Hi all,
Been trying to get this up and working on an old laptop of mine. AMD 64 mobile 3200+, ati 9600 mobile radeon, with via ide chipsets (I believe), and a broadcom wifi card. I have been trying to get any version of leo4all to work and here are my issues.

Leo4all v2 . Gets to the install and starts to install fine. After install I reboot and the machine halts on startup (when loading the gui). I forgot to write down exactly where it stops but in any cases it fails to recogonize my video card or my broadcom wifi.

Leo4all v3. Starts to install but then has an issue with the dvd (tried 2 different ones burned by two different programs at the slowest speed and varified). The installer does however find my wifi and sees my video card as a 9600 (with vesa driver I think)

Leo4all v4.1 - wont even let me into the installer. I get a:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A9387) Kernel trap at 0x16c74dbc, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b CR2: blah blah blah.....
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Error code: 0x00000000

Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace, Format ß Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x16fe7a28 : 0x120e1 (0x457a2c 0x16fe7a5c 0x1332a3 0x0)
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Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.AppleACPIPCI(1.0.3)@0x1b2b1000->0x1b2b3fff
some dependencies are listed here with ACPIP stuff
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Sat Nov 17 2007; made by ToH

And then it freezes........

Any help on what I should be doing to do this correctly? I have tried with the -v -f -s but it doesnt change the output of the last screen. Always a kernel panic.


Thanks for any help.

I particularly don't like the 4.1 series as it has had the most problems with my system... I recommend you continue with the v3 and boot into the installer using the -f -x -v (forced safe verbose mode). Forced loading because so many .mkext files aren't set up to recognize all the extensions necessary, safe mode because you don't need all the other peripherals when installing, and verbose (again to see what is going on with your system at boot time).

I recommend customizing your install to a minimum (we can get the packages needed to further set up other components later right off the install DVD... but for now we just want a working install, right?) so I would only set up my chipset for now. For this, you can actually select all of them (except for only one Nforce) and the system will recognize what chipset you have (if it is supported... we don't know what it is right off the bat anyways).

When you are finished installing, leave the install DVD in the drive and reboot. Allow it to countdown through the timer and then it will automatically boot up your hard drive (this is to ensure the bootloader will run correctly). I recommend installing chameleon right away after you've booted up to ensure the support you'll need for later upgrades/updates.

Questions, Comments... ask away... but remember to include as many details about
1. your system
2. your customized install
3. the problem as seen in either the console or while booting in verbose mode
4. what you've tried to do to fix the issue.

Also, how did you partition your hard drive in disk utility? What Partition scheme did you end up using?

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Thanks for the info. My dvd drive is hit or miss. I sometimes have no trouble with install cds/dvds and sometimes can't even boot to them. But I will try 3.0

I have partitioned with 20gb OSX, 20gb Windows XP pro (ntfs), 17gb Ubuntu/backtrack 3.0 (fat32 logical) and 800mb linux swap on the logical partition. I was wondering, the osx partition manager kept messing up my partition tables and made me loose all my old partitions and even then created overlapping partitions. Am I going to be able to install without a problem if I used gparted to partition and just reformat the 1st partition?

Ok, so I installed v2 and at the boot loader I did -f -x -v. Here is the last few lines before it halts:

Failed to load extension org.tgwbd.driver.ACPIPS2NUB
IOPCCardBridge::start failed
FireWire(OHCI) Vendor ID 1106 ID 3044 PCI now active,...... ....
wl0: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller
4.170.46.5Got boot device = ......
BSD root: disk0s1, major 14, minor 4
jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 6363648 to: 7094272 (joffset 0x9f000)
jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.
Jettisoning kernel linker.
CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=21[loginwindows] clearing CS_VALID
unknown SIGSEGV code 0


the ... means there is more info but really long and I dont think relevant.

Any ideas?

i am having the exact same problem. its really weird, what kind of processor do you have? Intel or AMD?

UPDATE:

i checked the Leo4All site and it addresses this issue. here is what it says:

it seems as if Nvida drivers are causing the problem, and my device has an Nvidia card. the only odd thing is that i didn't install any Nvidia drivers, but i will check anyway

yeah. thats a commom problem... do what the instructions said as far as removing the specified kexts ... then boot up and either install the proper injects or EFI strings... it has been a problem with the included kexts with a perfectly good workaround.

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at the darwin prompt it will not let me use boot options. when i try to boot into single user mode it just skips the shell and goes directly to boot with GUI. this even happens with verbose. i'm going to download v3 and see how that works out. my download speed is extremely slow though, so i'll have to get back at a later time.

I was unable to get around this. I have an ATI graphics card (ATI mobile 9600) and I had removed the drivers for nvidia, ati, and the other group. I then tried to install leo4all v3. I finally got it installed, customized the packages that would install (no video selected) but not when it restarts it hangs at waiting for device. So I use the platform=X86PC or platform=ACPI and it goes through. Only to hang at the "system model name=Shadowk8". As cool as my computer being known as the shadow is, I would rather have a cool OS X boot..... Any help? None of the other boot options get me past this (-x -v -f -c -s)

How did you customize in the installer? since the card works just fine using the install DVD, I'm assuming that something else may have been overlooked. Try installing with only the bare essentials, then removing those kexts via -s upon initial boot. you may also want to set the root password then "touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone" to make sure you don't have the reoccurring network loop at account creation.

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