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By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:29:59 +0000

Hi there,
I really appreciate your posting. I have a question, my friend bought a MacBook after Leopard released, it comes with 2 original DVDs. If I make copies of these DVDs, how can I apply the patch to it? It seems that the patch only works for dmg file, am I correct?

Best regards,
Leo

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:57:11 +0000

You can create a .dmg from the DVD on your friend’s MacBook …

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:00:03 +0000

I am installing Leo on an ext drive through an xps m1210 1.8 C2D
When I type in the initial command
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk2fdisk: 0>update

I got
update: Read-only file system
The same response if I replace the 0> with 2>
What do I need to do? to get to the fdisk: 2> state?

By: Gunn

Gunn — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:08:36 +0000

I got the same as you Bob don’t know what to do now

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By: Dpdark

Dpdark — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:11:24 +0000

Got the same read only anyone got any ideas.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:51:17 +0000

Well I reinstall everything and seems to be fine with the bootloader commands. EFI installed too.
after the fdisk -e/…command don’t be perturbed if it shows f:0>. just go along has nothing to do with you disk list ie disxsy.proceed with update,w,y,q.
One thing I do different is I do the disutil unmount /Volumes/x before the cd /Volumes/123/files/bootfix. Work better. Even wrote a command line to use for repeat reinstallation!
Instead of rebooting with the install cd after the PostPatch, save time and continue with installing the bootloader. Then just reboot.
If you put the working patched kext for any thing (ie sound, ehternet, video etc ) in the PostPatch ext folder in Brazlmac. Save you having to do the root:wheel thingy later on!
Enjoy.

Fun doing it still can’t beat the real thing.

By: thinkdj

thinkdj — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:23:01 +0000

Thankyou Bob

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:45:24 +0000

I need to ‘thank you’ more thinkdj. Really broaden my mac horizon.

By: walter wolf

walter wolf — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:26:16 +0000

Now you can find the leopard for X86 ready to install in the emule for example?
or its not true the images of leopard than you can see anywhere
THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR HELP
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
WALTER
if you know other way to get it let me know thanks

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:59:29 +0000

Well, the lighhter version by Uphuck is out. with Built in Booth Loader! Get it here and enjoy.

http://rapidshare.com/users/EFWK3Z

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:06:54 +0000

This is the Kalyway versionof 10.5.1. Comes with Vanilla & EFI ready. Install enjoy upgrade from A__L_ without fear.

http://rapidshare.com/users/DZW1W7

By: soundproducer

soundproducer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:43:46 +0000

Hello. On the rapidshare there are files .001, .002, etc. How to unpack them?
Thank you.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:23:58 +0000

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Split-Concat.shtml

Recompose with the SW above. PC or mac. Burn the .iso with Toast or any PC DVD burning SW. Enjoy.

By: soundproducer

soundproducer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:33:15 +0000

Great Thanks.

By: mohamad was GAY!

mohamad was GAY! — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:30 +0000

the files on:

►►►►►►►►http://rapidshare.com/users/DZW1W7 ◄◄◄◄◄◄◄◄

are corrupted!!! dont donload it..
it is megashit.iso!!!

By: soundproducer

soundproducer — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:14:50 +0000

Please, describe. what happen when you create image?
thanks

By: NuN

NuN — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:57:25 +0000

mohamad was GAY! - you stupid !

ThX BOB !!! Very well ISO !

By: NuN

NuN — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:58:31 +0000

I install Leopard and all ok !

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:12:12 +0000

Thank You NuN. I am just the piano player.

By: sid

sid — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:30:34 +0000

BOB can u post the MD5 of the complete iso and and indivisual iso’s..

I downloaded all files joined them with hjsplit, the MD5 i get is 2D4EE6A5BAC4DE9A1D9C13854674E791

where as the MD5 posted over internet is f8546bde2a5b3c7dff47f2aab31862a9

please confirm

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:30:52 +0000

Sid, just checked, looks good.

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By: vatanak

vatanak — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:03:53 +0000

After i do follow the step ‘The Bootfix patch’ when I reboot my pc was stuck with a black scren and blink cursor.
if i insert Mac OS X Intel PC CD, it can work.

Can u please help me how to make it boot from HDD?

By: woody79

woody79 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:14:34 +0000

I use Acronis OS Selector to choose between “Leopard” and XP. After following the instructions when I choose Leopard it comes up with:
HFS+ Partition Error

Does anyone know why and if so how it is caused.

By: nikRbokR

nikRbokR — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:28:42 +0000

Bob… i got the uphuck version of Leopard (iATKOS v1.0i) i believe.

I chose customize, but there are two options. There’s the Darwin x86 bootloader and an option for Darwin EFI.

I didn’t choose a bootloader for the first time, and I am probably not going to patch it (As it comes pre-patched). However, i’m going to now try the boot-fix as mentioned above.

I previously installed leopardx86 w/ and w/o the bootloader (i chose Darwinx86). Both times, when I booted from my external HD, it just showed a black screen with a flashing white line @ the top left.

Any help would be appreciated.

By: nikRbokR

nikRbokR — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:32:25 +0000

I was not sure how to get it to boot w/ the DVD as well.

Also, when I did -s, i read several messages that the HD was “read-only”… is that a problem?

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:29:41 +0000

I tried the fix boot suggestion after installing without patching. I was able to boot leopard and it seemed quite functional except that my networking hardware wasn’t functional.

I then installed the patches. Leopard would no longer boot. I repeated the fix boot instructions with no luck.

It stops at the boot prompt, if I get it to manually boot it reports “HFS+ Error”.

Please help!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:27:12 +0000

nikRbokR

To boot from the iATkos DVD, press F12 on start up. as for bootloader, the selection is explained pretty well. iATkos is already patched no need to re/post patch. If you select the appropriate bootloader should boot right after installation. Other wise see the above section for manual bootloader install. Good luck

By: nikRbokR

nikRbokR — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:50:40 +0000

Bob

I was not sure which bootloader to install. I installed Darwinx86… but I assume it didn’t work. I will try with EFI (?) this weekend.

Thank you.

By: Mac_Noob

Mac_Noob — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:46:15 +0000

I have a… Don’t know if this is a stupid question or not. What if… I get the Leopard CD or DVD that come with the Mac, and install it on a PC without any other OS on it, will this work??? do I need also go to install all this weird patches and stuff???

Please let me know. Thanks

By: McMichel

McMichel — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:40:47 +0000

Hi, I have an iMac with Leopard 10.5.1, original DVD and another original DVD 10.5.1. Can I use these original DVDs to make patched DVDs to install it on my Intel-PC!? How can I make this? Do I still have to download these files in the description above!? Please help me, many thanks!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:59:06 +0000

McMichel

The only patch ( pre and post ) available is by Brazilmac and it is meant for the 10.5 only. I very much doubt you can use it for the 10.5.1. Just use the iATKOS or Kalyway 10.5.1 and avoid all the headache. You can google all info you need. No need to re invent wheel here unless you have a better wheel in mind ;>

By: vipin

vipin — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:54:21 +0000

Hey

I am not able to find my HDD in Tiger installation, I booted from TIGER DVD but not able to find my HDD over there in disk utility menu.
I tried it on DELL VOSTRO laptop having SATA HDD.
Can anybody tell me what to do…….

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:17:33 +0000

What chipset does your motherboard have?

I had that problem, though who knows if it was caused by the same things. Nevertheless, my solution at least in part involved chaning bios settings. I had issues in particular that were a result of my USB settings.

By: vipin

vipin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:32:18 +0000

HEY jaymus

What were the setting u made the bios.
can u explain it a little bit, because I tried to configure my SATA drive as ATA and AHCI both but nothing is working

By: jaymus

jaymus — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:38:08 +0000

I found disabling legacy USB support made the difference between USB hard drives working and not on an installed system. And it made the difference between the installer usually dying out with a weird USB resource lock error message before even giving the initial installation menu and working as expected.

Unlikely: it’s possible that you could also disable old stuff like parallel and serial ports - doing so can free up interrupts, though that hasn’t seem to mattered since like ‘98.

Lemme know how it goes.

Cheers

By: Vipin

Vipin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:27:43 +0000

Hey JAYMUS
I tried every thing which u suggested but its not working.
If you have any other solution please let me know

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:24:54 +0000

McMichel

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By: VJ

VJ — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:05:23 +0000

HI Bob
I try to install Mac OS X 10.5 on my PC,
My pc is running AMD 64 and Asus matherbrod M3A-H,
i have already install with IDE but i use SATA for Windows xp ,when my pc reboot i can’t do anymore with install,i think that problem is with my IDE,Bob can i install with SATA or not?and how can i install with SATA? thank

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:32:32 +0000

I am not following you. If you have upgraded your HDD from IDE to SATA you will have to use an appropriate driver in xp. If so then shouldn’t have any problem with OS X 86 installation if you follow the driver choice in the pre installation choices. Try the latest iATKOS_4.

By: VJ

VJ — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:30:54 +0000

hello Bob

Thank for your help, i try to use SATA (but i not use IDE on SATA clip) now i can get inside Mac OS X. but i don’t know how to install install Driver on mac.

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:02:05 +0000

Good luck VJ. You may want to check your BIOS settings and try changing some things that seem like they could be related. On my machine I run osx86 on, I found disabling “Legacy USB Support” really helped with a lot of things. I installed my OSX86 setup on an IDE drive, but later used Disk Util (from the installation disc) to copy what I had on IDE over to a SATA drive and that worked too. But of course, it only worked because I had good drivers thankfully.

By: VJ

VJ — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:41:00 +0000

Thank you Jaymus,The driver i don’t know how to install is Sound Driver (Realtek High Definition Audio on mantherbrod)
and VGA NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT,Now i using window XP cuz my Mac Os now is die from update 10.5.5 i think that update can help me to use that Driver,I hope can someone help me. Thank you guys

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:33:36 +0000

if you are getting into OS X86 on your pc, then the driver supporting SATA is already loaded. Enjoy your mac on pc. If OS X “die from update 10.5.5″ then you might need to do EFI patching.

http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2520

By the way 10.5.5 upgrade ( !?!) is not officially supported by OS X 86 as I know. Only up to 10.5.4.

By: VJ

VJ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:17:22 +0000

Hello Bob

Someone tell me if i got mac OSx86 just do not update VGA,
that is ture? if i want to use my VGA on mac how can i install that driver in mac without problem?
the only think that i need your help is how to install driver on mac?or i need to re-install mac and install iATKOS or mac Tiger?then install Mac OS X Leopard DVD?
Thank you alot for your help Bob

By: Fila

Fila — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:15:05 +0000

When I insert dvd with leopard and when it loads darwin boot loader, a message always comes “can not find root device”
What should i do?

By: wan123

wan123 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:26:48 +0000

how to use terminal when my keyboard not response? thx

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:46:47 +0000

Hey wan123,
I’ve had that symptom before - for me it had to do with my BIOS settings for my usb ports - I needed it set to enable legacy support to use a usb keyboard with the installer - though I seem to recall some bizarre scenario where disabling Legacy support helped.

You can also just try another keyboard.

Cheers,
J

By: wan123

wan123 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:53:16 +0000

hey jaymus,

thank you for quick response, i have ps2 keyboard.

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:37:28 +0000

Hey wan123,
Ahh, in the case of PS/2 all I can really think of suggesting is trying a USB board &/or going through your BIOS settings and checking for anything remotely related. As a last resourt you could try a much older build too, but that’s a total shot in the dark.

Cheers

By: wan123

wan123 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:38:52 +0000

hey jeymus,
today i am buy usb board:)
now i dont know how make usb with patch readable in terminal?

i can see all disk who are in macintosh formated mode but fat dont recognized.?? thanks

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:54:57 +0000

Wan123,
I’m not really sure what it is you’re doing over there. Generally with this kind of thing basic peripherals like keyboards just work. This goes for both PS/2 and USB.

Are you working just inside the installation environment? Once you’ve got OSX running, you should be able to see FAT file systems and you can install MacFuse with the NTFS-3g module to get decent NTFS support going too.

Good luck.

By: suter

suter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:12:59 +0000

Hello everybody

Does exist the way to instal any OS X on sata drive ?

I was trying to instal Leopard 10.5.1 on my PC and it did not detect any sata ports.
I have ASUS MB M3A-H/HDMI with AMD Phenom X4 9650

Thank you

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:29:28 +0000

I’ve got it running on a SATA drive. I didn’t have to consciously do anything special to get that going. I’m running 10.5.2 though, perhaps there’s a difference there.

What I’d bet the issue really is, is your BIOS. Some BIOS systems seem to be able to present SATA drives to the operating system as though they’re really IDE drives. This makes legacy software support trivial. So your problem *may be solved by changing a BIOS setting. However your motherboard may not support that kind of functionality and I suppose that also may not be the issue.

You should probably try a newer version of the OS while you’re at it.

By: suter

suter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:35:29 +0000

Jaymus, thanks for help. I changed settings in bios and it really works.

By: Jaymus

Jaymus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:57:36 +0000

Glad to hear it Suter. Have fun!

By: suter

suter — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:58:59 +0000

Hello
I have now another proplem. Any version of OS X which I was trying to instal was not working after installing or instalation wasn`t running… Does anybody have an idea which version can be useful with this configuration?:

ASUS M3A-H/HDMI
AMD Phenom X4 9650
2x A-Data 2 GB DDR2-800

Thanks

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