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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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Dainix

Got it downloaded, burned, and installed yesterday. It's pretty solid so far. Were CS3 problems fixed up? I could never start up that suite of programs with BrazilMac's version of Leopard at 10.5.1.

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Hey Eddie, I rebooted again, and patched HDAPatcher with ALC662 dump yet again and I believe I have it working for good this time.It could have been an error with my speakers, as when I booted into Windows I had no audio as well.As for everything else, it seemed like the graphics was a minor bug in the installation, but this release is by far the greatest.I apologize for saying it seemed flawed to me, but that was a misunderstanding and please don't think I don't appreciate the work you've done.You are amazing, and if it weren't for you I wouldn't have Leopard on my new machine.You sir are godlike.*Insert HL2 Godlike.mp3* :P

Got it downloaded, burned, and installed yesterday. It's pretty solid so far. Were CS3 problems fixed up? I could never start up that suite of programs with BrazilMac's version of Leopard at 10.5.1.
The CS3 Design Premium suite has installed fine for me on every version of Leo4All.
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xx66stangxx
my board is a Asus M2N4-SLIChipset NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI MCP is that chipset compatible??
You should be fine. My board is similar to yours. The best way to find out however is.... to test it out. Good luck.
Got it downloaded, burned, and installed yesterday. It's pretty solid so far. Were CS3 problems fixed up? I could never start up that suite of programs with BrazilMac's version of Leopard at 10.5.1.
Try downloading, I think it's called, Adobe Files. It will be a zip file but it fixes the CS3 issues.
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You should be fine. My board is similar to yours. The best way to find out however is.... to test it out. Good luck.

 

 

I have tried it, im having problems see my other posts, it keeps locking up at one point every time..

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Does anyone have a list of trackers that have the file? And also, I'm getting some pretty slow speeds using TPB... 4.0 KB/s down, 40 KB/s up. Anyone out there with a good seed box IP?

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Does anyone have a list of trackers that have the file? And also, I'm getting some pretty slow speeds using TPB... 4.0 KB/s down, 40 KB/s up. Anyone out there with a good seed box IP?

 

yeah mate im getting them speeds too... gonna take 12 hours. hoping it was gonna be on giganews but on v2 is on there. ;)

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is it rebooting right after the extensions load?

 

On the Dimension 4600, reboots after the extensions and right when the bootloader(s) are being loaded. I have tried enabling S1 or S3 in the BIOS settings and it makes no difference.

 

On my ASUS P4B based Desktop whose details are in my signature, it reboots right after the extensions....does not even get to the bootloader.

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Try reloading AppleNforceATA.kext from another install, if you have any other hdd's with Leopard, and the repair the permissions and rebuild extensions.mkext that did it for me and now everything works fine.This is an easy fix if you have another hdd with zephyroth, or kalyway boot into it get the AppleNforceATA.kext from the extensions folder. Now copy it into the extensions folder of Eddie's leopard. Go into Disk utility repair the permissions for Eddie's Leopard. Now restart and change your hdd setup so that you boot into Eddie's Leopard. At bootup press F8 or F10 (whatever it is) so now you need to rebuild the extensions.mkext folder by pressing -f. Now you should be able to get to the welcome screen.

 

Is it possible to have a working install without the "applenforce.kext" ???? I've done a search in my extensions folder and don't find it... Not surprising since I installed kalyway without that specific kext because i noticed that i would always get the "waiting for root" error...but following your logic and my past install history...

what if I make a new .DMG from the DVD remove applenforce.kext, fix permissions on new .dmg, reburn and try again with -f......?????????????????

let me know.......

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zitounec

I've got the download finished OK. 36 .rar files from V3-Final.part01.RAR to V3-Final.part36.RAR

 

I've double-clicked on the .R01 file but stuffit required the .R00.

 

Any Idea to fix that ?

 

Thanks

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I am getting the "Still waiting for root device" upon first boot after the OS installs

 

I have tried using the old Nforce kext chipset driver with no success.

I am installing on a spare IDE HDD which is the active partition, as my SATA HDD is disabled

 

my system specs are listed below. (im have an AMD CPU btw)

 

I have not had this problem with Kalyway 10.5.2 or Leo4allV2

 

thanks for your help

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xx66stangxx
I am getting the "Still waiting for root device" upon first boot after the OS installsI have tried using the old Nforce kext chipset driver with no success.I am installing on a spare IDE HDD which is the active partition, as my SATA HDD is disabledmy system specs are listed below. (im have an AMD CPU btw)I have not had this problem with Kalyway 10.5.2 or Leo4allV2thanks for your help
go to osx.kbot.de and Look at the Eddiec11'sv3 post. Some users have posted an alternate way to fix that problem. Maybe that will fix the problem for you
Is it possible to have a working install without the "applenforce.kext" ???? I've done a search in my extensions folder and don't find it... Not surprising since I installed kalyway without that specific kext because i noticed that i would always get the "waiting for root" error...but following your logic and my past install history...what if I make a new .DMG from the DVD remove applenforce.kext, fix permissions on new .dmg, reburn and try again with -f......?????????????????let me know.......
Sorry I wrote this late last night. If you don't have that kext in the extensions folder then I am assuming that is not what is causing "waiting for root device" You could possibly try that, I am not sure if it will work but it's worth a shot. What are your computer specs?Also you can try my suggestion to selfdestruct.
I've got the download finished OK. 36 .rar files from V3-Final.part01.RAR to V3-Final.part36.RARI've double-clicked on the .R01 file but stuffit required the .R00.Any Idea to fix that ?Thanks
If you are using Windows try using Rarzilla- it's free.If you are using Mac try using unRarX- it's also free.
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I am getting the "Still waiting for root device" upon first boot after the OS installs

 

I have tried using the old Nforce kext chipset driver with no success.

I am installing on a spare IDE HDD which is the active partition, as my SATA HDD is disabled

 

my system specs are listed below. (im have an AMD CPU btw)

 

I have not had this problem with Kalyway 10.5.2 or Leo4allV2

 

thanks for your help

I have added a ppf that adds the other nforce as an option during install if you want it Download here just apply to the original ISO.

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Thanks!, problem solved.

 

now i just need to get my ethernet fixed.

 

The OS does find my card and correct MAC, but it says "this device is known not to work" and i get the cable unplugged error.

 

Ive tried many nforce kexts posted here with no success.

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niffer022

right after some messing about in places i aint go a clue about, iv noticed it saying that rdisk1s2 (NO WRITE) do you think this is the reason it hangs before instulation finishs.. Is there a way to change it from read only, or is that im seeing normal??

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@niffer022 where do you see NO Write for rdisk1s2 in disk utility?

Thanks!, problem solved.now i just need to get my ethernet fixed.The OS does find my card and correct MAC, but it says "this device is known not to work" and i get the cable unplugged error.Ive tried many nforce kexts posted here with no success.
I have never been able to get nforce ethernet to work. Do you have any ethernet Adapters? Btw how were you able to fix the root problem? (just curious)
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honestly i just re-installed and tried different chipset drivers.

 

I have other NICs but offhand i dont know exactly what they are as they are just sitting in a drawer.

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@niffer022 where do you see NO Write for rdisk1s2 in disk utility?

 

i noticed something after its loading the extentions and well im guessing loading into the frst bootup of leopard. then i read somewere that if i typed in /sbin/fsck "blaa blaa lost paper with it written on doh " i could make sure it was a active boot, but thats when i noticed the NO WRITE.

 

After iv installed leopard and it asks to reboot, is there another section to the install that im missing, could this no write be causing this...

 

iv been at it now for 3 solid days, and now lack of sleep and a short fuse is starting to get noticed at home and work.. think im gonna go out and buy a mini mac lol

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eddie11c

I always see the failed to mount diskxsx for my NTFS drives, and skipping kernel link generation because disk is read only on the installer. This is normal. If you are getting stuck its likely from something else.

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I always see the failed to mount diskxsx for my NTFS drives, and skipping kernel link generation because disk is read only on the installer. This is normal. If you are getting stuck its likely from something else.

 

 

ah ok well that one less thing to worry about... iv tried alsorts. iv removed everything from the pc's slots only leaving in the monitor cable, iv disabled ethernet. tried via sata, which my xp partiton is on, tried a IDE hdd on it own. nothing. Maybe just maybe it dont wonna run on my system...

 

Might have to retire as its pissing me off... lol

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ah ok well that one less thing to worry about... iv tried alsorts. iv removed everything from the pc's slots only leaving in the monitor cable, iv disabled ethernet. tried via sata, which my xp partiton is on, tried a IDE hdd on it own. nothing. Maybe just maybe it dont wonna run on my system...

 

Might have to retire as its pissing me off... lol

 

Do me a favor post your chipest/processor/video card. Then boot with this bootflag(F8)

debug=0x00000102 io=0x00200004

 

It will post alot of information about each kext that is loaded. Usually the last one you see when it gets

stuck is the cause. Just post the last couple of lines when it freezes.

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Do me a favor post your chipest/processor/video card. Then boot with this bootflag(F8) debug=0x00000102 io=0x00200004It will post alot of information about each kext that is loaded. Usually the last one you see when it gets stuck is the cause. Just post the last couple of lines when it freezes.
Iv attached a file saved from cpuz that should tell you pretty much what u need to know about my cpu and chipset. my gfx card is a Galaxy 8600gt 256mb. ill report back in 2 mins is this what you needed to see. sorry if its poor quality taken of my phone..photo1.jpg

cpuz.htm

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eddie11c

Do this. Boot into single user mode with -s from Darwin.

/sbin/fsck -fy

/sbin/mount -uw /

./options

 

choose remove video

choose Nvidia

type exit and see what happens.

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