New modified BOOT-132 allows you to boot retail DVDs

[MACinized]

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 ?

1. after you boot with the boot-132 disc, don't type anything, just press ENTER.
   
2. replace w/ the retail leopard install dvd. don't press anything yet. wait 'til the blinking in your optical drive stops then press ENTER.
   
3. for the hex code, the default should already be your optical drive since you just loaded from the boot-132 disc. i believe it differs w/ every system. for some, it's "9f", others, "df", mine is "fe". so to boot w/ the retail leopard install dvd (w/c is already in your optical drive), just press ENTER.
   
4. you may then press F8, then type "-v -f" and press ENTER to force-load the kext files in verbose mode.
   
5. from here, if you get to see the usual installation window, all you need is common sense.
   
6. good luck.
   

if you can't get the retail leopard install dvd to load, then it's either u have to look for other modified versions of the boot-132 disc or make sure u have a "clean" Retail Mac OS X Leopard Install DVD.

[chown]

I did what you asked, burned the "general.iso" to a disk, booted, put in leopard retail dvd (Which I obtained from an iMac I have), and it told me I can not install, because I do not have a previous version of OS X, 10.4 or later. This seemed odd, I am considering not trying this again, but if there is a fix to that, I would be happy to hear it.

[MACinized]

I did what you asked, burned the "general.iso" to a disk, booted, put in leopard retail dvd (Which I obtained from an iMac I have), and it told me I can not install, because I do not have a previous version of OS X, 10.4 or later. This seemed odd, I am considering not trying this again, but if there is a fix to that, I would be happy to hear it.

you don't have a retail leopard install dvd. what you have is the upgrade version (or "drop in") whatever they call it.

 

u can still make use of it though. follow this link: How to Convert a Leopard Upgrade DVD to Retail

 

when ur done, upload/share it to the green demon or in the bay.

[chown]

Thank you for telling me this. I wish I did something different today.. this was not productive.

[Foodie Monster]

Thank you for telling me this. I wish I did something different today.. this was not productive.

 

If you had done a minimal amount of research in this same exact thread, you would've understood that you need an actual RETAIL Leopard DVD...

[psychonaut]

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.

 

It has installed fine for me. Some things about my setup that may help you - I am running BIOS0437 This BIOS doesnt like booting generic.iso for some reason so I installed the retail DVD to a separate partition. Made a bootable USB of generic.iso. Removed all graphics kexts. Booted and selected the retail DVD partition and I was away.

 

I have also disabled on board lan and serial port and drives in ahci-mode. Set to boot USB and also set the USB to fixed drive in the BIOS.

 

Hope that helps.

[Jingu]

@MACinized

 

You could try without graphic kexts and hitting -f at the boot prompt. That should work.

[Solow]

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.

 

Thanks Foodie Monster! I'll give it a try when I get the chance. It'll be nice to have a vanilla install with a clean extensions folder! The idea of using an Extras folder and having Chameleon use it to load the kexts required before the vanilla extensions folder is brilliant. I guess once certain kexts are loaded any kext of the same name or function that try to get loaded after are ignored. Too cool!

[chadreed]

My computer spec are:

 

> Mainboard : Acer, Travelmate 4270

> Chipset : Intel i945PM

> Processor : Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1666 MHz

> Physical Memory : 1024 MB

> Video Card : ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

> Network Card : Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

> Network Card : Broadcom Corp BCM5789 NetLink Gigabit Ethernet

 

Is there possible to install via this CD BOOT or USB BOOT?

If I install other patched versions I select vanilla installation there.

 

I did a quick test yesterday.. but I allways get an error that I missing com.apple.bool.plist file etc (then I booting from the burned CD).. or missing os system (then I try boot from USB)

 

/reed

[Foodie Monster]

Thanks Foodie Monster! I'll give it a try when I get the chance. It'll be nice to have a vanilla install with a clean extensions folder! The idea of using an Extras folder and having Chameleon use it to load the kexts required before the vanilla extensions folder is brilliant. I guess once certain kexts are loaded any kext of the same name or function that try to get loaded after are ignored. Too cool!

 

Worst case scenario, if you mess up anything at all you can always fall back to the Boot132 CD you created and *always* successfully boot into your system, or at least that's what theory would dictate.

[HopeX]

How nice!

There are so many ISOs now, and i'm nearly crazy about it.

So, can someone tells me which one I should use or makes 2 new ISOs for me?

Thank you!

 

Computer 1

 

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300

Motherboard: 975X

RAM: 2*2GB 800mhz DDR2 SDRAM

Graphics: ATI X1950XT

Sound: Realtek ALC882

LAN: Onboard Realtek RTL8111B

HDD: 2 * Seagate 500GB SATA2 HDD

DVD: SATA

 

Computer 2

 

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400

Motherboard: Nvidai 680i SLI

RAM: 4*1GB 667mhz DDR2 SDRAM

Graphics: Nvidia 8800GTS

Sound: Realtek ALC885

LAN: Onboard

HDD: 2 * Seagate 300GB SATA2 HDD

DVD: IDE

[Pane]

Zomg i get to the loading screen with the wallpaper and the MULTICOLOURED beachball of death but then it does nothing...

i downloaded the first link and burnt it.

I bought my copy of leopard aswel.

[MACinized]

finally! got it installed already. but haven't tried being able to boot w/out the boot-132 disc. installed chameleon already & other necessary kexts but sitll nada. maybe because i have vista on 1st partition & the retail leopard install is on the 2nd partition. so when i boot w/out the boot-132 disc, vista automatically loads.

 

has anyone tried dual-booting this retail leopard install w/ other OSs?

[Pane]

Hey Macinized the iso you used, well if you modified it that is?

[Jingu]

@MACinized

 

I am glad you finally got it to work. Dual-booting Vista and Mac OS X is what I have been doing.

 

On disk 1 I have Vista, on disk 2 I have Mac Os X Leopard with Chameleon EFI installed from retail DVD.

 

I use EasyBCDEdit in Vista to do it . At first I always had to use the Boot-132 CD, but then I followed these instructions to make Leopard EFI bootable without the Boot-132 CD. Scroll down to Sonotone's post #237. Download the additional files Archive folder and the Extra Archive folder. The links are at the bottom of his post.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...3288&st=220

[chown]

I am thinking this through before I do anything, but I am on Vista, and preparing to install Leopard 10.5.4 on a separate partition on the same HD.

My HP Pavilion a6057c specifications are as follows:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product...mp;os=2093&

 

hehe

Hopefully this will work, as it did for Jingu, any advice, further preparations I may need to take will be greatly appreciated.

[RWE]

Finally i got success on my Asus P5B w/ default BIOS settings (except memory remap). Thanks to Toto1234's boot-132 image.

 

Now, i want my system to dual boot w/ Vista on the same disk. I've read many topics & messages on how to make Vista work on a GUID partition, tried them but had no chance. Actually;

 

1- Usin' P5B iso to boot from the retail DVD

2- Makin' 3 GUID partitions (1&2-HFS+ / 3-FAT)

3- Installin' Leopard succesfully

4- Usin' rEFIt, so i can install Vista on a GUID partition. Some people say that Vista has GUID support but i had never a chance to install it directly on GUID.

 

I'm stuck at that point. After installing Vista, it boots succesfully, but this time i can't use Leopard.

[Stuffweasel]

Hi Folks, just one problem, I tried to install this on an Intel PC and it turned everything purple, including BIOS. The install of Linux Mint I have already on this is now also purple, It must be my graphics card, but why?

 

Intel Pentium D 820, ASRock Conroe 1333-D667, 2GB DDR2 667 RAM, Nvidia 7300GT graphics card, 80GB SATA HDD and 20X DVDRW.

[Foodie Monster]

Hi Folks, just one problem, I tried to install this on an Intel PC and it turned everything purple, including BIOS. The install of Linux Mint I have already on this is now also purple, It must be my graphics card, but why?

 

Intel Pentium D 820, ASRock Conroe 1333-D667, 2GB DDR2 667 RAM, Nvidia 7300GT graphics card, 80GB SATA HDD and 20X DVDRW.

 

Pentium D. You can't install using this method with anything less than a Intel Core 2 Duo.

[Schmacintosh]

Sounds like coincidence to me and is probably caused by a poor vga connection/bent pin etc

[Foodie Monster]

Sounds like coincidence to me and is probably caused by a poor vga connection/bent pin etc

 

Or maybe he is just trying to use it in unsupported hardware. That seems more likely. Considering he is trying to use something other than a C2D or Quad.

[tuck1989]

Hi,

I'm sorry if this has already been answered a million times but the search function on site sucks and this isn't complicated. Would someone mind explaining to me how this install method is more resilient to apple updates (or rather that you can update normally) when it is still reliant on the dsmos kext? I was under the impression that most update conflicts stem from that kext being used in lieu of dontstealmacosx? Would this install method solve any problems involving shutdown/sleep or is that completely kext related? Thanks so much!

[toto1234]

I'm stuck at that point. After installing Vista, it boots succesfully, but this time i can't use Leopard.

 

Yeah, I gess the problem is, Vista will install its own bootloader in the MBR, overwriting Chameleo's one (they're not compatible). You should be able to work around this by using the "chain0" trick, I haven't tested it myself but people have had success. See http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vista_Dual_Boot

As an alternative you could try and restore the "boot0" (MBR) installed by Chameleon. It should then detect the OS install and propose you a menu at boot.

 

BTW, rEFIt is only for systems with EFI (which is a replacement for BIOS), like MacBooks. Regular PCs don't have EFI.

[munky]

foodiemonster: just out of interest, a Core Duo should work, in theory, right?

[chown]

Yes, in theory, it should.

I have another problem though. I do not have a retail Leopard DVD, I have the "Drop in CPU" Leopard Upgrade disk. I have followed the instructions on how to make a .dmg out of that into a retail DVD, but it is 8 GB. Will it be able to install if I put this on a DVD-DL?