Retail Leopard 10.5.6/Snow Leopard 10.6 on Onda N7AS(MCP79)

[tsunami_liao]

I would like to thanks all of you here, because I learn so many from you guys.

 

Especially thanks to FrodoKenny, because I successfully modified the dsdt.aml by reading his post in Post #355 of this thread:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...8416&st=340

 

But please forgive my pool english at first, I'm from China, and the MOBO that I used is not a famous brand.

 

Now I had Leopard 10.5.6 and Snow Leopard 10.6 installed on a same hard drive with GPT.

Both are updated to latest patches, 10.5.8 and 10.6.2, and no need to change anything after update.

 

I installed Chameleon 2.0 RC3 658 onto my EFI partition, use one EFI partition to load my Leopard and Snow Leopard.

 

Here is my hardware configuration:

MOBO : Onda N7AS (MCP79)

CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E6650 2.33GHz without OC

Video : Integrated NV9300GS (works fine with the dsdt.aml inject)

Audio : Realtek ALC 883 HDA (need legacyhda driver with dsdt.aml inject)

NIC : Marvell 88E056

 

 

I suggest you install the Snow Leopard directly, here is the setup guide:

 

1. BIOS need to modify if the dsdt.aml won't work(I didn't test this because I modified the BIOS, removed the CPU alias).

 

2. Change the SATA option to AHCI.

 

3. Change the USB 2.0 Controller Mode to FullSpeed, it will save your time if reboot the system.

The USB speed seems no change in Windows7 or Leopard/Snow Leopard, the speed can up to 30MB/s when I copy data to the hard drive.

 

4. Need Leopard or Snow Leopard retail DVD, I restore the DMG to a USB thumb drive instead of using DVD.

 

5. To create a boot loader for the Leopard / Snow Leopard retail DVD.

I use Chameleon 2.0 RC3 658, run the pkg installer to install Chameleon to the USB thumb drive.

My 8GB USB thumb drive had 2 partition, the first one is 200MB for the Chameleon, and the left space for the retail DVD.

 

6. Copy the provided smbios.plist, dsdt.aml and drivers to the Extra folder.(all these files will copy to EFI partition later)

You should modify the smbios.plist for your hardware.

You should notice that 10.5 and 10.6 folders in Extra, yes you need to put the Leopard driver in folder 10.5 and Snow Leopard driver in folder 10.6.

 

7. Boot the system up with the USB thumb drive, select the retail DVD partiton, you will see the installation wizard, the QE/CI works fine during installation with this dsdt.aml!

 

8. Everything works fine except the shutdown and sleep.

The shutdown will not power off, I always reboot instead of shutdown, then press power button when reboot to the self post screen.

The sleep cannot wake up, I have not test the sleep enabler yet.

Restart works fine, just few seconds if you changed the USB 2.0 Controller Mode to FullSpeed. otherwise will take long time, even more than 2 minutes.

 

9. Make the EFI partition boot happen, just refer to this thread, but a little difference， because I use Chameleon to boot up Leopard and Snow Leopard, the Extensions will be relocated to the folder 10.5 or 10.6.

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,649.0.html

 

 

Here you are the dsdt.aml, smbios.plist and drivers for Leopard and Snow Leopard:

Extra.zip

[joe.ye]

thanks

[mumuwoyou]

why!my alc883 will not work,Everything works fine except sound?my mainboard is N7AS too. my boot is bootThink,I put the kents to bootThink's Extensions.pls tell me how to?