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i formatted my drive in fat 32 and when i try to boot of kalyway cd there's just a blinking cursor on the top left.. im guessing its a bad bot cd? am i right? i am not really sure what GUID (graphic user interface,,, am i right?) and MBR, mean so... but i am trying to build this same exact machine as was in the guide by onetrack.. thank you.
So did you try the last suggestion of mine? It's not "-f" but "-v". Sorry for confusion.--S
JohyBravo[/b], so what's missing? Does it say what is missing or just say something's missing? Did you unselect every package (i.e. Additional fonts, X11, Printer driver, and so on) except the essential system? Can you post the screenshot (with camera)?--S

 

Well, it does not say what is missing. As for unselecting, X11 is greyed out and cannot be un-selected. Also, Additional languages includes French and cannot be unselected. :P

 

Now, the build appears to be 9B18. And perhaps I should mention that I am Canadian and bought the disk in Canada, so perhaps eliminating French is not an option..... But I notice that it is not one of the languages removed by the script. But X11 is.

 

Is there room in the BrazilMac patched image for X11.pkg ???

 

Okay, skip that. I just built the BrazilMac disk again, edited the script to NOT remove X11. Then a bunch of errors saying "no space left on device". So I need other ideas.

 

As for a pic, I only get time to try once per evening. If the next attempt results in the same screen, I will take a pic.

So did you try the last suggestion of mine? It's not "-f" but "-v". Sorry for confusion.--S

thanks for your advice... i figuered that the cd was bad so i burned a diff copy... now it lets me boot into the cd i install and reboot with brazilmac patched leopard in place... and this is what it does..

System Config file' /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist' not found

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and a little blinking cursor on the next line..... and it stays like that... i left my comp on for about 15 mins... no change.. what do i do now? hank you very much for your help...

WooHA!

 

Worked for me too. After spending the better part of a few days trying a hodgepodge of various walkthroughs, I actually sat down and read this one through and (also) bit the bullet and downloaded the KalyWay CD.

 

...which, of course, made everything better. :P

 

I needed a few more patches here and there, of course. Took me a while to find the AppleHDA patch (I'm ashamed to admit), it having been a good long while since I actually browsed ANY forum.

 

I also needed the ATi HD2900 kexts and the silicon image universal driver (YES. IT WORKED, despite being made for 10.4.x. Thank GOD. I wasn't seeing 1.5TBs for a while there... :P)

 

I'm still facing issues with rebooting and restarting, but I'm working on them. Also, there's a slight possibility my audio is slightly buggy, though that might be a result of a semi-properly patched kext in a half-@$$ed attempt, before finding the correct patcher. Otherwise all is good :rolleyes:

System Config file' /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.boot.plist' not found
Good. I don't think your BrazilMac patched DVD is bootable. (Because the message about config file missing means that the system boots from HDD not from DVD drive. And since you demonstrated your DVD drive is working, I think your BrazilMac patched DVD is not bootable.) Put the BrzailMac patched DVD into Microsoft Windows system and find out if you can see a few files on the DVD. If you cannot, you have a wrong copy of DVD. I would also make sure that the DVD drive is working with data DVDs. (Perhaps, your DVD driver is so heavily used up that it now may read CDs only.)

--S

Now, the build appears to be 9B18.
John, I am sorry to see you suffering from a very trivial matter. I believe if you get just a right original DVD, everything will go well. BrazilMac patch is for GM version which is OS X v10.5.0 (equivalently build version 9A581). The build version 9B18 is OS X v10.5.1. I don't know much but I wouldn't surprise BrazilMac doesn't work with OS X v10.5.1. Don't spend time to try changing the BrazilMac script. It's better to find OS X v10.5.0. Since you already purchase a retail DVD, I would look some place else.

--S

Good. I don't think your BrazilMac patched DVD is bootable. (Because the message about config file missing means that the system boots from HDD not from DVD drive. And since you demonstrated your DVD drive is working, I think your BrazilMac patched DVD is not bootable.) Put the BrzailMac patched DVD into Microsoft Windows system and find out if you can see a few files on the DVD. If you cannot, you have a wrong copy of DVD. I would also make sure that the DVD drive is working with data DVDs. (Perhaps, your DVD driver is so heavily used up that it now may read CDs only.)

--S

yes my comp was trying to boot off the H.D because it didnt find any bootable media in my dvd drive.... the dvd drive is in perfect working condition(for sure) i will now try to repatch the leopard image and burn it again... hopefully that will help...

and a question my Brazilmac patch is about 40 megs and it has 2 files and 3 folders... do i have the right one? thank you very very much...

yes my comp was trying to boot off the H.D because it didnt find any bootable media in my dvd drive.... the dvd drive is in perfect working condition(for sure) i will now try to repatch the leopard image and burn it again... hopefully that will help...

and a question my Brazilmac patch is about 40 megs and it has 2 files and 3 folders... do i have the right one? thank you very very much...

i am now making an image of my leopard DVD... im creating an image using disk utility in leopard (compressed image) am doing this correct becuase there are sveral type of images you can make mine is compressed...

i am now making an image of my leopard DVD... im creating an image using disk utility in leopard (compressed image) am doing this correct becuase there are sveral type of images you can make mine is compressed...

I don't know about a compressed image of Leopard. But in principle, as long as it is read into the memory of your Mac system doing the patching job, I don't think it matters. What matters is that the result image of yours doesn't have a boot section. See the pictures of post #382 (by anarchy_1024) in this thread. You should have three sections once you finished the job. To inspect the patched DVD you can find an application called IsoBuster. It helped me. The size of BrazilMac patch (31 Oct 2007) is ~37.3MB uncompressed and ~11.3MB compressed. Finally, no matter what you do, don't do the patch work on Leopard system. Do it on a Mac running Tiger. I attached the patch process output of mine. Yours should look like this.

Converting DMG to editable image...
Reading whole disk (Apple_HFS : 0)...
................................................................................
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Elapsed Time: 13m 51.982s
Speed: 8.8Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Volumes/Constant/patch/leopard.iso.cdr
Mounting new ISO read-write...
/dev/disk3					  /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
Waiting for leopard.iso to be mounted...
Renaming image to osx86dvd...
Disk renamed to osx86dvd
Removing Xcode Tools...
Removing X11user and 6 languages files...
Removing minibless...
Removing printer packages...
Removing OSInstall...
Removing Kernel files...
Removing Boot-related things...
Removing Extensions...
Removing files Needed for kernels without power_management_init called
Replacing minibless...
Replacing OSInstall.mpkg...
Replacing boot-related files...
Replacing Kernel...
Replacing extensions...
ALL PATCHES APPLIED !!!
Creating bootable DVD in 10 seconds...
You might want to CTRL-Z and inspect /Volumes/osx86dev now.
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
241 extents written (0 MB)
Creating a bootable image and remove any previous copies...
................................................................................
...........................
created: /Volumes/Constant/patch/Leo_Patched_DVD.dmg

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk4'
#:				type name	length   base	( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple	   63 @ 1	  
2:		  Apple_Free Extra  9177024 @ 64	  (  4.4G)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=9177088 (4.4G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Creating partition on the image...
3
Copying data onto the image...
900+0 records in
900+0 records out
460800 bytes transferred in 1.830124 secs (251786 bytes/sec)
Initialized /dev/rdisk4s3 as a 4480 MB HFS Plus volume
DITTOING...
BLESSING...
"disk4" unmounted.
"disk4" ejected.
Update prebinding...
update_prebinding: error: corrupt binary, library ordinal too big
Renaming to original image name...
Disk renamed to Mac OS X Install DVD
"disk3" unmounted.
"disk3" ejected.
Renaming image to actual extension type...
/dev/disk3			  Apple_partition_scheme		 
/dev/disk3s1			Apple_partition_map			
/dev/disk3s3			Apple_HFS		   /Volumes/osx86dvd
Disk renamed to Mac OS X Install Disc x86
"disk3" unmounted.
"disk3" ejected.
Removing tempdisk and useless dirs...
ALL Done !!

--S

hdiutil: convert failed - No space left on device

You can delete your code now. :P It really helps if you read the output. It simply fails to mount the Leopard image because of lack of space. Before patching the image, make sure you have at least 15GB free space available. So I guess you are right about following the guide exactly. Another bug in the guide.

 

Regarding "do not patch a Leopard image on Leopard system". I experienced that if you try to patch the image on a system running Mac OS X v10.5.1 (doesn't matter whether it's a Mac or a Hac, I tried both.), you don't get the most important section of patch image where the actual installation files exists. I believe it is caused by fseventd deamon. To make things worse, the output of such patch work doesn't differ much from that of good one. The error in the output also around the prebinding error section, which BrazilMac said "ignore it." If you use such an image to boot up the machine, it shows no error and stop after "BSD Root: rdisk0s2, ...". I spent three weeks in total to make this thing running and I worked with a wrong DVD for two and a half weeks.

--S

You can delete your code now. :P It really helps if you read the output. It simply fails to mount the Leopard image because of lack of space. Before patching the image, make sure you have at least 15GB free space available. So I guess you are right about following the guide exactly. Another bug in the guide.

--S

i did read the out put.... and was very surpiresed because i have plenty of space i have at least 20GB free.... and it says that " no such directory"??? why? why does it make a diff if you do it in leopard thank you.

still waiting for root device error.

i have ich9 and marvell pata controller on my mobo intel dg33fb.

i also edited the kexts with my id's

I tried every combination at bios level and physically but no luck.

any solution.?

 

Hey i had a similar problem using a pata dvd drive.. i bit the bullet and got a sata dvd-rw, theyre pretty cheap now.. fixed the problem straight away (with a couple of tweaks of ahci settings in bios).

I explained it above. --S

sorry i didnt see the second paragraph.......... thank you for your help i really apreciate this...... i will go to my friends house tommorow and patch it up in tiger.... hopefully you can stick with me for just a little longer and we will get this thing running thank you very much again....

Hi Stravaganza,

 

Yes I succeed with my external drive by replacing IOUSBFamily and IOUSBMassStorage by those in JAS_10.4.9.

The only thing i don't manage is the sleep function, which is very frustrated (and the wifi 3945, but i know the driver is in developpement ...).

Do you have a solution ??

Thanks

John, I am sorry to see you suffering from a very trivial matter. I believe if you get just a right original DVD, everything will go well. BrazilMac patch is for GM version which is OS X v10.5.0 (equivalently build version 9A581). The build version 9B18 is OS X v10.5.1. I don't know much but I wouldn't surprise BrazilMac doesn't work with OS X v10.5.1. Don't spend time to try changing the BrazilMac script. It's better to find OS X v10.5.0. Since you already purchase a retail DVD, I would look some place else.

--S

 

I will attempt to get a 9A581 build. More time lost <sigh>.

 

In the meantime, I would like to experiment with what I have. Might be a lost cause, but it will probably take more than a week to find and torrent a decent image.

 

Does anyone know if mkisofs can take a "size=" parameter that will make a dual layer sized ISO ???? I have not found much info using Google.

 

Also, I notice the patch script only removes a small number of language files, but surely there are more (as seen in the actual install/customize) that could be removed to leave room for the X11user.pkg?

 

Better yet, what file inside the image contains the required/customized list of packages to install? I could go in there and remove the requirement to install X11......

Ok guys I need your help.

 

Is there another fully supported DVD+RW drive I can use besides the Pioneer 111D, 112D? I don't have time to order it over the inet. I need to walk into MicroCenter or *gulp* BestBuy and buy one off the shelf.

 

Please suggest a drive. It is the final component for my build.

 

Lester

Hi everybody,

 

Anybody can help me install Leopard on external USB 2.0 160GB Hardisk? My current system:

 

- Laptop Fujitsu S7111 with Tiger 10.4.9 installed and working well.

- Leopard installation DVD (BrazilMac)

 

I want to keep the Tiger working and try Leopard on my USB hardisk first. Pls give me some instructions in details if possible

 

Thank you very much.

 

TTDD_TVE

Can someone confirm, that motherboard GA945GCMX-S2 works with pre-patched Leopard iso?
I confirm that my GA-945GCMX-S2 works with BrazilMac patched Leopard. --S
Hi Stravaganza,Yes I succeed with my external drive by replacing IOUSBFamily and IOUSBMassStorage by those in JAS_10.4.9.The only thing i don't manage is the sleep function, which is very frustrated (and the wifi 3945, but i know the driver is in developpement ...).Do you have a solution ??Thanks
Sorry, I am out of idea because I don't have your laptop model. For Gateway NX260X which I have, the sleep is not perfect neither. It turns off the screen and there's no activity. When I wake it up (by pressing the power button because pressing keys or clicking mouse button do not wake the machine), the mouse cursor acts strangely a bit for a while (and then it comes back to normal). This sleep and wake-up functions are done with kexts in BrazilMac. --S
Ok guys I need your help. Is there another fully supported DVD+RW drive I can use besides the Pioneer 111D, 112D? I don't have time to order it over the inet. I need to walk into MicroCenter or *gulp* BestBuy and buy one off the shelf. Please suggest a drive. It is the final component for my build. Lester
On my Hac running Leopard v10.5.1, Samsung SH-S203B reads and burns DVDs quite well. --S
Anybody can help me install Leopard on external USB 2.0 160GB Hardisk?
If you have a firewire interface on your external HDD, it would be easy but it doesn't. A USB external HDD with GUID would works just like firewire one. --S
I will attempt to get a 9A581 build. More time lost <sigh>. In the meantime, I would like to experiment with what I have. Might be a lost cause, but it will probably take more than a week to find and torrent a decent image. Does anyone know if mkisofs can take a "size=" parameter that will make a dual layer sized ISO ???? I have not found much info using Google. Also, I notice the patch script only removes a small number of language files, but surely there are more (as seen in the actual install/customize) that could be removed to leave room for the X11user.pkg? Better yet, what file inside the image contains the required/customized list of packages to install? I could go in there and remove the requirement to install X11......
JonyBravo, I think you are missing the point. The installation process reports there are missing files in the patched DVD. At that point, taking out packages from the patched DVD does not make these unknown missing files be put back into the patched DVD. Even worse, you do not know what's missing. What do you want to work with wrong DVD for? Just curious. --S
Yes.Sorry, I am out of idea because I don't have your laptop model. For Gateway NX260X which I have, the sleep is not perfect neither. It turns off the screen and there's no activity. When I wake it up (by pressing the power button because pressing keys or clicking mouse button do not wake the machine), the mouse acts strange a bit for a while. This sleep and wake-up functions are done with kexts in BrazilMac.--S

with this board (GA-945GCMX-S2) do all onboard devices work? sound? ethernet? does leopard detect all of them and have drivers? im going to patch my leopard tonight. hopefully it will work...

I confirm that my GA-945GCMX-S2 works with BrazilMac patched Leopard. --S

Sorry, I am out of idea because I don't have your laptop model. For Gateway NX260X which I have, the sleep is not perfect neither. It turns off the screen and there's no activity. When I wake it up (by pressing the power button because pressing keys or clicking mouse button do not wake the machine), the mouse cursor acts strangely a bit for a while (and then it comes back to normal). This sleep and wake-up functions are done with kexts in BrazilMac. --S

On my Hac running Leopard v10.5.1, Samsung SH-S203B reads and burns DVDs quite well. --S

If you have a firewire interface on your external HDD, it would be easy but it doesn't. A USB external HDD with GUID would works just like firewire one. --S

JonyBravo, I think you are missing the point. The installation process reports there are missing files in the patched DVD. At that point, taking out packages from the patched DVD does not make these unknown missing files be put back into the patched DVD. Even worse, you do not know what's missing. What do you want to work with wrong DVD for? Just curious. --S

do you think you can briefly explain to me what Brazilmac Patch actually does and why we can use original Leopard dvd to install since apple uses Intel cpu's? i know about the diff beteween BIOS and EFi... is there anything else? thank you

JonyBravo, I think you are missing the point. The installation process reports there are missing files in the patched DVD. At that point, taking out packages from the patched DVD does not make these unknown missing files be put back into the patched DVD. Even worse, you do not know what's missing. What do you want to work with wrong DVD for? Just curious. --S

 

My apologies. I probably gave the wrong impression. Actually, the retail install (my version) requires X11User and French packages (assumed because I cannot un-select them when doing a "customize" install. Since both of these get removed by the script, I assume they are the missing files.

 

In order to leave X11User in the image, I delete the remove line in the script, but there is not enough space in the ISO image to leave it in. So in order to make room, I remove even more languages (via the script, package names found in original image via Pacifist) and delete the remove line that takes out French.pkg. This in theory would leave what the installer wants, and provide enough room to fit into the DVD iso.

 

So far this is working, in so far as I do not get the "no room" error messages during the patch. I am currently burning the DVD and will once again try the Kalyway and my version of the BrazilMac install.

 

Now, I know what you're saying, 9B18 may not work, but what the heck, I like trying my own little hacks. And if it works, I'll certain share with the community :) If it doesn't, I wasted an hour and a 25cent DVD blank :lol:

 

Wish me luck. I will post the results in a little over an hour.....

do you think you can briefly explain to me what Brazilmac Patch actually does and why we can use original Leopard dvd to install since apple uses Intel cpu's? i know about the diff beteween BIOS and EFi... is there anything else? thank you
I am not an expert and probably you already know what I know. In an ideal sense, Leopard should be able to run on any machine with Intel processor with a compatible instruction set. I see two major reasons that make this not happening.
  1. Kernel problem. Almost all of personal computers are using BIOS while Macs are using EFI. This is a problem because the original kernel will try to communicate with EFI all the time. BrazilMac uses a hacked kernel (which do not check nor use EFI capability) during installation process. Once it's done, you still have the problem with the kernel sitting on your HDD (because it's not a hacked one but the original one) and that's why you want to install an PC EFI on your HDD between installation process and the first boot. (This is EFI installation part in Onetrack's guide.)
  2. Module problem. Apple has total control over their hardware choices and the way of using them (i.e. kernel modules or kexts). Even if you have all the compatible parts to Macs and original kernel, they (such as video card, audio card, and so on) are not made for Apple by manufacturers and hence the original kernel-module interface doesn't exactly work for them. BrazilMac uses hacked kexts just for installation process and again, once it's done you need to actually replace the problematic ones sitting on your HDD with hacked ones, (This is replacing kexts part in Onetrack's guide) which is a lot less elegant than the way that Netkas's EFI handles the kernel problem. But since this is case by case based on what hardware peripheral you are dealing with, God help us.

--S

My apologies. I probably gave the wrong impression. Actually, the retail install (my version) requires X11User and French packages (assumed because I cannot un-select them when doing a "customize" install. Since both of these get removed by the script, I assume they are the missing files.In order to leave X11User in the image, I delete the remove line in the script, but there is not enough space in the ISO image to leave it in. So in order to make room, I remove even more languages (via the script, package names found in original image via Pacifist) and delete the remove line that takes out French.pkg. This in theory would leave what the installer wants, and provide enough room to fit into the DVD iso.So far this is working, in so far as I do not get the "no room" error messages during the patch. I am currently burning the DVD and will once again try the Kalyway and my version of the BrazilMac install.Now, I know what you're saying, 9B18 may not work, but what the heck, I like trying my own little hacks. And if it works, I'll certain share with the community ;) If it doesn't, I wasted an hour and a 25cent DVD blank :oWish me luck. I will post the results in a little over an hour.....
What the heck. (I am talking to myself. Sorry.) If you have a blank dual layer RW DVD disc, I would not remove anything from the original image but only replace what's need to be replaced. And then try. (Of course, at the beginning of the script, you may want to make the size of ISO image fit to dual layer size.) Good luck. --S
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