Retail DVD used to install on Dell 5400

[shortbus]

The install was easy.

 

Generic.iso boot 132 was used.

Retail DVD 10.5.1 used to install.

 

The ethernet card is not seen.

Video has selectable resolutions.

I have not tested audio yet.

 

Reboot is fine, if I use the generic cd at power up.

 

System:

 

Dell T5400

Xeon Quad Core 2.0 ghz 5405

4 GB Ram

Nvidia 9800GTX+

 

Processors

Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor up to 3.33GHz (1333MHz FSB, 64-bit, 2X 6MB L2 cache)

Intel 5400 Chipset

At the core of Dell PrecisionTM 64-bit dual-socket workstations is the Intel 5400 chipset, designed to support the technologies that can open up performance-impacting bottlenecks in primary subsystems. Power users and the application providers who support them - have access to more bandwidth, more compute power than the previous generation, and to impressive memory expansion up to 32GB5.

 

Quad-Channel Full Buffered DIMM ECC Memory

Speed 667MHz fully buffered DIMM ECC

DIMM Slots 8

Minimum Memory

Dual channel 2 x 512MB

Note: Quad channel recommended minimum memory 4 x 512MB.

Maximum Memory 32GB5 (4GB ECC DIMMS x 8 slots)

Storage Controllers

Integrated SATA 3.0Gb/s controller (Intel Chipset) supports host based RAID 0, 1,5

Slots

1 PCI-e x8 slot wired as x4

2 PCI-e x16 Gen2 graphics slot w/ Dual 150W; (300W total)

2 PCI-X 64bit/100MHz slots with support for 3.3v or universal cards

1 PCI 32bit/33Mhz slot

 

Bays

2 internal 3.5" hard disk drive bays

2 external 5.25" optical bays, one of which can accommodate a third SATA or SAS HDD in mini-tower orientation

1 external 3.5" flex bay for floppy drive, media card reader or third SATA HDD in desktop orientation

 

Standard I/O Ports

8 USB 2.0: two on front panel, five on back panel, one internal on motherboard

2 serial, 1 parallel, 2 PS/2, 1 RJ-45, Stereo line-in and headphone line-out on back panel

Microphone and headphone connector on front panel, IEEE 1394a connector available on front panel with add-in card

 

DC power supply

Wattage 875 W 80% plus efficiency

Voltage auto-sensing power supply—90 V to 264 V at 50/60 Hz

Backup battery 3-V CR2032 lithium coin cell

 

 

 

 

So..... how do I get my ethernet card to work?

I know people have installed Kayway 10.5.1 and ethernet cards worked. Should I get the kexts from an install of Kalyway?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Sleep works.

[MacNutty]

Checkout the HCL in this forum.

[shortbus]

The cryptic response of go find something did not help me a great deal.

 

A link will be more helpful.

 

I found this: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...400_Workstation long ago but you said "This forum" and I don't see an HCL in "This forum". The search function does not seem to be working.

 

Much appreciated.

[shortbus]

Alright. Here is an update.

 

I disabled the BCM 5457 onboard Ethernet in the bios.

I bought a NetGear Extreme PCI ether net card with the chipset of RealTek 8169. I bought it from some bargan basement place on the internet that had refurb ones for like 3 dollars.

 

This worked out fine with the TOH kexts. Just the Networking ones - nothing else.

 

I then bought 4 gigs of matched ECC fully buffered DDR2 667 RAM in 1 gig sticks. This takes advantage of the quad pipe-lining architecture of the mother board.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820134608

 

With the memory I added a ASUS EN9800GTX+ 51MB Video card. Looking back I probably should have bought the 1GB version but at the time I did not think it would have worked. It would have but that is okay.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814121284

 

The video card drivers I used are here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry936418

 

Thanks aqua-mac, you're awesome.

 

So rightnow the box works. It is quick. iTunes starts fine. iPhoto works, double click zooming and all that. The screen savers all work.

 

Sleep works... waiting the perscibed time and the box sleeps... selecting sleep and the box sleeps.... a quick press of the power button on the case and the box sleeps. Thes last one impressed my wife and therefore justifying all the dollars I have spent on this little project.

 

I have not tested Time Machine.

 

I don't remember what selecting shut down does. Reboot from the command line , selecting Apple->Reboot, and from things that want a reboot, like software update, OSX86Tools, etc.

 

 

So right now I am still booting from cd. I switched to the DFE 132 boot cd because the generic iso kept loading up NVKush and it was screwing up my attempt to make the new Asus 9800 card work.

 

The two things I am working on now are 1) making a USB stick as a bootable device and 2) Making the System Profiler show System as Mac Pro, a sensible Serial Number and the Boot ROM to show something useful.

 

For 1) I am waiting for my USB stick to arrive. It plugs into the internal USB header that Windows Vista would use for ReadyBoost. I intend to use the 1gb stick as the boot device. Not bad for 13 bucks.

Look here: http://www.mini-box.com/1GB-Vertical-USB-E...amp;category=14

Thank Terc his ingenius idea: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showuser=17596

 

If you have a Windows Vista Ready sticker on your PC then you probably have a internal header for the ReadyBoost feature.

 

For 2) I am looking here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=108606

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsour...AppleSMBIOS-28/

[shortbus]

I am still testing with the AppleSMBios-28 stuff.

I tried Vanilla but it stopped my sleep from working so I backed that change out.

 

 

I started trying to get the sound working. I think I will need to go down the patching the AppleHDA. I read a little about it but I don't know quite enough yet.

 

 

 

lspci --vv

 

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB High Definition Audio Controller (rev 09)

Subsystem: Dell Device 021e

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16

Region 0: Memory at fbffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

Address: 00000000fee00000 Data: 4097

Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00

DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us

ExtTag- RBE- FLReset-

DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-

RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+

MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes

DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-

LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us

ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-

LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-

ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-

LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-

Capabilities: [100] #8086

 

 

 

 

 

lspci -vv -n

 

00:1b.0 0403: 8086:269a (rev 09)

Subsystem: 1028:021e

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-

Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16

Region 0: Memory at fbffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

Address: 00000000fee00000 Data: 4097

Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00

DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us

ExtTag- RBE- FLReset-

DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-

RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+

MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes

DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-

LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us

ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-

LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-

ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-

LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-

Capabilities: [100] #8086

[shortbus]

I tested shutdown. Works beautifully.

 

I also noticed sleep comes in tow forms on my machine.

 

1) Apple -> Sleep

 

The machine goes to sleep as expected. The power light stay on solid.

 

2) Button pushed for sleep

 

The machine goes to sleep as expected. The power light throbs.

[shortbus]

Alright. I worked on somethings.

 

I tried to fix the UUID thing.

 

CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

 

I used this link here: sneosx86.freeflux.net, but unfortunately I think it broke my NetGear Wireless WG111v2. I was using the WG111 so I could test and work on my box in the corner of our family TV room with out my little son tripping over the Ethernet cable stretched across the floor. On the other hand my little son's balance and eye-foot coordination is much improved so the future dividends of the sneosx.freeflux.net fix maybe maybe more rewarding to my son than to me. His future Soccer skills and athletic talent might just be an out of band gift from an OSX86 project. At any rate the drivers I used were the WG111L drivers listed found here: RTL8187LWLANChip Here is an ftp link: 87_Mac10.4_v1309.zip

 

The important thing is to use the RTL8187L driver and not the NetGear driver available from the NetGear download page.

 

But, like I said mine is broken right now because I have not backed-out the sneox86.freeflux.net file. I'll try the Networklist file edit. The reason I have not done it yet is because I wanted to make sure the UUID error was not interfering with the sound card work....

 

I put down the AppleSMBios project for the moment and picked up the sound project.

 

I used the Knoppix Live DVD and dumped the codex for my onboard sound card and here is the result of:

 

[font="Verdana"]cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0[/font]

Codec: Analog Devices AD1984
Address: 0
Vendor Id: 0x11d41984
Subsystem Id: 0x1028021e
Revision Id: 0x100400
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
   rates [0x7ff]: 8000 11025 16000 22050 32000 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000
   bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
   formats [0x1]: PCM
Default Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
Default Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x27, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
Node 0x02 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x30311: Stereo Digital
 PCM:
   rates [0x7e0]: 44100 48000 88200 96000 176400 192000
   bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
   formats [0x5]: PCM AC3
 Connection: 3
    0x01* 0x08 0x09
Node 0x03 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x405: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x27, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
 Power: 0x0
Node 0x04 [Audio Output] wcaps 0x405: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x27, stepsize=0x05, mute=0
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x20 0x20]
 Power: 0x0
Node 0x05 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x10050b: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x36, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0xa7 0xa7]
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 1
    0x17
Node 0x06 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x10050b: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x36, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0xa7 0xa7]
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 1
    0x18
Node 0x07 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x200103: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00]
 Connection: 2
    0x22 0x21
Node 0x08 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100501: Stereo
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 1
    0x0c
Node 0x09 [Audio Input] wcaps 0x100501: Stereo
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 1
    0x0d
Node 0x0a [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x200103: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00]
 Connection: 2
    0x04 0x21
Node 0x0b [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x200103: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
 Connection: 2
    0x0f 0x21
Node 0x0c [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30010d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x36, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0xa7 0xa7]
 Connection: 5
    0x14* 0x15 0x16 0x20 0x25
Node 0x0d [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30010d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x36, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0xa7 0xa7]
 Connection: 5
    0x14* 0x15 0x16 0x20 0x25
Node 0x0e [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x300101: Stereo
 Connection: 2
    0x03 0x04*
Node 0x0f [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x300101: Stereo
 Connection: 2
    0x03* 0x04
Node 0x10 [beep Generator Widget] wcaps 0x70000c: Mono Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x0f, nsteps=0x0f, stepsize=0x0b, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x00]
Node 0x11 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
 Pincap 0x081f: OUT HP Detect
 Pin Default 0x02214040: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Front
   Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
 Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP
 Connection: 1
    0x07
Node 0x12 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40058d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
 Pincap 0x081001f: OUT HP EAPD Detect
 Pin Default 0x01014010: [Jack] Line Out at Ext Rear
   Conn = 1/8, Color = Green
 Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 1
    0x0a
Node 0x13 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40050c: Mono Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x00]
 Pincap 0x0810010: OUT EAPD
 Pin Default 0x991301f0: [Fixed] Speaker at Int ATAPI
   Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
 Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 1
    0x1f
Node 0x14 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40008b: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
 Amp-In vals: 
 Pincap 0x083727: IN Detect
 Pin Default 0x02a19020: [Jack] Mic at Ext Front
   Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink
 Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN
Node 0x15 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40008b: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
 Amp-In vals: 
 Pincap 0x083727: IN Detect
 Pin Default 0x01813030: [Jack] Line In at Ext Rear
   Conn = 1/8, Color = Blue
 Pin-ctls: 0x24: IN
Node 0x16 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x80 0x80]
 Pincap 0x0837: IN OUT Detect
 Pin Default 0x413301f0: [N/A] CD at Ext Rear
   Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
 Pin-ctls: 0x00:
 Connection: 1
    0x0b
Node 0x17 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo
 Pincap 0x0820: IN
 Pin Default 0x41a601f0: [N/A] Mic at Ext Rear
   Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
 Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Node 0x18 [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400001: Stereo
 Pincap 0x0820: IN
 Pin Default 0x41a601f0: [N/A] Mic at Ext Rear
   Conn = Digital, Color = Unknown
 Pin-ctls: 0x00:
Node 0x19 [Power Widget] wcaps 0x500500: Mono
 Power: 0x0
 Connection: 2
    0x20* 0x21
Node 0x1a [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x400000: Mono
 Pincap 0x0820: IN
 Pin Default 0x41f301f0: [N/A] Other at Ext Rear
   Conn = ATAPI, Color = Unknown
 Pin-ctls: 0x20: IN
Node 0x1b [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40030d: Stereo Digital Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x27, nsteps=0x27, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x27 0x27]
 Pincap 0x0810: OUT
 Pin Default 0x414511f0: [N/A] SPDIF Out at Ext Rear
   Conn = Optical, Color = Black
 Pin-ctls: 0x40: OUT
 Connection: 1
    0x02
Node 0x1c [Pin Complex] wcaps 0x40018d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x80 0x80]
 Pincap 0x083737: IN OUT Detect
 Pin Default 0x41a190f0: [N/A] Mic at Ext Rear
   Conn = 1/8, Color = Pink
 Pin-ctls: 0x00:
 Connection: 1
    0x24
Node 0x1d [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00100: Mono
 Connection: 25
    0x07* 0x19 0x0a 0x0b 0x0c 0x0d 0x0e 0x0f 0x1a 0x1c 0x11 0x12 0x13 0x14 0x15 0x16 0x1e 0x1f 0x20 0x21 0x22 0x23 0x24 0x25 0x26
Node 0x1e [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x200103: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0x00 0x00] [0x00 0x00]
 Connection: 2
    0x0e 0x21
Node 0x1f [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x200100: Mono
 Connection: 1
    0x1e
Node 0x20 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x20010b: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x17, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80] [0x19 0x19] [0x80 0x80] [0x97 0x97]
 Connection: 5
    0x14 0x15 0x16 0x1a 0x25
Node 0x21 [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30010d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x1f, nsteps=0x1f, stepsize=0x05, mute=1
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x1f 0x1f]
 Connection: 1
    0x20
Node 0x22 [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x300101: Stereo
 Connection: 2
    0x03 0x04*
Node 0x23 [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x300101: Stereo
 Connection: 2
    0x03* 0x04
Node 0x24 [Audio Mixer] wcaps 0x200103: Stereo Amp-In
 Amp-In caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x00, stepsize=0x00, mute=1
 Amp-In vals:  [0x80 0x80] [0x80 0x80]
 Connection: 2
    0x23 0x21
Node 0x25 [Audio Selector] wcaps 0x30010d: Stereo Amp-Out
 Amp-Out caps: ofs=0x00, nsteps=0x03, stepsize=0x27, mute=0
 Amp-Out vals:  [0x00 0x00]
 Connection: 1
    0x1c
Node 0x26 [Vendor Defined Widget] wcaps 0xf00100: Mono
 Connection: 3
    0x14* 0x15 0x1c

 

All this being said I don't have a working sound card, but might soon. I would like to get the onboard sound card working but have seen two success stories of USB sound cards from this forum. They are pretty cheap and I might try one in the mean time.

[shortbus]

Sweet. I got USB boot install working. Some learning curves, but it works.

 

I followed this:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=115064

 

This method useful only for already installed OSX with

CD Boot.

 

Requirements: Windows, USB Flash Drive, BOOT-132 CD, 10 minutes of your time...

Thanks alot to: Kabyl, bumby, f41qu3 and all chameleon's...

 

1) Connect you USB Drive and format it as FAT32.

 

2) Download syslinux from here. (Must be version 3.63)

 

3) Unpack zip somewhere. (Ex: c:\temp)

 

4) Open cmd and go to the unpacked folder\win32 directory. (Ex: c:\temp\win32)

 

5) Run syslinux.exe -ma <drive letter>: (Ex: syslinux.exe -ma f:)

 

6) Copy all files from CD to your USB Drive (mboot.c32, boot, initrd.img, isolinux.bin)

 

7) From folder isolinux copy isolinux.cfg to USB Drive root f:\.

 

8) Rename isolinux.bin to syslinux.sys and isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg.

 

9) Enjoy you bootable USB Bootloader...

 

 

The idea after this, is to leave OSX installation untouchable.

To apply all the patches at USB Drive...

 

 

After OSX boot's you can edit your initrd.img right on USB Flash, just by attaching initrd.img and drug'n'drop your files inside initd drive.

 

When you booting from USB Drive, your Hard Drive going to be a Secondary, you must to enter 81 not 80 to boot.

 

If you want your OSX to start automatically, open syslinux.cfg, right after DEFAULT.... add APPEND biosdev=<your hdd id> (Ex: APPEND biosdev=81)

So your syslinux.cfg should looks like this:

 

PROMPT 0
  TIMEOUT 90
  DEFAULT /mboot.c32 /boot --- /initrd.img
  APPEND biosdev=81

 

USB Files: http://www.mediafire.com/?d9nzydnj3vz (You just need to add your initrd.img.)

 

I got my Ready Boost 1GB stick. My mistake. It does not fit my motherboard. HA. Oh well.

[shortbus]

After many tries to get the onboard sound to work I gave up. I heard some people say they had usb sound working so I tried.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16829128004

 

That is the product I used it was about 20 bucks. It work flawlessly. I made no changes to kexts or anything.

 

Now I have sound, video with quartz and ce, and ethernet. everything is awesome.

 

I just need to move my files from my old flat panel iMac and I am done. I just bought a 1 TB Western Digital drove from Newegg.com and will use that for my iTunes directory and iPhoto library.

[shortbus]

Hello. Just an update.

 

I installed 10.5.6. The machine would not boot after install, but I switched to the voodoo 9.5 kernel and seatbelts kext and the box booted up fine.

 

Just a side note: I was able to move files onto the box via usb stick, but the usb stick had to be plugged in when using the Retail DVD installer utilities. I also needed the quarantine command to make everything work right. xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <file_name>

 

So that works. Sleep does not work automatically. I can press the power button and is sleeps, and I can choose sleep from the Apple menue and is sleeps. It just does not go to sleep by itself.

 

Also, her eis an annoying little tid bit. If I have an audio cd in the dvd writter and the sleep timer expires then the drive will go into the "there is a cd in the drive, ignore or whatever" dialog box will appear.

 

The normal fix that people do is it uncheck the "Put hard drives to sleep whenever possible" box. However, this did not work for me... nor did it fix the automatic sleep function.

 

To get out of these loop I need to put the box to sleep and then wake it up.

 

Because of this ther eis a new rule in the house: Put the box to sleep when you are done. And the sleep timer is set to never.

 

I bought an HP 7560 photo printer and it works great with my hackamack. As does the iPod Nano that I gave my wife for her birthday.

 

I needto go back through and see if my video card is working the way it should Quartz and CE work fine (Time machine, iPhoto edit, etc) but I tried to play a free downloaded game and the screen went blank. When I pressed the power button for sleep and then moved the mouse around to wake it up the screen came back on (to the desktop). It does not keep me from iTune-ing and iPhoto-ing so it is pretty low on the priority list.

[cantordust]

I have a T5400 and I got onboard sound to work with the azalia kexts.

 

Did you ever get your model identifier to appear correctly in System Profiler?

 

Thanks.

[shortbus]

I have a T5400 and I got onboard sound to work with the azalia kexts.

 

Did you ever get your model identifier to appear correctly in System Profiler?

 

Thanks.

 

I did get the Sys Profiler to work.. but immediately broke the machine... easy fix, just have not done it yet.

 

I'll fix the box and then report back. Thanks.