54434234732544273985375368 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Well, this is my first topic, and its basically about how I got OSX to work on my AMD pc. I needed OSX 10.5.3 or better so I could try and use Apple's iPhone SDK. Hopefully this will help someone that's having the same problems I had. After 4 separate installation disks not fully functioning/working for me (kalyway 10.5.2, iDeneb 10.5.5, leo4all 10.5.2, and Zephyroth 10.5.2) I read about iPC about a week ago and decided to give it a try. After I download iPC 10.5.6, burnt the disk and booted up from it, it was very simple (at least compared to the other distributions I tried). Here's some background information about what I'm doing. I'm tribooting Windows Vista, Windows 7, and now Mac OSX. I use EasyBCD as my bootloader. And lastly I'd never used OSX before and so I don't know how to install kexts and all that stuff. I probably installed iPC around 10 times before I got all the correct drivers. Here on some of my pc specs- -Acer Aspire T180 -AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ -3.00GB of RAM -ATI HD 2600 XT PCIE -250GB SATA HD -RealTek ALC888 Audio -Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCIE Ethernet controller Problems I encountered with other distributions mentioned above -could not complete installation -had to remove 2 RAM chips to complete installation -no audio -no internet -time out of sync with windows Problems with iPC- -no audio (caused a few reinstalls) -no video even with correct audio driver -waiting for root device -one kernel panic (forgot to install a patch) -missing or corrupt MBR -time out of sync with windows (install dual boot time sync patch) To fix the iPC problems- -ALC888 (old) (only audio driver that worked took me about 5 reinstalls to figure that out) -Natit video driver (fixed no video, the drive made for my ATI card wouldn't work with the chipset for some odd reason) -AppleNforeata chipset driver (fixed waiting for root device) -Seatbelt 9.5.5 (fixed my kernel panic when mounting DMGs) -fixing the missing or corrupt MBR was fairly simple althought I found no information on the internet that helped me with it. The problem was when ever I tried to book up OSX it would say /NST/nst_mac.mbr missing or corrupt file (something along the lines of that). In EasyBCD it said the drive was /Device/HarddiskVolume2 and the path was /NST/nst_mac.mbr. To fix it I set the drive to C and made a new file in drive C called NST then I copied nst_mac.mbr from /Device/HarddiskVolume2 to the new folder. Next time I booted up it worked. First boot -boot with -f flag -make sure you set up a password with your account, because otherwise it will mess up some installers. I'll add a pic once I finish setting up all of my programs. EDIT - Here's a screenshot, not that I'm on an AMD not an Intel like it says in the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramyk Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I also tried at least 4 DVDs (All versions of iAtkos, kalyway) all of them didn't work...Do u think i should try iPC? if yes, please tell me how to set up the dual boot and which patches to choose because i don't want to reinstall.. my specs: HP Dv4t notebook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53Ghz T9400 4GB RAM nVIDIA 9200m GS Altec Lansing Speakers Built in HP webcam 320 GB SATA hard drive Windows Vista Home Premium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mik3y08 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I also have the Aspire t180, I am trying to install iPC 10.5.6 also but I get waiting on root device when trying to boot the installation disk. So i try ideneb and I can install, but then I get the waiting on root device. Im not trying to dual boot or anything, just straight up MAC osx, Any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 -had to remove 2 RAM chips to complete installation You didn't have to do that. You can just boot with maxmem=2048 EDIT - Here's a screenshot, not that I'm on an AMD not an Intel like it says in the box. The Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel does that for compatibility reasons. It's in the manual. Any dual core CPU will be set to Core 2 Duo, single core CPUs to Core Solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNinja Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 I have an Aspire AX3200. Maybe with your help I can get this installed! Thank you sir. I have a copy of iPC right now. Let's give this a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stogenbobber123 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 -AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+-3.00GB of RAM -ATI HD 2600 XT PCIE -250GB SATA HD -RealTek ALC888 Audio -Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCIE Ethernet controller exact same specs as me except i have 2gb of ram i was wondering if u can help me because was going to the sdk too ive tried 4 times already 1st try with -v "still waiting for root device" on the verbose boot thingy 2nd with -v -x -y cpus=1 same thing 3rd try same thing 4th i forgot but it had the same root device thing can you help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raze5115 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I keep getting the screen in the image below after installing iPC 10.5.6 on first boot and it stays at that screen and it doesn't do anything at all. I tried -v and -f but nothing. I am a total newbee to installing Mac OS X on a PC, so I need to know what to choose in the customizing menu for my system. I also need to know if I use MBR, GUI, or what in addition to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) to partition my Pata HDD. Any help would be very most appreciated. My Comp Specs are: Compaq Presario SR5710f Amd Athlon 64 X2 4450e 2.3GHz 3GB of DDR2 Nforce 4 chipset WD 250GB Pata Hdd Pioneer Pata DVD Burner Sata DVD Burner Nvidia Geforce 6150SE D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop adapter Nforce 4 Lan ethernet card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekkro-kvlt Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Hi, Is there a link or something that could help me choose the best distro for my config ? GTX 280/ IntelP31 CHipset/ Q6600 Proc ? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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