Guide - Leopard working on Acer Aspire 5630

[MaidenFan]

Well after a frustrating weekend downloading the pre-patched BrazilMac ISO and trying to install it, I finally have a working Leopard installation on my quad-boot laptop to replace my old Tiger install. In theory this should work with any laptop with the same specs (these are in my signature below), but I can't make any guarantees.

 

Here's a run-down of what I did:

 

- Downloaded the BrazilMac pre-patched ISO from a certain "green Demon" and burned to a single-layer DVD

- Downloaded the patch files hosted on Rapidshare (these are update files from the ones downloaded with the ISO I believe)

- Booted to the DVD and installed as per the BrazilMac guide, running the PostPatch script on my USB stick from the DVD's terminal after installing

 

Ran into my first problem when I booted into Leopard for the first time after installing - "Chain booting error" after selecting Leopard from the Vista bootloader (guide on how I configured my laptop for quad-boot is in my sig). My Tiger installation was originally on a Logical partition, so I figured that Leopard is more picky about it's partitions.

 

After a bit of reorganising to make the partition primary using Acronis DiskDirector on Hiren's BootCD and GParted on my Fedora Core 7 Linux installation, I switched my Linux and Tiger partitions around, making Tiger primary and Linux logical (I have five partitions on the drive, and you can only have a total of four if all of them are primary so I had to convert two to logical partitions and place them into one extended volume).

 

Once I had a primary partition to install on, I tried again. This time the install booted fine and all was well until I came across the next problem. The post-install configuration menus looped after the "Do You Already Own a Mac?" screen, going back to the "Wecome Video" each time. After asking for help on here and the BrazilMac thread on OSX86Scene, I found that it was a network issue. The next screen was asking how I connect to the internet, so if Leopard couldn't find any recognisable network interfaces, it was just looping around to the start. My wireless card is the Intel 3945ABG so that wouldn't be supported, so that left my wired Broadcom BCM400x card, which was supported in Tiger.

 

After asking for help on IRC @ OSX86.hu and on the BrazilMac thread, I downloaded the 10.4.9 IONetworkingFamily.kext, injected this into /System/Library/Extensions, repaired permissions using the Disk Utility and booted using -f to clear the kextcache. After I booted, the install passed the screen and continued, and I now have a nice shiny working Leopard installation.

 

Credits go to BrazilMac for the ISO and patch, som3on3 on IRC @ OSX86.hu and backatchu @ OSX86Scene for the BCM440x help and everyone on IRC for their combined help - virtual beers all round!

 

Cheers,

MaidenFan

 

Screenshots

 

Resources

[brazilMac Guide including up-to-date Zip]

[broadcom BCM440x Leopard Guide]