Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L iG31 with ATI HD 2600 XT PCIe 256

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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