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I have been a member of this board for a while, but lately have decided to help out others a little bit instead of just lurking all of the time. This guide will give you a general overview of my 10.5.6 iPC install on my HP DV9740US. I hope its helpful and isnt something put out there. I seem to notice a lot of people with these laptops install a modified kernel, find out its not what they want because its not stable, and leave it be. There is no reason to that, this install is faster than any Windows install I have had, to include Windows XP, and is also very stable.

 

First things first, we all know Intel Wireless cards, just dont work well with OSX86, and if you arent familiar, you soon will be that replacing the Intel Wireless card in your HP will be unable to boot. Why? Because HP like other companies put in a "Whitelist" in the BIOS. Thus causing your machine to not boot past POST if a different card is installed.

 

****I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF FLASHING YOUR BIOS BRICKS YOUR MACHINE, IT WORKED FOR ME IT MAY NOT WORK FOR YOU****

 

To fix this issue, we will use a modified BIOS file that has removed the whitelist. Head over to this other post here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=120190

 

And download the correct file for the BIOS you are currently running and or the upgraded BIOS. F.59 is the latest, so just download the file, and follow the instructions.

 

Find the iPC 10.5.6 Final release, this release should contain ALL PPF's so that you have all the drivers and fixes available to you.

 

When booting to the disk, hit F8 and boot with -v. THIS IS A MUST, the boot will fail without that verbose command switch.

 

1. No Kernel Selected. Vanilla Kernel is installed by default.

2. Depending on Video Card choose 1 of the Video drivers, personally my 9740US has a 8600M GS Card, and I like the NVDarwin drivers so I choose the NVDarwin 256MB.

3. Intel ICHx SATA Drivers selected in Chipset

4. ALC268 seems to be the standard AUDIO in these boards. I stick with the MADTUX ALC268 release. It has the headphone port fix built in.

5. You can skip any driver install for Ethernet/Wireless. If you followed the BIOS fix above, your wireless will be autodetected if you select a Wireless card that is OSX compatiable.

6. I select Voodoo Power, but I wont say that it is required..make your judgment on this one.

7. Under Fixes and Patches select, Seatbelt.kext, Both PS/2 Device Support patches, this is required for your trackpad and keyboard to work.

 

***NOTE, if you install ANY USB fixes, the front USB port wont work...and we need all we can get.

 

Click install, and let it ride. Take disk out at reboot and run with -v -f on first boot. Anytime you install a patch for that matter, you should run -v -f to make sure everything loads properly.

 

Now that we are booted into OSX you may have noticed a couple of things. For one, your sound worked on bootup :) Your buttons should turn up and down the volume, however the mute button will NOT work. It says it muted, but it doesnt actually mute anything. And unlike previous ALC268 releases, you dont have the white noise every boot up. Your HP Webcam, lights up in a pretty blue fashion, but it doesnt actually WORK when OSX asks you to take a picture of yourself for your profile. NOT an issue however, because it works with iChat, websites, and other chat messengers! (Native Yahoo Messenger/AIM/MSN Messenger)

 

Go ahead and head up to Apple Update, and let it install all updates, including security patches. These updates will NOT brick your install. Infact, it works smoothly. I do not know if this will work the same with version patches, but I will update this thread if and when 10.5.7 is released...I clone my drives, so I got no problem screwing one up to test it.

 

You should also notice that System Profiler identifies everything in your machine correctly, and there is no dreaded "Unable to identify system information" or whatever.

 

And thats it! I noticed using NVInject, I did not get Quartz Extreme enabled but with NVDarwin it works like a champ. Let me know if you have any specific questions. And I hope this helped some people.

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Hey, thanks this useful info. Yesterday i've installed the same iPC distro on my dv9750ej. I've managed to get internal wireless adapter running. Also Ricoh card reader works pretty well. However the laptop won't shutdown. Have you managed to solve this in your setup?

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Hey, thanks this useful info. Yesterday i've installed the same iPC distro on my dv9750ej. I've managed to get internal wireless adapter running. Also Ricoh card reader works pretty well. However the laptop won't shutdown. Have you managed to solve this in your setup?

 

The shutdown works without a problem. Did you by chance try the Shutdown/Restart Fix package in the iPC install? What motherboard is on that laptop? Also 1 thing I noticed with the HP's is that if the sound driver is not working correctly, the machine wont reboot or shutdown correctly.

 

With the install I listed above, I can successfully reboot, and shutdown without issue. However. I cannot use sleep, but this is not an issue for me.

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And thats it! I noticed using NVInject, I did not get Quartz Extreme enabled but with NVDarwin it works like a champ. Let me know if you have any specific questions. And I hope this helped some people.

 

I have a question that HP Tech Support has yet to answer so I thought it might be faster to ask you.

 

 

I have a Pavillion DV9700 (my specs are below. So far, if you haven't read any of my noobish posts, my issues have been mainly about booting. When I installed Leo on my portable maxtor hdd, the Kalyway DVD 10.5.2 (yes I know it's an old distro...) it would only recognize my portable drive after formatting it to Mac OS extended. Someone on here told me this wasn't normal since Mac OS should, at the very least, be able to recognize the presence of 2 NTFS formatted hard drives albeit in installation or otherwise...and be able to format them properly.

 

It said it installed fine after setting all the custom settings for AMD and whatnot.

 

Now my issue seeminly lies within my BIOS. When I try to boot it from the portable HDD...it goes to the black screen with the _ blinking...and then goes into regular boot...well Vista bootloader since I have ubuntu on the backup int. hard drive.

 

I checked the Apple2PC website and the section on BIOS setup talks about changing BIOS settings that one user on here tells me have to do with recognizing certain types of formats on boot or USB port. hard drives or something.

 

The last thing I want to hear is that my hardware isn't compatible. I spend good money on this laptop and thusly expect it to be able to handle most any task. I've booted portable linux OSes from USB sticks...so I don't know what the problem is.

 

Please help.

 

Thanks,

 

Winlinmac12

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I have been a member of this board for a while, but lately have decided to help out others a little bit instead of just lurking all of the time. This guide will give you a general overview of my 10.5.6 iPC install on my HP DV9740US. I hope its helpful and isnt something put out there. I seem to notice a lot of people with these laptops install a modified kernel, find out its not what they want because its not stable, and leave it be. There is no reason to that, this install is faster than any Windows install I have had, to include Windows XP, and is also very stable.

 

First things first, we all know Intel Wireless cards, just dont work well with OSX86, and if you arent familiar, you soon will be that replacing the Intel Wireless card in your HP will be unable to boot. Why? Because HP like other companies put in a "Whitelist" in the BIOS. Thus causing your machine to not boot past POST if a different card is installed.

 

****I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF FLASHING YOUR BIOS BRICKS YOUR MACHINE, IT WORKED FOR ME IT MAY NOT WORK FOR YOU****

 

To fix this issue, we will use a modified BIOS file that has removed the whitelist. Head over to this other post here:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=120190

 

And download the correct file for the BIOS you are currently running and or the upgraded BIOS. F.59 is the latest, so just download the file, and follow the instructions.

 

Find the iPC 10.5.6 Final release, this release should contain ALL PPF's so that you have all the drivers and fixes available to you.

 

When booting to the disk, hit F8 and boot with -v. THIS IS A MUST, the boot will fail without that verbose command switch.

 

1. No Kernel Selected. Vanilla Kernel is installed by default.

2. Depending on Video Card choose 1 of the Video drivers, personally my 9740US has a 8600M GS Card, and I like the NVDarwin drivers so I choose the NVDarwin 256MB.

3. Intel ICHx SATA Drivers selected in Chipset

4. ALC268 seems to be the standard AUDIO in these boards. I stick with the MADTUX ALC268 release. It has the headphone port fix built in.

5. You can skip any driver install for Ethernet/Wireless. If you followed the BIOS fix above, your wireless will be autodetected if you select a Wireless card that is OSX compatiable.

6. I select Voodoo Power, but I wont say that it is required..make your judgment on this one.

7. Under Fixes and Patches select, Seatbelt.kext, Both PS/2 Device Support patches, this is required for your trackpad and keyboard to work.

 

***NOTE, if you install ANY USB fixes, the front USB port wont work...and we need all we can get.

 

Click install, and let it ride. Take disk out at reboot and run with -v -f on first boot. Anytime you install a patch for that matter, you should run -v -f to make sure everything loads properly.

 

Now that we are booted into OSX you may have noticed a couple of things. For one, your sound worked on bootup ;) Your buttons should turn up and down the volume, however the mute button will NOT work. It says it muted, but it doesnt actually mute anything. And unlike previous ALC268 releases, you dont have the white noise every boot up. Your HP Webcam, lights up in a pretty blue fashion, but it doesnt actually WORK when OSX asks you to take a picture of yourself for your profile. NOT an issue however, because it works with iChat, websites, and other chat messengers! (Native Yahoo Messenger/AIM/MSN Messenger)

 

Go ahead and head up to Apple Update, and let it install all updates, including security patches. These updates will NOT brick your install. Infact, it works smoothly. I do not know if this will work the same with version patches, but I will update this thread if and when 10.5.7 is released...I clone my drives, so I got no problem screwing one up to test it.

 

You should also notice that System Profiler identifies everything in your machine correctly, and there is no dreaded "Unable to identify system information" or whatever.

 

And thats it! I noticed using NVInject, I did not get Quartz Extreme enabled but with NVDarwin it works like a champ. Let me know if you have any specific questions. And I hope this helped some people.

 

 

Your instructions were flawless. I installed on a Pavillion dv9740us, and it is almost perfect. I really didn't want to go in and mess around with the BIOS, unless I had to. I found a USB wireless card online that is N and backwards compaitable, since my wireless was not N and I run that through the house already.

 

Here is my problem, my ethernet did not work. I have the Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit. I installed the Realtek 1000 Driver in the setup, but still no Ethernet. The reason, I need it is because I dock this unit and hook it to a 32" display most of the time.

 

Any help on how to fix the ethernet would be GREAT...If i need to fix the BIOS to do that supply me with the best and easiest way to do it.

 

Chris Lowe

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Hi all, I've installed OSX on a couple of machines now so I'm not completely new to this. A friend of mine asked me to give it a go on his laptop. I tried the Kallaway 10.5.2 disk and it booted but it didn't see the hard drive in disk utility. I looked at a couple guides and all mentioned 105.6 iPC so I downloaded that. It fails to see the HDD as well, but fails to even boot, stalling at the infamous "still waiting for root device" error. Any suggestions?

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