Problems installing MAC OS on Phenom, Zephyroth Options

[Misi]

hi there, i'm new to this website and i want to install : Apple.Mac.OSX.Leopard.10.5.2.AMD.EFI- Zephyroth on my desktop:

- AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Black Edition 140W - (has SSE4a too)
- MSI DKA790GX - AMD 790GX , SB750
- OCZ Platinum 2*2GB 1000MHz
- Asus Geforce 8600GT Silencer 512 DDR3
- Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Audio
- Western Digital SATA2

* if, hopefully, someone will try to help me i can get the S/N and Rev from all my components

i've cheked the forum from this website and wiki.osx86project.org and i didn't find in HCL my motherboard (MSI)

i have 2 partitions :
C - NTFS with Vista x64 (~97GB)
D - Unpartition (~56GB)
after i boot the MAC OS X dvd and it askes me to enter the command -v or to press Enter it restarts (help !)

is there a MAC OS X 10.5 that's supports X64 platform ?

thx

[Misi]

no one is trying to help the newbies anymore

[MGJulius]

Hey,

Phenoms CANNOT USE PC-EFI which is what zephyroth 10.5.2 uses. Instead grab either the 10.5.1 zephyroth uses, or get the lawlessPC release (which is a zephyroth release without PC-EFI)

I'm not sure but i believe that you can use chameleon with phenom but you would have to check on that

Good luck

[Misi]

Hey,

Phenoms CANNOT USE PC-EFI which is what zephyroth 10.5.2 uses. Instead grab either the 10.5.1 zephyroth uses, or get the lawlessPC release (which is a zephyroth release without PC-EFI)

I'm not sure but i believe that you can use chameleon with phenom but you would have to check on that

Good luck

thx man, you ar the first to reply

i found a second version of Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 and it has EFI v.8 more info so does it mean is uses PC-EFI ?

my processor is SSE4a, is this a good thing ?

edit : i think i found something

1. Install Zeph's OS X 10.5.1 (there is no instant reboot problem with this install DVD on Phenom, all other install DVDs will reboot on boot)

1.1. If you have "waiting for root device" message on boot, you need to add chipsets ext to install DVD, this is can been done easy with Transmac under Windows. Just download chipsets kext, copy it to Extensions folder on ISO (using Transmac) and burn new install DVD. Boot DVD with "-f -v" flags.

1.2 If you have "blinking cursor" problem on boot of installed OS X, here is the solution http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc3

2. Update to 10.5.2 using "10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c".

3. Install Apple Graphics Update

4. Install drivers (video, audio) (kext helper is a good tool, if something goes wrong you can delete trouble kext from Windows using Transmac or just boot with -s flag, do as sayed on screen and with help of unix commands (rm (remove), cp (copy), ls(list current dir), cd (change directory)) fix problem from shell)

5. Update kernel to latest (using Kalyway all kernels package)

6. Fix rosetta (if games and some apps are crashing on start) (Solution taken from here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...1260&st=0#)

6.1. Download this file: http://rapidshare.com/files/96033590/oah.zip.html

6.2. As root, move /usr/libexec/oah directory somewhere safe for backup
sudo -s
cd /usr/libexec
cp -R oah oah.bak

6.3. Copy the downloaded file into /usr/libexec/
rm -rf /usr/libexec/oah
cp -R ~/Downloads/oah

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Thanks to the developers for a chance to try Mac OSX!

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CPU AMD Phenom 9500
MB MSI K9A2 CF (AMD 790X (RD780+SB600))
RAM A-DATA 2x2Gb DDR2 800
HDD SAMSUNG SP1614N (PATA)
HDD SAMSUNG HD753LJ (SATA)
DVD SAMSUNG TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203N SB00 (ATA)
GPU ATI Radeon HD3850
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More here:
How to install Mac OS X Leopard on Spider platform (AMD Phenom)

- link

[MGJulius]

i found a second version of Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 and it has EFI v.8 more info so does it mean is uses PC-EFI ?

Yes PC-EFI is EFI v.8

These Leopard distro's have PC-EFI

Zephyroth 10.5.2 AMD EFI
Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD_INTEL
Leo4allv3
iATKOS v2.0i

There are patches available for all these "except the zeph release" that will allow you to run them on phenoms (Google "Chameleon Bootloader")

my processor is SSE4a, is this a good thing ?

SSE4a doesn't affect the MacOS installation, but since you have to have SSE3 to have SSE4 then yes.

You could follow that long process that deals w/ upgrading from 10.5.1 OR you can just download one of these distro's who either don't have PC-EFI

iDeneb v1.1 10.5.4
iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5
LawlessPPC 10.5.4
Leo4allv4.1

These releases are already at 10.5.4 (or 10.5.5) and have many drivers which you can install. To update to 10.5.5 just google "Zephyroths AMD Software Updater" and update using that

[Misi]

SSE4a doesn't affect the MacOS installation, but since you have to have SSE3 to have SSE4 then yes.

You could follow that long process that deals w/ upgrading from 10.5.1 OR you can just download one of these distro's who either don't have PC-EFI

iDeneb v1.1 10.5.4
iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5
LawlessPPC 10.5.4
Leo4allv4.1

These releases are already at 10.5.4 (or 10.5.5) and have many drivers which you can install. To update to 10.5.5 just google "Zephyroths AMD Software Updater" and update using that

so i looked up on google and chosed Leo4allv4.1 : link

First and for-most it boots with chameleon so it is efi and non efi boot.

is it good ?
do i install Chameleon Bootloader on Vista or i have to add it to my mac install disk ?

is there a MAC OS X on 64 bit ?

Edit : i found iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5 Leopard OSx86 : link "The boot is provided by Chameleon " has the Chameleon Bootloader installed
thx

[deki_86]

if u find something new about installing mac os on phenom pls post here

link about phenoms

edit: i found this : OSX86 Leopard For AMD LawlessPPC-Leo-10.5.4-Phenom&AMD : link
did any1 tryed to install this ver on phenom ?

[~J~]

Although the links are helpful its not LEGAL to post an ISO link.....

[Misi]

i manage to download and burn : OSX86 Leopard For AMD LawlessPPC-Leo-10.5.4-Phenom&AMD
but after -v and maybe 4 minutes it stopes :

still waiting for root device
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[Abda92]

Try changing the SATA type in your bios settings from IDE to AHCI and tell me what happens.

EDIT: did you install it yet? or is this just when you put the cd in to install??

[Misi]

Try changing the SATA type in your bios settings from IDE to AHCI and tell me what happens.

EDIT: did you install it yet? or is this just when you put the cd in to install??

this is when i put the cd in to install

EDIT : in my bios i don't have the option change my hard drive to ahci
i only have this options :
LBA/ Large Mode - On/Off or Auto
DMA Mode - Auto/more then 10 options
Hard disk S.M.A.R.T. - Auto/Disable/Enabled

EDIT2: i just want to say that my second partition is Unallocated(on my first partition i have Vista x64)
do i need to make it FAT32 - Primary Partiton ?

[Misi]

any solutions ?
please

[zuz_242]

EDIT : in my bios i don't have the option change my hard drive to ahci

EDIT2: i just want to say that my second partition is Unallocated(on my first partition i have Vista x64)
do i need to make it FAT32 - Primary Partiton ?

ahci mode (true sata mode) should be in the options, maybe not called like this, somewhere at sata options (native, ide mode ...). but be aware that switching to ahci may cause problems with windows
as it may lack drivers for this. but there is a thread with the solution for that.

you can format the partition in fat32, but i gather that your hdd as a whole is not recognized..

[Misi]

ahci mode (true sata mode) should be in the options, maybe not called like this, somewhere at sata options (native, ide mode ...). but be aware that switching to ahci may cause problems with windows
as it may lack drivers for this. but there is a thread with the solution for that.

you can format the partition in fat32, but i gather that your hdd as a whole is not recognized..

i'm sorry, this is may bad
i found in BIOS>Integrated Peripherics>On-Chip ATA Devices:
* PCI IDE BusMaster Enable/Disabled
* On-Chip SATA Controller - Enable/Disabled
* RAID Mode - IDE/RAID/AHCI

first time i tryed it was on IDE, now (5 minutes ago) i changed to AHCI
here ar the results:
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does that Firewire (IEEE 1394) has anything to do with it (i can disabled it in BIOS) ?
should i activate the S.M.A.R.T. option ?

[Abda92]

I don't think firewire has anything to do with it... and neither does your Phenom CPU, cuz I have one too (9950 BE). But it looks like your problem is with your SATA chipset..

I have an nForce 560 SLI (my motherboard's ASUS) and I had none of these problems before installing. After installation, I got the same error but changing from IDE mode to AHCI mode fixed my problem, but of course my windows didn't boot..
Then I realized that my DVD drive wasn't working either (it was IDE). It turned out none of my IDE HDD/DVD were working (that's why both my DVD drive and my SATA HDD wasn't working when under IDE mode).

After searching google for some time, I found the solution. I'm not sure why these kexts weren't copied during installation, but I just had to copy all ATA kexts from my installation DVD to my HDD, and now my DVD drive works, and my SATA HDD is back under IDE mode.

[Misi]

After searching google for some time, I found the solution. I'm not sure why these kexts weren't copied during installation, but I just had to copy all ATA kexts from my installation DVD to my HDD, and now my DVD drive works, and my SATA HDD is back under IDE mode.

my dvd drive is IDE and my hdd is SATA and in AHCI mode the instalation still didn't worked

could you please elaborate the "I just had to copy all ATA kexts from my installation DVD to my HDD" part ?

thx

[Misi]

After searching google for some time, I found the solution. I'm not sure why these kexts weren't copied during installation, but I just had to copy all ATA kexts from my installation DVD to my HDD, and now my DVD drive works, and my SATA HDD is back under IDE mode.

do you think it will work if i would try to install from a SATA dvd drive ?

[Abda92]

After installing and successfully starting OSX with AHCI mode (so basically everything was good except that my DVD drive wasn't working and I'd need to switch back to IDE to start Windows XP), I used the installation DVD to boot, and when the installer started used Terminal to copy the ATA kexts from the DVD to my local Leopard installation. The comman was something like:

cp /Volumes/DVD_NAME/System/Library/Extensions/*ATA* /Volumes/Local_HDD/System/Library/Extensions

Of course I needed to fix the permissions and delete the cache too...

After doing that, I was able to boot in IDE mode and my DVD drive worked fine.

However, I downloaded and burnt an iDeneb ISO and tried installing, but I got the same error as you (Still waiting for root device). But I didn't try doing much because my ISO's md5 hash didn't match the readme (not before or after patching it for the nForce chipset - which I happen to have).

I'm now downloading another ISO, but it'll take at least a day to finish...


And about installing from a SATA DVD drive.. I'm no expert, but there's a big possibility that it'll fix it. So if you could find a SATA DVD drive try it, but I don't think it's worth buying one since we're not sure it'll help.

I'll keep you updated (and send me a pm if I don't update in a few days because I have exams and I might forget..)

[Abda92]

The file finally finished downloading so I patched it, verified the md5hash was right, and burnt it. Sadly, I got the same error. I tried changing the SATA config to IDE, RAID, and AHCI but nothing worked.
I'll search about it more when I'm free because I'm busy at the moment. Keep me updated with what you tried and if anything works, and I'll do the same.

[Misi]

The file finally finished downloading so I patched it, verified the md5hash was right, and burnt it. Sadly, I got the same error. I tried changing the SATA config to IDE, RAID, and AHCI but nothing worked.
I'll search about it more when I'm free because I'm busy at the moment. Keep me updated with what you tried and if anything works, and I'll do the same.

thank you very much for your interest in my problems
but now i'm back home in the city i was born and i can't try anything, but i could try to download iDeneb, if you would recommand me

thx