mrcompletely Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 OK, I have two computers that have SSE3 cpus (I don't want to mess with emulation). The first has a Biostar mobo that has a Via P4M800 chipset (Prescott 3.0 ghz). I tried booting it with a few different flavors of OSX86 with no luck. I guess they didn't like the Via chipset. The second has an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with an AMD 64 3800+. Looking in the wiki I see that it will boot, but I won't get on-board SATA, sound, or ethernet. Also it has two Nvidia cards in SLI. I presume OSX86 will just use one and ignore the other? Are there any "distros" out there that will run on either of these setups with most of the stuff working (a pci card or two wouldn't kill me)? Maybe with a patch or two? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 can you make a list of the specs on each computer 4 me? (paragraphs don't do it for me ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-483951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcompletely Posted October 27, 2007 Author Share Posted October 27, 2007 Candidates: Biostar P4M80-M4 Via P4M800 chipset Prescott 3.0 ghz Nvidia GeForce 5900 -AGP Samsung DVD+-R 2 gigs ram ASUS A8N-SLI Premium AMD 64 3800+ 2 Nvidia 7800GT cards in SLI -PCI Express Pioneer DVD+-R 2 gigs ram On-board Firewire I have a 400gig SATA drive for either one, though the ASUS may need PATA, which I can do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-484018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stem Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I got JaS 10.4.8 to install on a Biostar P4M80-M4. Updated to 10.4.10 using the 8.9.1 kernel from following the instructions at http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=45283 Used the Via Rhine network patch located at http://www.pinxue.net/mac/viarhine.html for the onboard LAN (had to manually set it to 100Mbit/Full Duplex). Used the Titan patch for my Nvidia GeForce 6600 and AC97 patch for onboard sound. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-484346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcompletely Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 Hmmm, I could swear it was the Jas 10.4.8 that I tried and the initial startup didn't get past the grey boot screen. I guess I just didn't get a good copy (I haven't tried it in VM or anything else -I could test it on my Core 2 Duo at work)... Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-484813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcompletely Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 Well, I got my hands on macdotnub v1r5 and it's pretty impressive. It has the Via Rhine driver right in the installer. I'll try the Realtec sound driver and see how it goes... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-492408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomie Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 My brother had a Biostar board with the VIA P4M800 chipset and was able to install JaS 10.4.8, upgrade to 10.4.9 and 10.4.10, but always had stability issues. It would crash and require a reboot at least once a day. There wasn't anything wrong with his hardware, as it ran WinXP smoothly. I'm a firm believer in just using Intel chipsets for OSX86. The Intel chipsets are the ones that most replicate real Mac hardware, therefore the least likely to give you problems. If you can afford to buy a new motherboard, I'd definitely recommend getting one based on Intel chipsets. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-492473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcompletely Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 Welp, the Macdotnub DVD booted on the Via board, went into the GUI, and let me do the entire install. Then it reboots, goes to the hard drive, brings up the apple on a light grey background for a second, then reboots again. The first time I chose some extra drivers, the second time I tried to keep it simple, but got the same result. If I put Macdotnub in my AMD machine it boots, gives me a couple pages of errors, then gives me a unix prompt that I can put commands into. Anyone have a link to where I can get a socket 478 mobo with an Intel chipset (for less than a Core 2 Duo board and cpu)? Otherwise I'll just have to wait until I eventually bite the bullet and upgrade the AMD to a C2D (or a Quad)... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-494431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcompletely Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 FWIW macdotnub is Intel only. I'll try JaS 10.4.8 next on both. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-494511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jghodd Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I have a Biostar mobo with Via P4M800 chipset and am happily running JaS 10.4.8 on it. When you install, be careful what options you choose. Specifically, choose only one of the chipset extensions - Intel OR AMD, NOT BOTH. Also, don't install the drivers for common devices and, if I remember correctly, don't install the graphics drivers either. Personally, and additionally, I didn't install the printer drivers or language translation stuff. Mine's installed on its own disk drive, and prior to starting my initial installation I had to properly format the drive. To do this, start the Disk Utility from the Utilities menu after booting from the install disk, select the DISK (not the partition) you want to install to and format it for HFS+. This will automagically create a single partition which you should also format/erase. When I tried to install without going through these motions, the install hung at the grey-screen spinner (as it also did when I initially installed both both chipset extensions). There are some pretty good tutorials around in this forum if you look around a little. Also, JaS 10.4.8 doesn't come with the ViaRhine driver. You'll have to install that using sneaker-net. I should add that I did attempt an update to 10.4.10 using the KoolKal Combo update, and that failed miserably - had to reinstall the OS. Could be I did something wrong though because many posters to this forum swear by the KoolKal update. Again, there is a ton of information in this forum if you take the time to look around. I'd highly recommend using google to search, not the crappy forum-provided one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-507314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcompletely Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 OK, I gave up on the Biostar board. I got one of these: http://microcenter.com/single_product_resu...duct_id=0260571 An ECS P4.945GZT-M. For under $100 I got a board and CPU combination that completely works right out of the box with all the integrated peripherals. I installed macdotnub 10.4.10, made sure it used the Windows/DOS mbr in Disk Utility and enabled Azalia audio and I was good to go. I used a Celeron 420 1.6, which seems slow, but it seems faster than my black MacBook... ECS P4.945GZT-M: Onboard Intel 950 video (with QE and CI), ethernet and sound all work Celeron 420 1.6 60 gig PATA hard drive from an old iMac G3 1 gig DDR2 left over from a PC I upgraded to 2 gigs Samsung combo DVD/CDR (someday I'll upgrade it to a DVD-R, but for now I can transfer over the network to my MacBook to burn DVDs if needed.) GarageBand '08 runs great. I want to upgrade my bedroom PC too . Now the real fun part...seeing if my existing install of XP will boot to the new board without a blue screen . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68037-can-i-has-osx86/#findComment-512707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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