Leopard on Series 7 NVIDIA nForce MCP + Intel CPU MOBOs

KellyKelly · May 5, 2009

Yea Thanks again Verdant!!!! <3

P.S I thikn is due to the IONetWorkingFamily.kext as I remember my cousin modified once to get rid of the RTL8139 network drop issue [which didn't fix it]

UPDATE: The problem is definitely solved. No more crashes!!

Half Pint · May 5, 2009

Explain in more detail what problems you are having with aqua-mac's procedure......report what happens when you boot with -v......

Hey, sorry its taken so long to reply is because I attempted aqua-mac's procedure a few times and have the same issue each time.

I follow his instructions and it all works untill I have to connect both graphics cards; once I connect them both and boot up, I no longer get the options at the boot screen to type in the boot commands (-v / -f etc). It attempts to boot straight away and it stop loading during the boot image. The little spinning loading image stop rotating also.

Hope this helps explain, I wasn't 100% sure how to explain it too you.

Cheers,

Half Pint

verdant · May 5, 2009

Hey, sorry its taken so long to reply is because I attempted aqua-mac's procedure a few times and have the same issue each time.

I follow his instructions and it all works untill I have to connect both graphics cards; once I connect them both and boot up, I no longer get the options at the boot screen to type in the boot commands (-v / -f etc). It attempts to boot straight away and it stop loading during the boot image. The little spinning loading image stop rotating also.

Hope this helps explain, I wasn't 100% sure how to explain it too you. :censored2:

Cheers,

Half Pint

I know that he says it may not work with nForce chipset MOBOs.....have you put the modified com.apple.Boot.plist in both /Extra and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration directories as required....and have you tried with your graphics card device IDs put into the NVDANV50.Hal.kext Info.plist......?

Can your BIOS be set to boot from PEG2 and/or have you tried with the main graphics card in the second graphics card slot....?

Half Pint · May 7, 2009

Can your BIOS be set to boot from PEG2 and/or have you tried with the main graphics card in the second graphics card slot....?

How do I find this out?

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I know that he says it may not work with nForce chipset MOBOs.....have you put the modified com.apple.Boot.plist in both /Extra and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration directories as required.

My installation doesn't have a com.apple.boot.plist so I used EFI Studio to edit the com.apple.boot file as it has an editor built in. I guessing that doesn't work. Could I possibly download a fresh copy of com.apple.boot.plist from someone / somewhere?

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have you tried with your graphics card device IDs put into the NVDANV50.Hal.kext Info.plist......?

No, I didn't see anything about doing that. Could you explain this and the ones above in more detail please.

Thank you so much!

Half Pint

verdant · May 8, 2009

How do I find this out?

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My installation doesn't have a com.apple.boot.plist so I used EFI Studio to edit the com.apple.boot file as it has an editor built in. I guessing that doesn't work. Could I possibly download a fresh copy of com.apple.boot.plist from someone / somewhere?

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No, I didn't see anything about doing that. Could you explain this and the ones above in more detail please.

Thank you so much!

Half Pint

PEG is an acronym for PCI-E Graphics and in PEG2, the 2 corresponds to the 2nd slot.....the 3 in PEG3 corresponds to the 3rd slot......so if your MOBO can support 2 or 3 PCI-E graphics cards, then you should be able to select PEG2 or PEG3, respectively, in BIOS....the PEG slot you have specified in BIOS will determine which graphics card will display your system BIOS and boot screens......

With some MOBOs, it appears that for OS X to pick up all the installed graphics cards, in BIOS you need to select the last PCI-E slot in BIOS......OS X looks for the last card first.....?

Here is a typical com.apple.Boot.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>Kernel</key>
 <string>mach_kernel</string>
 <key>Kernel Flags</key>
 <string>-v</string>
 <key>Timeout</key>
 <string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

that you can archive and the modify a copy of to include EFI strings.....

To edit Info.plist :

1. Navigate to /System/Library/Extensions/NVDANV50Hal.kext

2. Right-click on kext icon, choosing "Show Package Contents", then open Contents folder to find Info.plist.

3. Open Info.plist file via Terminal using sudo nano etc., or right-click, choosing "Open With", and selecting your preferred Text Editor app; e.g.Text Edit, TextMate, TextWrangler, Property List Editor, or PlistEdit Pro etc.

4. Add your device/vendor ID, i.e. 0x???? where ???? represents your device ID number and 10de is the nVidia vendor ID number, to IOPCIPrimaryMatch and save modified file.




CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
English
CFBundleExecutable
NVDANV50Hal
CFBundleGetInfoString
NVDANV50Hal 1.5.36.25 (17.3.5f14)
CFBundleIdentifier
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal
CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
6.0
CFBundleName
NVIDIA NV50 Resman Kernel Extension
CFBundlePackageType
KEXT
CFBundleShortVersionString
1.5.36
CFBundleSignature
????
CFBundleVersion
5.3.6
IOKitPersonalities

	NVidiaRM

		CFBundleIdentifier
		com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal
		IOClass
		NVDANV50HAL
		IOMatchCategory
		IOService
		IOPCIClassMatch
          	 	0x03000000&0xff000000
		[color="#0000ff"]IOPCIPrimaryMatch
0x019010de 0x019110de 0x019310de 0x019410de 0x019710de 0x019D10de 0x019E10de 0x040010de 0x040110de 0x040210de 0x040310de 0x040410de 0x040A10de 0x040E10de 0x040F10de 0x042010de 0x042110de 0x042210de 0x042310de 0x042410de 0x042F10de 0x060010de 0x061110de 0x06e010de 0x06E210de 0x06E410de 0x062210de 0x062010de 0x064010de 0x086010de[/color]			
		IOProbeScore
		60000
		IOProviderClass
		IOPCIDevice


OSBundleCompatibleVersion
1.2.0
OSBundleLibraries

	com.apple.NVDAResman
	1.2.0
	com.apple.kpi.iokit
	9.0.0
	com.apple.kpi.libkern
	9.0.0

OSBundleRequired
Safe Boot

Spexs · May 8, 2009

1. Your MOBO brand and model: Asus P5N-D SLi 750i

2. Your nForce Series 7 chipset: 750i

3. Your Intel CPU: Model, Core Quantity, Stock Speed and if Overclocked to what speed.....

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, Stock Speed

4. Screen shots of your current BIOS settings if at all possible (as very helpful and in some/many cases essential.....)

5. Your DVDRW(s): TYPE - SATA or PATA [iDE], QUANTITY

1 SATA DL+DVDRW

6. Your hard drive(s): TYPE - SATA or PATA [iDE], QUANTITY - and if set as RAID or not, SIZE (i.e. capacity in GB)......

3 SATA hard drives, no raid

7. Hard drive PARTITION/FORMATTING: - and if set up as single OS volume per HDD or multi-OS volume per HDD etc......

Using main Windows HDD with a 30GB FAT32 partition

8. Current OS's installed: Full details i.e. not just Windows or Linux.... and whether or not you hope to dual boot or even triple boot....

Windows Vista x64 Enterprise and yes I hope to dual boot

9. Your graphics card(s): Brand, Model No., RAM, - if in SLI mode or not

nVidia GeForce 7600GT 256mb... I have 2 but not in SLi

10. PCI/PCI-E cards fitted: e.g. USB, Firewire,NIC etc. and quantity of each...

USB, eSata, Sound card. 1 of each

11. Onboard devices/functions: Audio chipset, LAN chipset, Firewire (number of ports), USB 1.1 or 2.0 (number of ports), eSATA (number of ports), etc.

RealTek HD Audio

nForce LAN

1 FireWire

4 USB 2.0

B. Full details of your current OSx86 install status

1. Your available OSx86 Install DVD(s) - Name, Leopard version, Release version:

iDeneb v1.4, XxX X86 Universal Install Disc, Kalway 10.5.2, XxX 10.5.5 Beta PPF1

2. Clear description of the problems you encountered when trying to install....with boot screen images showing error messages observed.......if at all possible (as very helpful and in some cases essential.....)

Well when I first tried to installed the Universal Disc I keep getting a

SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x06, ASC = 0x29, ASCQ = 0x08

a few times then it goes to "Still waiting for root device."

I read a few places to make sure the install partition was active and I've already gone through and deleted and recreated a FAT32 partition, made it active and it hasn't worked.

I got the same thing with the Kalway... and on the iDeneb I get a grey screen with the apple logo but then I get the circle with the slash through it.

Sorry if this is redundant, I'm new the community and to this whole thing and have tried searching around but haven't found any of the same issues with any hardware close to mine. I also tried the keyword search but found out that it doesn't work =P Thanks in advance!

axelfr74 · May 8, 2009

1. Your MOBO brand and model: Asus Striker II Extreme 790i

2. Your nForce Series 7 chipset: 790i

3. Your Intel CPU: Model, Core Quantity, Stock Speed and if Overclocked to what speed.....

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770, Stock Speed

4. Your DVDRW(s): TYPE - SATA or PATA [iDE], QUANTITY

1 IDE Pioneer DL+DVDRW

5. Your hard drive(s): TYPE - SATA or PATA [iDE], QUANTITY - and if set as RAID or not, SIZE (i.e. capacity in GB)......

2 SATA SSD (1 x for Mac OS, 1 x for Vista), no raid

6. Current OS's installed: Full details i.e. not just Windows or Linux.... and whether or not you hope to dual boot or even triple boot....

at this time I have only the problematic Mac OS 10.5.6 installed, later I like to do a dual boot with Vista

7. Your graphics card(s): Brand, Model No., RAM, - if in SLI mode or not

ATI HD3650, 512MB, silent (fanless)

8. PCI/PCI-E cards fitted: e.g. USB, Firewire,NIC etc. and quantity of each...

USB Soundcard, ATI graphics card is PCI-E

9. Onboard devices/functions: Audio chipset, LAN chipset, Firewire (number of ports), USB 1.1 or 2.0 (number of ports), eSATA (number of ports), etc.

onboard Audio is disabled

nForce LAN

4 USB 2.0

B. Full details of your current OSx86 install status

1. Your available OSx86 Install DVD(s) - Name, Leopard version, Release version:

iPC X86 Universal Install Disc (10.5.6)

2. Clear description of the problems you encountered when trying to install....with boot screen images showing error messages observed.......if at all possible (as very helpful and in some cases essential.....)

The installation finsihed (sucessfull) with:

- 9.5.0 voodoo kernel

- driver: ATI HD 3650 PCIe (Intel)

- driver: AppleNForceATA nForce Drivers

- driver: nForce LAN

- driver: patched USB drivers

After booting with -v the screen switches into the graphical mode and I'm getting a light blue desktop background and a (working) mouse pointer. Thats it, no more progress after that. Sound via USB works as I'm getting a typical Apple "bling" when hitten some keys.

But as written, the OS is not booting to the login screen or what ever. All what I'm get is the mouse cursor.

verdant · May 8, 2009

@ Spexs

I do not have the time to reply fully now but SAM multimedia errors are offten caused by SATA DVDRWs.....or bad DVD media.....and/or not burning the DVD at ≤ x4 speed....

@ axelfr74

I do not have the time to reply fully now but you have a video driver issue.......report what happens when you boot with

-v -f -x.....

Spexs · May 8, 2009

@ Spexs

I do not have the time to reply fully now but SAM multimedia errors are offten caused by SATA DVDRWs.....or bad DVD media.....and/or not burning the DVD at ≤ x4 speed....

Ahhh Thanks!! I'll give it a shot tonight.

Also, I tried the install with the XxX x86 10.5.5 PPF1 and it worked but now won't boot but I think I know how to fix that so I'm going to try that first. Thanks for info!

axelfr74 · May 11, 2009

Hi, problem solved:

I booted sucessfull with "-x", installed the driver for my HD3650 from this thread and after a reboot all worked fine.

And some more (solved) issues:

- I had to deactivate the onBoard IDE controller because the boot precedure freezed with a PCI-something error (so I guess booting from an IDE drive can be tricky)

- I had to install the 10.5.5 Seatbelt.kext driver over the 10.5.6 version because of kernel panics when installing packages.

- my external Creative USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 soundcard is working fine (out of the box - I was amazed), but from time to time I'm getting an USB Audio kernel panic...so unplugging when not needed and connecting again when listening music was the "solution"

So mostly all is fine and I can start developing games for the iPhone . Thanks to this board and to verdant. :-)

Half Pint · May 12, 2009

PEG is an acronym for PCI-E Graphics and in PEG2, the 2 corresponds to the 2nd slot.....the 3 in PEG3 corresponds to the 3rd slot......so if your MOBO can support 2 or 3 PCI-E graphics cards, then you should be able to select PEG2 or PEG3, respectively, in BIOS....the PEG slot you have specified in BIOS will determine which graphics card will display your system BIOS and boot screens......

With some MOBOs, it appears that for OS X to pick up all the installed graphics cards, in BIOS you need to select the last PCI-E slot in BIOS......OS X looks for the last card first.....?

I'm running the ASUS Stricker II Motherboard and I have two (dual) Nvidia 9800GTX 512mb graphics cards. How do I get to the BIOS screen, (if I press Delete durring start up, there is nothing there; I have already looked. All I found was an option to change from PCI to PCI-e and I changed it and nothing changed.) Any ideas?

Here is a typical com.apple.Boot.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>Kernel</key>
 <string>mach_kernel</string>
 <key>Kernel Flags</key>
 <string>-v</string>
 <key>Timeout</key>
 <string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Should I just copy and paste that code into TextEdit and save it as a .plist file? And then edit it afterwards?

Also you said something about a 'device/vendor ID' how do I go about getting this?

Cheers for you help; and sorry I am so dumb at Mac stuff. Hehe :rolleyes:

Half Pint

MrRoper · May 12, 2009

If you post in my Series 7 nForce thread I will see what I can do to help on some of your issues, should any remain after you try slashack's great modding of the MeDevil AppleNForceATA.kext for 64bit addressing and >3GB RAM support......assuming there are no SATA DVDRW issues......

Hello again Verdant,

I had hoped to have tested a bit more by now but in the short time i WAS able to test, the same problem arose even with slashack's modified nforce kext . More than likely there IS an SATA DVDRW issue, i have not tried a burn yet, but moreover i'm concerned with stability of the OS after long idles and semi-heavy/heavy read/writes. mostly writes me thinks but i'm no expert.

I thank you for your offer to try and help and hope you can do so, this problem is bothersome to say the least. Please see the original problem below

EDIT: CS4 Master took me 4 or 5 consecutive attempts i believe to get it all installed, luckily the install picks up where it left off but, the "time outs" for lack of a better description, were most prevalant during this

thank you

MrRoper

I have a fresh OSX install, on an SATA HD (GUID), evga780i mb, no PATA devices at all, back down to 2gigs of ram, and clocked the ram and cpu back to stock to troubleshoot OSX. Installation went smooth using ideneb 10.5.5, updated using the normal netkas method to 10.5.6, rotating between the latest voodoo, anv & stagexnu kernels, with medevil's nForceATA test kext. Everything seems to work great, except when i'm in heavy read/write the OS seems to hang and i get the spinning beach ball of death (i can still move the mouse, so i'm not losing usb like in my previous install) . I usually boot with debug=0x100 flag but get no on-screen panics. once it happans though, all i can do is hard boot the machine

verdant · May 13, 2009

Hello again Verdant,
I had hoped to have tested a bit more by now but in the short time i WAS able to test, the same problem arose even with slashack's modified nforce kext . More than likely there IS an SATA DVDRW issue, i have not tried a burn yet, but moreover i'm concerned with stability of the OS after long idles and semi-heavy/heavy read/writes. mostly writes me thinks but i'm no expert.

I thank you for your offer to try and help and hope you can do so, this problem is bothersome to say the least. Please see the original problem below

EDIT: CS4 Master took me 4 or 5 consecutive attempts i believe to get it all installed, luckily the install picks up where it left off but, the "time outs" for lack of a better description, were most prevalant during this

thank you

MrRoper

I have a number of points for you to consider initially:

1. Have you tried a different USB mouse as the Razer Copperhead Mouse is not regarded as being compatible with OS X by Razer (only the Deathadder mouse has supported OS X functionality according to Razer), or to have only limited functionality even when using SteerMouse or USBOverdrive to add extra functionality.......?

2. If you have MacFuse/NTFS-3G installed then make sure that in your BIOS that Virtualisation/Vanderpool Technology option is set to [Disabled]

verdant · May 13, 2009

I'm running the ASUS Stricker II Motherboard and I have two (dual) Nvidia 9800GTX 512mb graphics cards. How do I get to the BIOS screen, (if I press Delete durring start up, there is nothing there; I have already looked. All I found was an option to change from PCI to PCI-e and I changed it and nothing changed.) Any ideas?

Should I just copy and paste that code into TextEdit and save it as a .plist file? And then edit it afterwards?

Also you said something about a 'device/vendor ID' how do I go about getting this?

Cheers for you help; and sorry I am so dumb at Mac stuff. Hehe :censored2:

Half Pint

Then that means you do not have the option to choose which PCI-e MOBO slot to boot with....

Yes, just copy and paste that code into TextEdit and save it as a .plist file in Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/, and then edit it afterwards.....

In Windows via Device Manager > Storage Controllers > Properties > Details > Device > Hardware IDs....

MrRoper · May 13, 2009

I have a number of points for you to consider initially:

1. Have you tried a different USB mouse as the Razer Copperhead Mouse is not regarded as being compatible with OS X by Razer (only the Deathadder mouse has supported OS X functionality according to Razer), or to have only limited functionality even when using SteerMouse or USBOverdrive to add extra functionality.......?

2. If you have MacFuse/NTFS-3G installed then make sure that in your BIOS that Virtualisation/Vanderpool Technology option is set to [Disabled]

1. I have tried that, but i don't believe this is a usb issue as i can still use the keyboard and mouse when these "times outs" occur, it also both seem to show up properly on system profiler as well, but to answer your quesiton, i have a few spare mac keyboards/mouse's around and still experienced the same issue with them as well. I am also not using any USB overdrive as i did on previous installs.

2. I also am using neither MacFuse or NTFS-3G . at this point i only have installed 10.5.6 update, CS4 Master, Office 2007 & little snitch, reverted all my OC's to stock, only have 2 gigs of ram installed, trying to use the least amount of variables

even more confusing to me and why i'm looking back at the nforce driver as the source at least for now

verdant · May 13, 2009

1. I have tried that, but i don't believe this is a usb issue as i can still use the keyboard and mouse when these "times outs" occur, it also both seem to show up properly on system profiler as well, but to answer your quesiton, i have a few spare mac keyboards/mouse's around and still experienced the same issue with them as well. I am also not using any USB overdrive as i did on previous installs.

2. I also am using neither MacFuse or NTFS-3G . at this point i only have installed 10.5.6 update, CS4 Master, Office 2007 & little snitch, reverted all my OC's to stock, only have 2 gigs of ram installed, trying to use the least amount of variables

even more confusing to me and why i'm looking back at the nforce driver as the source at least for now

OK then put maxmem=3072 in com.apple.Boot.plist and try using the original MeDevil (if you have a PATA DVDRW) and the modified MeDevil (for SATA DVDRWs) kexts.....if you get the same problem occurring with both of these kexts, then it suggests that the problem lies elsewhere.....

ben10 · May 14, 2009

10.5.7 anyone? I have tried the straight system update, and had limited success.

I booted up with cpus=1, reinstalled the AnV 9.6.0 kernel and seatbelt and system.kext, and rebooted. Everything seemed ok, until I checked the system profile, where my system information was wrong. I guess one step is backing up your System Profile information from 10.5.6

My next problem was a little more serious, I couldn't get my GFX card EFI strings to work again. I had to install the NVDarwin drivers, as my card was detecting as a 14MB VESA. I tried clearing the apple.boot.plist and reinstating the hexes with EFI Studio but it wouldnt detect the card properly. I was also getting random system hangs, which I had also had in 10.5.6, but much less frequently as far as I could tell.

I might have been able to work around these issues, but for now I am sticking to 10.5.6 until there is a little more info or even a new 10.5.7 install or kernel.

EDIT: MrRoper: I have always had these issues with OS X and the motherboard we share. I have long since given up trying to use this OS fulltime/for professional work, due to the instability that the 780i seems to carry with it. Its funny we share the same mouse (as well as gfx card (sort of) but that is less likely to be our issue), have you really tried different ones? I have not..I would hate to think that the freakin mouse was the issue the whole time... I am just having fun at this point trying to get it working as well as possible, and learning a lot about OSX in the process.

I rock! · May 15, 2009

well i'm posting my sys specs as you told me... is a lshw output

also the versons i have of osx are iATKOS v1i, v2i, v4i, v4.1i(v5i)

lshw.html

verdant · May 15, 2009

well i'm posting my sys specs as you told me... is a lshw output

OK, with your ASUS STRIKER II EXTREME ensure that your BIOS settings match those in post #1 template the for 790i Ultra chipset.....

To save me time trawling through the lshw output, if you have a PATA (IDE) DVDRW and/or HDD, read post #1 on IDE connections.....

Most trouble free combo is PATA DVDRW with SATA HDD.....

To be bootable OS X requires a primary partition (not a logical partition).......GPT or MBR (recommended for most users as it causes fewer issues) and Mac OS Extended (Journaled).....

When installing OS X, initially install without any video, network and audio drivers selected in the Customize menu, focus on getting the basic OS X system running first......see install guides in my blog.....BTW what iATKOS distro do you wish to use.....?

After you check all the above, I will check back tomorrow on what you get when booting your chosen iATKOS install DVD with -v cpus=1

I rock! · May 15, 2009

dvd sata hdd pata, but i can make space in my 160 gb sata hd, BTW is gpt'd

i have a floppy with the bios config for osx

and i wanna use the v5i

tnx

ben10 · May 15, 2009

Okay 10.5.7 update:

I got my 10.5.6 base install running fine with VoodooHDA sound and all my normal kexts. I decided to try the 10.5.7 update again and this time was more methodical.

I backed up my S/L/System Profile folder, but didn't end up using it. I backed up all my extensions but didn't end up using them. I backed up my kernel, and ended up using the AnV 1.4 installer package instead. So far I am running alright, but it's only been a few minutes.

I installed the combo update, rebooted with cpus=1, and this worked fine. I then tried to boot without cpus=1 and I almost made it to the desktop, then crashed. Too bad, I was hoping for vanilla kernel . SO next I rebooted with cpus=1 again, installed the AnV kernel (9.6.0), and Im back.

System profiler shows up everything fine, I havent tried to update anything yet or get EFI strings going for the graphics card, I am just going to see how stable the basics are. So far so good

verdant · May 15, 2009

dvd sata hdd pata, but i can make space in my 160 gb sata hd, BTW is gpt'd
i have a floppy with the bios config for osx

and i wanna use the v5i

tnx

Try with SATA DVD and PATA HDD jumpered and connected as Master.....

As for iATKOS v5.0i Customize selections, try as follows......

iATKOS v5i Main system

Bootloader Chameleon v1.0.11 (later update to Chameleon 2.0RC1)

X86Patchers

– Decrypters – AppleDecrypt

– SMBIOS drivers – SMBIOS’ for X86 – AppleSMBIOS-28

– Kernel – 9.5.0 Kernel voodoo

– ACPI – x86 ACPI

– Disabler – Y

– PS/2 – N May be needed (although x86 ACPI may suffice) if you are not using USB keyboard and USB mouse as recommended

– OHR – N

– Remove Thermal kexts – Y

Drivers

– VGA – N

– System

o SATA/IDE

• nForce SATA

• JMicron

o Speedstep – N

o Laptop Battery – N

o ext2fs – Y

o NTFS-3G – Y

– Network – N You can install eno’s nForceLAN.kext later

– Audio – N You can install appropriate audio driver later

After installation, boot with -v -f and report what happens.....

I rock! · May 15, 2009

I'm not sure which root device choose to boot de DVD, I've tried many options and getting always "Still waiting for root device".

My system PATA/SATA config is:

PATA: HDD Master, CD-RW Slave

SATA: Channel 1 DVD-RAM, Channel 2 HDD

verdant · May 15, 2009

I'm not sure which root device choose to boot de DVD, I've tried many options and getting always "Still waiting for root device".
My system PATA/SATA config is:

PATA: HDD Master, CD-RW Slave

SATA: Channel 1 DVD-RAM, Channel 2 HDD

OK.....have you already tried with PATA: HDD Slave, CD-RW Master and getting "Still waiting for root device" error message?

Do you have temporary access to an Intel Mac/Hack?

I rock! · May 15, 2009

yes, i've tried that config too

and, i have a friend that has macs, powerpc macs, but he has no internet connection, and it may be a trouble carrying our PC to each other's homes

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