Hugo Guerreiro Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 This is the dreadfull work of almost a Month of trial end error but i finaly made it. The board is a MSI K9NGM4 with a Nvidia MCP68 Single Chipset. Here are the specs: Socket AM2 CPU (Max Support) Athlon 64 X2 FSB 1GHz Chipset NVIDIA® MCP68S DDR2 Memory DDR2 533/667/800 DDR3 Memory N/A DIMM Slots 2 Max Memory (GB) 4 PCI-Ex16 1 PCI-Ex8 N/A PCI-Ex4 N/A PCI-Ex1 1 PCI 2 IDE 1 SATA 4 RAID 0/1/0+1/5/JBOD LAN 10/100/1000*1 TPM 1 (Optional) USB ports (Rear) 4 Audio ports (Rear) 6 Serial ports (Rear) 1 Parallel ports (Rear) 1 1394 ports (Rear) 1 (Optional) eSATA N/A VGA 1 Form Factor M-ATX I tryed ALL distros of Leopard on the web and the only one that could even start to dvd booting was kalyway 10.5.2 since all others wouldnt even recognize the hardware for the dvd getting a "still waiting for root device" error when booting from dvd. STEP 1 - Installing After this the only way to get Leo installed was by installing it in a IDE drive ( the dvd as to be IDE also) Install went fine with the following options: Kernels kernel_9.2_sleep Graphics_Drivers Dont choose any for the instalation...will be dealing with graphics after install Audio_Drivers Intel NVIDIA VIA ATI HDAudioController NVIDIAAC97Audio Networks_Drivers forcedeth De-select all the other drivers even the wi-fi ones Mobo_Chipsets AppleGenericPCATA Select only this one. Sata suport will be added after instalation Thirds_Applications Select the ones you want.... Patches Lastnetkassmbios (with coreplayer fix , mozzy and logmein !) Others PATCHES USBPCGen AMD_1052_Patch_test_2 Now after these choices made just install. After the installation is completed when you reboot just boot with the "-v" flag. No need to put "-legacy" or "cpu=1".... this setting worked and has been working so far with my current cpu. After rebooting you will NOT have Networking and will not see any Sata drives. STEP 2 - Networking As for the network this was the thing that gave me the most work to get up and running. Download the bottom kext named nForceEthernetDriver.kext After that edit .Plist file of the kext using TextMate with your device id... in this case is the 0x054C10de wich is the MCP68 nForce networking controller in windows. Shutdown the system and unplug the power cord for 1 minute! You must do this to get networking to work. This will reset your adapter and will not give you a false IP address. After 1 minute replug your power cord and boot normally with "-v" . You will see some error messages about your device id on Nforce but its all ok. Go to System Preferences and check that everything its working ok and you have the right IP Address. Open Safari and start to surf the web.... STEP 3 - Updating from 10.5.2 straight to 10.5.4 Now this was the fun part of the month!!!!!!!! Just download Zephiroth´s latest release of Software updater and run it. Put in your password Now you will have all the downloads from Apple ( I already did mine so you wont see 10.5.4 update in this picture) Select just the update 10.5.4 and on the end "Modify only" ( If you install you may get lucky and dont have a kernel panic...your choice!) After the updater has done is job go to were the modifyed update is and install it. IMPORTANT: Check if ALL the patches where aplyed. In the end of software updater´s work in the logs you must have this: Statistics: 62 of 62 visited files were successfully patched. 155 of 155 found patches were successfully applied. 00:52:16 Recreating MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg ... 00:57:35 MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.4.pkg recreated. If you dont have this dont install the update. Delete it and re-do all the process again until you have or you will have one big messed up install!!! Reboot with "-v". It will reboot and somewhere in the middle it will sync your disks and reboot again all by imself...dont worry let it reboot and insert again "-v". Now you will see a diferent boot in verbose mode as it will force all the kext´s and finaly will boot and there you have it, 10.5.2 updated directly to 10.5.4!!!!! STEP 4 - Updating from 9.2 Kernel straight to 9.4 Kernel This Step is very easy.... Just download The kernel zip file on the end of the post and PCWiz´s kernel installer (Google is your friend...) Run the installer and backup the old kernel.... Then choose the file Mach__kernel that is in the zip file.... And after that choose the disk (Very important that you choose the disk on the left not a folder or file but the disk) And reboot after the installation!!! You will get something like this..... STEP 5 - Video Driver QE/CI Well... about this i can only write for what i have. I have a Asus 8400 GS with 256MB Memory. I just downloaded Zephyroth´s Nvidia Universal installer that is located here : Nvidia Universal Installer I would advice you only to install this after the updates on kernel and system are done because the update to 10-5-4 will write new geforce kext´s and so if you do it before the update you wont have QE/CI enabled. Also after the installation is complete and before the reboot Do a proper and decent permissions repair since nvinject doesnt get installed very well ( dont ask me why...im not a coder). I resolved the situation by removing the kext after it installed and made a new installation of the kext with KextHelper. After the instalation and rebooting i got this... STEP 6 - The dreadfull SATA drivers Well... it is installed but at the same time it isnt! Im still fighting with the drivers here and on this i would really like to see Jas or Eddie11c come in here and try to solve this... I have a MCP68 Single Chipset By nvidia and the device id´s are 0x055010de and 0x056010de. These two are responsible for the sata and pata work. The problem is i have two drivers: 1- AppleNforceATA compiled for MCP67 that works in the sense that you can repair your permissions and do whatever you want on the disk but...and here come the BUT word.... your dvd drive if it is sata or ide wont read a single dvd and will jam your system if you get one there. Also it will make ALL, and i really mean ALL your PATA drives apear in system profiler like if they are SATA ones. 2- AppleNforceATA compiled for ...i really dont know...(found it on the web by accident) will make all the hard drives and dvd drives apear correctly BUT .... Again the BUT word.... if you need to repair a disk or repair permissions on a SATA drive or even partition your SATA drive it will mess up DiskUtility wherever its in Terminal Mode or GUI mode. So... right now im using the first option because my IDE drive died yesterday and i had this instalation on a backup SATA drive using the second otion. Confused? Me too...it was a one hell of a month trying to get this right.... Anyway i leaving both AppleNforceAta kext´s here so that you choose the one that its better for you.... This is what i have now... Final Lines What can i say....? Read the hole thread carefully and if you need help PM me . This install works for me but im not responsible if it doesnt work for you. This install work without the need of "-legacy" or "CPU=1" flags... i dont know if yours will work that way too. And finally remember: OSX on a PC its a process of lots of patience and LOOOTSSSS of trial and error and research. And Now here are the kext´s and kernel files. Enjoy.... I cant seem to upload the kernel files but you can get them here : http://www.mediafire.com/?voiwzyo0yn3 NforceATA___MCP67.zip NforceATA___Regular___.zip NforceEthernetDriver.zip Sincerely yours, Hugo Guerreiro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugo Guerreiro Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 Updated. Repaired links to files for download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ar4er Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 NforceATA___Regular___.zip file is damaged, update please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahandii Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 could you please find a new link to the Zephyroth NVidia Universal Installer? Thank you very much. ~ sahandii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusun alex Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 could you please find a new link to the Zephyroth NVidia Universal Installer? Thank you very much. ~ sahandii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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