Part I – Clean install of unpatched iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3, Public Beta Release DVD
I used the unpatched iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3, Public Beta Release.iso file (burned to DVD) with MD5 checksum:
MD5 Hash of iPC_OSx86_Public_Beta.iso: 5eb1aaff70d1f5810cd62e9d075d812e
1. Boot from my USB Flash Drive OSx86 Install DVD Booter…….called “OSx86DeFacto”
by pressing F8 at boot-up to bring up the PC BIOS “Boot Menu”, then selecting the OSx86DeFacto USB Flash Drive and pressing Enter.
2. On the OSx86DeFacto Darwin boot loader appearance, press F8 quickly and at the “boot:” prompt, type “–v rd=diskXs2” (without quotes) and with X=5 in my case).
3. Once the iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 OS X Installer has loaded, choose your main language and then use Disk Utility to partition the HDD as Master Boot Record (MBR) into the number and size of volumes required, and format the intended OS X install volume as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) giving it a unique name without spaces.
4. If you have partitioned your HDD into more than one volume, select the volume to install to. My external 750GB HDD is partitioned as MBR into 6 OS X volumes formatted as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled); the first volume has the Darwin PC_EFI v8 bootloader installed using OSx86Tools and is a 10GB OS X Boot volume with Kalyway 10.5.2 installed and “-v cpus=1 maxmem=2048” set in com.apple.Boot.plist.
5. Press Continue and then Customize. Once in the “Customize” menu, select as follows:
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Base System (installed by default with AppleDecrypt.kext and Disabler.kext)
Language Translations – Not selected by myself
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
Kernels – 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel
Drivers – Video Drivers – NVIDIA – NVdarwin 256MB
Drivers – Chipset Drivers – AppleNForceATATest nForce Drivers
Drivers – Audio Drivers – AD1988B
Drivers – Ethernet Drivers – Realtek R1000
Drivers – USB Drivers – Patched USB Drivers
Fixes and Patches – Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5 (must be installed if Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel is installed)
Fixes and Patches – AppleSMBIOS Patch – AppleSMBIOS-27 Rev3 Mac Pro
Applications – All selected except Marvin’s AMD Utility
6. Double check “Customize” choices, click Done, then in Install Summary window, click “Install”. When install begins, choose to (or not) skip the DVD verify process.
7. When all processes are killed and DVD drive activity stops and the re-boot “beep” sounds, remove the DVD and boot from the HDD by pressing F8 at boot-up to bring up the PC BIOS “Boot Menu”, then selecting the HDD and pressing Enter.
8. On the HDD Darwin boot loader appearance, press F8 quickly and at the “boot:” prompt, type “cpus=1 maxmem=2048 –v -f” if you want to use “Do You Already Own a Mac” window to transfer your information across via options listed, or if not, simply type “-v -f” (without quotes) and wait as verbose booting takes place successfully into the Welcome screen video sequence……
9. At this point iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 OS X runs fine with “cpus=1 maxmem=2048”, giving full CI & QE 1280 x 1024 @ 60Hz video, Internet access, network file sharing, simple audio playback on iTunes Radio, USB 2.0 device mounting/un-mounting/data transfer, Firewire mounting/un-mounting/data transfer, functioning Sleep mode,Darwine,……
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0402
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: NVdarwin 1.2.5
Displays:
SyncMaster:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
QuartzGL: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected
I am now going to test with 4 cores and 6GB RAM after installing slashack’sAppleNForceATA.kext Driver (enables more than 2GB or 3GB of RAM to be used)………
Part II – Installation of slashack’s AppleNForceATA.kext to give 6GB RAM operation with iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3, Public Beta Release OS X Installation
1. Download slashack’s AppleNForceATA.kext Driver……unzip file……
2. Install AppleNForce.kext v0.1 using Kext Helper b7
3. Reboot with -v -f
Success.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz