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jasperliu
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Yes, I tried this on a Dell Inspiron 530, and it booted a retail Leopard 10.5 disk just fine. I haven't installed yet, as I don't want to erase my existing MBR partitioning scheme. I plan to get another hard drive and install a vanilla version there (I am currently using kalyway). I used one of the version Filip posted that contained a bunch of common kexts : http://www.mediafire.com/?1ne1zbl4znv

 

 

Hello!

Have you used Boot-132 and Efi boot V5.1 to install retail leopard on DELL 530?

Did you success in installing? work prefect ? have sleep/reboot/shutdown problem ?

thanks!

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I wish I could help with the Atom processor part, but, sadly, I can't. However, the absolute easiest way I have found to make the pre-boot iso images is the package that ~Galaxy provided at Slimbuild . It is very good at organizing the various components and then automating the build process.

 

Give it a try, in case you ever locate the correct set of kext for your machine.

 

I've tried making my own bootdisc using slimbuild, I'm at v7 now... :)

Still no luck! I'm beginning to think that maybe this has something to do with BIOS. I'm running the latest BIOS from Asus, but I've tried different combos using different bootdiscs I've made. But does BIOS matter that much? How can I check if it's the BIOS that's somehow no allowing me to install and how can I override it?

 

This is getting very frustrating! I've been at it for two weeks now!

 

I've pledged to paypal $10 to whoever helps me fix this! :)

 

I want to be able to sleep again... ;)

 

I've started a thread over at: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=138827

 

Thanks for ANY suggestions. Even a point in the right direction will be appreciated!

 

cheers!

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Has anyone got boot-132 to work with Intel Core i7? I want to build a Core i7 PC but I want to make sure I can run Mac OS X on it, if possible, and I prefer the boot-132 method over the "hacked" cd method, such as brazilMac, etc. So, will the following hardware work with the boot-132 method? Should I go with the intel x58 motherboard or one of the gigabyte motherboards? Any advice would be sooo helpful! Thanks...

 

Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920 - Retail

ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1333C9 - Retail

XFX PVT98WYDFH GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

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Hi there!

 

I'm trying to install a Retail DVD (Leopard 10.5.4) using this Boot-132 method (Hack #1 in my sig.), but there's a strange video bug (I suppose)

 

The Boot-132CD loads ok, then I put the Retail DVD and try to boot. There's a "EBIOS errror" at the begining, but the process moves on. After a while seeing the Apple's gray screen, my screen gets "confused"... I see that when I try moving the mouse, something happens there, but it's impossible to do anything. The only modification I did was to insert the JMicron patched boot file inside "generic.iso".

 

I'm kind of noob at this, I hope someone knows... look at the attached pics!!!!!!

 

Thanks and sorry for the bad english.

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Hi there!

 

I'm trying to install a Retail DVD (Leopard 10.5.4) using this Boot-132 method (Hack #1 in my sig.), but there's a strange video bug (I suppose)

 

The Boot-132CD loads ok, then I put the Retail DVD and try to boot. There's a "EBIOS errror" at the begining, but the process moves on. After a while seeing the Apple's gray screen, my screen gets "confused"... I see that when I try moving the mouse, something happens there, but it's impossible to do anything. The only modification I did was to insert the JMicron patched boot file inside "generic.iso".

 

I'm kind of noob at this, I hope someone knows... look at the attached pics!!!!!!

 

Thanks and sorry for the bad english.

 

Looking at your first pic - upper left one. What did you type there - exactly? Also, it would be helpful to you and us if that input always included the "-v" kernel flag. You won't see the Apple gray screen, but you will see all the messages and have a better idea what is happening.

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Looking at your first pic - upper left one. What did you type there - exactly? Also, it would be helpful to you and us if that input always included the "-v" kernel flag. You won't see the Apple gray screen, but you will see all the messages and have a better idea what is happening.

 

Hi BladeRunner,

I tryied two times: the first one, boot without any flags and see the Apple screen (in the pics). The second time, I did exactly whay you said: boot using -v flag. There were not any major errors... I mean, nothing much different from what happens when I boot into my Leo4allv3... maybe there is "missing" something, instead of "having" something wrong?

 

Thanks for the answer!

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Hi BladeRunner,

I tryied two times: the first one, boot without any flags and see the Apple screen (in the pics). The second time, I did exactly whay you said: boot using -v flag. There were not any major errors... I mean, nothing much different from what happens when I boot into my Leo4allv3... maybe there is "missing" something, instead of "having" something wrong?

 

Thanks for the answer!

 

OK, let me try again. I asked you what you typed at the prompt on the first pic. Did you just press enter? Or, type rd(0,1)/mach-something or what?

 

I use compaq m2241AP,Intel Pentium M...when boot 132 ,insert cd leopard...it said still waiting root device...

any thing wrong ?

 

Well, yes, it's still waiting for the boot device.

 

When this happens, one of two things generally went wrong. Either the boot-132 CD didn't have the correct kext for your system, or the user entered the data incorrectly - or both.

 

Since I don't know which boot CD you used, or if you made your own, and I have now idea what you typed at which prompt I am unable to provide much help.

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Hi there, BladeRunner

 

Actually, I just pressed ENTER and that's all.

 

Do you sugest anything?

 

Thanks

 

I assume you can run the vanilla kernel so you don't need to identify the kernel you want. However, I believe you still need to identify the partition you want to boot from - to avoid the system attempting to boot from the initrd.img which is the ramdisk. you would do that by entering;

 

 -v rd=diskXsY

 

or

-v boot-uuid=the-very-long-string-uuid-for-the-dvd

 

You know, you get the dvd uuid from the disk utility -> Info function. the reason you would use boot-uuid= is because it will never change and the diskXsY can and will change depending on system conditions when you boot.

 

Give this a try and let me know if it helps.

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Is this possible to boot the cd from usb-drive ?

 

What is biosdev number of cd/dvd drive ?

 

EnLi

 

I believe the answer to your first question is no.

 

The biosdev number of the cd/dvd can vary. If you are asking what biosdev number to enter when switching from cd to dvd, the best is to accept the default that is shown in the prompt. For most, I believe that is shown as [9F]. Just press enter.

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Glad to see you made progress on the OS X install. I have no idea about the wireless.

 

There are several methods of making your OS X bootable without the pre-boot cd. The one I use, and therefore think is the best, is the one Munky provided. It places the override kext and some other information in the small 200Mb EIF partition at the beginning of your disk.

 

I am assuming you have your drive partitioned as GUID since there was no comment about OS X refusing to install on your MBR disk -_-

 

Read the guide found at this link Munkys EFI partition guide.

 

Good luck.

 

Almost there, but still having problems. I now have vista on my first partition and osx on the second (have sound and video working well). I used the chameleon bootloader and easybcd to set up the boot loader and I'm able to select either os, but when I boot to the osx partition I have the following problems:

 

1) If it is connected to the ethernet I hang on "NTFS volume name, Version 3.1."

 

2) If the machine is not connected to the ethernet I hang at "AppleRTL8169Ethernet: phyWaitForAutoNegotiation TIMEOUT"

 

Since the autonegotiation is the first thing after the NTFS volume message I seem to be hanging on whatever OSX is trying to do after the autonegtiation.

 

3) use -x (for safe mode) hang at the "/usr/sbin/ocspd[67]: starting"

 

4) use -s for single user, I get to the root prompt but the keyboard doesn't work

 

5) use -F, just hangs

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I assume you can run the vanilla kernel so you don't need to identify the kernel you want. However, I believe you still need to identify the partition you want to boot from - to avoid the system attempting to boot from the initrd.img which is the ramdisk. you would do that by entering;

 

 -v rd=diskXsY

 

or

-v boot-uuid=the-very-long-string-uuid-for-the-dvd

 

You know, you get the dvd uuid from the disk utility -> Info function. the reason you would use boot-uuid= is because it will never change and the diskXsY can and will change depending on system conditions when you boot.

 

Give this a try and let me know if it helps.

 

BladeRunner,

I did this and got the same error... that strange screen after the system loads.

 

Then, I tried booting in safe mode (-x) and it worked. So, I installed the Retail DVD... but, inserting back Boot-132 CD and booting up now from my Hard Drive, THE SAME ERROR SCREEN!!!! Seems like a video bug, because I can see something moving there when I move the mouse... but I don't know what to do. The only way of booting up is using this safe mode.

 

Any idea?

Thanks

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Almost there, but still having problems. I now have vista on my first partition and osx on the second (have sound and video working well). I used the chameleon bootloader and easybcd to set up the boot loader and I'm able to select either os, but when I boot to the osx partition I have the following problems:

 

1) If it is connected to the ethernet I hang on "NTFS volume name, Version 3.1."

 

2) If the machine is not connected to the ethernet I hang at "AppleRTL8169Ethernet: phyWaitForAutoNegotiation TIMEOUT"

 

Since the autonegotiation is the first thing after the NTFS volume message I seem to be hanging on whatever OSX is trying to do after the autonegtiation.

 

3) use -x (for safe mode) hang at the "/usr/sbin/ocspd[67]: starting"

 

4) use -s for single user, I get to the root prompt but the keyboard doesn't work

 

5) use -F, just hangs

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BladeRunner,

I did this and got the same error... that strange screen after the system loads.

 

Then, I tried booting in safe mode (-x) and it worked. So, I installed the Retail DVD... but, inserting back Boot-132 CD and booting up now from my Hard Drive, THE SAME ERROR SCREEN!!!! Seems like a video bug, because I can see something moving there when I move the mouse... but I don't know what to do. The only way of booting up is using this safe mode.

 

Any idea?

Thanks

 

I agree, sounds like a video bug. I would boot in save mode and bring up System Preferences. Then have a look at Display. See if you have more than one resolution. If so, pick a very safe - lo res - setting like 1024x768. I would also try to edit the com.apple.Boot.plist. Insert the key/string set - "Graphics Mode"/"1280x1024" Those things are aimed at dropping back to something that is handled as normal VGA.

 

Then, reboot in normal - not safe - mode and see what happens.

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I agree, sounds like a video bug. I would boot in save mode and bring up System Preferences. Then have a look at Display. See if you have more than one resolution. If so, pick a very safe - lo res - setting like 1024x768. I would also try to edit the com.apple.Boot.plist. Insert the key/string set - "Graphics Mode"/"1280x1024" Those things are aimed at dropping back to something that is handled as normal VGA.

 

Then, reboot in normal - not safe - mode and see what happens.

 

BladeRunner,

I tried all this, but when I boot in "normal mode", the same buged screen occours... when in safe mode, I'm not able to change resolutions, there's only 1024x768... and, also, my video card (ATI RADEON HD 3850 512MB) is not recognized in "Apple System Profiler".

 

Should I try to install any kexts? I'm lost right now. :thumbsup_anim:

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BladeRunner,

I tried all this, but when I boot in "normal mode", the same buged screen occours... when in safe mode, I'm not able to change resolutions, there's only 1024x768... and, also, my video card (ATI RADEON HD 3850 512MB) is not recognized in "Apple System Profiler".

 

Should I try to install any kexts? I'm lost right now. :)

 

I think you probably need a modified ATI kext but I can't help much there. I have no ATI cards myself. If you havent already done so, look over in the tutorials sub forum. There are threads about correcting video problems - like this one.

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Is it possible to do the install from BOOT-132 from an image located on a previous mac installation HD. I have a Kalyway 10.5.2 installation with orginial image saved on it and wanted to install with boot-132 to a new parition. It would be a big help if someone can tell me if this can be done. Thanks.

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Is it possible to do the install from BOOT-132 from an image located on a previous mac installation HD. I have a Kalyway 10.5.2 installation with orginial image saved on it and wanted to install with boot-132 to a new parition. It would be a big help if someone can tell me if this can be done. Thanks.

 

To use the boot-132 cd you need to point to something that is bootable. The image, stored as a file on a partition is not currently bootable. Apps like VMWare or Parallesl can mount the image and use it to install a VM, but the boot-132 cd would not see it that way.

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Hey all,

 

Is there any way to install from the retail disc in MBR format...I have a current windows installation on this computer and I am wishing to do a retail install but I want to keep my hard drive formatted into MBR

 

MGJulius

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Hey all,

 

Is there any way to install from the retail disc in MBR format...I have a current windows installation on this computer and I am wishing to do a retail install but I want to keep my hard drive formatted into MBR

 

MGJulius

 

There are a few methods to do this, but they all involve changing the content of the install dvd. There is a test for GUID in the install mpkg - at least I think that is the one. The test needs to be removed. That will allow the install to continue.

 

Since the dvd is read-only, you need to burn a modified copy. I believe there are a few guides to methods of doing that over in the tutorials sub-forum. You can also use disk utility to restore the retail dvd onto a USB drive that is at least 8Gb or larger. Then you have a read/write format. You can modify it there. You still need to make the USB drive bootable but there are also guides for that.

 

I have an 8Gb SanDisk Cruzer with the OS X Install on it. I used Munkys EFI partition boot loader - guide also in Tutorials - to make it bootable and provide the necessary modified kext & kernel. That's how I installed this system.

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