Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 i believe i've tried having this kind of boot-132 disc already. same thing w/ the "generic.iso" that has so many files already in it. but since can't clearly remember, i guess it's still worth a try. will prepare a boot-132 disc w/ just these 4 kexts. hope there are some more ideas/help. tnx again Foodie Monster. Another poster also suggested removing the graphic kexts from your previous BOOT CD, since there's really no need for them. Once you are in the desktop, you can install your graphic .kext and be done with that, instead of adding more clutter to the disc that might be a showstopper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychonaut Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 i believe i've tried having this kind of boot-132 disc already. same thing w/ the "generic.iso" that has so many files already in it. but since can't clearly remember, i guess it's still worth a try. will prepare a boot-132 disc w/ just these 4 kexts. hope there are some more ideas/help. tnx again Foodie Monster. Hi mate. I installed retail yesterday on this board and had the same problem. Remove graphics kexts and you should be fine. I installed by copying Leopard DVD to a partition and booting of a thumb drive containing Generic.iso. Booting off the generic.iso cd gave me corrupt image errors. After install updated via Software Update then patched graphics and sound. Everything working very smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hi mate. I installed retail yesterday on this board and had the same problem. Remove graphics kexts and you should be fine. I installed by copying Leopard DVD to a partition and booting of a thumb drive containing Generic.iso. Booting off the generic.iso cd gave me corrupt image errors. That's what I just suggested to him, so it's cool that you are saying that worked for you. Hopefully this will work for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 QUOTE(psychonaut @ Aug 19 2008, 10:22 PM) Hi mate. I installed retail yesterday on this board and had the same problem. Remove graphics kexts and you should be fine. I installed by copying Leopard DVD to a partition and booting of a thumb drive containing Generic.iso. Booting off the generic.iso cd gave me corrupt image errors. That's what I just suggested to him, so it's cool that you are saying that worked for you. Hopefully this will work for him. tnx for the suggestions Foodie Monster & psychonaut. can't wait to try it when i get home. hope i could get it done. tnx again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That's what I just suggested to him, so it's cool that you are saying that worked for you. Hopefully this will work for him.tnx for the suggestions Foodie Monster & psychonaut. can't wait to try it when i get home. hope i could get it done. tnx again. Let us know what happens, since your experience might help someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Let us know what happens, since your experience might help someone else. will surely do post feedback. tnx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solow Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Ok, so I took the plunge and used OSX86Tools by pcwiz to install Chameleon onto my Mac OS X HDD Install. While trying to get my video card working *After* updating to 10.5.4 using the BOOTCD, I installed my string using EFI-whatever, and also enabled Quartz Extreme using pcwiz's tool. After installing chameleon, I could boot without the BOOTCD, and I have sound and video working (strangely enough for a few seconds I don't have QE/CI enabled upon boot, kinda like until the .kext kicks in). Now here is my question: will I need to take any special precautions now that I am booting using chameleon onto the HDD with my Extensions folder now having my kexts for Audio and Video? Or am I home safe to update from Software Update without further issues? Thanks to anyone who can provide answers I also would like to know this. As I understand it Chameleon sets up a small partition to reside in (I may be wrong though) and thus it should be OK to do this without affecting your vanilla Leopard install on the main partition. Chameleon then boots up the EFI emulator, installs kexts needed to run OS X and then leopard boots from there. Any further comments? TIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACinized Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 pardon me Jingu & BifBologna for not noticing your replies. tried already w/out the video kexts but still same problem. & yes, i'm in ahci-mode. sadly, still unsuccessful. same boot screen is all i end up. need some more help pls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chown Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hey everyone, I have been here for a while, waiting for updates to the hacking world, following you along the way. I have installed Kalyway countless times on my HP Pavilion a6057c, and each time, I end up with a new problem, the last time, I swore to myself I would not do it again, and here I am, because I have faith in this. If anyone can let me know exactly what to do, because the instructions here are extremely vague, which is most likely why there is so many questions. I would be extremely appreciative if someone would let me know if there is any way I could possibly get this method working on my computer. All the specifications, hardware info, etc. are here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/prodinf...1266&dlc=en You guys are all extremely helpful, and it would mean a lot if you could help me. Thank you. -chown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I also would like to know this. As I understand it Chameleon sets up a small partition to reside in (I may be wrong though) and thus it should be OK to do this without affecting your vanilla Leopard install on the main partition. Chameleon then boots up the EFI emulator, installs kexts needed to run OS X and then leopard boots from there. Any further comments? TIA! I actually didn't wait for replies (thank god, because in a whole week nobody bothered to help), and I installed Chameleon onto my HDD. it didn't create a new partition or anything, it simply sits in the root of your OS X Drive. It stills makes it so that your installation stays vanilla though, because it doesn't add anything to your Extensions folder. What I did was what was suggested here before: I copied the CD's Extras folder onto the root, as well as the boot file from the CD and replaced the Chameleon boot file with it. And it just simply works. Now when I boot, it asks me to press enter in the Darwin prompt and well, I don't know how exactly, but it works. pardon me Jingu & BifBologna for not noticing your replies. tried already w/out the video kexts but still same problem. & yes, i'm in ahci-mode. sadly, still unsuccessful. same boot screen is all i end up. need some more help pls. Sorry man, end of the line for me on that one. I've go no clue. Hey everyone, I have been here for a while, waiting for updates to the hacking world, following you along the way. I have installed Kalyway countless times on my HP Pavilion a6057c, and each time, I end up with a new problem, the last time, I swore to myself I would not do it again, and here I am, because I have faith in this. If anyone can let me know exactly what to do, because the instructions here are extremely vague, which is most likely why there is so many questions. I would be extremely appreciative if someone would let me know if there is any way I could possibly get this method working on my computer. All the specifications, hardware info, etc. are here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/prodinf...1266&dlc=en You guys are all extremely helpful, and it would mean a lot if you could help me. Thank you. -chown The motherboard listed seems to be in order (same chipset as my motherboard), and assuming it's a Core 2 Duo or from the Core family of processors, I'd say it'd probably work. Again, YMMV, but this isn't exactly an exact science... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chown Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I see, thank you for your reply. I have the disk here, and a Leopard retail DVD, so I just follow instructions, install from dvd, but step 5 is a tad foggy. What exactly are "files needed" and is this after the actual install? Also, do you think my networking (I am using a D-link WDA 1320. It is a PCI network adapter.), sound (ALC888), and graphics will work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I see, thank you for your reply. I have the disk here, and a Leopard retail DVD, so I just follow instructions, install from dvd, but step 5 is a tad foggy. What exactly are "files needed" and is this after the actual install? Also, do you think my networking (I am using a D-link WDA 1320. It is a PCI network adapter.), sound (ALC888), and graphics will work? Basically, you need to burn the generic.iso or a base .iso that has the most basic files + dsmos.kext in it's Extras/Extensions/ folder. All that info is on the first post, if not just read the rest of the thread. Once you have that boot CD ready, boot from it, and when prompted, replace with your Retail Install DVD. When you press enter in the "boot:" line, you'll see another one that will tell you the hex code for your optical drive (in my case it was [9f]). Whatever it may be, type that in and press enter, and you'll see on the top of the screen that it says "Mac OS X Install DVD". Press enter again, and you'll be in the installer after a few minutes. From there, it's just installing the OS. Once you have everything set up, reboot using the Boot CD, but when you press enter and it shows you the hex code and stuff, you'll have to input your HDD's hex code (the HDD where you installed OSX). It could be 80, 81, 82, etc. Don't worry if you don't nail the number the first time: once you get the number correctly, you'll see that where before it says "Mac OS X Install DVD" it'll now display the label for your HDD where you installed Mac OS X (whatever label that you set up during the installation process). Then, select it, press enter and you'll boot into OSX. From now on, that'll be the way for you to boot into OSX, until you install Chameleon (if you decide to do so). Instructions on that are disseminated all throughout this board, so you should start reading. About your LAN, Graphics and Audio, your milieage may vary. I'm pretty sure that your onBoard graphics chipset will work out of the box, but the LAN and Audio might not. In fact, Audio probably won't, since my Audio is ALC883 and it didn't work. However, that's easily fixed by installing Taruga's patch (search for it). As for LAN, worst case scenario, you go buy a $10 Realtek NIC card 10/100 and pop it in a PCI slot. That's what I did, and worked like a charm. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chown Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Thanks a lot. I am going to try that, I will let you know what happens. Hope it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venorm Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hey, hope somebody can help me. I boot with the cd and the modified initrd.img from page 2. So now at menue where i can enter some params i enter -v param (or nothing or something else) and ejected the disc and inserted my mac osx retail dvd. Then i pressed enter. But now he does not load from the dvd he gives me only the choice to boot first hdd or secnd hdd. If i enter nothing and press enter it brings me back to the first screen for entering some params. Thanks for help. bye, venorm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hey, hope somebody can help me. I boot with the cd and the modified initrd.img from page 2. So now at menue where i can enter some params i enter -v param (or nothing or something else) and ejected the disc and inserted my mac osx retail dvd. Then i pressed enter. But now he does not load from the dvd he gives me only the choice to boot first hdd or secnd hdd. If i enter nothing and press enter it brings me back to the first screen for entering some params. Thanks for help. bye, venorm I gave an answer to your *Exact* issue TWO POSTS ABOVE YOURS. So read next time, before asking a question that has been answered AT LENGTH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venorm Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 yes ive read it but one thing is unclear. you said that in when i insert the install dvd and press enter it shows the number for dvd drive. Then after install you said it shows now an option for booting from hdd. Does this mean that if have an actual system installed (i have it!) than the boot cd does not show the dvd drive option ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 yes ive read it but one thing is unclear. you said that in when i insert the install dvd and press enter it shows the number for dvd drive. Then after install you said it shows now an option for booting from hdd. Does this mean that if have an actual system installed (i have it!) than the boot cd does not show the dvd drive option ? How could you have an installed system if you can't even figure this part out? The boot CD never shows clear cut "Options". Once you are in the darwin "boot:" prompt, pressing enter will display a line that has a blinking cursor waiting for your input. Directly to the LEFT of that blinking cursor, you'll see a hex code in the following format - [XX] -, where XX could be anything (in my case, it was [9f]). That was my DVD Drive's Hex code, so if you input "9f" where the cursor is blinking, and press enter, itll go back to the "boot:" prompt but on top you'll see that it'll show the label of whatever bootable DVD you have inserted (for instance "Mac OS X Install DVD"). AFTER you have your system installed, when you go that same "boot:" prompt, after hitting enter you have to input a DIFFERENT Hex code, not the one that appears on the left from the get go, but a differet one: the one that belongs to the Hard Drive you are trying to boot into. This number could be any number from "80" onwards, in most cases it's 80, 81, 82, etc. So let's say you have 2 Hard Drives, one with Windows and one with OSX. Let's say the volume labels are "Windows XP" and "Mac OS X". You with me? Ok, good, because I'm not repeating this again. What you'd do is, in the "boot:" prompt, hit Enter. Now, where it asks you for the hex code, type in "80" (without the quotes), and press enter. Now you'll be BACK at the "boot:" prompt, but ABOVE you'll see that it'll show a bootable volume with it's label. If it says "Windows XP" (or whatever your Window's HDD's volume label may be), that's the wrong HDD to boot into. What do we do now? Easy: you press ESC. That'll bring you back to the line that allows you to input your Hex code. Try 81 this time. Now, you are back at the "boot:" prompt, right? Look on top... see that there's a volume found? What's the label? If it is indeed the label of your OSX Drive (in my case, "Mac OS X"), then just press ENTER and you'll be booting into OSX. I hope you can make sense of this all, I'm being as clear as humanly possible but you need to put in some effort too. Don't be lazy, for the love of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I used the Tools Suite to install Chameleon on my disk, and now it gives me the DFE boot menu to select between my Vista64 and my OS X partition My question is, how do I set it to boot Vista64 as default instead of my OS X partition? My disk is formatted GUID (Vista 64 w/ SP1 which supports GUID disks). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venorm Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 It does not work ! Here are my steps: (clean hdd) 1. boot up with the cd 2. at the prompt boot: pressed enter 3. in [xx] there is ef for me. i entered ef and pressed enter 4. i am back in the first screen where i can enter params (at the top or somewhere else is no "Mac OSX Install" text) i pressed enter and now i am back in step 3. So tell me what do I wrong ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 It does not work ! Here are my steps: (clean hdd) 1. boot up with the cd 2. at the prompt boot: pressed enter 3. in [xx] there is ef for me. i entered ef and pressed enter 4. i am back in the first screen where i can enter params (at the top or somewhere else is no "Mac OSX Install" text) i pressed enter and now i am back in step 3. So tell me what do I wrong ? 1. Boot up with the BOOT132 Boot CD 2. At the prompt boot:, REPLACE THE CD FOR THE MAC OS X INSTALL DVD - then, press enter. 3. Enter "ef" and press ENTER. 4. Back at the first screen, you'll see at the top it says "Mac OS X Install DVD". Press ENTER again and it should boot into the installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venorm Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 okay i forgot it to write. i inserted the mac osx install dvd !!!! but no mac osx install dvd option at step 4, nothing happens. the dvd drive lamp blinks once and nothing more i only see the boot: screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 okay i forgot it to write. i inserted the mac osx install dvd !!!! but no mac osx install dvd option at step 4, nothing happens. the dvd drive lamp blinks once and nothing more i only see the boot: screen. Then you either have incompatible hardware, a bad DVD or a plain wrong DVD. Or your lack of english skills make it impossible for you to follow all of the instructions properly, I don't know. I can't help any further. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venorm Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 hmm, i don't think that my english skills are too bad for reading those instructions, but i think i have a bad disc, because it is a selfmade leopard retail dvd. If you have a good retail dvd iso or something else ready for burning would be nice for contact me via pm. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foodie Monster Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 hmm,i don't think that my english skills are too bad for reading those instructions, but i think i have a bad disc, because it is a selfmade leopard retail dvd. If you have a good retail dvd iso or something else ready for burning would be nice for contact me via pm. thanks. No wonder it's not working for you then. Sorry, the internet is a big place and if you put a minimum effort you'll be able to get yourself a nice retail copy of Leopard, or better yet, go to the store and purchase one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venorm Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 used 2 dvds from the bay both does not work (converted dmg to iso under mac and burned on windows with alcohol 120% to a dvd+r dl disc) So would be nice if someone knows a good version of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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