leopard

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I also tried to install Leopard onto my machine running an AMD 5600+ and got as far as Yams. I tried a few different install methods - native and dding a vmware image. It was pretty much futile because I was trying to install onto a SATA drive on an nForce5 motherboard. I needed patched kexts for my SATA controller and I'm pretty sure nForce5 is still unsupported.

My vmware install booted nicely though. It just runs like crap. The install time was the same for native and vmware (kept hanging because of SATA in native) when native worked.

Were you able to dd the image to a partition of your choice? I went the native route and downloaded BrazilMac's Leopard image from demonoid. I then post-patched the kexts from the latest release from a few days ago. Everything went fine up to that point. I just wish I could get my video card recognized. It's a Quadro FX 570M which is the exact same card as the 8600GT GDDR3 found in the Macbook Pro. It might be a simple edit of the kext for all I know, but after spending all afternoon Thursday trying to get it to work I gave up.

Were you running in AHCI or compatibility mode?

Reading my post, I wasn't that clear on what worked and what didn't. The vmware install that "booted nicely" only booted in vmware. That's where it ran like crap. I never really expected that to work, because the VM I installed onto wasn't anything like my actual machine.

I was able to dd it to any partition and grub was able to chain load it (so Darwin was working fine), but (I think) since my SATA controller isn't completely supported in the patchsets yet it would only boot into single-user mode. I wasn't able to mount any volumes read-write, so I wasn't able to patch the nForce4 kext with my old motherboard, and I wasn't able to find any way to get nForce5 working at all (I didn't search that hard yet though). I definitely had no trouble with my graphics cards though. I tried a 6600GT and a 7950GT.