it does try to boot in the install. Just panics out

I tried making a new Ideneb v1.3 10.5.5 iso with nexusmac's extentions.mkext

Within the installer I didn't select any chipset during customization (since sb700 wasn't in the list), I figured SB700 would be default then. Install worked out fine just as with the original ideneb v1.3... And I really can't tell the difference, so is there a way to see which chipset is installed in Leopard? Please bare with me as I'm kind of new to all non-windows OS's

you dont need to select any chipset fix or patch because you have extensions.mkext and it has necessary kext in it. What kind of difference are you expecting?

you can look at top of the screen and select apple icon and then "About This mac" >then more info. now you can see the drivers and other things , sometimes SATA drivers shows AHCI name or unknown driver etc.

in fact you dont need to see chipset driver or anything else, just ask your self , how long installation took? 20 minutes? if it is 20 mins , it means mkext is working and your installation is normal duration. maybe more 10 min or less depends on your CPU and HDD.

but not 2 hours!!

Thanks for the reply

Install has never taken me more than 20-25min tops. The reason I was asking was that before I used to select the via-sb chipset within the ideneb-installer (which iirc supports sb300/400/600), All worked good, and when I tried with the extensions.mkext for sb700 I couldn't see any change. Boot-time is the same, install-time is the same, and the about this mac window looks the same...but maybe there aren't any big differences between sb600 and sb700?

yes all the SB development is iterative from SB400. all new SB comes with new feature and put on old one. but there is a some differences, because of this , It needs some development for SB700 and sometimes SB600 kext or patch does not work with SB700. I tried leo4all it worked but it didnt serve the speed.

and I want to say that ideneb didnt have SB400/500/600 support in fixes or patches.

am I wrong? which release did you get? can you pm me?

I think , our last kext is better than other because it has own performance rather than some modification because some of the kext modifies the MACOSX Server SATA option to get working with ATI IXP.

someone can share knowledge about IGP HD3200

I see. Well I can't really compare with any other distro since Ideneb is the only I've been able to boot Leopard (Leo4all messed up my vista partition for some reason).

I'll send you a pm with the link to the ideneb distro I use...

all distros can cause partition the problem. One of the my friends also complained about it. and it deleted his works you can try leo4all but I can tell you ; you cannot boot at first time you should try.

Hi Guys... I have been reading this thread with interest and have a question based on a weird problem i have. I am using the latest iDeneb CD with the extension kext supplied by nexusmac (thanks dude).. My install goes really quick less than 15mins but when the machine reboots.. from the HD... after a few sec.. blank screen and i'm then in a reboot loop...

Also tried Nick's Kalyway method and his Kext's etc.. exactly the same problem

I'm using a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H, my sata is set ACHI and i have both SATA HD and DVD drive... tried to enable / disable various things in bios but no luck..

Am i missing something obvious here... like in the options during setup or somthing...?

how did you customize your install?

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Okay here's an update... I tried various customizations on iDeneb and nothing really worked. I then tried a Leo4Allv4.1 install and with every customization de-selected, my HD formatted using MBR it worked perfectly... installed in less than 15mins.. infact i'm using right now :-)

I am wondering if i should attempt to add the kext's in this thread or even possibly try the voodoo Kernel.. Hmmmm