Booting a vanilla Leopard installation through GRUB

[floe]

Hi everyone,

 

I have my first hackintosh - a Thinkpad T60 . 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:

 

 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

[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]

@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]

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 . 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.