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dukebound85
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ok this is frustrating

 

i currently have kalyway 10.5.1 upgraded to 10.5.4 on my system on my gigibyte p35 ds3l board

 

i have 2 harddrives, both sata and formatted to mac extended journaled

 

here is the problem

 

i boot into the iso file (generic and ds4 ones, they both did this) and the prompt asks me for boot volume

 

i put in my retail leopard disc and select the empty mac formatted hd (which is 80)

 

it then gives me a message saying startup.plist can not be found or something. wont even start loading up leopard from the disk at all

 

any idea whats going on?

 

many thanks!

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MACinized
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ok this is frustrating

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here is the problem

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i put in my retail leopard disc and select the empty mac formatted hd (which is 80)

 

it then gives me a message saying startup.plist can not be found or something. wont even start loading up leopard from the disk at all

 

any idea whats going on?

 

many thanks!

pls. clarify

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MACinized
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my boot from cd command was ef. However, the boot screen gave me that option. It was in brackets. Took me forever to figure it out.

indeed. when u use boot-132 DISC, default option is your optical drive since it just loaded from a cd. u just got to press enter then. but be sure to wait for a while after putting-in your retail leopard dvd installer.

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Panja
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I have an HP dc7700 small form factor.

 

Intel c2d e6400 (2.13ghz)

Q965 motherboard (if I'm not mistaken)

4gb ram

MSI nx8400gs

PCI Realtek 8169s

 

What kext will I need to load or which ISO do I need to get a good bootloader for my system?

Can you please help me out?

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indeed. when u use boot-132 DISC, default option is your optical drive since it just loaded from a cd. u just got to press enter then. but be sure to wait for a while after putting-in your retail leopard dvd installer.

 

Correct! I have a simple tutorial here. I hope that can help.

 

Btw, unlike with other hack OS X distributions, updating to OS X 10.5.5 from Apple is pretty straightforward when using retail DVD with Boot-132. Just install, reboot with -v -f (on first boot only) and everything works perfect.

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Panja
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I cant get the retail disc to load...

I tried 3 different bootloaders (elastic, Generic and the standard one for n00bs).

Getting to the bootscreen, press enter, swap disc to retail and enter again.

 

Apple screen comes up and after 10-15 seconds I get the little stop sign...

Any idea?

 

It halts at: NVkush guesses your card is a Geforce 8400gs whit Generic ISO.

 

MY card is idd a 8400gs but it does not boot any further...

 

I have a 10.5.4 retail install DVD

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ninetto
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I cant get the retail disc to load...

I tried 3 different bootloaders (elastic, Generic and the standard one for n00bs).

Getting to the bootscreen, press enter, swap disc to retail and enter again.

 

Apple screen comes up and after 10-15 seconds I get the little stop sign...

Any idea?

 

It halts at: NVkush guesses your card is a Geforce 8400gs whit Generic ISO.

 

MY card is idd a 8400gs but it does not boot any further...

 

I have a 10.5.4 retail install DVD

 

Make sure you are booting to the right (clean!) install disk.

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RWE
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Hi everybody;

 

Sorry if its asked before but i'm lost in the threads -_-

 

I have a boot-132 system working well on an Asus P5B but it doesn't see my second HDD.

 

My conf are:

SATA1: Seagate 500 GB (GUID, boot-132 one)

SATA2: Asus DVD-RW

SATA3: Seagate 250 GB (MBR, 1st partition-Win XP, 2nd partition-iDeneb)

 

I'm seeing all my HDDs on iDeneb side, so there must be solution.

 

Any ideas?

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I am!

It's a retail disc, 1 on 1 copy.

10.5.4

 

It also says: Mac OS x Install DVD

Not upgrade or anything. :censored2:

 

I'm now trying some different kext in my boot iso.

But I dont know where to start...

try removing nvkush.kext first or any other graphics/display injectors. if u get to successfully install your retail 10.5.4, on reboot, u can try putting back nvkush in your boot-132.

 

good luck.

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Panja
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Thanks mate!

 

I tried removing nvkush but it did not fix my problem.

After that I added/replaced a few kext with the following:

AppleACPIPlatform latest Buid 178(Ver 1.2.1) for restart Fix

AppleAHCIPort.Kext Build 60 (ver 1.5.1)

IOAHCIFamily.kext Build 58 (ver 1.0.4) shows SATA drive as internal

I found these in this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76404

 

I can boot the dvd and install it.

But I always need to have the boot is cd in place otherwise it wont boot.

I installed cameleon on my HD but it does not boot from HD...

 

How do I know which kext files I exactly need? So I can inplement them in my boot iso....

If I knew which kext to use it would be great...

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Thanks mate!

 

I tried removing nvkush but it did not fix my problem.

After that I added/replaced a few kext with the following:

AppleACPIPlatform latest Buid 178(Ver 1.2.1) for restart Fix

AppleAHCIPort.Kext Build 60 (ver 1.5.1)

IOAHCIFamily.kext Build 58 (ver 1.0.4) shows SATA drive as internal

I found these in this thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76404

 

I can boot the dvd and install it.

But I always need to have the boot is cd in place otherwise it wont boot.

I installed cameleon on my HD but it does not boot from HD...

 

How do I know which kext files I exactly need? So I can inplement them in my boot iso....

If I knew which kext to use it would be great...

the kexts in the boot-132 disc that u recently used to successfully install retail leopard are exactly the ones u need.

 

u just need the initrd.img (where ur needed kexts are) & u can boot to your retail leopard install either via usb flashdrive or from a partition of ur harddisk.

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Panja
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Again, thanks for your answer.

 

Can't I boot from my (normal) harddisk after installing chameleon?

I thought the story was like this:

 

* Boot 132 iso with kexts.

* swap to leo retail dvd and install

* boot 132 iso again and type 80 to boot from harddisk

* do the configuration (keyboard layout, personal info, creating account etc) after config you are in Leopard

* extract kexts from the 132 boot CD

* open chameleon install and put kexts in the extra content folder and install chameleon after that

 

What am I doing wrong?

Or can't I boot from my installed partition?

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had the same problem using chameleon. installed both chameleon & the chameleon_for_hard_disk. these chameleons should already allow u to automatically boot to your retail leopard install but don't know why i can't get it to work too.

 

that's why i resorted to boot-132 all the way & leaving my retail leopard install "untouched". boot-132 is residing in a very small partition of my hdd. :)

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I just ditched my perfectly running Kalyway 10.5.4. I have decided that I should try the Boot132 Generic ISO install. The install went smoothly. I got my Kext files transfered over and everything seems to be running well. However my graphics card drivers are not taking with 10.5.5. I am running an ATI X1900GT, Chameleon with the boot file from the ISO swapped into the root folder as well as the Extras folder. My motherboard is a p5k-vm. Any suggestions on what I should do to try to get my graphics card working. I cloned a drive with my entire working 10.5.4. However when I copy over all the ATI Kext files nothing changes.

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MACinized
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Ahhh ok...

Pity!

 

Would be a lot better if I dont need any CD or different partition...

Hope this will be fixed :(

might have been just "confused" by having multiple partitions or hdd. u may want to try to manually fdisk to make sure that the partition for your retail leopard install is the one active.

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Again, thanks for your answer.

 

Can't I boot from my (normal) harddisk after installing chameleon?

I thought the story was like this:

 

* Boot 132 iso with kexts.

* swap to leo retail dvd and install

* boot 132 iso again and type 80 to boot from harddisk

* do the configuration (keyboard layout, personal info, creating account etc) after config you are in Leopard

* extract kexts from the 132 boot CD

* open chameleon install and put kexts in the extra content folder and install chameleon after that

 

What am I doing wrong?

Or can't I boot from my installed partition?

Try to replace the file "/boot" on your Leopard partition by the one from generic.iso (which may appear as "BOOT" in uppercase but you should copy it as "boot" lowercase in your root directory).

 

If I understand what you did, you ended by installing chameleon which should have overwritten your /boot file. The one put by chameleon wont load your /Extra extensions, that's why you should copy back the one from generic.iso.

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Panja
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Pity... It didn't work...

 

I copied the BOOT file from the 132 iso to a memory renamed it to boot (lowercase) and than copied it to the root of my install.

I could not override the file so I needed to delete the old BOOT file and than copied the boot (lowercase) file.

 

Restarted but without luck...

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