SteveStar Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 For an easy guide go to HERE! Good luck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodfightr Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 What do I do now? Please help... I *NEED* to get this working on my sata drives! Oh {censored}.... do I need a USB drive with "startupfiletool" on it? I'm such a newb. Someone please chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godisemo Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Did you use the Disk Utility to get your drive ready to install? no disks apeard in the disc utility, so I couldn't do anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanman Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I've been looking for instruction on how to burn the downloaded parts. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnipinTerminator Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I've been looking for instruction on how to burn the downloaded parts. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks Download and install winRAR, click the first RAR file and extract it in a directory. Download and install Nero Burning Rom, insert an empty DVD-R or DVD+R, no RW (please don't ask me why, just don't), follow instructions on screen, select burn ISO, selct the unrarred file and burn it. Then follow the instruction on http://osx86.thefreesuite.com to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodfightr Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Ok, so I navigated to my USB thumb drive where I copied startupfiletool. I ran it by typing: ./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s1 ./boot (I typed exactly that!) It said: HFS+ Filesystem Detected Open(./boot) : No Such File or Directory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanman Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Download and install winRAR, click the first RAR file and extract it in a directory. Download and install Nero Burning Rom, insert an empty DVD-R or DVD+R, no RW (please don't ask me why, just don't), follow instructions on screen, select burn ISO, selct the unrarred file and burn it. Then follow the instruction on http://osx86.thefreesuite.com to install. Thank you Snipin, I knew it had to be something simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAvenue Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Anybody have a fix for "about this mac" . I tried the replacement AppleSMBios.kext replacement floating around on this forum but it did not fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanman Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I'm going to try and install this on a DELL Inspiron 1501 Laptop with the SB600 Chipset. Does anyone know if it supports the Southbridge chipset with device ID 0x43851002 or 0x43531002? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku-Fan Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hi, I have not the desire to read all the 22 last pages but I hope you nevertheless help me: My hardware is a Athlon64 X2 5200+ EE, the mobo a Abit NF-M2 and the graphic card a Nvidia GeForce 7650 GS and all that worked in Tiger with Uphuck 1.4a great. In the setup of this leo distro I havn't selected the GeForce 8xxx drivers, of course. When it boots this appears on my screen: What should I do? I have read lots of workarounds here and want to take the right one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exillo Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 disk1s3, major 14, minor 8 and then, system reboot after about 30 seconds and getting some quick messages including mach reboot. Can't find any way around it. Here's a thread about it with people who've got the same problem. AMD64 3500+ Asus A8N-SLI GeForce 7600 GT 2GB RAM 320Gb Western Digital WD3200KS SATA2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Silva Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I try to install and i have this problem. my conf: M2N-E proc amd x2 3800+ chipset nvidia HD maxtor 120gb 1gb ram 533mhz any suggestions?? i try to install any different options, -x -y -f -legacy -s and not work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hello I was wondering if there is a way to get it booting without all those messages like just showing the apple logo with the loading if yes how and Is thier a way to fix the "about this mac" i tried using the the new SMbios kext and didnt help it screwed up my leopard and i only can see the cursor with a blue backround and iMovie crashes if any one know how to fix any of these please help me thank you really much i greatly appriciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 @ haiku all you have to do is delete all the geforce and NV kexts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealthMode Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 About This Mac doesn't work, it just crashes Finder and everything. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku-Fan Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 @amantheboy07: Thanks! It works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 About This Mac doesn't work, it just crashes Finder and everything. Any ideas?same here it does exactly the same for me we need a fix the new AppleSMBios.kext deosnt work@amantheboy07:Thanks! It works! no problem glad to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenMac Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Ok, so I navigated to my USB thumb drive where I copied startupfiletool. I ran it by typing: ./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s1 ./boot (I typed exactly that!) It said: HFS+ Filesystem Detected Open(./boot) : No Such File or Directory You need to provide the full path to the "boot" file if it doesn't exist in the same location as the startupfiletool. e.g. (this is not literal... change to fit your paths) ./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s1 /Volumes/USBDRIVE/folder/containing/boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Whenever I want to add a new kext I add it and i restart and nothing happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephyroth Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 ok guyz, you MUST upgrade your skills ... amantheboy chown -Rf root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/"the kext you just installed" chmod -Rf 755 /System/Library/Extensions/"the kext you just installed" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 @zephyroth thanks yeah i did that just forgot the -Rf part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 alright, I'm at my wits end with trying to boot the hard drive with leopard within leopard I tried "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1s1 (as this was displayed from diskutil list) the error read back: "fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory" This is the problem I believe. So is there any suggestions that might fix this? Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frinchkin Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 well i managed to nub up my tiger disk and now that won't boot unless i run the dvd first. lots of app crashes in leo. the real bummer is it keeps crashing my dsl modem as well. maybe as opposed to forcedeth-d i'll just use regular forcedeth... wish i could figure out that darn boot issue but my skillz are lacking guess these things will iron themselves out in time but it was cool to get a peek at it. now i gotta fix my tiger disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantomgreen Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 so about the account creation hang... I've racked my brain to figure out why it worked fine the first time I installed and not the second time. I previously had jas 10.4.8 installed. when I installed 10.5.1, i erased that drive with the 10.5.1 disk utility but didn't delete and recreate the partition. After installing 10.5.1 I had no boot problems (grub still pointed in the same spot and found os x). Was something still in the mbr? i'm not sure... When I installed the second time, I removed the partition with disk utility in leopard and recreated it for a fresh install. this is the ONLY thing that was different. The rest of the install was identical including having to run installer again after the "about one minute" hang. The second time I installed, I did have to use the fdisk -e to fix the bootloader. Does this mean anything to anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 hi deos anyone what happens if you remove legacy from apple boot plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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