macfinity Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Please ignore my sig for this post. These notes are NOT for complete Noobeez. No files attached as these are freely available on Chameleon and Netkas website. Did not have much luck with iPCx86 10.5.6 to 10.5.8 route Tried and succeeded this way starts: (i had had my 1.5 Terabyte HDD partitioned already in a working machine and installed chameleon by following LIFEHACKERS guide) INSTALL 10.5.5 by iAtkos boot from internal sata dvd connected SATA channel 1 sata HDD connected to channel 0 booted fine without any flags partitioned (basically erased my one of my partitions I named iDVD) cham 1gb snowhd bulk of the 1.5 tb disk ipc 20gb idvd 15gb guid partition Customize ooptions selected kernel voodoo Drivers ati 2xxx chipset Intel ICHx default ticked dsmos speed step a can't remember all of the options selected rebooted with -f -v Audio, LAN, QE CI working! use osx86tools to backup kernel as well as extensions UPDATE TO 10.5.8 Use 10.5.8 combo update for this install disabler and dsmos kexts fron netkas website using kext helper repaired permissions run terminal execute as root the following sudo su give password type the following run while sleep 1; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext; done Run standalone 10.5.8 combo update pre downloaded from apple it will show failed towards the end ignore do not close yet do not restart yet in terminal Ctrl+c enter the following nano /System/InstallAtStartup/scripts/1 Replace the line Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext with dsmos.kext Restart and boot with -v Restarts twice, don't panic, just pray Install rest of the updates using Software Update. Voila!! 10.5.8 MY System SPECIFICATION: MOBO dirt cheap board bought for £33 from ebuyer. Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L iG31 Socket 775 onboard VGA 7.1 channel audio mATX VGA £45 from 'PLAY' ATI HD 2600 XT PCIe 256 (Silent Heatsink) Sapphire Radeon HD 2600XT Ultimate Edition / 256MB DDR3 / PCI Express x16 / Silent Graphics Card MEMORY: 2 slots for memory 2gig module =1 1gig module= 1 Hard Disk Samsung EcoGreen F2 1.5TB Hard Drive SATAII 32MB Cache - OEM DVD Sony AD-5240S 24x DVD±RW DL Internal SATA Black Bare Drive - OEM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198537-gigabyte-ga-g31m-es2l-ig31-with-ati-hd-2600-xt-pcie-256/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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