4everAnoob

Hi guys n gals,

I have installed iAtkos ML2 and lion 10.7 succesfully on my comp. (asrock 4core1333 glan/m q6600 4g ram 6870) and it is stable, except for ethernet. Ethernet is acting weird. The situation is as follows. Up to and including 10.7.4, everything works 100% perfect (except sleep). Since 10.7.5, the ethernet wont work properly, and after a reboot it may or may not be working. It gets weirder. Because when it stops working, it disappears. Like, when going into windows or linux, the ethernet adapter is gone. Like it was never there. I then have to disable ethernet in bios, reboot into an os, shutdown, count till 10, cross my fingers, boot into bios, enable ethernet, and it 9/10 times works again. I have tried many kexts, and lnx2mac is most stable (no KPs). Official realtek drivers seems to work every time, but it ALWAYS gives Kernel panic either during boot, or after 5 seconds of using a web browser. So I decided to try mountain lion. To get mountain lion to actually boot, the secret was to go into the bios and enable "no no execute memory protection" (yes that is right, a double negative for some retarded reason) and than i used USBBusFix=Yes and PciRoot=1 and the sun was shining again. Mountain lion seems slightly different, because the ethernet seems to work after a few reboots automatically again without having to go into the bios 83 times and wasting a lot of time in the process. Other than that, same {censored} different day.

BOTTOM LINE:
Does anyone know how to get realtek 8168 (81xx) with dev id 816810ec to work in a stable fashion in 10.7.5+ ?

PS: Sorry if I made you read that entire paragraph when it was really quite a simple question

n00b

HOW TO install Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a Dell Dimension 5100/5150/e510 (possibly others)


Requirements:

-   Dell Dimension 5100/5150/e510 (maybe others)

-   USB drive with 8 gb or more

-   Snow leopard retail/DMG

-   Access to hackintosh or real mac with at least Snow Leopard

-   OR you could use a distro but this guide might not work 100% (recommend iAtkos S3 v2)

-   MyHack

-   Combo update 10.6.8 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399 + Extra Files (http://www.multiupload.nl/Z8UURC6V3Y)

Specs of computer this was tested on:

-   Pentium D 930 (upgraded from P4 521)

-   AMD Radeon HD4650 (upgraded from x600) *IF YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT VIDEO CARD, SOME PARTS OF THE PROCEDURE WILL BE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF!*

-   2GB RAM

-   Onboard Audio/Lan

-   BIOS A03

Bios settings

-   Everything set to default, except:

-   Disk controller mode: combination (this is needed in order to get sleep working, otherwise it hangs on resume!). This doesn’t decrease performance at all (can attach proof if needed).

Preparation
Do the following steps from a mac/hackintosh

• Put the Snow leopard DMG on the mac or put the Snow Leopard DVD in the drive
  
  
• Follow the myHack guide (on the myHack website) to create your 10.6 installer USB
  
  
• From Extra Files (attached) put the “mach_legacy” file in the root of the usb drive

Create HFS+ Partition from windows
If you want OS X on same disk as windows:

• Use windows partitioner or gparted to create an unallocated space for the OS X partition.
  Make sure you currently have 3 or less primary partitions.
  
  
• Open a command prompt window with admin privileges and enter “diskpart”
  
  
• Enter:  “list disk”
  “select disk X” where X is the disk you wish to install OS X on
  “create partition primary id=af”
  
  
• Check the new partition layout with “list partition”
  If everything is ok, reboot computer and boot from USB drive

Installation

• Boot from the created USB by hitting F12 and type at the prompt:
  “mach_legacy –v”
  
  
• Get a drink
  
  
• Select you language and open disk utility
  
  
• Select the partition you created earlier and format at it as extend HFS (journaled)
  
  
• Select the disk and install
  
  
• After 20 minutes it will ask 2 questions. The answers you should give depend on your system. The first question you should answer yes
  
  
• Reboot and set your OS X partition as active. This is very easy to do so I won’t explain it here.

First boot

• Boot from USB again
  
  
• At prompt select the myHack install partition but don’t press enter, type “mach_legacy diskXsY –v” where X is the OS X disk and Y is its partition
  
  
• Install combo update 10.6.8 DON’T REBOOT!!! Instead after install, install the 10.6.8 kernel using the installer from Extra Files. Reboot.
  
  
• At the prompt type “legacy_kernel npci=0x2000 –v”
  
  
• Drag and drop the following kexts into kext helper: Sleepenabler IONetwork ATIRad2000 ATI4600.
  
  
• Replace the boot.plist with the included one
  
  
• Reboot and check if internet works. If not, reboot again
  
  
• Install voodoohda 2.7.4 and install voodoohda.kext with kext helper
  
  
• Add voodoohdasettingsloader to startup (see the instruction in the Extra Files folder)
  
  
• Select use SSE2 in voodoohda settings for better audio
  
  
• Reboot. Maybe you get kernel panic, just reboot again.
  
  
• You may also remove applehpet.kext in \System\Library\Extensions. This improves stability for me but try it for yourself.
  
  
• Well done if you have everything working now.

EVERYTHING WORKS, EXCEPT LAN IS BUGGY. IF LAN DOESN’T WORK YOU HAVE TO REBOOT. BUT THEN IT WORKS AND SYSTEM IS STABLE TOO.
Hopefully this is still useful to someone with an old Dell system. Good luck!

reason for edit: added link to extra files

Does anyone know if the ATi FirePro M5950 is supported in SL / Lion / ML ? It is supposedly the same graphics card as the 6770M. I couldn't find anything about it. It's in a HP elitebook 8560w.

Many thanks.

So after install lion with pretty much everything working I wanted to see just how far I can push my luck... I'm trying to install ML DP4. Usings the exact same boot args as for Lion (USBBusFix=Yes PciRoot=1) the ML installer just reboots instantly after loading all the kexts. So far I have tried loads of boot args and I have also updated the bootloader chameleon 2.1  r2001 instead of chimera 1.8.0 r1394 which is the bootloader from MyHack 3.1. The reboot is very similar to a reboot experienced on for example a netbook without a special kernel. It just pretty much instantly restarts. I could not find anything about this issue. So it's not looking to hopeful I don't think :S

I have everything working on asrock 4core1333 glan m box except sleep mode. Sleepenabler didnt help so with pmset i enabled Hibernate. Now it hibernates fine but wont wake instead bootloader just skips the sleepimage with said error (incorrect signature 200 or something)

Another (off topic) issue is that i installed using myhack 3.1 and chameleon has no gui. Even if i install chimera or another chameleon it still stays in text mode.

Any ideas are welcome