MSI Neo2 FR - Running 10.5.4 Perfectly (Tutorial), Audio/Video/USB/Multicore all working perfectly Options

[knew know]

Smart move (getting rid of vista ;P). Enjoy.

well actually i just got rid of vista. didn't want to go throught the headache okay. Thanks again for your guide!

[DannyCNJ]

Ok I'm back and tried using your updated guide. I have run into some small problems.
1. The install went fine runs OSx.
2. I installed NVKush but since I have the 9600GT it wouldnt boot unless I was in safe mode. (-V -x)
3. This release is missing all the cool programs that leo4all had, so I don't know how to remove NVKush.
Besides that little problem every thing runs fine!

[pintail]

Yeh !!!!! Leo4All Final is installed
I did it First by
Going to the Bios Advanced Features and
1- Changed the Boot Sector Protection to – Disabled. You can change it back but you’ll need to update the bios
right?
2- Installed the bios per Kalby 7345v18 using the link from ambios as provided : BIOS Updater
3- Now reboot and go back to the bios and reset it’s time and date via the Standard CMOS Features
Now MY my Board “MSI P35 NEO2 fr” this board is less than a week old. And the bios was already updated
to 1.8. Well
Starting in order Left side of the BIOS screen
4- Advanced BIOS FEATURES-
a) IOPIC -5th Item down Enabled
MPS TABLE VERSION 6st item down – 1.4
c) CPU FEATURE- 7th item down - EXECUTE BIT in the sub directory – Enabled
Also in Chipset features - HPET
d) Boot Sequence - DVD ROM then HD and whatever!!!!!!
5- Next Integrated Peripherals
a) On-chip SATA controller AHCI Port
6- Power Management Setup
a) ACIP Function 1st item Enabled
ACIP Standby State 2nd item S3
7- Cell Menu
a) Intel EIST – Disabled

I am Loaded with 1gb of ram and Core Dual2 installed with LEO4all Final -v cpus=1
Loaded and when I got to the Disk Utility MBR
Loaded Vanilla 9.2.2
ACIP platform was a menu item and must be open to set Old
SMBios You Chose the Ram , I had 800s so chose the same
ICH9 was difficult to find but it was there. Under the Drivers, Hey its the chipset. Could not figure this out, but I did You are going to choose - ICH X
Drivers again for me and picked Nvidea 6500 driver chosen therefore I chose Nvinject 0.2.1
Audio driver ALC850 For /888
Network worked without help but it worked!!!!
But here's my bug, is there something Im missing because I cant reboot afterwards. I have 1 hard drive two partitions and as I said before Install is MBR with no other OS installed yet ??????

[pintail]

Ok, Now I'm even more confused, Evidentally you can't run XP on the board because ACHI is enable? How are the rest of you doing this?

......I geuss I'll answer the first question Myself. Two hard drive Bios change and save to stores in the BIOS since XP does not like ACHI!.....

But still need the other questions answered...... " Am I to supposed to Install them from the OS X or Even for that matter should I update from JAS do the same. Or is this where I should install from the boot? Ive gotten this far I just need a little Help"

[D.Moscowstar]

do anybody know how to get IDE dvd-rom working? any extensions or patches? thanx

[wkweksl]

do anybody know how to get IDE dvd-rom working? any extensions or patches? thanx

IDE dvd-rom should be working out of the box.

[dailyKaos]

Thanks for the guide, I wasn't able to have a JaS 10.5.4 to download But I did have Leo4Allv3 from my Laptop. I was kinda leery about flashing my BIOS, but I took the jump and its working perfectly. The only problem is I don't have IDE support (Currently 10.5.4). The weird thing is I have an IDE DVD Rom, which loaded from it fine, but after the install, nothing; also in 10.5.2 direct from the L4A install there was no IDE support

[dailyKaos]

Well I did some searching and thanks to Dense I found...

http://my.ukrweb.info/en/2008/01/1/marvell...ta-kext-leopard

Which works for me. I did a clean install from 10.5.2 and installed just that and stepped it up to 10.5.4. IDE is read as SATA. I used Kext Helper to install it the first time and I think that's what trashed my system.


EDIT: This is actually causing a problem with reading the drive with applications. It reads and mounts the DVD fine but opening with HandBrake or DiskUtil will make the App freeze...

Any options here?

[iamhappy]

First of all: THANK YOU !

Followed your guide, everything works (10.5.2)

Didn't try to get to 10.5.4, since I lost USB Plug&Play after trying the JAS 10.5.3 Update the first time. Sadly i can't remember what i did next, but it ended up in completely busting my OSX86 installation

Since everything runs fine (hope it's not a security issue to run 10.5.2), i hope you post again an idiot proof update guide for 10.5.5 or how you got it working.

thanks again !

[wkweksl]

Anyone tried booting successfully off the new Leo4allv5 10.5.4 Server on a IDE DVD drive?

[iamhappy]

Update:

Tried again, 10.5.2 Leo4All Install with seetings from 1st post

Then JAS 10.5.3 Update (as mentioned above)

Then downloaded 10.5.4 Delta /NOT Combo .... installed fine...

Then downloaded 10.5.5 Delta .... made mistake / i skip that

before doing anything, Backed up my Extensions Folder, open Terminal

in Terminal type

sudo -s

then you are "master" which is important (noob here)

then type

while sleep 1; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; done

keep terminal opened

start update

then it rebooted twice.

after that sound was broken, i had to AppleHDAPatch the ALC888 again as mentioned in first post...

now 10.5.5 runs fine

edit

thanks to backup i can't boot without my Leo4All DVD - if anybody knows how to fix that

I found out that QI/QE is not working - no clue if that was before

[knew know]

2. I installed NVKush but since I have the 9600GT it wouldnt boot unless I was in safe mode. (-V -x)
3. This release is missing all the cool programs that leo4all had, so I don't know how to remove NVKush.

Hmmm... not too sure what the kext is. And since I haven't had access to a Mac machine for weeks I'm not able to do a quick check for you. You'll have to delve into the forum in the Graphics section and do a bit of reading I'm afraid.

Ok, Now I'm even more confused, Evidentally you can't run XP on the board because ACHI is enable? How are the rest of you doing this?

......I geuss I'll answer the first question Myself. Two hard drive Bios change and save to stores in the BIOS since XP does not like ACHI!.....

But still need the other questions answered...... " Am I to supposed to Install them from the OS X or Even for that matter should I update from JAS do the same. Or is this where I should install from the boot? Ive gotten this far I just need a little Help"

I don't see any issues with AHCI and Windows XP. Are you still having this problem? Did you install xp on the first partition and then OSX after, or are you installing it the other way around?

do anybody know how to get IDE dvd-rom working? any extensions or patches? thanx

Sorry Moscow. I know that there are definitely ways to do this. And I did get it "going" with Leo4Allv3 but not necessarily working. I eventually just purchased an sata drive, and everything installed fairly well.

do anybody know how to get IDE dvd-rom working? any extensions or patches? thanx

Sorry Moscow. I know that there are definitely ways to do this. And I did get it "going" with Leo4Allv3 but not necessarily working. I eventually just purchased an sata drive, and everything installed fairly well.

Well I did some searching and thanks to Dense I found...

http://my.ukrweb.info/en/2008/01/1/marvell...ta-kext-leopard

Which works for me. I did a clean install from 10.5.2 and installed just that and stepped it up to 10.5.4. IDE is read as SATA. I used Kext Helper to install it the first time and I think that's what trashed my system.


EDIT: This is actually causing a problem with reading the drive with applications. It reads and mounts the DVD fine but opening with HandBrake or DiskUtil will make the App freeze...

Any options here?

I was having issues as well with the IDE drive not working as it should. Time to upgrade? No one likes those annoying IDE cables anyhow ;P

First of all: THANK YOU !

Followed your guide, everything works (10.5.2)

Didn't try to get to 10.5.4, since I lost USB Plug&Play after trying the JAS 10.5.3 Update the first time. Sadly i can't remember what i did next, but it ended up in completely busting my OSX86 installation

Since everything runs fine (hope it's not a security issue to run 10.5.2), i hope you post again an idiot proof update guide for 10.5.5 or how you got it working.

thanks again !

No Problem stanford. Yea, the USB issue is due to a kernel incompatibility. You just need to switch back to the older Vanilla Kernel. I can't remember exactly which one anymore. I only had that issue when using the Kalyway installs though, so I'm unsure why you have that problem with Leo4All.

I haven't touched 10.5.5 or osx for that matter (except on my macbook which is irrelevant in this case), but I will update the guide when I have some time to get the system updated.

Anyone tried booting successfully off the new Leo4allv5 10.5.4 Server on a IDE DVD drive?

Thanks for the heads up wkweksl on Leo4allv5. I had no idea that it was released. I'll have to take a hard look at it soon and see if there are any improvements over the JaS release. Time to update to sata? ;P




Btw ... sorry guys, I haven't been around much recently to offer much help/support/ideas but it's good to see that the thread is still moving along and that I'm seeing a few posts that are informative as well as support/help questions.

Thanks,

kk

[wkweksl]

Time to update to sata? ;P

Think it's the device ids that needs to be added on the AppleVIAATA kexts. So far I've tried all distros and only Leo4allv3 boots nicely on ide dvd drives so far. The other option is to rip out the dvd and run it on usb.

[iamhappy]

Update: 10.5.5 (9.5.0) running perfect, Sleep, Shutdown, Restart work

QI/QE works, Mounting USB... just everything is fine after applying the NVInstaller again

only thing still doesn't work due Timemachine Backup, is booting without the DVD. Bootloader seems not to be copied by timemachine (if this is how it works)....

i can live with that until i find a thread where they describe how to install the leo4all (no clue if its a special one) bootloader again.



cheers

[wkweksl]

FYI iDeneb v1.3 boots off ide dvd drives nicely. Have not got a chance to finish installation but the distro booted into the setup screen fine. Looks like a good upgrade candidate to Leo4allv3.

Edit: iDeneb v1.3 runs ok after patching 10.5.5 ATI drivers with lastExile's packages found here

[dawiinci]

FYI iDeneb v1.3 boots off ide dvd drives nicely. Have not got a chance to finish installation but the distro booted into the setup screen fine. Looks like a good upgrade candidate to Leo4allv3.

Edit: iDeneb v1.3 runs ok after patching 10.5.5 ATI drivers with lastExile's packages found here

Are you sure that it works? I have this mainboard, but the Setup doesn't even start. It says "Still waiting for root device". I have a SATA HDD attached to the same Chip as the PATA DVD. All the other SATAs are used by other HDDs.

My BIOS is not modded yet. Do I have to expect any problems with the modded BIOS? For example if I boot Windows? Is your BIOS modded?

I have a nvidia card and I hope it will work with iDeneb. Thanks for any help!

Greetings dawiinci

[nadnerb]

Update: 10.5.5 (9.5.0) running perfect, Sleep, Shutdown, Restart work

QI/QE works, Mounting USB... just everything is fine after applying the NVInstaller again

So how did you do that exactly?

[wkweksl]

Are you sure that it works? I have this mainboard, but the Setup doesn't even start. It says "Still waiting for root device". I have a SATA HDD attached to the same Chip as the PATA DVD. All the other SATAs are used by other HDDs.

It should work. Set your dvd to master if there's only one drive on the ide controller. So far it's Leo4allv3 and iDeneb v1.3 that has the device id added to AppleVIAATA kext for the ide controller on our mainboard.

My BIOS is not modded yet. Do I have to expect any problems with the modded BIOS? For example if I boot Windows? Is your BIOS modded?

Start with cpus=1 if your bios is not modded yet.

I have a nvidia card and I hope it will work with iDeneb. Thanks for any help!

If you have a supported nv card it will work.

Good luck.

[HaX0r Jim Duggan]

Anyone tried this board with the boot 132 method yet?

[dawiinci]

That's great. I changed the drive to master and it works now. I installed iDeneb with some Drivers. Now it looks like as there are no additional drivers installed. The 8800GT (XFX 512MB) doesn't works and chameleon isn't running. I have to boot from DVD.

I hope I can fix that with a reinstall of the chameleon with Chameleon-1.0.11-build.tar and the Latest_NVinject.0.2.1_512Mb.

Thanks for your help!