Comments on: How To Dual Boot Ubuntu Gutsy And Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.1

By: gjvh

gjvh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:33 +0000

A note reminding people that installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware is a violation of the license agreement would be in order. Also, downloading this Apple install DVD image is stealing; the very least you could do is nudge people to purchase 10.5.

By: Jamin browns

Jamin browns — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:37:02 +0000

Thanks. I owe you one. I spent the past 2 days trying to figure out how to triple boot Linux, OSX, and Windows using Grub. You’re a bonafide hero.

By: dannyt

dannyt — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:27:20 +0000

i thought you were using a mac machine then installing ubuntu could you pleae write a guide on doing that

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By: Tharuler

Tharuler — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:46:07 +0000

Trying this with iAtkos v7, but usually getting error 12 in grub… Any help?

By: Trugis

Trugis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:46:24 +0000

I think i do have an idea. I tried the installation on two different computers. The first one had a gray screen like yours, ( actually if you wanna know something more about the errors occurred you should press F8 while the dvd is booting and start the installation verberose mode writing “boot: -v” ) the second one started without problems. I guess its a compatibility problem because the first computer runs on a pentium 4, the second on an intel core2duo. You should check your cpu compatibility with the mac os version you got.
Sorry for my bad english, i’m italian too XD.
Good luck

By: n2turtles

n2turtles — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:27:09 +0000

Hi,

When I boot on the DVD, after a while I’ve this nice screen :
http://www.liliputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/s10-os-x.jpg
but nothing happen

an idea ?

thanks

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:24:07 +0000

It is not necessary to wipe out the entire hard drive, but you need to cater a blank partition formatted in the FAT32 format. The best tool is Gparted. If the one found in the Ubuntu Live CD doesn’t work, you might want to download the standalone Live CD from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:17:27 +0000

I have the same problem as Jerry, is there a way to install Mac OS without whipping out the entire harddrive?

in Disk Utility I get:
“Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 000000″
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed

It seems that it cant mount the drive properly. Is there a way to fix this partition (everything was done according to this tutorial)

Thanks!

By: P.

P. — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:26:39 +0000

Hi Jerry, et al.

I had the same problem, but solved it by partitioning everything with the newest version of GParted:

0. Back everything up (no really, you need to partition the whole drive.)

1. Burn the current stable GParted Live CD from
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

2. Reboot with the GParted CD and Delete all the partitions, then format at hfs+. (The newest version of GParted can read and create hfs+.)

3. Resize this to 22 GB or whatever you want your Leopard partition to be.

4. Make the second partition ext2 and install ubuntu there. Once ubuntu is up and running again, you can then start with the instructions from #18.

Thanks to everyone and best of luck. -p

By: CR

CR — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:31:36 +0000

May be a useless comment but pc_efi_v80.tar.bz2 size is “209567″ bytes and its CRC is “164FAA46″.

And I could safely skip the step “First Login to MacOS” to boot with CD-ROM again for booting in the OS after it was installed, and I just installed the EFI boot on grub directly.

I had a really big issue with my partitions, the instalation decided to just unsassociate one of my partitions (the most important one) and it went 200 gb unalocated. I could fix it with TestDisk on ubuntu and those steps: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p21.html#Recovering_a_Lost_Partition_With_

I didn’t even needed to get hfs on my ubuntu 8.10, it already worked.

Thanks a lot for this how to!

By: CR

CR — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:36:11 +0000

pc_efi_v80.tar.bz2 has 209567 bytes, if anyone is wondering.

This “how to” worked perfectly for me! unfortunelly my laptop (MSI MS-163A, not wind) wasn’t 100% compatible… both network (some kind of gigabit ethernet) and wifi (seems to be an intel 3945) cards are not working. I’m trying to resolve the issue, but I’m afraid it might not be so simple, or even possible yet. AirPort isn’t even visible, while Ethernet is there, but it just doesn’t work.

I didn’t need to boot macos with my kalyway DVD, which came ready for AMD (although I got intel) and Mac OS X 10.5.2, so I just skiped that step and went directly to the simple configuration of EFI on grub boot.

After that I got into macOS and could see (almost) everything working nice. Bad luck for me, I suppose. :P

I’ll update here if I manage to make it work to say how, while I expect someone might help me with some more info.

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:35:14 +0000

The method is exactly the same. I am currently running Ubuntu 9.04 with iAtkos OSX 10.5.5, using the exact same method described above.

By: Rizzen

Rizzen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:02:26 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for this tuto.
I was wondering what has changed with the actual version of ubuntu (8.10, soon 9.04) and iatkos (5i) ?
I saw here (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=103480) that the grub menu.lst entry has change
Have some people tried with an later version.
Is the procedure the same ? simplified ?

thanks

By: still_confused

still_confused — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:44:48 +0000

@Niels: I also got the “com.apple.Boot.SList” error (installing Leo4Allv3 on an Intel D915GAG motherboard with a SATA HD and two IDE optical drives). I resolved the problem by removing the slave optical, and changing the jumper setting on the master optical drive from “Cable Select” to “Master”. I was then able to boot from the install DVD and install.

By: Niels

Niels — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:26:45 +0000

I’m using iatkos 5i
I really don’t know that md5 checksum you’re talking anout :’D

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:58:54 +0000

Did you verify the md5 checksum of your Mac iso file? Are you using iatkos or others?

By: Niels

Niels — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:27:03 +0000

Please help me!
I made it to the installation, thank you very much! But after that the computer restarted, it boots from the dvd and i get the message “system config file ‘ com.apple.boot.slist’ not found”
I can still boot into linux, so that’s no problem.
But please help!

By: Davide

Davide — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:27:54 +0000

read the instructions carefully… i had the same problem…

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