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floe
Hi everyone,

I have my first hackintosh - a Thinkpad T60 biggrin.gif . I used the boot-132 cd image floating around somewhere
in the forums (generic.iso), installed to an external disk and cloned it back to an internal partition.

So far, I'm quite happy with the results, with one snag: I still need the boot cd to start it.
As I'm dual booting with a Gentoo Linux, I already have GRUB 0.97 installed and would
like to use it to start the boot-132 loader.

My partition layout (all are primary):
1. 100 MB ext2 - boot
2. 1.9 GB Swap
3. 70 GB ext2 - Linux root
4. 20 GB hfs+ - Leopard

I've copied the files "boot" and "initrd.img" from the cd to my boot partition and tried the following
GRUB entry:

CODE
title=Leopard
root (hd0,0)
initrd /boot/initrd.img
kernel /boot/boot


However, when using this entry, GRUB only aborts with an error along the lines of
"Linux kernel must be loaded before initrd".
I tried to look in the forums for this problem, but the search seems broken.

Can somebody give me a hint on how to fix this?

Many thanks in advance,
Yours, Florian
STLVNUB
Try this.

title=Leopard
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/boot
modulenounzip /boot/initrd.img

Need to put kernel first.
wmarsh
This method works for me.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry606752
floe
@STLVNUB: Thanks a lot, this works!
@wmarsh: I believe your method doesn't work with a vanilla install, but is rather meant for Kalway?

Anyway, thanks for your answers!
wmarsh
QUOTE(floe @ Aug 12 2008, 04:30 AM) *
@wmarsh: I believe your method doesn't work with a vanilla install, but is rather meant for Kalway?

Actually my method predated Kalyway's first Leopard DVD, and works fine with vanilla install, which is what I use.
jfMac
QUOTE(STLVNUB @ Aug 11 2008, 01:20 PM) *
Try this.

title=Leopard
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/boot
modulenounzip /boot/initrd.img

Need to put kernel first.



THANK YOU soooo much STLVNUB!

I'm running Ubuntu 8.4 and managed to get my Leopard installed (after combo update=10.5.4) using the "new" Bumby boot 132 cd with the Retail DVD method, but the start up with out cd has stumped me for a couple of day. First tried the pc_efi_v8 method using boot0/boot1h, but no joy wacko.gif . Began fooling with grub again after having to reinstall Ubuntu, because of my messing about with grub, efi and the partitions. BTW all works well with Leopard on GUID not MBR.
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