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

[angelfelix]

i managed to install it on a 2nd partition on my HDD, dual-booting it with Vista32.

 

 

on the image above:

- the 1st partition is NTFS with my Vista installation

- the 2nd partition is HFS+ with the extracted Leopard

- the 3rd partition is NTFS as Data Disk

 

however, note that the process afaik should be done on another OS installation. meaning, if you're going to dump the IMG contents on your hard disk, do it on another PC. when i tried extracting the IMG onto the same disk running my OS, it f*cked up my data partition... so be aware!

 

Hi i'm sorry i didnt understand how did you install it on the same harddisk that vista runs, especially the part that you say that it messed up your data partition. So what you are saying is that you need another pc to install leopard like that?

[elementboarder]

Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum.

 

When I try to execute the .bat file, I get an error saying Error writing file: 5 Access is denied

 

I tried to run the .bat as administrator, but that did not work.

 

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.

[Skippy07]

i have created a second partition on my only hard drive changed the batch file to "partition2" ran the batch file restarted using tboot to boot from the second partition and i get the message "No HFS Partition Found".

 

does anyone have an answer or can help in any way im running all this on xp and i have all the requriments needed for osx86 leopard.

 

please help!

 

thanks,

Skippy07

[angelfelix]

Hi,

 

Ive written the flat image with dd to a spare 20gb primary partition and I'm trying to get EasyBCD to boot it after adding OSX as an entry but it fails as its trying to load a file:Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_mac.mbr

 

 

which doesnt exist. How do I create this file or where is it located?

 

 

so far the install process has been smooth so just hoping this final step can be completed!

 

 

thanks

 

 

Hi, did you solve it?

I'm having the same problem as you.

[Skippy07]

i have created a second partition on my only hard drive changed the batch file to "partition2" ran the batch file restarted using tboot to boot from the second partition and i get the message "No HFS Partition Found".

 

does anyone have an answer or can help in any way im running all this on xp and i have all the requriments needed for osx86 leopard.

 

please help!

 

thanks,

Skippy07

 

ok so i relized that its past a sector that wont let me boot what do i do

[brion]

Hi. I need help with my flat image install. I have the batch file running fine, but no matter how the external drive is formatted, it makes the partition inaccessible. Windows and macdrive show that the partition must be formatted to be accessed... It can be accessed fine before I run the extraction. I have tried formatting the partition ntfs, fat32 and hfs+ before running the batch file, all with the same result.. What am I doing wrong?

 

B

[kiwi89]

hey brion, to get the image onto the hdd you have to delete that volume, not make it another partition. I had a little bit of trouble working that out. But yea just make sure the volume is deteted before you try and put the image on. Hope that helps. 

[brion]

so no partition, just blank space?B*edit - the batch file says : dd bs=1048576 if=leopard-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1so if there is no partition won't it error out?ok so now I just have a raw unformatted partition and this is the error:

[atlee]

Installing onto my external using below command worked fast and Leopard 10.5 working with no problems:

dd if=leopard-x86-flat-img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress

 

Awsome, fastest install i have ever known of also audio and network work without patching

ASUS F3JP Notebook

[Kane Adams]

Never got it to work for me.

Guess I will be sticking with Tiger for now. on my AMD anyways

[tmccommas]

What exactly would I type if I wanted to install to Disk0 Partition2 ? Also will it install on a raid 0 disk controlled by JMicron raid on Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 ?? HELP!!

[atlee]

What exactly would I type if I wanted to install to Disk0 Partition2 ? Also will it install on a raid 0 disk controlled by JMicron raid on Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 ?? HELP!!

 

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

 

but its not recommended mucking around on the same disk, should try it on a spare

[tmccommas]

After I enter "dd if=leopard-x86-flat-img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress" into cmd do I need to run the batch file or will this command run it for me? If not do I need to run it from cmd or can I run it from explorer? Thanks!

[atlee]

you can type it manually using CMD in windows OR you can drag and drop a batch file example write leopard-x86-flat-img to disk1 into notepad and overwrite the existing command with mine then save, then run batch file

 

also using bs=32256 doesnt always write the image properly, i'm currently using bs=512 and skip=63 but this method takes much longer, but writes the image correctly

 

Josh

[Buggin]

Still having issues after MUCH reading... So far, I have the flat image installed on a spare 40G drive. The file said it was AMD also, this I am starting to question.

 

ISSUE: Boots to the gray Apple screen and hangs there.

Error log: EHCI controller unable to take control of BIOS

EHCI unable to obtain ownership

UIM Initialize error occured

Unable to initialize UIM

unknown SIGSEGV code 0

 

WHAT I'VE DONE:

- deleted: extensions.mkext, bootcache.txt, appleintelcpumanagement.kext

- replaced: mach_kernel & bootcache.kext

 

I haven't tried running the terminal patched as I don't have a Tiger disk or install. But, no one can confirm if this flat image already incorporates the patch...

[atlee]

i'm having more problems, no matter what i do, format my drive back to factory default and start this process again, can't get the image to write properly, worked the very first time but now it writes to my whole 500gb disk, yes the whole space for some reason and it changes the flag to be a macos partition but i just cannot boot off it i'll muck around more with this stuff tomorrow when i have time off

[atlee]

ok i got everything to work. this is what i did.

 

I have external WD 500gb hdd

 

make sure your drive is empty, then run compmgmt icon which is inside the downloaded torrent folder

select your external drive or spare internal drive, click delete, which will unallocate everything

 

run CMD.exe in XP or Vista

type DISKPART

type list disk

remember your disk number, then type select disk x (replace x with your disk number)

type create partition primary size=15360 id=af

wait till it completes

 

then in partition magic or acronis create another partition but do not format it, make sure its primary also

 

copy the bat file from the write to disk0 or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 folder paste in in the main directory

drag and drop bat file into notepad

 

it will show something similar to this

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

 

change the x to reflect your settings, use compmgmt icon to check what disk number and partition number you are.

 

save the file through notepad, just click file, then save

 

double click bat file and let it write image to your partition.

 

make sure you have acronis OS selector installed to make this booting much easier.

 

once you have done all the above, restart, select the mac partition in acronis and boot, then fill in the login and away you go.

 

How to extend your partition

Once inside Leopard click Finder Icon, Applications, Utilities and open the terminal

then type

diskutil list

remember your disk numbers

then type

diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk1s1 disk1s2

then wait till it says complete

 

open diskutil in the utilities folder and repair permissions

 

where disk1s1 was my leopard install and disk1s2 was my unformatted partition

 

now for me i had 15gb leopard install and 70gb unformatted, which now i have joined and my macos is now running on 85gb

 

hope you all understand.

[gilillo]

hi

Ive been trying to install this flat image in my computer,but after the img copies to the selected partition(and after it changes the format type to HFSJ).I reboot and if I use chain0 boot method it gets a "chain boot error" and I have to return to win vista, i also tried to boot using tboot but i get a "no HFS partition found" error. What am I doing wrong or what do I need to do to boot correctly to OSX Leo?

P.D. I've also tried easybcd and acronis OS selector but they keep telling me they can't find mac OSX leo.

 

Thnx 4ur answer

[atlee]

gilillo, format the drive using DISKPART to id=af before copying the image to the drive, then retry and boot with Acronis OS Selector, the .bat doesnt always correctly format the partition as HFS Journaled

 

DISKPART does

 

Josh

[gilillo]

Hi atleeCan you tell me exactly what I have to type in diskpart to set the "id=af" thingy plsssThnx in advance

 

UPDATE: oh forget it I've seen ur late post Thnx I'll try it right away.

[gilillo]

Hi guys

 

I just installed the flat image, but when I select Leo with Acronis OS selector it appears a screen with the mac logo and the little progress circle, but after that the screen goes black and nothing happens, I leaved it about 2 hours in the black screen and it didn't do anything.

When i typed F8 and entered the -v command it gaved me an error saying that firewire wasn´t able to find secure mode and that it was going to full mode, then it went to the black screen again and nothing happened.

 

What should I do :S help pls!

[atlee]

Hi guys

 

I just installed the flat image, but when I select Leo with Acronis OS selector it appears a screen with the mac logo and the little progress circle, but after that the screen goes black and nothing happens, I leaved it about 2 hours in the black screen and it didn't do anything.

When i typed F8 and entered the -v command it gaved me an error saying that firewire wasn´t able to find secure mode and that it was going to full mode, then it went to the black screen again and nothing happened.

 

What should I do :S help pls!

 

gilillo post your error and someone will help you, also called logs

[SomniusX]

i've dd'ed the flat image of ToH rc3 on my 2nd sata disk (200gb) but did after dd'ing i removed the sata cable from the 1st drive just to take a look if the partition 1 of the 2nd disk booted to leopard.. i instantly used verbose mode and i'm going to make it default to boot with the "-v" flag..

It booted ok.. audio ok (my specs here http://casinogreco.com/osx/specs/ plus a sata dvd-rw), no graphs or network.. but still on going..

 

Is the method of making the partition of leopard bigger a proper way to do it cause i'm a bit afraid that it was, heh, an freaking accident that leo boots..!!

 

Just tell my if

diskutil etc.etc.etc disk1s etc.etc is the "proper" way to do it!

 

Thank you!

[atlee]

i've dd'ed the flat image of ToH rc3 on my 2nd sata disk (200gb) but did after dd'ing i removed the sata cable from the 1st drive just to take a look if the partition 1 of the 2nd disk booted to leopard.. i instantly used verbose mode and i'm going to make it default to boot with the "-v" flag..

It booted ok.. audio ok (my specs here http://magician.gr/osx/cpuz.htm plus a sata dvd-rw), no graphs or network.. but still on going..

 

Is the method of making the partition of leopard bigger a proper way to do it cause i'm a bit afraid that it was, heh, an freaking accident that leo boots..!!

 

Just tell my if

diskutil etc.etc.etc disk1s etc.etc is the "proper" way to do it!

 

Thank you!

 

diskutil MergePartitions is a new feature which can merge 2 partitions without damaging or losing any data, read about it before doing it

 

and as always with computers, make a BACKUP

[SomniusX]

Thanx for the info..

 

i'm having a 200gb sata only for osx.. so i don't care if it didn't work..

 

but..!

 

it works

 

A small guide from a n00b

• The guide is for making the primary leopard partition merge with other partitions "unformated".
   
  If you have windows or a linux distro just make the rest of the unused space a partition and don't format it
  Then do "diskutil list" and take a look at the disks.. probably the disk0s1 or disk1s1 is the primary leopard partition the you must use first and the other
  Then hit the command as root or with the command sudo and that's it..!
  So we have
  

1. Make your self root

   sudo -s

   
   

2. See what partitions you have

   diskutil list

   
   

3. If your disk has the leopard (primary) partition as disk0s1 so the rest (or second in row partition) is disk0s2. Is some cases with more disks the number "0" may differ e.g. 1 or 2 or 3.. each one of'em is a disk and the rest "s1/s2/s3" are the partitions. So... we have disk0s1 and disk0s2 and...
   
4. Do the process

   diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk0s1 disk0s2

   and wait until it completes..
   

5. Please don't forget to repair permissions by typing

   diskutil repairPermissions /

   
   

6. Then reboot and you sould have a larger partitions to use with your lovely leopard!
   

I hope i helped a bit..!

 

It worked for me like charm!