Romano2K Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Hi everyone! I've been trying to install Leopard on one of my computers for a long time now, and I can't find a way to get it working. I thought you could help. I'm using the Kaliway 10.5.1 DVD, I own a IBM ThinkCentre S50 Model 8183-CTO (Configured-to-order), which is : Intel Springdale i865G and ICH5 motherboard Intel 82865G Graphics Controller (Intel Extreme Graphics 2), integrated to the motherboard Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 2,8 Ghz (SSE2 and SSE3 support) 1x 512 MB PC3200 DDR Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40 GB ATA hard-drive (master) Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616E optical-drive (slave) The installation runs fine, until the end, and I get this screen : Install Failed Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer Here is some kind of home made walk-through screenshots (kind of) : I tried several options : with or without the Vanilla stuff, with a GUID and with a MBR partition table... Everything with BIOS defaults. Am I doing something wrong ? Thank you for your attention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Just a shot in the dark....... I tried to install the XXX10.4.11 OSX on my Dell Dimension 9200(it runs 10.5.1 Natively) and came up with the same error, it Also happend when i tried to install 10.5.1 on another HDD from within my Existing MacOS, then I first made the HDD bootable (both MBR or GUID) and check to see if it booted, by giving me the "com.boot.plist not found". I then reinstalled WITHOUT the GUID MBR bootpartitioning option on the CD and it installed! i think it might be that the system is unable to DISMOUNT the drive to do the boot0 and boot1h settings???? it might also(10.4.11) be that the ICHXR or whatever driver is incompatible?? SticMAN if it doesnt help hope it points you in the right direction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velvetk Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Do you have a SATA hard drive to try with. Try to install Tiger first and then install Leopard on top of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romano2K Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Unfortunately, I have no spare SATA drive to try, and there is no SATA into this computer! I didn't understood very well what SticMAN wanted me to do... How should I made the HDD bootable and see if it boots without any OS on it? Although I may try to install Tiger first. Any other idea is welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romano2K Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 I've been able to install "Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.8 JaS AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 PPF2". Nothing works out of the box but the integrated network controller. The system boots without the DVD. The updater poped-up very soon, can I update to 10.4.11 with the official updater? I'm now trying to update to 10.5.1 with the KALIWAY 10.5.1 DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romano2K Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 Same thing after the installation process of Leopard. There was no "upgrade" proposal though. After reboot, I'm getting a little message on one line : "b0 error". What should I check at this moment? I have a SSE2 AND SSE3 CPU, so should I check Intel SSE2 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velvetk Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I could install Tiger on IDE too but never had any success installing Leopard on IDE. b0 error fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomniusX Posted July 13, 2009 Share Posted July 13, 2009 Anybody tried any new leopard, e.g. 10.5.6 or .7 (e.g. iAtkos etc.) ?? Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ik_ben_Mark Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Does someone got some succes with OSX on a IBM ThinkCentre (S50) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzag Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Hi, I got 10.4.8 working on IBM S50 out of the box, same specs as the origional post. You need the JAS 10.4.8 install image, when the installer pops up, format the hard disk, then continue to the window that asks you to select packages. De-select ALL packages and only leave the main system checked and Smithex's kernel 8.8.1 for Intel checked. Then proceed with install. All should be fine, after the install completes, remove the disk and reboot the computer. It will then boot into mac osx! The first boot may take longer than usual because it will go through the set up wizard. After this it will log you in, and you now have 10.4.8 working perfect, graphics work, networking and sound So far i've only managed to update it to 10.4.9 keeping the old smithex kernel so i can use microsoft office 2008. For the upgrade to 10.4.9 follow this guide http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...ic=45283&hl Hope this has been of help (p.s. my monitor will only support to 1024x768, if your monitor has a higher native res, you will not be able to get it higher than 1024x768) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romano2K Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 Thank you very much! I'll try this one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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