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Never mind, I fixed the issue i had earlier by applying the r2 ppf patch to the iso. Now everything works great, except for the fact that when i get to disk utility, my hard drive is not recognized. I have a Seagate 250gb sata hdd. What can i do to fix this?

@raine

I’ve heard of people successfully installing Leopard on a Pentium 4 as long as it supports SSE2 or SSE3. EFI only supports Core2Duo though.

@ilyace

Make sure SATA is set to AHCI in BIOS.

@ blacksocks

I have no AHCI option in my bios. I have the 650i Ultra motherboard btw. Anything else?

@ blacksocks

This happens before it installs leopard, when i boot off the dvd for the first time.

Ok, I installed a patch i found and it now disk utility recognizes my hard drive! I went on ahead and followed the steps, and I’m now installing, hopefully everything will work. Great guide by the way!

Everything works up to the bootfix patch part. On step 7 it when i type in ./dd(etc…) it says permmission to dd is denied

Alright, now i followed every step correctly, and i did the bootfix patch. Then i restart my pc with the dvd still inside, and i wait for the countdown. When it gets to 0, it shows me my two partitions, the Leopard one, and an XP one i made. I highlight the Leopard partition, and i press enter, but it does nothing. I’ve even tried doing -v, or -v -x, or ?, but it just flashes and the same screen comes back on. How can i fix this? I’ve been trying to get Leopard to work for days now.

Alright, now i followed every step correctly, and i did the bootfix patch. Then i restart my pc with the dvd still inside, and i wait for the countdown. When it gets to 0, it shows me my two partitions, the Leopard one, and an XP one i made. I highlight the Leopard partition, and i press enter, but it does nothing. I’ve even tried doing -v, or -v -x, or ?, but it just flashes and the same screen comes back on. How can i fix this? I’ve been trying to get Leopard to work for days now.

@jeff,

Im having the exact problem, cannot access the USB drive for bootfix, it is not showing up in Volumes nor can I browse to it, but I can see the drive on diskutil, how did you solve this?

@ilyace

I’m not sure what’s causing your boot problem. You can try -r -x or cpus=1. Make sure your partition is MBR not GUID. You can also try different options in the Customize of the installation disc. I did that myself several times until I found what works for my PC.

Here is what I think is the problem: When I do the bootfix patch, The first thing I do (After finding what partition/hdd #) is to type this in: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0…Now on your example, from then on, it is supposed to say fdisk: 0>…but mine says fdisk: 1>…I think this could be the problem. Do you know how to fix it?

I have a marvell yukon 88e8055 card and cant find what key that card has, any one who knows ?

I tried out some different options, and it worked!!! I am very happy and thank you for a great guide! Now can you help me get my 8800GTS 512 (G92) working? Thanks.

Marvel Yukon-88E8036 for me.
ID 4351
I tried to edit the Info.plist file but I can’t modify it. I copy/pasted the exact line you said above but it doesn’t do anything. If I open it in textedit I can’t save it either.

@w00t

You need to use the Terminal app and not open it in Finder.

After a successful install I get stuck identifying the keyboard i.e. it seems to see the keyboard correctly by pressing the keys to the left and the right of the shift key but after the last “continue” it sits there for a while and goes back to keyboard cannot be identified. Any ideas?

Thank you,

got it passed keyboard. How about Ethernet and nVidia 7600 drivers in this distribution. I have the ASUS M2N4-SLI and can’;t seem to get Ethernet, sound and a display resolution greater than 1024×768 going. Any help is greatly appreciated.

In the “iATKOS Leopard installation” section I get to step 14 and it looks like it’s going to install, but then it only gets to about 2-3% and then it freezes. I suspect this must have something to do with the options I selected in step 13. I don’t have DuoCore machine, and I don’t know if my processor supports SEE2/SEE3 (how can I determine this). I also don’t know if it’s important to have an exact match on the Display, NIC, or Wireless drivers. I have a Compaq nw8240 laptop with a 2GHz cpu and 1G of RAM.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Update on my situation… I got past the second problem. I was able to get the settings all finished and was able to mess around a bit. Still need to figure out the problem with the booting… I tried the bootfix you posted, except my flash drive isn’t recognized… Maybe I’ll try it now that I’m in OSX and see if that’ll fix the problem

@curlyjoe – How long did you wait at the 2-3%? Mine seemed to hang up for a few minutes at the same spot, but then jumped a good 15% right away and then continued on… I’d just let it sit for a bit to see if that helps.

Update on my situation… I got past the second problem. I was able to get the settings all finished and was able to mess around a bit. Still need to figure out the problem with the booting… I tried the bootfix you posted, except my flash drive isn’t recognized… Maybe I’ll try it now that I’m in OSX and see if that’ll fix the problem

@curlyjoe – How long did you wait at the 2-3%? Mine seemed to hang up for a few minutes at the same spot, but then jumped a good 15% right away and then continued on… I’d just let it sit for a bit to see if that helps.

After reboot I got the blinking cursor. I followed the bootfix patch instructions. Then I rebooted. I get a screen from Darwin asking me for boot options. It shows “hd (0,1) Leopard” and I type in “-v” but nothing happens. The screen blinks very briefly and I get back to the same prompt. The system will not boot. Any ideas? Thanks again in advance for any help you can provide.

@Simon – You were right. Note to self: be more patient while installing.

Hi! I tried several different keyboards (ps2 and usb) but no luck.Instalation is very simple untill I must enter some letters…Only some special function keys working:audio level adjusting,dvd door opening – but nothing else.No matter what language or keyboard chose from drop-down menu! “AulonAlbania” says:”… I put an adapter, ps2 to usb and everything solved…”
Is there any difference between usb keyboard and ps2 keyboard+usb adapter? Adapter like this:
ONE is hard to find.Installed it on Gigabyte P35,E8200,2Gb,Ati7950…

OK, I tried chmod 777 on the dd/startupfiletool/bless so that I could run with “./” in front, and when I got to the bless command, I ran into some kind of problem which I don’t understand. Here is the command I entered and the output that followed:

./bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose
EFI found at IODeviceTree:/efi
Other partition scheme detected
No auxiliary booter partition required
Returning booter information dictionary:
{type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
0 : {contents = “Auxiliary Partitions”} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ( )}
2: {contents = “Data Partitions”} = {type = immutable, count = 1, values = ( 0 : {contents = “disk0s1″})}
3: {contents = “System Partitions”} = {type = immutable, count = 0, values = ()}
)}
IOMedia disk0s1 does not have a partition UUID
DADiskRef disk0s1 has Volume UUID C28B1DAD-8F2E-32DC-9EBA-D693D81CE286
IOMedia disk0s1 has path IODeviceTree:/C003@0/C0A9@1F,1/C1E2@0/@0:1
Could not find IODeviceTree:/options

Please help. Thanks.