Can't boot Kalyway or Leo4all DVD! (10.5.1)

[msl777]

Hi everyone. I've been reading many of the topics on here about methods to boot the DVD. Regardless what I do, I keep getting the "com.apple.boot.plist not found" error on both the Kalyway and Leo4all discs.

 

Specs:

Motherboard: MSI P43 Neo3-F (North bridge: Intel P43; South bridge: Intel ICH10)

Hard drive: 500GB SATA HDD (the partitions split the space in half)

Video card: EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT DDR3 512MB (PCIe-x16)

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz

Memory: 2GB DDR2 800

DVD drive 1: 20x burner (IDE)

DVD drive 2: 20x burner (SATA)

Current OS: Windows XP Pro w/SP2

(Extra info: Just built this computer so this is using a brand new HDD and not an existing one.)

 

What I've done using both Kalyway 10.5.1 and Leo4all 10.5.1:

1)Tried using my IDE DVD drive (used both slave and master jumper settings) and failed; bought SATA drive.

2)Tried using my SATA DVD drive to boot and failed; bought IDE to USB cable.

3)Tried using the USB DVD drive and failed.

 

The boot order is in the correct order with the DVD drives first. My HDD is in the SATA 1 port and the SATA DVD drive is in the SATA 2 port. The partitions are also "unknown format" like it should be when I made the partitions running diskpart in the command window. I know the DVDs work because my friend tested them on his macs and they worked. I don't know too much about this AHCI thing but when I enabled it, it just made it worse, so I disabled it. I tried booting the DVDs using -v, -x, and vanilla. All ended up with the same errors. I'm running out of ideas! I thought the "com.apple.boot.plist not found" error was due to the DVD drives loading it. Is it because my motherboard is a new chipset and maybe it doesn't support it? I don't know because that shouldn't be a problem when trying to boot the DVD... help me please!

 

Thank you in advance!

 

EDIT: Using both USB mouse and keyboard btw

[msl777]

*bump?*

[Gujal]

You are using a 45nm CPU, PC-EFI has issues with it which is used by both Kalyway10.5.1 and Leo4all 10.5.1

 

First you need to get Kalyway 10.5.2 or Leo4allv3 (recommended)

 

Patch leo4allv3 iso image with Zef's Chameleon boot loader, burn the patched image and boot from your IDE DVD Drive.

You can get Zef's Bootloader from his site

chameleon.osx86.hu

 

With leo4allv3, your sata hdd should work regardless of AHCI or IDE mode.

[msl777]

Oh, thank you so much!

 

I'll definitely get started on that. Noobish question but, how do I patch the ISO image with the bootloader? lol

 

Can't wait to try it out!!

[Gujal]

Get PPF-O-Matic from this site.

It is a gui tool to apply PPF Patches to ISO Images.

Just make sure that you are patching a copy of the ISO (keep the original in a safe place) as it overwrites the ISO

 

EDIT: Ignore that. Zef's Patch comes with PPF-O-Matic for XP and OSX. Just use the one for your OS

[msl777]

Thank you! I just tried booting the DVD and it worked! I'm so happy...now the real problems begin lol. Let's hope it installs at the least.

 

Thank you so much!

[msl777]

Well I tried to install it, but my SATA HDD does not show up in the disk utility. I just see the DVD drive with the ISO. How do I get my HDD to show up in the Disk Utility??

 

[Gujal]

Can you try setting your SATA to AHCI in BIOS and install. I will find out what needs to be modified to get AppleIntelPIIXATA to support ICH10. This can be done after the install. For now try installing with SATA set to AHCI.

[msl777]

Oh btw it's Kalyway 10.5.2 that I'm using not Leo4allv3...is there a difference?

 

Oh and it's ONLY my IDE DVD drive that shows up, so neither my SATA HDD and SATA DVD drive show up. :\

 

But I'll try to see...I don't remember seeing an option for that, but I do remember seeing an option called IDE + AHCI in the BIOS, but only for jimicron 363. There's nothing about SATA... :\

[Gujal]

I told you need leo4allv3 specifically for your motherboard as it came with a patched AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext

[msl777]

Ok will do

[Gujal]

Kalyway 10.5.2 will work on this board if you set your SATA to AHCI.

 

In the BIOS Setup, goto "Integrated Peripherals"

Select "On Chip ATA Devices"

Change "RAID Mode" to AHCI

Then you can setup AHCI parameters for each port such as the type of device plugged in to that port.

 

Once you have it setup, Kalyway 10.5.2 should install without issues

[msl777]

When I went to my BIOS, and went to Onboard chip ATA Devices, the RAID mode is only set to IDE. I can't change it. That's the only option it gives me...

 

EDIT: Looks like I'll have to rely on Leo4all.

[msl777]

Well it looks like Leo4allv3 with jimicron DVD patch does not want to boot at all. When it starts to load the files (when it goes to the screen with smaller font with each line beginning with "[jimicron ATA]") it reboots.

 

I tried using verbose, safe, and vanilla and the samething happened. I tried setting my jimicron ata bios settings to RAID + IDE and even AHCI + IDE, but still it's the same deal. Without my BIOS being able to change the RAID mode to anything other than IDE what should I do? Do I have to work my way around Kalyway 10.5.2 since that's the only one that boots?

 

EDIT: Ah, it appears that I have to update my BIOS. Someone had the same problem like mine fortunately enough. Will keep you updated.

[msl777]

After updating my BIOS. I chose AHCI and Kalyway 10.5.2 read my HDD. When I was going to install, I hit customize, but did not change anything except add a couple third party programs. According to a guide, it should work fine, and yes it installed successfully. I back into Windows and did the chain0 thing and it now gives me the option to choose between the two operating systems. When I chose to run Leopard, it hanged at teh white screen with the apple logo (there's NO slash across the apple). I tried booting it in safe mode and still the samething occured.

 

What should I do now? :\

 

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EDIT: I ran verbose mode and the last two lines were

 

"MAC Framework successfully initialized"

"using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers"

 

it was just hanging there after that

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[Gujal]

Did you chose NVidia drivers during install? if so that is the problem. You can boot into Single usermode and delete the video drivers. I think it is ./movevideodrivers or something, check the forum.

 

OR

 

Reinstall without installing Audio or Graphic drivers. They can be added later

[msl777]

Ok. I tried to boot into single usermode and it showed those two lines of code mentioned in my previous post (samething when I tried to boot into safe mode). Reinstalling...

[msl777]

Well I reinstalled it and it still does the samething. There were no graphics drivers selected when I installed it the first time, however there were audio drivers checked, so I unchecked them. I wrote down a list of everything that was checked after taking off the audio drivers...

 

---------------------------------------------------------------

 

The language packs

 

KERNEL

kernel_9.2_sleep

 

NETWORK

AppleBCM440XEthernet

AppleBCM5751Ethernet

AppleRTL8169Ethernet

MarvellNetworkAdaptor

RealtekR1000

 

WIFI

IO80211Family

wifi_Atheros_Adaptor

 

MOBO_CHIPSETS

AppleNForceATA

AppleOnboardPCATA

AppleVIAATA

AppleGenericPCATA

SiliconImage3132

 

THIRD APPS

adium

Growl

iphoto

macam_iusbcam

vlc

 

PATCHES

Lastnetkassmbios

PCGenUSB_Fix

Francois_pc_keyboard_layout

---------------------------------------------------------------

 

Should I change the kernel to something else? Or is it the opposite, seeing that I might need a graphics driver installed when I reinstall it?

[Gujal]

You are choosing too much.

default Kernel is fine, dont chose 9.2 Sleep kernel

Dont chose any Network, wifi or mobo_chipsets (you dont need any to start with for your motherboard)

Third party apps and patches are fine

[msl777]

Ok, I reinstalled it with no kernel, network, wifi, graphics, audio, and motherboard chipset drivers selected. The only things selected were the language packs, third party apps, and patches. I get the same error though...

 

EDIT: Would I have to mod my BIOS? I'm seeing other people having problems with MSI P45 boards with similar errors...maybe. :\

[msl777]

*bump*

 

EDIT: I reinstalled with JaS 10.4.8 ACPI/APIC drivers and got it to boot (used cpus=1 -v to boot). I'm typing this from the Safari browser on Leopard. So my internet works great. Now I have to get my audio and graphics drivers installed correctly. How do I do that now?

 

EDIT again: I also used kernel_9.2_sleep as my default kernel. I got my graphics card recognized woot. Now I just need sound...ALC888 for ICH10 support.

[Gujal]

The driver is available at Taruga's Site. You need to register as a member (free) to download. Once you have registerd, you can download the driver from the following link

http://wiki.taruga.net/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=6

[msl777]

And what do I do with the kext file? Also I don't know which of the ALC888.kext to download.

 

EDIT: Nevermind. The ALC888 kexts did not work for. I actually went under test kexts for soundless ALC888 users and used the v1.20 patcher and got sound working. Under audio devices available it says that headphone and microphone are analog. I haven't tested the mic yet, but sound works YAY.

 

Thank you so much for guiding me through this installation. I'm very happy with the way I have it right now. The only problem I'd probably like to fix is getting it to boot with both cores without using a modded BIOS. Do you think updating will take care of that or no?

 

EDIT: Oh interesting, instead of reading the processor as 2.53Ghz unknown, it's reading as 4.17Ghz unknown. I wonder why it's starting to say that. Who cares, it says it's faster lol.

 

EDIT: And now it says 2.53Ghz again...wierd.

[Gujal]

You are probably running vanilla AppleSMBIOS.kext

You may have to do two things now

1. Get Zef's Chameleon boot loader and install

2. Get SuperHai's SMBIOSresolver.kext and install

 

This should fix your unknown CPU issue. It may fix your cpus=1 issue (no guarantees)

[msl777]

You are probably running vanilla AppleSMBIOS.kext

You may have to do two things now

1. Get Zef's Chameleon boot loader and install

2. Get SuperHai's SMBIOSresolver.kext and install

 

This should fix your unknown CPU issue. It may fix your cpus=1 issue

 

Well I did install with chameleon bootloader, and kalyway is the one that worked. But I if i just get that SMBIOSresolver.kext and use the kext patcher, it should resolve that issue? I thought the reason I had to boot with one core is because I used JaS ACPI/APIC drivers during the install. If it fixes that, I'll be thrilled.

 

But really the only thing bugging me is always going into the BIOS switching back forth between IDE and AHCI mode between using Windows and OSX. When I try to go into Windows using AHCI I get a flash of the blue screen while loading, then it reboots. I don't want to have to reinstall XP Pro to fix that, and I don't have a floppy drive either.

 

I looked into using Intel's Matrix Storage Utility to give me the AHCI drivers to install, but I can't even install the utility because minimum system requirements weren't met apparently. I have an Intel chipset so what's the deal? I tried to install the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility but that wouldn't work really. Maybe I have to wait till my chipset is supported? I didn't see P43 in the list, but ICH10R was apparently.