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Hi guys,

 

I'm still hunting for any ideas to install Leopard on my sys:

 

- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Rev1

- Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 (2.5GHz)

- 4x 1GB RAM 667 DDR2

- 80GB Matrox SATA-II Disk

- 250GB WD SATA-II Disk

- SATA LG DVD-RW

- IDE SONY DVD-RW

 

What works is the installation itself with the "Brazil Patched ISO". I made it this way:

 

1st - Inserted the DVD, start it (getting to the graphical installer itself takes ages (10mins or so!).

2nd - Partition the HDD with Mac OS Journaled (MBR)

3rd - Installed NOTHING than the system core (unchecked every additional printer/fonts etc)

4th - rebootet

5th - bootet again from the DVD as mentioned in a lot of tutorials for the Brazil thing

6th - Opened up the terminal on follow the instructions (cd .. / cd .. (one more cd .. needed!) cd /Volumes/PATCHER/files / ./9a851patch.sh (or so don't have the exact file name in the mind)

7th - This one works with some informations about that 4 or 5 kexts doesn't exist

8th - Reboot

9th - Getting upset, because I get NO information feedback... I just see "Boot from CD/DVD..." from the board itself and nothing happens

 

What I tried:

- Tried the Kalyway CD for preparing the disk from my Tiger partition and installed it on the second disk (honestly this one killed my Tiger :-/) - WON'T WORK!

- Tried to boot the Kalyway CD - WON'T WORK! - Got the message "Still waiting for the root device"

- Used the Hirens boot CD and activated the partition with one of the partition tools - WON'T WORK - Got errors like before (none) or OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

 

I'm a bit tired of it, tried it ~10 times yet and still with the same result..

 

Hopefully someone has a workaround for me :censored2: I really want to use the Leopard here...

 

Currently I'm getting the flat image - maybe this works out for me...

 

 

Hoping for you ideas :D

 

Ciao

Nemo

jclaude_nantes
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I get a P35 DS3 to.

I have tested a lot of things....Bazilpatch definitivly don't works on my mobo... Can't boot...

 

my method:

 

- in BIOS force SATA AHCI Mode on AHCI.

- Use a SATA HDD and a SATA DVD.

- Connet it on the 2 first ORANGE Connectors (SATA0 --> HDD, SATA1 --> DVD). Only this 2 connectors work at this moment.

- Boot with XxX 10.4.10 DVD (Tiger).

- Partition your HDD (Mac OS Journaled, MBR) with the Tiger HDD utility.

- Install XxX 10.4.10.

- When Tiger reboot, insert the Leopard DVD (ToH 10.5.0).

- Install ToH 10.5.0 on Tiger.

 

now you can boot on your Leopard partition.

 

Works for me,

 

You have to do some manipulations for: ALC889A (Audio), Gigabyte SATA2 in IDE (works in AHCI mode out of the box).

You found all needed explications on this forum.

I got sleep and wake up working with mach_sleep kernel and 10.5.1 instaled with Pacifist.

 

A cheap and perfect mobo for leopard!!!

Good luck.

CaptainNemo
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Hmm Ok that's a possible solution and thanx for sharing it! :wacko:

 

All I need is ToH 10.5 now... what does ToH stand for? I just can't find it on the site with the boat :wacko:

 

I'm sure JaS 10.4.8 also work as Tiger-Basic, right?

 

How do you get to work the 10.5.1? "Normally" downloaded the Update from the Apple Site and installed it just with Pacifist? Don't you get kernel problems after installing the update?

 

Ciao

Nemo

TonyKL
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I installed BrazilMac like you and couldnt get it to boot.

Followed lots of guides etc and still nothing.

 

The only way I got it to work is by booting off a ToH DVD and going to terminal and running the script in /usr/misc directory. That installed Darwin bootloader and then I could boot BrazilMac.

jclaude_nantes
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Just google "ToH leopard", you find it on a another site!!!

 

I have not tested Jas, but certainly it works, good luck.

 

I get 10.5.1 "normaly" from apple. Download the file, no automatic install. With pacifist i install every packets but not the kernel. et voilà!!

 

My problems:

 

HDD icon are the orange one (i'm working on it).

Shut down don't works correctly (somme time yes some time not)

CaptainNemo
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Ok I see that there's no way around loading it :-/ Well.. hopefully it's fast enough to get this done before saturday :)Thanks a lot for your tips & ideas! I will reply the results here.

I installed BrazilMac like you and couldnt get it to boot.Followed lots of guides etc and still nothing.The only way I got it to work is by booting off a ToH DVD and going to terminal and running the script in /usr/misc directory. That installed Darwin bootloader and then I could boot BrazilMac.
Does Leopard works fine after that kind of installation? (I understand it that way: You install the brazil DVD and use the ToH DVD just to install the Darwin Bootloader? - Maybe there's a more elegant way than downloading the whole DVD?)
TonyKL
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Ok I see that there's no way around loading it :-/ Well.. hopefully it's fast enough to get this done before saturday :)Thanks a lot for your tips & ideas! I will reply the results here.Does Leopard works fine after that kind of installation? (I understand it that way: You install the brazil DVD and use the ToH DVD just to install the Darwin Bootloader? - Maybe there's a more elegant way than downloading the whole DVD?)

 

I read about multiple boot loader dvd's etc and lots of terminal commands to fix this but the only way I could reliably (more than one machine) get it to work was using the Toh DVD. Yes, it's a big download :-(

 

Other way is to get someone to post the contents of that script and you could do it manually?

I'm not at home atm so I can't post it yet - sorry.

kinobe
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I "installed" from leopard flat image (google for it) from my windows partion (but u need two harddrives 1 with winxp or so with 30gb space free) on that exact same motherboard. the flat image has all the brazilmac patches. I later on installed pc_efi and now im on vanilla 10.5.1 with sound and network fixes as those were the only things needed to fix for this mobo. Graphics worked with natit from the flat image. Sound is 2 channel stereo only, cant get 5.1 to work. Everything else is working as it should. Geekbench 3651, Xbench 175 system is: p35 ds3 rev1 mobo, c2d e6750, 2gb ram nvidia gf7600gs. Mobo works fine if u ask me just a little quirky to get leo to boot thats all ;)

CaptainNemo
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Well - the flat image is currently in download @home :D But I need to re-read the instructions. Hopefully it's completed ;)

I've 2 harddiscs available - so - no problem doing it that way.

 

Are you able to "dual-boot"? Or have you removed the XP disc?

kinobe
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Yes i can dual boot easly by pressing F12 on boot up to bring up the boot selector this mobo supports. Then just pick hd 1 or 2 or whatever ^^ and it will boot to it.

Oh and in case of having 2 harddrives sata and a dvd drive thats sata u have to plug the dvd drive cable into the purple sata port and set:

Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: IDE.

Zeblade
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Hi guys,

 

I'm still hunting for any ideas to install Leopard on my sys:

 

- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Rev1

- Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 (2.5GHz)

- 4x 1GB RAM 667 DDR2

- 80GB Matrox SATA-II Disk

- 250GB WD SATA-II Disk

- SATA LG DVD-RW

- IDE SONY DVD-RW

 

What works is the installation itself with the "Brazil Patched ISO". I made it this way:

 

I have a ga-p35c but when I installed and I used the TOH DVD, after install (MBR format) rebooted just a black screen. Found out on the TOH dvd was a script to run to make the drive boot and booted the DVD ran terminal ran the script and it booted fine after that.

Clayfree
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I have the same MB. The leopard_flat image works great for me, just install it from a windows OS. Make sure you set you bios for AHCI as stated earlier. The flat image will install as a 15 gig partition, in windows you can create a larger second partition and back in Leopard you can join the two together. Somewhere out there someone put together an installer that has all the kexts needed for P35-DS3. Over sata the flat image takes about 8 minutes to install :(

 

Clay

sleepy2
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BrazilMac works just fine with my board, you just have to go through all the terminal {censored} to make it bootable after you install it and run the post patch script. I've had to do it enough times that I finally wised up and took notes. Here's what I do to get Leopard installed on my machine with EFI. Doesn't really take that long once you know what you need to do, except for waiting to boot the DVD. (This assumes you have the Brazilmac postpatch and the pc_efi_v51 or later on a usb flash drive.)

 

Boot from patched DVD

format as HFS (Journalled) MBR, Name Leopard

 

open terminal

diskutil list (note which drive/partition you are installing 10.5 to)

sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX ( replace X and x with the disk/partition you will install to)

fdisk: 1> update

Machine code updated.

fdisk:*1> f 1 (may not be 1, depends on what partition you are using)

Partition 1 marked active.

fdisk:*1> write

Device could not be accessed exclusively.

A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] y

Writing MBR at offset 0.

fdisk: 1> q

 

Your partition is now active!

 

uncheck all, and install

skip check dvd if you know it's a good disk

 

restart after install

 

boot back into dvd

 

cd /Volumes/Leopard/

 

cp mach_kernel mach_kernel.vanilla (saving a backup of the stock kernel)

 

cd System/Library/Extensions

 

mv AppleEFIRuntime.kext AppleEFIRuntime.kext.vanilla (saving a backup)

 

mv AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext.vanilla (backup)

 

run post patch

 

cd /Volumes/yourflashdrive

 

./9a581PostPatch.sh

 

hit N

 

cp mach_kernel mach_kernel.patched (saving a backup of the patched kernel)

 

chmod 644 /mach_kernel.patched

 

chown root:wheel /mach_kernel.patched

 

Now to install efi

 

cp -R /wherever/pc_efi_v51/dsmos.kext /System/Library/Extensions/

 

cd /System/Library/Extensions/

 

chmod -R 755 dsmos.kext

 

chown -R root:wheel dsmos.kext

 

rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext.*

 

diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/Leopard

 

diskutil list

 

cd /wherever/iamefi

 

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1

 

umount /Volumes/Leopard

 

./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsY ./boot_v5

 

bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setBoot -verbose

 

diskutil mount /dev/diskXsY

 

bless -mount /Volumes/Leopard -setBoot -verbose

 

reboot

 

hit F8, type mach_kernel.vanilla (hopefully it boots)

 

If it did you know pc_efi is working so you can stick with the Apple kernel permanently so rename mach_kernel.vanilla to mach_kernel, overwriting the patched one that the postpatch script installed

 

now you're also free to update to 10.5.1 and any other updates from Software Update.

 

if everything is still working after all that then you can go back and revert to the stock kexts, one at a time till you find a combination that works for you.

 

These 3 links should be all you need to figure it out.

 

http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2520

http://www.digitmemo.com/articles/734/howt...-in-hackintosh/

http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2008

 

Hope this is helpful.

CaptainNemo
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Hi sleepy2,

 

I'm currently running your tutorial and I found 2 small mistakes in your instruction:

 

1st: there's no sudo in terminal when you boot from DVD

2nd: If you have a partition you need to call "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0s1 (Xsx) for example

3rd:

Sure that you don't need to change to a subdirectory before?

cd /Volumes/yourflashdrive

 

./9a581PostPatch.sh

 

hit N

 

cp mach_kernel mach_kernel.patched (saving a backup of the patched kernel)

 

Sure that you don't need to change to a subdirectory before?

 

 

 

:P

 

I'm excited if this will work! I really hope so! Everything is prepared. I've an USB stick ready with the EFI v5.1 (download of v8 won't work in your 1st link) and Brazils Patch.

 

Thanx a lot for you instructions!

 

Ciao

Nemo

 

PS. Here are 2 strang issues I got this morning (not sure why - but 1st time):

1st: My 250GB SATA-II disk is just recognized as a 128GB Disk

2nd: The installation takes a looong time - harddisk is doing something and from time to time I get some noise from the DVD-ROM - but most time it sound like theres nothing activity. (around 40% now, "time left 42 minutes")

CaptainNemo
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Hi sleepy2,

 

I can't do this:

mv AppleEFIRuntime.kext AppleEFIRuntime.kext.vanilla (saving a backup)

 

I get the message: "Read-only file system"

 

 

Ok - forget this! I was on the wrong disk/directory.

 

 

But I'm in trouble because diskutil list tells me:

unable to determine UUID for host. Error 35

 

Also the "dd if=boot1h..." tells me that boot1h does not exist (true)

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LTL
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Hi guys,

 

I'm still hunting for any ideas to install Leopard on my sys:

 

- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Rev1

- Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 (2.5GHz)

- 4x 1GB RAM 667 DDR2

- 80GB Matrox SATA-II Disk

- 250GB WD SATA-II Disk

- SATA LG DVD-RW

- IDE SONY DVD-RW

 

What works is the installation itself with the "Brazil Patched ISO". I made it this way:

 

1st - Inserted the DVD, start it (getting to the graphical installer itself takes ages (10mins or so!).

2nd - Partition the HDD with Mac OS Journaled (MBR)

3rd - Installed NOTHING than the system core (unchecked every additional printer/fonts etc)

4th - rebootet

5th - bootet again from the DVD as mentioned in a lot of tutorials for the Brazil thing

6th - Opened up the terminal on follow the instructions (cd .. / cd .. (one more cd .. needed!) cd /Volumes/PATCHER/files / ./9a851patch.sh (or so don't have the exact file name in the mind)

7th - This one works with some informations about that 4 or 5 kexts doesn't exist

8th - Reboot

9th - Getting upset, because I get NO information feedback... I just see "Boot from CD/DVD..." from the board itself and nothing happens

 

What I tried:

- Tried the Kalyway CD for preparing the disk from my Tiger partition and installed it on the second disk (honestly this one killed my Tiger :-/) - WON'T WORK!

- Tried to boot the Kalyway CD - WON'T WORK! - Got the message "Still waiting for the root device"

- Used the Hirens boot CD and activated the partition with one of the partition tools - WON'T WORK - Got errors like before (none) or OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

 

I'm a bit tired of it, tried it ~10 times yet and still with the same result..

 

Hopefully someone has a workaround for me :P I really want to use the Leopard here...

 

Currently I'm getting the flat image - maybe this works out for me...

Hoping for you ideas :)

 

Ciao

Nemo

 

Try my method and let me know how it goes

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=86167

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