Patch the iPC DVD image – Step 1 – Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2

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When booting the DVD it was always stuck at “Still waiting for root device…”, this was because there was no kext for SATA chip for my motherboard (nForce 405 chip). It was simple has adding the required kext to the DVD and rebuilding the Extensions.mkext. Unfortunately you will need a working Mac OS X installation to do this. Follow the instructions bellow.

Mount the image in read write mode

$ hdiutil mount iPC_OSx86_10.5.6.iso -readwrite

Extract kexts from mkext

$ mkdir /tmp/Extensions
$ mkextunpack -d /tmp/Extensions Extensions.mkext

Copy kexts and remove unwanted kexts

$ cp -R nForceLan.kext /tmp/Extesions/
$ cp -R AppleNForceATA.kext /tmp/Extensions/
$ find /tmp/Extensions/ -name "*Intel*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -R

Cache kext into mkext

$ sudo chown -R root:wheel /tmp/Extensions/
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /tmp/Extensions/
$ kextcache -a i386 -m /tmp/Extensions.mkext /tmp/Extensions

Copy Extenions.mkext to /System/Library on the ISO

$ cp /tmp/Extensions.mkext .

That’s it, now unmount the ISO and burn it to a DVD. Now we are ready to move on to the next step. I’ll be posting the details for actual installation Mac OS X 10.5.6 tomorrow.

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