard work

[clavuza]

thank you very much for news.

[InorganicMatter]

I might try it to see if I have better luck with my laptop's Mobile Quadro. For desktop use though, can't beat all-vanilla DIY with retail media.

[InsanelyCrack]

Thanks

[bofors]

Information:
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- This release also includes Darwin EFI emulation boot for MBR (Master Boot Record) harddrives. Intel Core CPUs can use stock kernel and stock ACPIPlatform with EFI emulation on MBR and with GPT. This increases stability and performance.

Is EFI emulation only for MBR? Or is EFI emulation implicit with GPT?

[ Mysticus C*]

people reported (i can confirm as well, it doesnt match...) that md5 is wrong, meaning something went haywire in one part of teh process... eskurza is gonna upload again... so stop downloading the current one i suggest

[fredouille]

people reported (i can confirm as well, it doesnt match...) that md5 is wrong, meaning something went haywire in one part of teh process... eskurza is gonna upload again... so stop downloading the current one i suggest

[ Mysticus C*]

new one out already...

[metaljay]

new one out already...

where?
its not on demonoid?

[ Mysticus C*]

HERE IS TRUMPET

edit:fixed i warn you it is gonna be slow for a while with only one seed...

[ Mysticus C*]

update news: some clever guy came up with a genius idea of replacing the damaged iso file in current seeding one, thinking (needs correction=bcoz i dont know if it would fix it or not) that it torrent would delete bad parts and download what is changed... therefore people started getting already damaged one... why? first bcoz rar file was damaged for some reason so it would give bad hash in the first place, by replacing it with the new one, you would get the wrong parts in totaly wrong order, and most stupidly, everyone will get the wrong one and seed everyone wrong pieces.... how genius... totally screwed... i suggest stopping at this stage as many people got the wrong part and seeded tons of BS...

[HackBook Pro]

Are the torrents correct? On demonoid there is a corrupt torrent, and a official one, but comments say its also damaged.

[ Mysticus C*]

no more correct ones... bcoz read my above note, it was fixed, and some guy came up with genius idea with damaged file, and while everything was smooth, he damaged everyone's iso now... and original seeder left already... so no clean iso around... stop torrenting for now...

[geforced]

big ass freaking mess leo4rall is doing the job 4r now hope this mess gets fixed up wanna try this1

[LioNEXT]

Other than being the current leopard version, any value this iATKOS v2 will have over v1?

stability, performance, ease of install, fixed any hardware component issues like AHCI/SATA port, memory freeze above 4GB, etc....?

[sackie]

There was a new version (about 15 minutes ago), but it already got removed, I don't get it anymore.

[ Mysticus C*]

you cant just fix the memory issue... it is architechure problem and related to drivers/chipset... it is not as easy i guess to fix that part of the problem... i dont know any value apart from 10.5.2being installed directly, so you dont need to update it again as in v1 it is 10.5.1...

[Konjohn]

in demonoid it still says to torrent has been erased!!!
:S:S:S

[LioNEXT]

you cant just fix the memory issue... it is architechure problem and related to drivers/chipset... it is not as easy i guess to fix that part of the problem... i dont know any value apart from 10.5.2being installed directly, so you dont need to update it again as in v1 it is 10.5.1...

with memory freeze issue, I meant there were some old kext still not removed or not patched recently. Like the jmicron controller kext for example. It is almost redundant now. Also it may also cause memory freeze above 4 GB if enabled in bios. The recent macs have new AHCI kexts that cyclonefr used for getting all four SATA ports working on gigabyte boards. And that solves a lot of other problems. So thats what I meant - the subtleties.

I think after iATKOS v1 installation, I have tinkered too much with my installation. Replacing kexts here and there nilly willy and other system internals (about this mac, system profiler, audio, lan, firewire, name it). It would be nice to have an installer that would provide a lot of options like different audio packages, lan kexts to choose from to make an easy install. Or may be one main installer for general OS X installation and then a subsidiary installer (call it helper or sub-installer or something) that provides all the niceties like the audio packages, speedstep kernels, shutdown/restart modded kernels, or like the usb installer you made, AHCI modded kexts, etc).

[ Mysticus C*]

lol... pm me for your idea with all the details.. we can make post install installer... just need the correct files and information... rest is easy and takes about 10-15 mins...

for example stg like this?

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/237/cap1iw5.png
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1316/cap2ns2.png