650 and 680i chipset thread...

[eluminx]

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

 

 

Well i never had a reason to disable mine, but i tried starting up it disabled and i still got the same outcome.

 

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

 

i also tried my kb connected with usb, since when i use it now on ubuntu i use it with the ps2 connection, but i still got the same outcome.

 

Someone in another thread suggestion to try a "repair permissions" and i didnt, while it did fix certain things, it still didnt change the issue im having. It pretty much sucks when i went from not being even able to start off the dvd, to booting off and not being able to get to a install screen, to installing, and now not being able to get past the welcome screens to being able to run the OS... thanks for all the help btw, i really appreciate it.

[Danloreye]

Do you boot with -legacy cpus=1 ????

because you need to boot like that until you apply patch for cores...

 

edit:

 

Do NOT use "-x"... this will make you loop at the migration step (that is your case)

[demonfox13x]

thanks jolly for investigating that problem, woot automounting USB!

[eluminx]

Do you boot with -legacy cpus=1 ????

because you need to boot like that until you apply patch for cores...

 

edit:

 

Do NOT use "-x"... this will make you loop at the migration step (that is your case)

 

 

idont know if this was towards me but if it was, yes i have to boot with -x cpus=1 otherwise it will never get past the black screen, it will just keep restarting and never reach the grey screen with the apple logo. I have tried with many other flags, "-f, -s, -x, -legacy..." and doesnt work, the only way i can get the machine to boot and reach the step i reach is by using both "-x cpus=1". I've tried using one of the other by itself, and i wont boot...

[JollyRogers]

thanks jolly for investigating that problem, woot automounting USB!

 

Your welcome! I am glad I have helped someone else since I have received so much help from this board.

[Danloreye]

idont know if this was towards me but if it was, yes i have to boot with -x cpus=1 otherwise it will never get past the black screen, it will just keep restarting and never reach the grey screen with the apple logo. I have tried with many other flags, "-f, -s, -x, -legacy..." and doesnt work, the only way i can get the machine to boot and reach the step i reach is by using both "-x cpus=1". I've tried using one of the other by itself, and i wont boot...

 

 

yes it was for you...

 

er.... use "-legacy cpus=1 " not "-x cpus=1" or "-x -v cpus=1"... using "-x" once you've installed Leopard will make you loop at the migration step.

 

You need the -x to install Leopard but you have to remove it to boot it up....

[Svein_Jarle]

Okay. I'm about to install from the ToH RC2-image on my computer now.

I'm just wondering - will it be possible to install onto a S-ATA-drive? And does anybody know the compatibilty with my combi-board (650i+570i) -- ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus?

 

And, will this version of leopard recognize all four gigabytes of ram in my computer?

[Envying]

Okay. I'm about to install from the ToH RC2-image on my computer now.

I'm just wondering - will it be possible to install onto a S-ATA-drive? And does anybody know the compatibilty with my combi-board (650i+570i) -- ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus?

 

And, will this version of leopard recognize all four gigabytes of ram in my computer?

 

 

If you have a tiger installed on your pata, the best way to install Leo on your sata is to use pacifist to do it. Of course, you have to have medevil's latest nforce sata driver installed on your tiger....

[Stupidicus]

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.

 

My USB wasn't working even before the golden patch. Maybe I just need the right system.kext now, though. I'll see and past back.

[bunzybud]

I need help!

 

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

 

Anyone knows why?

 

BUMP...

[eluminx]

yes it was for you...

 

er.... use "-legacy cpus=1 " not "-x cpus=1" or "-x -v cpus=1"... using "-x" once you've installed Leopard will make you loop at the migration step.

 

You need the -x to install Leopard but you have to remove it to boot it up....

 

 

yeah i tried that already and it still makes the thing just loop at the same place. I really dont want to install again, i've installed 4 times already, and is not the installing part that gets me, is the boot up process. It takes about 10 whole minutes for the cd to boot up and get to a screen, meanwhile the install process takes about 10-12 minutes. Anyways i appreciate your help, i will try one more time with just the "-legacy cpus=1" options and see what it does...

[eleazar]

Hey Guys,

I am at my whits end Please help!

 

I am running an evga 680i mobo with a Geforce 7600GT video card. I have 10.5.1 installed on it's own PATA drive (i used the kalyway DVD). I can't get graphics support working for the life of me. I installed NVinject 2.1.0 but i had already removed the NVDANV**.kext files and the NVDAResman.kext. So when I boot, I don't have graphics support, it only displays 1280x1024 (my LCD is 1600x1200). I've read all over the NVinject forums, and it says i need those NDVANV files, so when I install those files i can't even boot in normal mode (only safe mode and still without graphics support). I also read that I might need to edit one of the kexts with the device ID or some sort of NVCAP information. But i can't find for the life of me how to edit those files.

 

Also, i'm running one of the TOH_mach kernels, but I still don't have dual core support. If i don't boot with cpus=1, it kernel panics.

 

Does anybody have any ideas? I'm up for anything lol

 

Thanks!

[JaE-V]

i, install leopard on pata

ii, install the newest nforceata.kext

iii, prepare a sata partition for mac

iv, use carbon copy cloner to copy whole pata partition to the sata one

v, reinstall the darwin bootloader by 'fixboot'

 

p.s. you should disconnet the pata while you boot u yr sata

gd luck!

 

this darn bootloader things is getting the best of me lol, very frustrated

[JollyRogers]

Also, i'm running one of the TOH_mach kernels, but I still don't have dual core support. If i don't boot with cpus=1, it kernel panics.

 

Does anybody have any ideas? I'm up for anything lol

 

Thanks!

 

I tried ToH's mach_sleep and mac_speedstep kernels and the only way I could get them to boot was to pass cpus=1. I stuck with Golden kernel even though it is 9.0. I don't know where to get the golden.zip kernel for 9.1...

[Stupidicus]

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.

 

Hey man, how exactly did you get the system.kext out of there with pacifist... I can't get pacifist to open the dvd in tiger. I'll try in Leo.

[eleazar]

I tried ToH's mach_sleep and mac_speedstep kernels and the only way I could get them to boot was to pass cpus=1. I stuck with Golden kernel even though it is 9.0. I don't know where to get the golden.zip kernel for 9.1...

 

Thanks for the reply

 

I ran the golden postpatch but I couldn't boot with both cores after the restart, so I had to replace it again with the ToH kernel. Luckily, the golden patch got my audio working tho, and that stuck Did you just run the golden post patch and then were able to boot with both cores? I'm trying to figure out whats causing the kernel panic when i try both cores. Thanks for your help! Any ideas for my video issues by chance?

[Stupidicus]

Thanks for the reply

 

I ran the golden postpatch but I couldn't boot with both cores after the restart, so I had to replace it again with the ToH kernel. Luckily, the golden patch got my audio working tho, and that stuck Did you just run the golden post patch and then were able to boot with both cores? I'm trying to figure out whats causing the kernel panic when i try both cores. Thanks for your help! Any ideas for my video issues by chance?

 

 

Hey, I thought it worked ok the first time I tried the postpatch. If both cores aren't working, I think it's safe to say that the patch script didn't work. Try "sudo -s" before you run the script, that fixed it for me.

 

HTH.

 

 

P.S. The script doesn't seem to know whether it REALLY was successful, that just means it finished running, successful or not. read the output of the script int he terminal, if it's saying failed on the lines as they scroll past, well, you get the idea.

[eluminx]

Ok well as much as i hate installing again, i installed it 2 just now, once to try it with the vanilla kernel. With this kernel it didnt even boot, it would just get to the "Press F8..." i would type some flags, then whooop restart. So i reinstalled the way i had done it before, and tried using the "-legacy cpus=1" flags, yeah it still doesnt work. THe only way i can start the machine and get to a screen is with "-x cpus=1", any other combination, or using just one of these and other flags, makes the machine hang, or just not boot at all...

[Stupidicus]

Hey man, how exactly did you get the system.kext out of there with pacifist... I can't get pacifist to open the dvd in tiger. I'll try in Leo.

Never mind, I have it working, I needed Pacifist 2.5.1. Thanks.

Ok well as much as i hate installing again, i installed it 2 just now, once to try it with the vanilla kernel. With this kernel it didnt even boot, it would just get to the "Press F8..." i would type some flags, then whooop restart. So i reinstalled the way i had done it before, and tried using the "-legacy cpus=1" flags, yeah it still doesnt work. THe only way i can start the machine and get to a screen is with "-x cpus=1", any other combination, or using just one of these and other flags, makes the machine hang, or just not boot at all...

This ought to help:http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0It's for a specific board, but it should work for just about any 650i board. It works fine for me, with all the posts in the thread clarifying things along the way.

[Stupidicus]

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 SLIE6600NVIDIA 8800GTSAtheros 5212 wirelss PCIEdit: I am now on SATA drive. Just booted from it. dd through linux worked. Just gotta setup grub now funny how it just worked

Hmmm... well... I recoloned my pata leopard install, and now it won't boot. I partitioned it with 2 partitions, and then redid it with just one, but it still won't boot. Any recommendations on what everyone else tried when booting to sata?

this darn bootloader things is getting the best of me lol, very frustrated

Me too, it was working fine and now it doesn't like me anymore.

[muitommy]

@jolly ROgersi know dd would work, how about the "bless" work or not in linux?i think that's the key to boot up without grub or chain0.hey everyone,i sum up a bit here, Jae-V, maybe you can edit the post and make everyone easy to follow,don't need to have a walk through of 6xx replies.. that's tiring:)

 

 

[How to install osx in sata for 680i]

 

I, install leopard on pata

II, install the newest nforceata.kext (link in my signature)

III, prepare a sata partition for mac

*caution* if you encountered weird kernel panic after the complete migrations of osx, you can try the alternative down below!

Alternative: better in the second partition, since i found that fixboot might mess up the first partition and cause constant kernel panic, your first partition can be

10mb for the install of darwin bootloader.

IV, use carbon copy cloner to copy whole pata partition to the sata one (search it in google, ver 3)

V, reinstall theDarwin Bootloader by 'fixboot' you can use the ToH RC2 DVD to make it with this GUIDE or

you can DOWNLOAD the files here and follow the guide above. (change the commands into respective locations!)

You may do this in Linux (Ubuntu live CD or any alternatives), please report if you successfully 'bless' the partition.

 

P.S. if you have a core2duo or quad cpu and using 10.5.2 kext for your display, you might encountered random freeze. At this moment, you need to boot up with cpus=1 or simply enable one core. my system can now work flawlessly with one core enabled.Regards,Tommy

[JollyRogers]

I used Linux dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/sdX (X=the drive letter) and let it do its thing. The image does just that an exact image, bootable, MBR clone of my PATA drive. I didn't bless anything other then my PATA when I did original install. I now had a 20G image because that is how big my PATA was. Now I created another type AF partition on /dev/sdc (in my case) using cfdisk /dev/sdc. Now the only hard part was booting because I use grub, but that is another story.

 

I disconnected PATA. OK I lied, I left it connected, but I booted and forced grub to load off my SATA drive. Best thing to do there is just disconnect all other drives and boot. I used -v to get a looksee and it booted right up. Then I used diskutil to create an hfs partition on that disk, disk0r2 or whatever, then at the commandline, did diskutil mergePartition "Jounrnaled hfs+" MEOW disk0s1 disk0s2 and merged the partitions into one 300G. Rebooted and it worked. If it didn't, I was just going to go back into linux and use cfdisk to make the partition bootable.

 

If someone wants a guide on how to do all this I will gladlly right one up this evening. You would only need a live cd of any linux distro (that has cfdisk..), because it is all command line stuff.

 

IS that what blessing is? making a partition bootable? Cause if so yes I can do that all day long in linux. But I have been chainloading from grub since day 1.

[Stupidicus]

I used Linux dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/sdX (X=the drive letter) and let it do its thing. The image does just that an exact image, bootable, MBR clone of my PATA drive. I didn't bless anything other then my PATA when I did original install. I now had a 20G image because that is how big my PATA was. Now I created another type AF partition on /dev/sdc (in my case) using cfdisk /dev/sdc. Now the only hard part was booting because I use grub, but that is another story.

 

I disconnected PATA. OK I lied, I left it connected, but I booted and forced grub to load off my SATA drive. Best thing to do there is just disconnect all other drives and boot. I used -v to get a looksee and it booted right up. Then I used diskutil to create an hfs partition on that disk, disk0r2 or whatever, then at the commandline, did diskutil mergePartition "Jounrnaled hfs+" MEOW disk0s1 disk0s2 and merged the partitions into one 300G. Rebooted and it worked. If it didn't, I was just going to go back into linux and use cfdisk to make the partition bootable.

 

If someone wants a guide on how to do all this I will gladlly right one up this evening. You would only need a live cd of any linux distro (that has cfdisk..), because it is all command line stuff.

 

IS that what blessing is? making a partition bootable? Cause if so yes I can do that all day long in linux. But I have been chainloading from grub since day 1.

 

This should clarify marking active and blessing. Very different things.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry449623

 

BTW: All I needed to do to boot to my sata drive once it had been block level cloned, was mark it active. It's the first step on that link.

To do so from Tiger I had to copy the files boot, boot0, and boot1h to /usr/standalone/i386 before 'fdisk -e' would work. I used the ones from the 'files' folder included with the Golden Kernel.

 

 

Too bad I'm having a weird kernel panic immediately at boot. :\

[MAX711]

Ok well as much as i hate installing again, i installed it 2 just now, once to try it with the vanilla kernel. With this kernel it didnt even boot, it would just get to the "Press F8..." i would type some flags, then whooop restart. So i reinstalled the way i had done it before, and tried using the "-legacy cpus=1" flags, yeah it still doesnt work. THe only way i can start the machine and get to a screen is with "-x cpus=1", any other combination, or using just one of these and other flags, makes the machine hang, or just not boot at all...

 

I spent about a week banging my head against wall too. Finally got everything working just the other day (after 10+ re-installs!)

 

Here's what worked for me...

 

Started with the usual thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0 but used the Kalyway ISO instead. -x -legacy cpus=1 to boot into the Kalyway setup disc (don't think I messed with any bios setting except turning off RAID). Used an old IDE drive I had laying around. Partitioned it for MBR and did an erase and verify to make sure everything was ok. After several unsuccessful installations I found it was important to completely partition and erase the hard drive before trying again, get rid of any leftover files. At the install options only select EFI MBR, forget everything else, vanilla definitely doesn't work and video drivers can be added later.

 

While it's installing (took about 1 hour for me) open the install log window, this will stop it automatically rebooting when done. When it has finished, open the diskutility and do a verify and repairpermissions, just to be safe.

 

It should now reboot ok off the IDE hard drive. Press F8 and enter -legacy cpus=1 (not -x, that will cause problems later). This did not work for me the first time, so I shut down completely, powered off, restarted and amazingly got to the "Let's take a minute to set up your computer screen". Went through all the setup stuff, no sound, low rez video and no ethernet.

 

nForceEthernetController.kext fixed the on-board NIC for me.

 

AppleNForceATA.kext fixed the SATA problem.

 

Nvidia Installer V1.9 by Punk92.zip got my 8800 GTX rocking at 2500x1600 on dual screens!

 

AppleHDAPatcher_v1.17 plus ALC_885_Codec got the on-board sound working (you may need a different codec for your mobo)

 

Sorry I don't have links to the files above but they're all of the forums if you search a bit.

 

With the .kext files its always worth doing a "sudo chown -R root:wheel xxxxxx.kext" and a "sudo chmod -R 755 xxxxx.kext", delete "extensions.mkext", repair permissions and reboot.

 

I've been able to modify com.apple.boot.plist to only have "cpus=1". I dropped the "-legacy" and it boots fine.

 

After I got everything working, I used HDclone to copy everything onto a faster SATA drive. Didn't even have to mess with the boot sector, just switched drives in bios and off she went. I did make sure the new SATA drive was formatted with the same volume name as the IDE, but I don't know if that's necessary or not?

 

Still to fix....

 

Would like to run on the vanilla kernel but have read not possible yet on 680i mobo's ?

 

Would also like to get my other 3 cpu cores to start helping out.

 

Hope this helps a little.

 

Nvidia 680i mobo

Some Intel quad core processor (can't remember exact model)

Nvidia 8800GTX video card

[eluminx]

I spent about a week banging my head against wall too. Finally got everything working just the other day (after 10+ re-installs!)

 

Here's what worked for me...

 

Started with the usual thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=73199&st=0 but used the Kalyway ISO instead. -x -legacy cpus=1 to boot into the Kalyway setup disc (don't think I messed with any bios setting except turning off RAID). Used an old IDE drive I had laying around. Partitioned it for MBR and did an erase and verify to make sure everything was ok. After several unsuccessful installations I found it was important to completely partition and erase the hard drive before trying again, get rid of any leftover files. At the install options only select EFI MBR, forget everything else, vanilla definitely doesn't work and video drivers can be added later.

 

While it's installing (took about 1 hour for me) open the install log window, this will stop it automatically rebooting when done. When it has finished, open the diskutility and do a verify and repairpermissions, just to be safe.

 

It should now reboot ok off the IDE hard drive. Press F8 and enter -legacy cpus=1 (not -x, that will cause problems later). This did not work for me the first time, so I shut down completely, powered off, restarted and amazingly got to the "Let's take a minute to set up your computer screen". Went through all the setup stuff, no sound, low rez video and no ethernet.

 

nForceEthernetController.kext fixed the on-board NIC for me.

 

AppleNForceATA.kext fixed the SATA problem.

 

Nvidia Installer V1.9 by Punk92.zip got my 8800 GTX rocking at 2500x1600 on dual screens!

 

AppleHDAPatcher_v1.17 plus ALC_885_Codec got the on-board sound working (you may need a different codec for your mobo)

 

Sorry I don't have links to the files above but they're all of the forums if you search a bit.

 

With the .kext files its always worth doing a "sudo chown -R root:wheel xxxxxx.kext" and a "sudo chmod -R 755 xxxxx.kext", delete "extensions.mkext", repair permissions and reboot.

 

I've been able to modify com.apple.boot.plist to only have "cpus=1". I dropped the "-legacy" and it boots fine.

 

After I got everything working, I used HDclone to copy everything onto a faster SATA drive. Didn't even have to mess with the boot sector, just switched drives in bios and off she went. I did make sure the new SATA drive was formatted with the same volume name as the IDE, but I don't know if that's necessary or not?

 

Still to fix....

 

Would like to run on the vanilla kernel but have read not possible yet on 680i mobo's ?

 

Would also like to get my other 3 cpu cores to start helping out.

 

Hope this helps a little.

 

Nvidia 680i mobo

Some Intel quad core processor (can't remember exact model)

Nvidia 8800GTX video card

 

I really appreciate the help, i will definitely give this a try as soon as i get off work.