How to get HDD working on MCP68 Gforce 630A

[coolyou]

I just want to point out that this post first helped a lot and it may help you if you read through the whole thing:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=99713

 

Anyway this is how I got the HDD working on my ECS Geforce 7050M-M MCP68 Nforce 630a motherboard. This may work for MCP67 also as the device Ids are the same.

 

I had to enter into BIOS and change SATA mode to AHCI mode with the AHCI DID for linux turned off. The AHCI is probably not a requirement to get it working so if it's not there just ignore it in BIOS. Save BIOS by pressing F10 and place in the Leo4AMD 4.1 DVD. Make sure you have atleast two partitions, one for Mac OSX and one for a Windows XP installation.

 

Boot into it and install it with no SATA drivers selected. Bare in mind Medevil's Nforce driver doesn't work for MCP68.

 

Once installed, you'll have to install a version of XP on a separate partition. Once you've finished installing XP in the other partition, install a program called MacDrive (http://mediafour.com/products/macdrive). This will allow you to see your Mac OSX partition in XP. Just get the trial version, you only need it for a few hours and the trial version allows you to use it for 5 days with all of the features.

 

Once installed download the following attachments in XP. Navigate to your Mac OSX partition and go to /System/Library/Extensions/. Now backup the folders AppleAHCIPort.kext, IOAHCIFamily.kext, IOSerialFamily.kext to somewhere else in the hdd. And then copy the folders in the attachment to /System/Library/Extensions/.

 

The above step is to basically fix AHCI in the Leo4AMD DVD. For some odd reason if you do not do this, booting up Mac OSX will not work and it'll give you a AppleACHI error.

 

Once you've copied the files over, reboot and boot into Mac OSX with bootflags: -v -f

 

Booting with "-v" flag will turn verbose on so that you have a better idea what's happening behind the scenes and "-f" will rebuild your kext cache to reflect the kext updates you've just made.

 

You should boot straight into Mac OSX without any problems after this.

 

This is just using AHCI. I'm still not finished with the installation yet, but I do remember being reported a HDD speed of 20MB/s from the installation log, which isn't too bad and hopefully should be faster since the limiting factor should be the DVD drive and not the HDD.

 

I have not yet figured out how to get it in SATA mode yet but hopefully this is better than nothing.

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[Zythyr]

@coolyou- thanks a lot for your guide

 

I ran into this topic from your post about nforce 560 mcp67 chipset.

 

At first I was unable to get my hard drive to be recognize in order to install. Then with proper kext injects into the ISO of iDeneb v1.5.1, I managed to successfully install Leopard. Now the problem is I can't boot into the OS. Boot stops at the verbose below:

 

Waiting for boot volume with UUID...

Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

 

I think your guide could help solve my problem. But I am not sure which kext plist I have to edit to include my device id? My specs are below:

 

HP Pavilion DV6607nr:

nVidia MCP67 Chipset which includes:

* SATA HDD 160GB (dev: 0x0550)

* PATA SlimLine DVD Recorder (dev: 0x0560)

* Ethernet Adapter (dev: 0x054C)

* GeForce 7150m (dev: 0x0531)

Also including:

* Conexant HD Audio (dev: 0x5045)

* Broadcom WiFi Adapter (dev: 0x4311)

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core TK-53

Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 560

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M/nForce 630M