*UPDATE ... I had a bit of time this morning so I tried using the latest JaS OSx86 10.5.4 Client Server Intel SSE2 SSE3 installer and now, thanks to JaS, we MSI Neo2 users have the easiest and best installer yet!

Here's a quick rundown of what I did to get it working perfectly! I chose to use the StageXNU kernel hoping that our shutdown/restart/sleep problems would be fixed, but sadly it's still giving me issues. I'm not going into full detail right now as all information required will be in the Leo4All section of this tutorial. I'll just be giving you the main points, and packages that I used. Remember this is specific to my configuration, which in short means I'm running a Neo2-FR P35 board, I have all SATA drives including DVD reader, 2 GB 1066 RAM, and my videocard is an 8800GT with 512 vram. Anyway.... onto the quick tutorial......

1. Make sure that your BIOS is the modified one.
2. Boot the JaS dvd. (you do not need any switches at all)
3. Erase your OSX partition, and make sure its name is only one word. DO NOT INCLUDE SPACES or else you'll get an NVKush error at the end of the installation.
4. Continue through the menus until "customize". Here are the options I chose.
- StageXNU
- Intel-ICHx
- AppleAHCIPort
- NVKush by Diabolik (only choose if your videocard is Nvidia)
- ALC888
- Generic SATA Drive Icon Fix
- Intel ICH7 to ICH9 AHCI Controller
- SMBIOS-1066 (my ram is running at 1066. Change this accordingly)
- Cleanup
5. Your system should reboot and get into Leopard 10.5.4 without any problems. This has everything working as it should without any major changes!

The only thing I did have to do was use Diabolik's plist editor to get osx displaying my videocard as 512 ram. This can be found here.... diabolik1605.com/plister/

And that's it. If anyone has any information on the sleep/restart issues, please let us know in this thread. It's the only thing that's keeping me from running this system with osx exclusive and parallels.

Check below the "-----" line to see my Leo4allv3 tutorial...

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I figured it was time to update this thread as I re-installed Leo4allv3 on my system last night, and found some helpful shortcuts/hints that make the installation process a bit easier for us MSI P35 users.

Alright ... so I'm now typing this from my osx86 10.5.4 stable with absolutely everything working as it should, besides some shutdown/restart/sleep issues which I'll go into more detail about later in the guide. I've decided to provide a writeup of everything that I've done to get my system up and running. Since I've learned a lot from others, I hope that others learn from my posts as well... Let's start with my system setup...

System:
Board: MSI Neo2 FR P35
CPU: 6600 Quad
RAM: 2 GB 1066mhz
Video Card: XFX 8800GT 512
NIC: Onboard
Audio: Onboard (unfortunately my delta66 will most likely never have intel drivers, only ppc)
DVD-ROM: Pioneer DVR-215D (sata)
Hard Drive 1: 250GB sata
Hard Drive 2: 320GB sata

BIOS Settings: (these were taken from another post and seem to work well)
MPS Table: 1.4
IOAPIC: Enabled
ACPI: S3
HPET: Enabled
EIST: Disabled
Execute Bit: Enabled
AHCI: Enabled

Pre-install setup:
I'm actually running Windows XP and Leopard from the same drive on separate partitions. WinXP is disk0s1 and Leopard is disk0s2, or for you PC users, xp on first partition and leopard on second partition.

Windows XP installed first (100gb) and I left the rest (150gb) for osx. You absolutely do not need this much space, but since I plan on using both operating systems intensively, this size serves my purpose quite well. I partitioned osx as primary (it will be a boot device after all), and left it unformatted.

Software:
Leo4allv3 (find this one on your own)
JaS 10.5.3 Combo Update (find this one on your own)
AppleHDA 1.20 w/ ALC888-D.txt (check the "Links" section of the guide)
NVinstaller v.41 (check the "Links" section of the guide)
Kabyl 7345v18 modified BIOS (check the "Links" section of the guide)

Procedure:
Install Kabyl's modified BIOS using the MSI tool included in the links below ONLY IF YOU HAVE A MULTICORE CPU, and make the proper BIOS adjustments as per the "BIOS Settings" section.

Place Leo4allv3 disk in your DVD-Drive and set it to bootable in the BIOS. Darwin will load and give you a few seconds to hit F8 to put in some switches/options. Go ahead and hit F8 and put "-v" (without the quotes) and hit enter. If you didn't want to install Kabyl's BIOS, then you'll need to put in "-v cpus=1". You should always keep the "-v" (verbose mode) to display any errors that you receive along the way.

OSX should boot into the installer after roughly 5-10 minutes, and you'll be presented with a bunch of options. Go into utility and diskutility, choose the space allocated to osx and erase/format it to journaled. Close diskutility and hit continue/next until you see the label "customize" in the bottom left corner. DO NOT MISS THE BUTTON! If you miss it, you can't cancel the installation and you'll have to start over from booting from the DVD etc.

Options:
Vanilla Kernel 9.2.2 - Enabled
ACPIPlatform - old (you'll need to check this to keep from getting the dreaded
"using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers" error)
ICH9 - Enabled
SMBios - 1066 (I don't think this matters as it's just reporting the ram speed to the OS)
About this mac - Enabled

Everything else was left off or turned off.

Procedure cont'd:
OSX will install (you can skip the DVD check), and you should receive the "success" notification and be asked to reboot.

The system should boot into the OSX profile setup screen. Go through the menus/setup and finally you should be in OSX.

The network should be working, as well as drive mounting through USB (something that doesn't work with all kernels).

The first thing I did was install the "JaS 10.5.3 Combo Update", and then install 10.5.4 from Apple update. I had problems with the Kalyway 10.5.3 update, and more problems going from 10.5.2 straight to 10.5.4 through Apple update, so unfortunately this is a two step process.

To install the sound driver, I used AppleHDA and ALC888-D.txt. Download the .txt file, drag it into the AppleHDA icon and you should immediately have sound. I had some reports of the ALC888 driver not working from the Leo4allv3 installer, so I use this method instead.

The only thing left to do is install NVinstaller v.41, re-boot and you're done (don't forget to choose your VRAM size in the installer... in my case 512MB). As a side note, I tried using NVinstaller v.52 and it didn't work with my card, so if you happen to have an 8800gt I would recommend you use v4.1.

Something odd that I noticed this time around when installing Leo4allv3 is that "-v" was already setup in com.boot.Apple.plist, so I just removed the switch from there once my system was stable so that I can see the nice apple splash on my PC . I also did not have to use the "-f" flag that was causing osx to fail on boot the first time around.

Links:
AppleHDA - http://www.mediafire.com/?xpijo2m4pxm
ALC888-D.txt - http://psykopat.free.fr/apple/AppleHDA/realtek/
NVinstaller v.41 - http://scottdangel.com/blog/?page_id=20
Kabyl 7345v18 modified BIOS - http://osrom.net/files/BIOS.mod/MB/MSI/734...od.by.Kabyl.zip
BIOS Updater - http://www.ami.com/support/downloadagreeme...amp;InpDrvID=90

I think that's it Neo2 users. Post some problems etc. in the thread and I'll try to help out as much as possible.

Thanks to everyone who's contributed ...

Good Luck,

kk

Thanks a lot for your guide, kk! It's really helpful and I finally managed to get past the xxx buffer headers problem. However, now I get a "still waiting for root device" issue. Did you get it? If so, how did you fix it? My setup is virtually the same as yours except I have only 1 300GB SATA HDD and a Lite-On SATA DVD-RW.

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Edit: OK, so I managed to finally boot OS X using not the ACPI kexts from Tiger but those from Leopard. Network and Audio are still not working but at least I'm in!

Hi Tristan,

Sorry, I've been a bit out of commission the last few days (wisdom teeth removal...), so I'm a little late on my response. I never received the "waiting for root device" but as far as I know that's caused by using unsupported IDE hardware instead of SATA (disabling IDE completely from your BIOS should correct this). Anyway, good to hear that you got in, but as far as the audio/network, that should be working if you chose the proper kext's from the Leo4all config. How about USB? Are USB drives mounting properly? (such as USB thumb drives, or HDD's).

Good Luck,

kk

Hi,

Followed everything to the tee, I am now at this point "Once the files have been replaced, you can reboot the system and using "-v -f cpus=1" you should be able to get into the osx profile setup screen. Go through the menus and you should be in osx."

However on boot im getting "localhost /usr/sbin/ocspd[61]: starting" and it just sits there and does nothing.  With maxmem=2048 added it holds at "localhost mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-170 (Jan 4 2008 18:04:07)[32]: starting"

Setup:
C2D E6750
4GB DDR 2 PC-8000 RAM
150GB WD Raptor
MSI P35 Neo2-FR Mobo with 1.8 BIOS from MSI
7900GTX Nvidia GFX
NEC 7170?? SATA DVDRW
Netgear WG311T Wifi Card

Hey all,

Thanks for the guide, but it isn't working for me... here is my installation log book entry:

installed modded bios= success

selected bios settings according to guide on InsanelyMac=success

put Leo4all v3 install dvd in tray... selected F8 then entered "-v cpus=1" = success

erased and formatted "38.3 Maxtor 6E0r0L0" to 1 partition and option selected "GUID Partition Table" = success

selected customize...
selected components according to guide on InsanelyMac plus a little more= success

waiting for install to finish= FAILED!


Trying again...


put Leo4all v3 install dvd in tray... selected F8 then entered "-v cpus=1" = success

erased and reformatted "38.3 Maxtor 6E0r0L0" to 1 partition and option selected is "GUID Partition Table" = success

install= "Install Failed The Installer could not validate the contents of the 'Leopard-10.5.2' package. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."

Any help would be appreciated.

MacGeek56

My specs:
Mobo: MSI P35 Neo2 Platinum
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
RAM: 1x 2gb 800mhz
Graphics: MSI Nvidia 7800 GT (HDMI edition)
HDD: 1 x IDE 20GB
DVD: HP dvd 940 IDE
Disk: Leo4Allv3

Hey,

Sorry for the trouble. I got the install to work! Yay! But now I'm getting the dreaded "still waiting for root device" error... Anybody know how to fix this? Thanks

MacGeek56

My specs:
Mobo: MSI P35 Neo2 Platinum
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
RAM: 1x 2gb 800mhz
Graphics: MSI Nvidia 7800 GT (HDMI edition)
HDD: 1 x IDE 20GB
DVD: HP dvd 940 IDE
Disk: Leo4Allv3

macgeek56

I left you a PM, but just in case anyone else is having problems with this same error I'll post. I'm fairly certain that this has to do with your IDE drives. I know that Leo4all has IDE support, but I'm not sure how well it works etc. I was having problems getting my system to boot with an IDE DVD-ROM, but once I plugged in my sata it booted without fail. Either try using different hardware, or search the forums for kexts related to the IDE drives. Remember ... intel macs do not come equipped with IDE support, so for the best compatibility it's recommended to emulate a mac as much as possible (all sata drives).

Good Luck,

kk




Edward,

From what I've read, you can use -x to get in, but you'll have reduced functionality. Make sure that the power options in your bios are setup just like mine. If all else fails, try disabling some of the onboard hardware (network adapters, soundcard etc..) to try and minimize any conflicts. You can always install them later. The goal is to try to get osx to boot without -x though as you'll have limited functionality in safe mode. I've also read of some users getting this error on a re-install after already successfully installing leopard once. That sounds to me like something wasn't checked off properly in the install phase though, but I'd still try another re-install. If you're still having problems, and you have the patience, try another distribution. Kalyway preferably. I've tried absolutely everything, and have only had success with kalyway and leo4all, but leo had all of the drivers right in the installer whereas kalyway I need to add my own kexts post install.

Anyway... good luck.

kk

I've just downloaded leo4allv3 and I can't even get the GUI to load up!
For a start it seems a lot slower to load up all the kexts at the start when compare to Kaly, is that normal?
Then I just get stuck at "CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=147[lssave] clearing CS_VALID" and the dvd stops spinning
I left it for ages (10-20mins) and the CD starts spinning but it just shows the same error again but with a different number.

I followed exactly whats in the first post except I don't have an EIST option.
Also I presume AHCI = enabled means the sata raid mode or something? Well thats the only mention of AHCI I can find in the bios so I selected it.

I'm using a SATA DVD and SATA HDD btw.

Any ideas?

Update: I left Leo4allv3 "installing" for a hour and it doesn't move from that error message.
So I just wasted 3+ GB of my download limit and a DVD-R for nothing

Back to Kalyway I guess.

You are the first person that I've heard this happening to besides me! The first time I tried to load osx86, I used Leo4allv3 and I received that exact same error. I changed my DVD drive and I was able to get in with the same disc. Either there was something wrong with my dvd reader, or the image wasn't burned well enough for my old reader. In any case, my dvd drive was at fault. It's funny that you mention this though, because when I was having the same error I couldn't find a single person on this forum with the same problem.

I left it running for hours, and noticed that if you leave it long enough you'll probably hear the dvd drive spin up and spit out another CODE_SIGNING error but with a different error number. And yes, the kexts were loading much much slower. It would take on average 5-10 minutes just to get to the error msg.

Sorry to hear that you spent your credits and a bit of money, but unfortunately it sometimes comes with the territory when you're trying to do something that's unsupported and essentially illegal ;P.

Good Luck,

kk

Cheers for that.
I'll give it a try with my old IDE DVD drive.
It's weird, the only mention of that error was from people who have already successfully installed leo4all yet I was getting it right from the start.

Is Leo4all any better? Its just that I've finally got Kalyway working and updated to 10.5.2.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to install it on a second partition for testing

Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes.

Cheers dude!
I'm now posting this from a Leo4allv3 install!
After trying the DVD in 3 different DVD drives and having the install fail at various points I figured my disk was bad.
I reburnt at 4x instead of max speed and the disk booted and installed first time on my SATA drive without any hiccups.
I now have everything working, even my hd3850 which seemed to be so much hassle with Kalyway.

One slight problem though - I installed the 9.2.2 kernel but I can't shutdown (haven't tried sleep as I never use that feature anyway)
I guess I just need to swap it for a different kernel?
I have a e2160 cpu if that means anything

Thanks again dude, I just presumed some other part of my setup was causing the issue (it seems every part of this PC is the worst part for installing OSX on )

oh yeah, it seems I don't even need to boot with -f (or cpus=1 but I have the hacked BIOS)

Nerb,

That's good to hear ;P. So I assume that my Leo4allv3 disc should probably also get the reburn treatment to keep a backup (I think I deleted the original image). Anyway, how you liking leo? It seems that this distro has been the best/easiest for our board. I was able to shutdown/restart/sleep properly, but after installing 10.5.4 I've been having problems shuting down or restarting after my system recovered from sleep. Instead of testing out different kexts, I decided to give the latest iAtkos disc a try. Not necessarily because I thought it would be better, but because I was a bit curious about it. Would always be nice to find a fully updated version of osx86 that installs perfectly on our boards. Anyway... I can't even get the damn thing to boot into the configuration screen, receiving constant MBR errors. Seems that darwin didn't fully install.

I'm hoping to get some time this week to get Leo back on, and do some sleep/restart/shutdown testing on 10.5.4 and see if I can get it working. I'll keep everyone posted on my results as they happen, and make some slight guide changes concerning a few things (audio being one of them).

Let me know if you've made any progress on the sleep/shutdown issue. The best way to test is to shutdown/restart before and after putting the system to sleep. Sometimes restart will work but shutdown will not. It's a bit strange.

Oops, forgot to address the 9.2.2 issue. Yes, try using a different kernel. I updated to 9.4.0 when I started having the issues. Not sure what I was on when it was all working properly.

Good Luck,

kk

I was tempted by iAtkos 10.5.4 too, I guess I'll stick with leo4all.
Do you know what 10.5.4 adds? is it just bug fixes anyway?

I'll try out some kernels later on and let you know.

Shutdown is now working and I guess it always was!
It seems having a USB device plugged in stops it from shuting down properly.
Once I unplugged my iPod and USB stick it shut down without any problems.

I also tried sleep which works fine too but like you said it kernel panics when you shut it down after 'sleeping'

*edit*

Well that seemed to work for a while but now its not shutting down properly any more.
I guess it was a coincidence!

I haven't been home this week, but I will be heading back tonight. Not sure if I'll have any time/motivation to install osx though. Might have to wait until the weekend as my primary computer these days has been my laptop. Anyway, keep trying different options if possible, but from what I keep reading there is no 100% solution with most boards. Hopefully we'll stumble upon something though. More importantly I'd like to know if the HDD's are being locked before the system freezes up during shutdown. Last thing I'd want are my drives to crash.

Thanks nad,

kk

hello, version 1.9 of bios is out. can i request a modified bios so that i can make leo4all work? thanks

brendan - I haven't had any luck shutting down consistently either. Usually on my hacktop (dell latitude d620) AppleHDA kexts throw a kernel panic on shutdown, however it's not consistent as sometimes it powers itself off. Desktop (Dell Dimension 5150) will park the drives, halt the CPU, the screen goes blank but the system doesn't power itself off all the time. Seems to make no difference if I've unmounted all USB devices or not (or on the laptop ejected the PC Card - I have a Sierra wireless 595 aircard from verizon working). So I'm not too sure about external devices needing to be unmounted first as a permanent fix. I figure however that if I want to get every little detail working perfectly with Mac OS X then I'd probably be better off purchasing an honest Mac.

any updates guys/gals? thanks

Alright this guide worked for me!!! I am running 99% There are a couple problems that im trying to work out but nothing major.
1.How do I install the combo update? I can get the file but I don't know how to use it.
2.Also I have an NVIDIA 9600GT can I install it? I have a 7600GS but i dont know how to install that either.

Any help would be great!
And thanks again for the great install guide!

what bios version are you using sir? thanks

I am using the custom bios provided in the guide. I also can not load my Vista OS. When I start it during the loading screen it BSOD's and will not continue. Could this be because of the bios changes?

Ok so my first question was a little silly! Duhh just run the installer! Ok, so anybody able to help me with the other 2 problems?

hi, any updates on this one? thanks

I don't have too much experience with the vista bootloader. But from what I've seen/read/heard it's a bit of a pain to get to dual boot with osx. There are quite a few tutorials with dual booting vista though in the forums, so you should be able to find something. I doubt that you're having any issues due to the custom bios though.



Why are you so concerned with the 1.9 bios? I did a bit of reading in the MSI change log and the only updates I can see are for newer CPU support. Do you have one of these newer CPU's? If not, then I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest. Kabyl is the one who makes the firmware changes, and from what I remember he takes requests, so maybe if you ask him nicely he'll update that one for you.



Again, another piece of hardware that I'm unfamiliar with (9600GT). As time goes on, it'll be much more difficult to get newer hardware working under osx86. Did you try using a few of the newer NVInstaller releases? You'll have to dive into the forums to see what you can dig up, as I'm sure there are quite a few people in here with your card.

This is not related to OSX, but does anyone know if this motherboard supports wake on LAN?
Ive had a look through the BIOS but can't see any mention of it.

What exactly do you want to do with the board? Need it to wake up from S3 state remotely? Or true WOL where you're waking up the computer from a turned off state....

If you want to wake it from S3, then yes, it works great. Not sure if you can wake it up the other way though, and if so, most likely on from within your local network.

I have since found out that there's no WOL option in the BIOS.
I had to change a setting in Windows to get it to work which is weird because I thought WOL is all hardware based.

I have it working now. I can now remotely turn on my PC and have it boot up Windows.
Then I can login with VNC from my iPod Touch.

Hey guys, here i am again ok i just downloaded the new JaS 10.5.4 DVD. I tryed booting up from it but it said "still waiting for root device" so i hooked up the dvd drive to an external usb conection and it booted up just fine... only now it didn't detect my SATA drive... any help?

My specs:
Mobo: MSI P35 Neo2 Platinum
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
RAM: 1x 2gb 800mhz
Graphics: MSI Nvidia 7800 GT (HDMI edition)
HDD: 1 x SATA 400GB
DVD: HP dvd 940 IDE
Disk: JaS 10.5.4 Server

I just replied to your PM. Didn't realize that you posted in here first ;P. Anyway, make sure that all BIOS changes are made according to my initial Leo4all guide. Most importantly that AHCI is enabled. I assume that disk utility is not detecting it?

Umm where exactly IS the AHCI? yes i have everything else set right

I can't recall right now where it is exactly in the BIOS. But there should be a toggle with "AHCI = Enabled/Disabled". Look for it in the BIOS. Make sure that the BIOS configuration in my original post are setup properly. If you can't find a certain noted setting, then look harder, it's there. Try again after making those adjustments, and let me know what the outcome is, including all error messages/problems. Be as specific as possible.

ok i got the install to work... but now when i boot up, it gets a "boot1: error"

Sounds like it's a bootloader issue. What drive configuration are you using? Single drive? Dual boot with windows? MBR? GPT?

Well i'm trying to dual boot vista and leopard. so i installed vista first on the first partition and left the second partition unallocated. then i installed leopard with the JaS 10.5.4 DVD and the install went superb. (although i did have to uncheck NVKush bc it was preventing my install from finishing correctly) then when i first tried to boot the system, i got the "boot1: error"

My specs:
Mobo: MSI P35 Neo2 Platinum
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
RAM: 1x 2gb 800mhz
Graphics: MSI Nvidia 7800 GT (HDMI edition)
HDD: 1 x SATA 400GB
DVD: HP dvd 940 IDE (using a USB enclosure)
Disk: JaS 10.5.4 Server

I got my complete install done and when I am asked to reboot from sertup it won't. The screen basically runs throgh the verbose attemt to boot the os it stops and reboots the computer. I have attempted several times abou the only thing I did not do according to you're guide was the checking within the option during setup "ICH9 - Enabled" I dont see this option but maybe I missed it. any hints where it may be hiding. I am presently using the leo4allv3. is this possibly the problem. Or is it because I'm installing the program to a seperate drive???

Vista apparently wants full control over the bootloader and can be a bit difficult to setup with osx on a multiboot. I have only run vista during it's testing phase and at work when it's required (which is not often). My experience unfortunately is limited to running osx/winxp in a multiboot setup using MBR. JaS is working on a .ppf patch for his .iso, and I think that it comes with a workaround for this very problem that you're experiencing as JaS addressed the problem when someone else was having the same boot1 error.

You should be able to get in by leaving your disk in the drive to force into Darwin, and then run rd=diskXsY

X = physical HDD number starting at "0"
Y = partition number starting at "1"

Example: rd=disk0s2 means physical disk#1 partition #2. If you're unsure, then you'll have to use the terminal to run fdisk and check your disks/parititons.

I would either suggest doing a bit of reading in the "Multi Boot and Virtualisation" section of the forum or wait until JaS can release his .ppf patch which will hopefully correct the issue for you.



If you have the same board, are running all sata drives, doing a winxp/osx multiboot, have made all bios settings (including using Kabyl's hacked bios) and have checked everything off correctly in customise then you should be using Leopard as we speak. I'm not 100% sure if missing ich9 will keep it from booting, but it's a possibility. I'd expect that most of us did not get these distributions running on the first go. Expect to re-install it at least a few times before getting it working flawlessly. If all else fails, then try the JaS release, it's been very good to me thus far.

Okay, now I'm running JaS 10.5.4! But I'm having some problems with sleep... when I leave my computer alone, it either just shutdown, or goes into an everlasting sleep. I can't wake the computer up!

So what did you do to get it running. Help the people here that are having the same problems ;P. The sleep problem is an ongoing issue. Not many boards/configurations have this running properly. There are a few kernels that I haven't tried just yet, and I was hoping that stagexnu would be the one, but sadly no. Anyway, turn off "sleep" and enjoy osx!

well actually i just got rid of vista. didn't want to go throught the headache okay. Thanks again for your guide!

Smart move (getting rid of vista ;P). Enjoy.

Ok I'm back and tried using your updated guide. I have run into some small problems.
1. The install went fine runs OSx.
2. I installed NVKush but since I have the 9600GT it wouldnt boot unless I was in safe mode. (-V -x)
3. This release is missing all the cool programs that leo4all had, so I don't know how to remove NVKush.
Besides that little problem every thing runs fine!

Yeh !!!!! Leo4All Final is installed
I did it First by
Going to the Bios Advanced Features and
1- Changed the Boot Sector Protection to – Disabled. You can change it back but you’ll need to update the bios
right?
2- Installed the bios per Kalby 7345v18 using the link from ambios as provided : BIOS Updater
3- Now reboot and go back to the bios and reset it’s time and date via the Standard CMOS Features
Now MY my Board “MSI P35 NEO2 fr” this board is less than a week old. And the bios was already updated
to 1.8. Well
Starting in order Left side of the BIOS screen
4- Advanced BIOS FEATURES-
a) IOPIC -5th Item down Enabled
MPS TABLE VERSION 6st item down – 1.4
c) CPU FEATURE- 7th item down - EXECUTE BIT in the sub directory – Enabled
Also in Chipset features - HPET
d) Boot Sequence - DVD ROM then HD and whatever!!!!!!
5- Next Integrated Peripherals
a) On-chip SATA controller AHCI Port
6- Power Management Setup
a) ACIP Function 1st item Enabled
ACIP Standby State 2nd item S3
7- Cell Menu
a) Intel EIST – Disabled

I am Loaded with 1gb of ram and Core Dual2 installed with LEO4all Final -v cpus=1
Loaded and when I got to the Disk Utility MBR
Loaded Vanilla 9.2.2
ACIP platform was a menu item and must be open to set Old
SMBios You Chose the Ram , I had 800s so chose the same
ICH9 was difficult to find but it was there. Under the Drivers, Hey its the chipset. Could not figure this out, but I did You are going to choose - ICH X
Drivers again for me and picked Nvidea 6500 driver chosen therefore I chose Nvinject 0.2.1
Audio driver ALC850 For /888
Network worked without help but it worked!!!!
But here's my bug, is there something Im missing because I cant reboot afterwards. I have 1 hard drive two partitions and as I said before Install is MBR with no other OS installed yet ??????

Ok, Now I'm even more confused, Evidentally you can't run XP on the board because ACHI is enable? How are the rest of you doing this?

......I geuss I'll answer the first question Myself. Two hard drive Bios change and save to stores in the BIOS since XP does not like ACHI!.....

But still need the other questions answered...... " Am I to supposed to Install them from the OS X or Even for that matter should I update from JAS do the same. Or is this where I should install from the boot? Ive gotten this far I just need a little Help"

do anybody know how to get IDE dvd-rom working? any extensions or patches? thanx

IDE dvd-rom should be working out of the box.

Thanks for the guide, I wasn't able to have a JaS 10.5.4 to download But I did have Leo4Allv3 from my Laptop. I was kinda leery about flashing my BIOS, but I took the jump and its working perfectly. The only problem is I don't have IDE support (Currently 10.5.4). The weird thing is I have an IDE DVD Rom, which loaded from it fine, but after the install, nothing; also in 10.5.2 direct from the L4A install there was no IDE support

Well I did some searching and thanks to Dense I found...

http://my.ukrweb.info/en/2008/01/1/marvell...ta-kext-leopard

Which works for me. I did a clean install from 10.5.2 and installed just that and stepped it up to 10.5.4. IDE is read as SATA. I used Kext Helper to install it the first time and I think that's what trashed my system.


EDIT: This is actually causing a problem with reading the drive with applications. It reads and mounts the DVD fine but opening with HandBrake or DiskUtil will make the App freeze...

Any options here?

First of all: THANK YOU !

Followed your guide, everything works (10.5.2)

Didn't try to get to 10.5.4, since I lost USB Plug&Play after trying the JAS 10.5.3 Update the first time. Sadly i can't remember what i did next, but it ended up in completely busting my OSX86 installation

Since everything runs fine (hope it's not a security issue to run 10.5.2), i hope you post again an idiot proof update guide for 10.5.5 or how you got it working.

thanks again !

Anyone tried booting successfully off the new Leo4allv5 10.5.4 Server on a IDE DVD drive?