Amazing Lemur Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 This guide tells you how to install Mac OS X on the SB700 southbridge (or SB750). Known Motherboard Compatibility List (many others will work as long as they have a SB700/SB750 southbridge): Asus M3A78-EMH Asus M3A-H/HDMI Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3HP For your comparison, this is my setup: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition (2.6 ghz, SSE2, SSE3) 4gb DDR2 800 RAM (4 x 1gb) Asus M3A-H/HDMI Motherboard Northbridge: AMD 780G Southbridge: ATI SB700 BIOS: 1501 (latest, 5/11/2009) Audio: ALC888s [*]nVidia GeForce 9800GTX 512mb [*]One IDE Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm hard drive I am trying to install on to. [*]One IDE DVD/CD Burner, my only internal DVD drive. [*]One SATA 750gb hard drive partitioned into two NTFS partitions. Note for people with Leopard already installed, but find it slow You will need a USB flash drive with OSx86 tools on it and this. Those are SB700 kexts. Those also work with the SB750, if you already have Leopard installed you can just install those kexts and speed will drastically improve. See the "Installing kexts" section below. What you will need: You will need a USB flash drive with OSx86 tools on it and this (Those are SB700 kexts. EDIT: Those also work with the SB750.) You will also need a copy of iAtkos 4a burned to a DVD. BIOS Options In the BIOS disable ACPI 2.0 and set Storage Mode to AHCI. Installation Boot from the disk. Press F8 when given the option and enter -v -f Follow click the arrow, then continue and accept the license. Then go to Utilities > Disk Utility and format the partition/hard drive that you want to HFS extended (journaled) or something to that effect. You can name the partition anything but I usually use Leopard. Drive Support I have both a PATA (IDE) Hard Drive and DVD drive. I can see my Windows SATA drive: Screenshot Options to choose during install Here is a screenshot of all the options in iAtkos 4a. The ones chosen are the ones that worked for me to allow me to install: Screenshot Installation may hang When installing your screen may hang at something like this for 40mins to 1hr. This is normal: Screenshot Another Screenshot After that the progress bar will move very slowly for another hour--but it will finish. It moves slow because it has SB700 kexts that work, but they are slow. This is also the reason that once you finish installing, Leopard runs slow. We don't want Leopard to run slow so let's fix that. Installing kexts Boot into Leopard and plug in your flash drive. Run OSx86 tools and extract the SB700.zip to a directory. Click install kext in OSx86 and go to the SB700 directory that you extracted and select both kexts. When prompted to reboot do so. Things should run pretty fast now. If things simply don't work, or still run slow set your storage mode to IDE in the BIOS. Good luck! Updating If you plan on updating to 10.5.7 from 10.5.4 that is installed USE THESE INSTRUCTIONS OR YOU WILL BRICK YOUR LEOPARD INSTALLATION AND HAVE TO START OVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 if other 780g/sb700 users could post if this worked for them and the model number of your motherboard, that would be really helpful for other people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroRen Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I guess this could work with 750SB also? It's almoust the same chip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 yeah, give it a shot. the worst thing that happens is that it doesn't work. Follow the exact same instructions, including downloading the SB700 kexts because apparently the strings used for devices are the same. Good luck, please tell me how it goes. The difference for me is using iAtkos 4a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tusk Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I guess this could work with 750SB also?It's almoust the same chip. Yeah I tried with my 750SB and it worked great...The speed has drastically improved. Thanks Amazing Lemur... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 not a problem. i hoped my 40+ hours (over 3 months) of messing with this would be helpful for someone else. I updated the first post with your results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 I updated the first post for clarity and added a section for people who already have leopard installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerguy76 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 You Sir, are a rockstar! This guide worked perfect on ASUS M3A78-EMH ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 thanks I added ASUS M3A78-EMH to the compatibility list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyKiller Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Hmm i'm trying to get iAtkos v4a, it will take about 1hour to get it, i have an ECS A780GM-M motherboard, after i try i will tell something here ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted July 6, 2009 Author Share Posted July 6, 2009 So, how'd it go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Hey guys, first time poster... I am in the process of installing 10.5.4 of LawlessPPCs phenom release. I have finally gotten it to boot to the GUI screen and it is installing right now. If all goes well and it boots, i will try these kexts and get back to you. My setup is as follows... Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3HP 780G/SB700 GPU: Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT Ram: 4 GB Hard Disk: (only 1 of 3 currently plugged in)300 GB Maxtor, with a 15 GB partition for OSX, SATA DVD: Sata DVD-RW Processor: Phenom 9500 So, installation is at about 30 min to go right now. I'll get back to you and let you know how it turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 i really hope it works for you because i broke my leopard install and am hoping that someone finds a distro that installs faster than 3 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 okay, update... after a few install attempts(of Leo4all, instead of the lawless that i said i was installing) i have finally gotten past the boot loop problem i was having. Now i get a grey apple screen after install but it hangs there. Using the -v flag i can see that it has stopped on this error: Extensions "com.apple.driver .AppleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi" My next step is going to be to try the Chameleon bootloader, probably using lawlessPPC since it comes with the bootloader already. I'll post back when i have more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Lemur Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 hmm. thats odd. usually it doesn't hang on something like that. maybe you should let it sit for 15 mins and see if it moves past that point, I know when I was using iAtkos it hung at Jettisoning Kernel Linker for up to 7 minutes (it varied). Are you saying Leo4All worked for you (at least for install)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Leo4All worked period. I got past the error. I DLed and burned the Lawless copy and was going to format the partition and install that, but when i went to boot from the new DVD i had burned, it used the dvds bootloader(chamelon) and booted into OSX(the Leo4All install) Everything works out of the box. Audio, Ethernet, USB devices and Sata and Pata HDDs and DVDs, recognized and 4 gigs and all 4 cores. But upon messing with some kexts i broke it lol. No biggie though, because now i am trying to install the Lawless one and see how that works out. If it does, great, if not i can always reinstall Leo4All, which only takes about 20 min to install. We'll see how long Lawless takes, if it installs at all. If not, i'm gonna have to find a way to inject Leo4All with the chamelon bootloader so i don't have to have a DVD in the drive every time i want to boot. As I've been typing Lawless has gotten into the GUI, so i'll do this and write more later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyKiller Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Pff.. it didnt worked, it just hangs at the middle of the installation... i will try to burn another DVD but i dont know if it will work :S Leo4All worked period. I got past the error. I DLed and burned the Lawless copy and was going to format the partition and install that, but when i went to boot from the new DVD i had burned, it used the dvds bootloader(chamelon) and booted into OSX(the Leo4All install) Everything works out of the box. Audio, Ethernet, USB devices and Sata and Pata HDDs and DVDs, recognized and 4 gigs and all 4 cores. But upon messing with some kexts i broke it lol. No biggie though, because now i am trying to install the Lawless one and see how that works out. If it does, great, if not i can always reinstall Leo4All, which only takes about 20 min to install. We'll see how long Lawless takes, if it installs at all. If not, i'm gonna have to find a way to inject Leo4All with the chamelon bootloader so i don't have to have a DVD in the drive every time i want to boot. As I've been typing Lawless has gotten into the GUI, so i'll do this and write more later. What version of Leo4all did you used? Tks btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyKiller Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 4.1 Tks for the anwser! You used any special option to install? -> Downloading now... 1 hour remaining to complete the download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Okay, so lawless is installed. all went very smoothly. Ethernet worked out of the box, but audio did not. Fixed it easily with some alc889a kexts i found. audio works now, but only on two channels at a time. i have 5.1 channel audio and i can select the rear speakers OR the front speakers, but not both. Gefore 9800GT working well, all 4 gigs of ram are there, but unfortunately not all 4 cores. Leo4all saw all 4 but lawless sees one. still looking for a solution to that, but it's going plenty fast regardless. Watchin simpsons on it right now, working very well. So, in conclusion, i think lawless is the better way to go, other than the only 1 core thing, which i still hope i can fix. But i don't really plan to do any gaming on it or anything so it's not a huge deal anyways. Leo4all worked well too and saw all cores, but you'd ahve to edit the ISO before burning to allow using the chameleon boot loader, and it doesn't detect my 9800 GT out of the box, so it seems like lawless is easier. Chameleon already on there and working great, and the audio thing is a quick and easy fix. So you can add the GA-MA78G-DS3HP to the compatibility list. If you have any questions, lemme know. P.S. both installed in about 20 min, i had modified the Leo4all ISO for sb700 but the lawless i just DLed and burned. No editing was necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyKiller Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Okay, so lawless is installed. all went very smoothly. Ethernet worked out of the box, but audio did not. Fixed it easily with some alc889a kexts i found. audio works now, but only on two channels at a time. i have 5.1 channel audio and i can select the rear speakers OR the front speakers, but not both. Gefore 9800GT working well, all 4 gigs of ram are there, but unfortunately not all 4 cores. Leo4all saw all 4 but lawless sees one. still looking for a solution to that, but it's going plenty fast regardless. Watchin simpsons on it right now, working very well. So, in conclusion, i think lawless is the better way to go, other than the only 1 core thing, which i still hope i can fix. But i don't really plan to do any gaming on it or anything so it's not a huge deal anyways. Leo4all worked well too and saw all cores, but you'd ahve to edit the ISO before burning to allow using the chameleon boot loader, and it doesn't detect my 9800 GT out of the box, so it seems like lawless is easier. Chameleon already on there and working great, and the audio thing is a quick and easy fix. So you can add the GA-MA78G-DS3HP to the compatibility list. If you have any questions, lemme know. P.S. both installed in about 20 min, i had modified the Leo4all ISO for sb700 but the lawless i just DLed and burned. No editing was necessary. Hmm what version of lawless?... stoped downloading leo4all xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Tks for the anwser! You used any special option to install? -> Downloading now... 1 hour remaining to complete the download I used alc888 kext, but that didn't work, i had to install kexts after install, but that was easy. I didn't select ANY ethernet kexts, but ethernet still worked perfectly out of the box. I also installed the NVInject 512 kext, as i have a 512MB Geforce 9800 GT. and i left the chipset drivers at their default except that i de-selected the intel one, obviously having an AMD processor. Hmm what version of lawless?... stoped downloading leo4all xD the 10.5.4 version. The torrents are horrificaly slow though, it's much faster to use these... http://hotfilms.org/non-windows/osx86-leop...-amd-98940.html They are rar and split into 18 different files, you have to download them 1 by 1, but it's still faster. Use the mega upload ones, the rapid share are very slow, except that the mega upload is missing file 4, so you have to get that from rapidshare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyKiller Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 I used alc888 kext, but that didn't work, i had to install kexts after install, but that was easy. I didn't select ANY ethernet kexts, but ethernet still worked perfectly out of the box. I also installed the NVInject 512 kext, as i have a 512MB Geforce 9800 GT. and i left the chipset drivers at their default except that i de-selected the intel one, obviously having an AMD processor. the 10.5.4 version. The torrents are horrificaly slow though, it's much faster to use these... http://hotfilms.org/non-windows/osx86-leop...-amd-98940.html They are rar and split into 18 different files, you have to download them 1 by 1, but it's still faster. Use the mega upload ones, the rapid share are very slow, except that the mega upload is missing file 4, so you have to get that from rapidshare. Tks again for the aswner... i have a rapidshare premium account ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickRand Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Tks again for the aswner... i have a rapidshare premium account ;D NP, you should be good to go then. No editing necessary like i said... Just make sure you are using AHCI mode and all should go well. it's a pretty quick install P.S. Lemme know how it goes for ya... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyKiller Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 NP, you should be good to go then. No editing necessary like i said... Just make sure you are using AHCI mode and all should go well. it's a pretty quick install Tks... but i dont have an PCI graphic card, atm i'm using the HD3200 onboard... so no drivers to it. Although an user of another forum reported that using the kext of HD2600 PCI he managed to change correctly the resolution, but no 3D graphic acceleration, anyway i won't play in Mac OS X so im not worried, waiting for Windows 7 RTM too ;D I'm going to sleep and tomorrow at the morning i will try to install. Thanks for all the help Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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