SonicSky Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Hi InsanelyMac forums, I hope someone can help me. After countless failed tries in VMWare I finally want to get Leopard (Leo4All v2) on my real PC. Well my hardware is the following: CPU: AMD x2 3800+ Dualcore Mainboard: MSI K9NU NEO Graphics Card: PCI-E SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON x1600xt 256MB Sound: OnBoard Realtek HD Audio RAM: 2GB DDR2 OSs already installed: WinXP Home SP2 32bit / WinVista Home Premium 32bit, no SP Mouse: Razer Copperhead USB mouse Keyboard: Logitech G15 v1 USB Keyboard Harddrive Configuration: IDE 1 Master: 250GB Partition 1: WinXP Vista Bootloader is installed here! / Partition 2: data IDE 1 Slave: 40GB Partition 1: WinVista IDE 2 Master: LG DVD Burner IDE 2 Slave: Toshiba DVD Drive SATA II: 80GB No Partitons, Leo4All shell go here USB: External 500GB HDD Partition 1: data From what I read in the OSX x86 Wiki my hardware seems pretty much compatible. I already tried a test boot and reached the "Welcome to Mac OSX Leopard Installation" screen in under one minute, although I had to boot with -cpus=1 otherwise it would get stuck. Could I install Leo on my SATA drive? Also, I want to keep my both Windows' From what I got, I would have to format the SATA with FAT32 in Vista beforehand and then with Mac Journal something during the actual installation, right? And how would I make Vista and XP work again afterwards, since I bet OSX will overwrite the Vista bootloader? I thought of restoring the Vista Bootloader after the Leopard installation with my Vista DVD and then adding OSX with BCD Edit to Vistas loader, would that work? And last but not least, is there anything else I would need to do to get my Leopard? Thanks for any help in advance, I'm new to all this SonicSky Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97747-total-mac-newb-can-i-install-leo4all-v2-like-this/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicSky Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Sorry for bumping... Well if my previous post was too much to help, could somebody atleast answer if this would be possible: If I unplug every HDD except the SATA drive and then install Leopard on it, would it work? I would replug the other HDDs after the installation and just use the BIOS Bootsequence as a "bootloader" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97747-total-mac-newb-can-i-install-leo4all-v2-like-this/#findComment-698959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianxxx Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Sorry for bumping... Well if my previous post was too much to help, could somebody atleast answer if this would be possible: If I unplug every HDD except the SATA drive and then install Leopard on it, would it work? I would replug the other HDDs after the installation and just use the BIOS Bootsequence as a "bootloader" probably not many people are familiar with that chipset, ULi M1697, which is probably why no one has answered. I'm not I think you will have to research wether anyones dvd release supports it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97747-total-mac-newb-can-i-install-leo4all-v2-like-this/#findComment-698972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicSky Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Thanks for the reply Ianxxx! I always knew I had a strange chipset^^ Well could you tell me if the idea of my second post could work? If it does, I could safely try it and report back for other ULi M1697 users Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97747-total-mac-newb-can-i-install-leo4all-v2-like-this/#findComment-698999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicSky Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Tried it, Leo4All v2 would not detect my SATA drive during installation, neither in Disk Utility nor when I just clicked "Next" However I forgot to format it with FAT32 beforehand... would the OSX Setup atleast see an NTFS partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97747-total-mac-newb-can-i-install-leo4all-v2-like-this/#findComment-699841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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