PPF3 is going to be the largest update to iPC ever. Organization is critical and I have created an issues tracker for iPC PPF3 here. Everything that is on my list for PPF3 is there, and if you have anything to add then post it there where I can easily see it. NO QUESTIONS PLEASE.

Hi everyone. I’ve been really quite busy over the past few days and I just got back today. It looks like some people are having problems, there are a ton of comments and questions but I just don’t have the time to answer every single one (don’t take it personally). Ask for help on the InsanelyMac/InfiniteMac threads or the PCWiz Computer Forum where more people can reach out to you. In any case I have a list of things to do for PPF3:

* Complete support for ATI SB600/SB700
* New AppleNForceATA driver
* Fixed SKGE kext
* Fix for System Preferences corruption on 5xxx series cards
* New nForceLAN kext
* Add kXAudioDriver
* New ALC268 driver
* Patched IONetworkingFamily for Marvell 88E8056

If there is ANYTHING else I can possibly add for this PPF please by all means tell me!

A little embarrassing mistake on my part. When I released PPF2 I forgot to put in the device ID for ATI SB600 into AppleVIAATA.kext. PPF2 will fix boot on everything (ATI SB200/300/400, Marvell, nForce, Old ICH) except for that one ATI SB600. I might be pushing out yet another PPF patch tomorrow to fix this and any other issues that arise in this period.

This patch adds support for ATI SBxxx, Marvell IDE, nForce, and more on DVD boot. Should be no more Still waiting for root device. PPF1 must be applied first!

iPC OSx86 Public Beta PPF2 Download

* Adds support for older ICHx chipsets
* Adds support for Marvell IDE on boot
* Adds support for ATI SBxxx chipsets on boot

New MD5 checksum of ISO: 0fbdc0ed0bed502e026cca9cf42efa2c

Download here. All PPF patching tools included (14MB)

* Adds support for nForce chipsets on DVD Boot

Regardless of whether you have nForce chipset or not, it is HIGHLY recommended that you patch your ISO, because all future ISOs will be based from this patched ISO. 2 PPF patcher tools included, PPF O Matic for Windows and PPFMaster for Mac OS X. Use these tools to patch the ISO. Please verify your MD5 before and after the patch!

MD5 hash on original ISO: 5eb1aaff70d1f5810cd62e9d075d812e
MD5 hash of ISO after patch: 0c93dea47a999344a3b4303740f623f9

Happy OSx86ing!

Sorry guys, I had to delete the old torrent on the demon to fix the tracking problem. it wasn’t showing any seeds or anything, and wouldn’t update. I’ve fixed it with a new tacker and you can find it easily this time (no more looking under unseeded). I will seed for about 24 hours, or until there’s enough seeders to make this self-sustaining.

If you’re still downloading the old torrent, do not worry, the tracker on that one is from the bay (but not uploaded there), so it will continue just fine without any issues, and the files are the same, but if you want to be sure, check the MD5, it should match the one posted on this blog. The new one is demon only. And again, please make sure to read the notes.

Some people are saying that the Leopard Install Helper application, which basically restores the ISO to an HD partition from within Windows doesn’t work with iPC OSx86 Public Beta. The reason for this is that iPC DVD uses the new Chameleon cdboot method for booting, and to make it work from an HD partition you need to restore the ISO to the partition and then install regular Chameleon onto that partition to make it bootable; This can easily be accomplished in Mac OS X using Disk Utility and a Chameleon installer. Leopard Install Helper restores the ISO and then links the non existant boot file to the Windows boot.ini, which will not work.

I am not sure if there is a way to install Chameleon to an HD from within Windows, but I am researching it. So please, for now, if you only have Windows installed just extract the RAR using a tool such as WinRAR, verify the MD5 sum of the ISO, and burn it onto good quality DVD-R discs. If you already have Mac OS X, you have 2 options. Mount the ISO on the desktop and run Install Mac OS X.app to launch and install OS X from within OS X, or restore the ISO to an HD partition, install Chameleon on it, and install from HD partition, or once again do as you normally would and burn the ISO. That’s all for now!

DO NOT ask where to get it!

iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 Public Beta has been uploaded to the Green Demon. Might take a bit to show up on the search engine. I tried to upload to The Pirate Bay, but their engine was being a pain, sorry guys. If you can’t find it on the Green Demon, try searching under unseeded. Once it’s seeded it will show up in the normal part of the search. Hurry up and grab it because in 2 weeks it will only be available to registered users.

Anyway, I figured that I should show some screenshots of the install and some info.

Now, enough of a tease, here’s the release notes, please make sure to read them very carefully:

And now for some credits:

Thanks to Hara Taiki (that’s me) and bhast2 for sticking with me (PCWiz) until the end~

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to the OSx86 community:

mercurysquad and the Voodoo Team, netkas, modbin, StageXNU team, zef and the Chameleon team, BuildSmart, MacLovin, DiaboliK, Bronya, JaS, Gotoh, aquamac, DuNE, MeDevil, Taruga, stickpin, cyclonefr, DaemonES, iNoob, javalui, Chun Nan, Superhai, fassl, mackerintel, AnV, mac.nub, Steven Lin, inside, delish, and anyone else who I haven’t mentioned!

Here it is folks. That’s what you’ll see in the iPC Public Beta 10.5.6 DVD. Nothing will be changed until the final release. And I might as well give out tech specifications on the DVD as well.

ISO Size on Disk: 4.15GB
Image capacity: 4.3GB (allowing 150MB of space for future expansion)
Compression: 3.3GB RAR compressed using WinRAR 3.7 at highest compression rate
DVD Base System: Mac OS X 10.5.4 9E25 Retail
Installed OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6 with AppleDecrypt.kext and Disabler.kext (every install)
Languages Included: Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Polish
Items removed from DVD for Single Layer Slimming: Boot Camp (doesn’t work on PCs), AdditionalSpeechVoices, Printer Drivers
Updates Included: Mac OS X 10.5.6 Combo Update, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2, Remote Desktop Client 3.2.2
DVD Bootloader: Chameleon 1.0.11
Default installed bootloader: Chameleon 1.0.12 PC_EFI v9
DVD Boot Kernel: Voodoo Kernel 9.5.0 Final Release
MD5 Hash of iPC_OSx86_Public_Beta.iso: 5eb1aaff70d1f5810cd62e9d075d812e

Thanks a TON to Hara Taiki and bhast2 for their assistance on this

Currently uploading the iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Public Beta to a person who will then handle distribution. This could be available as early as tomorrow