zMAXdp problems (nforce3 250)

[mojo2317]

Hi there all,

while I'm waiting around for apple to release an X86 based headless machine, I decided to have a go at putting OSx86 on my Iwill zMAXdp computer (dual opteron). It is booting off an ATA harddrive, has an AGP based ATI radeon AIW X800 XT, and I have an intel GB network card I'll plug in, once I can get it to boot. (as in, I am fairly aware of the limitations on the chipset..)

 

I have had great luck running things in VMware, but no luck booting natively..

I tried the patched 10.4.3 version, and it simply hung on boot (& no errors when booted w/ -v)

with 10.4.4, I can see some errors now: (this is with the SSE2 & AMD patched kernel) I get a bunch of repeated errors including:

 

kld_load_from_memory() failed for module com.apple.NVDAResman

Failed to load extension com.apple.GeForce.

Couldn't alloc class "NVKernel"

 

repeated at me lots.

I followed the instructions for 10.4.4 pretty well (like I said, works like a champ in VMware)

I've not really seen any info on the web, either here or other locations..

 

Thoughts?

 

TIA,

MoJo