David Eliott has just released a new version of his modified boot-132 bootloader.
One of the new things it can do is to load kexts from an .img file which contains kexts (or even an mkext) and boot Leo.
That means you can have two mkexts, one folder with kexts on the .img file and the folder with kexts from your installed system
or even two folders with mkexts.
How does it work?

Basically, you create a flat dmg with the kexts in a folder and the bootloader will load them for you. This means quite a lot;
you can boot from a retail Leo DVD and install it, you can update straight from apple, you can reinstall and not have to add
the same kexts to your install every time. The bootloader behaves like the linux kernel: you can use an mboot (a patched syslinux
was used) compatible bootloader which tells to boot-dfe about the .img file (the ramdisk or initrd, as it's known by the linux users)
and boot-dfe is going to use the kexts (or mkext) from it.
What does it do?

This new boot-dfe has been tested with the retail Leopard DVD and it can boot, install and run Leopard without having to build
a modified DVD.

Infos about hardware:

[OFF]: Vanilla = Original Mac OS X DVD or Mac OS X Installation with running original mach_kernel.

AMD systemz isn't supported.
To use Mac OS X Vanilla DVD needs a Intel "Mac" closer systemz, like a Intel Core processos and Intel Chipset. This is only combination supported by "Vanilla Installz", other processors and chipsets isn't supported by "Mac OS X Vanilla systemz"

You *can* boot and install retail on any SSE2 or better Intel pre-Core architecture systems, but you wont be using the vanilla kernel. See below for link

This is how it's done: you burn an ISO (which has the bootloader on it) to a CD/DVD, after it gets to the boot
prompt, you press ESC or ENTER and it prompts for a new BOOT DEVICE, you swap the BOOT CD/DVD with the LEO Retail DVD, you press
enter and it shows you the name of the bootable partition from the DVD, you press enter and Leo starts to load.

Quick resume about "oh, what to do now?"

#1 - Burn .iso on a CD;
#2 - Boot this CD;
#3 - When Darwin prompt appear, eject CD and put Mac OS X Leopard Retail DVD;
#4 - Press enter (or -v and enter...wherever...)
#5 - After install, boot using CD boot again and install .kext needed...and usual files.
#6 - Done!

For the time being, you cannot have this bootloader on an USB stick and have it boot the Retail Leopard DVD. The reason why this
happens is related to the way the BIOS handles DVDs and optical media: there's no BOOT DEVICE associated with an optical drive
which the BIOS has not booted from. Basically, this is like the disk swap trick known to the PlayStation gamers.
You can already put this on an USB stick/CD/DVD and boot a vanilla install (vanilla= no added kext, no replaced kext on the partition).

As usual, this only works for compatible machines(that means you still can't boot a vanilla system on AMD, they need specialised patches).

What are you going to do in the future?

David Eliott said he'd merge some of the things from Chameleon into boot-dfe. Those involved in the development of Chameleon will merge
the support for ramdisks into Chameleon and more effort will go into making the distribution 100% legal.
Work might(read: should, in the very close future) also go into making Chameleon boot the Retail DVDs when loading the bootloader from the HDD.

User guide and link to the ISO

This ISO needs to be modded (add dsmos to the Extensions folder) in order to be able to boot Leo.

Credits for this go to:

David Eliott: for modding boot to allow us to boot from Retail Leopard DVDs;

Kabyl: for modding boot to allow the usage of a separate folder on the disk and merging features from Chameleon to boot-dfe-146;

bumby: for compiling syslinux and figuring out how to build the ISO;

ToH and HMBT: tests and improvments;

Superhai, STiCKpIN: for good methods and research day-by-day;

Patched 'boot' file supporting JMicron, Boot.plist and device-properties strings: here

Download .ISO Original with project kexts (all your need is here - noobs try this first): http://www.mediafire.com/?uwd9dtttjfk

Download .ISO with modified kexts: http://www.mediafire.com/?1ne1zbl4znv

Superhai Method to edit image: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=803725

STiCKpIN *NEW* Method to boot from USB Stick (needs Windows): http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=115064

HMBT Auto-Patch for edit image (Beta): http://homepage.mac.com/f41qu3/.Public/CDBoot_RC2.sh

Chameleon for Hard Disk: http://tinyurl.com/6je4eh

If you had problems, need advice, and other help type, go here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=114651

Boot Retail Leo and Vanilla installs on Intel SSE2 and better - Boot 132 on pre-Core !, It is possible to boot the retail Leo DVD on Pentium 4-class CPUs: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=123841


Cheerz,

Tested personally... it works perfectly!!! Installing and updates from Apple's auto updater... A landmark in OSX86 History!!!

P.s.: tested on a GA-945GCMX-S2 with E2200 processor, on an Acer Aspire 5920G. Perfect!

NOTICE: Once the system is installed you can put up chameleon 1.0.11 and put dsmos.kext manually in the extensions of the hdd to make it boot without the "magic" CD

More opinions? Results? Let's post what you thinkin' about this...

Yeah, I was reading about it on his site. DFE is a very talented person.

So as for now, this will let you boot a retail disc, and use kexts that you put in a folder in a dmg file. But you would still need to installed chameleon or pc-efi after to get the hard drive to boot. Is that correct?

And if this is the case, is this really any different than having to install kexts by hand after the fact?

I can see this being very useful if it installed chameleon or pc-efi and brought up the bootloader. Otherwise wouldn't you need efi?

You can boot directly from a Retail DVD with essentially 2 kexts.

There's nothing to stop you putting chameleon on there & installing it in the same pass..

Awe man, this is awesome! I just wish there was some way to use it on AMD. Oh, well...guess it's time for an upgrade!

Where do we add the extensions needed? I'm going to add a few but I would like to know where they go.

Anyone tried this with Snow Leopard.

For Snow not done. Need modified bootloader.

This is neat, just tried it. It booted to the background, booted Leopard DVD and spun the beachball for a long time (10 minutes?) until I reset it. How can I diagnose the problem, maybe I can do verbose on booting the DVD. This I tried on a Biostar 945G 775SE with C2D. It is currently running 100% on 10.5.4.

I also tried it on my iMac Core Duo and it booted to the installer no problem. In System Profiler it does not know it's an iMac but just "Mac", and the resolution is not full 1680x1050, some VESA default I guess.

Don't just burn the ISO, you NEED FIRST to put DSMOS.KEXT into initrd.img, otherwise, the spinning beach ball of death is what you get! That's why it worked in the iMac and not in your hack!

My process (DVD still freezes however)
• Mount the ISO
• Copy the initrd.img to the local disk (Desktop or whatever)
• Mount the initrd.img with the finder
• Edit the Extensions folder by adding dsmos.kext
• Use the windows program MagicISO within crossover or darwine to edit the iso, removing the old initrd.img and replacing it with the modified one
• Save
• Burn the newly modified .iso

Again, this works somewhat for me (I can see the kexts being read before the disk boots) but I get a spinny beachball as soon as the grey screen for the installer comes up. If someone has a better method, or can tell me what I'm missing besides dsmos.kext, I'd appreciate it. Good luck all.

I should also mention I'm running a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 board with an E6700 C2D and a nvidia 7600 GT.

how about put it in a usb stick and let mobo boot from usb device? EFiX would be doomed

permissions maybe ....

try this:

http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/amerikan.../post-2775.html


Just change the "count" in dd to fit your needs ...

A driver to handle CD/DVD-R boot is needed to allow booting from the CD/DVD drive using the bootloader in an USB Stick. Right now, only the swapdisk is possible, because BIOS can directly boot it and no driver is needed, but who knows in the (very near?) future...

Guys, no hard, simple method. I mark in red "what to do"...but, post here too:



Only this, I resume (again):

#1 - Burn .iso on a CD;
#2 - Boot this CD;
#3 - When Darwin prompt appear, eject CD and put Mac OS X Leopard Retail DVD;
#4 - Press enter (or -v and enter...wherever...)
#5 - After install, boot using CD boot again and install .kext needed...and usual files.
#6 - Done!

I did exactly that a couple of times (first with the default iso, then with inserted dsmos.kext) in both cases the further I got was the stars background and a nice beachball.

I know is not an hardware related problem, since my computer is able to boot an installation made with the retail dvd using another leopard install (I just have to delete AppleCPUEnergy, and add dsmos and pcefi).

I got dsmos.kext properly loaded, I could see how it was loaded before the kext on the dvd were. But again...beachball.

That's how I did (but didn't pass the beachball)

1.- Extracted initrd.img with Winiso
2.- Inserted dsmos.kext with Transmac
3.- Deleted original initrd.img and insert new initrd.img with Winiso
4.- Burn.

Post detailed specs of your hardware. Including chipsets too.

Asus P5KR, P35 + ICH9R
Intel E6600
Sapphire x1950 Pro
2x 1gb Kingston DDR2 800
3x SATA2 Seagate HDD AHCI configured.
SATA Sony DVD Recorder
PCI Pinnacle 300i DVB-T Tuner
PCI SoundBlaster Audigy2
PCI Realtek 8139 NIC

The DVD is a DVD9 backup from a retail 10.5.2 install disc (h-mol1052.dmg)

As I said, my system is pretty compatible (just the onboard Attasic L1 NIC doesn't works). The only modifications to a retail installation (from a working system) I need in order to get Leopard booting is removing AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext, adding dsmos.kext, and installing PCEfi...with that the system boots properly. Then I just need to install the standart video&audio mods.

Btw, may this method help for those with ACPI DSDT tables problems?

Regards

Try install using Chameleon.

Install first system, reboot, boot with CDBoot, install Chameleon and kexts, reboot without CDBoot.

Goodluck,

Edit: AppleEnergy.kext?

Errr...woulnd't that completly miss the point of all this stuff? Booting and installing retail dvd´s?

I already can install with a retail dvd from an already installed Leopard system. But that makes you install a hacked dvd before you are able to install the retail one.

Isn't CDBOOT mean to save you from that?

My plan was:

1.- Use cdboot to install directly from the retail dvd
2.- Use Transmac or something else to delete AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext, and install dsmos.kext
3.- Install PCEfi, or Chameleon

But sadly I couldn't pass the beach ball mouse pointer.



I meant AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext

I believe this bug is related with your video card. I'm testing in Intel GMA950 with Leopard and Snow and worked fine.

This is a first version, I (and team) can't guaranteed that I would work with all hardwares existing.

We see bugs in this version to try fix in nexts.

Cheerz,

My video card is not recognized at all by Leopard or Tiger, in fact it needs patched binaries to run, otherwise I only get VESA video (which is exactly what I get with this cdboot), so I doubt it had something to do with it.

Anyway, I really hope all this stuff improves, it will be really revolutionary if finally works as it was intended .

Sorry, but this iso image will not work for us.

" However, when used correctly it is fully capable of booting an unmodified OS X Leopard DVD. To do so you merely need to provide whatever extensions you need to make OS X work in your initrd file" ( http://tgwbd.org/darwin/boot.html )

If someone knows what kexts are needed on your hardware, try to mount your own initrd.img


@Guedes: can you post your initrd.img for xbx2 ?

k.i.s.s

e a original do cd, somente com o dsmos.kext, o HMBT esta preparando um patch para q se possa por o dsmos e outras kexts que possam ser necessarias a chip7 nao intel.

aviso loqo que os testes terminem.

My initrd file is original from download. No changes. Kexts are on /Extra/Extensions folder inside initrd image.

Kexts: http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/3634/picture1os3.png (Running on Snow)

Cheerz,

Ok, be happy!

@ Guedes Jr

that dsmos.kext you uploaded worked for me!!!!!!!..... i didn't go all the way yet but, i got past the beach ball!!!!!

Ok, now load and when choosing the language, gives east message "is not possible to be installed in this computer"

My pc; Gigabyte ep35-ds3l

Hi,

sorry but you try install RESTORE DVD, and this dont works.... only RETAIL DVD is works. becouse RESTORE only can be instlaed in SAME HARD. Ei restore for MB only will intaled in another MB.....

Hey guys, just one question....
The 132 works on non vanilla system, or i need a hacked kernel too?
I don't have a vanilla system, it boots ok, but i take a black screen after the initrd load the kexts, i've made a quick test here, i need to put the dsmos in the initrd yet, probally tomorrow i'll.
Thanx for this how to f41qu3, and Gu3d3s for the help and uploads.

Just a quick guide to add kexts and make iso from OS X.

Download this package

Open terminal

Make a directory

copy following from the package into newiso:
- boot
- initrd.img
- isolinux.bin
- isolinux.cfg
- mboot.c32

to edit initrd.img set rw permission

then you should open it

now copy the kext you need into /Volumes/initrd/Extra/Extensions/

I suggest you add dsmos.kext NVkush.kext and if you have alc889 also HDAenabler.kext and if you need kext to boot your root device also
One thing to notice, the kexts need this in the info.plist file:


or


or they will not load. To add those properties you can use nano and need to be added at the end of the plist file just before the last lines:

If you need a bigger image you may resize it with this comman, choose appropriate size

when you are finished adding you eject your initrd image

now you need to create your iso

and then burn new.iso with your favorite burner (first try with a cd-rw disc so you can redo it later iwthout wasting cdr disc)

Sorry friend, but at the time only vanila system can take advantage of this

TallonKrd

" - sounds like you have a restore disc or something similar. What are your specs, what disc are you using, and what modifications did you make to the iso?"

I am using dvd of installation of MacBook.

I modified iso it with ultraiso in Windows

Sorry my english

Wow! Now it works!

Guedes, I only added your initrd.img using WinIso and it works.

My iso, with dsmos.kext added: http://www.4shared.com/file/53547099/b8769...ABYL-BUMBY.html

Absolutely and utterly cool... this just works...

I have made a pretty generic BOOT-132 disc... It has a lot of kexts in it..

If you can install the vanilla kernel with the kalway disc you should be able to use this boot iso to install the retail dvd..


http://www.mediafire.com/?1ne1zbl4znv

Hi!
I just added my AppleAHCIPort.kext that supports the Dell Dimension 9200(XPS410) AHCI in RAID mode and VIOLA! it booted and installed!


SticMAN

TallonKrd:

I have a XFX 7600GT 256 and it works oob with the Retail DVD, only without QE/CI and at low resolution.
You must complete the installation and then add the string or NVInject.

So it can't be used for a clean installation from a formatted hard drive???

Another question: How can I know which kexts I should put into the kext folder?

I mean I guess I have to put 2 kexts for the audio (alcinject and applehda), but how can I know if I should add more kexts to the iso?

Well for one, ALL the kexts you used during your previous installs to get your stuff working, ie controller kext, Audio, video injector etc!
The DSMOS kext should already be in the initrd.img, if not add it for good measure!
If you only loaded the two Audio kexts and the rest worked OTB then you should be fine!


SticMAN

This is not your .iso, this link is from #chameleon room. Please, give correct credits.

Confirmed working on DFI Lanparty DK P35-TRS.

Feedback:

I couldn't seem to get HDAEnabler and my AppleHDA.kext loaded though. I had to do that manually.

Reboot seems to hang with added older ACPIPlatform.

Hopefully what we can see in the future:

-Direct boot to first HDD or boot selector without having to type 80

-ability to add device id manifests instead of adding complete older system kexts to boot from (ich8, ich9/r)

-ability to add efi hex strings directly into the systems boot.plist

-ability to boot from usb flash drive


Great work to everyone involved!

Congrats and thanks!!!

-Stell

How to install chameleon 1.0.11 ?
thank you

This is great work, thanks to all who have contributed.

I have a core2 quad system currently running 10.5.4 and pc-efiv8 so I have efi strings instead of injectors for graphics and sound. The only way my system differs from that on my real macs is that I have macnub's modified SMBIOS, dsmos.kext, no AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext and HDAEnabler.kext.

I hope I'm not going to be reinstalling from my retail Leopard disk any time soon, so I don't have an immediate use for this amazing new boot cd image.

Here's something that strikes me which I would like your thoughts on.

If instead of macnub's SMBIOS I use SMBIOSEnabler.kext from this initrd.img, and if I also have the IntelCPUMdisabler.kext and dsmos.kext in place (all set to root/console loading) then I should be able to add back the latest genuine AppleSMBIOS.kext and AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext without any ill effects.

Not only that but if say 10.5.5 comes out and the delta update contains a new AppleSMBIOS and its update script tries to load Dont Steal MacOS X.kext again, then these new kexts with their higher loading priority should be able to deal with both of these situations and allow what would otherwise have been 'dangerous' updates to work via the normal software update mechanism.

Maybe I've misunderstood, but if this is true then this to me is at least as valuable as being able to use the .iso image to boot directly from a retail DVD.

USE chameleon Installer .
checkout my first post ,Link below Sign

What a brilliant work

Guys quick note:

Only possible install Leopard Retail DVD's - "Mac OS X Install DVD"

Restore Discs not allowed.