Intel D915GEVL all working out-of-the-box

[p4m]

Hello,

 

I've just installed Marklar-Tiger.dmg patched only for TPM-related issues

 

My hardware specifications:

- Intel D915GEVL "Eatonville"

- Intel Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz (w/SSE3)

- Corsair DDR2 533Mhz 1Gb (2x512)

- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160Gb SATA/150 HDD

- Plextor PX-504A DVD+R

- Thermaltake Purepower 420W

- Case

 

How I've burned my "Bootable Install DVD":

Quickly (but you can read the full guide here).

 

- hdiutil attach -owners on Marklar-Tiger.dmg -shadow

to patch rosetta (w/MAXXUSS0.3 patch set):

- sudo cp /Volumes/Mac OSX Install Disc/usr/libexec/oah/oah750d /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc/usr/libexec/oah/oah750d.old

- sudo cp /Volumes/MAXXUSS0.3/tpm/oah750d /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc/usr/libexec/oah/oah750d

- sudo chown root:wheel /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc/usr/libexec/oah/oah750d

use mount to see where is mounted "Mac OS X Install Disc": mine was /dev/disk3s2 (only the disk number counts not the slice number, so it is /dev/disk3 that I need)

- dd if=/dev/disk3 of=patchedimage.img bs=1m

- hdiutil convert patchedimage.img -format UDTO -o fullypatchediso.iso

burn this iso with "Disk Utility"

boot it

 

No ifs ands or buts, all works after installation: great!

 

I've checked my kexts, and I've founded that com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA (1.6) is installed by default

 

These are my Xbench 1.2 results:

Results 33.31

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type Maxtor 6Y160M0

CPU Test 17.67

GCD Loop 91.15 4.80 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 71.00 1.69 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 5.34 176.29 Mflop/sec

Floating Point Library 70.66 12.30 Mops/sec

Thread Test 94.03

Computation 82.27 1.67 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 109.73 4.72 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 115.50

System 98.87

Allocate 96.84 355.64 Kalloc/sec

Fill 87.30 4244.63 MB/sec

Copy 116.78 2412.08 MB/sec

Stream 138.85

Copy 132.47 2736.18 MB/sec

Scale 138.35 2858.19 MB/sec

Add 143.05 3047.22 MB/sec

Triad 142.05 3038.89 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 49.07

Line 49.69 3.31 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 41.61 12.42 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 41.09 3.35 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 75.37 1.90 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 49.69 3.11 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 195.81

Spinning Squares 195.81 248.39 frames/sec

User Interface Test 10.66

Elements 10.66 48.91 refresh/sec

Disk Test 66.95

Sequential 102.85

Uncached Write 122.70 75.34 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 107.04 60.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 94.09 27.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 92.83 46.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 49.63

Uncached Write 18.00 1.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 138.29 44.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 94.70 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 137.82 25.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[bender12]

Wow. You went through way too much trouble.

 

The only thing YOU should have patched is oah750d. Don't touch the MAXXUSS patches, those are for SSE2 machines.

You didn't have to change 0x7d64c0 at all, that is also fixing the boot code on the CD to allow the DVD to boot in non SSE3 machines.

You could have probably gotten your steps down to about 3...

mount image

copy oah750d

dismount image

burn

 

Ok, 4 steps.

[p4m]

Thank you bender12

 

I've just updated the steps needed to get one SSE3-enabled Bootable Install DVD.

 

We need to update the FULL GUIDE also, it report erroneously:

 

"First of all you need to patch the bootloader to disable TPM check at boot time.

Do this by opening the TigerDVD iso with Hexeditor (get it here ) or a console hex editing tool, find position 0x7D64C0 and replace value 53B801 with 33C0C3

(the above step based on Znuff's DVD .nfo file)"

 

Now, re-installing to check if I get a different kexts list (from precedent installation with SS3-emulated DVD).

[bender12]

Actually the Znuff nfo says:

 

 

For those who need SSE2, you should patch the bootloader not to check for SSE3.

You will have to do that manually:

 

* Get a hexeditor

* Find the location 0x7D64C0

* Replace the value 53B801 with 33C0C3

* Save the file

[sun69nie]

Hello,

 

Your success and how-to is very interesting.

Please let me know whether the following two lines:

 

- dd if=/dev/disk3 of=patchedimage.img bs=1m

- hdiutil convert patchedimage.img -format UDTO -o fullypatchediso.iso

 

are equivalent the following:

- hdiutil convert Marklar-Tiger.dmg -format UDTO -o fullypatchediso.iso -shadow

 

I wonder the patched image is alive in the shadow file.

 

Thank you.

 

P.S.

This is my 1st post and I am not an native english writer.

So, please excuse any error in writing and/or posting.

[gizmo]

I've got the 915gev - everything works fine beside:

- couldn't get sound input to work

- no marvell yokon driver (onboard gigabit).

 

how about you?

[josh007]

Hello,

 

I also have the D915Gevl MB with the 630 chip.

 

Have you had sucess installing 10.4.4 ???

 

I am having trouble with the first boot after install, also I noticed I have to turn off usb and onboard lan to get past some errors in boot up.

 

I am not even trying to dual boot, I formated and installed on a fresh drive.

 

Can you offer any suggestions for this MB ??

 

how did you get yours to run?

 

please see my other posts that describe my current problem. this is so frustrating. I just want it to do the initial boot, then i know the other problems can be fixed from inside the os.

 

sincerely.

 

josh