How To: MSI P965 Platinum 10.4.8 and up

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1. Install VMware 6

2. Install Daemon Tools

3. Setup VMware 5 compatible machine (Other/Other, 512MB RAM, No Networking, Buslogic, Physical Drive)

4. Edit VMware config file, add 'paevm = "TRUE" ' to the beginning of the config file.

5. Edit the machine settings, Do not connect on power up for virtual floppy and virtual sound devices. Advanced Harddrive settings (Persistant).

Set virtual cdrom to point to Daemon Tools Drive.

 

Now the install can start.

 

6. With Daemon Tools Mount uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i r3 (or any distro that will recognize the full size of your drive and not just 128 GB)

7. Boot your Virtual Machine and press ESC to boot. Partition your disk to full size. Stop the Machine.

8. Mount Jas 10.4.8 ppf1,bikerdude,diskutils , boot to the disk. (It may say partition is 128GB, but 233 available )

9.Install with custom intel kexts, Titan, Azailia, loginwindow, once it finishes reboot the Virtual Machine and power the VM before darwin loads.

10.Reboot your machine to BIOS (mine is v1.5).

11. Set your Jmicron controller to RAID (which just means on, its stupid but whatever)

11. Set your SATA#1 Config to Compatible, then set the sub property to AHCI.

12. Reboot.

 

You now have a up and running 10.4.8, with my hardware I have CI/QE.

 

There are files in the normal places that may allow a 10.4.8-->10.4.10, but I am not sure if they work. Jas 10.4.9 update is available, then Koolkal 10.4.10.

 

You may also be able to use uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i r3 to install, but some applications were removed.

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Actually, there is a way to do a native install with this motherboard, which I have done. Let me know if anyone is interested and I can tell them how...