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I entered through verbose and still got black screen. It had a ton of text but it was moving by to quickly to read. is there something specific I should be looking for?

 

EDIT: -x -legacy -v did not work this time! :unsure:

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longtom,

 

Er...if you have installed my installer with the SATA drivers that fix will mess up SATA. Here is a safe fix:

 

Fix for Internal Drives appearing as External Drives: This requires just a little work in terminal. At least it works for me.

 

Open up Terminal

 

sudo -s

 

enter

 

mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back

 

cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns

 

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

 

reboot

 

cyberderf,

 

Everything is the same except for the SATA, which is ICH9 rather than ICH9R, but that does not matter in terms of this guide, the same ICH9R sata drivers will work for ICH9 as well. The only place you will have to change is the sound drivers, my package installs ALC889A drivers and the DS3L has ALC888, so you will have to find alternate drivers.

 

Islander,

 

What kernel are you using 9.2.0 speedstep or sleep? Or did you apply the Time Machine and AirPort update, that would have screwed it as well...

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cyberderf,

 

Everything is the same except for the SATA, which is ICH9 rather than ICH9R, but that does not matter in terms of this guide, the same ICH9R sata drivers will work for ICH9 as well. The only place you will have to change is the sound drivers, my package installs ALC889A drivers and the DS3L has ALC888, so you will have to find alternate drivers.

 

Thanks for the cue on this ~pcwiz! I think ALC888should not be a problem. Now I just wonder if someone has fully tested the DS3L, if it is stable and if the reboot/restart bug is present. Can someone advise me on this ?

 

Indeed, i am looking for purchasing the DS3L over the DS3R.. still not sure.

 

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after DMI Pool Data I get a b0 error?

 

Edit: booted from disc and instead of hitting any key to boot from disk, I just let it load. now theres a message that says

 

 

system config file '/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found

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Hi All :)

 

Well, my rig arrived today. Things are kinda weird, however!

 

1. I tried the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD and first time around it said the media was damaged at about 75% install.. 2nd burn it locked up solid at 14% install. Downloading 10.5.1 DVD now to be 100% compliant with this guide. formatted GUID with 3 HFS+ partitions.

 

2. I got the GA-EP35-DS3R and C2D E4500 2.2GHz 800FSB. I've setup several AMD boxes in the past, this is my first Intel. Why does my FSB show as 200MHz and x11 multiplier?! Isn't that upposed to be 800MHz FSB with about 4 multiplier?

 

3. the DS3R manual says to that the RAM channels are slots 1,2 and 3,4, but others have said (and the manual mentions) to put your pairs in alternating slots so they are in the same color? Which one is correct? I currently have them matching to the colored slots.

 

Sorry, I'm feeling like a total noob right now. Normally I should know this stuff, but it's just a little different than AMD boards I guess?

 

Aaron

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after DMI Pool Data I get a b0 error?

 

Edit: booted from disc and instead of hitting any key to boot from disk, I just let it load. now theres a message that says

 

 

system config file '/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found

 

This error means you have corrupt disc... i dont remeber page number but this issue was adressed pretty well... :)

 

b0 error is no active partition error... it was delat with also here... do little search.

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~PcWiz,

 

Ok. the first disk I tried using was the 10.5.2 DVD, but I have both. the black screen problem came from the 10.5.2 disc and the b0 error is coming from the 10.5.1 install (also detecting hard drives as external).

 

On the 10.5.2 Disc the options I chose were: (this is from memory so bear with me)

Kernels - vanilla kernel & 9.2 sleep

unmarked additional languages

Graphics Drivers - I tried different combinations:

NvInject

Natit

NvInject 256

NvInject + Natit (I believe this is the combo that got me farthest)

Natit + NvInject 256

NvInject + NvInject 256

NvInject + NvInject 256 + Natit

Every single driver

I didnt touch any of the mobo chipset or audio drivers

LAN drivers (Broadcam in addition to the defaults)

Third Party apps: candybar, onyx, MacTheRipper, StuffItExpander?, transmission,

vlc and I'm sure there was one more

Patches: got rid of francais keyboard lay out, and one time tried the time machine fix (which I believe was the time I got everything working but the black screen.)

 

After install I rebooted to a black screen so I rebooted Hit F8 at the Darwin screen

 

Typed: -s

/sbin/fsck -fy

/sbin/mount -uw /

cd system

cd library

cd extensions

rm -rf NV*.*

rm -rf Natit.kext

rm -rf Gefo*.*

rm -rf ATI*.*

cd ..

rm -rf extensions.mkext

Hit reboot on the tower (not type exit in -s)

Hit F8 at Darwin

typed: -x -legacy -v and sometimes it would sign me in with the resolution I'm looking for, but still black screen.

 

On the 10.5.1 disc I followed your guide word for word. One thing I did notice though was at the first screen after you choose your language, the screen that gives you the continue button before you agree to the license agreement has a breakdancer with two buttons underneath, but I dont remember what they said; I believe one was something about dancing. it very well could be corrupt.

 

So far I've gotten more results out of the 10.5.2 DVD than out of the 10.5.1, but the 10.5.2 is coming with a whopper of a problem (the black screen).

 

P.S. I've also tried Kalyways instructions that involves /movevideodrivers.

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:blink: First I want to thank you for the great guide and installer. Saved me from another lost weekend working on this project!

 

I am using the sleep kernel and works almost perfectly with the S3 ACPI setting, It did not work with the S1 setting. There is only 1 glitch with sleep so far. When I begin sleep I have 2 partitions mounted from my external USB hard drive. I return from sleep I get a error message that I removed my devices unsafely and I should eject them first. MacOS then remounts the 2 partitions automatically anyway. Is this normal MacOS behavior for sleep? Is there a fix for it? I am currently just ejecting the drive manually before sleep and that works fine. Sometimes I forget. :P

 

I know this is an old post, but this is most definitely NOT standard Mac OS behavior. You should be able to sleep with external drives and wake up with them properly mounted. On a real mac, this would only happen on poorly designed drives/enclosures. I am guessing this case is due to the drives thinking they are shut down when the box goes to sleep and do not maintain a standby state? Or just general Hackintosh sleep issues.

 

Aaron

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Well I think I'm nearly there with a P35-DS4 + BDC-202 (htpc), 99% done 50% still to go as they say.

 

(Bluray DVDr booted fine via yellow sata connection after fiddling with BIOS settings)

 

 

First of all many thanks to PCWIZ & all the other developers who made this possible.

 

Just the two questions (for now)!

 

1. With S1 sleep the fans keep running, with S3 sleep I can't wake the machine with mouse or keyboard. Is there any way to get full sleep with mouse wake up?

 

2. Can anyone tell me how to do advanced searches on this forum?

 

Thanks for any response.

 

Roger

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3 Words: MBR, MBR, MBR!!!

 

oh, and Thank You, Thank you, Thank You! To pcwhiz, macciti, and all of the developers that have made Mac OS X and OS X on x86 a reality!

 

I have a fully running Hack!! I tried GUID several times, but the bootloader just would NOT start the boot process. Switched to MBR and Boom! works almost like a real mac!

 

A couple of things I gambled on in the install process..

 

I did NOT install any Audio or Video drivers. Only the Vanilla Kernel, and Vanilla ACPI Fix and then the Boot_efi_mbr option because I was using MBR.

 

Followed the update instructions to 10.5.2 to a "T" without a hitch. It rebooted itself during the update (normal behavior on a Mac).

 

~pcwhiz's installer pack for P35:

1. I did NOT install the SpeedStep or Sleep kernel. I checked to see that I was using vanilla kernel before this install pack and I figured "If it works fine now, why switch?"

2. Installed Sound, AppleSMBBIOS - 27 Default, ICH9 drivers and ethernet drivers

 

Then I found the NVInject package on the installer DVD and installed that.. Boom! Full support for my 7300GT.

 

Sleep works (S1 - have not tried S3 yet), shutdown & reboot work fine!

 

I was VERY brave and installed TimeMachine & AirPort update - since I was on Vanilla kernel, it went off without a hitch!

 

Bonjour is working, 100mb network is easily saturated, I have disabled JMicron SATA & IDE cuz I'm not using it for now. All SATA ports running AHCI, 0-3 are in "native mode", whatever that means. Only issue is that all the drives show up as external. I thought Dune's driver fixed that? I turned off "Ignore permissions for this volume" for my other drives. Also, I installed the ZFS Read/Write preview 1.1 and have ZFS fully working! ( I have previous ZFS experience with OpenSolaris and NexentaStor storage appliance based on OpenSolaris.)

 

I am a pretty darn happy camper right now! I'll be running the system thru some paces and see what works and doesn't. So far, it looks good! Fast too! It just doesn't feel like a real mac yet.. it's just an OS running on top of crappy BIOS with hacks to get it to work. A Real Mac is much more elegant.

 

What I want to attempt next is getting OS X Server running... either in VMWare or natively.. anybody know any good links on how to accomplish that?

 

My Hack:

GA-EP35-DS3R

Zotac Nvidia 7300GT 256MB

4GB RAM (2x OCZ Platinum 800MHz and 2x Crucial 800MHz running at 4-4-4-15)

Intel E4500 2.2GHz 800FSB

3 Seagate SATA drives

Samsung SATA DVD Burner that everyone is using in this thread

 

My Mac:

MacBook Pro 2.2GHz Santa Rosa 3GB RAM as well :)

 

Thanks again everyone!

 

Aaron

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Islander,

 

I strongly suggest that you download a copy of 10.5.1 (torrent called KALYWAY LEOPARD 10.5.1 intel SSE2 and SSE3), verify the MD5, and burn it onto a quality DVD-R disc at 4x speed. I burned it onto a Sony DVD-R, some said Memorex worked when Sony didn't, Maxell discs also seem good. Because everything you've said so far seems to point to a corrupted DVD. But for the black screen, did you install the Kalyway kernels package after installing the Kalyway 10.5.2 combo update? Cause thats why you would get a black screen.

 

Fruitboi,

 

1. I think you answered that for yourself :)

 

2. Yes, it should be 800MHz x about 3 multiplier, is it like that in BIOS or is that in the Apple System Profiler?

 

3. You have it set right, for dual channel to take effect you need to put the pairs into the designated colored slots so yellow and yellow and red and red.

 

Glad everything works! Fantastic. Now for Leopard server you need to find and download something called "Leopard server packages" and install it on Mac OS X, it will then turn it into Leopard Server. I remember it was on TPB sometime earlier but I can't find the torrent now...

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Fruitboi,

 

2. Yes, it should be 800MHz x about 3 multiplier, is it like that in BIOS or is that in the Apple System Profiler?

 

Glad everything works! Fantastic. Now for Leopard server you need to find and download something called "Leopard server packages" and install it on Mac OS X, it will then turn it into Leopard Server. I remember it was on TPB sometime earlier but I can't find the torrent now...

 

Yes, that's what it shows in BIOS.. 200x11. System Profiler shows Bus Speed of 800MHz.. Can anyone with the same board verify? I'm pretty sure Maccity has the same board & CPU as I?

 

I think the Leopard server software you are thinking of is the java client software that will control/admin a server remotely or locally? The Administrative Tools?

 

Again, thank you so much PCwiz! Your efforts and volunteer of your time are truly appreciated! I'll try to stick around as much as I can to help as maciti has :)

Aaron

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hey guys

 

I have Dell XPS 1210 see below for specs, and I had NVinject 2.0b working normal, but decided to update and installed Leopard Graphics Update 1.0.

After I installed it, it asked me to restart, so i did, and it boots, and instead of my desktop it shows me a black screen with just mouse pointer.

So I can't see my background, my taskbar and icons, its just flat black screen. btw i did the repair disk permissions and still nothing.

 

Anyone have any idea what to do? I just don't want to reinstall everything again, because i'm tired of reinstalling, and plus I already had a bunch of programs and file installed, which I don't want to loose.

Please help

 

Thanks for advice

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hey guys

 

I have Dell XPS 1210 see below for specs, and I had NVinject 2.0b working normal, but decided to update and installed Leopard Graphics Update 1.0.

After I installed it, it asked me to restart, so i did, and it boots, and instead of my desktop it shows me a black screen with just mouse pointer.

So I can't see my background, my taskbar and icons, its just flat black screen. btw i did the repair disk permissions and still nothing.

 

Anyone have any idea what to do? I just don't want to reinstall everything again, because i'm tired of reinstalling, and plus I already had a bunch of programs and file installed, which I don't want to loose.

Please help

 

Thanks for advice

 

This thread is for Gigabyte Intel P35 chipset boards.. what is in your XPS? I think you will need to verify what motherboard you are running and make sure you are in the correct thread?

 

Aaron

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hey guys

 

I have Dell XPS 1210 see below for specs, and I had NVinject 2.0b working normal, but decided to update and installed Leopard Graphics Update 1.0.

After I installed it, it asked me to restart, so i did, and it boots, and instead of my desktop it shows me a black screen with just mouse pointer.

So I can't see my background, my taskbar and icons, its just flat black screen. btw i did the repair disk permissions and still nothing.

 

Anyone have any idea what to do? I just don't want to reinstall everything again, because i'm tired of reinstalling, and plus I already had a bunch of programs and file installed, which I don't want to loose.

Please help

 

Thanks for advice

 

Fruitboy is right.. its better for you to find thread that deals with your hardware... If i vould be you i would boot in verbose and see what is happening... i have a feeling that its you video driver.

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seriously guys, it doesn't matter what hardware i have now, its up to the 10.5.2 leopard thing...

 

i was just wondering how do you undo that update or delete nvinject.kext....

 

that's all i need, nothing has to do with hardware, geez

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Kalyway OSx86 10.5.1 Intel SSE2 and SSE3 is the one I found on demonoid.

 

Get the one from TPB, its 100% working and verify the MD5, burn it to quality DVD-R with 4x speed.

 

Fruitboi,

 

No thats not what I'm talking about. So basically the only difference between Leopard and Leopard Server is that Leopard Server contains extra packages that give it its server capabilities. Basically, someone has ripped these separate server packages from the Leopard Server DVD, and by installing these packages on top of normal Leopard you convert it to Leopard Server.

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seriously guys, it doesn't matter what hardware i have now, its up to the 10.5.2 leopard thing...

 

i was just wondering how do you undo that update or delete nvinject.kext....

 

that's all i need, nothing has to do with hardware, geez

 

The answer to "how do I delete the nvinject.kext" is already answered within this very thread. It's a long one, so I can't say where it is. You will need to read thru it, and you will likely gain much insight. I know I have learned a lot by reading this entire thread.

 

And yes, it does matter what hardware you have, because your issue is most likely a driver issue. Besides, it's rude to hijack a thread, much less hijack a thread by being off topic.

 

Regards,

Aaron

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