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OSX on Intel DP35DPM

This is a project log of my experience with installing OS X 10.5.6 on a PC based off of an Intel DP35DPM motherboard.

Systems Specs:

Background:

I wanted to use the retail install method for a few reasons. One is that I’m not a fan of pirated software, and the idea that you really don’t know what other “goodies” people could be packaging along with the OS. Another is that I’d like to retain a somewhat “stock” install, makes for easier upgrades in the future. And finally, it’s just good fun, you learn a lot about the internals of OS X which could apply to other systems down the road.

I have several Apples already running OS X, the remained of my systems run either Ubuntu Linux or Windows Vista. Since some of those systems have quite a bit of life left in them, it just didn’t make sense to trash them and purchase a new Mac at this time, so I figured let’s give this a shot.

I legally own the Leopard family pack, so karma wise I’m covered. However to the letter of the law, doing this may violate the terms of Apple’s license so this is really for educational purposes only and is not intended to be a “production” system.

With all that being said, what does it take to get this puppy running? The method outlined below is a combination of searching through the Insanely Mac forums as well as the OSX86 Project wiki, and some trial-and-error. That being said, I will credit and reference the source when I can, if I’ve left anyone out please feel free to leave a comment and I will be sure you’re credited.

Overview:

The method I choose was to install OS X onto an new hard drive from my MacBook Pro using a USB to SATA converter. For me, this was the simplest solution, since I had the ability to mount the drive on the MacBook and make further modifications in the event I made my new install unbootable.

The following is from LTL on the InsanelyMac forums and will give you Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard) and EFI v9.

Drive and file prep:

Make an ISO of your Retail 1.5.x DVD (mine is 10.5.5) and place in a folder called “Retail” on your desktop

  1. Open Disk Utility
  2. Select the “Mac OS X Install DVD” under the DVD drive and click the “New Image” button on the tool bar
  3. Place the image in the “Retail” folder on the desktop, the default name is fine. This may take several minutes.

Download and unpack the v4.4 files to your desktop.

Download the Apple 10.5.6 combo update from Apple to your desktop.

Prepare your new disk for OS X

  1. Open Disk Utility
  2. Select your Target (new) drive
  3. Select the Partition tab
  4. Under Volume Scheme, select “1 Partition”
  5. Under Name type “Macintosh”
  6. Format should remain as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
  7. Click Options and select “GUID Partition Table” and click OK
  8. Click Apply

Mount your “Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg” in the “Retail” folder on your Desktop.

Open the v4.4 folder downloaded earlier and open the “post-patch.sh” file in TextEdit. Ensure the “DESTINATION=” line reads: DESTINATION=Macintosh

Install OS X from Retail DVD

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Type or cut and paste the following: cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages
  3. Type or cut and past the following: open OSInstall.mpkg
  4. Be sure to install to your “Macintosh” labeled drive

Install Combo Updater

  1. Double-click “MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.6.dmg” on the desktop to mount it. Then double-click the “MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.6″ folder.
  2. Double-click the “MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.6.pkg”
  3. Be sure to change the destination to your “Macintosh” labeled drive

Run the post-patch.sh script

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Type or cut and paste the following: sudo -s
  3. enter your password
  4. Type or cut and paste the following: /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/Macintosh
  5. Type the following: cd /Users/<your user name>/Desktop/v4.4
  6. Type or cut and paste the following: ./post-patch.sh
  7. Look out for any errors, this may take several minutes
  8. Leave this terminal window open so we may make the partition active after the next step

Install EFIv9

  1. Open the v4.4 folder on your desktop and expand the “v9netkas” folder
  2. Run “Bootloader.pkg”
  3. Be sure to install onto your “Macintosh” labeled drive

Determine which device in dev is your “Macintosh” drive

  1. Open Disk Utility
  2. Right click the disk containing the “Macintosh” partition and select “Information”
  3. The device is displayed under “Disk Identifier” in our case it happens to be “disk1″

Make partition active (required for some motherboards, DP35DP for instance, to boot). This part is from aliab on the InsanelyMac Forums.

  1. Return to the Terminal window from our previous session (the one used to run post-patch.sh)
  2. Unmount the “Macintosh” Volume: umount /Volumes/Macintosh
  3. Type the following: fdisk -e /dev/r<disk identifier>
    example: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1
  4. At the “fdisk: 1>” prompt type: f 2
  5. At the “fdisk: 1>” prompt type: w
  6. At the “fdisk: 1>” prompt type: q
  7. Open Disk Utility and Eject the new disk

Install the new disk into the PC, the disk should boot to OS X and start the registration process. Fill everything out, you may not be able to submit the form if your using an unsupported NIC (such as the one included with the DP35DP) however this will not impact the setup process.

ATI Radeon X1900XT is pretty simple thanks to this post by jccool just download and install X1900 XT EFI VGA Installer 0.1.pkg.zip

The NIC and audio were slightly more complicated and both required kexts go get going.

Proper USB operation (if you want to avoid kernel panics, and I know you do) requires kexts from here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=117029 

 

You should now have a semi functioning install, next steps are getting the onboard NIC, Sound, and Graphics fully functioning. I will update this page soon to share my steps for that. I currently have the NIC and Sound functioning, the Radeon X1900XT works, however I’m still working on the resolution issues.