Senore Queso Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 The title is a bit misleading, I should add, although, it's a bit more to the point of what I hope to eventually achieve. I've got an MSI X58 Pro motherboard, an Intel Core i7 920 processor, 6GB of RAM, and an NVidia 8500GT system all built with no operating system. I hope to have OSX running on it eventually, but at the moment, I'm having no luck. So far, I've tried a standard Boot 132 disc, onto the retail 10.5.0 discs (which I already purchased) with nothing but a restart loop. Even commands such as "-v -x -f busratio=20 and cpus=1" style stuff didn't get my any farther. I gave up trying that route. Now, I also own the 10.5.7 OSX install discs that came with my brother's Macbook Pro 13.3". When using the boot 132 disc, I can manage to get a gray screen with the apple in the center, but that's as far as I got. If I use the "busratio=20 cpus=1" command, I can get so far as to get the spinning little wheel-thing beneath the Apple logo, but it just spins forever. I'm not opposed to using a patched distro like iDeneb or Kalyway, I just don't know which to use, and if those will provide full performance. If someone can help me out in this area also, it'd be greatly appreciated. I was told that installing Kalyway or something on a seperate HDD, and then using it to install the retail onto the main HDD would work, but I'm not sure. So again, if anyone can shed just a little bit of help on this situation, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Dan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188995-osx-retail-on-msi-x58-pro-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senore Queso Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 Here's another piece for you all to ponder. If I install off of something like iDeneb or Kalyway, will I then be able to use the retail Snow Leopard upgrade disc, to get a retail copy of Snow Leopard running? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188995-osx-retail-on-msi-x58-pro-motherboard/#findComment-1281663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCREEM Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 I have an almost exact identical system except I have an ATI HD 3650 1GB video card. I have had several distributions on there. (had trouble with the boot 132 as well.) However I have found that this solution is the easiest so far even though I have to use two distribution disks. I really prefer the iDeneb 10.5.8 lite disk. I have installed that on several machines and it performs very well and is a small distro. However on my MSI X58 Pro with 920 there is one kext that it does not come with so I use my iAtkos v7 disk to get that on there after install. Start by booting with the iDeneb 10.5.8 and with the busratio=20 and CPUS=1 flag. Go through the install and choose your bootloader, voodoo 9.7 kernel, ICH and JMicron kexts, and your video kext. That is really about it. After the install, reboot with the iAtkos disk and ghe same busratio =20 CPUS=1 flag. When you are in the install options uncheck everything and then check only the box for the OLD ACPI fix. click on install and it should only take a few seconds. You may get an error saying that install failed, that is ok because it really didnt. Now just boot with the cpus=1 flag and you should be into Leopard. Now all you have to do is patch DSDT to get all your cpus working and you are done. As far as Snow Leopard, I have not attempted it yet because my system is running pretty smooth and I am happy with it. Also to mention that I am an iPhone developer so I dont want to change Xcode and all my stuff to snow leopard yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188995-osx-retail-on-msi-x58-pro-motherboard/#findComment-1297291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senore Queso Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Hey mate, thanks for the response. in the meantime, I'd settled for the RC of Windows 7, but, come Oct 31 when it expires, I think I"ll give Leopard a go again. Could you tell me what kexts you needed that didn't come in iDeneb, and point me in the right direction for editing that DSDT file? Thanks, Dan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188995-osx-retail-on-msi-x58-pro-motherboard/#findComment-1304036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellfanatic Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Follow the Guide on the Forum and you should be good to go with SL 10.6.3 and your MSI X58 Pro http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1472313 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188995-osx-retail-on-msi-x58-pro-motherboard/#findComment-1472508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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