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MSI P6N SLI-FI Clean install using ToH RC2 (with nVidia GeForce series VGA)

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Stupidicus
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Sorry for being dense, but huh? That's a link to the guide I've been following all along.. Is it just one of the steps I need to do?

 

 

No, it's a link to my post (#58 in this thread) with step by step instructions on moving or deleting the NVDAResman.kext folder.

HackintoshPlease
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The frustration must be making me dumb..Stupidicus posted me a link that should lead to that info, but it doesn't..What do I need to do in terminal to remove that file/directory?Thanks again...

No, it's a link to my post (#58 in this thread) with step by step instructions on moving or deleting the NVDAResman.kext folder.
That link just takes me to the guide with no posts... I can't find the info you're talking about. I feel dumb.. :(But the DVD has booted now.. I'm in terminal. What should I type?
Well I couldn't find the instructions, but since the goal was to move the NVDAResMan.kext, I did thisTerminal:cd /Volumes/Leopardmkdir TEMPcd System/Library/Extensionsmv NVDAResman.kext /Volumes/Leopard/TEMPI'm rebooting now....Grey screen with a beachball....I'm at a Welcome screen...Holy {censored}.
HackintoshPlease
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Next battle-

 

I made it a little way in to the next steps...

I started getting worried reading about NVInject and 8800GT card. I tried the 10.5.2 beta kext installer package found on the forums.

Now I'm back to a kernel panic.

I noticed NVInject mentions having the file that I moved to TEMP in the last step present... do I need to move it back maybe? Any ideas?

 

Thanks again...

Stupidicus
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Next battle-

 

I made it a little way in to the next steps...

I started getting worried reading about NVInject and 8800GT card. I tried the 10.5.2 beta kext installer package found on the forums.

Now I'm back to a kernel panic.

I noticed NVInject mentions having the file that I moved to TEMP in the last step present... do I need to move it back maybe? Any ideas?

 

Thanks again...

 

See if there is one in the Extensions folder, and if not, put it back with the proper dev+manufacturer ids and go from there. I know nothing of using nvinject on anything other than my 7000 series cards, least of all G92 with 10.5.2 kexts.

HackintoshPlease
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So close yet so far.

 

I made it all the rest of the way through up to the Install 10.5.1 in Pacifist. I've never used Pacifist before, but it seemed pretty straighforward.

I selected everything except the things noted

I had the same experience as you (the same things you posted about were not in the pkg.)

I right clicked and did Install Selected.

Approved a couple things and rebooted.

Kernel Panic.

Now I can't even get back in -x safe or -legacy cpus=1 or anything I can figure out. I'm booting the DVD again right now to see if I can move NVDAResman again, and maybe get back in. Hmmm....

HackintoshPlease
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Moving the NVDAResman.kext lets me back in.. So basically I've got the 4 cores working, but not the 8800gt. But that's about to get a lot easier with 10.5.2, right? So I think I'm kinda done? ish? I haven't done sound or ethernet yet, so not really.

I figured out which parts of the walkthru I screwed up and have tried to correct them. Namely, beside the one you already helped me with (thanks!), I didn't put in my shortname in the Golden.zip script. It didn't say to in the guide above, so I didn't. It got errors and that's why I couldn't boot before. I got in w/ -x and redid that script with the proper info. But I had already done the Pacifist part, so things are getting weird. I'm booting to the DVD (again!??!) to try to move that file one more time now.....

 

 

So close yet so far.

 

I made it all the rest of the way through up to the Install 10.5.1 in Pacifist. I've never used Pacifist before, but it seemed pretty straighforward.

I selected everything except the things noted

I had the same experience as you (the same things you posted about were not in the pkg.)

I right clicked and did Install Selected.

Approved a couple things and rebooted.

Kernel Panic.

Now I can't even get back in -x safe or -legacy cpus=1 or anything I can figure out. I'm booting the DVD again right now to see if I can move NVDAResman again, and maybe get back in. Hmmm....

mynameisnick4
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Anyone know if the onboard LAN works with the P6N SLI-FI?

 

If not, can someone list some cheap cards that available in stores (staples, circuit city, best buy) that work.

 

 

Thanks

 

EDIT:

Now I have a new problem. I did a new fresh install and now when I boot it just stops and I get this message: "InterFaceNamer: no network interfaces, could not update platform UUID"

 

I did some searching around and couldn't find an answer on how to resolve this issue. Any ideas?

Stupidicus
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I had no luck with the forcedeth driver, but I know a lot more now than I did then, so maybe it's possible. I am using the netgear in my sig, but there were revisions that didn't work, so don't take that to mean that it will work for sure.

.NetRolller 3D
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About the NVDAResman.kext: You first have to move it out of the way (as it contains a machine check that makes the system crash if the machine is not an original Apple), then, after you've patched it to work on non-Apples using the AMD Patcher, move it back to its place. You might need to use 10.5.2 beta kexts for G92.

Armentage
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Can any confirm whether the onboard ethernet on the MSI P6N Platinum works with the guide provided here?

 

If it does work, when should I expect it? I've re-enabled my ethernet from my BIOS settings, but when I boot in to Leopard, it doesn't see the card. All I see are my serial port and fire-wire.

 

Thanks for the help --

Armentage
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I'm sure that CP'ing the NVDAResman stuff back was a bad, bad idea. As soon as I Cp'd it back to the extensions directory (after marvinizing it), my system hung. While following the NVInject instructions, I rebooted when it told me to. I suspect that this was a bad idea.

 

*EDIT* WOOT! After booting up from the install-cd and killing the copy I CP'd, I was able to MV the original (patched) NVDAResman back to Extensions, Chmod & Chown it, and boot up with beautiful high-res 1680x1050 graphics.

 

*EDIT* A bit more playi8ng around and I actually got 2 monitors up and running at different resolutions.

adeebm
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EDIT: I got it to work by reinstalling. Hurray!

 

Help,

 

I got until step 11, but when i boot, i get a grey screen with a movable mouse. I left it all night, but no difference. What do I do?

I am reinstalling as i post this.

 

Heres my rig:

XFX 680i LT Sli motherboard

Q6600 2.4 quad

8600GT

2gb ocz ram

ide dvd and hd(80gb)

tseryan
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I'm currently stuck on the Bootfix stage of this guide. It's very vague and I'm not sure if I understand it correctly.

 

Should I be installing another copy of Leopard on a 2nd partition of the same HD and run the terminal commands in that installation? The guide just says to restart from the DVD and go into the terminal, but the bootfix guide says that you need a second installaton.

 

Also, are the files "boot boot0 boot1h" already located from the ToH install? If not, where would I get it and how would I move it there. And how would I get the "startupfiletool" copied into the /usr/sbin folder?

 

Sorry for the number of questions, but it's been driving me crazy for the last few hours. Thanks a lot for any assistance!

Armentage
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I sent this in a PM to Tseryan, but I suspect many can benefit from it:

 

 

The bootfix phase was REALLY hard to get past, because the msg they refer you to is very poorly written. Let me give you a few tips:

 

1) read the text BEFORE the code boxes very very carefully. They often tell you to "umount blah before doing this"

 

2) By "unmount" and "mount", they aren't talking about the standard unix mount/umount commands. They are talking about apple's diskutil program, which has much more interesting semantics than mount. It's smart and remembers where to mount things, etc.

 

3) My harddrive didn't show up as disk1. It was actually disk5. Even though I had all my SATA drives disconnected, I was still seeing /dev/disks (and rdisks) alllocated for tehm. I assume you're using a PATA drive in your 1st PATA slot and a SATA DVD drive. Run mount (with no args) to see what you have mounted in /Volumnes/Leopard (or whatever you named your filesystem when you formatted it from the installer). THAT device is your disk.

 

4) boot/boot0/boot1h etc are all on the TOH disk. The guide tells you where to go look for them.

HackintoshPlease
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I posted this before, but I guess it wound up elsewhere... I'm copy/pasting it so it might help someone in this thread.

 

So with a little hindsight, I started the whole process over. I realized there were several things I screwed up the first time, and am happy to report that the guide is almost perfect, if you understand all the terms, etc. All the pitfalls are covered here in the forum, but I thought I'd group a few common ones together for newbs like me:

 

I used .NetRollers ToH Guide.

 

The prep:

One thing that should be noted- You need to unplug any PS/2 keyboard/mice from the system. Use USB's and unplug the PS/2. Leaving them plugged in makes restart/shutdown hang.

 

The bootfix:

This is where a lot of peoples problems start. The big thing is that, in the bootfix instructions, he casually says unmount and remount the drive, but doesn't give the instructions for how to do it. Make sure you unmount using diskutil unmount drive or Disk Utility. Same for remount in the next step. If Disk Utility won't do it, I think the command was "diskutil unmount force /drive"

 

Terminal commands:

I was much less comfortable in the terminal at the start of this then I am now. Whenever the terminal commands are layered with ; in between, I would just do it on a different line. This helps figure out if you made a typo or any problems.

 

NVDAResman.kext:

Once I got to Step 10 the first time around, things started going haywire. Every single time I couldn't successfully boot the install, booting the DVD, running Terminal and moving the NVDAResman.kext out of /System/Library/Extensions would let me back in.

 

com.apple.Boot.plist:

The easiest way to edit the file in step 13 is to copy it to your desktop, add the flags under Kernal Flags and save it. Then move it back to it's original location, and enter your password to authorize.

 

Graphics. Steps 14-21.

These steps didn't work for me exactly because I have an 8800GT. However, even after installing the 10.5.2 kexts found elsewhere in this forum, NOTHING works until you modify the device ID's (Steps 16-21). So apply that concept to whatever kexts you use. And remember, if it won't boot, use Terminal on the DVD to move NVDAResman.kext out of the folder to let you back in and fix it.

 

Step 22:

This step worked one time and didn't another. If you don't wind up with a CPUID file in the folder on your desktop, check the permissions on the NVDAResman.kext in the backup folder. Mine had gotten changed, and this step didn't work. Since it says "It will fail, don't worry" I didn't.. but this failed more than they meant. You should see a message about 5 candidates, and a file called CPUID should be in the AMD folder on your desktop before you continue.

 

Step 29:

In addition to changing your Short name, you also need to put in the name of your HD (path to your Leopard install)

 

Step 33:

I did Select All, then deselected the things listed (they're not all there...) This did NOT work.

Instead, Apple-Click on each section individually. Don't worry about the things in the guide that are not in the installer. And you might want to deselect System.kext, as it screwed up my external drive mounting, and I had to reinstall the one from ToH disk.

Once they're all selected, right-click and choose Install to default location.

 

Step 34:

All cores should work now.

That is... as long as you edit your com.apple.Boot.plist file, removing the cpus=1 line.....

 

Step 35:

I didn't have to do this stuff. My audio already worked.

 

The only thing I have left is Ethernet...

 

Hope this is helpful to someone.

elstevedore
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I'm currently stuck on the Bootfix stage of this guide. It's very vague and I'm not sure if I understand it correctly.

 

Should I be installing another copy of Leopard on a 2nd partition of the same HD and run the terminal commands in that installation? The guide just says to restart from the DVD and go into the terminal, but the bootfix guide says that you need a second installaton.

 

Also, are the files "boot boot0 boot1h" already located from the ToH install? If not, where would I get it and how would I move it there. And how would I get the "startupfiletool" copied into the /usr/sbin folder?

 

Sorry for the number of questions, but it's been driving me crazy for the last few hours. Thanks a lot for any assistance!

 

You don't need another working install of OSX, you can do it all from the DVD. The important things to remember are:

 

1. You don't need to type the "sudo" part of the commands listed, because you are already logged in as root.

 

2. Skip the part about copying startupfiletool to /usr/sbin. You won't be able to do it because that filesystem is mounted read-only. Just run it from its original location under /usr/standalone/i386/

 

3. Remember to unmount the target drive before step 3, and remount before step 4. You'll need to quit terminal and load disk utillity to do this.

 

Let me know if that's not all clear. I'm pretty new to all this OSx86 stuff, but I know my way around a *nix command line pretty well.

Stupidicus
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btw- I tried forcedeth.kext and the NvidiaNetworkwhatever.kext and neither one worked on my NForce4 LAN. It's an XFX 680i SLI motherboard. Anyone have any ideas?

 

This is all I have on those chipsets and their onboard LAN controllers, I hope it helps.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=73317

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