661FX - Success w/Kalyway 10.5.2

[themacmeister]

I have only very recently (about a week ago) gotten OSX86 running on my Acer Aspire SA-80 (old 3.0GHz Celeron-D).

 

I have gradually been collecting bits and pieces over the past year or more, without the express intention of getting OSX on the Acer, but someone on this forum (who also has an SA-80) told me the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD included a USB fix (saves disabling USB to use OSX), and the DMA fix for PATA Hard Drives. This was all the info I needed, and I prepared my PC as follows, using very inexpensive parts where necessary:

 

Shopping list.

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SiI 3512 SATA RAID PCI Card (cheap as)

500GB SATA Hard Drive (not so cheap, but also, not a requirement, PATA HDD is fine, if a bit slow)

Cheap RTL8139 Ethernet PCI Card (cheap as)

more memory (my standard box had 512MB, now has 1.5GB) (cheapish)

AGP GeForce 7600GT (affordable) -- I discovered recently that they ARE producing ATI HD2400Pro AGP cards, worth investigating?!

PATA IDE A-Open 16x DVDRW - (I tried a 20x SATA model, but it ruined my dual-boot with windows)

USB Keyboard & Mouse (cheap as) - as PS/2 not working at all, even with patches.

 

--- I had most of all of this stuff already, but you could probably buy it all (without HDD) for $200US I would guess ---

 

The rest of the system is standard - SiS 661FX Mobo

 

Instructions.

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Install with defaults +

Select SATA +

Select Azallia Audio +

Select NVinject256 (or whatever RAM your video card has).

 

45min to 60min to install (compared with 18 hours before)

 

reboot, set BIOS to boot from Mac disk

type -s -v at boot prompt

 

edit /System/Library/Extensions/GeForce.kext/Contents/Info.plist

edit /System/Library/Extensions/NVDANV40.kext/Contents/Info.plist

edit /System/Library/Extensions/NVinject.kext/Contents/Info.plist

 

delete every other NVDANV*0.kext except the one you are using. 8xxx series is NVDANV50.kext, mine was 40

 

with your video card's hardware and vendor ID (my hardware ID was 0x02e, Vendor ID was 0x10de)

 

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Ge*

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/NV*

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Ge*

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/NV*

 

edit your /Library/Preferences/System\ Preferences/com.apple.Boot.plist to read as follows:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs$

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string>platform=ACPI cpus=1 cpu=1 -y -l noexec=on reboot=force</string>

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>Yes</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

reboot, and you should have a GREAT DEAL of SUCCESS!, go to System Preferences and change resolution and colour to suite.

 

ENJOY!