TonyKL Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I've downloaded the BrazilMac patch and patched my MG Leopard DVD. This all went ok. Managed to install it ok (after a few learning curves) and installed the pre and post patches. When I boot from the DVD and specify rd=/dev/disk0s1 then leopard boots and runs very well. Only problem is that I can't get Leopard to boot from the HDD... I've followed the steps to use fdisk to set it active, and I've copied the boot file from the latest MagicBoot onto the drive but still I dont get anywhere when I select the HDD as the bootable drive from the BIOS. Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong? Thanks for any pointers, Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Same problem here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKL Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 I'm guessing I've installed it onto a drive with a GUID partition map instead of MBR. Going to give it another go this time formatting the drive with MBR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKL Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hmm, still not got this working - any suggestions? I'm installing onto a P35 setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 same problem on the AMD DVD if anything comes up I'll post back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKL Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 All I can think of is that I need to install Darwin boot loader - how do I do this? The DVD obviously has this boot loader which allows me to bootstrap the installed Leopard but without this on the HDD there's no chance I can boot it directly. Must be a way to install just the Darwin Bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3vilution Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Ok peeps, theres a really easy way to fix this! Listen up! Download ToH RC2 DVD. Then Burn It. Boot Off of it. Run Terminal. Type in "cd /usr/misc/" enter. Then type: "./script.sh VOLUMENAME" (name of your leopard volume, probably leopard) And then reboot. Simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeshifter Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Is there a smaller-download way of doing this? It'd be nice to be able to download just the essential files rather than an entire DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 would that work even though I'm on an AMD machine? and when I did that before it told me no such directory or file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max33 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Look at http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?...=a&start=75 and you find : "To shellcoder 2 steps: A) makes your partition bootable: I named my disk I want to boot on BoBo in root enter following commands diskutil list check BoBo is under disk0s1 if not replace disk0s1 by what you read in following lines diskutil unmount /Volumes/BoBo dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=512 count=1 /usr/sbin/startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s1 /usr/standalone/i386/boot /usr/sbin/bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1 /usr/sbin/bless -mount "Volumes/Boot" -setBoot -verbose Now PC will be able to boot on BoBo you may set up in Bios that first disk to boot will be BoBo or select BoBo from startup menu if you have this option on your main board. Hope it may help" Thanks leonleonleonleon .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKL Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 diskutil list check BoBo is under disk0s1 if not replace disk0s1 by what you read in following lines diskutil unmount /Volumes/BoBo dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=512 count=1 /usr/sbin/startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s1 /usr/standalone/i386/boot /usr/sbin/bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1 /usr/sbin/bless -mount "Volumes/Boot" -setBoot -verbose Now PC will be able to boot on BoBo Thanks for the info although i've done this a number of times. Will try the ToH disc as i have that somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeshifter Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 I've done that a number of times too. I searched for "ToH" on the bay and couldn't find anything. Going to try a couple of different install approaches now (flat image and thesteveo patch with Brazilmac). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKL Posted December 2, 2007 Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 Update: Thanks to 3vilution - using the ToH disk and installing Leopard, then running the post-install script meant that I got a full working system booting from the HDD - woohoo ! I actually found that the BrazilMac version is better for my machine (finds 2 cores and graphics better etc) so I've re-installed that and will try using the ToH post-install script to install darwin. edit: Yeah - using ToH to create the bootstrap is the way to go :-) edit: Now, dare I go for the magic bootloader and EFI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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