LEOPARD Leo4all complete tutorial Options

[Sambaran]

Welcome to my MAC Leo4all 10.5.2 Tutorial.

Sambaran Ghosh

Things you need:

1. A bootable CD with a partition management tool like Acronis Disk director or simply windows 98 bootable CD with fdisk or windows 98 bootable floppy in order to use XP boot loader after installing Leopard.

2. Leo4all install DVD(Other releases may work as well. You have to use your own intelligence.)

Now follow the steps carefully:

A. Make a primary partition of at least 8 GB (15 GB recommended as MAC only allows installing software on the OSX partition). Format it as FAT32 from windows if you like. Make sure it is primary and not NTFS. All other partitions are preferred in FAT32 format as MAC cannot write on NTFS format.

B. Now restart your computer and insert the OSX installation DVD and boot from it. Wait about 7 minutes!!!

C. After choosing the language go to Utilities menu and choose Disk Utility. Select the partition you created and format it as MAC HFS+ Journaled. After format is complete close disk utility.

D. Click the continue button and accept the License agreements. Then the most important part comes.

E. Choose Customization and then deselect the additional language translations and printer driver to save disk space.

F. Choose the appropriate Chipset drivers.(In my case Via chipset Driver only!). Remember choose only one.

G. Choose the appropriate Graphic Card driver(In my case choose NVidia kext and nvinject 256 mb kext. SELECT BOTH!!!)

H. Choose the sound card driver(In my case AC97Audio).

I. Choose the Ethernet driver(In my case none)

J. Choose AMD Machine fix and tie machine fix and keep the default kernel.(Vanilla kernel for Intel only! Not tested by me)

K. Now continue with the installation. Choose the OSX drive and keep patience. It will take 18 minutes approx. After that machine will restart.

L. Now you should be at the Darwin boot loader. Choose the Leopard volume and Leopard will start to boot.

M. Now a intro movie will be played and you will be represented with the account creation menus. But in most case this process become an endless loop and account is never created. For that restart the machine manually and at Darwin boot loader before choosing Leopard type –s and press enter. After a short will you will be presented at the root: Type the following to create an administrator account manually with name root.

a. /sbin/fsck –fy

b. /sbin/mount –uw /

c. /sbin/mount –uw /

d. passwd root ##it will ask you to enter a new password

e. touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

f. The default login user will be root.

g. After logging in create a standard account from system settings accounts option.

N. Login to the root account and go to applications and run kext helper and install the kext you need(For me ViaRhine and AC97audio). Enter the root user password and select the easy install. Cross your finger and restart the machine.

O. If all is OK then shout vollaaaa!!!

P. Now if you want to use XP boot loader(I don't know about vista) insert a partition manager CD and select the XP Drive as bootable and restart the machine.

Q. Use the chain0 file method to select Leopard. It is located in the install DVD itself. To do this go to XP root drive(C: most cases)and paste the chain0 file(copy from DVD first). Go to system properties by right clicking on my computer and select advanced. Select startup and recovery settings and edit system startup. Type the following at the boot.ini file after XP path:

a. C:\chain0="Mac OS X"

b. Here is a screenshot:






R. Save the boot.ini file and restart. Now you can choose the Mac OS X from XP boot loader. Choose it you will go to Darwin boot loader. Choose the Leopard partition from there MAC will start. You can even use the chain0 method for 2 different hard drive with XP in one drive and MAC in the other. Chain0 file will automatically search for the HFS+ partition on both disks.

Done!!!

Best of Luck!!!

My system configuration:

Asus K8V-MX motherboard

AMD 3000+ processor

Via VT8237 chipset

Soundmax AD1888 audio

512mb of ram.

Attached File(s)

 chain0.rar ( 475bytes ) Number of downloads: 207

 

[zonker]

Does Leo4All work on nVidia chipsets? Anyone tried?

Where can I d/l it to try it? Can someone PM me a link?

[Xul]

I boot the dvd but it dont let me choose the language just blue screen and nothing else

[zu1u]

Well I was getting a panic at the 1st boot after installing something about the Video Drivers
So I booted with -s and fired up ./RemoveVideo then I managed to get into the setup process and voila it's working.. only one problem, NO VIDEO ACCELERATION
Durring install I had selected nVIDIA kext and 128 Inject [GeForce 6600 - 128MB]
Now the problem is how do I get video acceleration?

I should probably say that with the 10.5.2 Zephyroth release I had full video acceleration, but it froze very frequently making it unusable.

AMD SSE2 CPU

[zu1u]

got it working.. by using the nvidia kexts from the zephyroth release.. after panic i booted the tiger and by use of pacifist i installed the package from the dvd.. I also ran the included patcher.. and when I botted up it was working

[zonker]

Can someone tell me where to d/l leo4all? would be nice to know since I see everyone talking about it.

[Sambaran]

Sorry but the download location cannot be told as it is illegal. Anyway search at the usual place for torrent.

[bioh]

Don`t work for me... I have a Presario laptop F730US, with Tiger native... and when I try boot dvd Leo4All or Kaliway or Zephyroth... don`t boot, after recognize my disk, the pc reboot... anyone have some information about this? any help???

[texasdr0]

unsuccessful so far with this release & instructions. installing on a dfi lanparty dk p35-t2rs, e2160 @ 3.0, g.skill 4gb ddr2 1000 & msi nx8800gt 512 oc. install is successful but on reboot i get past the darwin loader and it just sits at a blank screen. any ideas what that means? on install i selected ichx chipset, no audio, marvell lan, nvdia driver & 512 driver, vanilla kernel.

[emptystreets130]

This method is nothing like the install option in Leo4allv2. This is how I did mine

Place cd in tray
let it load
click next on Select Language (Default to English)
go to disk utility from the utility menu
format the partition
exit
click next on the screen
select partition
click on option and deselect all the language install
close and hit next to install.

waited about 15 mins
restarted and booted up.

everything works except for my wireless. specs in my sig. For the kernel, I just left it as it is. I did try the vanilla 9.2.2, didn't work so I just left whatever was checked.

[ak890]

The reason why alot of this dosn't work is because of the Acronis boot selector. Now im an OSx86 newbie but i know enough to say that the acronis boot selector is a very unreliable meathod of booting. I'm not sure if the Easy BCD would work with this but if it does I would much rather do that.

[pioneer1976]

ok i started new system from scratch.
I formatted a part. windows loaded windows xp
I formatted part. fat 32 called leo
loaded windows
loaded leo4allv2 after installing the pc rebooted and when it loaded back up it didnt give me option to pick leo or windows all it did was said
hit key to start from cd rom or hit f8 for loading options.
And all it wants to do is load it again.

What did i do wrong.......

[Clownassasin24]

ok, I'm having some problems here, when I found this thread I had already installed leo4allv2 so I can't do part a. The problem I'm having is that after it installs successfully, it restarts and boots up or whatever, and then I get the dreaded message of still waiting for root device, I haven't tried installing with unchecking the language boxes, all I checked was the and thing. Do you think that could be the problem, oh and how can I get the computer to boot up in non-verbose mode? For some reason it boots up in verbose mode by itself. Thanks

[pioneer1976]

OK so ive figured out if i take the cd out when it gives me that load from cd or press f8 page, it will boot up Leo.
Now my ? is i cant get it to boot up either xp or leo by itself. What should i use to fix this problem

[LTL]

Can someone tell me where to d/l leo4all? would be nice to know since I see everyone talking about it.

Nice rig...nearly similar to mine

[david45]

I still have a problem after the installation, endless loop and account is never created... si I tried Sambaran instructions, but, nothing happens whan I type Passwd root. There is:
dis1s2: device is write locked

Why? What's wrong?
Thanks for your help.

[the oz]

Hey,
1 problem I have a custom built machine and it is not booting when I insert the DVD ISO disk in the drive can you help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neofena]

" unable to load org.tgwbd.driver.ACPIPS2Nub " . What is the problem and how can i fix it? Please help me.

[eddie11c]

I still have a problem after the installation, endless loop and account is never created... si I tried Sambaran instructions, but, nothing happens whan I type Passwd root. There is:
dis1s2: device is write locked

Why? What's wrong?
Thanks for your help.

You need to mount the partion first.
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
then do the passwrd root part.

[david45]

You need to mount the partion first.
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
then do the passwrd root part.

That's what I did... and when I do the password root part, nothing happens. Juste few "device is write locked ... ".
Wired...