Newbie needs a little bit of help

[Wepwawet]

Greetings OSx86 community

 

So let me start by saying this is my first post as you can most likely see and I was recently introduced to the world of OSx86. Ive been a mac and pc user for sometime and its pretty awesome what the OSx86 community has been able to accomplish.

 

Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong area but let me get started. So just to give some background info, my current PC build consists of these components:

 

ASUS P5WD2-E Premium i975x motherboard

Intel Pentium D 965 3.73 Extreme CPU

8GB Corsair PC2-6400 memory

Sapphire Radeon HD4870X2

1x Western Digital 300GB Velociraptor HDD

3x Western Digital 250GB HDD

1x Western Digital 1TB HDD

 

So basically once I found out about the OSx86 and hachintosh's a couple of weeks ago I decided to see if I could get OSX up and running on my machine. After an insane amount of reading and researching I was finally able to get almost everything working with just some minor hiccups.

 

This is my installation setup to the point I am at now:

iATKOS v7

Chameleon v2 bootloader

x86 patches - Extra directory, DSDT

Disabler

Video Drivers - ATI HD

Checked all the SATA/IDE boxes except generic IDE

 

I have so far had to find some work around's for some components on my motherboard (Marvell LAN, onboard audio) and my video card. Plus I have one of my HDD not showing up because its on my SATA RAID controller which I can not find any fix for and my Sound Blaster SE card doesn't work.

 

So here is my dilemma and the questions I would really appreciate some help with.

 

1. So to boot up successfully, I have to enter "-v cpus=2" every time in order to successfully boot OSX. Is there a way I can add this command so I do not have to enter it in every time?

 

2. I literally just tonight got my Radeon HD4870X2 working I think. My question has to deal with Quartz GL and how can I tell whether or not my video card is working properly or not? What should be working in OSX?

 

here is a screen shot of boot panic.

 

 

Any help with these questions would be greatly appreciated.

[Schala]

1) If you go to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration, you will find a file named com.apple.Boot.plist. Don't edit it, but make a copy and put it in /Extra. The reason we make a copy is because anything in /Extra will take priority and we want to keep the original system as vanilla as possible to hopefully avoid conflicts. Open up the copy in /Extra and you'll see something that looks similar to this:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

Just add whatever you want done automatically to the Kernel Flags argument, like so:

 

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>arch=i386 -v cpus=2</string>

 

The arch=i386 flag tells Chameleon to use the 32-bit kernel instead of the 64-bit kernel (if you're using Chameleon 2.0 RC3. Previous RCs used -x32). If you aren't already, be sure you're not using the 64-bit kernel. It may be what's causing your kernel panic.

 

2) There are a couple ways to check. It used to be that you could tell if Quartz Extreme and Core Image were working by going into the System Profiler, but because all Intel Macs support it and Snow Leopard only supports Intel Macs, they went ahead and took it out. Now the easiest way to see if it works is simply to see if the screen savers work. If they instead give you a black screen with an error in white text, you know it isn't working. If they run, you're set.