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Leopard boot problem (after ToH DVD install)


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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 ?

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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

 

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 ?

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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.

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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 ?

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 !

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  • 2 weeks later...

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?

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  • 5 weeks later...
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.

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