moviemonster Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I just installed leopard on a second partition next to windows xp. (sata drive) after installation i reboot like it said. and i get a MBR error, (at least i think it was MBR, it were 3 letters for sure) (i did not even think about installing a boot selector) but turns out leopard is the active primary partition and just does not boot. so i put in the ToH dvd again and boot from it... and leopard starts to boot ! ... what ? yes.. weird ? so i look around for a while, my geforce and sound dont work but ethernet does and all looks okay. then i reboot again, without selecting the ToH dvd to boot, there is the MBR error again. so i try the ToH dvd again but this time the installation does startup.. not leopard. so i think well okay lets try reinstalling it. it did not make any difference. but it did work once, so whats the deal ? Now i've got Acronis OS Selector installed and it recognizes Windows on the first partition and Tiger 10.4.10 on a usb hdd. both bootable .. but no leopard. can anyone help me out here ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMS Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 you have to boot into the dvd open terminal cd /usr/misc/ ./script.sh YourLeopardVolume Run it like 3 times it should boot without the DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviemonster Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 you have to boot into the dvdopen terminal cd /usr/misc/ ./script.sh YourLeopardVolume Run it like 3 times it should boot without the DVD thanks for the reply, but could you be a little more specific (just to be sure, takes long time to boot the dvd |: ) my leopard is on the second partision which is called LEOPARD so i type cd /usr/misc/script.sh LEOPARD and do this 3 times to be sure, then it should work am i right ? what exactly does this do if i may ask ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMS Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 It makes it bootable and youll have to cd into /usr/misc/ than do ./script.sh LEOPARD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwannasave Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I had the same problem. Even though I did that script.sh, I could not boot from my new install. So I went back to Brazilian method and saw that I had to run the 9a581PostPatch.sh from an USB drive. After that it worked fine, the only thing is that it will not recognise my network port, so I have no networking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviemonster Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 it worked once for me but after the next reboot it gets stuck at the grey screen with the apple logo and rotating loading icon. now i can't boot again.. back to windows. any ideas ? i've been trying to install Natit and Titan display drivers and i failed so could that have messed it up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junjunkie Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 It never worked for me. I had to download a "Make Leopard Bootable" or something from Demonoid. I formatted the HD with the Defiants' DiskUtil from this CD, install the package and after all that I could install ToH"s Leopard. And now it's bootable!!! Hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberk007 Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 i need to get that Make Leopard Bootable file, is there anyway someone can link me to the file or send me an invite to demonoid so i can download it plz? Thanks much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 one thing you can try that worked for me (found in another thread can't remember who posted but credit goes to them) is: with the DVD in the drive select it from your boot menu. When Darwin prompts you to hit F8...hit it and type in: 'rd=diskXsY' where X equals your drive number and Y is the partition. I have two drives connected so mine turned out to be disk1s1 for leopard while my tiger drive is disk0s1...everyones might be different so you'll have to know this information or take a shot in the dark with disk0s1. goodluck & hope it helps until you find a permanent method for the boot issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberk007 Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 that thing kernalzero said got me to boot, but if i dont do that it just hangs at the grey apple and pinwheel loading thing but never boots. Is there anyway i can make it work without booting from DvD? That or im still looking for Make Leopard Bootable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mousse-T Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Hi Folks, i tried it with the DVD /usr/misc/script.sh <DRIVE> ! Yeah i can boot now -> until i got a PANIC..... whats wrong now?! under 10.4.10 i had now probs, so should i change some BIOS settings?! really strange !! Please, help ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djh816 Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 where can i get this script?? it's not on my ToH RC2 disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkfans Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 I still cant install it, I formated my hd to MAC Journal using the boot to HD disc, then restarted, I got "cant find /library/****/com.apple.Boot.plist". then I boot from the ToH disc, after loading some files, plug-ins, the background was still black, it automatically restarted before I can see anything, like the welcome screen. Then I tried again boot from "Leopard Boot to HD" disc, restore the ToH to hd, after restarted, showed the same thing as if boot from HoT DVD, didn't even finish loading all the files. I don't know if there's something wrong with my MBR, coz later I formated it back to NTFS, and installed XP in WinPE, after restart, cant boot to hd, "cant find ntldr", I already set that partition to active, now I can only ghost. any though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joesp Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 It makes it bootable and youll have to cd into /usr/misc/ than do ./script.sh LEOPARD I have the same problem but with tiger, which is on disk1s1. I don't have that script on my harddrive or my dvd when i used the rd= as mentioned in this thread, i got a gray screen that said you need to restart your computer. That didn't help. When i startup with dvd in and type -v get and error localhost diskarbitrationd[33]: unable to mount /dev/disk1s1 (status code 0x00000047) any help is appreciated, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 definately use the post patch v0.1 (its in these forums somewhere, just do a quick search). it gives you options and does all of the terminal stuff for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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