SunLizard Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Posting this as it may help other folks out there: My goal was to get OS X up on my AMD as my primary (and only) OS, so no VMware coverage here. First my setup (its posted in my sig, but just for redundancy's sake...) img: JaS 10.4.8 Intel.AMD SSE2/SSE3 (pre-patched) Processor: Athlon 64 3200+ (Venice Core) not OC'd Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI (no Deluxe) nForce 4 Graphix: Sapphire ATI x 850 xt Sound: On Board nForce Sound Mem: 1 Gig Kingston @ 333 Drives: 8gig IDE / 300gig SATA / 2 DVD-ROM (NEC 2500 / Hitatchi) Display: 17 in Viewsonic AF-70 (CRT) / 22 in Viewsonic widescreen (DFP) * *note: Still working on the DFP, this is one of my shortcomings. (and yes, I've tried changing the EDID in Callisto.kext/Contentes/MacOS/Info.plist) --------------------------------------------- Background: I've got 2 Real Macs at home and several PCs some with Windows and one with Red Hat linux. I have user-level knowledge of command line Linux shells (in hind-sight this proved somewhat useful and somewhat anti-productive 'cause things don't work exactly the same... things aren't in the same places in Darwin as Linux...) Round 1: Since I wanted to be on the safe side, I formatted a old 8 gig Western Digitial IDE drive I wanted to use as the OS partition. I booted the Install DVD (img burned to Verbatim DVD-R) and had no problems using the Disk Util to format the WD as a Mac Joural'd partition. I initially selected the Titan drive package and a bunch of other optional packages. For problems I later expereienced and tried to isolate, I recommend going with the Minimal packages you know you have to have (like AMD Support) and waiting on the extra stuff. Its very easy to install later. At this point I had the DFP connected to my Hackintosh. --------------- Recommendation #1: On new install, use only the packages you KNOW you have to have. --------------- Install went smoothly. System rebooted normally, and on Load, I suffered the dreaded Grey Apple Halt. I rebooted, this time using the -v (Verbose) option at the Load Options screen. --------------- Recommendation #2: Always use the -v options at Load. --------------- I realized, among other things, that the video card was not being detected properly ('device not recognized' error when boot logged.) I checked the forums. I then discovered the Hardware Compatibility List for 10.4.8. Here. Note to self: that would have been a great place to start (duh!!!) before I started this evolution. Also note here, its a good idea to make sure your Mobo BIOS is as up to date as possible. At this point, I had read about a safe mode but rebooting in Safe Mode (-x) did not work for my system would give me a grey screen with no GUI. In hind-sight I believe this problem to be a problem with my DFP detection. At the time I guessed it was due to a bad install so decided to re-attack after another fresh install. Round 2: Reformatted and re-installed, still on the DFP. Got same results as above, but decided to attempt to fix my problem command-line and trying to use the guides on the Forums. (Most of the Video Card fixes walk you through from a Safe Mode installation (utilizing Terminal and TextEdit.) I read about Single User Mode (-s option at startup.) and found I could boot my system into Single User mode. When trying to use this mode and manipulate files, its important for a n00b installer (like myself) to to realize Single User mode: 1) by default does not let you make changes to files (unless commands '/sbin/fsck -fy' and '/sbin/mount -uw /' are used.) Oh by the way, this is VERY DANGEROUS and you can seriously give yourself a myriad of other problems if you touch something you shouldn't. ABSOLUTELY DON'T do it if you can avoid it. ------------------ Recommedation #3: n00bs like me should avoid Single User mode (-s) for file manipulation if possible. ------------------ Anyway, I did and the problems I had going this way were many. I wanted to move the Callisto drivers off a disk I burned; because I didn't fully understand the capabilities of Single User mode (surprisingly little about this mode's capabilities on the Forums..) I found that things aren't where you expect them (for exaple: Single User mode won't automatically mount your external devices such as DVD-Roms and USB memory stick) I eventually did get the files over and pico'd my way through installation. If you must (like me) go this method of installation, remember you will wreak havok on disk permissions and its worth pulling the JaS Installer back up and using the 'Repair File Permissions' option of DiskUtil before attempting to continue. There is a command line method of doing this but i've forgotten it already... Continuing on: After following the guide under the x800 ATI section of the Video installation (Genius Bar) utilizing the Callisto_b005 drivers (as the HCL recommeded.) I still got no display. and the system appreared to hang at video detection. I went back to the Forums... Under the video section, not much mention (that I could find) was devoted to problems related to DFP. Most of the problems associated with forum don't discuss monitor type. Omni, Callisto's author, discusses EDID change for monitor type in Callisto in his installation instructions but does not specifically state what changing this effects (aside from functionality.) Anyway, on a whim and a push to get my machine working, I hooked up an old CRT to my Hackintosh. BaM!! I could get Safe Mode to come up! ------------------------ Recommedation #4: If troubleshooting Video card, use a CRT if possible. ------------------------ Round 3: With newfound functionality (a GUI), reformatted and re-installed (fearing I may have screwed something up with my Single User ventures,) verified I still wasn't having success (by just trying a straight boot with -v), and got confortable in Safe Mode. Since being able to follow the guide is a lot easier with a GUI and not at command line, I decided to try to utilize the most updated version of the Callisto drives (b008), to my elation everything worked. CallistoHAL initialized properly and my CRT was detected, and all the supported modes for the display were listed (in -v mode). The only part I did differerntly from the guide was use the Koverg's shell instead of hexedit. Now Quartz Extreme/Core Image are supported too. I still continue to work to get my DFP recogized. Editing the Callisto.kext/Contents/MacOS/Info.plist with my EDID did not work for me (i did change the type to DFP as well.) While Callisto reports monitor type correctly, it does not list any display modes. I think there maybe a peice of code missing as Omni's installation guides says to include an <and> statement in the data line but no <and> line exists in the code for the Callisto_b008 I have. Some strangeness: System Profiler does not list an audio device, yet sound works fine. I use a Logitech MX 5000 BlueTooth desktop (which was recognized just fine with 10.4.8 install) but I can only get one device working at a time with it (either keyboard or mouse, not both) [keyboard works normally / mouse will only work if i disable legacy support in BIOS, but then keyboard won't work.] In any case, if this helps someone, great; if someone has had similar problems with BlueTooth desktops/DFPs please let me know. Additionally, if the Search function of the forum doesn't work for you, post. 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