BadAxe2 GUID efi_v8 Super Simple Guide.

Here you go, this guide is intended to be the most simple straight forward way to get Leopard installed on a GUID partition using efi_v8 and then seamlessly upgrade to Leopard 10.5.2 with the graphics update.
First I need to give props to everyone who helped me get this far in such a short period of time:
Weaksauce12, theotherone, gotoh, Taruga, iGuru (macdot.nub), netkas, Devin, and many others.

What you need:

(1) Kalyway 10.5.1 Install DVD
(2) Taruga's AppleHDAPatcher_v1.16 and
the STAC9274D_83847621.txt file.
(3) The pc_efi_v80 file
(4) nvInject 0.2.1 (for nVidia Cards).
(5) XcodeTools (you need the plist editor to edit your video card total VRAM).
(6) Apple 10.5.2 standalone update
(7) Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 (standalone)
(8) A USB thumb drive formatted FAT32 (named "bootloader")

Also BEFORE YOU START take a look at the following links which are pictures of how MY bios is set up, My computer is moderately overclocked, so look past that part but the rest of the settings are where you should start also PRIOR to setting up your Hackintosh BadAxe2, I am using Bios version 2813.
Keep in mind that I am water cooled so my fan speed controllers are OFF in bios, if you are on AIR, leave these ON.

Bios 1
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Bios 5
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Bios 12

Here are some Links:

STAC9274D_83847621: Click Here (copy everything to a textedit file and save it to desktop, name it "STAC9274D_83847621.txt").
Taruga's Patcher v1.16: Click Here (save this to the same folder as the .txt file on your desktop)
APPLE 10.5.2 Standalone Update: Click Here
Graphics Update Standalone: Click Here
Xcode Tools: Click Here
pc_efi_v80: Click Here
nvInject: Click Here


Gather all these things together and get ready to rock.

This guide assumes you have a separate drive to install Leopard to and that you may or may not already have XP or Vista installed on another drive and that the computer is working fine under windows.

Step 1:

Copy the unzipped pc_efi_v80 file to the root of the USB drive name the USB drive "bootloader" (you can do this in Windows)

Step 2:

Place the Kalyway DVD in your DVD drive, reboot and hit the F10 key immediately when you see the Intel splash screen.
When the boot selector screen appears, choose the DVD drive where your Kalyway DVD is and hit enter.
The machine will boot to the DVD and it may take several minutes to do so.
Once you are at the install screen, choose your language and hit the next (blue arrow) button.
Once a menu screen appears at the top of the monitor window, select Utilities and scroll down and select "Disk Utility". Disk Utility launches.

Select the drive you want to install Leopard on, click on the partition button and select "1 Partition" as your option (keep it at one partition for now until you master this technique, then later if you want to get fancy you can redo it all with more partitions).
Name your partition "Leopard" (for now, you an always change it later).
Click on the "Options" button and make sure that the "GUID Partition Scheme" radio button is checked.
Click Apply and this will format the drive as GUID.
Close Disk Utility when it is finished.

Step 3:

Launch Terminal from the Utilities Menu.

Enter This: (hit enter).
you will see something like this:


As you can see from this example:

"disk1" is the actual (Leopard) hard drive
"disk1s1" is the EFI partition (on the Leopard hard drive)
"disk1s2" is YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION (on the Leopard hard drive)

Just accept this as fact, no need to go into it deeper here, however depending on how many drives you have in your system, the numbers may be slightly different, for example, your Leopard drive may be disk3, disk4 or disk5, it does NOT matter just pay attention to what disk YOUR Leopard partition is on, its that simple.

Step 4:

Place the USB drive named "bootloader" in your USB slot.
Go back to Terminal

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 and 2 for YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION numbers) and hit enter.

Terminal will respond with Disk1s2 (or whatever you chose) unmounted

Now we are going to change the directory to the USB drive so in Terminal type this:

(hit enter)

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 and 2 for YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION numbers) (hit enter)

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 and 2 (of "disk1s2" only not "boot1h") for YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION numbers) (hit enter)

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 (of "disk1") for YOUR ACTUAL HARD DISK NUMBER, NOT THE PARTITION NUMBER !!!!!!)


(at this point the drive will remount and you can continue with the 2nd half of the EFI install)

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 and 2 for YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION numbers) and hit enter.

Terminal will respond with Disk1s2 (or whatever you chose) unmounted

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 and 2 for YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION numbers) (hit enter)

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 and 2 for YOUR LEOPARD PARTITION numbers) (hit enter)

Enter This:


(substitute the 1 (of "disk1") for YOUR ACTUAL HARD DISK NUMBER, NOT THE PARTITION NUMBER !!!!!!) (hit enter)



Step 5:

Now we need to make that partition BOOTABLE. Still in Terminal follow these steps:

Enter This:


(it reads like this: fdisk(space)-e(space)/dev/rdisk1 (substitute the 1 for YOUR ACTUAL HARD DISK NUMBER, NOT THE PARTITION NUMBER !!!!!!) (hit enter)

fdisk answers:

could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1>

Enter This: update (hit enter)

fdisk answers:
Machine code updated.
fdisk:*1>

Enter This: f Y
(Y = the 'Y' in your rdiskXsY remember this is the "Leopard" Partition we are trying to make bootable) (hit enter)

fdisk answers:
Partition 2 (or whatever partition is YOUR new Leopard partition) marked active.
fdisk:*1>

Enter This: w (hit enter)

fdisk answers:
Device could not be accessed exclusively.
A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n]

Enter This: y

fdisk answers:
Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1>

Enter This: q (hit enter)

Once this process is complete, type exit and hit enter (repeat until Terminal replies with "Process Completed").

We are done in Terminal for now, so quit and go to the Kalyway installer segment.

Step 6:

Now here is where you will select which drive to install Leopard to so go through those motions but make sure to select "Customize" once you get to the Installer portion after selecting the Leopard drive.

You will ONLY Make 2 selections here:

(1) Vanilla Kernel (and) Vanilla Kernel with AHCI Fix (make sure both are checked).

(2) nvInject for Desktop (this is assuming you are using an nVidia graphics card).

NOTHING ELSE SHOULD BE CHECKED.......PERIOD!!!!!

IMPORTANT MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE that you de-select the GUID bootloader which is usually checked by default .
We already installed the bootloader in the previous steps so if you forget to de-select this or you select the MBR bootloader you will screw all the work we just did and have to start over, your machine will not boot.
Once you have selected the 2 items and made sure bootloaders are NOT selected, continue on to the installation process.

The installer usually takes about 10-15 minutes, when it is done restart the computer and press the F10 key just after the Intel splash screen comes up and select your Leopard drive and hit enter.

The machine will boot to that drive and within a minute you will be selecting your keyboard layout, filling in all the name and phone number screens and sitting at the desktop shortly after that.

Step 6:

Now you will want to do the 10.5.2 update,
The following instructions are taken directly from Devins guide and parts are taken from a post by "theotherone" so special thanks go to Devin and theotherone for this killer method which works for me every single time FLAWLESSLY.

So here we go,
Mount the 10.5.2 image to your desktop but don't launch the installer just yet.
Open Terminal from the Applications/Utilities folder.

Enter This :
(hit enter)

enter your password (hit enter).

Enter This:
(hit enter)

Now leave Terminal open and running in the background while you launch the 10.5.2 update package, go ahead and run the installer and MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN YOU DO NOT REBOOT when it is finished, we are not done in Terminal yet.

Once the installer is complete leave the Installer Window open, it will show the "restart" button but you can leave it open and work in the Terminal for these next few steps.

Ok so now we are back in Terminal.

Hold down the "Ctrl" (Control) key and hit the "C" key.

Enter This:
(hit enter)

Now, use your arrow keys to scroll down to this line: /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext

Place the cursor over the "X" in "Dont Steal Mac OS X (using your arrow keys), and then use the backspace key to delete everything. You want to replace that line with dsmos.kext
so when you are done the line looks like this: /System/Library/Extensions/dsmos.kext
Do not change anything else, that is all you need to change for this step, you may have to use a combination of the backspace key and the delete key to remove everything before typing.

Now make sure the cursor is in a clear space below that line you just changed so that you don't accidentally change something else.

Hold down the "Ctrl" (Control) Key and hit the O key (not the zero key) (hit enter)

Hold down the "Ctrl" (Control) Key and hit the X key

Type Exit and hit enter and repeat until "Process Completed" is shown.

Close Terminal and reboot.

You will now reboot into a good working Mac OSX 10.5.2 system which is almost fully functional.

(YOU MAY press the F10 key immediately after the Intel splash screen appears and make sure that the boot drive is the Leopard drive if you decided NOT to follow my advice and unplug all other drives prior to using this guide)


Step 7

Now you need to install the nvInject 0.2.1 kext into your System/Library/Extensions folder
But before you do that you will want to edit the plist so that it correctly reflects the Total Vram for YOUR nVidia card.
To do that is really simple however because everyone will have a different card I will refer you to "gotoh's" most incredible site for nvInject

Click Here and at the bottom of this page are the instructions for editing the plist for nvInject.kext
gotoh has already outlined how to do this so I wont go into it here.

If you have not done this already Click Here go to Apple.com and register (free) and download Xcode 3.0.


Once you have downloaded Xcode 3.0 install it and open ApplePlist Editor.
gotoh recommends using ApplePlist Editor as opposed to PlistEdit Pro or Text Edit for many reasons......why re-invent the wheel? Follow his lead and just do it.

Bottom line, you need a properly configured kext for your video card to use all of the onboard memory, so get the tool, get the kext, edit the plist and install the kext.

Whichever way you decide to go, you DO NOT have to reboot BEFORE completing the next step below, mainly because Taruga's patcher repairs permissions after it is finished and it will also repair the permissions on the nvInject.kext you just modified (and installed) which will save you a reboot.

Step 8

Drag the STAC9274D_83847621.txt file (you copied and saved to a folder on your desktop before you started this proceedure) onto Taruga's AppleHDAPatcher_v1.16 (you downloaded and saved to the same folder) and let it do it's thing. Once it is complete, reboot the computer and you should now have a fully functioning 10.5.2 system with working audio, networking, video and all.

Step 9

Once you get back to the desktop and have determined that everything is working, you can launch the Leopard Graphics 1.0 update and let it do it's thing.
Reboot and you are FINISHED!

This process has worked perfectly for me now several times in a row as I tried to perfect a method, so far everything is fully functional, I did NOT have to replace ANY kexts other than the nvInject.kext for my video card, and use Taruga's patcher, I have 4 hard drives, 2 (ATA) DVD drives, and everything works perfectly.
The ONLY thing I have not tried are the additional SATA ports.
Since I don't have a need for them right now, I have not pursued the fix, however it is out there so if you want to go for it...then go for it.

I hope this helps some people that are looking for a quick easy guide for 10.5.2 , GUID and efi_v8 on the BadAxe2.

I love this system.
Mine works perfectly, scores mad high on GeekBench and runs ALL of the Pro Apps without any problems whatsoever.
Again special thanks to all the other x86 brethren out there who are moving and shaking this thing...it really is a fun and rewarding hobby.
Finally, you really need to support Apple and pay for YOUR copy of Leopard, it is totally unethical and illegal to use a downloaded copy of OSX.
Enough said there.
Enjoy.

Hi,

nice topic!!!

but u marvell HD controler is working?

thx.

Hey Guedes Jr,
No I have not tried to make the Marvel SATA work, I have no need for it so I have not included that in this guide, I know a solution is out there and some have made it work but from me, more drives are not necessary.

Awesome job Team Scream! Thank you very much!

I installed using your instuctions on a D975xbx2, but after the OS install is finished and i reboot, i get a B0 error and nothing loads.

Has anyone else seen this?

i have a b0 error too.
found something on wiki

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/B0_error

but still not working (when i must choose start up disk, there is only Network Startup)


UPDATE
when begins darwin countdown, hit F8 then type
rd=disk0s2
(or what u used when you install mac os)

Sorry guys for the late reply, it has been a hectic few days at work for me.

Anyway, you select the drive you are going to install to just before the install begins, but after you have done everything in Terminal as listed in the guide.

If you are asking me "when to select the startup disk" AFTER you have installed Kalyway? then that is the F10 part I refer to in the guide.
This will be AFTER you have installed Kalyway 10.5.1, when the system restarts, as soon as you see the Intel splash screen, you hit the F10 key a few times, it will bring up a small screen which has all of your drives listed, so if you have more than 1 and they are the exact same drive, it can be confusing because you cant tell which one has Leopard installed on it so you may have to reboot a couple of times until you pick the right one.

One other thing, if you are getting the B0 error, and you only have one drive installed then you messed something up during "Step 5" which is where we make the partition bootable.
You may need to go back and redo those steps.

When I was first going down this road, I tried to make the process easy on myself by removing all other hard drives but the one I wanted Leopard on, it was a clean drive and I made one partition so that there was no guesswork involved.
That way you can go back later and hook up the rest of the drives AFTER you get Leopard installed and stable.

Ramjet has a post on how to make the partition active after the fact so maybe his method will work for you?
Visit This Link

Hope this helps.

First off - Thanks for the concise write up!

I just tried this and was not able to boot the newly installed kalyway 10.5.1
When restarting, the "Leopard" drive does not show as bootable. I'm about to try again

3 questions:
• I can only use uppercase in the the USB thumb drive which is formated MSDOSFat32 and named bootloader. So I name it BOOTLOADER. I am assuming this is just a typo right?

• For Some Reason when I enter the fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 it doesnt tell me that it it couldnt ... it just says "Enter 'help' for information"
Why is that?

• In other BADAXE2 EFI_8 installs, I have installed EFI boot_v8, then rebooted, then installed boot_v7_guid_only.... We dont need to do that here? Do you know why not?


Note - I just tried it again twice and got the B0 error
Thanks,
Chris

Well, that is strange as it works fine for me, so I would suggest that you try using your method for making your partition bootable and see if you get anywhre with it.
The step by step I outlined has worked for me more than a few times now as I continue to try different kexts and things which ultimately result in needing to reinstall the OS.

....nice guide !

Oops, don't why i wrote this thing under the spoiler, but i think i won't mess up here
My way to get working hackintosh
boot from CD (i used kalyway 10.5.1)
goto Disk Utility
than go to partition, choose 1 partition. BUT use MBR not GUID
quit disk utility
do not go to terminal
then choose where you want to install Leo
at customize
You will ONLY Make 2 selections here:

(1) Vanilla Kernel (and) Vanilla Kernel with AHCI Fix (make sure both are checked).

(2) nvInject for Desktop (this is assuming you are using an nVidia graphics card).

and the last point (aaa..mm..where MBR and GUID, choose MBR)
than push install
also thanks for Chrismo, he said to me that it better to use MBR

only that way it works on my machine ( i don't know why)
and i tried to install it with Team Scream instruction (thank you for great faq!) i tried it at list for 6 times, but after first reboot, mac os didn't boot up (sorry for my English, i'm not very good in grammar teeheee)
but when i tried it my way, it was a first time i saw a apple welcome screen (welcome on different languages) and it still alive, even after reboot

is iDisk working (i need to sync Bookmarks and Keychains )

@Team Scream, I am really interested in getting this to work because i want to use the GUID scheme with my XBX2 so two quick questions 1) after the code: dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=400 count=1, i get resource is busy, what do i do, just continue or what? 2) when i get to the installer menu my leopard partition is not listed. Now if i mount it with disk utility after your instructions its list again but, was i not suppose to do this and was it suppose to automatically mount? (oh well, 3 questions) Thanks alot and great work.

Hi everyone

caenis, make sure all volumes on your startup disk are unmounted beforehand.

Hope that helps.

This is a fantastic guide... props to Team Scream!

A few things that may need fixing...

First is that before applying the EFI to the drive it needs to be unmounted

Second, I've found that (for me) simply installing the v8 EFI wasn't good enough - I ran into this and it took me forever to finally give in -- I thought 'why do I need to install v7 and then v8, I'll just install v8!'!! Well for me that wasted a ton of my time... After failing to boot after many installs reinstalls and rereinstalls (I wish I saw your guide it would have helped me) I said -- something is wrong -- reread a few posts from other badaxe2 owners who indicated that v7 must be installed and THEN v8 can be installed right after.... Well each time an install happens you need to unmount the drive and after running the last dd command it will automatically remount...

So the full install would/should go something like this:

(installing the EFI stuff)

==========
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk1s2./boot_v7_guid_only
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s2 bs=512 count=1
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=400 count=1

(at this point the drive will remount and you can continue with the 2nd half of the EFI install)

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk1s2./boot_v8
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk1s2 bs=512 count=1
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=400 count=1
==========

Hope this helps some of you folks!

Dave

Dave that is fantastic, thanks for the comments, I will revise my guiide to reflect this as it seems a few people are having problems duplicating my efforts, I also DO NOT have a few problems other with this board have experienced so there may be some small difference that I am unaware of preventing some from following my method verbatim.
I will admit that the first few times I did a GUID install, I had to install v7 before V8 but after that i just started installing v8 and it worked.

Anyway thanks for the tips I really appreciate it , I will update asap.

I also changed your

so that it reads: diskutil unmount disk1s2 as it seems you dont really need to unmount the whole disk you can just unmount the partition to then go on and complete the installation of pc_efi_v8?

timewise, i believe you answered all three with your reply, i had three partitions instead of team scream's adive of one , so i unmounted to other two and when i started the efiv8 codes and i got the the troubled code, the resource wasn't busy! and thus it finished the process and mounted the hard drive as well. my guess is that since the entire process wasn't being completed, it didn't mount the volume at the end either. thanks guys!

@ anyone: i am trying to get my bad axe 2 running sweet with guid and efi8 and all you guys deserve extreme props for helping everyone out. after following literaly everyone's guides, i still have two questions that i don't seem to have an answer 1) every once and a while mac os x freezes for less that a minute and comes to its senses, it doesn't crash but stalls for a couple of seconds, anyone know why or is it just me? 2) i know there are threads everywhere about the power down, restart problems, since you guys have the hardware similar to mine, any suggestions on this nagging problems.

Again thanks for all the help!

Go into your energy saver panel in system preferences and make sure "put hard disks to sleep when possible" is NOT checked, the system will allow the drives to hibernate after a few and when you try to start working again you are put on hold until the drive spools up and sends the all clear message to the OS.
That may be what you are experiencing.
I am aware of that and I leave that item checked because I get up and walk away from my computer all the time, and I am trying to reduce my carbon footprint.......lol

Glad you got it to work.
Try checking Console next time it freezes and report back. I don't know if it will help you, but it might give you some insight.
Good luck.

For those that are having a hard time with the EFI install, may I suggest a file called "bootefi.zip" you run it a sa script (instructions are in the zip file) and it's prettymuch easy as pie. Got me through it, and I thought I'd never make it.

My experience with Apple hardware goes pretty much all the way back to the SE30 (yea I'm old) long before sleep was introduced.. When sleep was 1st introduced 'full sleep' even on Apple hardware had been less than rock solid and over the years of hardware and OS releases that reliability tended to be shaky at times... So from my previous experiences, I've had my current systems (Apple and Hacks) set to 'never sleep HD' and 'never sleep cpu' and 'yes to sleep display'... (more than) Once bitten twice shy I guess... For all I know sleep could be 'fine and dandy' with 10.5.x but given my past experience I'm done playing with it... :lol:As for other issues... once you have your install in place its time to look at your 'system.log' file -- you need to go to the Applications --> Utilities folder and launch Console (click on the 'Show Log List' if needed) and go down and click on the entry for 'system.log' and look for any errors you might see.. Many/most line items in this log are normal and/or unavoidable but if you see a line repeated over and over and over (lots of times) its a good indication you have a minor issue that need to be fixed. I had one about UUID error 35 that needed addressing... I can't remember exactly but the fix was pasting a few lines of text into the com.apple.Boot.plist file and then rebooting... This fix also solved a problem I had with Time Machine not wanting to back things up.DaveThats fine (I'm sure)... I was working on a 2 drive install where my 'prep drive' was disk0 and my 'good install' was done to disk1 so I just unmounted the whole thing since I didn't have any reason not to.... If unmounting just the partition works then its probably a better way to go (and pretty much an only way to go for those with only a single drive)Dave

the script that kynte2 refers to works wonders, it install mbr or guid 8.0 efi, highly recommended! on more things guys, have any of you had trouble with your mouse pointer during startup. I have tried different installs and they all seem to end with the same problem, after installing different drivers OR different hacks OR different program packages i eventually get my pointer suck at the top left hand corner after the desktop loads. Why is this? i tried to narrow it down to a specific program or driver, but its happened after installing iLife then a totally different install it happened after the 10.5.2 kalyway update. The reason i am totally confused is that none of the 10 different installs have a common pattern in installs. And if it were a hardware issue, the problem would pop up after the initial install because again, none of the installs have a common pattern in software. This is driving me nuts because many times, after having my system pretty close to how i like it, this problem pops up. So again, has anyone encounter a crazed point in the upper left hand corner or know solutions to this problem? thanks again guys.

Thanks for condensing the other extremely long thread into this extremely concise one.

I have installed over 3 times but can't get it to work with guid + efi_v80.

The only thing that does not match the reponse vs input is:

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1

fdisk answers:

could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1>

the above underlined words dont come up rest after that does...

hope that gives you a clue...

I have managed to install via the kalyway 10.5.1 using mbr and vanilla kernel. But i want the guid and efi_v80 if possible.

thanks for your time reading this

Do you have to use Kalyway 10.5.1? Are there any 10.5.2 disks that work?

Mike

I have not tried anything other than the Kalyway 10.5.1 disk using this method.

Thank god for this guide. I swear I have sifted through dozens of outdated guides for the past few days. Thanks for this and will try it out when my new BadAxe2 board comes in.

Great guide, I am thinking about redoing my system and will probably try your method. I installed everything awhile back; EFI with Vanilla, updated to 10.5.2. Everything works except I have never been able to get sleep working. Which is why I might try and reinstall. I am assuming your sleep function works? Also, I was curious why you did not select AHCI in the bios? Is it not necessary?

Does anyone know how to install to a BadAxe 2 board that has 2 video cards?

Looks like a nice guide and a natural progression from Weaksauces work.

I have a question however, I've been running Weaksauces guide sicne day one.

Which means I'm at 10.5.1 and efi 5.2

I'm curious if there is any way to upgrade to evi v8, GUID and keep all my existing setup and files and programs..

Or would I basically need to reinstall on a new partition?

Thanks

Hello Everyone,



Can anybody recommend a decent (good but not too expensive) sata hard drive for use with a BadAxe2 Hack Pro setup?



Please let me know.



Cheers!

Maconvert, it really shouldn't matter as far as the install, just what you want in a drive. Low power, quiet and average speed? Western Digital GP (green). Speed but limited storage? Raptor. Combination of all of the above? Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 series. I like www.storagereview.com for hard drive reviews, and www.silentpcreview.com for sound vs performance evaluation. Personally, I like silent machines. But I don't think the choice will affect the install process itself. Thankfully, that's one less variable to worry about.

Great guide, but it's gotten easier now

10.5.3 running perfectly here. Chose the Bad Axe 2 with the Quad q6600 because of this great guide. But it's a little out of date and it's not as difficult to get going anymore. Here's how I did it:

1. Install Kalyway 10.5.2, use lastnetkassmbios, vanilla kernel.
2. This next thing threw me for a while. System would boot with DVD in drive, but not when it was removed. Didn't get Darwin prompt at all. I discovered I have to run fdisk to make the install bootable. Do this from terminal after the new install is booted with the DVD still in the drive. Use "Step 5" from the guide.
3. Do the audio fix in the guide.
3. Install Kalyway 10.5.3, vanilla kernel.
4. Get NVinstaller v.52.pkg and install
5. Everything will be working. However, when I looked at the boot process using -v at the Darwin prompt, I saw that the PCGenUSBEHCI.kext was causing an error. Since I was able to use all USB items I tried (drives, M-Audio Transit audio interface, iLok key, etc.) I decided this was probably superfluous with 10.5.3 and I deleted it, trashed the kext cache, and there are now no errors on boot. The PCGenUSBEHCI.kext is found in /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns; use sudo rm in terminal to delete it. This is probably not necessary, but I don't like to see any errors on boot.

Everything works (motherboard audio is only stereo out, and I didn't try input or digital out, but I'd use the Transit USB for any serious recording anyway). USB audio is fine with a Skype USB handset too. Networking, Firewire, every app I own runs as expected, including Photoshop Elements, Pro Tools M-Powered, Office 2004, etc. (I don't have Final Cut). System profiler shows proper number of cores (4) and speed; it says there's no built-in audio, but that's the only error. Xbench score around 155. I'm going to start using this as a production machine.

I have exactly the same problem. I also don't get the underlined text after that command. After reboot I get a B0 error.

I've played around in Terminal and this what I've found. In the OP's instructions to make the partiton active we use the command "f Y" with y being rdiskXsY or the Leopard Partition.

In my case Y=2. However if I use the p command in fdisk (as mentioned in Rammjet's guide) to display the partiton table the only partition that has anything there is partiton 1. I changed the active partiton to 1 and after reboot I get a blinking cusor instead of the B0 error at startup.

Shouldn't the Leopard partiton info "Y" from the diskutil list match up with the partition 1 shown with the "p" command?

Anyone tried to install OSX using retail OSX DVD ? ...if it solve software updates issues I think it's worth of it.

Hello,

I have a couple of questions:

1) What kind of video card are you using?
2) Where did you get "lastnetkassmbios"?

Please let me know.

Thanks.

"last_netkas_smbios" is under the customization options on the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD (when you're installing Leopard using Kaly, that is), I believe under the Patches section. I'd advise installing Macdotnub's SMBIOS-27 after you've installed Leopard with that netkas smbios included; I've had good success with it on my BA2:

http://my.macdotnub.info/content/view/22/26/

Just use Kexthelper to install it:

http://www.cheetha.net/Kext_Helper/Software.html

I haven't been able to get this to work after 3 attempts; whenever I reboot I am met with the blinking cursor and nothing else. I've followed the guide to a T and tried both unmounting the entire disk and then only the partition prior to the EFI install, neither seems to work.

Please advise!

Have you tried using the bootefi shell script mentioned earlier in thread? Thats pretty much how I ended up getting around my problem.

Ok somehow I got it to work; I went into the bios, disk management, changed the SATA mode from IDE to AHCI, rebooted then it worked but the drives were showing up as external. I went back into the bios, changed it back to IDE, and now everything works fine

I'm glad you got it working through the BIOS, but I'm in the same boat as Garm. Whenever I've come across a blinking cursor after installation, it's been because the PC EFI was installed wrong. After reinstalling PC EFI, the system boots up fine.

Is anyone experiencing issues regarding information showed in system profiler (about this mac) after 10.5.4 update ? I have CPU C2D E6600 - 2,4ghz although sys. profiler is showing 4ghz instead. I'm using vanilla smbios.kext since sleep is fully working with it.

Hello, I have the same motherboard here, was wondering did u managed to get the sleep function working


Thanks

I'm using Netkas' smbios and sleep is working fine for me on 10.5.4 I think all the properties in the Hardware Overview in the system profiler are contained within smbios.kext. if you take a look at AppleSMBIOS with text edit there is stuff in there that looks like it relates to the info in the system profiler.

Unfortunately Textedit can't make sense out of about 95% of the file

I am a bit stuck on my install. I have used the guide with the 10.5.1 Kalyway DVD, done the install, got it to boot, and about 1 minute into the boot, the screen goes grey and it won't go any further. I am running the following:

Bad Axe 2 Bios 2831
Intel Xeon X3210 2.13 Quad Core
8Gb Ram
ATI Sapphire HD 2600XT

Any help anyone can give would be great. Been beating my head against it for a while now.



Forgot one thing that would be helpful - when booting into Safe mode (-x -v), it gets caught in a loop with "Package 0 didn't get an HPET" forever.

Thanks again for any help

I decided to torture myself by attempting a new installation on a 750gb drive.

I'm using the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD this time around, but I'm hoping this guide still works. So far I've had some problems.

My Hardware:
BadAxe2
Q6600
4GB memory
750GB Seagate SATA300


Is there supposed to be a space between /dev/rdisk1s2 and ./boot_v8 ?

Is step 4, line 7 correct the way it is?

or should it be


when I type it like the guide, terminal responds with:
-bash-3.2# ./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s2./boot_v8
Usage: startupfiletool [-v] <raw device> <file>
-bash-3.2#

When I add a space, terminal responds with:
-bash-3.2# ./startupfiletool /dev/disk0s2 ./boot_v8
HFS+ filesystem detected
Looking for 1 words free
reading 4096,4096
reading 8192,4096
Marking word 168
writing back 8192,4096
allocated blocks 32 at start 38144
-bash-3.2#

On step 4, line 3, there's a space:


I've seen it copied and pasted a few times in other posts, but I haven't seen anyone else have a problem with it.. suggestions?

Adding the space, I got Leopard to install and boot up once, but now I'm getting B0 errors every time.




Same problem over here. I'm using kalyway 10.5.2
I get that one line missing, but the rest of the install goes smoothly.

Then when I try to boot up, B0 error every time.

I got it to boot to the leopard desktop once, tried to restart, and now it gets the B0 error every time.

I tried booting off the DVD again and repeating step 5, but I've never seen

could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

It does give me:

fdisk: 1>
and
fdisk:*1>
even though my drive/partition is disk0s2. Does this matter?

Thanks for the great guide!

I am still not clear after reading the whole thread whether sleep works after following all of the steps. That is, when I am done with the steps in the guide, and I am enjoying 10.5.2 Leo, will sleep work?

The next thing I am not sure about is: if I follow this guide, is there a step-by-step guide to update to 10.5.4? (And still have sleep work?)

Thanks!

Craigolio

Hey guys,
Sorry I have not been in this forum for quite a while,
Work and life are in full effect and my time in here has suffered as a result.

Anyway this is EXACTLY how it is supposed to look, the way it is written in my guide:


I dont have an answer for why you are getting the errors after you get it installed, other than your hardware config is definitely different since you are using an ATI card right?
There is a space BETWEEN "startupfiletool" and the "/dev" so I hope that clears it up for you.
I have had issues with certain hard drives where I had to actually do a low level format of the drive to be able to partition using EFI_v8, if you have tried and failed more than once, it is probably time to do a low level format and try again, that has worked for me when I could not get past the exact steps you mentioned.

Now here is a longer work around method which will also work.
Maybe you have seen this page maybe not but this is the page I used to scale my guide down.
I found that i did not need to do things twics like the guide suggests.
Try it and see if it helps you out.
EFI guide

BUMP, I did not follow this guide to install Kalyway 5.2, but have it all working.

Why am I bumping this? I need help with booting.

For now, the way I boot is by changing the drive booting order. Once I put it on my IDE drive, if I boot with no CD in the drive, I get an underscore at the top left of the screen and it stays as is forever. The system does not boot. I put the CD, the system say to press a key to boot the CD, I DO NOT PRESS A THING! The countdown goes to 0 and mac OS boot PERFECTLY.

What can I do to fix this?

Thing to note, I installed Leopard on a seperate IDE drive, I have vista on SATA.

Also, would it be possible to use a software such as easyBCD to actually choose to boot leopard even if I have my vista HDD as the first to be booted?

I need some help. Been running super stable 10.5.1 Kalyway/BrazilMac install on my BadAxe2 for a while now, in triple boot config with W2K and Ubuntu w/Grub bootloader, MBR format OSX on its own drive, linux/w2k on one drive. I need to upgrade to 10.5.4. Can anyone point me to the simplest most effective method of upgrading? The forums have gotten way too confusing with all the options..

If you are running vanilla system with EFI emulation in MBR I think you should be fine with regular software update without any tweaking. But you have to be sure about that, otherwise you can brick your system.

I am, but I thought that the 10.5.2 update would brick it if I didn't follow a process. I'm looking for the correct process, but despite the searching haven't found one for my specific install. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong spots. I don't want to have to reinstall..

Go to Netkas's web page... you can find tutorial in some older posts. However, updating from 10.5.3. to 10.5.4. is without any issues - you can run it like on genuine mac.