Been trying to install iPC 10.5.6 PPF5 Final onto my Pentium 4 system with the following specs: CPU: Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Northwood with SSE2 Motherboard: MSI PM8M-V (MS-7104) Chipset: VIA P4M800 / VIA VT8237R Hard Drive: Seagate (IDE) - Set to Master Optical Drive: Pioneer DVD (IDE) - Set to Slave So I boot from the DVD, press F8, then type -v and enter. Get to the OS X install screen and select English language. Go into Disk Utility and set Hard Drive to GUID and format with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Label the partition 'Leopard'.
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Click on 'Customize' and select the relevant drivers and patches as follows: Kernel: 9.5.0 Voodoo Kernel Video Drivers: Natit Chipset: VIA/SiS/Marvel/SB Chipset Drivers Other Audio Drivers: Envy24 Ethernet Drivers: VIA Rhine Ethernet USB Drivers: Patched USB Drivers Fixes and Patches: CPUS=1 One Core Fix Fixes and Patches: Seatbelt.kext 10.5.5 PS/2 Device Support: Keyboard Fix When I click on 'Install' it starts to install and starts to calculate the remaining time. After a few minutes, it reports remaining time as 7 minutes, then after several minutes have passed, it reports remaining time as 1 hour 7 minutes, then several minutes later I get an error screen with a big yellow triangle telling me the installation failed, (something about having problems installing to the disk as it may be damaged and to try another disk). I know the hard drive is fine but I installed another drive and got exactly the same thing. I went through the whole process several times, each time reformatting the drive and trying different Fixes and Patches with the same results.
Each time it seems to install about 400MB of files before the error screen. I then installed the hard drive into an external USB enclosure and was able to install perfectly in around 20 minutes or so.
I booted from the hard drive, at the prompt I typed -f (as per instructions), and was able to boot into OS X just fine. I played around with it for a while, rebooted it a few times and everything was fine. I then took the hard drive out of the USB enclosure and installed it back into the PC and hooked it up to the IDE cable, and tried to boot. The Darwin boot prompt came up, I let it boot on it's own, the Apple logo and the spinning circle came up, then it just freezes. Tried it several times but just can't install to the hard drive or boot from the hard drive if it is connected by IDE, works fine in an external USB enclosure.
I was thinking that it could be some compatibility issue with the IDE controller on the VIA VT8237R chipset, but this chip also controls USB as well, which works fine. So I'm at a loss as to how to install and boot with the hard drive connected via IDE. Sorry for bumping this thread, but this problem is really doing my head in.
As stated above, I can install and boot OS X from an external USB Hard Drive, but not from an internal IDE Hard Drive. Since my original post I have kept trying to install to internal IDE Hard Drive with no luck.
I booted OS X from the external USB Hard Drive and installed SuperDuper! To clone the USB Hard Drive to the IDE Hard Drive, everything goes well, but when I boot from the internal IDE Hard Drive, it hangs just after the BIOS screen, I've even gone into BIOS and made sure that the internal IDE Hard Drive is the only drive selected in the Boot Priority list. I've tried installing OS X to the internal IDE Hard Drive several times, each time using a different Kernel to see if that would fix the problem, but still get the Failed Installation error after several minutes. Note that I'm selecting the correct VIA drivers and the VT8237R chip is the one that controls both USB and IDE, yet USB works and IDE doesn't.
I can boot from the USB hard drive and copy files to the IDE hard drive no problem, I just can't install or boot OS X for the IDE hard drive. Note that my DVD Drive from which I'm installing from, is on the Secondary IDE Channel and works fine, and can install from it to the external USB Hard Drive fine.
Is there any setting in BIOS that I may need to change? My BIOS settings under 'VIA OnChip IDE Device' is as follows: OnChip SATA: Disabled IDE DMA Transfer Access: Enabled OnChip IDE Channel 0: Enabled OnChip IDE Channel 1: Enabled IDE Prefetch Mode: Enabled Primary Master PIO: Auto Primary Slave PIO: Auto Secondary Master PIO: Auto Secondary Slave PIO: Auto Primary Master UDMA: Auto Primary Slave UDMA: Auto Secondary Master UDMA: Auto Secondary Slave UDMA: Auto Thanks. Thanks, I was also thinking of trying another distro.
So far I have tried Kalyway 10.5.2, but that would boot into the Darwin loader then reboot the PC after a few seconds. Then I tried iPC 10.5.6 which (as noted above) did allow me to install to an external USB Hard Drive, but not an internal IDE Hard Drive.
So which distro do you recommend I try next that may possibly work with the VIA VT8237R IDE controller? Is it possible to add a working IDE driver to my working Leopard install that is working from the external USB Hard Drive, so I can finally put the Hard Drive back in the PC and connect it using IDE cable? This all is about to make sure that the AppleVIAATA.kext supports the on-board disk controller. As I see from your description, it is not.
Install to USB drive. Then having the working system, use it to install to the IDE drive.
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Then done (do not boot to it yet, boot to USB install instead) navigate to /System/Library/Extensions on the IDE disk. Find AppleVIAATA.kext. Copy it to desktop.
Right click on it and 'Show Package Contents'. Now find the Info.plist. You will need the PlistEditorPro to open that file. Locate the IOPCIPrimaryMatch 0x05711106. DasHuman, thanks for your indepth reply, I really appreciate it. I did already run OSx86 Tools to get the Vendor and Device ID for the VIA IDE Controller (which is 1106:0571), and they are already present in AppleVIAATA.kext as 0x05711106.
When I open System Profiler, and check what extensions are loaded, I can see that AppleVIAATA.kext is loaded. I can also see that 'AppleGenericPCATA.kext' and 'IOATAFamily.kext' are also loaded, maybe 'AppleGenericPCATA.kext' is causing the problem, why do I need a Generic ATA kext loaded when I have a suitable VIA ATA kext loaded. There is one other tiny thing that I should have mentioned before, but I don't see how this is the cause of the problem, and that is my IDE hard drive is actually installed into a mobile rack. I have 3 seperate hard drives, each with a different OS, and I swap the drives depending on what OS I want to boot to, so the hard drives are not connected directly to the IDE cable, they are connected via a mobile rack. Now I can't see that this would be the problem as these mobile racks would be transparent to the system, but having said that, I will install the hard drive directly to the IDE cable tonight and see if I can install OS X to it, just to rule out the possibility that it is the mobile rack that is the problem, although I have no problems when booting Windows XP or Windows 7 from my other hard drives that are also in mobile racks. And don't forget that when I boot OS X from the USB hard drive, and also have the IDE hard drive installed, I can read and write to the IDE hard drive, no problems at all, I can even clone the USB hard drive to the IDE hard drive using SuperDuper!, so the IDE hard drive is recognized by OS X.
I have now tried 3 different Leopard distro's (Kalyway, iPC and iDeneb) and all result with the same install error when trying to install to internal IDE hard drive, but install OK to external USB hard drive. However, I have just installed the JaS 10.4.8 distro to the internal IDE drive and everything installed fine. So basically I can install Tiger to my internal IDE hard drive, but not Leopard, I have to install Leopard to an external USB hard drive. So if my problem is the IDE controller drivers in Leopard, is it possible to copy the drivers from my Tiger installation over to my Leopard installation in order for Leopard to boot from an internal IDE hard drive.