HOWTO: MacOS x86 and the Asus P4P800 Deluxe, P4c, Sapphire X1600 Pro AGP 256MB and ADMtec AD983

A friend of mine that likes to tinker with alternative OS'es and has the same hardware as mine recently downloaded the demonoid patched iso of MacOS 10.4.4 for the x86 architecture. For the moment all of the hardware mentioned above works quite well except the motherboard integrated gigabit LAN based on the 3COM Marvell 940-MV00 chip (under linux you'd use the sk98lin driver, that was deprecated for skge, and now it seems there's sky2 but I can't make sky2 work with my network card under linux, am I wrong to understand that skge is deprecated for sky2?).

After you had liberated some free space for MacOS, you need to drop in some linux fdisk, add a new primary partition and set it's type to af (it doesn't matter if fdisk doesn't support HFS+, it just reserves the space, you'll format later).
As the demonoid dvd is already patched there was no fuss really, all you need to do is to drop the dvd in and boot. On step 3 you'll need to select the partition on which to install Tiger, as you didn't format it yet, you need to activate the disk utility and use Erase (you can read that as Format) on the partition. Wait to install.
As my friend had WindowsXP and added Gentoo on the same drive after the OSX install (hd0,0 Windows, hd0,3 partition /, hd0,3 partition swap and hd0,1 partition HFS+; note: IDE has a 4 active partitions limit, so /boot has to go) and uses the GRUB loader, he added MacOS to grub.config like so:
title=MacOS
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader --force +1
Once MacOS loaded he noted the graphic resolution was fixed to 1024x768 and the drivers weren't using QE and CI so he started to look around and see if they can be made to work.

To Be Continued...

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