Hiya Guys

Firstly I would like to say well done on all the amazing wealth of info you provide in this forum.

I have an AMD System which is currently running Vista Ultimate x64. This is installed on a sata drive but will be disconnected whilst setting up osx86 on a ide device which will later be put in an external caddy so i can plug it in as and when i need to play around with it.

I currently have 3 different distros, ideneb 1.3 10.5.5 (could not install always had root drive wait error), ipc 10.5.6 beta (not tried yet) and lawlessppc 10.5.4 (had success up to a point, was unable to get decent graphics resolution, no audio, no network, tried to update to 10.5.5 with a patched installer so i could try out some nvidia graphics drivers but this killed the installation.)

i have spent best part of 20 odd hours trying various things before asking for help as I usually like to solve problems myself but alas i am a bit beat on this one lol.

My main system specs are in my signature, I would like to know what would be the best distribution to use, how to update correctly to 10.5.5/6 (if needed) and get working graphics on 9500GT, not overly concerned with getting both cards working together but would be a bonus.

IDE HD is on master channel, DVDROM drive is on slave channel, sata disconnected. In my bios there are raid options but no ahci or whatever it's called though I would assume as i am not installing on sata that these settings are irrelevant?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated

Kindest Regards

KusariNinja

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the best would be an unpatched osx installed with just the drivers and latest kernel but you need a working osx to make it. I would install my distro with nothing but chipset selected then reboot and install network adapter driver go to realteks site for this. Then use the latest voodoo kernel rc1 and update to 10.5.5 from apples download site just get the 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 update. The driver for your alc888 on my disc should provided you select the right version 3ports etc (this depends on your board) but just download the latest available but make sure you click customize during install to select which version you have. There also drivers about for the 9 series of nvidia cards believe they were added to 10.5.6 update as these are in the next macs (correct me if im wrong).

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many thanks for the response Lawless

right so far to make life a bit simple i have temporarily disabled the SATA altogether. I have a 250GB HD installed on IDE Master, partitioned into 2. Lawlessppc 10.5.4 installed with just the nforce chipset installed. booted up fine, decided to loop at the do you have a another mac section, so rebooted into single user, and added root account and touched the AppleSetupDone file. rebooted, added a new user account and that is where i am currently at now. I am going to boot up with dvd again and do a backup so it I screw up the next stages at least i should be able to get back to a working clean install again (fingers crossed)

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ok, I now have working network, audio and Voodoo Release 1.0 :xnu-1228.7.58 installed .... So far so good

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downloaded 10.5.5 update from apple, installed, rebooted, machine resets. rebooted and used flags -x -f system hangs at a blue screen but mouse is movable.

edit: last line appears to be localhost kextd[10]: IOKitWaitQuiet() time out waiting to write kernel symbols

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restore frommy backup using Disk utility worked fine. going to reinstall network and audio and kernel again then backup again from that point lol

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Backed up with Working audio, network Voodoo kernel... Now to screw it up again by updating it

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is there anything that needs to be done after installing 10.5.5 such as patching it to work or replacing any files once the install has completed? It says it has completed the install successfully but then when i reboot it resets the machine as it is loading up on the apple screen (seems to be at the point it would switch to the blue screen).

I removed all ATI related kexts as I don't have any ati hardware, plus the intelcpumanagment kext

an error i have noticed when exiting out of single user mode is UUID of on-disk kernel (mach_kernel) does not match running kernel

Could this be what is causing the reset? if so how would i go about fixing it?

any help gratefully appreciated as always

edit: using -x -f boot options i got to the blue screen after the apple logo with a working mouse but nothing displayed, just blue screen and mouse pointer. Reinstalling backup again

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I dunno if i am going off on the wrong track here but i was reading a post by nfoav8or http://www.infinitemac.com/showthread.php?t=1756 regarding 3 specific files needed beofre updating to 10.5.5. I have checked my Extensions folder and I have none of these... huting around for them but not had any luck as yet

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check your inbox. PM'd you a few links. Enjoy the new graphics.

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