SinrG202

I know I'm opening an old topic here but I've got 10.5.8 working on my LE1600. Still in progress, but if any of you guys are still on this project you fancy collaborating to get it sweet?? Pretty sure everything should work after a bit of hassle.

I've a spare drive for it and I did have success installing 10.6.7/8 but only booting from the Nawcom boot onto a retail copy. couldnt get it to work without nawcom.

Thanks a lot. Sorry about the long reply. I'll look around and do a bit more research so I understand it fully.

"QUOTE (SinrG202 @ Jul 1 2011, 01:35 PM)
Ok. Simple when you know how."

Well not actually simple; some of the apple code is clear as mud even with source code, as it lacks documentation & comments. The fConsoleRange code is an example of this. Yes, thanks, I think this is one of the best "supported" laptops.

I should've added the sarcasm tags.

I read the source code to the new IOPCIFamily, focusing on the console relocation section since that was where Olegpronin said he was able to patch it to work.

Two systems are handy for gdbing kexts, but in this case I didn't have to go that far. With pci=0x1, you can see some extra logging, such as the correct console address. Then it was clear that it was simply the fConsoleRange value that was leading things astray. Luckily all the questionable logic that is setting fConsoleRange is predicated on kIOPCIConfiguratorPFM64, and that flag seems to be used for nothing else.

Ok. Simple when you know how. ;-) I'm glad you bought one of these laptops

Ok, I was able to fix the console logging problem after "PCI Configuration Begin" is displayed simply by adding: npci=0x2000 to the kernel boot flags. Ie in com.apple.Boot.plist:

How do you get to that? I'm presuming you monitor the console and logs from a second os install??! Or is it just tricks you pick up from experience.

@bcc9
Your knowledge helps people including me around here a lot.

@olegronin
Thanks for IOPCIFamily.kext

I'll second this. Nice one lads...