pina0004 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hi all. I am having some diffculty in getting Leopard onto my PC system. I've used both iATKOS V1r2 & Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1. When I boot from either, I get the message "/com.apple.boot.plist not found". If I hit F8, I can type -v from the Boot: command, but I will get the same message. My system specs: Intel Quad Core Q6600 2.4 GHz Asus P5E-K Deluxe w/ Wifi mbd 4GB RAM SATA 1 - 300GB SATA 2 - 300GB SATA 3 - 500GB IDE 1 - 500GB (I'm sorry, this stuff is too cheap to pass up at Fry's!) IDE DVD When I open up the contents of the KALYWAY or iATKOS DVD, they both show the same files: BOOT, BOOT (Security Catalog), BOOT0, BOOT1H, BOOT1U, BOOTHELP, CDBOOT, CHAIN0 The iATKOS DVD has the same files with BOOTEFI included. When I open either DVD in Magic ISO, They seem have all the beautiful Mac files, HFS and the actual Mac OSX install files. I just can't get to them! Can anyone give me some tips on how to get through this initial stage? Thanks so much in advance. JP I should add that I have XP Pro 64 on SATA 1 and XP Pro 32 on SATA 2. I am trying to install Leopard on SATA 3. I've got that disk partitioned as a 160GB and 300GB. If all this seems a little much, I am trying different OSs to see which is the best for music production. I plan to scale down when I figure out which configuration is best. Thanks again. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peto315 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I had the same problem, I have acer laptop and I overcame it with BIOS update fromj acer's site, b/c I heard jmicron problem can be solved like that and it actually worked, but now I'm stuck with fact that I don't see no drives. Hope this helps, btw dont worry about updating bios, now a days it can be done in a sec and I found it very safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Myself and many others have received that error and we fixed it buy either buying a SATA DVD drive (Which I did and was well worth it, even if I didn't need it for OSX86) or buying an external SATA DVD drive. Oh, and a tip when writing posts, don't have your post as 'wall of text' press enter and use paragraphs, it makes it a lot easier to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pina0004 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Thanks for your replies. I did use the editor, and when I added my OS info, it came up as the dreaded "wall of text" - sorry bout that. JP Also, does it need to be an external drive, and why? I'm curious...JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volumecontrol Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I get the same error. So there really is no other way, except buy a new DVD drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pina0004 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Are you trying to boot from an IDE drive? If so, then that may be the problem for both of us. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metamotion Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Me too. Except the frustrating part is that the installer DVD worked once on my rig. After burning the Kalyway disk and getting a successful checksum, I restarted. Screen said it was loading Darwin for awhile, then it launched a beautiful Leopard installer. So I selected Disk Utility to reformat. But then I got cold feet and quit the installer, because I decided to partition my hard drive first in an attempt to preserve my current Ubuntu 7.10 installation. Trouble is, when I popped the disk back in and restarted, I now get stuck on the ´/com.apple.boot.plist not found´ error message, which I had not gotten the first time. As I have a SATA DVD drive, not an IDE, and it worked the first time, I don´t think it is either the optical disk or a bad DVD burn. My only guess is that some error is lodged in a cache somewhere. But I´m new to BIOS settings and command line interface; in other words, a newbie who is learning Linux/Unix from scratch. I am running Ubuntu and wish to dual boot with Leopard (I bought a legal copy but couldn´t get the BrazilMac patch to even start from the DVD, so I am trying Kalyway 10.5.1.iso). I have no desire to run Windows. Any thoughts? I sure would appreciate a tip or two. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_swamy Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I had same problem. So I copy "/com.apple.boot.plist from OSX 10.4.8 and it boot fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metamotion Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 "I had same problem. So I copy "/com.apple.boot.plist from OSX 10.4.8 and it boot fine. " How do you copy in a new /com.apple.boot.plist ? I have a copy of 10.5.0, but my stepdaughter has my only copy of 10.4 disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legitmodder439 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I am having the same issue I downloaded kalyway 10.5.1.iso and burned it to a DVD and was sat on the edge of my seat ready to slam through the install but when I booted from the disk I got this "/com.apple.boot.plist not found" error. I did some research and found that people were having troubles with IDE harddrives which is what I was trying to install it to (an old Westgate 30GB). So the next step was to partition my SATA hd which I did then I unplugged all my other HD's. Booted from my DVD drive and got the "/com.apple.boot.plist not found" error again. Again with IDE issues I then found that other users could not boot the disk from a IDE DVD drive so I guess the next step is to try it with a SATA DVD drive. I hopefully will try this tomorrow and I will report back for other users. EDIT: I forgot my specs Asus P5B-V Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 O.C'ed to 2.6Ghz 2GB of Kingston RAM Nvidia 7600GT x2 Seagate SATA 160GB x1 Westgate IDE 30GB Legitmodder439 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metamotion Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I´m having the same trouble, using SATA DVD and HDD. My next step is to go into my iso image and insert a new boot.plist file. But I am still trying to figure out how to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legitmodder439 Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Ok now the only other thing I can try is a SATA DVD Drive. I tried all the ACPI configurations in the bios but I still get this file not found error :@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Conte Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 same problem can anyone help me too?? okay without patched to r2 iatkos dvd just restarts without giving any errors with patched one it says com.Apple.Boot.plist not found it says???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonyStyle Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I have a IP35-Pro main & SATA DVD-RW drive that connected to SATA#2! My HDD is connected to SATA#3, but i still get this error!! what should i do?? i heard this mainboard + sata drive will be the best set for leopard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonyStyle Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I have a IP35-Pro main & SATA DVD-RW drive that connected to SATA#2! My HDD is connected to SATA#3, but i still get this error!! what should i do?? i heard this mainboard + sata drive will be the best set for leopard ANYONE?? ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metamotion Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Semi-success! I got the installer to load: make sure to use ¨f8¨ in time and use ¨-v¨ for verbose mode. That combination got me past the ¨....plist¨ error. Now I am stuck because I want to preserve my Ubuntu Gutsy install and the OS will not let me reformat a partition to HFS+. Probably going to buy a second SATA HDD and give that a try. And even if I wanted to wipe out the Ubuntu, Disk Utility will not allow me to reformat the entire drive. I keep getting various errors at partition, erase, etc. I´m hoping a new HDD will do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzuniga Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 i got the same error after i upgraded my bios, trying to improbe UEFI (and finally could use the $%&$&% integrated net chipset) i DOWNGRADED my bios and the problem was solved. MB: Intel DG33BU (with the $%$%& net chipset gigabit 82566) P.S.: Sorry guys, but you must understand, i bought a pci dlink dfe 520tx card (realtek 8139), trying to solve my net problems, and it didn't work either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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