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[Conroe Mac]

raulb, on Oct 29 2007, 08:39 PM, said:

Hey Conroe Mac, can you clarify about this flat 2.5gb image and whether its absolutely essential we need a separate hardisk for it, for instance I have 2 hard disks, one with Xp and the other with tiger, can I attempt this Leopard disk image dd copy to a separate partition on the Tiger disk?

I would love to clarify but I have not used it.  Reading from the description it sounds like you need two hard drives and you have to delete the whole drive.  The best person to clarify of course is Ohno who was in this thread a moment ago....

[ohno66]

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Hey Conroe Mac, can you clarify about this flat 2.5gb image and whether its absolutely essential we need a separate hard disk for it, for instance I have 2 hard disks, one with Xp and the other with tiger, can I attempt this Leopard disk image dd copy to a separate partition on the Tiger disk?

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I would love to clarify but I have not used it. Reading from the description it sounds like you need two hard drives and you have to delete the whole drive. The best person to clarify of course is Ohno who was in this thread a moment ago....

well. The thing is that i dd'd the first 15,5G of the 15G leopard image. It has the mbr & the end (which is RAW) of that partiton in it as well. But i guess no, its not necessary to have a separate hard disk as long as you keep the other partitions more then say 16-17G away from the beginning of that drive.
But you still have to use the dd "if=leopard-x86-flat-img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskX\Partition0" command to get it bootable as far as i know.
I don't really know what happens if you try to write such an image to a single partition. But i do know that when you write over the mbr it will be troublesome to boot in to windows/linux from that drive.

[raulb]

Hey, thanks for the clarification. I get it now why you said to use a new disk. So the MBR can be written to the disk and Leo can boot.

My first 250gb disk has XP, Vista and Ubuntu. My second 120gb disk has OSX Tiger installed on the first 20gb partition and ntfs storage on the second 100gb partition. I use easyBCD to boot the OSs.

I suspect dd to the first Tiger partition should work but then I will lose the Tiger installation. Maybe I can figure out a way, Will experiment a bit since the second hard disk doesn't really have any important data apart from the test tiger installation. Will update this thread on any successes. Thanks Ohno66.

[Laik]

The instalation started after being written to DVD.
I wrote three times to DVD-RW at minimal speed and it didn`t work, so I guess this can be added to tutorial.

[Conroe Mac]

Laik, on Oct 29 2007, 11:41 PM, said:

The instalation started after being written to DVD.
I wrote three times to DVD-RW at minimal speed and it didn`t work, so I guess this can be added to tutorial.

Thanks Laik.  I will add that to the tutorial.  Sorry you had to be the guinea pig =/

[Conroe Mac]

I'm working on sleep.  I've got good news and bad news.  Good news: sleep worked in 10.4.8 so we should be able to get it working in Leopard.  Bad news: I think the problem is in the mach kernel (royal pita).

[mb2696]

Conroe Mac, on Oct 29 2007, 05:29 PM, said:

Hmm.. perhaps you could try the flat image on demonoid.  It sounds like it may be legit after all.  That would avoid having to do any patching or burning of dvds.  If I had to do it again, I would probably go that route now.  It seems even easier than the USB patcher method.Thanks ohno, could you explain why the image is so small?

it works!!

i had to use my edited AppleYukon.kext from tiger to get ethernet working though.  sound works (azalia) and video works at fulls res with ci/qe (7600gt).

thanks to conroe mac for all the help

-matt

[raggedjagged]

So has anyone here managed to get Leopard and Vista dual booting from a single Hard disk? I'm trying to do that, but Leopard never managees to boot (the first time i installed, after i rebooted into Leopard i got a "Missing Operating System" error message. Then I repaired vista by popping in the vista dvd, and then added the chain0 file to the vista bootloader, and still couldn't boot in.

Could someone please help me with that? I don't have Tiger installed. Thanks a lot!

[royco]

Conroe Mac, Please edit the guide for the rev 3.3 edit for the LAN. In my installation there is no AppleYukon.kext instead it has AppleYukon2.kext. It is formatted differently that the original Yukon.kext but the changes to be made are the same.

As for sleep, still a no go for me. I hope we come up with a fix, so far its one of my best and most stable hackintosh installs so far.

Thanks

[chelhydra]

Reporting another fine install with the Demonoid flat image on my 965P-DS3 (rev 1.0 bios F12).
Everything works right out of the box! I love this mobo.

Cheers

[robotskip]

Is there a way to install this way without having Tiger already installed? :s

mb2696, on Oct 30 2007, 02:56 PM, said:

it works!!

i had to use my edited AppleYukon.kext from tiger to get ethernet working though.  sound works (azalia) and video works at fulls res with ci/qe (7600gt).

thanks to conroe mac for all the help

-matt

I have the same video card on this mobo and I was just wandering what you had to do to get CI/QE working, thanks.

[Sabr]

Ok - I have the flat disk image. In the middle of extracting it now. I wonder whether you can use this disk image under VMWare - and then duplicate the contents of the disk to a partition? I remember that's how I got the deadmoo Tiger 10.4.1 image to work...

[chelhydra]

How do i change the partition size that was created with DD??
I'm stuck with 20GB, i don't want to create another partition, i just need to increase the size of the current.

thanks

[Conroe Mac]

mb2696, on Oct 30 2007, 04:56 AM, said:

it works!!i had to use my edited AppleYukon.kext from tiger to get ethernet working though.  sound works (azalia) and video works at fulls res with ci/qe (7600gt).thanks to conroe mac for all the help-matt

Great to hear your success =)

raggedjagged, on Oct 30 2007, 05:00 AM, said:

So has anyone here managed to get Leopard and Vista dual booting from a single Hard disk? I'm trying to do that, but Leopard never managees to boot (the first time i installed, after i rebooted into Leopard i got a "Missing Operating System" error message. Then I repaired vista by popping in the vista dvd, and then added the chain0 file to the vista bootloader, and still couldn't boot in.Could someone please help me with that? I don't have Tiger installed. Thanks a lot!

I am booting from a single disk.  On the 965P, I believe it just works, but this seems to be a common problem on other boards.  See Brazilmac's original thread which I posted at the top of the how-to.  Inside that thread there are a number of techniques to get the Leopard partition recognized and booting.

To Royco:

The faq currently reads:GA-965P-DS3 Rev. 3.3 LANRoyco gives the following advice for getting LAN to work:The 3.3 Has a different Yukon Controller, 8056 i think. Because thats what I change on the yukon.kext. So for those with ver 3.3 boards having trouble with LAN even after editing Yukon2.kext, enter a static IP address instead of doing DHCP. Let it run for a while then switch back to DHCP, this solved my problem with my LAN showing as disconnected.This solution is from the Tiger tutorial (please try it and let me know if it works):If your system uses the marvell 8056 rather than the 8053 found on the DS3 try following the instructions below.sudo nano /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworking.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Info.plistsearch for "8053" (no quotes) and replace with "8056" (no quotes)Then search for "4362" (no quotes) and replace with "4364"save the file, repair permissions and reboot.What should I change?

To ALL:

I'm glad to hear all the success stories with the flat image.  I have just finished downloading the prepatched DVD and the flat image.  It appears that the flat image might be the best way to install if we can figure out how to make it work on any partition and adjust the size of said partition.  I will be taking a look into this soon.  If you've got the flat image working, your research/experimentation could be very helpful to all DS3 users and the Hackintosh community at large.  Let me know what you find out/try so we can update the how-to with this new method.  We are getting close to 100% installation success rate for this motherboard and we have addressed LAN on later revisions.  Once we perfect the flat image installation method and solve sleep, we'll have it all figured out! =)

[raulb]

I am in the process of downloading the flat image. Till then I can only speculate.

Since the flat image contains an MBR/Partition table predefined for a 20gb Leopard partition and the rest free space, one way out will be to copy the data with dd but exclude the first 512 bytes that contain the MBR/partition table. That way the image will copy to whatever partition scheme you have on your hardisk (the partition for Leopard has to be more than 20GB though).

The only problem then will be how to boot Leopard because if you use dd to copy but exclude the first 512 bytes you will be missing the Leopard boot loader and will have to copy that manually. That can be done but I have not researched it yet. I am going to be experimenting a bit once I get the image.

[Conroe Mac]

I have tried the prepatched DVD and can confirm that it works.  For those that don't want to patch an original disc, this method seems like a good alternative.  I did not use the USB patcher method, but I believe that it would work fine.  My next install (going on five or so) will be of the flat image which I think shows a lot of promise for the preferred method in the future.

[royco]

Sleep Sleep Sleep.. Heres what I got so far.

I installed an older version of AppleSMBIOS.kext and IONetworkingFamily.kext and got my hack to sleep and wake up successfully. BUT.. my displays looks fuzzy and garbled, can barely read the texts. A reboot would bring it back to normal. So I tried different drivers for my GeForce 7900GS, Natit, Titan, and the current NVinject for Leopard, still fuzzy when it wakes up. So what I did is replace all the GeForcexx.kexts and all the Nvidiaxxx.kext from my Tiger install. Now I lost CI/QE, BUT... Sleep works perfectly. Wakes up fine, no fuzzy display, USB drives are connected.

So its back to the drawing board, I'll be doing another install and start from there as I messed up this test install really bad.

Anybody with a different video card want to try this?

[plprado]

royco, on Oct 29 2007, 12:28 AM, said:

Upgrade from 10.4.8 Jas install works like a charm too.

This has the advantage of having the working devices like HD audio, LAN and video working right after the upgrade with no boot problems. Unfortunately, Sleep stopped working  

Just install 10.4.8 or probably any other distribution, Install all necessary drivers to make it 100% working. When all is set, boot from the Leopard DVD you just made from the guide on the first post. Skip the part where you go to Disk utility and erase the drive( we want the 10.4.8 install there for it to be upgraded). Go select the Leopard drive where you installed 10.4.8 and customize to uncheck the printer drivers ,languages and anything you can uncheck. After the install patch it as described in the guide, this can now be done within the DVD itself ( see link on the first post for the original thread). After patching, boot from the Leopard disk and tada! You have a fully working 10.5 with drivers intact!

You may want to back up your files incase you are brave enough to do this on your current (the one you used to patch and create the Leopard dvd) Tiger install.

Hi royco,

you said

"After the install patch it as described in the guide, this can now be done within the DVD itself ( see link on the first post for the original thread)"

Would this be booting from the installation dvd and running terminal through it?

thanks.

[royco]

plprado, on Oct 30 2007, 11:14 AM, said:

Hi royco,

you said

"After the install patch it as described in the guide, this can now be done within the DVD itself ( see link on the first post for the original thread)"

Would this be booting from the installation dvd and running terminal through it?

thanks.

Yes, click the link to Brazilmacs original guide and go to page 14 look for the guide made by Swag01.

[leodm]

for the flat image, i havent downloaded but i think this one from wiki might help

http://wiki.osx86pro...le_And_Accurate


dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 bs=512 skip=63 --progress

using skip=63 will skip the partition table/mbr and should restore the image to any partition...

anyone wanna have a try?