[Guide] Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD Install on an A8N board

[Matt S]

--Update 6/6/2008--

 

So I went thru the hassle of installing Leo4Allv3, and its installer is like a meld of Kalway and Zephyroth... easier than Zeph, but more difficult than Kalyway. Upside is Eddie11c wrote a little script to make your processor info show up in "About this Mac" and it works well. The downside is the system is damn unstable. I'm talking it locked within minutes of me first booting into Leo. Really weird. So now I'm back on Kalyway 10.5.2. My Intel machine also had a hickup... don't install 10.5.3 if you wanna use iWork 08... zomg did it have a hissy fit. All kinds of kernel errors. According to Kalyway's 10.5.3 combo updater you can keep your 9.2 kernel if you wanted to, but i didn't, and personally I'm not having any of the issues that 10.5.3 seems to have addressed, so I'll just wait for 10.5.3 discs to come out and I'll do a time machine backup install to bring myself up to date.

 

Oh, and to answer questions, the Forcedeth-V driver that Leo4All is claiming to have is the same exact driver I linked to on here. I pulled the package out of Leo4All, unarchived the Archive.pax.gz and low-and-behold it was the same version of forcedeth as on Kalyway and in my link when I kextloaded it. Like honestly, why did Eddie11c & Co. have to go confusing the masses by doing that? Bah. Anyway, the link in here is for the same driver, so it will no more break / fix whatever problem you are having. Upside is I found a working skge.kext for my marvell card, so I can use both Nics now!! Progress!!! If anyone wants it, post here and I'll upload it.

 

--Matt--

 

--Update: 5/27/2008--

 

Well I'm kinda "meh" on the zeph 10.5.2 rev 2 image. It installs just fine, but there are bazillion things to check and foo on you if you select the wrong bootloader... it errors without even a notice. What has me uber annoyed is zeph claims 3870 coverage (something everyone else in 10.5.2 has just fine), yet his driver causes all kinds of glitching on my stock sapphire 3870. I had to boot into safe mode (-x at the prompt), manually load the forcedeth kext, then download the latest Natit kext and overwrite the packaged one to make it work!!! What a pain!

 

Next on the trial list: Leo4All v3.

 

--Update: 5/21/2008--

Negatives:

Well it would seem my HD has decided to suck and refuses to stat in the BIOS at all. Major bummer.

 

Positives:

It would seem I've started a trend amongst my friends and they are hopping into the hackintosh fun time. Due to the HD dying, this seems to be a perfect opportunity to test out Zephyroth's new 10.5.2 rev. 2 install which everyone with AMD is raving about. Seems nice so far. I'm on the 4th install though cuz I am trying to figure out their convoluted ATI driver selection system. I'll let you all know how it works out. For the mean time, stick with kalyway unless it really is giving u hassles.

 

Hello everyone!

It would seem my last post got deleted. Well, I am re-posting, along with the guide. It would seem that you're not allowed to post to off-site guides, even though the guide is hosted on the official osx86 wiki..... makes no sense. Anyway I've copy pasted from there. You can also follow this link to view the whole thing.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...lway_AMD_10_5_2

 

Please post any questions / comments here. Thanks!

 

--Pre Requirements--

OK, this is the part that took me literally weeks to figure out, and will make your lives so much easier, thus why I'm sharing.

1) First, the Sil3114 driver is shoddy, and the Nforce SATA non-functional, so do yourselves a favor and find a nice cheap IDE drive.

2) Set that Hard drive as the primary master. MAKE SURE TO SET THE JUMPER CORRECTLY. CABLE SELECT WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY.

3) Make SURE that your DVD drive is set to the SECONDARY MASTER and that you also set that jumper correctly. Cable select again will not work.

4) Download the Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD / Intel ISO. It's available through the normal channels.

5) Download the forcedeth.kext from here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=12933 Put it on a USB stick formatted FAT32 (or HFS if you please).

NOTE I tried both the Kalyway and the iATKOS 1.0ir2 CD's. In my opinion, the iATKOS install needs a LOT of polishing before it will be what Kalyway is already at. I do thoroughly enjoy having multiple teams working on something, but the Kalway install is much more streamlined, and for installing on non-Intel hardware, you need all the help you can get. Also, iATKOS doesn't have the nForceATA kexts included, so you get screwed on boot. .

 

The Good Stuff (aka how I did it)

 

Let me give credit where its due, I did utilize a few instructions that is in the 10.5.1 installation how-to for AMD that is linked on this wiki. But I'd have to say 98% of this is my own work. But thank you

So, lets get started.

1) Make sure you have everything downloaded that I listed in the pre-requirements.

2) Burn the Kalyway install to a DVD (single layer is all is required).

3) Keep the DVD in the tray, and reboot.

4) Access the BIOS.

5) On the main screen, make sure the IDE drive is primary master and the DVD is secondary master.

6) *OPTIONAL*Disable the Silicon Image Controller under Peripherals (for the sake of faster booting really. OS X won't detect it, so if you wanna leave it on, no biggie. )

7) Enable the AC97 sound if it's not already enabled.

8) Make sure the DVD drive is set to boot first, or else you'll have to pick it from the F8 boot menu

9) Save and Exit.

10) BIOS posts, and the kalyway DVD should load. Press F8 here and type -v to boot in verbose mode.

11) During POST, you'll see a lot of messages that if you've never used an open source OS before, you're probably not going to understand most of it. The important parts are that you see nForceATA get loaded, and that your HD gets loaded. THIS IS THE PART WHERE THE DREADED "still waiting for root device" appears. If you get the error, double check the requirements I set above.

12) Assuming you survive step 11, OS X should load the installer. It takes a decent amount of time, even with a 16x DVD drive, so be patient. Verbose mode helps because stuff actually comes up every so often to show its doing something before the GUI loads up.

13) Click next once you can, and then along the top the menu will load. Click Utilities, then Disk Utility.

14) Disk utility takes a little while to load and stat the available disks. It is here you will partition the drive you wish to install on. Click the Drive (not the indented names. Those are partitions already on the drive) and then click the "Partition" tab that shows in the right hand window.

15) Choose a Partition scheme of 1 Partition, name the drive "Leopard" and choose the Journaled File System (not case-sensitive). Now there will be a button labeled "Options" below the big rectangle representing your drive. Click that.

16) On the resulting window, make sure MBR is checked. I realize Kalyway claims GUID will work, but its only tested on Intel. MBR worked for me, so its what I recommend.

17) Click Ok, then OK on the original screen. It will warn that your going to erase whatever partitions are on the drive, and that one named Leopard will be created. Go ahead and OK that. It will take a second or two.

18) Once that finishes, close Disk Utility.

19) Proceed through the install, selecting the proper disk you just formatted, until you come to where you are about to begin the install, and there is the all important Customize button. Click that.

20) WHEW step 20. Take a breather, grab a drink, the next part requires some focus.

21) The customization screen opens. This is where Kalway distinguishes itself from iATKOS extremely.

a) Kernel: select ONLY the sleepycat kernel (default). If you want to hear about WHY sleepycat, read my kernel talk at the bottom.

VGA: I am using a Radeon HD3870. You'll have to dive into the menus, select the one labeled X2000_AND_X3000_HD and the NATIT selection. They're well marked.

c) I selected the forcedeth driver under networking, but it seemed to not install properly (thus for the USB copy).

d) The default sound selections worked for me... make sure both of the AC97 drivers are selected. I'm unsure which one it actually picked up.

e) If you want any of the "free" software, pick what you want.

f) Feel free to not install any of the language translations you won't need. If you like reading Japanese anime/manga though, or have any plans of using iTunes with foreign tag names, keep the translations.

g) AMD Patches: I selected Patch1 and the processor fix. It seems both are required for my motherboard. Your mileage may vary.

22) Click ok, and then click Install. Feel free to skip the DVD check. It takes eons to complete the check. Then wait about 20-40 minutes (depending on your selections) to install OS X.

23) Reboot the machine, remove the DVD from the drive when it POSTS.

24) Use the F8 boot menu to pick you HD, or just let it ride if no other boot devices are installed.

25) The Darwin boot loader should come up. Press a key, and then use -v for verbose just to watch the first boot.

26) With any luck, all will work well, and you will be greeted with the Leopard First-Run nonsense (I really wish they would let you bypass the damn "cute" intro).

27) Run through the registration. It won't have any internet connectivity (unless you got lucky and either the Yukon or the forcedeth drivers actually worked. They didn't in my case)

28) Plug your fancy USB drive in. Copy the forcedeth.kext onto the desktop.

29) Open Terminal

30) Change directory to your desktop (cd Desktop)

31) Issue these 3 commands:

sudo chown -R root:wheel forcedeth.kext

sudo chmod -R 755 forcedeth.kext

sudo kextload forcedeth.kext

32) With any luck, the forcedeth kext will load, and System Preferences will pop up an alert you have an unconfigured network card.

33) Click open, the new window opens, click the "advanced" button, then click "Ethernet" tab.

34) Set Configure: Manually, Speed: Autoselect, MTU: Standard (1500)

35) If you're running DHCP, you should receive an IP. If you're not, you saw where to enter that info.

 

--Post Mortem--

 

OK so you got it all working. But you want the ethernet driver to load automagically. No problem!

1) Open Finder

2) Click on you Hard drive (mine is named Leopard)

3) Double-click System

4) Double-click Library

5) Double-click Extensions

6) Drag and drop the forcedeth.kext into the new extensions window. It will fail to copy.

7) Click the authenticate button in the error window, and type in your password (this basically is the GUI way of doing the sudo cp -R command)

8) You should see the kext copied in. Now reboot, and let the magic happen!

 

--Matt--

[lenenkie]

Hi Matt. Need some help with my hard disks... been trying for more than 10 hours now... can't find an answer in the forums

 

My system:

AMD 64 3500 single core

ASUS A8N SLI SE MB

2 GB Ram

ASUS NVIDIA 7900GT 256 MB

 

HARDDISKS (all IDE) (All previously once installed in a windows systems as backup drives - no prior installation of windows OS on them)

-Seagate 40GB

-Hitachi 120GB

-Maxtor 80GB

 

I initially followed your guide

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...lway_AMD_10_5_2

 

I follow it religiously with no problems until the end of the boot. Harddisk and DVDRW are both IDE. Harddisk - primary master. DVD - secondary master. At the end of the -v boot, it states "disk0s1 I/O error"

 

I am still able to go into the Kalyway boot screen. I open up disk utility and i try to partition the drive as a Mac OS Journaled file system but an error message pops up - I/O error. Unable to partition drive.

 

Hence i try other partitions. The only one that works is when i do a "free space" partition, followed by a FAT32 partition. (NO I/O errors). Then I try to install, the installation gets to 30% each time and "unable to install Mac OSX on your com, Unable to install on volume/leopard"

 

Next step - I reboot and go into -v -s (verbose/safe mode)

I use fdisk /dev/disk0s1 = BAD SUPER BLOCK. MAGIC NUMBER WRONG. THIS HAPPENS FOR ALL THE HARDDISKS WHICH I HAVE TRIED. But these hard-drives work fine on windows. I plug them into another windows system and they work fine..

 

I try pdisk - it states I/O error

 

I try fsck -fy - it states I/O error. BAD SUPER BLOCK.

 

The only time when there was something different was when I used a windows xp boot CD to format the IDE drive into a NTFS format.

 

When I used the kalway boot CD - the last message on the -v screen was journalled system possible or successful. NO I/O error was indicated.

 

Then when i went into disk utility once again i formatted it as free space, then when i tried to format it as a MAC Extended Journaled system, I/O error.

 

Does anyone have the same problem? Is there a way to prepare a previously windownised IDE HD to become a MAC ready HD? Disk utility and -safemode are unable to format/partition the drive due to I/O error + BAD SUPER BLOCK/MAGIC NUMBER WRONG errors. fsck also doesnt work.

 

Please help! Thanks in advance!

[Matt S]

Lenenkie,

Well thats an intriguing problem. So I did some googling, which confirmed my suspicions... the magic number is, by all accounts I can find, a special number that is housed in the superblock that tells OS X what file system is currently on the drive. My guess is that disk utility's "Erase" function doesn't actually wipe the whole drive. This problem appears to occasionally crop up in 10.4 systems that are boot-camped. My guess is windoze is a being a little over-acheiving in its attempts to rule the desktop.

 

Anyway, the fix appears to be you can spend hours mucking around with fdisk on bootable versions of linux, OR just wipe the ENTIRE drive. So, go download a lovely piece of FOSS called dban, found here http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

Make sure if you have any hard drives with data you want to KEEP you pull their power connectors before booting from DBAN or else it may find and wipe them. It's quite zealous, and meant for bulk data deletion if the Feds are banging down the door. Let me know how that works for you. Thanks for posting.

 

--Matt--

[bdawson]

I have the exact same motherboard and everything worked fine - except audio.

 

I can't get a peep out of it. The speaker icon doesn't even show up in the menu bar and the sound preference pane shows no devices found.

 

I selected both AC97 drivers as suggested in the installation. How would I go about reinstalling them (without reinstalling the whole damn thing)?

 

I'm comfortable with command-line, but this is foreign territory to me.

 

BTW - There's a blank space in the menu bar where the speaker icon should be. You can tell by watching it expand and contract while clicking the "show volume in menu bar" checkbox.

[MacKing]

Yesterday I tried to install the Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD/INTEL ISO and I have managed to boot up and partition the HDD in HFS journalized and picked up the tools and software to install; but unfortunately the installation wasn't completed. The following error was shown: "The Installer could not validate the contents of the 'JavaTools' package". Any idea what the error can be?

 

Hardware:

 

CPU : AMD X64 3500+

Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI

RAM: 2GB DDR1-400 Corsair

VGA: XFX Nv6800GT 256MB

HDD: 20GB IDE and 350GB SATA (20GB is used for the installation since it is an IDE)

[Matt S]

I have the exact same motherboard and everything worked fine - except audio.I can't get a peep out of it. The speaker icon doesn't even show up in the menu bar and the sound preference pane shows no devices found.I selected both AC97 drivers as suggested in the installation. How would I go about reinstalling them (without reinstalling the whole damn thing)?I'm comfortable with command-line, but this is foreign territory to me.BTW - There's a blank space in the menu bar where the speaker icon should be. You can tell by watching it expand and contract while clicking the "show volume in menu bar" checkbox.

BD, Thanks for posting. Good to hear you got that far! There's a VERY good wiki convering that, found here:http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/AudioIt's specifically geared towards our nForce4 based boards.

Yesterday I tried to install the Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD/INTEL ISO and I have managed to boot up and partition the HDD in HFS journalized and picked up the tools and software to install; but unfortunately the installation wasn't completed. The following error was shown: "The Installer could not validate the contents of the 'JavaTools' package". Any idea what the error can be?Hardware:CPU : AMD X64 3500+Mobo: Asus A8N-SLIRAM: 2GB DDR1-400 CorsairVGA: XFX Nv6800GT 256MBHDD: 20GB IDE and 350GB SATA (20GB is used for the installation since it is an IDE)

Hah MacKing, good name. Anyway, onto your issue. This is a well documented problem with the Kalyway image, specifically the 10.5.2 install. It seems to correlate to how fast you burn the DVD, and what program you're using, and what drive you are using. Kalyway makes all his/their stuff from an iMac (at least that is what was used originally. Might've changed since), and the ISO is made from disk utility. I burned my copy from a linux machine using K3B, which is IMHO the best burning tool for Linux, regardless of your gnome/kde tastes. My recommendations are:

 

1) Get a good burning program designed for ISO burning (Nero / Roxio suck from what I've found. If you're on windows, Alcohol / PowerISO / DaemonTools work well. There's even a ISO Burner power toy, found here http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm. If you've got a mac, use disk utility. Linux, its K3B or bust).

 

2) Burn at the SLOWEST speed possible. This is VERY dependent on your hardware / software combo. Good hardware and software = higher burning speed possible, but if you're getting issues, reduce speed. I'm talking like set the burner for 2x, and go get some food.

 

3) Worst case, get a better burner. Many of the OEM burners in windoze OEM pcs blow chunks. Now I used a burner from an eMachine in my linux machine that burned my Kalyway at 8x with no problems, so the software might've just been that awesome. My Lite-On drives have also never had any issues. Let me know how it works for you.--Matt--

[cigarettes]

Yesterday I tried to install the Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD/INTEL ISO and I have managed to boot up and partition the HDD in HFS journalized and picked up the tools and software to install; but unfortunately the installation wasn't completed. The following error was shown: "The Installer could not validate the contents of the 'JavaTools' package". Any idea what the error can be?

 

Hardware:

 

CPU : AMD X64 3500+

Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI

RAM: 2GB DDR1-400 Corsair

VGA: XFX Nv6800GT 256MB

HDD: 20GB IDE and 350GB SATA (20GB is used for the installation since it is an IDE)

Hi, I am getting the exact same error as you, and have burned my copy 3 times, at every speed, (2x, 2.5x, 4x) I have a pretty decent sony burner that i've never had a problem with, and I used alchohol to burn the image. I have a thread up in the OSX86 forum, with no luck in getting any help. Im going to try 10.5.1 once its finished, and if that doesn't work ill try some other releases and see what's going on. Its unfortunate because all my hardware is tested as working well, an Intel C2D cpu even! GL to us figuring out this error.

 

 

EDIT: here is my thread if you want to keep an eye on it for anyone who may have help. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=105322

[djdew]

Wow i couldn't believe it when everything installed right off the bat flawlessly. I am currently writing this post from a new Kalyway 10.5.2 installation and used your guide. Thanks!

 

I have an A8N-SLI

Athlon 64 X2 3800+

WD ATA drive

Nvidia 7800gt

2 gigs PC3200

Everything else just on board stuff.

 

But as always... too good to be true...

 

I am having random lock-ups/freeze when using Safari more specifically the issue is being duplicated when i try to download something. Example> I was trying to download MSN Messenger for Mac from MSs website and download would start and in the middle of the download the computer would freeze. Hard Reset. Try to download again same thing. Hard Reset. Try to download again same thing. Hard Reset. Try to download again and it worked. Same issue occurred while trying to download firefox and unarchiver but not iTunes (luck?). Same lock-up/freeze occurs when trying to view embedded videos on the web (random as well).

Same lock up occurred when i was browsing a windows computer over the LAN.

 

I tried using Safari with Rosetta enabled but Safari won't even load, and yes i did try the rosetta fix mentioned in your guide.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks for the guide though it's awesome!

 

EDIT: Well hell, i some looking around and it appears to be forcedeth related. Apparently a quick workaround is to just run the activity monitor ? LOL, who knew... Currently doing that and working A-OK! =D

 

EDIT2: Well didn't quite did it. Still crashed when attempting to download the iPhone SDK. Back to square one.

 

-dj

[MacKing]

Hey guys i just installed the Kalyway 10.5.2 successfully...So about the error of the installer couldn't validate the contents of the Java tools package....it was that I had the DVD-Writer (BENQ DW 1640) and it was not reading constantly during installation...so I got another DVD-reader /writer and it worked...Anyways the LAN worked out of the box no need of anything, vga fully functional...The only problem that i have is about the ALC850 (onboard audio)... sometimes working and sometimes not... I'm still figuring what might be the thing to put the soundcard to "sleep" sometimes...Thinking of using the M-Audio Fast Track USB which is 100% compatible with MAC and specifically designed for garageband ...

 

But if there is someone of you who have his/her audio working normally give the instructions pls.

 

Thanks,

 

Bdw if someone has a P5KC mobo and cant get the onboard LAN here is an nice installer to you goodluck

Attansic_L1_Ethernet.zip

[cigarettes]

Hey guys i just installed the Kalyway 10.5.2 successfully...So about the error of the installer couldn't validate the contents of the Java tools package....it was that I had the DVD-Writer (BENQ DW 1640) and it was not reading constantly during installation...so I got another DVD-reader /writer and it worked...Anyways the LAN worked out of the box no need of anything, vga fully functional...The only problem that i have is about the ALC850 (onboard audio)... sometimes working and sometimes not... I'm still figuring what might be the thing to put the soundcard to "sleep" sometimes...Thinking of using the M-Audio Fast Track USB which is 100% compatible with MAC and specifically designed for garageband ...

 

But if there is someone of you who have his/her audio working normally give the instructions pls.

 

Thanks,

 

Bdw if someone has a P5KC mobo and cant get the onboard LAN here is an nice installer to you goodluck

Ahh, {censored}. I hope this is not what is causing my error...I cannot afford another DVD drive, as I just bought a 1tb HDD, and I am still trying to figure out my tax return/gov't rebate check considering my father claimed me without realizing he would be taking all my money! Im 22 and don't live with him!

 

Not to mention, this is a fairly new/reputable drive. Sony DRU-810a dual layer dvd+-R/rw etc etc. I don't get the error with other distros, Leo4all just locks up during darwin verbose post messages. And iAtkos gave me a different error, and now just asks me to restart the computer every time I boot (hopefully its a corrupted ISO, as people who have the corrupted release have the same restart message, just got a new copy, will find out if it works or not tonight.)

[Cardzidood]

I get to the point where it is installing, and this big message pops up that says

 

Install Failed

Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer

The installer is experienceing errors installingo onto "Macintosh HD".

The disk may be damaged. Please try installing on another disk.

 

When I look at the log, this is the message it gives

 

BomFileError 5: Input/output error - /Volumes/Macintosh HD//System/Library/Extensions/ACard6280ATA.kext/Contents/MacOS/ACard6280ATA

Error extracting archive

pckExtractor exited with error 1 while processing packing '/System/Installation/Packages/BaseSystem.pkg'

 

Does this seem to be a problem related to my install disk, should I try burning another copy? The harddrive is an 80 Gig Maxtor. And I tried both AMD patches.

 

I'll post an update when I burn a new disk and try it.

 

-Cardz

 

--update: same message, different disk which I burned using the superdrive on my MBP. I formatted the 80 gig drive again and everything still stopped at the same point. I'm beginning to give up my dreams of having a decent OS on my desktop...

[MindNet]

Hi All,

 

NewBee here.

 

First of all thanks for the perfect guide.

 

Basically everything worked perfect. The only thing is that after the cute intro: Select country, United States, Keyboard U.S.

Then I got the question: Do you already own a mac? Answer: Do not transfer my information now. Click Continue.

This last click brings me back to the cute intro.

 

Does anybody how to solve this problem or how to troubleshoot this problem?

 

Cheers

 

M

[Matt S]

Hey guys i just installed the Kalyway 10.5.2 successfully...So about the error of the installer couldn't validate the contents of the Java tools package....it was that I had the DVD-Writer (BENQ DW 1640) and it was not reading constantly during installation...so I got another DVD-reader /writer and it worked...Anyways the LAN worked out of the box no need of anything, vga fully functional...The only problem that i have is about the ALC850 (onboard audio)... sometimes working and sometimes not... I'm still figuring what might be the thing to put the soundcard to "sleep" sometimes...Thinking of using the M-Audio Fast Track USB which is 100% compatible with MAC and specifically designed for garageband ...But if there is someone of you who have his/her audio working normally give the instructions pls.Thanks,Bdw if someone has a P5KC mobo and cant get the onboard LAN here is an nice installer to you goodluck

The ALC850 drivers have some issues. I know Zephyroth's image claims to have working drivers. I only have 2 hackintoshes at the moment (The A8N and an ez-mode intel p35-based system). Neither system uses the ALC850 (ac97 and azalia respectively). I'll keep an eye out.--Matt--

Ahh, {censored}. I hope this is not what is causing my error...I cannot afford another DVD drive, as I just bought a 1tb HDD, and I am still trying to figure out my tax return/gov't rebate check considering my father claimed me without realizing he would be taking all my money! Im 22 and don't live with him!Not to mention, this is a fairly new/reputable drive. Sony DRU-810a dual layer dvd+-R/rw etc etc. I don't get the error with other distros, Leo4all just locks up during darwin verbose post messages. And iAtkos gave me a different error, and now just asks me to restart the computer every time I boot (hopefully its a corrupted ISO, as people who have the corrupted release have the same restart message, just got a new copy, will find out if it works or not tonight.)

Nice Cigs. Lemme know how it works out. Just FYI, Sony rebrands other drives, just like all the big name OEMs do (HP uses Lite-on for over 1/2 their DVD burners alone), so don't be fooled by "reputable" brands. I did refurb rebuilds for 6 months for a certified HP / Dell / Gateway repair shop. The {censored} they pull is just insane, and I'm sure Sony isn't far off. --Matt--

I get to the point where it is installing, and this big message pops up that saysWhen I look at the log, this is the message it givesDoes this seem to be a problem related to my install disk, should I try burning another copy? The harddrive is an 80 Gig Maxtor. And I tried both AMD patches.I'll post an update when I burn a new disk and try it.-Cardz--update: same message, different disk which I burned using the superdrive on my MBP. I formatted the 80 gig drive again and everything still stopped at the same point. I'm beginning to give up my dreams of having a decent OS on my desktop...

Card, a quick google check comes up with a few reports that this is SATA related. Is this 80 gig Maxtor a SATA disc? If so, you may want to try Zephyroth's new 10.5.2 rev 2 install. It claims better support for the nForce4 series SATA controllers. I'm actually testing it now myself to see how it works out. --Matt--

Hi All,NewBee here. First of all thanks for the perfect guide. Basically everything worked perfect. The only thing is that after the cute intro: Select country, United States, Keyboard U.S.Then I got the question: Do you already own a mac? Answer: Do not transfer my information now. Click Continue. This last click brings me back to the cute intro.Does anybody how to solve this problem or how to troubleshoot this problem?CheersM

Heya Mind, welcome to the discussion. A quick google of some synonyms of your problem actually yielded some videos on youtube with iAtkos 1.0 installations have the same issue. Did you use iAtkos? Presuming you didn't, it appears network-related (after that transfer information page the mac is supposed to stat the network card to access you information presumably). Most people fixed it either by simpling unplugging their ethernet cable, removing the card during the installation and reinstalling afterwards, or worst case, buying a new card. Let me/us know if any of those work for ya.--Matt--

[MindNet]

Hi Matt,

 

Thnx for your quick response. Here's what I tried:

 

- Disabled the onboard Network Card (BIOS). (I am not sure whether this is of any use in combination with EFI)

- Removed the Linksys WiFi card.

- Re-installed Kalyway.

- No network card drivers.

 

Still the same problem.

 

I'll do some additional tests.

 

Keep you posted.

 

Cheers

 

M

[bdawson]

Wow i couldn't believe it when everything installed right off the bat flawlessly. I am currently writing this post from a new Kalyway 10.5.2 installation and used your guide. Thanks!

 

I have an A8N-SLI

Athlon 64 X2 3800+

WD ATA drive

Nvidia 7800gt

2 gigs PC3200

Everything else just on board stuff.

 

But as always... too good to be true...

 

I am having random lock-ups/freeze when using Safari more specifically the issue is being duplicated when i try to download something. Example> I was trying to download MSN Messenger for Mac from MSs website and download would start and in the middle of the download the computer would freeze. Hard Reset. Try to download again same thing. Hard Reset. Try to download again same thing. Hard Reset. Try to download again and it worked. Same issue occurred while trying to download firefox and unarchiver but not iTunes (luck?). Same lock-up/freeze occurs when trying to view embedded videos on the web (random as well).

Same lock up occurred when i was browsing a windows computer over the LAN.

 

I tried using Safari with Rosetta enabled but Safari won't even load, and yes i did try the rosetta fix mentioned in your guide.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks for the guide though it's awesome!

 

EDIT: Well hell, i some looking around and it appears to be forcedeth related. Apparently a quick workaround is to just run the activity monitor ? LOL, who knew... Currently doing that and working A-OK! =D

 

EDIT2: Well didn't quite did it. Still crashed when attempting to download the iPhone SDK. Back to square one.

 

-dj

 

I too am having random crashes and lock-ups. At first the Kalyway install seemed to work fine, but I would wander off and come back to find the machine locked up. I thought it might be related to screen or energy saver settings. Naw. It locks up sometimes right after boot, sometimes in the Finder, often in Safari - and anything that deals with Java is hit and miss (Dashboard is a no-no.) I can't pin it down and nothing in the logs points the culprit.

 

I've reinstalled a couple of times. The first time I followed Matt's suggestions to the tee. Subsequently I've experimented with different kernels and patches. I have never been able to get audio to work (Although the Sound preference pane says the driver is loaded). Mostly though, the random crashes make it unusable for any kind of serious work. I must reboot from crashes 20 times a day.

 

I have an A8N-SLI Deluxe w/ 2 GB RAM and a G-Force video card. Passes memcheck and runs Windows (off of separate drive) fine.

[djdew]

I too am having random crashes and lock-ups. At first the Kalyway install seemed to work fine, but I would wander off and come back to find the machine locked up. I thought it might be related to screen or energy saver settings. Naw. It locks up sometimes right after boot, sometimes in the Finder, often in Safari - and anything that deals with Java is hit and miss (Dashboard is a no-no.) I can't pin it down and nothing in the logs points the culprit.

 

I've reinstalled a couple of times. The first time I followed Matt's suggestions to the tee. Subsequently I've experimented with different kernels and patches. I have never been able to get audio to work (Although the Sound preference pane says the driver is loaded). Mostly though, the random crashes make it unusable for any kind of serious work. I must reboot from crashes 20 times a day.

 

I have an A8N-SLI Deluxe w/ 2 GB RAM and a G-Force video card. Passes memcheck and runs Windows (off of separate drive) fine.

 

Hi bdawson,

 

In my particular case i am pretty darn sure it is related to the forcedeth drivers. Although the interface came up right up after installation it appears that this is an issue that many people are having with forcedeth. There are various version of forcedeth around and i haven't ventured to try any yet pretty much because im lazy. The temporary workaround is to boot your machine with the cpus=1 flag. That has provided me with a usable although rather slow OS X.

 

From browsing around the forums it seems no one has found a clear solution to this particular issue and the recommendation is to purchase an additional NIC.

[Matt S]

Hi bdawson,

 

In my particular case i am pretty darn sure it is related to the forcedeth drivers. Although the interface came up right up after installation it appears that this is an issue that many people are having with forcedeth. There are various version of forcedeth around and i haven't ventured to try any yet pretty much because im lazy. The temporary workaround is to boot your machine with the cpus=1 flag. That has provided me with a usable although rather slow OS X.

 

From browsing around the forums it seems no one has found a clear solution to this particular issue and the recommendation is to purchase an additional NIC.

 

 

That is possible. Leo4All / Eddie11c has recently debuted their v3 ISO for 10.5.2. They have a forcedeth-V driver that they're recommending for everyone over the older forcedeth driver. Anyone manage to find an individual kext of it to load and try? Mine is still working pretty solid, although I am trying out Zephyroth's image of 10.5.2 at the moment. It installs just fine as long as you know which checkbox to click or else it gets all the way thru and yells at you saying the installation was invalid. Meh, I still say Kalyway is easiest for anyone just getting into this "hobby". Runs solidly on my P5K intel platform. I'm gonna try out Leo4All next since that seems to be very AMD friendly as well. I will keep you all posted.

 

--Matt--

 

--EDIT-- If you want a recommendation on a good card, pickup a Netgear GA311. It's realtek based, gigabit, and best buy has them for 30-40 dollars here in the states, and they're even cheaper online if you're unlike me and patient

[Matt S]

Hi bdawson,

 

In my particular case i am pretty darn sure it is related to the forcedeth drivers. Although the interface came up right up after installation it appears that this is an issue that many people are having with forcedeth. There are various version of forcedeth around and i haven't ventured to try any yet pretty much because im lazy. The temporary workaround is to boot your machine with the cpus=1 flag. That has provided me with a usable although rather slow OS X.

 

From browsing around the forums it seems no one has found a clear solution to this particular issue and the recommendation is to purchase an additional NIC.

 

So yeah, I updated my original post... the "new" forcedeth-v driver that leo4allv3 claims to have is in fact the same as the one I link to in my guide.

 

BUT I have a working Marvell kext now!!! If any of you would like to try that and unload your supposedly hampered forcedeth.kext, I can upload it. Let me know!

 

--Matt--

[daftpunk]

thanks for the great guide!

 

But i have a problem. When i type in sudo kextload forcedeth.kext in terminal i get an error saying its not autenticated and that i must run it with -t or something. How do I fix it?

And one more thing. I dont get the apple logo when i boot, how do I fix that?

[Matt S]

thanks for the great guide!

 

But i have a problem. When i type in sudo kextload forcedeth.kext in terminal i get an error saying its not autenticated and that i must run it with -t or something. How do I fix it?

And one more thing. I dont get the apple logo when i boot, how do I fix that?

 

Thanks for posting Daft! Sorry about the lengthy response time, been busy. Anyway, those two are easy! You're probably getting the kextload issue because your kext is not owned by root:wheel. So, to fix this, do a

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel forcedeth.kext

 

Now honestly if you have one of the nforce4 boards with a Marvell networking card on it, you're better off using that. My system is rock solid now that I've stopped using the nvidia ethernet.... the drivers just aren't good enough.

 

As for your 2nd response, you won't get the apple logo. The "fix" that i list in the guide includes forcing verbose mode on boot. It's required because of the way the kernel loads the boot graphics that causes issues with AMD machines. Sorry, no good way around it, at least in the current 10.5.2 distros.

 

--Matt--

[Janusromanus]

Hi Matt, thanks for the guide, I have an Asus AN8-Sli-Premium and all works great out of the box, included the yukon ethernet adapter, I deselect the forcedeth during customize installation, i understand that the yukon drivers are enough, AC97 works well, with Bios 1009 and 10.4.8 works well, but when updated to Bios 1303 10.4.8 dont want to get it, with 10.5.2 works very well.

 

For my 1800XT 512MB I had to install diabolik´s natit in order to get full QE/CI support, without diabolik i can change resolutions but no QE/CI.

 

Sound --> ok

Ethernet --> Yukon ok (nforce4 not detected), there is a modem detected by the system, i dont have any idea.

Graphics --> ok with diabolik´s natit

ATA --> ok

SATA --> I don´t know, tonight i will activate the sata disks, i desactivated for installation on IDE

 

Thanks.

 

Alex

[kassun]

I installed on my asus a8nsli premium w/o problems, recognized my network right away. It did lock up on me until i went in and disabled the nvidia Ethernet port. Now everything works great. I do get occasional lockups every day or so, but now worries. Thanks for the great step by step tutorial.

[Reíníer]

Hi peepz,

 

First of all thanks for the guide.

I'm new here. Yesterday I 'discovered' your site and I put Mac 10.5.2 Leo on mt pc directly and it works almost flawwlesly; the installation as well as the OS itself.

My specs are:

AMD athlon 64 3200 winchester (oc'ed to 2,2 Ghz)

A8N-SLI Deluxe (flashed to Premium)

2*512 PC3200 mem

2 Hdd's: both maxtor one 80 gig one 160 gig

XFX Nvidia 6600

 

The funny thing is, I created a dual boot with the intel guide that was posted on the wiki. Also, I didn't put my hdd in the primary master nor did I put the dvd drive in the secondary master. So the master/slave thing doesn't have to be a prerequisite.

 

Now I'm only still looking for the Dutch language file if it's available somewhere.

 

Reinier

[Nargilem]

I just installed osx on my desktop

 

Asus A8N sli premium

AMD 3500+ venice

1GB DDR

8500GT 512mb

2 Sata drives

 

I used Zephyroth v2, selected the nvidia chipset driver, forcedeth and AC97 driver.

I used singleboot MBR

Install worked fine ( stuck at about a minute, but that doesn't matter )

 

Booted up, installed NVkush and now everything is working 100%

( even my dual screen 1440x900 )

 

Cheers

[soccersteveo490]

thanks in advance, but can someone please help me? the installation of os takes over 6 hours, and it freezes at 24 minutes and stays there. what do i do?