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triofour
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Hy!

 

this is my guide for running leo on your SATA drive with darwin bootloader!

You will not need Acronis OS Selecteor or any other bootmanager!

I will explain how to make a drive bootable!

 

 

what did i do to get leo running on my sata partition: first i made a partitioned my sata 320 gb to 3 partitions.

 

first to ntfs for vista

 

second to fat32

 

third to fat32

 

id did this with the vista installer, because i had no success with making partition under windows. vista dont like ntfs partitions made with xp!

 

on the first partition i installed vista.

 

on my other sata drive i have got xp and tiger running. with disk utility in tiger i formated the second partition to HFS+.

 

in disk utility mark your ne leo partition and click info - here you will see the unixname of your partition: eg disk1s2

 

 

lets make it the active partition:

 

load terminal

 

sudo -s

 

fidsk -e /dev/rdiskXsx --->replace Xsx with your leo partition numbers

 

update

 

f 2 ---> in my case, because the second part. will be the active one...

 

w

 

y ---> fdisk tell you that you must restart to make changes active, type y for yes

 

q -->for quiting fdisk

 

 

lets make it bootable:

 

look on your tiger partition under /usr/standalone/i386

 

there must be files like "boot", "boot1h", ....

 

if not, open files folder from brazilmac patch, copy the files from i386 folder to /usr/standalone/i386

 

 

copy startupfiletool to /usr/sbin on your tiger

 

if you dont have it get it here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...=61&t=24633

 

 

load terminal and:

 

sudo -s

 

diskutil umount diskXsx -->unmount your leo partition

 

In terminal, browse to the i386 folder inside /usr/standalone/i386 on your tiger. Then type this:

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsx bs=512 count=1 ->> replaxe Xsx witj your leo partition #

 

browse to /usr/sbin and type

 

sudo startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsx boot replaxe Xsx with your leo partition #

sudo bless -device /dev/diskXsx -setBoot –verbose replaxe Xsx with your leo partition #

 

diskutil mount /diskXsx replaxe Xsx with your leo partition #

 

bless -mount /Volumes/YOUR_VOLUME_NAME -setBoot -verbose replaxe Xsx with your leo partition #

 

 

 

next step: making sata drives available for installing on

2 options:

 

1. modifying AppleVIAATA.kext from the patched installer DVD

 

or

 

2. trying to install directly fromd dvd to partition with AHCI instead of IDE on in bios

 

 

options 2 is instable - freezes more often the installation process!

 

but you can go on and try it! and change the AppleVIAATA.kext when installed.... then you could also deactivate AHCI and run it.

 

 

i took option 2:

 

formated my ide drive to hfs+ name it Leopard

 

made it bootable and active --> see already made description

 

restore patched brazilmac dvd to it

 

now you can make modifications to the dvd

 

 

 

i had to replace the kernel on the disc with a nohpet one for leo (thanks axethrower)

 

repair permission for kernel

 

chown roo:wheel /mach......... you know i'll not explain now

 

chon 644 ....you know i'll not explain now

 

then modify AppleVIAATA.kext under /System/Library/Extension

 

look for:

 

<key>VIA SATA Controller</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AppleVIAATA</string>

<key>Hardware Name</key>

<string>8237 SATA</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>AppleVIAATARoot</string>

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>

<string>0x52871106</string> -----> MAKE CHANGE here!!!!

<key>IOProbeScore</key>

<string>1000</string>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOPCIDevice</string>

<key>Serial ATA</key>

 

 

save

 

repair permission

 

chown roo:wheel /Sys......... you know i'll not explain now

 

chon 644 ....you know i'll not explain now

 

 

startup from ide, press f8 before darwin bootloader com

 

 

write

 

 

mach_kernel -f -v

 

press x-key while loading (dont know, maybe it will work without!)

 

 

install

 

under customize uncheck all language packages, x11, etc.

 

install

 

restart with -f flag (put it later to bootlist to automatize it)

 

press x-key while loading (dont know, maybe it will work without!)

 

leo is running on your sata!

 

more help: brazilmac guide

http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?...c65b8fdef3dbbcb

 

 

regards

triofour

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Axethrower
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Wow Triofour ... nice overview!!!

 

But I don't use the -f in the bootoption.

Maybe you need it because you still have a win partition as first one.

 

I only use the -f options if I want to be sure the kext are loaded after I modified.

Deleting Extensions.mkext is not enough anymore in Leopard I noticed ;)

 

Another question ... did you flash your BIOS to the 1.11 version ?

 

greetz

 

Axe

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i didnt flash my bios - did you? any experiences?

 

 

i wrote about my problem on my sata drive, when copying a lot of data from one hd to another hd.

 

same problem with leo as in tiger! - it freeze, connection to sata drive get lost. have to reset, can just see spin wheel.

 

ist it running on ide drives 100% stable or do you have any crashes?!

 

 

i dont know whats the problem - maybe its a problem with any appleAHCI-kext?!

 

 

 

whats about speeding up loading os x? removing any kexts?!

 

 

sometimes it take 10s another time 40s to startup....

 

 

any success with ralink wlan?!

 

regards

triofour

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KaiNeR
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Thanks Triofour will give that a try tomorrow on sata

 

I have noticed finder lockups are happening quite a bit and the spinning beachball syndrome.

 

I tried changing the applesmbios (copied it from tigers, extention folder that i backed up) but still showing as Core Solo. The viarhine driver annoys me the most, as when that fails i am unable to type, the keyboard just outputs multiple characters for single key presses, so all i can do is reboot.

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well, i am using the latest ToH kernel from irc - the speedstep/sse3 kernel!

 

when u download it, you will also find a smbios.kext in the zip folder. take this one and try this kernel!

i think this should solve your core problem.

 

i need -f and pressed x-key while startup, but then i see both cores!

 

 

regards

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Hi all,

 

I updated my BIOS but no luck with the HPET :) Was hoping it would enable it.

I got my sound working with the skippyretard package.

 

And the lockup problems with large file ... I have them too :blowup:

 

And I don't need to startup with -f nor -x...

 

I only have a -v in my boot.plist

 

Greetz

 

Axethrower

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Hi all, anything new going on

 

I've went back to tiger, i did managed to get the v5 efi working on leopard. According to irc its possible to run apple software updates with the efi patch installed. So i tried it to upgrade to 10.5.1.

 

It didnt work, it killed my system, so i decided to go back to tiger for the mean time

(Sick of networking issues under leopard)

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Hi Kainer,

 

I also have issues with the network.

But I've installed a new driver from a Russian dude (old driver) yesterday ...

I hadn't had any problem so far but I'll test some more later this evening.

 

It's a Realtek8139 driver , not Viarhine ... just to let you know :D

 

Greetz

 

PS , my update went perfect (with EFI) ... just had to replace the kernel and it was done ;)

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Hi,

 

My network didn't drop once with the driver I found (RT8139) !!!

Now I have a stable running Leopard on my IDE (didn't try SATA yet)

 

About this mac:

Model Name: Mac

Model Identifier: Mac Pro

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 1.87 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 2 MB

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: Hack.int.0sh

Serial Number: YM8659M6W0A

 

+-o Root <class IORegistryEntry, retain 13>

+-o / <class IOPlatformExpertDevice, registered, matched, active, busy 0, re$

+-o efi <class IOService, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 7>

| | {

| | "firmware-revision" = <01000010>

| | "bootloader-build" = <"ToH","bootlo">

| | "name" = <"efi">

| | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI32">

| | "firmware-vendor" = <4100700070006c0065000000>

| | }

| |

 

Efi works so the update went smooth ... just had to replace the kernel with a nohpet one

 

Axethrower

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hy!

 

could someone of you publish a steep by steep guide how to install efi, especially which kexts you replaced and which kernel you used.

 

i didnt try it yet, because i suggested that it will not work with our mobo - thought we need an intel chipset (oir mobo has a MSI chip)

 

i'd like to give it a try on my sata drive....

 

did u use grub?!

 

thanks!

 

regards,

triofour

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triofour : i used this from the efiv52 readme, you will have to download the efiv52 from irc or i can mail you it

 

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Create directory iamefi in the root folder of your boot osx disk.

 

Copy all included files into it

 

Boot in Single User mode by mashing F8 key during boot (right after bios POST) type -s and press enter

 

Then enter the following commands

 

cd /iamefi

 

./startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsX ./boot_v*

 

reboot

 

Whereas rdiskXsX is the partition where your OSX install is (you can check that out on Disk Utility in OSX)

 

And v* is the EFI version bootloader you wish to use.

 

Existing 10.4.10 and 10.5/10.5.1 kernels compiled from sources, made by Toh are already known to work with this package.

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Axethrower : could you mail me a copy of the kexts you replace i.e smbios.kext, system.kext and the RTL kext your using.

I did buy an 8139 card off fleabay, seems to work ok for now, it has dropped a couple of times but not like the onboard via.

 

cheers

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hy!

 

thanks worked great, updated to 10.5.1 with software update. replaced vanilla kernel with latest TOH noHPET kernel.

working great on my SATA drive.

 

 

hoped that EFI and the vanilla kexts solve SATA-copying-huge-files-freeze problem.

unfortunately i guess it didnt. but i can work with my system - its ok!

 

 

triofour

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Me 2 Axe, i'm still installed on IDE. I hope someone finds out what is causing this problem. I think there is another underlying problem somewhere. I'm still having network card drops too & i have tried 3 different realtek cards (RTL8139), 3 different 3com cards (905b-tx) an intel card and i'm currently using a infiniti (AN983B chipset)card with a tulip driver 1.0.2. I'm still having the same issues but this nic seem to last a bit longer than the others before dropping.

 

Its really strange, we need to get to the bottom of this.

 

what do we try next ?

 

I know its a pain in the arse but maybe we/us should compare all our settings and make sure all are the same. I also think it would be good if we compared our kext's incase of any differences.

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hy!

 

i use wlan - with prasys driver it is working without problems!

 

today, i tried to use skype and recognized, that line-in isnt working - i installed skippyretard 2channel (or 4channel) analog package on leopard.

2ch audio is working great, system pref. audio input shows line-in, but it doesnt work!

 

did you have any success with mic-in?!

triofour

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triofour
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hy!

 

hope you all had nice xmas!

 

today after coming back from holidays, i was in south africa and it was really great, i started software update!

 

saw

security update 2007-009

and

quicktime 7.3.1

 

 

any experiences with installing on efi enabled system?!!

 

regards

triof

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