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Beginner Discussions

This is for especially for all the OSx86 beginners.

If you have a problem, please search the forum (through Search this Wiki) first. If you don't find anything related to your question, ask here.
If there's already a thread about the problem, the old guys can surely help you to find what you need.

Only if your question has not been mentioned in the past, then feel free to start a new discussion.

Welcome to our forums!

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USB Ethernet Adapter Shows up in OS X after successful Leo4Allv3 Install... But......

Blob 1211149915|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I cannot add the usb ethernet to network propteries? What gives?? I can't find usb in the available list of hardware to add to network props…. Only a couple options to pick from in that list… Like 6 in 4? and then Firewire and then serial…. This is the only problem with my Install of Leo4Allv3… Everything else works!!! OMG Finally mac on this AMD Box!!! Thx ya'll so much for the hardwork on this hack! I do have a SiS chipset for network but I chose not to dig into makin a driver for it which would be nice if I knew where the tut was to do all this… (Ktext makin' & setting up) Prob will go do that some day when I got time…But for now I just want my Mac able to surf! :-)

Thx!

Re: USB Ethernet Adapter Shows up in OS X after successful Leo4Allv3 Install... But......

Blob 1211151603|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Oh yea I've found a possible solution… gonna try installing this… hopefully it works….
http://www.sustworks.com/site/news_usb_ethernet.html

Will I need something to extract the driver from the .dmg? If so then what? Can I simply change to .iso and extract? I need the AX8817X driver off that page.

Re: USB Ethernet Adapter Shows up in OS X after successful Leo4Allv3 Install... But......

Blob 1211153463|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Oh well it worked so never mind… I just installed using that .dmg… Now one more question… how do I tell which package to download? If something like Fink here http://www.finkproject.org/download/

It has a package for intel / powerpc…. I'm assuming the intel rls will do? This is a AMD Box I'm running and makin this post from :-) oh man it sure feels good to be back surfin on the mac!

USB Power Problem

krueme1 1212835090|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,

i have a problem with my usb ports.
He dont give enough power to my devices… I dont can connect my usb HDD or Ipod on my PC …
on Windows I can connect this.
Please Help

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

djcool 1212917189|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Can somebody please help me?
I have an Dell inspiron 9400 Laptop and installed leo4all on it.
Now when i want to boot it keeps giving the message "still waiting on root device" i wont be able to boot.

Audio and Graphic issues

Alpha04024 1214843867|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi everybody!

I got a problem with audio and video. I have a nvidia 8400 gs 256mb and I can't select any higher resolution than 1024x768. Secondly my audio ( SigmaTel STAC9872AK @ Intel 82801HBM ICH8M ) doesn't work, I wonder which drivers I have to choose at the installation :S

Thanks!

How to check Nforce Chipset/ ATA/SATA device id?

footsie77 1207802682|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

..hi there!
..as my title says, how do i check my device id's for Nforce Chipset, ATA, SATA?
..any specific program to use in Vista?
..thanks in advance!

Re: How to check Nforce Chipset/ ATA/SATA device id?

asoftlad 1209082293|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Device manager in control panel will tell you the device ID

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

gatewaymac 1208261806|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

My built-in Intel Wireless doesn't work yet under Leo, so I am looking for a ExpressCard 54 WiFi Card for my Gateway laptop that will work with Leo4All v2 out of the box (if possible).

Thanks for the help!

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asoftlad 1209082876|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Are you absolutely certain your wireless card is unsupported? Have you tried searching the forums here: http://www.insanelymac.com/
If you have no luck with that and you're forced to spend then try a dell wireless module, lots of people report their cheap and compatible. My built in wireless has no working driver to date but I swapped it with an airport card from a mac mini.

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Re: Beginners: Ask here first

MarcoZ70 1208334722|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I finally installed a Leo4allv2 version on my machine. I have some prob …
1) Onboard ethernet chipset Realtek PHY RTL8201CL doesn't work!
2) My wireless lan (level one wnc-0300) with AR5212 chipset doesn't work!
3) USB port aren't recognized
4) When i try to turn off or restart the system it freeze after few second on black screen (debugger panic)

I hope someone can help me because now the system is running but without internet and other, i can't use it.
Thanks in advance!

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

asoftlad 1209083059|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Search the forums in the link I posted above, I'm sure you'll get a working ethernet driver.

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

gabri3ll 1208964479|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

First, let me apologize for the bad english you'll gonna read from here, as I am Brazilian. :)

Recently I downloaded the ISO of Leo4AllV2, planning to install it on my Core 2 Duo PC at home.
But then, suddenly appeared a white iBook G4 12.1' screen at my workplace (I work into a Intelligence Police Department, wich frequently receives illegal equipment seized by Federal Police, from smuggling), completely locked by passwords (wich we managed to crack, with the single user mode boot) and bloated with somebody's files. My superiors wanted us (me and others from my team) to make it usable, asked if we could erase completely the HDD and install a Windows XP on it.

I am very used to Windows and Linux systems, but must confess that my contact with Mac's is very little. Messing with, I discovered it could accept Windows, but only with it had a Intel processor. That is not the case, this iBook has a 1.02ghz PowerPC processor. Then, as I only have the notebook and the power cord (no installation CD's, case, anything, as I mentioned, this equipment is seized), I was thinking of trying the installation of the Leo4AllV2 I have.

But I stopped at the boot process. The notebook recognizes the DVD, it opens the "reboot to install" GUI when inserted during the normal use, but at the boot, a blinking icon (a folder icon with a question mark on it and the two Mac faces) appears for a few seconds and then the screen fades to start the normal boot with the version 10.3.9 currently installed. I also tried holding the "C" key during start, but the same behaviour described happens, only it takes more seconds to fade and start normally (the icon blinks more times).

I think of the age of the notebook, too old for the new system. Am I right? The iBook is a 1.02ghz PowerPC, 256mb ram, 30gb HDD, CD-RW/DVD-reading.

If my idea really fails, does Linux Debian for PowerPC's will work well on this notebook?

Note: The DVD is burned correctly, I think. The booting process at my home PC works fine and the installation seems to come out right.

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

rdumbart 1209043828|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Leo4All (and others generally known as Hackintosh) are only for Intel CPUs. So they won't install in your Power PC.

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

asoftlad 1209081984|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Leo4all is a version of mac os designed for the osx86 platform (windows pc's).
You are trying to install it on genuine mac hardware. If you really want to do a complete reinstallation with leopard on the ibook then get a copy of the official release. Hardware requirements found here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/

If you like Leopard then try the Leo4all disc on the core duo you have at home ;))

Intel D946GZis MOBO and Leo4All V2/V3

rdumbart 1209038439|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hello,
I've never used a MAC before, so I'm a full noob when it comes to it. My system is an Intel D946GZis with 1GB mem, C2D E6600 CPU, 2 HDs - one SATA and one IDE).
I understand there's a procedure to install an older OSX version in this mobo, but I would like very much to install Leo.

Boot freezes in Darwin's verbose messages - I have a photo of it but I don't know if it can be posted here. (CD was burned using Ultra ISO and Nero, burning was verified).

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Re: Intel D946GZis MOBO and Leo4All V2/V3

asoftlad 1209083162|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You need to let Eddie11c know exactly where it hangs to be able to help, a screen shot would be preferable

Re: Intel D946GZis MOBO and Leo4All V2/V3

rdumbart 1209094590|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks, asoftlad

As I posted above, I have a photo. How do I post it?

Re: Intel D946GZis MOBO and Leo4All V2/V3

rdumbart 1209154187|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I hope it works…

Re: Intel D946GZis MOBO and Leo4All V2/V3

starkwong 1209226455|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Try to unplug all USB devices when booting

Re: Can't boot from DVD

gavspav 1209115118|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I am having problems booting from the LEO4Allv3 DVD on my Shuttle System SN85G4V3 System. Athlon 64 3400. 1GB Ram. Nvidia Ti4600.
Is it a problem with the processor being too old?

I get some kind of Panic:

Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0

com.nvidia.driver.AppleNForceATA(1.0.3)@0x20c50000->0x20c56fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Thanks,

Gavin

Re: Beginners: Ask here first: apply share patch

timcki 1210103126|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I am haveing trouble with Shares,
I have downloaded ppf-o-matic
I have downloaded the Share-fix

Or how do i apply the share fix.

Tim

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

gpc 1210277537|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Super Noob here, is installing leo4all simply just burning the iso onto a dvd and booting your pc using that dvd drive. do i have to partition a new drive? is there any specific files or bios settings i need besides putting my dvd drive first in the bios order. thanks a bunch!

Alienware 51m 5700i-R2 Laptop

3dadd 1210432228|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Just seeing if it's possible to use this Laptop. It has a VIA RAID built in and there does not seem to be a way to separate the drives. I can boot with Leov3 and get to the Disk Utils menu and only see the DVD drive. I can install the OS to an External USB drive but can't seem to boot (OS not found error). question is : is there anyway to use the internal hardware raid (VIA VT6421A)? What tips do you have for testing the laptop with the USB drive? I have changed the Boot order to list the all the USB devices first.

This is a fairly high-end laptop and should make a scream'n mac laptop if I can get the VIA Raid to boot.

I have 20 years Mac & PC experience.

thanks.

Re: Alienware 51m 5700i-R2 Laptop HW INFO

3dadd 1210434702|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Just in case anyone needs the specs for the Alienware 51m 5700-R2 for reference
Processor Core Duo 2.33
Intel Calistoga 945PM + ICH7-M chipset with Audio
BIOS AMI PnP APM 1.2 ACPI 2.0
667Mhz Frontside Bus
1920x1200 WUXGA (nvidia or ATI)
Wireless LAN Intel PRO 3945ABG
BlueTooth CSR BC04-ROM
Ethernet LAN Realtek 8110 10/100/1000
1394 Firewire TI TSB43AB22A
RAID/Storage VIA VT6421A
Express Card Reader Genesys GL817E-10

Re: Alienware 51m 5700i-R2 Laptop HW INFO

eddie11c 1210463462|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You will not be able to install on a hardware raid thats not an apple supported card. You can only do software raid and this is not so simple to install.

Re: Alienware 51m 5700i-R2 Laptop HW INFO

moliver 1212129046|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Yeah I tried doing the software raid and am unable to get the system to finish creating the Raid 1 mirror. I can select both disks (disks are identical WD 500GB drives) and drag them to create the raid, but the system comes back and says the raid is not found. (forget the exact error message). Any ideas?

On a similar but separate note, I found out that when I configured my asus p5a bios to have the drives operate in RAID mode instead of IDE, the osx installer would hang on "waiting for root device."

Anyways if anyone has gotten the software raid to work on the boot drive I would really appreciate learning how. Thanks!

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zybercynic 1210627709|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Installed Leo4AllV3 successfully, but due to the limitations of the X300 video card, I've purchased a new video card - a Geforce 7300GT

When do I load the drivers? Before or after the card is installed?
Will this clobber my existing system?

Appreciate any help.

Tom.

---

Dell Dimension 8400
P4 3200 HT
2gb Ram

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zybercynic 1210709042|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Found my solution — loaded nvinject and drivers before installing card, booted, recognized without problem, card is an excellent buy.

Newegg special on Zotac 7300 GT 256Mb - $19.99 (29.99 less 10 rebate) - I bought two.

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nunoxyz 1210955780|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Install runs ok, but when starts up freezes just after: MAC Framework Inicialized……..

Re: leo install problem

Kassew 1211058301|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, when i boot with leo, i get 5 msg
…
…
..
..
Loading HFS+ file: [/System/Library/Extensions.mkext] from 422d690
After this my PC restart So i cant install osx. How to fix it or is my Computer not supported?
Can i install Tiger or something other mac osx that will work? PLS Help

My Computer:
Intel Pentium 4, 2666 MHz (SSE2)
Motherboard: ASRock P4i65G, chip:Intel Springdale-G i865G
GFX: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X (128 MB)
IDE Controller: Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers, Drive :ST3120023A (120 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

BORODA 1211220047|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hello.
I've installed Leo4All successfully. Works pretty nice and quick except one stupid thing.
When i load system without any options (just press enter) mouse is not working (PS2).
If i start with -f (force kext reload) all starts normal and mouse is working.
What could this problem come from?
I have Gigabyte Motherboard (GA-G33M-DS2R/S2)
Core 2 Quad Processor
2 GB Ram
GeForce 7600GS

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asoftlad 1211221296|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

you didn't state which version of leo4all you're using. The PS2 issue has been resolved in v3.

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BORODA 1211224582|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

10.5.2 is version 3 i think but the problem is still here.
May be some kext to replace or something.
I've downloaded it about 3 weeks (or may be less) ago… After a post on insanelymac. Just was no time to install.
And disk utility shows lots of warning like this:

Group differs on "usr/bin/su", should be 0, group is 80.
Warning: SUID file "usr/bin/su" has been modified and will not be repaired.

#Edit: Yes i think i'm using v2 instead of v3 because i don't have drivers for Intel OnBoard video in installation options.
I'm downloading v3 right now.

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Re: Beginners: Ask here first

BORODA 1211382915|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Installed version 3. All works like charm. Thanks for good distro.
Only 1 question.
How to enable apple logo while booting?
NVM. Fixed. Edited com.apple.boot.plist…

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fleeps 1211791121|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

installed V3 on hp nx6310 laptop. works well, but has a couple of small problems. There's no battery meter (tried replacing PowerManagement.bundle), fan is always running full speed, dvd drive isn't working.
Any ideas?

Stuck on Reboot after Leo4all v3 install

Mathur17 1212089243|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,
I have just intalled leo4all v3. When I reboot, I get stuck at a screen which says:
AppleBCM5751Ethernet: 1 1659 setPowerLevels-returning early, have 5721. onoff=, fPiDeviceId=
[ All the above in a single line]

I also have a screen shot but im not sure where to post it.
Please can you help me.
Thanks very much!

Re: Stuck on Reboot after Leo4all v3 install

Mathur17 1212251970|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,
I found a solution to the above problem by playing around with my BIOS settings. If you disable PCI from the BIOS settings, the error message should stop.

Hope this helps anyone else who experienced a similar problem!
Thanks for all your support!

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timmy2960 1212113383|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I'm using leo4all v2 and I'm in the installer.

I formatted a 20gB partition for Mac.

But. I installed Windows Vista first.

Should I do anything in Windows Vista before I install mac?

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Re: Beginners: Ask here first

Mathur17 1212254093|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,
I am currently stuck at a screen which ends in the following:

NTFS volume name , version 3.1
NTFS volume name Local Disk, version 3.1.

Can you please help me.
Thanks very muhc in advance
p.s. I have a screenshot but no idea how to post it!

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supershane4141 1212500260|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

i cant get though the installation of leo4all. it keeps restarting after the countdown timer,

i have a
P4 1.7Ghz
384mb ram
AC'97 Audio
nVidia 256MB GeForce FX 5500
Foxconn motherboard
SiS chipset

please help, what should i do?

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shame2 1212545355|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

hi I've installed v3 and everything works perfect but ps2 keyboard
mobo: asus a8n sli
keyboard(ps2) mouse(usb)
The funny thing is keyboard is working in single user mode
so when the boot screen comes up the keyboard is alive and
when it get in to graphic mode the keyboard suddenly dead.
Any Idea?

Re: Beginners: Ask here first

shame2 1212554425|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

ps2 keyboard now working
by removing ApplePS2mouse.kext and ApplePS2Trackball.kext
cheers
Thnx for your work

Asrock 775i65G

fyrekrig 1212719047|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi

Trying to install Leo4all3 but so far unsuccessfull.

I have used Sambarans post http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=96805 to create an account but still stops short of booting.
Have disabled all US