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No way to install Mac OS X on GA-M61SME-S2, NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 405

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wondog
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Hi i am trying to install Mac OS on GA-M61SME-S2, NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 405

but without success.

HDD - 500GB SATA

DVD- LG SATA

RAM - 3GM

CPU - AMD 7750 X2 2,7GHz

 

I have tried a lot of distros to install MacOs but still it ends with: Still waiting for root device or in rebooting loop

 

I have tried JaS 10.4.8, iDeneb_v1.4_OSx86_ISO, Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI-Rev2.iso, iPC_OSx86_Leopard_10_5_6_Intel_AMD_SSE2_SSE3, but still can not get to Installation.

 

It still ends with: "Still waiting for root device" or in rebooting loop

 

Have someone succesfull installation on same or similar configuration?

please write everything (BIOS settings, distro iso, etc ....)

thanks a lot for reply

gogux
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yes , with iDeneb v1 6 10 5 8 Lite Edition and http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=110388 , I think it is the same with install from usb stick . Now I have 10.6 .

nForceLAN.kext , VoodooHDA.kext , AppleNForceATA.kext , patched DSDT for nvidia 8600

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Have someone succesfull installation on same or similar configuration?

please write everything (BIOS settings, distro iso, etc ....)

 

I've been somewhat successful. I posted info on Leopard here:

<http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.6#Gigabyte>

 

There was also another person's earlier posting here:

<http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.2#Gigabyte>

 

I did manage to upgrade to 10.5.8, but I was playing around with bootloaders and kernels and screwed everything up and gave up.

 

Now I'm trying again with Snow Leopard. I'd say the the key thing is to have a PCIe video card. I got my 512MB nVidia GT7300 for less than $20, and then had to patch the firmware so the card would be recognized as 512MB rather than only 256MB unpatched (info in 1st link above). I don't think there is much support for the shared RAM onboard video, and it screws up the ATA/SATA bus I think?

 

I'm working on Snow Leopard right now. I've got 10.6.2 installed and booting, but it's really screwed up still, with no functional networking, no ATA bus (no internal CD), no Sleep, no Energy Saver, and probably a bunch more I don't know about yet. It's really be difficult, and I don't think it would be worth the effort unless you're good with troubleshooting. For example, I couldn't even complete an installation, it stalled at the ~user account setup, so I had to add a ~user acct. using Terminal commands from Single User boot, and then it was a super-minimal account that was missing its "Home" folder, which made Finder barely useable. I then used Migration Assistant (which wouldn't work in the initial Setup boot) to import a ~user acct. from another Mac, but even that was incomplete, but complete enough to boot normally. Now I'm trying to enable all the non-functional hardware, but if I step away, it freezes because of the default Sleep settings that I can't access from a Preference Pane and will likely need to find and modify manually.

 

The good news is that I'm running 10.6.2 in 64-bit mode, which is probably a mistake. I'll post something if I can get this working somewhat normally, but for now it's a mess. I used the Hazard Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD final and last update which is available here:

<http://leohazard.com/update.html#>

 

I installed with the Voodoo 10.2 kernel, the 10.6.2 update, ALC883, AMD, Elliott Force Legacy RTC and various other kexts that seemed appropriate. Sound is working, Video has Core Image/Quartz Extreme, most apps launch and appear to run normally. The big issues are Networking (no IONetworkingFamily.kext is loading), ATA bus (problem with NForceATA and perhaps conflict with onboard video?), and Sleep which I've not looked into.

 

I think you could probably install Leopard 10.5.8 relatively easily with the newer Voodoo kernel, and 10.5.6 should be very easy if you have a PCIe video card. I believe my Leopard 10.5.6/10.5.8 installation was on a MBR HD, but I'm now using GUID HD for 10.6.2, and I believe GUID is the preferable way. I've use Chameleon 2 RC2 & RC3 as bootloaders, but haven't tried RC4 on this hack because I had problems with RC4 on other laptop hacks.

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