Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports

[zephyroth]

I opened this thread for Beta Testers only. (If anyone other than them put a message here it will be deleted).
I want you to:

- Tell what works. (if something doesn't work right after the installation but if you managed to get it to work, explain how).
- Tell what doesn't work.
- Give your specs.

No comment here, just feedback.

[DoiX]

hy zeph.. i'm sorry to report that rev 2 is not working for me

Problems:
1. (install)at 5-8 minutes left the screen goes gray it doesn't restart or anything just stays there.. if i restart it manually it boots into osx and says still waiting for root device..
2.after the root device error i use the "a minute left" solution, after it finishes to install(again)it restarts normally, now when i try to enter osx it gives me this error "disk0s1: I/0 error. 0 [level3] [readUID 0] etc"(pic that i sent you 2-3 days ago).
3 i did the same thing again(a minute left solution) now i don't get any error but i get stuck at creating account
thats all
my Specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+(Venice) / MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Motherboard: MSi Amethyst-M
Graphics: Ati Radeon Xpress 200
Hard Drive: Samsung (160 GB), Seagate (40 GB)
Sound card: Realtek AC97 Audio
Memory: 1280 MB DDR Kingston

[blood_brother]

My report about Rev.2 Installation:

I'm testing Rev.2 in my notebook:
CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron 3400+ (SSE3, 64bit)
VGA: Nvidia GeForce Go 6150
Chipset: Nforce MCP51
HD: Fujitsu SATA 40GB
LAN: Nvidia
Wireless: Broadcom

Installation goes fine with some combination.

Well, I made something, downloaded netkas pc efi v8 (I have to use some special for amd???) put on grub as kernel, so I get boot on Leo, but, I get message from Nforce Sata driver, something like:
AppleNforceAta: scan 1 disks found
(... other system messages ...)
Until here is ok, but for some reason Leo tries to load again and I receive this:

AppleNforceAta: scan 0 disks found
AppleNforceAta: sata phy reset failed

And...
Still waits for root device.

Maybe it could be because on installation I choose to install the newest kernel???
Edit: I try without the newer kernel: sametthing happens

Resume: installs fine but don't boot

[jsmach]

I downloaded Rev.2 and installed it in my Opteron 175 OC'd to 2.5ghz, 2gh ddr ram, two pci-e 6600gt video cards. The installation goes through without a hitch. However, after completing the installation, it will not boot unless Rev.2 DVD is in drive, but booting will eventually stop even with the DVD in place. I tried installing on a partition and a separate HDD, with all three partitioning methods: GUID, MBR, and the 3rd option...none booted without the DVD in drive.

I will be happy to beta-test it on my system if you are wanting the same thing.

Thank so much, Zephyroth!

My hardware:
Opteron 175
DFI LanParty Ultra D system board
internal sound disabled; SoundBlaster Live! value pci card used instead
WinFast TV2000 XP TV Tuner Card
Builtin Marvell Yukon Chipset based Ethernet Controller

[perhaps]

jsmach:I downloaded Rev.2 and installed it in my Opteron 175 OC'd to 2.5ghz, 2gh ddr ram, two pci-e 6600gt video cards. The installation goes through without a hitch. However, after completing the installation, it will not boot unless Rev.2 DVD is in drive, but booting will eventually stop even with the DVD in place. I tried installing on a partition and a separate HDD, with all three partitioning methods: GUID, MBR, and the 3rd option...none booted without the DVD in drive.

I will be happy to beta-test it on my system if you are wanting the same thing.

Thank so much, Zephyroth!

My hardware:
Opteron 175
DFI LanParty Ultra D system board
internal sound disabled; SoundBlaster Live! value pci card used instead
WinFast TV2000 XP TV Tuner Card
Builtin Marvell Yukon Chipset based Ethernet Controller


I installed Kalyway on a friend's machine. I was manage to install it without booting with the DVD, using the HD manager and using it's software to correct some incorrect paths or pendencies. I forgot the name... I'll see later and report in here!

[naquaada]

@ perhaps & jsmach:

Try this: boot install DVD in safe mode (option -s) and enter following commands

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
update
f 1
w (confirm with y)
q

Then reboot, it should work now. Use rdisk0 if you only have one hd in the system, I had more so I needed to use rdisk1. I'm using a seperate harddisk for OS X.

[7th]

emaildopedrooo:Hi zephyroth,

My motherboard is ASUS M2N-E, with NVIDIA nForce® 570 Ultra chipset.

I've tried to install the Tiger releases (TubGirl and iATKOS), but I don't have success. I cannot format my partitions, they just appears at Disk Manager, but they're inactive (a gray color).

So I just wanna know if you have beta testers for nForce 570 chipset, because I've read somewhere that the problem it's the chipset, and not my SATA HDD.

My PC (CPU-Z log):

----

Number of processors: 1
Number of cores: 2 per processor
Number of threads: 2 (max 2) per processor
Name: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Code Name: Windsor
Specification: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Package: Socket AM2 (940)
Family/Model/Stepping: F.B.2
Extended Family/Model: F.4B
Brand ID: 4
Core Stepping: BH-F2
Technology: 90 nm
Core Speed: 2009.3 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed: 10.0 x 200.9 MHz
HT Link speed: 1004.7 MHz
Stock frequency: 2000 MHz
Instruction sets: MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
L1 Data cache (per processor): 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache (per processor): 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache (per processor): 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Chipset & Memory

Northbridge: NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra
Southbridge: NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra
Graphic Interface: PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width: x8
PCI-E Max Link Width: x16
Memory Type: DDR2
Memory Size: 2048 MBytes
Memory Frequency: 251.2 MHz (CPU/8)
CAS# Latency (tCL): 4.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRCD): 5 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP): 5 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS): 15 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (tRC): 17 clocks
Command Rate (CR): 2T

System
Mainboard Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Mainboard Model: M2N-E
BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version: ASUS M2N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1202
BIOS Date: 10/29/2007

Memory SPD

Module 1: DDR2, PC2-4300 (266 MHz), 512 MBytes
Module 2: DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 1024 MBytes
Module 3: DDR2, PC2-4300 (266 MHz), 512 MBytes

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Thks, and sorry, I don't speak english =\

Same thing here and I have the same chipset as you (same motherboard). I'm not sure but if you try with an ATA HD (not SATA) I think it will work. I tried asking about this here with no help. Maybe two asking about the same thing someone will help us.

I would be happy to know if someone among the betatesters use this same motherboard that we have with SATA HD. If not, please, ask Pedrooo, me, someone else with more knowledge to be a betatester.

BTW, I don't you open another treat with the betatester configs? This way, people that still have problems with its configs would feel more comfortable seeing that his problem is being working out or fixed or whatever. Just an idea that would keep people from asking this kind of questions.

Thanks agains!

[DoiX]

zeph i have a question :) why is the dmg image 8 gb?:)).. oh and why is it a dmg image and not iso

[zephyroth]

Pffff .... Damn ... Must upload again ...

[DoiX]

zeph.. heres an advice.. take a small vacation or break or whatever, you seem like your close to a nervous breakdown

[zephyroth]

lol ... Yeah ... Once Rev.2 is finished !
But in 3 weeks I will buy a Core2Duo e8500 and sell my Athlon 64 X2 4200+ so ... I must work on it every day !

[DoiX]

nooooo you dumping AMD? :((nooooo

[zephyroth]

Arf yes, I think the difference between e8500 and X2 4200 is ... BIG !

But hey don't worry I still have an Athlon 3500+ SSE2/SSE3. :-)

[DoiX]

oh :) im an AMD person :) intels kinda sucks i tested with a benchmark my computer (64 2.2 ghz) vs a 3.2 ghz intel celeron, my pc won :) i dont know how the dual cores are..anyway when you will finish uploading beta2?

[zephyroth]

Penryn E8500 seems to be promising ... 3,16 @ 4,7Ghz in air cooling ... And it will not be too expensive.
I know that for Intel users who already own a C2D it's not a real evolution but when you change from Athlon X2 to this C2D its another story.

And I will be able to get Leopard running with stock kernel and stock kexts on my PC ... That's really cool.
BTW: I'm working on a way to make Apple updates more easy for AMD.

About the upload of Rev.2 :

I've removed all rar from ftp as it wasn't the right ISO.
I will upload the new image this night and it should be finished tomorrow morning.

[DoiX]

ok :) good luck

[Puttabong]

I read that the E8500 (Wolfdale) has 6 Megabytes (2x 3072 KB) of L2 Cache,
that's certainly insanely fast in addition to the 2x 3166 MHz Cores!

Which Mainboard are you going to use for that purpose?
An Intel Bad Axe 2? :)

[roisoft]

I have ordered an E8500 too, GigaByte P35-DS4 with 4 gb Kingstom HyperX. Seasonic M12-700 x (power sup.) and SilverStone TJ07W (case)

[Puttabong]

roisoft, which xBench score do you expect on your new setup? :)

[roisoft]

over 200 + - :-)

[zephyroth]

yeah at least ... @ 3,16Ghz.
I cannot imagine if I can put it @ 4,7 or more ... :-)

[Puttabong]

Amazing. :)

Imagine a 30" Cinema Display attached to one of these super fast machines :)!

[roisoft]

I have a 24´ Samsung Syncmaster and a TV-TFT 40´ samsung 1080p for Movies and sports, not too bad..hey puttabong? :D

[roisoft]

I was thinking about buying macmini like mediacenter, but I´ll wait a 3 months more.

[zephyroth]

Hummm ... a dream machine comes with nightmare prices ...

[roisoft]

All the apple´s hard are too much expensive

[7eventh]

Hey, whats happening here??? Don t tell me you all drop the AMDs and go for the "standard" Intel Hackintosh! ;o)

[dred]

zephyroth, I just baught X2 6400+ 3.2GHZ and I like it but I too was thinking of buying a CoreDuo just to make things easier. Still undecided.

Thanks again for all your work.

[xan]

please dont drop AMD, your release was the only one that works for me. amd user 4 life and your rev1 was really good. make the rev2 :] or just drop us the current status

[braindead803]

so is this gonna be uploaded for open beta testing or still closed? i'd love to beta test on my gateway. specs below:


computer:Gateway MT3422
processor: AMD Turion 64 Mobile TK5
Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor
MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
Nvidia GeForce Go 6100
nForce 410/430 MCP
1 gig of ram

[zephyroth]

Still closed but this is the last time.

There is still number of things to fix but I don't want to make you wait longer.

This is the last iso I make, next updates will be shipped as Installer or ppf.

At least I'm starting to upload it on ftp (damn ISP ...).

[braindead803]

will this installer recognize wireless internet adapters and soundcards? or ???

[1207FX]

I'm sure soon we will all be able to "test" Rev2, take your time Zeph. and Thanks2

[zephyroth]

Support for audio devices : AppleAC97Audio, AzaliaAudio, ALC883 and ALC888.

Support for wifi devices : Broadcom BCM43xx, Ralink RT73 and RT2500 and Zydas-ZD1211-1215

[1207FX]

You have to admit, if you think about it, this is a 2nd job for some in the forum. Trying to get this OS out for us all. My wife/girlfriend would kick my ass for spending so much time on the comp. ;)

[braindead803]

ok so how do i figure out what i have? i been trying to find out my sound card from the manufacturer website along with the wireless network driver. i think this is it (Realtek Semiconductor Realtek 8185 Extensible 802.11b/g Wireless Device )(NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller )

[zephyroth]

It's seems that this wireless adapter is not supported yet ...

[braindead803]

darn! so im gonna have to plug into the router now :( that sucks for me :(

[DoiX]

zeph, a lil question, is there a way to cancel the setup? i tried the graphics mode and all the solution i could find on the forum.. but none of them are working for rev 2 beta... i think its the 15 time i installed rev2 and still did got it to pass the account creation setup

[zephyroth]

I don't know ... This issue never happens for me.

[DoiX]

damn... hope this bug will not occur in beta 2 (to me)

[prateesh]

Hi zephyroth,

Please add the laptop keyboard & touchpad support in this rev 2

[zephyroth]

ok which kexts ?

[Puttabong]

This is the last iso I make, next updates will be shipped as Installer or ppf.
At least I'm starting to upload it on ftp (damn ISP ...).
Nice to hear that, zeph! ;>
I love to see EFI in the Filename of your glorious Release Candidate 2! :)

[zephyroth]

I already have some things to add to Rev.2 ...
My brain is about to explode !
:-)

I hope that the ISO is really EFI ... I didn't burned it yet !

[pcgame]

When will be released?

[zephyroth]

As soon it's finished ... :-)

[bonkey]

rofl :P as soon as it's finished :P

Zeph, is it the (Leopard-10.5.1-AMD-EFI) rel you are uploading?

don't think it's going to work for me.. haven't played much with EFI, but isn't it an alternative to the MBR? if so it wont' work on my partitioned HD with vista running next to it. :(

[DoiX]

Bonkey nice seeing you back :)

[l3opard]

I thought it is the rev .2. It should work in clean install (I personally would like to run linux in a partition but never got dual boot working..).

[steffx]

Hi there,


just to be sure ..will rev2 have SSE2-Support ?

Everybody seems to know about the FTP ... can anyone give me an account ?

Thanxx,

steffx

[bonkey]

Steffx,

I'm sorry but the FTP is private (cause it is at my house) so i can't give you access.

The final version will be released as a public torrent. (i guess)

[zephyroth]

steffx,

EFI is not an alternative to MBR or GUID.

EFI is the "BIOS" of Mac.

On Hackintosh it's just a software which is installed on the boot sector and allow you to use stock kernel + stock kexts on Intel (almost the original Leo) and on AMD only original kexts (but a better stability).

It's hard for me to explain that precisely because as you know my English is not as good AS I would wish it (ouch don't know if it's English ...)

:-)

BTW, i'm uploading it from Mac OS that means i've managed to fix that damn upload freeze.
Don't know why but unload and reload forcedeth.kext at boot fix it.

[pαuℓzurrr.]

When it's uploaded to Bonkey's FTP will it shortly be on the bay? Or is this just so other beta testers can download it.

Thnx :)

[DoiX]

its still for beta testers :) , when rev2 will be finished it would probably be on a public torrent site..

[steffx]

ähhmmm .... thanks for your answer ... wasn't my question ..anyway :-)
will rev2 have support for sse2-systems (rev1 is not working on my system as it is sse2) ?

steffx

[Puttabong]

RC1 has no Support for SSE2, because there is no SSE2 Kernel included.
There are tutorials about how to replace the sse3 kernel with the sse2 one, and then one has to reburn the DVD.

I don't clearly know about RC2 and SSE2, please wait for zephyroth // edit: or DoiX : ) - to answer :D

[DoiX]

yes, rev2 will have sse2 kernel support :)

[naquaada]

how about AGP? The attempt with RC1 was a bit... weird. I used ToH 9.0 Kernel which has SSE2 support. The OS was loaded, but I only got a blue screen with mouse cursor, and if I moded it in the lower right corner (I have Exposé there) there always came a bang out of the speakers ;)

[DoiX]

naquaada:how about AGP? The attempt with RC1 was a bit... weird. I used ToH 9.0 Kernel which has SSE2 support. The OS was loaded, but I only got a blue screen with mouse cursor, and if I moded it in the lower right corner (I have Exposé there) there always came a bang out of the speakers ;) this i don't know :)

[naquaada]

Has anyone else tried AGP with Leopard, no care about RC1 or RC2? I know that I'm not the only one out here... (snief)

[Dragoon]

Hi Zephyroth
How about Russian language interface in Rev.2?

[zephyroth]

All languages packages are on the Rev.2 DVD.

[creative_]

Macrumors says that 10.5.2 will be released on Friday :O

[zephyroth]

Cool! So it will be included in Rev.2 .

[creative_]

that would be very nice hope macrumors is right :)

[Lion1985]

zephyroth hope the version is coming out on public man im waiting for that :)

Keep it up man u did a good work !

[Sieg247]

I cant wait to test it. Hope Rev.2 will support SATA controller on chipset Nforce 570 ultra.
Keep your great work, Zep !

[braindead803]

(zephyroth)

hardware difficulties are as follows:

no sound (soundcard): Sigmatel Audio Driver version: 6.10.5337.0

no wireless internet (broadcom): Broadcom Wireless Network Driver version: 4.102.15.61

i need to find the kext files

[DoiX]

i saw the kext files for broadcom on insanelymac.....for soud search azazalia or something like this :))

[braindead803]

JaS 10.4.8 came with a sigmatel driver im gonna boot and see if i can add it in

[zephyroth]

if it works, please upload the kext on rapidshare. I'll add it to Rev.2.

[Lion1985]

zephyroth i got a question, plz dont ban me if i ask u here :)

When do u release it on public ?

[bonkey]

Posting from Rev2. RC2.

The install went spotless, really no problems at all (but then again, the RC1 went spotless as well)
All hardware has been detected properly (except my audio, but that a personal thing and will never work as there is no kext for it)

System runs much faster then the RC1 build, multiple downloads / uploads works like a charm and so is running multiple application at the same time at full capacity.

will stress my system some more after work hours :)

peace out, bonkey

[Puttabong]

Added it to my Images. :)
Took less than 1 hour to have it shipped.

Thanks Zephyroth, Thanks Bonkey.

http://talkmacbookair.com/licht/love.png

Nice small collection! :D

Starting to Burn:
http://talkmacbookair.com/licht/burn.png

Burning Finished:
http://talkmacbookair.com/licht/burnfinished.png

[bonkey]

Puttabong, how did you make your folder look like that?

[Puttabong]

Bonkey :D

You have to right click the Finder Window which you'd like to modify,
then open the Finder Display Options:

http://talkmacbookair.com/licht/rightclick.png

Then feel free to customize, for example add a background Image:

http://talkmacbookair.com/licht/findercustomize.png

Use CandyBar to modify the Icons. :)

Greetings,
Puttabong

[bonkey]

nice :), i like it.

Just ordered an USB Sound Card, hope it will work :P

[Puttabong]

I have AC97 Soundchip onboard. It works out of the Box on Rev.1, without the need of any additional kext(s)! :D

Good Luck with yours, Bonkey! :)

[Lion1985]

guys where did u get the rev.2 ?

[pαuℓzurrr.]

For now it's only available for beta tester's, we'll need to wait for the public release :)

[Lion1985]

ok all righ thx :)

[Puttabong]

Just installed RC2 on another HDD.
The Installer boots very quickly - and this is truly an Out of the Box-Experience for my setup!,
even my brcm43xx wireless card is detected in the Installer, so I could play with the Network Utility.

Booted up the System for the first Time: EFI, Working Graphic Card, Internet...
shortly said: everything is working perfectly!

Adorable.

http://saved.im/oti3nwf4znu/picture1.png
http://saved.im/oti3njjhbni/picture2.png

[DoiX]

puttabong how many parts are uploaded on the ftp server? zeph said that rc2 has 66 parts but on the ftp there are only 60

[Puttabong]

Ok, the test of RC2 convinced me. I'll soon backup all my data, and then format my SA-TA Disk to use it for RC2.

The performance is stunning, and I love to be able to install out of the box :D

@DoiX: There are 66 parts on the FTP!

[naquaada]

oh boy... backuping data and creating a new system :-P
I have a lot of machines here and I'm still working on an SSE2/AGP system 'cause I'm too lame to port the system. (smashing head against wall)

[DoiX]

damn on windows my ftp client shows only 52 parts on osx 60 parts arghhhhh i hate it

[roisoft]

Hi!

You can add this file to rev 2, with this file the system profiler shows all the information of the CPU.

For change the name "hackintosh" you must change the applesmbios from efi.

copy the file to system/library/systemprofiler.

My second AMD system.:D
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[zephyroth]

Ok I will add it ! But AppleSMBios is already the one from EFI .

[eard]

wo wo wo it looks like soon we can download the rev2
hope that finally i could have mac osx runing on my lap
go go zeph! =)
good job

[naquaada]

@ roisoft:

Yes, I did this already in Tiger. But couldn't be a standard somedays? What's the default text?

Another thing: what's all this time about EFI. But why is everyone reinstalling it and so on? There was no EFI hype during Tiger was actual. If everyone has to reinstall EFI, does Leopard RC1 is running without it? And how about the different System Profilers. The one from Puttabong with RC2 beta looks like on my Leopard RC1 system, yours (roisoft) shows all the CPU information like on my Tiger 10.4.7 system. Has this something to do with EFI?

This was my 200st attempt to waste more web space ;)

[roisoft]

if you want change the "hackintosh" from system profiler use this applesmbios

[roisoft]

I don´t have rev2, I am not a betatester.... I was rejected,..is a joke :-)

[zephyroth]

For those who already test Rev.2, did you burn it ? Or restore on a spare partition ?

[bonkey]

Zeph,

I've burned it.. no problems, neither with the install.. nor with any post-install programs. (ps that Onix stuff is great!)

ps. zeph, check your pm at wiki. need to ask you something.

[Puttabong]

Zephyroth: I burned it.

[DoiX]

ok i finally got rc2 (darn windows) now i'm going to install it :) wish me luck :)

[Puttabong]

Have fun DoiX :)

[naquaada]

:( wanna have too!

[bonkey]

Naquaada.. you will know shortly

[bonkey]

Naquaada, check PM at Insanelymac

[Puttabong]

Good Job zephyroth, have to say it again. Thanks :)

[zephyroth]

That's nothing ... But I would like to thank you for ... thanking me ! :-)))

[pαuℓzurrr.]

Nice to hear that the DVD is working great for everyone, nice job zephyroth :)
Do you think there is a possibility it's gonna be available for others, like me, soon? :p

[creative_]

Want to test the beta too maybe someone can pm me on insanelymac user account: creative_

[erei33]

I know you don't want a ton of people asking to beta this, but I have an ATI 3870. I can test the new drivers to see if they work. Specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
2 GB RAM
230 GB 7200 RPM SATA HD
ATI 3870 w/ 512 MB Memory
I'm erei33 at InsanelyMac.

[zephyroth]

Yeah but your specs (except your graphic cards) are the same of another beta tester.

So I suggest you to download the kext for your card on the wiki and to tell me if it works or not !

[pαuℓzurrr.]

Anything new with these specs? don't really things so but anyway...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
M2N61-AX
2GB RAM
250 GB SATA HD
8600GT
NForce4/MCP61

[Shiftedx]

thank you zephyroth I am dying for this release RC1 worked great except graphics and networking. I got my hands on the txt that has supported graphics cards somewhere in the post on insanley mac and it looks like my nvidia 6150 LE is going to work! hopefully networking to.

Thank you for all your hard work, I look forward to finally getting to use it.

Good luck on your beta ! hopefully any problems will be corrected.

[naquaada]

here my system specs for testing: Every OS X booting HD has two bootable systems and a shared partition for both - very handy for experiments.

Asus A8N-SLI Premium
nForce 4 SLI chipset
2 GB Dual-Channel RAM 400 MHz
320 GB IDE for MacOS booting
500 GB SATA for MacOS data
Radeon X1600Pro PCI-Express
Audio Realtek ALC850
nForce LAN Marvell 88E1115
2nd LAN Marvell 88E0001
SiliconImage SiI3114 Raid Controller

I have two identical systems of this type, with an 3700+ and an 4000+ San Diego. Every component except the X1600 was working out of the box with RC1. nForce IDE/SATA/LAN working 100%. Networking Leopard-Leopard and Leopard-Tiger is working. SiliconImage 3114 is not working, was former supported by AppleVIAATA.kext. It's installed, but still not recognized. Marvell 88E0001 needs skge.kext, works in Tiger, not tested in Leopard.

Asus A8N-E FM
Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego
nForce 4 Standard Chipset
1 GB Dual-Channel RAM 400 MHz
500 GB SATA for MacOS
Radeon X1600Pro PCI-Express
Audio Realtek ALC655
LAN Realtek RTL8201CL

Note: This is a Fujitsu-Siemens OEM board. Installing made problems at first, had the 1-minute-left bug. After the second try with overwriting (like explained in the wiki) installer said the installation was failed, like on a friend's A8N-SLI Premium with an 4000+. After I restored an image which was created on the Premium board everything is ok. Networking Leopard-Leopard and Leopard-Tiger is working.

Asus K8N-E Deluxe
Athlon 64 3400+ Socket 754 Clawhammer, SSE2 only
nForce 3-250 chipset
2 GB Single-Channel-RAM 333 MHz
320GB IDE for booting MacOS
300GB IDE for MacOS data
Radeon X1600Pro AGP
Audio Realtek ALC850
nForce 3 LAN Marvell 88E1115
SiliconImage SiI3114 Raid controller

You see, the components are the same ones like on the Premium, so also on this board every component is working. But no AGP support, the X1600 is recognized as PCI. But I have QE/CI/Mode selection. Networking was working, but not anymore, the system is rather crappy now (to many patching ;) I tried to rewrite the Leopard RC1 image which I made on the Premium and replaced the kernel with ToH 9.0.0. It was booting till the end, resolution was switched to my TFT native resolution, but I only got a blue screen with mouse cursor. If I moved it in the right bootom corner where I have Exposé everytime I got a bang out of the speakers ;) I tried a bit with AGPGart and some AGP patches for leopard, but they led to a kernel panic.

P.S.: If I should move this maybe a <bit> too long post to another beta thread, tell me ;)

[DoiX]

DoiX:ok i finally got rc2 (darn windows) now i'm going to install it :) wish me luck :) ROUND 1: K.O from leopard ... preparing for round 2

[naquaada]

So, first try. I installed RC2 with SSE3 Kernel and it worked without problems. I had QE/CI directly after booting (got the install video). No sound, but that was my mistake I think. I migrated the files and settings of my old RC1 system to RC2 during installation, it worked - except of the password! I couldn't log in! Booting in my main system wasn't working, I got a Kernel panic with the 'OS not set' error like crawle had. I'm installing new actually. Is it better to use GUID instead of MBR when using EFI?

[braindead803]

wow congrats on the upload and the good news on the similar ease like rc1. i can't wait :)

[rfuilrez]

@ naquaada As far as I know, you HAVE to use GUID to use EFI.

[naquaada]

No, I'm now using EFI with my old system. Strange: xbench shows lower CPU results than in RC2, but overall it's faster.

[braindead803]

so its been uploaded for all beta testers to work wit. so a release possibly this week? or in the next few days?

[DoiX]

stop asking..... naquaada did GUID worked on your system with rc2?

[prateesh]

Hi All Beta Tester,

Did anyone tried to install Rev2 on a AMD based laptop.

Actually i tried to install Jas 10.4.8 on a seperate pata drive using my Compaq V6211 Laptop
The install went smooth but the real problem is its not detecting my build-in keyboard.

Please include some ktext in Rev.2 before preparing final version, so it can make laptop build-in keyboard work.

Thanks in advance ...
Waiting patiently.... Take ur full time "zephyroth"

[naquaada]

@ DoiX: not yet, I have to repartition my HD for this. Was sitting till 4 a.m. at night on testing RC2...

Hey, can ANYBODY tell me the advantages of this EFI stuff sometimes? I ask more than one time, but never got an answer.

[zephyroth]

EFI on AMD allow us to use original kexts (ACPIPlatformExpert ... etc) for a better stability.
It allow me to use my GeForce 8800 GTS 640Mo without NVinject.
Its main purpose is to put our HackInTosh a step closer to real Macs.
On Intel, it allows us to use vanilla kernel and original kexts (Apple Updates are possible without breaking your system).

[rockybt18]

zephyroth do you have beta testers with Dell Inspiron 1501? Those one are a lil bit hard to install MAC OS X on them. I did installed the Tiger with VMWare (in boot mode it can't be seen the HDD).

Sys spec:
AMD Turion64 TL-56 @ 1,8Ghz
Graphics: ATI x1150
HDD: 120GB SATA Fujitsu
Sound: SigmaTel Audio HD
Network: Broadcom 440x 10/100
WLAN Dell Wireless 1390

If you need a tester for notebooks like Inspirons i can join.
Best regards.

[zephyroth]

I will send a pm to Bonkey so that you will be able to download it.

BUT, I need detailled feedback if you don't test it correctly you will be banned from this forum ... Ok ?

[rockybt18]

OK i'll start testing as soon as i download the kit. Thank you Zeph tu es le meilleure :D

[zephyroth]

Ok but without "e" in the end of "meilleur" , I'm not a girl ... :-)

[rockybt18]

Lol sorry. Je comprend le francais mais c'est ma faute le "e".

[prateesh]

Zephyroth .... Any good news for ME ???

[zephyroth]

laptop keyboard & touchpad ?

[prateesh]

yup :)

[zephyroth]

don't really know ... I've not make any search about that yet.

[prateesh]

zephyroth

Looks like this works can you please include this
Still i have to test it ... will check it on Jas 10.4.8 installation & post you the result :)

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78001&hl=Laptop+Keyboard

[zephyroth]

Hmmm there's already ApplePS2Keyboard.kext in Rev2 DVD.

If it's not compatible with your laptop keyboard I don't know how I can include both ...

Unless the kext for laptop keyboard is compatible with "normal" PS2 keyboard.

Rockybt18 will be able to answer as soon as Bonkey give him the access to the ftp.

[roisoft]

Install was fine but when finishes and reboot "HFS partition error" & the second time "b0 error", I hve installed from a spare partition, maybe that is the problem. I´ll try from DVD

[zephyroth]

Using GUID ?

[prateesh]

Ok No problem ....
If this solution work for me then i will take care of that on my sys
as its very specific problem with my laptop only :)

Thanks for your consideration

[roisoft]

Yes

[zephyroth]

Ok Roisoft ... I didn't test partition with GUID yet, so I don't know what's wrong in my script. You should take a look at it and see if you can fix.
It's located in Packages/Bootloader/FixGUID.pkg on the DVD.

[roisoft]

ok, i think that the problem is unmounting the disk and boot0

[zephyroth]

Unmounting is needed to use startupfiletool.

For changing it no need to use Pacifist or to recreate a pkg. Just edit like this :

In terminal:

nano /path-to-the-Image/System/Installation/Packages/Bootloader/FixGUID.pkg/Contents/Resources/postinstall

Do your modification and save.

[rockybt18]

Zephyr I hope I get the the ftp adress through mail or how?

[bonkey]

Zeph, i didn't get any PM's about FTP access. nor wiki nor insanelymac

[zephyroth]

Oh ... I've just sent you one on wiki.

[DoiX]

round 4... 4 Rc2- 0 Me :) i installed 4 times using GUID no success :) (i tried installing efi from a pen drive but i get *still waiting for root thing*...) now i am trying to install it using MBR wish me luck again :)

[laxattack]

hey zeph i dont know if you have any testers with a compaq presario r3210 Laptop or not if you want specs plz let me know, also if you have anyone with a ati card with dev id of 0x71c6

[naquaada]

0x71c6 is mobilty radeon x1600 I think

[laxattack]

nope that one is on my desktop sapphire ati x1650 pro

[laxattack]

it works fine on tiger but i would like to test on leo, but also cant get rev 1 to work so id like to test rev 2

[Puttabong]

Just installed RC2 completly fresh, backuped the data drives before!

I had to fix the Bootloader manually, but that was easy.

(Startupfiletool and other needed tools are on the DVD already, so there is no need to use additional an additional usb drive:
They are located in /usr/standalone/i386)

Works nice.

Thanks for the System Profiler file, roisoft :)

-> http://talkmacbookair.com/zenpath/colorlab.png

[zephyroth]

MBR or GUID ?

[Puttabong]

GUID

[zephyroth]

Ok. Any other problem ?

[Puttabong]

No, it's perfect. :) The Performance increased a lot since it has EFI.
The system performance feels very smooth, and programs open (even) faster than on Rev1. :)

System Updater told me that everything is up to date - iTunes and other Programs that I tested work nice.

It basically feels like the RC1 that I customized for a week or two to make it work nicely,
but much more smooth and faster, I guess that's because the stock kexts work very well together.

Edit: The processor load is now at about 4-8%, with the same programs opened Rev1 had 20%, wow!

Good Job!

[zephyroth]

Ouf ... :-)

[naquaada]

I don't see a big difference, I even have the feeling that's a bit slower. Would it be a difference if I use GUID? Would it still be possible to use Dual-Boot with the Windows boot selector?

[zephyroth]

Did you try XBench or another bench to see if it's really slower ?

[komeet]

prateesh:zephyroth

Looks like this works can you please include this
Still i have to test it ... will check it on Jas 10.4.8 installation & post you the result :)

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78001&hl=Laptop+Keyboard

Please read my comments about the touchpad kext here: http://osx.kbot.de/comments.php?DiscussionID=17&page=3#Item_36

I don't know if this kext is compatible with the normal one but I guess it's worth to find out.

[Puttabong]

zeph, actually the computer is now also much more Quiet!

When I had lots of applications opened on Rev1, then it would become slower and the performance would decrease.

Now there aren't any loud or busy sounding sounds =D

edit: I currently have 15 Applications opened, Installing an Adobe Suite, and I'm adding about 1000 songs to iTunes and browse the Web using Safari with many tabs open, and it's quite and everything runs like with zero apps opened :>

[naquaada]

@ zephyroth:

I tried Xbench and the CPU seems to be slower. On RC1 I got over 86 sometimes, on RC2 it was mostly 79-82, maximum was 85. But overall it seems to be a better, about 106 compared to 105. But I have kinda feeling it's slower. I'm now restructuring my HD with GUID partition table.

[rockybt18]

bonkey there is something new about my beta subscription? I have a lot of time tonight and next week.

[riangeli]

Hi Zeph! Sorry for asking! but.. Have you already beta tester on Asrock MB whit Shoutbridge?

here is my specs:
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2.200Mhz
SSE/SSE2/SSE3 registers

Graphics:
ATi Radeon X1950 Pro PCIe

RAM:
2048Mb DDR3 @ 800Mhz

Asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2
Chipset:
- Northbridge: AMD 480X CrossFire™
- Southbridge: ATI™ SB600

Audio:
-HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)

LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s:
-Realtek RTL8111B

Ports:
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port (have problems in X.5.1)
- 1 x Serial Port: COM1
- 1 x Parallel Port (ECP/EPP Support)
- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 2 x eSATAII Ports

HDDS: (for testing use)
Western Digital 160Gb ATA
Lacie 60Gb SATA

Logitech PS2 Keyboard
Logtech USB-mice

I will send here the full test results!
only my bad language is little "problem"

[roisoft]

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This is my second machine, 4200+ X2 rev2 works like a charm, congratulations Zephyrot, this is the best installer ever!!!

With Appleyukon2.kext I have kernel panic on reboot for A8N32-sli dlx , much better the first version.

I am going to see the FixGUID.. i have been very busy, sorry...:D

Great work!!!

[riangeli]

Roisoft

It seems you have same processor like mine is :D
what MB do you have on it? Do you have AM2 Boost or etc Enabled?
and have you PS2 keyboard? i have PS2 keyboard problem in rev.1 and it keeps
bother me even i add the ApplePS2Controller.kext :(

[roisoft]

I have an "old" motherboard A8n32-sli dlx 939 socket. I don´t have problems with my PS2 devices.

[bonkey]

rockybt18:bla.

Pls pm me at Wiki pages, i'll give you the instructions you need

[naquaada]

So, formatted and installed the system with GUID partition table - with the result that's not booting 'Non system disk'. Is this normal?

[zephyroth]

yeah ... As I've not tested GUID yet I can't know if it works or not and ... seeing your posts makes me think it doesn't work at all ! But hey it's beta.

[naquaada]

RC2 beta - it's nothing for absolute beginners.

I did a really noobie installation, HD was formatted with MBR. I didn't use the optional installs. Result: nothing working.

1st Problem: HD wasn't bootable
2nd Problem: No partition was to able to make bootable! I tested all 3 partitions on my system, nothing, I didn't even came to the Darwin menu. HD drive LED was on all the time as it should start booting. HD was IDE Primary Master and there was no other drive in the computer.
3rd Problem: When I left the installation DVD in the drive was booting, but stopped after a few seconds, but without a kernel panic. I couldn't check why 'cause the grey boot screen is activated. But I didn't get the message to switch off the computer, so it couldn't be a kernel panic.

Here' my suggestions for now:

Default settings:

- AC97Audio
- nForce Chipset
- forcedeth driver
- MBR bootwriter

I recommend these things not only 'cause I have an nForce Chipset but they were activated in every Tiger DVD and should run fine. The nForce chipset is also rather common. The MBR bootloader should be default 'cause the most people are using MBR and GUID seems not to be working yet. Other things:

Optional settings:

- verbose mode (for error checking)

Installation DVD changes:

- only select the English and language which was selected during the installation. I had this already in an image.
- maybe a direct entering of the optional installs? I also had this, it's not Apple-Style but so it can't be overlooked.
- some install options should be already collapsed, f.e. graphics drivers and chipset drivers.

I'm trying a second n00bie installation now, will tell you what happened soon.

[naquaada]

So, test of 3rd n00bie-Installation, this time half-n00b 'cause i selected the MBR bootloader.

This time it booted, but it stopped very soon. I tested with -v, the first pause came at the Firewire initialization, after this 'waiting for root device'. No nForce driver...

[naquaada]

I think we should wait till the 10.5.2 update is released and AMD fixed, look at the mass of changes:

http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2008/01/20/mac-os-x-10-5-2-update-bring-endless-list-fixes

[zephyroth]

YES that's the main reason why Rev.2 has not been released yet.

[rockybt18]

Bonkey i've left to you a message on insanelymac forum.Give me there the instructions if you can. Tnx

[bonkey]

Rockybt18.

You are downloading the wrong version. You need to download the EFI Release!.

[rockybt18]

Oh crap!! Thought I needed the other version ;)
No problem.

[zephyroth]

Naquaada

What do you think of this ?


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[naquaada]

@ zephyroth

Like the first pic. I would close Audio drivers and Network drivers. I liked it better when wired LAN and Wifi had seperate folders. Have you the VIA Rhine ethernet driver, crawle was searching it. Azalia is High Definition Audio, right? How about combining the TOH Kernel, Plocies supplémentarires and the bootloaders alltogether in a 'System' folder, MBR bootloader selected as default?

Here's the k'd paragon NTFS driver for MacOS. Test it, on my system it actually isn't working, but i only have an Tiger SSE2 system actually. The HD's are recognized, but I can't activate them in Disk Utility. It's a .zip file, not .rar, so rename it.

[zephyroth]

Ok I will modify the Network section.
I can put the VIA Rhine kext.
Azalia is High Definition Audio.

I prefer to let the choice between MBR and GUID and to put them in Bootloader folder (because I will add more bootloaders installation).

I'm not using Paragon NTFS but MacFuse and NTFS-3G , it's working great on my sytem.

[roisoft]

Yes, Macfuse and Ntfs-3g works great.

[DoiX]

paragon works with my system.. macfuse and ntfs-3g unmounts my ntfs partitions permanently

[Bing]

well, zephyroth, just wondering if you can release rev.2 for now?

and as for 10.5.2 you can release it as rev.3 which everybody would still looking forward to

[gully666uk]

can you include sb600 kexts please for my motherboard to install, as it takes so long to install without them.thank you its all ready included

[rockybt18]

Rev.2 is not ready. It needs to be more tested. As you see in these thread there are several problems that need to be corrected.
On topic: In an hour max I finish to down and I start testing on my notebook. Coming soon with impressions. Hope that I can boot it directly not using VMWare.
Wish me luck.

[DoiX]

gully666uk:can you include sb600 kexts please for my motherboard to install, as it takes so long to install without them.thank you its all ready included sb600 kext are included along with many others

[bonkey]

YESSSS!!!!! for the first time ever i have SOUND!!!!

now i can trow off vista :)

a cheap-ass usb sound card for 2 euro works like a charm out off the box

zephyroth:Ok I will modify the Network section.

I'm not using Paragon NTFS but MacFuse and NTFS-3G , it's working great on my sytem.

Zeph, is this for NTFS Write support? wanna share? :)

[Puttabong]

Bonkey, MacFuse is free, download it here:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list

[DoiX]

oh yeah :) finally managed to install rc2(don't know how i did it but it works) :)

[naquaada]

I had sometimes a strange problem that I couldn't repartition: Disk Utility said it couldn't deactivate the partition (which the system was installed to, partition 2 in my case). After a reboot it is possible.

[zephyroth]

or you can force unmount using Terminal.

[Puttabong]

zephyroth, Tested RC2 for 1 day now, and I can confirm that it's rock solid and the performance is perfect!

Greetings

[DoiX]

glad to hear that puttabong :) i'm testing RC2 for about an hour and i get random freezes, i think the cause is my ntfs hard disk...

[naquaada]

zephyroth: I could unmount them manually in Disk Utility, but it wasn't unmounting them automatically.

[DoiX]

lol heres a strange thing :)) my ata drives are being detected as sata =))

[naquaada]

DoiX: These are so problems which aren't so easy to solve. My NEC ND-3540A DVD-RW drive is not detected in BIOS but it works without problems in MacOS, I even can burn with it.
What do you have 4 a controller? My onbard Siliconimage SiI3114 Raid Controller was shown on Parallel-SCSI devices ;)

[DoiX]

its not a big problem i just said it's strange :).... my report RC2 works great... faster the rev1 (xbench score 33) rev2 RC2 (xbench score 66) and i found out what's causing the freezes, windows xp partition :)

[Lion1985]

Zephyroth have u got a bet tester with this system or anything like that ?

Mobo: ASROCK, AM2NF3-VSTA (socket AM2) (sound onboard CM6501)
Chipset: nVidia nForce3 250
Cpu: AMD ATHLON 64 x2 @ 2,3 ghz (SSE2+SSE3 is included)
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 7600GS (256mb)
HD: Samsung 230gb
ram: 1gb no name 533
DVD: NEC DVD RW ND-4551A

if u havent any testers like that im rdy for that to test and i give here full report back, i have enough time for that.
u can contact me at insanlymac forum as Lion2008, or email me [email protected]

Good luck Zephyroth

[Jojo]

@ zephyroth

Is it possible to run the Rev.2 using VMWare?

Greetings

[rfuilrez]

Well, everyone else is doing it so....

AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ (Socket 939)
Asus A8N5X Mainboard
ATI x1600 Pro 512mb
2GB Corsair DDR400

Can I beta too?

[vinbuntu]

Why don't some one release it on Rapidshare, so we all can test the darn thing? Thus it would be perfected faster. And no one except for the uploader would lose some bandwidth and time. You can password protect the thing and PM the codes and links to earlier members only. I want to see how much of your work is going to work on my 6150 go notebook and x1250 690G desktop. And figure out a way to modify the kext to get it to work. I am not hoping the nvidia 6150 go will work at all, because the way it was designed and was especially designed for HP. but if the x1250 was somewhat based on the x700 I am sure there should be a way to make it work fully, because even thought it uses shared memory its was designed to at least to the OS as seen as a separate card, attached to PCI-e x16 slot. Thus avivo and can operate independently even with another ATI avivo compatitible card inserted allowing for upto 4 monitors to simultaniously operate. The motherboard I have is the M2A-VM HDMI, shitty board, it was a M2A-VM at first than, it was fucked up and they gave me this as a replacement, but without the HDMI card attachment. But at least I got a firewire plug now. Never really used it because it really suck with all the bad BIOS implementation. After like 7 months Asus finally got it right with the newest BIOS 1604 beta. Now it is usable. Like a MB should be. I aleady have a hackintosh built with Intel, was using TOH and not all things was recongnised until I did a fresh installation with Kalyway's Leopard release. Now even thought most of the stuff works, I still cannot shut down fully, I can restart, it can't sleep using vanilla kernel and it kernel panics all the time. Especially went I decompress my downloads. Every single time. I don't know if it is because it doesn't like my Q6600 or what, but I am frustrated, Don't see anyone else having this problem. I am still trying to figure out how to do the EFI-GFX thing netkas has introduced. Supposely gets all video cards working and even full audio. But everyone in the osx86scene forum seems to be speaking Martian or something. No step by step guide, justa bunch of gibberish to me. Tiger was so much easier to mod, when all I have to do was buy part close to the real thing as possible. But once you get a taste you want all your computers to run as much mac as possible and as powerful as you can afford. Just to show the world that we can build a faster Mac Pro for 1/4 of the price of the real thing.

[naquaada]

Info: Paragon NTFS isn't working on my systems, neither on Tiger nor on Leopard.

[zephyroth]

Vinbuntu --->

Imagine if I release it on Rapidshare. Imagine the number of people who will ask me the password ...
And how can we organize us in order to have clean reports if thousands of persons test it ?

I think it's not a good idea and by seeing how much persons ask to beta test I believe the majority just hope to see it working on their system.

So a few number of beta testers with different systems (representative of the majority of AMD systems) is a good way to improve Rev.2.

[naquaada]

Zephyroth:

For upgrade and repairing reasons: How about about a bootable CD which does not contain the system, only drivers and maybe updates. It should be possible to deinstall drivers from there if something goes wrong during the main installation. It should be optimized for a really quick boot, so no language selection and so on, a direct jump into the drive selection menu and then the menu for optional installations. The only Utilities are Terminal and Disk Utility, maybe prepared with Xslimmer (intel code only) to save space. If it fits to CD size it's also easier to download than a new DVD image. Would this be possible?

[zephyroth]

naquaada ----->

Yes that's a good idea but I can make a distribution package to update the spare partition (on which you have restored Beta 2) too. This will be more easy to do.
This way after update if all goes well all you'll have to do is to recreate a bootable ISO.