lijamez Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 I have the cursed combination of a JMicron controller + no SATA optical drive. Apparently there was a 10.4.8 patch that provided drivers but it doesn't seem to exist for Leopard. Everyone says that you should get a SATA-IDE converter or USB optical drive but I don't want to spend any extra money if possible. I do, however, have a mac and a USB hard drive. Is there any way that I can either install from the USB hard drive? Or how about install OSX86 from my mac to the USB hard drive, then move the installed partition onto my PC? Here are the specs for my PC: Motherboard: Asus P5B (w/ JMicron IDE Controller) Hard Drive: 320GB SATA + 80GB SATA Optical Drive: 1 DVD Burner IDE + 1 DVD Reader IDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 afaik, for the kalyways dvd no way without sata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergejKiller Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Leopard has JMicron.kext. You just need to select 80pin cable for IDE HD and slightly edit Info.plist in /System/Library/Extensions/JMicron.kext folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SA22C Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Unfortunately, the latest kernel release has broken JMicron support in OSX, at least for me. Using two different motherboards with different chipsets, the latest 9.2.2 update hard locks or panics on JMicron.kext load, no matter what the settings. As of right now, I don't have IDE support, nor does it look good in the future. The good news is that the JMicron SATA ports are recognized and work great without JMicron.kext, so long as the system is running AHCI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-Didi Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Hi lijamez, I don't think, that there is another way to install Leo without USB- or SATA-Drive. The method via VMware works only with Tiger. With the JMB patch for Tiger that you mean, the IDE-HD at the JMicron-Controller will be recognize but not the optical IDE-drives at the boot process. The same with the JMicronATA.kext after editing the Info.plist. I searched long time for a solution but didn't find it, certainly not for Leo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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