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Member #1,172 · 2008-02-19 → 2008-02-20
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@macprodan

InfiniteMac community contributor with 27 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 74,206 historical readers.

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Member Number #1,172 Joined 2008-02-19
Active Window 2008 2008-02-19 → 2008-02-20
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#281 of 6,691 by Dispatches (27 notes) · #2,501 by Thread Reach (74,206 cumulative reads)
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Member #1,172 · Joined 2008-02-19
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@macprodan (Member #12,951) ↗
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · AMD OSx86 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
27 (100%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (25)

Direct links into threads where @macprodan contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I have that motherboard and the sound worked out the box with the AC97 driver selected during install. Try putting the DVD in and using iVisible or pathfinder to show hidden files then run the ac97 installer package.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Plus I learnt some new commands to add to YoJimbo archive. But most Important of all I wont have people nagging to use my MBP.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Working now I typed the commands again. I did not type them wrong last time, as I got error messages not related to them being inputed wrong. Mmmmm strange. Thats a Lesson to everyone, Try and Try and Try again.. must have done about 12 ins…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I can type those commands. Thank You. I have been using Hackintoshes from day 1 mate. I got my MacBook Pro that just works, But I would like to get a totally uptodate Hack for Me and the family to use. OK”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@eddie11c: so it's working now macprodan? nope, b0 error. Command .5 did not do anything, said disk alignment error”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“AnyThing I can Do, Does MBR work any better for other Users, which group has had the most success ?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Mmmm, Easy to fix [ok] 1 - Boot with the DVD. [ok] 2 - Press F8, then type "-s" [ok] 3- type "cd /usr/standalone/i386" [ok] 4 - type "dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 (X is the disk number and Y is the partition number on…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“b0 error, Gonna Try the above commands in single usermode from the dvd.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Here is the last few lines of the log, Taken with the iSight in my MBP.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@eddie11c: even if it hangs at the end, boot back up with the DVD and you can finish setting up EFI yourself. @WinLinMac01: For GUID do this: How to: Fix the GUID bootloader (Blinking cursor) There's an issue with the script that …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I removed my other Sata DATA Drive so now I have one, So wont go all dumb and get confused. I reformated the drive, yes again, as a single GUID Partition. It is installing now. I hope I get Lucky and it don`t hang at the end.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“did fsck /dev/disk0 and got Superblock not found or somthing.. Magic number wrong”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“ok, on dd … boot0 command got a disk alignment error on ./startupfiletool command got filesystem not cleanly unmounted.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“by the way, the install has never finshed for me, I just hoped it had done all it needed to do. I formatted as all Zeros and tryd both MBR and GUID.. Im stuck and ready to pull my hair out.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“WinLinMac01 1 - Boot with the DVD. 2 - Press F8, then type "-s" 3- type "cd /usr/standalone/i386" 4 - type "dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 (X is the disk number and Y is the partition number on which you installed Leo) …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Install Keep hanging at the End tried 3 Times with MBR, Deleted my Tiger partition and formated drive as GUID failed again got stuck at the end. I am trying now yet again. Ill Post the Last log entry to see if that gives a clue. It is a Pai…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Looking, Good so far, Selected: ToH kernel 9.2.0, AC97 Audio Drivers, Nforce 2/3/4/5 chipset, NVinject 256, Forcedeth driver, SKGE, Broadcom wireless Driver, efi v8 for MBR This seems to be the best hackintosh DVD ever made. Got a Tiger Par…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“I have a SSE3 capable X2 3800 Do I select TOH Kernel 9.2.0 or leave it unchecked.? I have a 7800 GT 256mb Do I select NVInject 256 or nVidia 10.5.2 Kexts or Both.?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Oh , O.K Thank. Zeph.. no need to mess with the DVD then.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Might be dumb but I cant seem to mount it read write. I am following this to the letter. 1. hdiutil attach /"Leopard.iso" -readwrite 2. Download this zip ----> _rapid share.com/files/92865467/Extensions.zip.html 3. Extract it in the Libary …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Zeph how can I incorporate Medvil kext for sata support. Also any other things I should do (EFI , NVInject). Machine I will be using this DVD on is below. I am not a Hack or Mac noob so do not worry about breaking it down into noob speak. T…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“100% Working. Thanks Dudes.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“it is a disk formatted as GUID single partition”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Ill Try MBR again.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“Done it.. Doh.. as homer would say... hehe”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads

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