Digitized Soul Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Hello all, and what an amazing community we have here! I am trying to install iPC on a Shuttle SN68SG2 barebone that I built (and have windows on now). The chipset is an MCP68 (Nforce630a) with the integrated geforce7025 shared memory trash. I tried to install kalyway months back, but the 7025 video not being able to be accelerated kept me away. I just purchased a 9400gt PCI-E with 1gb of RAM since it was only 60$ at Fry's. With that installed I figured i'd give things another try, and noticed the iPC distro of 10.5.6 floating around so i grabbed it. I have windows on an IDE hard drive, and i just put in a SATA drive to install OSX on. This bios has the cool feature of hitting "esc" during POST to select a boot device. No bootloader chain nonsense for me!! However, the SATA drive is detected when i boot off the (ide) dvd to install, it shows up in the disk utility, and under system profiler I see "Unknown AHCI Controller" and this drive listed under it. I can install to that drive succesfuly, and even begin the boot process after install. However, I get the fun little "waiting for root device". Being somewhat experienced in unix / linux / BSD (and now darwin) I know that it means the drive being referenced as the root device can't be accessed. How is it that the dvd kernel / kext's can see the drive, but after installing (and choosing the nforce driver) it cannot? Is there a Dev ID in the .plist of the dvd that isn't in the driver or something? I am finding very little of anything relating to the MCP68, especially anything recent. I know it is an AMD system, but i also know that this is the only thing keeping me from success. Help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150745-mcp68-nforce630a-ipc-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitized Soul Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Tried adding my pci ven ID to the info.plist file in AppleNforceATA.kext but that didn't help. Not a lot out there on the MCP68, need some expert help here! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150745-mcp68-nforce630a-ipc-sata/#findComment-1065995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitized Soul Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Bump??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150745-mcp68-nforce630a-ipc-sata/#findComment-1066432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitized Soul Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 Wow, never mind I guess.... I figured at least SOMEONE would have something to say. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150745-mcp68-nforce630a-ipc-sata/#findComment-1067433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabbadahut Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 I am trying to install iPC on a Shuttle SN68SG2 barebone that I built (and have windows on now). The chipset is an MCP68 (Nforce630a) with the integrated geforce7025 shared memory trash. I tried to install kalyway months back, but the 7025 video not being able to be accelerated kept me away. same here I just purchased a 9400gt PCI-E with 1gb of RAM since it was only 60$ at Fry's. With that installed I figured i'd give things another try, and noticed the iPC distro of 10.5.6 floating around so i grabbed it. I have used 10.5.6 ideneb - graphic is an Asus 8600 - graphic card works fine I have windows on an IDE hard drive, and i just put in a SATA drive to install OSX on. This bios has the cool feature of hitting "esc" during POST to select a boot device. No bootloader chain nonsense for me!! Ok I have opted for only OSX and this on a 500GB SATA drive - install works fine even from an IDE Cdrom. I have set AHCI to on for SATA. Strange enough: my other 10.5.6 distribution has the same "waiting for root device..." message However, the SATA drive is detected when i boot off the (ide) dvd to install, it shows up in the disk utility, and under system profiler I see "Unknown AHCI Controller" and this drive listed under it. I can install to that drive succesfuly, and even begin the boot process after install. However, I get the fun little "waiting for root device". Being somewhat experienced in unix / linux / BSD (and now darwin) I know that it means the drive being referenced as the root device can't be accessed. try iDeneb or a newer distribution (not iPC 10.5.6) - I got this finally only to work on another PC when I switched my CDROM and Hard Drive to SATA ;( How is it that the dvd kernel / kext's can see the drive, but after installing (and choosing the nforce driver) it cannot? Is there a Dev ID in the .plist of the dvd that isn't in the driver or something? good question - sorry have no real answer - for me the IDE drive (CDROM) does not show under 10.5.6 but I can install from it ;( I am finding very little of anything relating to the MCP68, especially anything recent. I know it is an AMD system, but i also know that this is the only thing keeping me from success. My big problem is still the Network Interface - tried the onboard with a number of drivers from the forum but can not get it to work. Same for my old 3c905 3com card. Let me know how you are going Cheers J Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150745-mcp68-nforce630a-ipc-sata/#findComment-1101679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_jack Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Hello all, and what an amazing community we have here! I am trying to install iPC on a Shuttle SN68SG2 barebone that I built (and have windows on now). The chipset is an MCP68 (Nforce630a) with the integrated geforce7025 shared memory trash. I tried to install kalyway months back, but the 7025 video not being able to be accelerated kept me away. I just purchased a 9400gt PCI-E with 1gb of RAM since it was only 60$ at Fry's. With that installed I figured i'd give things another try, and noticed the iPC distro of 10.5.6 floating around so i grabbed it. I have windows on an IDE hard drive, and i just put in a SATA drive to install OSX on. This bios has the cool feature of hitting "esc" during POST to select a boot device. No bootloader chain nonsense for me!! However, the SATA drive is detected when i boot off the (ide) dvd to install, it shows up in the disk utility, and under system profiler I see "Unknown AHCI Controller" and this drive listed under it. I can install to that drive succesfuly, and even begin the boot process after install. However, I get the fun little "waiting for root device". Being somewhat experienced in unix / linux / BSD (and now darwin) I know that it means the drive being referenced as the root device can't be accessed. How is it that the dvd kernel / kext's can see the drive, but after installing (and choosing the nforce driver) it cannot? Is there a Dev ID in the .plist of the dvd that isn't in the driver or something? I am finding very little of anything relating to the MCP68, especially anything recent. I know it is an AMD system, but i also know that this is the only thing keeping me from success. Help! Hi there, I have the same barebones - SN68SG2 - with a 5600+, 4gb RAM, 512mb Radeon HD 3870. I am now running 10.5.8! I tried everything to no avail, but finally downloaded iatkos 10.5.7. My recommendation: Install with Chameleon 2 bootloader MCP67 driver under chipset nVidia driver for ethernet VoodooHD audio driver Choose the correct video driver The rest I left default I was up and running in less than 30 minutes (skipped media check) and had all updates installed through Software Update within an hour. I am running all of the software that I purchased for the mac with no problems. Cannot run VMware, however, but I expected that. Make sure that you own a legit copy of Leopard and any software you have. The only issues I have are: an "unknown AHCI controller" in System Profile, which I understand does affect performance had to turn off sleep mode some unrecognized keys (home/end) on my Logitech wireless desktop (working on it now), but all volume keys work fine Hope this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/150745-mcp68-nforce630a-ipc-sata/#findComment-1270568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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