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Version 3 of eddie11c's popular Leo4all release has been uploaded to a private ftp, and should appear 'around' shortly. Leo4all is a 'universal' release and works on AMD and Intel. The official release notes are attached, here are the highlights:

First and most importantly is a totally rebuilt filesystem. The advantage with this is I no longer had to script a repair permissions from the DVD. This speeds install a good bit for most people. Don't worry if the timer says some outrageous time, as it does not calculate it correctly. The initial package install is very large and takes the most time, but once its done the install is almost done. I still recommend running repair permissions from Leopard once your all loaded up to fix some errors, but none of these will stop the system from booting. If you run it twice you should see zero errors on Intel and 2 SUID files on AMD. There is an install script that crashes on AMD machines causing this, but to keep everything perfect on intel I chose to leave the script intact.

 

This DVD now supports AHCI with more than 2 drives thanks to the updated kext's posted by Cyclonefr.

 

Also fixed this go around is X11 for both Intel and AMD. If, when you close it the first time, cpu usage jumps to 100% open terminal and type xeyes & to fix it. You will need to reboot after, but it should never glitch again.

 

There is no longer a ./RemoveVideo script, it has been updated and is now called ./options.

 

ACPIPlatform:

1.1.0 or 1.2.1. Included in each is ACPIPS2Nub to fix PS2 issues.

 

AppleSMBIOS:I put in lots of choices for different versions based on bus speed if you want it to show your proper memory speed, or if you want your hack to look like a real mac. The default install if nothing is selected is Netkas improved version 27.

 

Options are:

 

DDR667

 

DDR800

 

DDR1066

 

DDR1333

 

iMac

 

MacBook

 

MacPro

 

 

Kernel:

I have added Netkas 9.2.0 sleep kernel, and 9.2.2 binpatched kernel ny Modbin(Be warned this does not work on all AMD machines! SSE3 CPU is required!). The default install is still Netkas 9.2.0 speedstep kernel. There are also the Stock kernels(vanilla) 9.2.0/9.2.2

 

 

RemoveFireWire:

For those that have issues with FireWire, or those that just want to speed their boot time a little. This moves all of the IOFireWire kext's to /FireWire folder in the root of your install drive.

 

About This Mac:

This is my own little installer to customize "About this Mac" with your processor info. No it does not fix memory speed, you have to do that with AppleSMBIOS. It should work for all languages and should report overclocked CPU's properly.

 

Power Management:

By popular demand I added the laptop power management bundle to the install. You will still need to set it up in system preferences. This is known to have a few minor bugs. It may not report the proper time remaining or any time remaining for that matter, so use at your own risk. If you select this please do not select an ACPIPlatform, as this requires version 1.1.0.

 

AMD System Fix:

You will notice it is checked and greyed out by default. To take out alot of user error (people forgetting to check it for their AMD systems) I have added a script to detect the CPU and patch accordingly. When its running it will echo your processor information in the install log (if you show all). It will then skip the patch process if your on Intel or patch if its an AMD. I hope it works well for everyone!

 

Bootloader:

This option is checked and greyed out by default. It is Dense's script to install EFI and make the partition active. If you already have an existing bootloader (like from Vista) on the same logical drive it will not overwrite it. It will however flag the partition you installed to active, so you will have to manually set your Windows partition active again if needed.

 

Chipset Drivers:

(NOTE- JMicron is the only driver that always installs so please choose at least 1 option, some will have to choose 2 [if you have Marvell IDE and Intel SATA for example] ) If your not sure you can click all but 1 Nforce, as they will overwrite each other.

 

Nforce Old - This is the older version of Medevils Nforce(1.0.2) driver. Install this if you have issues with SATA enabled causing a panic. Known to work for some Nforce3 users.

 

Nforce Test- If you have a SATA DVD or do not have issues booting the DVD normally choose the NforceTest.

 

SiliconImage3132 - I have not found anyone that uses this specific chipset to confirm if it works.

 

VIA, SiS, Marvell and SB - Please install this if you are using any of these chipsets. If you have a Marvell IDE drive please install this as they should be supported. I have added many ID's here so I hope they all work! This chioce installs AppleVIAATA, AppleOnboardPCATA and AppleGenericPCATA. Confirmed working for SiS!

 

SAS - By request I added support for this, as of my writing this its untested. Hopefully it works.

 

Intel ICHx- If you have ICH7/8/9 chipsets you should install this. This is the modified version by -Dune- to support more than 2 drives and fix the over 2Gigs of RAM panics.

 

Audio:

These choices have not changed much, only added support for STAC9271 by request. If your not sure what chipset you have, please choose AzaliaAudio(for most HD) or AC97Audio.

Choices are:

 

ALC850/882/883/888/889

 

AC97Audio

 

ADI1988

 

STAC9271

 

AzaliaAudio

 

Graphics Drivers:

I have updated many of these packages.

 

ATI- there are options for:

 

3850

 

3870

 

2600XT(PCIE)

 

2600XT(AGP)

 

3870X2

 

2600PRO(PCIE)

 

2600PRO(AGP)

 

X1600(PCIE)

 

X1600(AGP)

 

X19X0

 

X1400 Mobility

 

 

Nvidia- I have updated the drivers to the latest available from the Mac Pro's and edited to include all Device ID's I could verify. This should cover mostly all 6XXX/7XXX/8XXX series cards. (List of ID's found in attached release notes)

 

NVinject- By request I have added options for different version of Nvinject(0.1.3/0.2.0/0.2.1). If your not sure choose version 0.2.1 with the proper amount of RAM your video card. I have added a modified version of 0.2.1 for 1Gig of VRAM.

 

GMA950 - QE/CI+resolution change with some artifacts

 

GMA950 - No Aritfacts QE/CI but no resolution.

 

GMAX3100 - suppose to give QE/CI(confirmed for device ID 0x2a02)

 

Network Drivers:

ForceDeth- This is compatible with most Nforce LAN.

 

ForceDeth-V - This is compatible with most Nforce LAN(recommended version)

 

Skge - Driver for most Marvell LAN cards.

 

RTL8187- Just as it says for Realtek 8187

 

Zydas USB- For the USB Wireless LAN adapter

 

Tiger IO80211- Some Atheros cards require this Tiger version to work. Default install is IO80211 from 10.5.2

 

Broadcom- WLAN driver for BCM4306/4309/4318/4320/4324

 

RT2500- Suppose to support Dlink WMP54G v4.0, may support some others.

 

ViaRhine- Just as it says, for ViaRhine chipsets

 

Intel 100Pro VE- Just as it says, for the Intel 100Pro VE chipset

 

RT2860- Driver for some chipsets like WL-181, may also work on some others.

 

Good Applications:

You can choose to install or not, but I do recommend many of these useful programs. They include:

 

Adium

 

AppZapper

 

BBEdit

 

CandyBar

 

Colloquy

 

FireFox

 

Gumby 50c

 

Invisibles

 

KCNScrew

 

KextHelper

 

Marvin's AMD Utility

 

MD5

 

Pacifist

 

PackageMaker version 2.1(old harder to find)

 

Stuffit Expander

 

Textmate

 

Transmission

 

TubeSock

 

Unison

 

VLC

 

Xbench

The Official Leo4all Wiki can be found here.

 

The mentionedAbout This Mac CPU information installer is an absolute gem! Thanks for all of the hard work eddie11c: I can't (and I know many of you can't either) wait to try this out :thumbsup_anim:


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Whats wrong with u people , r u going to actually even bother to read my post? Eddie at least you help me .. you made Leo4all

 

 

Well I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "geforce kexts" but your problem sounds similar to one I was having with the nvidia drivers included in theleo4allv3 install disk and my 8800gs.

 

My suggestion is to install without the graphics drivers and then go get the NVInstaller .41 and install the leopard 10.5.2 grapics drivers and NVInject matching your card from that. I believe it is supposed to have the updated drivers from the new MacBook pros, and it solved the problems I was having.

 

And could someone answer a quick question for me? And this might be silly, but is "kexts" basically synonomous with "drivers?"

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Well I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "geforce kexts" but your problem sounds similar to one I was having with the nvidia drivers included in theleo4allv3 install disk and my 8800gs.

 

My suggestion is to install without the graphics drivers and then go get the NVInstaller .41 and install the leopard 10.5.2 grapics drivers and NVInject matching your card from that. I believe it is supposed to have the updated drivers from the new MacBook pros, and it solved the problems I was having.

 

And could someone answer a quick question for me? And this might be silly, but is "kexts" basically synonomous with "drivers?"

Oh i see. Thanks for your reply. I did install without drivers and i will be removing the kexts i installed earlier and will download Nvinject .41

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Oh i see. Thanks for your reply. I did install without drivers and i will be removing the kexts i installed earlier and will download Nvinject .41

 

One other thing that may be relevant is I used the vanilla 256 option. I dont know what vanilla means in this instance, but it worked and system profiler reports the VRAM correctly as 384mb.

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One other thing that may be relevant is I used the vanilla 256 option. I dont know what vanilla means in this instance, but it worked and system profiler reports the VRAM correctly as 384mb.

 

Ok i just installed Nvinject 0.4 and the system will just freeze at some point when using it :)( im lost

PS i selected the 256mb vanilla and still not working ..occasional FREEZE and i need to HARD Res

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Hi i'm really bad with this stuff so i need help.

 

I recently downloaded Leo4allv3, and it came in 37 rar files. I tried to extract files to leo4all folder in WinRar (Windows) and i burned the iso image but when I run the disk i get to the install part and it says that the install failed because it was missing the files the install needs. Someone please help me! :)

 

Specs:

Toshiba Satellite a215

AMD Turion 64x2 2.0 GHz

2 GB DDR2 Ram

ATI Radeon X1200

Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter

 

Thanks in advance.

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Ok i just installed Nvinject 0.4 and the system will just freeze at some point when using it :wallbash:( im lost

PS i selected the 256mb vanilla and still not working ..occasional FREEZE and i need to HARD Res

 

v.4 or v.41? And have you repaired permissions? It's also possible this isn't the solution to your problem. I don't know anything about what it takes on an AMD machine or an SSE2 machine.

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Hi i'm really bad with this stuff so i need help.

 

I recently downloaded Leo4allv3, and it came in 37 rar files. I tried to extract files to leo4all folder in WinRar (Windows) and i burned the iso image but when I run the disk i get to the install part and it says that the install failed because it was missing the files the install needs. Someone please help me! :D

 

Specs:

Toshiba Satellite a215

AMD Turion 64x2 2.0 GHz

2 GB DDR2 Ram

ATI Radeon X1200

Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Put the file back in your torrent program and check to make sure it all downloaded correctly. And when you burn the iso make sure you burn it sloooooowly.

 

If at first you don't succeed...

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Really nice work on the installation. I have a Thinkpad T60 with the ATx1300 card and it looks great. I was not prompted for any options, It just installed. Is that normal?

 

Now the down side. I am a noob at this Mac on Intel stuff, so please point me in the correct direction to perform any tweaks that may have already been discussion many times other places. I have tried google, but to no avail.

 

- No Audio - It says no audio devices available.

- No CD/DVD Rom - I read one post with a person that had this problem, but not solution.

- YouTube - It will play about the first 5 seconds of a video and locks up.

 

Cheers,

 

Sig

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I've had to return to XxX OSx86 10.4.11 as a few small things about Leopard weren't working.

 

The only screen saver that worked was flurry, and when I loaded Toast 8 (my own legit copy), once clicked on to open the program wouldn't start, any fixes or help is appreciated.

 

Otherwise this version of Leo looked to be working great on my hack, great work and thank you for the hard work you've put into this release.

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Leo4Allv3 is AWESOME!

 

With a BIOS flash and the included Marvel drivers, I was finally able to install OS X w/ a MSI P35 Neo2 mainboard.

 

I've had this board laying around for a couple months hoping it would eventually work because it has a lot of features and is great for overclocking.

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Hey guys, just got my phenom 9550 in and thought I'd see what would happen if I tried to boot into Leo...... Long story short, nothing happened, nada, no boot, no nothing. I had it working perfectly with my x2 4600+, but alas, I fear the quad broke it :(

 

 

Just to be specific on what happens now, well, nothing happens. I pick my Leo Drive to boot from, Darwin starts up, then the machine reboots. I am going to try and mess around with the cpus=1 or whatever command at boot, but so far no good. I also tried booting from the DVD to see if that would work, and it did zilch as well ;) .

 

If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears :)

 

Here's my setup just in case

 

 

ASUS M2R32-MVP (1101 Bios)

AMD PHENOM X4 9550

USB HDD (Western Digital IDE I think)

4GB Geil PC26400

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Yours is probably linked to EFI issue for reboot. I know Kabyl was looking for another tester to some changes he made to the new EFI. Perhaps you can PM me your email I can get you setup for testing.

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Really nice work on the installation. I have a Thinkpad T60 with the ATx1300 card and it looks great. I was not prompted for any options, It just installed. Is that normal?

 

Now the down side. I am a noob at this Mac on Intel stuff, so please point me in the correct direction to perform any tweaks that may have already been discussion many times other places. I have tried google, but to no avail.

 

- No Audio - It says no audio devices available.

- No CD/DVD Rom - I read one post with a person that had this problem, but not solution.

- YouTube - It will play about the first 5 seconds of a video and locks up.

 

Cheers,

 

Sig

 

You have to click the "customize" button on the screen after you select your install disk to choose install options. It doesnt prompt you.

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Put the file back in your torrent program and check to make sure it all downloaded correctly. And when you burn the iso make sure you burn it sloooooowly.

 

If at first you don't succeed...

 

 

InteliMac Pro:

 

Thank you for your help, I will try what you told me. But do you have any reccomended directions for extracting the .rars in WinRar in Windows Vista?

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InteliMac Pro:

 

Thank you for your help, I will try what you told me. But do you have any reccomended directions for extracting the .rars in WinRar in Windows Vista?

 

Well clicking on any of the rars should unzip them all into your ISO. Then open your iso in your burning program and go to town. Slowly. I do this stuff on my MacBook pro using unrarx and toast though. I'm guessing it should be pretty much the same in vista.

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The only screen saver that worked was flurry, and when I loaded Toast 8 (my own legit copy), once clicked on to open the program wouldn't start, any fixes or help is appreciated.

 

Neither Toast 8 nor 9 work. Luckily I can burn .iso in vmWare and Disk Utility. Power ISO works great inside VMware for Disk Burning

 

So far as screesavers... Buy a Video Card. The 30 bucks or so is worth it. I Purchasde an nVidia 7600GS for $32.00 off ebay. Works great with nvinject 0.2.1, QE/CI work great and so do ALL my screensavers now. Without that card no screensaver heaven.

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Neither Toast 8 nor 9 work. Luckily I can burn .iso in vmWare and Disk Utility. Power ISO works great inside VMware for Disk Burning

 

So far as screesavers... Buy a Video Card. The 30 bucks or so is worth it. I Purchasde an nVidia 7600GS for $32.00 off ebay. Works great with nvinject 0.2.1, QE/CI work great and so do ALL my screensavers now. Without that card no screensaver heaven.

 

Thanks for the input :wacko:

 

I was using an nvidia 7300GT but still the screen savers didn't work, well the default Flurry did.

 

So will there be a new and slightly "improved" release anytime soon?

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this install is great, originally i was trying kalyway, it wouldnt boot into setup if i had a ps/2 keyboard plugged in, maybe because the moue i have is usb, and it WOULDNT boot from a sata dvd drive, id get the waiting for root device {censored}, i actually went to all the trouble of installing another ide dvd drive from an older comp. And thats really alot of work in this horribly designed compaq case. I install with leo4all v3 and didnt have the keybaord issue, it booted and installed perfectly from the sata drive and im posting right now using that install :(. Only issues i had are that the setup assistant after installin locks up because my onboard ethernet i guess isnt in the kext, and neither is my atheros wifi. Fixed that up in single user mode. Also had a horrible time with lockups and wifi, but thats not a leo4all fault, i had to install the tiger kext then edit it.

 

Specs:

AMD athlon 64x2 4000+

Nforce 430/6150se (mcp61)

2gb ram

8600gt

250gb sata/60gb ide hdds

sata dvd

dlink dwl-g520 wifi (atheros 5212) (working with edited tiger io80211family.kext)

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Reposting (hopefully for a response) RE: Ethernet not working.I'm running an Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard (with NVIDIA nForce 5 chipset for lan).Forcedeth didn't work so I'm asking you guys for help.Here's my Leo4all install:
I have the asus m2n-sli deluxe motherboard (amd) which I am guessing you have. None of the stock kext on any release works for this motherboards lan. I found this on the forum sometime ago and have used it with Zeph release on my board. Hopefully you will find this helpful. I wish I remembered where I got them so that I could give proper credit but I couldnt even find the link again. What you have to do is install them using kexthelp, shutdown, unplug your pc for a minute, turn it back on and it should work. Here is the catch: you have to setup your boot.plist for cpus=1 cause when you download starts to pick up speed it will crash. I have not had a problem with this after i did the cpus=1 and it ran perfect for me. Hope this helps you
How does this compare to, let's say, the 10.5.2 Kalyway?
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and have tried both Kalyway & Leo4All releases. I have to say the only reason why I tried Kalyway release was because I didnt really like how Leo4All was setup. I was bias mostly because the only release I ever used was Zephyroth which was clean and worked perfect. But what I have found is that the things I had to complain about with Leo4All where things that where simple problems that had to do with my Dell X3100 drivers which is an ongoing problem that everyone with a X3100 chipset has to deal with. Simply put, when I installed Kalyway on my system I would get random kernel panics which I couldnt figure out why. I have been running Leo4All on my laptop for 2days uptime and not one crash and its running perfectly for me. Granted I still have an issue with sound/video which is an ongoing problem for all that has the similar chipset but other than that Leo4All will be my choice for laptop (intel system) cause I still love Zephyroth for my amd system :-P

forcedeth.kext.zip

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iAtkos:

Install...OK

Drivers...OK

After install is showing the grey stop error...Failed

Sata->IDE converter on DVD did not help.

 

Leo4v3:

Install...OK

Sound...OK (Welcome video)

The second stage install was repeating (Net card problem i think)...Failed

Net card missing: Realtek 8139 and Intel 82566DC Gigalan

 

Leo4v3 was using new version of install but if i had support for net card it will be much better

 

No luck for me...but

 

KALYWAY 10.5.2 was the winner for my system

Install OK

HD3870...with menu fix OK

NET: com_apple_driver_RTL8139 (auto detection) no driver needed

Sigmatel STAC9271D Taruga fix

 

Boot fixed with...(use under install and terminal after install)

Fdisk -e -u /dev/disk0

Write F1

 

For AC3 sound for divx download A52 codec.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27300

 

Xbench 163

Geekbech 3280

 

MB: Intel DP35DP 0413 bios

Sigmatel HD,Intel 82566DC Gigalan, Realtek 8139, Sata->Ide converter, Radeon HD3870...

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