Leopard Perfect Install

[Stravaganza]

I couldn't boot into windows without F8ing the mac login, which said "boot into foreign OS" (that's windows).

 

Next, the brazilmac loading Failed, stopped on the grey apple logo with the spinning loading thing at the start.

The answer to the first question: The reason that you need to press F8 to boot into Windows XP MCE is that Darwin Boot Loader is the current boot loader and the current active partition for the HDD is Leopard not Windows. Hence if you set the Windows partition active, by default the system will boot into Windows XP MCE (and you need to press F8 to boot into Leopard). To do so, you may want to boot with BrazilMac patched DVD, open Terminal and then set the active partition accordingly. The reason it shows "Foreign OS" is that you didn't set any volume label for your Windows partition. If you don't like the name of "Foreign OS", set the volume name in Windows Explorer.

 

An answer to the second question: Assuming that the reason that you use Microsoft Windows XP MCE version (not the normal Windows XP) is that you use a laptop with SATA HDD 1.5Gb/s, the reason your Leopard doesn't boot up properly is most likely Leopard cannot see your HDD. To verify this, you may want to boot up (from HDD) Leopard with verbose mode and see when the system stops. If you see "Waiting for...", then it's the HDD. Otherwise, I need more information on your system and such. Assuming that's the case, to beat this, boot the machine with BrazilMac patched DVD and copy the original AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext under /Systems/Library/Extensions directory. (If the symptom you described happens with the original kexts, I need more information to know what's happening.) And you may want to read One Big Problem section of this. I hope it helps.

 

From what you described, I think that you need to try a few different things to get some knowledge and experience. This could involve installing Operating Systems a few times and searching Google and reading lots of posts. Good luck

--S

[GFOnyX]

Here's my PERFECT MAcBook replacement.After solving the ethernet problem everything (except wireless which i dont care and probably will be solved soon) works as it should.

 

Laptop: HP Pavilion

OS: iATKOS OSX 10.5.1 Leopard

 

My Laptop Runnin OSX 10.5.1 Leopard

[bolly]

wat is the model of that HP and specs??

[guestora]

wat is the model of that HP and specs??

 

May be all that's come with intel965 chip with GMA x3100. My Compaq c712tu 15" , Core Duo 1.4 installed iATKOS so easy.

[CBEugene]

Check this out, I did it from my running install. Kudos to "Riot"

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=539139

There is no 'patch' folder in my BrazilMAC dvd... but i have some 'post install patch' zip file, maybe patched AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer is there, today after work i will try it.

 

Another question is stability of a patched kexts, i read some posts about it's unstability...

[petah]

Computer: Gateway GT5408 (I am pretty sure GT5412 has the same spec except an addition 1gig of ram).

Mobo: Intel 945G Viiv Motherboard (Council Bluffs)

Hard-Drive: Quantum Fireball ATA-100 9gig (ya I know it is small. When the system is stable I will stick a bigger hard-drive in).

CPU: Intel C2D E4300

RAM: 2x512 Generic DDR2 533

GFX: Intel GMA 950

LAN: Onboard Intel (not working yet). PCI card: Realtek 8139 (working)

USB: Onboard 2.0 - (Works)

Keyboard PS2 : (Works)

Mouse PS2 : (Works)

Sound: Onboard Sound Sigmatel 9227 codec (Works) - AppleHDA Solution http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=32859 using STAC9227_0x83847618Installer.zip from the thread and a straight install.

FireWire : onboard (works)

DVD Burner : Samsung (works)

OS : MacOS x86 10.5.1 Kalyway

 

The reason I bought the GT5408 from Gateway was for the price and the upgradability of the component should I wish to change the Graphics card or the CPU/RAM. Pretty much everything works right out of the box (still working on the Intel onboard lan ... not working yet but I am using a RealTek 8139 PCI card for now.

 

The install was straight forward and I did not encounter any issues other than having to patch up the sound and stick a network card that I have lying around.

[bolly]

should i go to OneTrack install method or Kalyway10.5.1 release?wat are the pros /cons of the two methods?

[invi]

someone plz help me....

 

my gigabyte 945gxmx-s2 is on the way ... and i can't find kalyway prepare cd.iso

would someone be so kind to give me some hints ???

 

i just downloaded the kalyway 10.5.1 ... will it work as good as the onetrack install method ???

 

thanks guys

[derElbe]

Hey there,

I'm new to this Community.

Will it be possible to get a dvd which installs leopard on any PC/Laptop ? I am not so aware of Hacking Bios or something like this but I'd like to install Leopard on Eee PC and I really would apprecciate if someone can slim the Installation so that it's not bigger than 2gb or so. Will something like this be possible ?

[bl003r]

Anyone in Australia want to sell me a Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD ROM. I've tried d'loading but it's taking forever with uTorrent.

 

PM me please if you can make a duplicate for me and post.

[Racko]

someone plz help me....

 

my gigabyte 945gxmx-s2 is on the way ... and i can't find kalyway prepare cd.iso

would someone be so kind to give me some hints ???

 

i just downloaded the kalyway 10.5.1 ... will it work as good as the onetrack install method ???

 

thanks guys

 

iATKOS v1.0i works very well for me.

[bolly]

@Racko..

i thought that our mobo supports only ddr2 667/pc5300 ?

is it ok to install pc6400 /800?

does it read 800mhz?

[xlucian]

mac os x 10.5.1 leopard iATKOS works great on my pc:

 

1)DualCore Intel Pentium D 805, 3200 MHz (20 x 160)

3206.1 MHz (original: 2667 MHz, overclock: 20%)

2)Asus P5LD2 (3 PCI, 3 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)

Intel Lakeport i945P

2048 MB (DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM) Kit Geil 2x1024MB

3)Asus ATI Radeon X1600pro silent PCI-ex 16x

4)Samsung SyncMaster 223BW

5)Realtek ALC882/D/M @ Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High Definition Audio Controller [A-1]

6)Seagate ST3320620AS (320 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)

7)ASUS DRW-1814BLT intrfata SATA

 

 

C: (NTFS) 40962 MB -> OS: Microsoft Vista Ultimate 32b, primary

D: (HFSJ) 9248 MB -> OS: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 iATKOS, primary, active

E: (NTFS) 132144 MB

F: (NTFS) 122887 MB

298.1 GB

 

 

8)Keyboard multimedia,wireless, USD

9)Mouse Benq, USB

 

10)Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC

11)Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

12)Lexmark 2400 Series

13)Lexmark Z500-Z600 Series

14)USB PC Camera Plus (Emtec)

15)Tv Tuner Aver TV 007 FM (Philips SAA7135HL Multimedia Capture Device)

 

 

1)sees it as a single core 3.2GHz

2)works

3)works

4)works on 1680x1050

5)perfect stereo (still haven't tried 8.1 or 5.1)

6)works

7)works

8)doesn't work multimedia buttons (except Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute)

9)works

10)doesn't sees it

11)works

12)sees it ... don't have driver

13)sees it, found driver, i give a print job ... but nothing

14)doesn't work

15)doesn't work

[cmma™]

Hey CMMA seems nobody is replying to our problem, but I've done a bit more digging about and have found another thread on this forum that might help, its http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=73524 and its for AMD architecture. I had the Kalyway disk with the patch too but I'm downloading the version this thread used, look for "Leopard 10.5.1 for AMD SSE2/SSE3 (32bits)" using google and it should be the 1st return.

 

Hope this is some help to ya and we get the fkin' thing working

 

thanks for the reply man...sorry for the delay...i didn't think someone was gonna answer my question and that's why i haven't logged in anymore.thank you very very much.anyway for me it worked tubgirl 10.4.10.it worked like 99.9% i was glad with it.you should try it.take care dude.

[joschi15]

Is this guide also working for installation on VMware ?

[Tristition]

Where do I get the files to transfer to my flash drive?

[Maconvert]

Hi Everyone,

 

 

 

I just discovered the OSx86 project the other day and I am SO stoked to install Leopard on my computer. If I can get it to work properly, I will finally say goodbye to Windoze running natively on my PC (especially that Vista piece of garbage). I custom built a PC last year and a month later I bought a Mac for my wife. I wish I had bought the Mac first, because I assure you I would NOT have bought the PC if I had experienced the Mac OS first. I would have bought a Mac Pro. In any case, the money has been spent and now I'm stuck with it for the foreseeable future (unless I win the lottery).

 

 

 

So, in regards to the topic of this thread, "Leopard Perfect Install", what do you think the chances are that I can get OSX 10.5.1 (or is 10.5.2 available yet?) running properly on a system with the following specs:

 

 

 

Mother Board:

Intel D975XBX2 ATX LGA775 Conroe 975X DDR2 PCI-E16 SATA RAID Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard

 

CPU:

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad Core Processor Kentsfield LGA775 2.66GHZ 1066FSB 8MB

 

Video Card:

EVGA E-GEFORCE 8800 GTX 575MHZ 768MB 1.8GHZ GDDR3 Dual DVI-I HDTV Out HDCP DIRECTX10 Video Card

 

RAM (4G):

Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB 2X1GB PC6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-5-5-12 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory

 

Hard Drive*:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA2 3GB/S 7200RPM 16MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive

 

DVD Writer*:

Samsung SH-S182 DVD+RW 18X8X16 DVD-RW 18X6X16 DL-8X DVD Writer IDE Lightscribe Black OEM

 

Floppy Driver + Flash Reader*:

Mitsumi FA404M-BK 7-IN-1 Floppy Drive & Flash Reader CF/SM/SD/MMC/MS Black

 

Video Capture Card*:

Hauppauge WINTV-PVR 350 PCI TV Tuner W. REMOTE, MPEG2 Hardware Encoder & TV Out

 

Monitors (Qty: 2)**:

HP w2007 20.1? Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor (using DVI-D cables)

 

Case**:

Antec P180 Black ATX Mid Tower Aluminum Case 4X5.25 1X3.5 6X3.5INT No PS W/ USB & Audio Ports

 

Power Supply**:

OCZ GameXStream 700W ATX12V 24PIN SLI Ready Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fan Black

 

Please note, the items marked with * are components that I'm willing to sacrifice (aka "sell on eBay") in order to get Leopard running. The items marked with ** are components that I feel shouldn't impact the install but were included in the list for completeness.

 

 

 

I've browsed the OSx86 Wiki (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.1) and it does appear that my CPU and video card should be good to go. The mother board seems to be the main hurtle (if it even is a hurtle) that I need to overcome. Now, I won't get around to installing Leopard until after my course finishes in April, but I'm doing as much research as I can in the mean time. Hopefully someone with my mother board will successfully install Leopard by then.

 

In any case, if I can get Leopard running as my primary operating system, I plan to donate generously to the OSx86 project and to its developers. Believe me; it will be well worth the money.

 

 

 

Bye Bye Billy! (except XP in Parallels)

 

 

 

Cheers!

 

P.S.

By the way, what is the filename of the ISO that I should be downloading right now?

[Maconvert]

Suh-weeeeet!!!

 

Check this out:

http://######.com/blog/?p=32

 

It looks like my D975XBX2 mobo WILL work.

I can't wait to get on this!

 

Does anybody have any idea what will happen if I leave my floppy drive + flash reader and video capture card installed. I'm happy to get rid of them if it results in a better experience with Leopard.

 

 

Cheers!

[tuukka H]

Goto tutorials.. There are all you want to know about badaxe and leopard..

 

and here is the link:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76014

[Maconvert]

Goto tutorials.. There are all you want to know about badaxe and leopard..

 

and here is the link:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76014

 

 

Thanks!

[Maconvert]

Goto tutorials.. There are all you want to know about badaxe and leopard..

 

and here is the link:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76014

 

Thanks again for the link.

 

I'm starting to feel pretty confident that I will be able to get Leopard 10.5.1 working on my PC, but I'm having trouble gathering together the bits and pieces of what I need to install Leopard on my machine.

 

I went to the tutorial at the following link:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=76014

 

 

However, I couldn't get some of the required files.

 

I can download "ionetworking.zip" from the link provided, but when I open it it's completely empty.

 

Also, I followed the link the where I can download "ba2_pack.zip", but it seems that I need to pay for it. I'm cool with that, but I'd like to be sure that I'm getting a legitimate usuable file. Has anybody downloaded it from the link that was provided in the tutorial?

 

Finally, which ISO should I be downloading for Leopard 10.5.1 (or greater?) and where did everybody get their's?

 

For instance, I found this one at mininova.org:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1101677

 

This looks like the right one, but I've also been told that there are a lot of fakes out there. Is there a reliable way that I can tell if it's a fake? I don't want to waste bandwidth and time on a useless file. Worse still, I don't want to download something nasty.

 

Anyway, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers!

[Lester56]

You guys are NEVER GOING to Believe this!!

 

I've been struggling with WiFi for weeks, using different cards, PCI, USB, etc etc...The entire time I had a cheap ole' Dynex PCI card (purchased from BestBuy) in the PCI slot of my Hack.

 

I removed the card to write down all of the data from the card, MAC address, chip type, yada yada. When I put the card back in and booted my Hack, the WiFi fan appeared in the top bar!!!! WTF!!!!

 

I configured the card, BOOM!, it works. Broadcom chipset.

 

(sigh) Its a beautiful day.

[kroviken]

hey ya!

 

i really wanna know, can it be built on AMD machine? coz I am AMD hardcore (yeah!)... I dont really get d instructions properly...

 

thanx..

[House7]

Well after an episode with no sound at all, analog or azalia. My Kalyway crashed and died. Assesed the issue,(disk0s1 plugged into sata port 2 not 1), reformmated, applied the drivers and now everything works flawlessly including azalia and wifi. 10-15 sec boot times and full 64 bit !!!! I cant wait for ProTools as this will be solely my recording rig. My specs:

 

 

Antec Sonata III w/ 500W EarthWatts

Asus p5k premium wifi BIOS:0504 w/ Azalia

Intel C2D 6850 3.0Ghz - upgrading to Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 OC to 3.5Ghz

Sunbeam Tuniq Tower 120

1 x Seagate 7200.11 500GB

1x Vantec Northstar 2x e-sata w/ Seagate 7200.11 500GB

4GB Mushkin HP6400 800mhz - upgrading to 8 GB next week.

EVGA 8800 GT 256Mb 1.7Ghz

[milmacman]

Hey--great information!

 

(this coming from a long-time reader/lurker, first-time poster. )

 

Installed Leopard 10.5.1 using iATKOS v1.0i--for some reason, I just couldn't get the kalyway disc to run.

 

OS X seems to work flawlessly on my system (sound, disks, everything) save for one thing. However, when I go to log in, I cannot connect to the Internet--when I go to look in System Preferences, the ethernet interface (en0) says cable unplugged. I have Linux (and yes, Solaris) on other partitions and I can access the web just fine on both without issue (using DHCP).

 

In terminal, ifconfig says that the device doesn't exist at all. The card is integrated on an Asus P5LP-LE mobo, and if I remember correctly, the specific hardware would be an Intel 82801G (ICH7) LAN adapter.

 

Has this happened to anyone else--and if so, what would I need to do to restore ethernet service--do I need drivers, kexts, etc.? I've tried several of the recommendations both here and all over the web to no avail, and it'd really be nice to use the Internet in my OS X install.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

(edited to include the ifconfig stuff)