Toshiba Satellite A200 - Success!

[shimigg]

hey all ,

 

well , after to much effort , i did manage to install leopard (Toh rc2) ,

 

installed widows xp first

 

boot to leopard install DVD and installed on a pre made partition , before installation reboots did that:

 

partitioned a usb drive

 

-- activated the partition :

 

>fdisk -e /dev/rdiskXsY (replace the X and Y with your info)

>update

>f (now comes the partition number u want to activate)

>w (write command)

>q (quit)

 

now the partition is active (press enter after every line of course)

 

on to the bootfix ,

 

format a usb drive and label it 123

put the brazil files folder (i will not tell u where to get it) on the usb drive

when u still on the boot dvd insert the usb drive we just prepared ,

 

> cd /Volumes/123/files/bootfix

 

now do the following

 

./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1

 

./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot

 

./bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setBoot -verbose

 

reboot ,

 

now sit back and watch your loepard boot up nicely

 

to boot winxp hold f8 when darwin boot loader comes up and select your windows partition ...

 

 

to the hardware :

 

lan - worked out of the box

 

wlan - still doesnt work (used Linksys wusb54g - with the mathod for 10.4.x - works in leopard too).

 

sound - worked with the azalia fix for 10.4.x (easy to find here in the forum)

 

graphics - worked with natit for 10.4.x (works in leopard too) no tweaking needed - qi/ce works great.

 

bluetooth - works out of the box

 

benchmark - 120 pts (added 1gb of memory) and 1.86 centrino duo processor.

 

that's it ... to be clear , i didnt invent anything in this thread , i found it searching around for a long time ,

 

so i decided to gather it for all how have difficulties with installing and dual booting ,

 

this mathod worked on my desktop too.

 

 

Shimi.