Details for osx86 Leopard flat image (install mac os x 10.5 from windows

[DigitalK]

still waiting for root device

[justanotheruser]

Alright DigitalK, we got it. The posts about still waiting for root device is getting pretty numerous.

 

 

Seriously, I'm sure people heard you the first few times. You even answered your own question. People might not have the answer or don't care.

 

I wish I had a better answer but back in the days of Tiger, I remember having this issue with my notebook because it just wasn't going to work. It was a compatibility problem with some hardware (can't remember the situation now).

 

Please have a little more patience. It's at the point now that I just scroll past your name not bothering to see if your post has anything important because chances are it's going to be "root device" or something about your {censored} bleeding. I'd imagine there is at least one other person out there thinking the same thing.

[bryyando]

hey new guy here and i kinda need help on this. i think i ran the image thing correctly. in the end it says #####in and then underneath it the same numbers out. and then press anybutton to continue. then when i tried to boot into leopard it just says darwin starting then my computer restarts. it happens extremely fast. also i actually dont know if my computer can actually run leopard so here are the cpu-iz things. and the # are supposed to represent numbers but i dont remember what they actually were. and the disk mangment thing is what i get after i run the image. one last thing im actually running xp with vista transformation pack.

 

 

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[DigitalK]

Alright DigitalK, we got it. The posts about still waiting for root device is getting pretty numerous.

 

 

Seriously, I'm sure people heard you the first few times. You even answered your own question. People might not have the answer or don't care.

 

I wish I had a better answer but back in the days of Tiger, I remember having this issue with my notebook because it just wasn't going to work. It was a compatibility problem with some hardware (can't remember the situation now).

 

Please have a little more patience. It's at the point now that I just scroll past your name not bothering to see if your post has anything important because chances are it's going to be "root device" or something about your {censored} bleeding. I'd imagine there is at least one other person out there thinking the same thing.

 

still waiting for root device.

[justanotheruser]

Bryyando,

 

When you say restart, you mean the computer actually reboots back to the BIOS or does your XP bootloader pop back up? I had to make a change to the dd script so that it would write past the MBR like the example below:

 

dd if=leopard-x86-flat-img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

 

You'll want your script to reflect that change for bs=32256. After doing that and setting up tboot with bcdedit, my Leopard install lit right up. It now loads from the Vista bootloader.

 

The only thing I'm not so sure about is the AMD compatiblity. From what I've read, your processor supports everything necessary to get it going but I just don't have the experience with Leopard/AMD. Perhaps some of the folks here can explain if you need a different .kext to support it?

 

 

 

DigitalK, I'd love to stick around and battle about whose e-{censored} is bigger but my Leopard install is up and running so I'm off the to the post-installation section. You have fun with the root device problem, ok buddy?

[DigitalK]

Just though I'd put you guys through what I'm seeing thats all....

[KBmac]

I also used this 10.5 flat img, i installed it by copyin the necessary files to the drive i was installin it to. after it installed i tried bootin up into leopard an just got a waiting screen with a scrollin thing for ages, i used the -v command to diagnose the problem and it was something to do with {applecpupowermanagement} after i deleted that file using Macdrive i was able to get past that problem but now i seem to be getting a problem with my onboard lan i think

 

 

^^

this is the error i now get every time i try bootin leopard, iv been searching around for a solution but yet to find 1

 

this is my first mac install, which i am final starting to relize its harder than i thought !!!

If anyone could help with directions on how to fix this it would be must appreciated.

 

note : im runnin

intel p4 2.8 northwood

asrock mobo

1gig ram

geforce fx5700

2 sata hhd -

{hdd 120 osx leopard}

{hdd 160 xp pro}

[nocooler]

Works for me

 

Gigabyte 965p-DS3 v3.3

E6300 @ 2.8

2gigs DDR800

7900GT

 

 

Had to make changes for the network card.

 

Haven't tested on board sound yet - due to having a Audigy 4 in the box as well.

 

Is there any easy way to expand the partition?

[berndt24]

Hello, i need your help.

 

english is`nt my language, thats my first problem.

now, this is my second problem.

 

i have the leopard flat image correkt installed. but, when i boot from this drive, comes this.

hier is what the screen say

 

Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132

1023MB memory

VESA v3.0 14MB (NVIDIA)

 

Loading Darwin/x86

Loading kernel mach_kernel

Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 4230240.

Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 4230240.

LoadDrivers: Loading from [/system/Library/Extensions.mkext]

Load HFS+ file: [/system/Library/Extensions.mkext] from 4230240.

Load HFS+ file: [/system/Library/Extensions.mkext] from 4230240.

Starting Darwin/x86

 

thats all.

then reboot the computer. what is my problem...i have no idea.

 

pleace help me...but with a easy english or german (my favorit)

[cee]

well bernt24 i have the same problem if yours.

What kinda mobo do u have etc?

[Ianz Thingz]

Ok, so here's where i am at the moment, i sucessfully copied the image across to a 160GB IDE drive set as PM.

My prob is the contunual rebooting one, no matter what flags i use, and i think i've used em all

 

-v -f -s -x -legacy idlehalt=0

 

The prob i think is defo related to my HW. so 2moro, i shall be buying a Asrock Conroe 1333 - board spec - http://www.web-systems.co.uk/?page=Products&pid=3790

a E2160 chip and a gig of ddr2 ram, shud get the lot for just over £100 quid. and i'll give it another try.

 

My first post, but i have read a hell of a lot before i did it!!!

 

regards to all.

 

system specs in sig.

[Nexus™ uk]

so ive ran the .bat file and its copied everything on my external, fat32. how do i now boot into this to install?

[andytof47]

Hi There, I have been sifting through the forums and managed so far to

A)Install Flat leopard

B)Delete the folder causing this problem Package 0 didn't get an HPET Problem

 

but now booting I Just get a lot of disk activity and the mac screen but then the screen changes to a black screen and I get a little more disk activity and it does nothing more after that.... booting with the -v option I get heaps of activity then it just finishes up a line telling me what the kernel version is and it won't do anything else

 

no real error per se' but certainly not boothing

 

any help

 

My toshiba Laptop takes tiger without a problem - just got no sound and a little unstable

tecra m5 if thats helpful (intel chipset, Nvidia GPU and a SATA HDD)

 

cheers

[Nexus™ uk]

ok heres my problem:

 

Specs

 

Pentium 4 1.9ghz

768mb ram

geforce4 420 go

60gb hdd

 

i have now 3 partitions, 1st with vista, 2nd as a partition for extracting the flat image into, and 3rd for actual leopard, but with the files to extract first:

 

 

for now, on the third partition i have all the files to extract the flat image, like this:

 

 

that will extract to partition 2, which is currently hfs+, using diskpart (id=af)

once that was done, i set partition 2 as active and when it rebooted, leopard didnt boot, it was just a blank cursor what shall i do?

[jamest22]

DigitalK - it's Sata support. With the time you spent posting all of that, you could have solved it by now. Try a USB enclosure (if you have one handy) or check your BIOS settings (there's quite a few posts on what to change in the BIOS, if you have the option - mostly related to ACPI).

I have the same problem with mine. As soon as I connected it to a USB enclosure - away it went. Woohoo. Leopard.

Now GET TO IT!

[ZooL58]

I got everything on the drive but when booting it goes to the apple splash screen with the spinning circle. After about 60 secs a do not enter type symbol like (X) hovers over the gray apple. Any suggestions??? One note I did the flat install from another machine... Is that the problem???? Please help. thanks.

ZooL58

 

 

ASUS P5KE DELUX WI-FI

CRUCIAL 1066 DDR2

INTEL 3.0GHZ

150GB WD RAPTOR

[x1050us]

I dd'd the flat image to a external hd and I get the following error when it starts booting

 

Error parsing plist file Loading Darwin/x86

mach-0 file has bad magic number

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2

1GB

200GB maxtor external

[hugh]

I got the HDD imaged and I can get to the boot prompt, but if i try no boot options, the Apple logo comes up for about half a second and then my computer reboots, if I do -v a couple things scroll by and then it reboots (too quickly for me to see the message), and if i do -x -v a bunch of stuff scrolls by, and at the very bottom for a split second I can see something about "Darwin x86" but then my computer reboots. When I do -v, everything happens too fast for me to be able to see what the error is

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

edit:

C2D E6750

4GB RAM

eVGA 680i MoBo

eVGA GeForce 8800GTS

[microphoenix]

Is there anywhere else to get this, because demonoid is gone forever?

[jainmac]

btmon

[Mr Ghost]

Can I help you! Please! I have 2 disk. And I deleted 1 Part on Disk 2 (D:)

 

 

Then i run dd --list

 

 

And I change it to be dd if=leopard-x86-flat-img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume11 bs=5M --progress

pause

 

Run write leopard-x86-flat-img to disk1.bat

Error:

 

PLease help me fixed it!

Thanks!

[mattress]

^^

Looks like you're running Vista. You have to run the .bat or dd.exe under administrator.

 

right click > properties > compatibility > run as administrator.

 

 

 

 

 

OK guys, now I need some help.

 

I have an HP laptop with 1 hard drive running Vista.

I used a Gparted LiveCD to resize the NTFS Vista partition to 100 gigs, and put 40 gigs of unallocated space after it.

 

I tried and tried and tried to make dd.exe write the flat image to the unallocated space and couldn't get it to work. so I formated the unalocated space to NTFS. Then ran dd.exe and it wrote the image to the partition ... but I couldn't boot into it. I used EasyBCD to create a boot entry for it. I don't know of a way to verify that the image was written correctly to the hdd or not.

 

Can you guys give me some advice please? Everything I've read just tells me to write the flat image to an external or 2nd hard drive ... but I don't have that accessibility...

[mattress]

OK I tried a different approach.

(I'm assuming dd.exe is failing because it's my active/windows hard drive/only HDD. I will try booting off of a Live CD and try again here momentarily)

 

A friend let me borrow a 20gig USB hard drive.

 

I ran dd, and it successfully wrote the image to the hard drive. I'm pretty sure it went successfully. Now, I don't know how to boot from it. In my BIOS boot options, i have USB HARD DRIVE set first, but it can't find a boot entry on that drive, so then it goes to my normal hard drive and boots vista.

 

I tried downloading EasyBCD, but can't really figure out how to work it. I don't have the options to "automatically configure" for Mac OS X like in all the tutorials.

 

So now I'm stuck, and unsure of what to try next.

[mattress]

so booting into MiniPE and running dd.exe on the unallocated space on my hard drive produced the same results. so.. since I couldn't patch the DVD myself, that's the reason why I was trying the flat image. Now, I've found a pre-patched DVD image, so I'm going to try that.

 

Hopefully this'll work, or else I'm just not supposed to run leopard LOL..

[digitalia]

In order to fix my HPET issue i had to delete system/library/extensions.mkext, dunno if the same could work for you, just a thought.

 

I had the same issue. When I deleted the extensions.mkext, instead of rebooting instantly, it scrolled through a long list of kexts it was loading THEN rebooted.

 

I have an Asus Striker Extreme, 4 Gigs of RAM, Core 2 Duo 6700, running it on a separate SATA drive. Any ideas?