Successful Install
I installed this yesterday successfully on my first try. I had ToH 10.5 Leopard before but I figured I should try this, so I formatted the partition and installed this. I used the MBR bootloader without a ToH kernel. I chose some driver…
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- @drum109 Published 2008-02-19
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I installed this yesterday successfully on my first try. I had ToH 10.5 Leopard before but I figured I should try this, so I formatted the partition and installed this.
I used the MBR bootloader without a ToH kernel. I chose some driver options but none of them worked, but I got the same drivers that I had in 10.5 and they work fine in 10.5.2 (audio, ethernet). As for video, it still doesn't work, and never has with 10.5, so I won't bother with it in 10.5.2 as all you ever need them for is to change the resolution. The dock is kinda choppy with mag. on, no biggy.
Triple-Boot; Vista/XP/Leo 10.5.2 (Zephyroth)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz (stock)
RAM: 2GB DDR400 PC3200
HDD: (1) 200GB; Vista/XP (2) 120GB; OS X/Storage
AUDIO: Realtek ALC880
ETHERNET: nVidia nForce4
VIDEO: ATI HD Radeon 2600PRO (512MB) ID:9589, drivers don't and never has worked.
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Can anyone help me get QE/CI on here? I remember trying the 2600PRO thing on my Leopard 10.5 install (yes i added 9589 to the info.plist file) and all I always got was a cursor...so I'm thinking about trying again.
Although during installation I chose the triakis stuff, but maybe I have to add my device ID in the info.plist file for the ati2000 whatchamacallit kexts...i'll try that out later and see how it goes.
LOL I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING!
Its basically a Gateway GT4016, but with a few extras.
Its a FIC KTBC51G (fic.com .tw/product/motherboard/AMD/KTBC51G.aspx).
Anyway I added my device ID to the ATI2000xxxw/e.kext and when I booted up it said that the kext could not be used (said the same thing about the netkas kext when I first installed this).
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Congrats for successful installation.Can you post your Mobo model and make.Other things are okay.'cause i too have same nForce 4 chip.
[cite] drum109:I installed this yesterday successfully on my first try. I had ToH 10.5 Leopard before but I figured I should try this, so I formatted the partition and installed this. I used the MBR bootloader without a ToH kernel. I chose some driver options but none of them worked, but I got the same drivers that I had in 10.5 and…
if you get a pop up that it cant be loaded, you need to fix the permissions on the file.
sudo -s
chown -R root:wheel /system/library/extensions/*
chmod -R 755 /system/library/extensions/*then reboot you computer.
Thanks buddy your pc spec assets.gat eway.com/s/PC/R/1008842/1008842nv.shtml
[cite] drum109:LOL I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING! Its basically a Gateway GT4016, but with a few extras. Its a FIC KTBC51G (fic.com .tw/product/motherboard/AMD/KTBC51G.aspx). Anyway I added my device ID to the ATI2000xxxw/e.kext and when I booted up it said that the kext could not be used (said the same thing about the netkas kext when I…
10.5.2 "worked out of the box" for me. The only (minor) issues I had were the ALCInject.kext not loading correctly on the first run - but I fixed that swiftly with a quick permission repair. The nForce 5 Lan is still a no go, but that is now somewhat irrelevant to me since I have a cheap PCI NIC that works perfectly. The GUID boot loader needed fixing - that can be found here ↗.
So far its been very stable, extremely fast and working as a real Mac would.
OS X: Leopard 10.5.2 EFI+GUID
Board: MSI K9N SLI nForce 570
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
RAM: 2GB Corsair Value 667 DDRII
Graphic: XpertVision NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB
HD: Samsung 300GB SATA-2
Optical drive: IDE Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A
Sound: Onboard 3 Port Realtek ALC888
Apple Pro Keyboard
MS Optical IntelliMouse Explorer
LG Flatron 20" Widescreen LDC @ 1680x1050
/me is very happy