My interesting idea of booting retail Leopard DVDs

[nebulOSX]

I don't know if someone else has done this already, everything is from MACinized's tutorial Don't even know if this is of any worth to anyone, but thought I would share. It does seem kinda pointless, as you have to install Leopard first. But might be good if you decide to reinstall or need to boot the DVD for maintenance and don't want to fuss with disc swapping and losing discs etc.

 

After having a few weeks of playing round with my new retail 10.5.6 vanilla installation on my Hac, I have come up with a rather nifty way of booting retail DVDs. Usually, For a retail DVD install you would have to do disc swap with a boot132 disc, but my idea is working really well for me, thought I would share. I followed this tutorial to get my install working. Anyway, moving on to my idea, this is how I did it.

 

I did everything MACinized instructed, except I made 3 partitions. One MacLoader partition, a DVD Retail dvd bootloader partition and a partition for the Leopard install. I marked the MacLoader partition as active and didn't touch anything else. Both the MacLoader partition and the DVD Retail dvd bootloader partition are identical, except for the com.apple.boot.plist's. The DVD Retail dvd bootloader partition plist has the UUID of the Mac OS X Leopard retail DVD. What this means now is that at boot up, when i get the 3 2 1 timeout on the darwin bootloader, I can hit a key, choose to boot the DVD Retail dvd bootloader partition which will then boot the DVD Retail dvd providing it is in the disc drive. Pics below If you don't quite understand what I am on about..