650 and 680i chipset thread...

[JollyRogers]

@jollyrogers

yes, it's the drivers for usb 2.0

 

EVERYONE : USB2.0EHCI http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=28559

 

The USB driver there did nothing. With either the apple kext or the pcgenusbehci.kext, If I plug a drive into USB I can see it under USB 2.0 via system profiler, but OSX is not mounting them for some reason unless I have them in when I boot or am in safe mode. ACtually with pcgenusb my system hangs if I have a usb drive inserted during boot. At this point it is the only thing that is a problem. I tried disabling usb legacy, but then my USB keyboard and mouse won't work until I am in an OS... which means I can't select an OS except the first one in the OS selection of grub. I guess I could try switching over to PS/2 mouse & keyboard??

[The Broken]

Since I didn't see many people with 650i chipsets.

 

This is a heads up that this method linked on first post works perfectly on such systems.

 

Motherboard: MSI P6N SLI-FI

CPU : Core 2 duo 1.8ghz (OC'ed to 3ghz)

Video: EVGA Nvidia 8800 GTS

Memory: 2 GB

Network Card: Netgear FA311v2 (Rt 8139)

Sound: Onboard

HD's : PATA and SATA Raids (not used)

 

Followed the guide to the dot, system booted back in with two cores active. It would be helpful to download all the stuff mentioned on there before trying the install.

 

Sound worked after injecting ACL888 texts into AppleHDA patcher. All inputs/ouputs work fine with audio. Tried skype/vent works perfectly.

 

I installed this onto one of my PATA drives that shares partitions with Windows XP and Linux. I only disabled SATA during the install (but it didn't seem to matter much -- my Sata is a raid array of data that only windows uses). Hid Windows partition, activiated second partition for OS X and installed following the directions given.

 

All graphics stuff is working as intended with the proper speedups (no real issue with this), though for some time I did have the screen flicker on bootup. Had to switch resolution to a lower and back to native LCD resolution to fix that. I haven't seen that on once everything was setup.

 

The only issue I had was with the onboard Network interface. Tried two different network drivers off here. One of them worked for a bit till I got kernel panics. Thus I've disabled the built in network interface and am now using a cheap Netgear card which loaded up properly on bootup, and is stable.

 

Now I'm triple booting Linux, OS X and Windows and am thinking about making this my main development platform.

 

Netroller, thanks for posting your guide, it's a no brainer once every step is followed to the dot.

 

Enjoy.

[muitommy]

The USB driver there did nothing. With either the apple kext or the pcgenusbehci.kext, If I plug a drive into USB I can see it under USB 2.0 via system profiler, but OSX is not mounting them for some reason unless I have them in when I boot or am in safe mode. ACtually with pcgenusb my system hangs if I have a usb drive inserted during boot. At this point it is the only thing that is a problem. I tried disabling usb legacy, but then my USB keyboard and mouse won't work until I am in an OS... which means I can't select an OS except the first one in the OS selection of grub. I guess I could try switching over to PS/2 mouse & keyboard??

maybe you can try to boot with cpus=1what's your specs by the way?@everyonelast time, i had two exactly same leopard installations on sata drive(block level clone),i do active and dd the first one. then the kernel panic keep happening on the first partitions,not the second. i can't find any reason for this.later on, i reallocate my partition tables, with the first partitions 15mb for the installing of darwin bootloader, then that two leopard installations in the second and third problems,all problems had gone. so i might suspect this all due to the failure bless of sata drives,so the installations of darwin bootloader on a separate partitions might help.now, i would still encounter some random freeze on some applications, at least no kernel panic.if i boot it with cpus=1 -f -v flags, no freeze so far, vmware & parallel run very good.

Since I didn't see many people with 650i chipsets.This is a heads up that this method linked on first post works perfectly on such systems.Motherboard: MSI P6N SLI-FICPU : Core 2 duo 1.8ghz (OC'ed to 3ghz)Video: EVGA Nvidia 8800 GTSMemory: 2 GB Network Card: Netgear FA311v2 (Rt 8139)Sound: Onboard HD's : PATA and SATA Raids (not used)Followed the guide to the dot, system booted back in with two cores active. It would be helpful to download all the stuff mentioned on there before trying the install.Sound worked after injecting ACL888 texts into AppleHDA patcher. All inputs/ouputs work fine with audio. Tried skype/vent works perfectly.I installed this onto one of my PATA drives that shares partitions with Windows XP and Linux. I only disabled SATA during the install (but it didn't seem to matter much -- my Sata is a raid array of data that only windows uses). Hid Windows partition, activiated second partition for OS X and installed following the directions given. All graphics stuff is working as intended with the proper speedups (no real issue with this), though for some time I did have the screen flicker on bootup. Had to switch resolution to a lower and back to native LCD resolution to fix that. I haven't seen that on once everything was setup.The only issue I had was with the onboard Network interface. Tried two different network drivers off here. One of them worked for a bit till I got kernel panics. Thus I've disabled the built in network interface and am now using a cheap Netgear card which loaded up properly on bootup, and is stable.Now I'm triple booting Linux, OS X and Windows and am thinking about making this my main development platform.Netroller, thanks for posting your guide, it's a no brainer once every step is followed to the dot. Enjoy.

which kernel are you using, or did you replace the loginwindows.app?i see the cpu info in about this mac showed correctly, that's so sweet, mine is just an unknown.

[The Broken]

muitommy, I'm using the Golden kernel given in the guide. I didn't mess with anything else other than patching to 10.5.1 taking care not to replace the kernel and the stuff he listed.

[muitommy]

muitommy, I'm using the Golden kernel given in the guide. I didn't mess with anything else other than patching to 10.5.1 taking care not to replace the kernel and the stuff he listed.

 

it's okay if you're not using the 10.5.2 kext

[eluminx]

ok well i finally got OSX installed into a IDE drive i had that i didnt know it still works. But now my question is, everytime i try to start it up, with as many or any type of flags possible it always just reboots very quick and i cant see what the message on the screen is. The first time i got it installed i got to the "finding keyboard screen" but everytime it moved to the "transfering files from another mac" i would choose not to transfer any files and it would just loop back to "finding keyboard". Well i got frustrated and reinstalled, and now is when i get the problem of it just rebooting and displaying a message so quick that i cannot see it, it just reboots that quick. Any help? I think i read that i can try to remove the geforce.kext but i didnt see any instructions on how to do that, if any one can help.

[bunzybud]

I need help!

 

each time I try to install Kalyway, the installation stops at 25% and stays there for hours.

 

Anyone knows why?

[jdizzle3330]

Okay, I was woundering if someone could help me install OSX cause I keep getting the error "still waiting for root device" and am therefore unable to boot up and install it. I am using iATKOS by the way.

 

My specs. are:

MSI P6N SLI Platinum (yes I know, an MSI )

NForce 680i Chipset

160GB SATA HD

SATA DVD Drive

2GB RAM

Intel E6750 (stock speed)

BFG Tech. GeForce 8600GT OC

Linksys WMP54G wireless (ralink RT2500)

 

Would a IDE HD resolve this problem? Can I boot with iAKTOS at all, or should I get a Kalaway or ToH disk instead? Has anyone else got a successful install with this board?

 

Ty everyone.

[Stupidicus]

Okay, I was woundering if someone could help me install OSX cause I keep getting the error "still waiting for root device" and am therefore unable to boot up and install it. I am using iATKOS by the way.

 

My specs. are:

MSI P6N SLI Platinum (yes I know, an MSI )

NForce 680i Chipset

160GB SATA HD

SATA DVD Drive

2GB RAM

Intel E6750 (stock speed)

BFG Tech. GeForce 8600GT OC

Linksys WMP54G wireless (ralink RT2500)

 

Would a IDE HD resolve this problem? Can I boot with iAKTOS at all, or should I get a Kalaway or ToH disk instead? Has anyone else got a successful install with this board?

 

Ty everyone.

 

First, the SLI-FI and Platinum have a 650i. Only the P6N Diamond has the 680i. That will matter later.

Second, this thread saved my life: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0

Third: yes, ToH RC2 is what is used in that walkthrough. I have a few issues with the walkthrough, i.e. you can just use the nvinject installer, no need for the command line at that point. at the bootfix, read the instructions VERY carefully, not just the codeboxes.

 

I hope this helps.

 

P.S. Yes, the easiest way to install on these mobos is to install to pata, then clone to sata. Worked for me!

[jdizzle3330]

First, the SLI-FI and Platinum have a 650i. Only the P6N Diamond has the 680i. That will matter later.

Second, this thread saved my life: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0

Third: yes, ToH RC2 is what is used in that walkthrough. I have a few issues with the walkthrough, i.e. you can just use the nvinject installer, no need for the command line at that point. at the bootfix, read the instructions VERY carefully, not just the codeboxes.

 

I hope this helps.

 

P.S. Yes, the easiest way to install on these mobos is to install to pata, then clone to sata. Worked for me!

 

 

I will give it a try. Ty for repling so fast lol. I will keep everyone posted after I get this damn this downloaded... 12 more hours atm!

[JollyRogers]

maybe you can try to boot with cpus=1what's your specs by the way?

I tried that:) USB was working in safe mode. Now it doesn't work at all other then I can see the info for USB2.0 in the system profiler. It will show my USB thumbstick or my USB drive, but not mount them for some reason.

 

Also, the wireless is very unreliable. If I reboot it will cause the system to hang, and just reboot on it's own. When I do manage to get it working it works great. I ended up deleting the IO80211Family.kext and reinstalling that from ToH cd image. No luck... then added IO80221Family.kext from the 10.4.8 update, edited as per directions I found in this forum and it started working again... did several reboots and it was fine. I am in linux now and just did a dd of the PATA to the SATA drive. Gonna see how that goes... I think I will have to "bless" it won't I?

 

muitommy, my specs:

Asus P5N32-E SLI

E6600

NVIDIA 8800GTS

Atheros 5212 wirelss PCI

 

Edit: I am now on SATA drive. Just booted from it. dd through linux worked. Just gotta setup grub now funny how it just worked

[JollyRogers]

USB on my Asus P5N32-E SLI seemed to not work. USB2.0 devices would show up in system profiler but not on the desktop (ie not being mounted). I tried the USB2.0 pcgenehci.kext that muitommy pointed me to, but that made no difference, same exact indications...

 

Well since it is showing in the system profiler then it should work darnit! I plugged in my usb thumb drive and then from the CLI did a 'sudo kextload /System/Library/Extesions/IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext' provided my password and it came right up!

 

So anyone know why the IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext is not being called automagically?

 

EDIT: Also, once I do this one time. USB2.0 seems to work 100% till reboot since the kext is loaded (I think). Guess I could add:

'loadkext IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext' to rc.local? Thinking outloud

[muitommy]

I tried that:) USB was working in safe mode. Now it doesn't work at all other then I can see the info for USB2.0 in the system profiler. It will show my USB thumbstick or my USB drive, but not mount them for some reason.

 

Also, the wireless is very unreliable. If I reboot it will cause the system to hang, and just reboot on it's own. When I do manage to get it working it works great. I ended up deleting the IO80211Family.kext and reinstalling that from ToH cd image. No luck... then added IO80221Family.kext from the 10.4.8 update, edited as per directions I found in this forum and it started working again... did several reboots and it was fine. I am in linux now and just did a dd of the PATA to the SATA drive. Gonna see how that goes... I think I will have to "bless" it won't I?

 

muitommy, my specs:

Asus P5N32-E SLI

E6600

NVIDIA 8800GTS

Atheros 5212 wirelss PCI

 

Edit: I am now on SATA drive. Just booted from it. dd through linux worked. Just gotta setup grub now funny how it just worked

 

can you bless the sata partition in linux?

have you removed the origianl kext for usb ehci?

you should see something like this when boot (-v)if you test is working:

12/01/2008 10:34:05 PM kernel USBF: 0.586 Attempting to get EHCI Controller from BIOS 
12/01/2008 10:34:05 PM kernel USBF: 0.586 USBLEGCTLSTS value e0000000 
12/01/2008 10:34:05 PM kernel USBF: 0.586 Found USBLEGSUP_ID - value 0x1000001 - writing OSOwned 
12/01/2008 10:34:05 PM kernel USBF: 0.586 acquireOSOwnership done - value 0x1000001

 

check also the extensions in system profiler that pcgenusbehci.kext is working properly.

[JollyRogers]

@muitommy

Check this link out! http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry549512

 

I just looked at the System.kext and the version is 9.1 and I think the kernel version I am running is 9.0. If that thread is right then that may be my issue? What will dropping the 9.0 System.kext in do or when we did the 10.5.1 upgrade why was the mach_kernel excluded?

 

I am getting into something I am not to comfortable with. Is the System.kext why we are showing 10.5.1 running even though we aren't running the newer kernel. I remember something about JaE-V talking about the kernel. I used to compile all my kernels in linux when I ran Slackware, but dealing with OSX is a different beast I am afraid. I am afraid to upgrade to the kernel that came with 10.5.1 and am a little apprehensive to replace System.kext.

 

I think this really is my problem, because when I followed the install, USB worked fine (cause I used it to grab all those downloaded files) until after I did the 10.5.1 update, which was the last real thing I did to the system.

 

I did everything and saw pcgenehci.kext doing its thing. It was releasing to bios or something... and with either apple's or pcgen kext I am seeing my USB2.0 devices in system profiler, just not automounting the USB devices.

 

Oh yea Blessing the partition. I never did (except during the original install), it just worked. I did dd from linux and my 20G image was the new leopard image. In linux I added the other 300G partition and when I booted off it and it worked 100%. I had to name and reformat the 300G partition for Leopard, but didn't even touch the 20G. Since it was working, I never worried about blessing, because I figured whatever that did (cause I really don't know!) got copied over with dd because it is a block for block image of the original drive. All the usb symptoms I have now where there BEFORE I moved over to PATA.

[muitommy]

@JollyRogers,

you can't use the system.kext, that's for 10.4.10, the kernel is a "not match"

i'm using the 9.1.0 toh speedstep kernel, but i think golden kernel would work,

because i install the kext before i updated to 10.5.1.

you may try to boot with flags -f -v , that might help.

plug in your usb hardisk or usb stick first,

you should see something about mounting of the usb drives.

[JollyRogers]

The system.kext that comes on the ToHRC2 disk is 10.4.10? hmm... Ok I haven't actually looked yet. I thought that it had 9.0 on it and that was for 10.5.0. And how do I acquire just another kernel? I am not up for a large download. Also, I used golden kernel during the install following .netrollers guide. I do know that when I applied the 10.5.1 update that System.kext got applied and it shows 9.1 as the version in Info.plist.

 

I have tried the -f and the -v and the -legacy. none of that is working. Though the -f will fix my wireless issue if I lockup or shutdown improper.

 

sleep time for me.

[jdizzle3330]

First, the SLI-FI and Platinum have a 650i. Only the P6N Diamond has the 680i. That will matter later.

Second, this thread saved my life: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0

Third: yes, ToH RC2 is what is used in that walkthrough. I have a few issues with the walkthrough, i.e. you can just use the nvinject installer, no need for the command line at that point. at the bootfix, read the instructions VERY carefully, not just the codeboxes.

 

I hope this helps.

 

P.S. Yes, the easiest way to install on these mobos is to install to pata, then clone to sata. Worked for me!

 

 

You said that I don't need to do step 9, does that mean I don't need to do step 10 either?

[muitommy]

The system.kext that comes on the ToHRC2 disk is 10.4.10? hmm... Ok I haven't actually looked yet. I thought that it had 9.0 on it and that was for 10.5.0. And how do I acquire just another kernel? I am not up for a large download. Also, I used golden kernel during the install following .netrollers guide. I do know that when I applied the 10.5.1 update that System.kext got applied and it shows 9.1 as the version in Info.plist.

 

I have tried the -f and the -v and the -legacy. none of that is working. Though the -f will fix my wireless issue if I lockup or shutdown improper.

 

sleep time for me.

 

the system.kext in 10.5.0 is not replaced, right?

since both kernel work for me, i would say it's not matter.

you could acquire that in irc channel

[Stupidicus]

You said that I don't need to do step 9, does that mean I don't need to do step 10 either?

 

No, you need to fix the cpuid on that probably, at least remove it so that you can boot. Leopard will give a kernel panic if it's there and you haven't followed the steps regarding it. I just meant that there's a good nvinject installer, so no need to do nvinject stuff by hand.

[eluminx]

Ok well i'm back to where i started, i reinstalled the system for the 4th time, and got to the screen where it needs to recognize my kb, but once it reaches the part where it asks me to choose whether i need to transfer files from another Mac, i choose "no" and it just loops back to recognizing my kb. I have no idea how to go about this anymore, if anyone has any insight or help, i would greatly appreciate it...

[JollyRogers]

@JollyRogers,

you can't use the system.kext, that's for 10.4.10, the kernel is a "not match"

i'm using the 9.1.0 toh speedstep kernel, but i think golden kernel would work,

because i install the kext before i updated to 10.5.1.

you may try to boot with flags -f -v , that might help.

plug in your usb hardisk or usb stick first,

you should see something about mounting of the usb drives.

 

 

muitommy, the system.kext on ToH cd IS 9.0(I just checked). Then when we update to 10.5.1 without updateing the kernel, the System.kext is 9.1.

According to that thread the kernel version and the System.kext version need to match, or USB automounting stuff won't woirk for some reason. That was my only point on the thread link, regardless that they were discussing 10.4.10 and 11.

 

My current kernel according to:

uname -r

9.0.0

 

 

I just want to know what changing System.kext will do. I guess I am going to find out... I can always boot -x OR from CD or reimage the original PATA if I hose my install.

 

I am reading up on using kernels in OSX86 and see how to install different ones and force booting different kernels etc... and see that irc is where to go...

[jdizzle3330]

First, the SLI-FI and Platinum have a 650i. Only the P6N Diamond has the 680i. That will matter later.

Second, this thread saved my life: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0

Third: yes, ToH RC2 is what is used in that walkthrough. I have a few issues with the walkthrough, i.e. you can just use the nvinject installer, no need for the command line at that point. at the bootfix, read the instructions VERY carefully, not just the codeboxes.

 

I hope this helps.

 

P.S. Yes, the easiest way to install on these mobos is to install to pata, then clone to sata. Worked for me!

 

 

After following this guide, I am not able to boot into Leopard, anyone know why? Did I do something wrong?

[JollyRogers]

My USB problem was in fact that System.kext got replaced during the update to 10.5.1 as per .netroller's guide with System.kext (9.1) and the Golden kernel that is installed via Golden.zip's patch is version 9.0. I used the ToH boot DVD and Pacifist to grab the System.kext from there and looked. It was version 9.0 according to the Info.list. So I installed it and rebooted and now USB seems to work great.

 

That is everything now working that I NEED. I guess it would be nice to upgrade to kernel 9.1 and looked at some things regarding that... because it would be NICE to have sleep.

 

Thanks all for your help. If you are running Golden Kernel (9.0) then I suggest not installing the System.kext when you do the update to 10.5.1, it may mess with your automounting of USB.

[JollyRogers]

Ok well i'm back to where i started, i reinstalled the system for the 4th time, and got to the screen where it needs to recognize my kb, but once it reaches the part where it asks me to choose whether i need to transfer files from another Mac, i choose "no" and it just loops back to recognizing my kb. I have no idea how to go about this anymore, if anyone has any insight or help, i would greatly appreciate it...

 

When I enabled my LAN settings in my BIOS, it worked. I had the exact same problem on my P5N32-E SLI.

[Danloreye]

Ok well i'm back to where i started, i reinstalled the system for the 4th time, and got to the screen where it needs to recognize my kb, but once it reaches the part where it asks me to choose whether i need to transfer files from another Mac, i choose "no" and it just loops back to recognizing my kb. I have no idea how to go about this anymore, if anyone has any insight or help, i would greatly appreciate it...

 

I think this is due to the use of an PS2 keyboard & mouse. is it ?