dogpile Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Found the Sollution after 3 days of work to get OSX on this Acer desktop. Hopefully this manual will be according standard Original specifications of the system: - 1 x Core 2 Quad Q6600 - RAM 2 GB - harddrive 1 x 500 GB - DVD±RW -GF 8600 GT TurboCache voor 1GB - Gigabit Ethernet - Vista Home Premium - Intel VIIV Technology The only thing that's changed is the video card to a Nvidia Geforce 9600GT, because the other broke after one year of use. As far as I can see, Acer doesn't have this PC in the collection anymore. Installing first to a USB drive is a good way to check what's wrong and you can very clearly see what's the problem with the Controllers. If it installs then your one step ahead of running MAC OSX on your homebrew MAC. The controller was the main problem with the system I installed MAC OS X to (installed it by accident on USB drive ) Most of the required files are under this post 1. Install MAC OS X on USB harddrive. For this install i used the DVD MAC OS X86 Ideneb v1.3 10.5.5 downloadable thru some downloading websites. Install the OS without any extras.. xept your prefered software for instance Adium You can boot from the USB harddrive and use this solution to fix the AHCI problem that's in the OS itself. Download: AHCIFixv2_withkexts.zip to your desktop and extract it. You will see AHCIFixv2 on your desktop: Type this into the terminal sudo -sit will prompt for password, put your password here cd cp Desktop/AHCIFixv2/AppleAHCIPort.kext.dir/Contents/Info.plist /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAHCIPort.kext/Contents cp Desktop/AHCIFixv2/IOAHCIFamily.kext.dir/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext.dir/Contents/Info.plist /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contentschown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAHCIPort.kext/chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/touch /System/Library/Extensionsexit Now your OS sees all the harddisks and the DVD player in the installed OS. Maybe there's a different way to do this, for instance change the kext files on the DVD. But this was the way i fixed it. 2. After these steps i installed the Video card with these easy-to-install drivers for the Nvidia 9600GT: 1. fresh install iDeneb 10.5.5 v1.3 (no graphics driver selected) 2. reboot -x 3. install aqua-mac's package http://rapidshare.com/files/155562098/NVID...rivers.zip.html 4. reboot 5. install NVDarwin 1.2.3 http://www.mediafire.com/?iltt3ezn1uh 6. reboot 3. For the sound you will need the Realtek High Definition drivers: Download the following patch: AppleHDA Patcher v1.20 Use this file and drop it on the patcher in OSX: ALC888-D.txt 4. install EFI V8 on GUID 1. a USB key drive labled with "123". 2. pc_efi_v80 package: 3. Leopard Ideneb Installation DVD Step by step guide: 1. upzip the following package. move the pc_efi_v80 folder under the root of your USB key drive. pc_efi_v80 2. boot to your Ideneb DVD, if you get stuck in the process, you may try safe boot by press F8 during the boot menu, input -x, and press enter 3. enter disk utility, click on your harddrive icon(not those mounted partition icons under it), choose partition tab in the right panel, you'll know how to partition your HDD then. 4. Before click Apply, make sure you click option below the partition chart, and choose GUID table, click OK 5. enter Terminal. do the following commands and DOUBLE CHECK them before execution. Contents between "[]" are descriptions and shall not be entered into terminal. diskutil list [note your disk identifier diskXsY for the partition you'd like to have leopard installed, such as disk0s2 in my case, then X=0/Y=2] diskutil unmount diskX diskutil unmount diskXs1 diskutil unmount diskXs2 diskutil unmount diskXs3 diskutil unmount diskXs4 [I do it for EVERY partition for precautions, it only takes a little bit more time but makes it much more likely to succeed] [the code below activates your partition] fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX [X=0 in my case] update f Y [Y=2 in my case] w q [OK now do the unmount steps again] diskutil unmount diskX diskutil unmount diskXs1 diskutil unmount diskXs2 diskutil unmount diskXs3 diskutil unmount diskXs4 [Let's get down to besiness, it's time to install efi] cd /Volumes/123/pc_efi_v80 ./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v8 dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1 7. Reboot. You should be able to see something like "*** /boot.plist is not found ***" and that means you just DID IT. 8. Install leopard normally, just don't touch disk utility again, and NEVER EVEN ENTER any partition programs such as partition magic or something unless you know what you are doing. 5. Use Chameleon boot loader installer to make it boot and select the harddrive you want to use. Chameleon-1.0.11-installer.zip I don't remember for sure chameleon solved the problem, but a funny thing is that before i installed chameleon, when the OS was on the harddrive.. i could only boot into OSX with the installation disk. 6. use carbon copy cloner to copy the entire usb harddisk to your prefered harddrive when you are finished! It's freeware, so no worries. There's some commercial stuff during copying. http://www.bombich.com/software/download_ccc.php ET VOILA! This is the easiest way to fix it for this desktop system, without to know something about editing kext files on ISO files and/or DVD. Took me 3 days to figure this out and allot of boose and breaks in the pubs I hope I can help some people with my first posted sollution on this forum. Feedback is allways welcome! AHCIFixv2_withkexts.zip ALC888_D.txt AppleHDAPatcherv1.20.zip pc_efi_v80.zip Chameleon_1.0.11_installer.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlf Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 2. After these steps i installed the Video card with these easy-to-install drivers for the Nvidia 9600GT: 5. install NVDarwin 1.2.3 http://www.mediafire.com/?iltt3ezn1uh I hope I can help some people with my first posted sollution on this forum. Feedback is allways welcome! The Mediafire link seems to be broken.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogpile Posted November 16, 2008 Author Share Posted November 16, 2008 The Mediafire link seems to be broken.. FIXED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top_Shelf Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I have a similar machine to this one. I have the Acer m5641-u5630a. Quad core, integrated nvidia 7100.. I've gotten ideneb to install using an old pata hard drive and dvd drive, but when I reboot I get stuck in the register loop.. Any advice would be helpful. I've been searching all the forums and haven't found a working solution yet. Thanks! Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top_Shelf Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I managed to get out of the loop by doing -s on boot,setting the root passwd and then touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone as mentioned somewhere in these forums. However, I'm still stuck getting drivers setup etc... trying some different config on install... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogpile Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 I managed to get out of the loop by doing -s on boot,setting the root passwd and then touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone as mentioned somewhere in these forums. However, I'm still stuck getting drivers setup etc... trying some different config on install... Hi, the file you mentioned is for the setup screen and does have no influence on a fresh installation. When OS X is finished installing, it always makes this file. When you remove it the setup screen appears again. Try different versions of OS X. Maybe that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top_Shelf Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hi, the file you mentioned is for the setup screen and does have no influence on a fresh installation. When OS X is finished installing, it always makes this file. When you remove it the setup screen appears again. Try different versions of OS X. Maybe that helps Maybe there's some confusion over the issue. The solution I mentioned worked for my problem. I had an issue where during a fresh install, the system would reboot (during the install process as you mentioned) and proceed to the setup screens where it asks you to configure your keyboard and whether you want to transfer from another mac... On my system, it'd loop back to the keyboard question after I'd answer no to the transfer from another mac question... Creating this SetupDone file (via "touch") makes OS X think it's already been through all of that (AFAIK) and takes you directly into OS X on boot instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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