@Seawane

I'm booting a vanilla install with the EFI partition on a Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 board and a Phenom cpu using the Voodoo kernel. Almost everything is working perfectly and even did the 10.5.6 update without nothing to worry about. But I…

I'm going to change my mobo, because of some issues with the present MSI k9a2 cf-f(usb problems, mostly when using apple's alu keyboard). I need something cheap, because I'm thinking of a quad core intel upgrade after 2-3 months. But I'd…

“thanks guys for the thread. Everything went fine and I now have a working SL. The only problem for now is sleep/restart/shutdown. I have dsdt.aml made with the patcher but it's not helping(although it helped to get rid of the "CMOS checksum…”

“and it works for me too! Thank you so much. It's really clever way to do it and now I have a vanilla install”

“Success here! Installed flawlessly. Just had to add natit.kext for the video. For now it's running great and booting faster than the other install I have.”

“are you using the pure boot-132 bootloader or the one modified by munky? I'm using now munky's EFI partition way Working perfectly here.”

“I installed 10.5.4 retail with boot-132 and I wanted to use the EFI partition way, but somehow it won't boot. I'm still using the boot132 CD and booting fine in a completely vanilla install. I did the 10.5.6 update without modifying anythin…”

“Results 165.22 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.6 (9G55) Physical RAM 4096 MB Model SomeModel Drive Type SAMSUNG HD322HJ SAMSUNG HD322HJ CPU Test 130.59 GCD Loop 182.98 9.65 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 126.76 3.01 Gflop/…”

“just a quick note i have drastically reduced my boot time and got rid of the iokitwait it may be a while as i have me messing with installs for days but i will be writing some usefull info on all this. Its about 30secs now i think what I fo…”

“I changed my mobo(Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3) mainly because of problems with the USBs. That problem stayed, and also my boot time was the same. However, I did a new test install on another volume with the same distro from Lawless, and this new …”

“@winlinmac Also my phenom with sb600 takes way longer than this anyone know how to stop the iokitwait time out or speed this up in fact L8rs LawlessPPC ok, it's the same with me and my sb600 and phenom... this iokitwait thing... anyone foun…”

“I'm doing everything as I should, but when I get to "5. Update kernel to latest (using Kalyway all kernels package)" I'm not sure which one to install. The sleep one boots, but my USBs started acting weird. I tried to fix them somehow and I…”

“I don't have these options I tried everything that the BIOS can do about it, and still nothing.”

“@LawlessPPC - I can't find anything in the BIOS which could be related... @nexusmac - for me it was the same with 10.5.4. It should be some kext which I'm missing. Lawless, do you see the correct speed on your computer?”

“ok, what you need is a IR receiver, Apple remote and software. There was one little app called Mira, but it's not working in Leopard. I'm using Remote Buddy, which is a great app. It supports a lot of different receivers. I'm using a MCE IR…”

“I get kernel panic also, when I try to update to 10.5.3/4 with ASU, so I hope with this release I'll be able to get over this problem. @LawlessPPC... did u include the SB600 kexts in it? Cause without them the install takes hours on my syst…”

“Phenom 9500 MSI K9A2 CF-F Chipset 790x/sb600 (yes) ATI HD2600XT DDR4 (yes, with Natit) ALC888(yes, 3 ports) Built-in Ethernet (yes) SATA/PATA drives (yes)”

“Thank you for the reply. I already did that and decided to get the first rev of GA-MA770-DS3 with SB600. It should be almost the same as my board, but without the crossfire. So it should work well. Will write here when I get it.”

“Actually which one is better for osx sb600 or sb700? There's really not that much info... can I also keep my install with the new board?”

“it's not really a waste, cause I'm building a vista htpc with phenom, and my old board is perfect for that. Just use the opportunity to fix the stupid usb problem. Actually I don't really need a 780G board, cause it has a built-in gpu, so I…”

“glad I could help you. And yes it seems faster to me also. And because I wanted the keyboard to be working in bios, I turned off ehci(2.0) for the mobo USBs and the keyboard works perfectly on 1.1(so do my bluetooth for the mouse...) I conn…”

“OK, I know the answer... first when I got my alu keyboard, I was having the same problems. Everything was functioning OK, until I plug in a mass storage device of some kind, like the iPhone, and it stopps working. If I was using a normal us…”

“Near Sofia, Bulgaria”

“yes I've tried it... it doesn't work...”

“any other ideas for the shutdown problem?”