1. Iatkos Snow Leopard

I'll post a tut soon so you can do it yourself. P.S.srry for the flickering(i hate hypercam) P.P.S. Im also currently. HP Mini 1000 FULL Install w/ iATKOS v7 10.5.7 Fully Working! This is a complete guide to installing iATKOS v7 if you follow this guide 100% you will have a fully working pretty much out of the box install of OS X 10.5.7 =). A detail steps to insatll iATKOS v7 in VMware Workstation v6.5.3. My PC is Intel. As the MD5 for the ISO image of 'iATKOS v7 DVD 10.5.7.for Intel.AMD' I got is. Install from: select 'Installer disc image file' browse or enter your iso path like 'D: OSX86 iATKOS_v7.iso' click 'Next' 4. Guest operating system.

First You need VMware Go to. Then enter in your serial to get it active. Heres an example of what they look like, best to get your own.

Recently, I installed Mac OS X (OSx86 Project) on My HP Laptop. It took me 24 hours to experiment witha ll possible procedures and install.

Most of the guides available on the wikis and blogs are complex, in-accurate. I Promise to keep this one easy and effective. I`ll try my best to answer questions in the blog itself, Still, feel free to ask questions. Looking for Snow Leopard by (taranfx)? Here is another New and easy: or Before you Begin There are Several Flavours of available. Few of the popular ones are: iPC, iATKOS, Kalyway, iDeneb etc.

None of these is perfect, but as time passes, they approach perfection. IPC is the most advanced you can get, keeping into consideration that it supports largest database of hardware, followed by Kalyway, iDeneb and others. Most Important thing you should check for is your Hardware compatibility List (HCL) on.

If you have any doubts, you can get them cleared Steps to install: 1. Download OSx86 10.5.x. Go to your favorite torrent site and Download 10.5.x of your favorite flavor among the listed ones. Latest version is 10.5.7. Though 10.5.6 is also a fair deal.

Burn the downloaded “.ISO” file to DVD using PowerISO / MagicISO or any other burning software. Create Partition, preparing Disk: In windows 7 or vista, Right click My computer Manage, click Disk Management.

Here create a primary partition with minimum 8GB space, though recommended is 15GB. There is no need to format this partition. After Partition is created, right click Mark Partition as Active. Burn the OSX86 ISO that you downloaded from torrents on to a DVD and reboot with Boot from DVD. Now you should see Darwin load screen.

Booting and starting Installation As countdown from 10 starts, press F8 key and you will be able to have some more option’s. Now type -v and press enter now entered in VERBOSE mode, this will enable you to see any errors if they occur. In case your screen freezes for more than 10 minutes than note last lines and google them to find out a solution for your problem.

If every thing goes fine after 15-30 minutes installation screen appear’s hold your breath we are not quit yet here. Alternatively, to skip the booting errors, you can try these parameters on Boot: prompt -cpus=1, -cpus=2. Configuring Installation After boot, you enter the Graphical interface and you should be able to see a top menu. From the menu Click Utilities Disk Utility.

Here, select the destination drive where you want to install Mac OSX. This will be the same partition we created earlier in step 1. Now click on ERASE on right hand side and under the format option select “ MAC OSX Journaled Extended” and click Erase.

The disk will be erased and mounted. Close the disk utility and agree to the terms and conditions, then select the partition which you erased recently. Customize the Install The most important part is this step. Now, choose wisely what all components you need to support your running hardware.

Browse at Navigate to the HARDWARE section and choose your version(10.5.x) and computer type (Portable/Desktop). This page should give sample hardware examples that people have tested, and modules they have selected. If you have doubts, you can check the forums. For most of the INTEL based systems Vanilla Kernel works very smoothly & for AMD system try Voodoo kernel. It is recommended to remove all the extra unnecessary languages as they take up about 2 gigs. Also, dont add extra Drivers (.KEXTS) which might cause conflicts. If You have NVIDIA geforce on your laptop, you should select NVDarwin from the “Graphics” section, not all.

Hit Ok when you are convinced! Checking the disk and Installation of System files Now your disk(DVD) will be checked for consistency, then, installation begins. It will take 20-45 minutes as per your hardware juice. After the installation is over, it will ask for a reboot. Remove the DVD after it has rebooted. You should be able to automatically boot into OS X at this time.

Setting up the Boot Loader Now that OS X is all working, we have to make the previous installation of Windows 7 or Vista to work. For this, I`ll use the Windows boot loader rather than chameleon boot loader built-in to OS X. This helps you prevent re-fixing MAC OS installation when you re-install windows at some time in future.

Put in your windows 7 or Vista disk, and boot from it. When installation starts, it prompts for “Recovery”. Select the recovery option. On you will be prompted to choose tools available for recovery. Select “command-line”.

DISKPART list disk // displays the available HDD DISKPART select disk n // select the disk which has windows installation DISKPART list partition // list partitions on the selected disk DISKPART select partition n // select the partition number where windows was previously installed. DISKPART active //sets partition active DISKPART exit REBOOT.

Now your vista /windows 7 should boot, If it doesn’t try this: Boot with installation disk into windows setup, choose recovery again, and select automated recovery of boot area. Windows should fix the boot automatically, then click Fix and reboot button. Adding MAC to the Boot menu via Windows: Boot into windows normally and download EasyBCD from google. Open it, click “Add/Remove entries” navigate to “Mac”. Select Type in the dropdown to “Generic x86 Pc” and give some name in the text box below. This name will appear in your boot screen. Click “SAVE” when done and REBOOT.

There is no Step 9. You should be able to boot into booth MAC OSX Leopard and Windows without any issues. Enjoy the wonderful world of MAC! Note: If you need any assistance or have any doubt, you can get in touch with us. Don’t hesitate. What’s Next –.

If you liked the post, Spread the word and help other fellow friends in making their life easier, Retweet Or Digg the Topic. In Future we`ll post on how to fix things inside OSX86 like wireless and other USB issues. So subscribe to us below: We write latest and greatest in, Latest in Tech, subscribe to us OR on. Hello everyone, I am struggling and am unable to install hackintosh 🙁 first my hardware is: Asus motherboard supporting x45 ATI Radeon HD 4800 crossfire x2 videocard – intel if I am not mistaken/ (I am not really a hardware person) 4 GB of RAM 1 GB of Video.

I tried 2 images – first didnt even try to load so the second 1 did loaded. Problem is though the following.

Either freezes on AppleDecrypt: Starting or it freezes on some kernel messages. Without Verbose mode freezes on white screen with Apple logo in the middle. I tried to google here and there what to do and the best solution is to make a USB from a real Mac which if I had I wouldnt go through all this trouble to get a Hackintosh.

Changing BIOS gets me nowhere as it doesnt save any changes I make to it + I am scared I might screw up my computer – as I said I dont understand anything there. Is there any way to install a Hackintosh as if it were a Win? Easy install for dummies like myself? Thanks a lot and gratz on the blogs indeed wonderfull if only I understood more 😉. Hi and thanks for the guide Nice job. I have a problem tho I have windows 7 installed, did the partition part and I’m trying to install OSX from a retail DVD.

I used the Boot cd, and replace with retail OSX method, and everything works fine on the testing (-v) part. I see the white screen with apple logo and get into the background screen with stars and purple ligt and get the colourfull beach ball spinning.

And it just sits like that. Tried to leave it for hour and a half and it just keeps spining Can anyone please help me to get to the next step?!?! I have laptop with: Core 2 Duo P9500 Intel PM45 ICH9-M 4GB DDR2 ram 9650 GTM graphics card with 512 MB GDDR3 ram 250 GB HD 7200 rpm.

@Repititor Its not possible to install Mac from the Original retail disc. Infact, it had been that easy, OSx86 project would have never come into existance. Actually, what happens in Osx86 project is, it has MODIFIED kernel that let’s you support all your x86 systems with Mac os. ALSO, it installs certain drivers (.Kexts) which are required to support your chipset, graphics and processor coz the hardware on macbook pro is pretty different when it comes to type of chipset, graphics it uses. Forget that retail dvd, download a osx86 project. Taranfx, Boot 132 method has allowed for retail installation for some time now. In fact, There is only 1 Modified install disk in existence (that I know of) at this point for Snow Leo.

Retail install can easily be achieved even with Pentium D/AMD Systems. And if you have a core 2, duo Core or Quad core YOU DO NOT NEED A MODIFIED KERNEL YOU CAN USE THE EXACT SAME KERNEL IN A REAL MAC.

True, Pentium 4, D, celeron, AMD and a few others need a modified kernel, but not today's Processors. Modified/Custom Kexts are needed to address some motherboard quirks/unsupported devices (network, Graphics mainly), But the HARDWARE IS NOT SO DIFFERENT, IT”S THE FIRMWARE.

Macbook Pro's use the same INTEL CHIPSETS, ATI OR NVIDIA Graphics and very similar components. Enough so to allow for retail installs even with 10.5 as of late. Just Google “Retail Install OS X” or “BOOT 132 OS X” or “USB Retail Install OS X”. And quit spreading misinformation. @Repititor – DO BUY A RETAIL INSTALL DISK AND SUPPORT APPLE's SUPERIOR OPERATING SYSTEM, EVEN IF YOUR NOT GOING TO BUY A MAC. How do i create a new partition? Im trying to make a duel boot up so i can have windows and mac on my Dell insiron 1525, but the problem is when i try to make a new primary partition by shrinking my OS (C:) I shank it by 8192 8gs then i waited for it to finish and when it did it said “unallocated” and idk what im suppose to do?

I tryed expanding it and trying over but it didnt work and i have a 212 gs left so i know i have room for it wht should i do? Here is a link to the web site of what i want to do read it and help im on step #2.

21 hours ago. – 3 days left to answer. Additional Details yes and also when i try to fromat it it says “you cant creat a new volume in this unallocated space bc the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions ” and the link some one gave me is wrong it dont take me any were 21 hours ago. @Shakul It shouldn’t be a hardware issue, so your vendor will do nothing but reinstall vista or something. May be you should start over with win 7 and then mac os. @nil911 There’s no way to convert one OS to another.

You seem to be new to computers, I would not recommend you to straightaway follow this. Get some person whose good at computers, show him this guide, it would be all fine. In case you want to proceed, Upgrade to win 7, then try this, since Mac os dual boot works best with vista, 7. @anant sent @awesomeguy The torrent has an ISO file.

Use Power-ISO or equivalent software to burn DVD. OSx86 ISO image is around 3GB meant for only DVDs.

Hey there, I have studied this guide of yours. I have downloaded kalyway 10.5.2 from torrent site. Here’s the situation, the first thing that i did when i downloaded kalyway is extract the ISO and burned it to a DVD disc, but i just read in a post here that i should’ve burnt the ISO directly. Okay so i did, but when i tried to boot from DVD, nothing happens! Just a flashing cursor at the topleft corner, after a few seconds, it continues to boot into my original OS. Same thing with the ISO burnt directly, but this time there were a bunch of numbers and two letters “RE” 3rd line.

The first two lines were these if i remember correctly!5455554 RE There, it just freezes and nothing happens. What’s wrong???? Ok, I’m using iAtkos v7. I press the F8 key and go into verbose mode and everything seems to go fine up until about the middle of the screen where the scrolling text just stops and my computer restarts real quickly. If I just skip the F8 and -v commands and just hit any key to continue, text starts scrolling, then I get a screen with smaller white text on a black background for a second, then I see the white apple logo screen really quickly and then my computer restarts.

I’m very sure this can be done with my hardware, but what else could be my problem? Thanks for such a helpful guide by the way! HP Pavilion Elite m9040n Asus Berkeley IPIBL-LA motherboard 3gb RAM Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @2.40ghz. @Nil911 try this – Use the cpus=1 flag and turn off some things in the BIOS.USB Legacy Support Disabled, Execute Disabled bit Enabled, Max CPUiD Value Limit Disabled I`ll mail you the link for kalyway @ProbsterZ 900M will go fine with Kalyway. I`ll mail the download link to you aswell.

@Tegs There could be 2 reasons. 1.You didn’t burn iso properly using tool like PowerISO, MagicISO. You don’t have “Boot from CD/DVD” enabled in your BIOS. Do that and change the Boot priority giving highest precedence to CD/DVD. You should be able to boot.

@kbuman Ok, you have a AMD Phenom. I’ve installed once on a quad-core phenom using a OSx86 distro called “LawlessPPC-Leo-10.5.4-Phenom&AMD”. Search for “Lawlessppc” on google you should get it somewhere. @Grayson I’m really sorry but I’m clueless. Till I see a message that quotes certain error, It’s hard to predict what went wrong. Did you install a new driver or something recently? Try booting in safe mode and fixing things up- Here’s how you can boot into Safe mode- use “-x” at the boot prompt @Raj Dell d630 has Intel 3945ABG, You can try the experimental wireless project-, but this might crash Mac from booting next time as well.

Install at your own risk. If it crashes, boot into safe mode and remove the driver. Hi Taranfx, ur blog is awesome. I have problem similar to (just copied below ur suggestion fron one of your replies:) @Nil911 try this – Use the cpus=1 flag and turn off some things in the BIOS.USB Legacy Support Disabled, Execute Disabled bit Enabled, Max CPUiD Value Limit Disabled i tried cpus=1 also cpus=2, also both, also just -v in command prompt with USB Legacy Support Disabled in bios but still getting dead end.

Also i couldn't find this options in bios: Execute Disabled bit Enabled, Max CPUiD Value Limit Disabled though cPUiD was mentioned but i wasnot able to change it or even cant click on tht in bios. I am getting last message as: ——————————— Backtrace terminated – invalid frame pointer 0 BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernaltask Mac OS version: Not yet set Kernal version: Darwin Kernal Version 9.4.0: Mon jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.201/RELEASEI386 System model name: Studio 1555 (0D176M) ——– it stops after the above message. I am using MAC OSX 10.6 installing on Dell studio laptop. (4gb ram, 250 gb hdd,) with win 7 pre installed. Actually my friend has helped me installling this before and we succeded but since i gave less space to mac os, i have to reformat n install. Now i m stuck up and even m friend is clueless.

Hey taran thanks so much for help so far. And hopefuly i will stop bugging you as my issue get resolved thos time aroound. As i completed instillation, i ran into yet another problem, when i restart without installation cd.my computer starts booting mac but it get stuck at white screen, so i tried running it in -f mode and same problem. Then i tried to run it in -v mode to see the problem and i says still waiting for root device.

It showed that messeage 10 times as i waited for 15 mins, hopefully there is solution please help asap. @anant it’s possible that “Active Boot Partition” isn’t pointing to the right place on your PC. If that’s the case, give this a shot: EasyBCD Change Settings Select the Mac entry. Change the drive from “BOOT” to C: Save @carlos @arron sending you an email with link @suman when you download osx86, its in.iso format, andu have to use a software like PowerISO to burn to a DVD. If you ahve already done that, it’s show time, boot from dvd. @Alex I’m afraid, it doesn’t yet work on USB drives (externals) though SCSI/RAID builtin is supported. @nil911 Did you mean its laptop keyboard and usb mouse.

USB mouse should work if its attached before boot, by default usb peripherals are not detected after boot. I want to ask one thing i have two hard disk one is sata 250gb another is 160gb on ide. On 160gb i have 4 partition two primary rest logical one primary for vista nd one primary for windows 7. And now i want to install osx on 250gb hard disk which have 6 partition 3 primary and 3 logical. I want to install osx on one logical drive.

So can i do it. And what will be the disk no and what would be partition number. And is there anything else i should do. Thanks in advance.

And i more thing i downloaded iatkos 10.5.6. And my hardware is dual core 2.0ghz 2gb ram intel dg31pr mother board nvidia 9800gt 512mb with cuda and sli so for drivers should i go for voodoo or vanilla. And initially vista is on active partition so after sholud i make this active again or window 7. Please help i am a lot confused.

Hi taranfax, Below is my system detail. Currently I have Windows XP installed.

Microprocessor 1.6 GHz Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology featuring Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5200 Microprocessor Cache 2MB L2 Cache Memory 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm) Memory Max 2048MB Video Graphics Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video Memory up to 128MB (shared) Hard Drive 120GB 5400RPM (SATA) I am interested in Iphone apps dev. Will the steps provided by you work for me. Or should I Follow different set of operation since I have XP running on my system. What is the torrent site you used? That would be very helpful. Will the torrent contain the details on how the image has to be written?

Eagerly expecting you reply. Thanks In aDvance 🙂.

@HR Ofcourse Dell 1501 is supported. I guess you did something wrong over creating partition and setting it active. May be you set active a non-required partition. What error you get?

@PCtoMACDUMME Reboot with boot from CD/DVD set in BIOS, then follow the guide. @kiran I think while installing, you selected two kernels. Like vanilla + some other. You should make sure, you select only one. @Michael David Simmons welcome @zoolo I guess I`ll need the detailed error message, before i can answer that. @Cye Appreciate that. @Soccerkidguy There is no C or D on MAC, you will have delete D and create new Mac Journaled Drive.

How basic is your hardware? Least I ever installed on PC was 1.5Ghz Atom Netbook (single core), low cache CPU with 1 GB RAM. More answers soon. @soccerkid yes, theres no other way I can think of. @Sal Latest Mac? That would be snow leopard. Covered in the other guide.

Search for “Snow leopard” on this page. But it’s a guide not download links.

I regret for that, we don’t put piracy studf here. @Zoolo Win 7 is out. Look for “windows 7 rtm” on torrents. You will get it. Thats a quad core.

It would work with inbuilt KEXTs but @Juan Luis Your CPU is supported out of the box, but very sure of your Motherboard. Give it a shot with “iDeneb”. @Jeremy Wayne That’s easy. Follow step1. I updated it. Let me know if any issues. Hi,I read the article and what I don’t clearly understand is that what do I do at the command line.

Just type every line you posted at there? DISKPART list disk // displays the available HDD DISKPART select disk n // select the disk which has windows installation DISKPART list partition // list partitions on the selected disk DISKPART select partition n // select the partition number where windows was previously installed. DISKPART active //sets partition active DISKPART exit please!help me.thank u the genius! I have the next problem. After I installed the osx I get the next error.

I boot and only get a white screen with the apple logo on the middle. I reboot and type -v and this is the error I get: mac framework successfully initialized using 14417 buffer headers and 4096 cluster 10 buffers. I used iDeneb v1.3 (10.5.5). My pc: cpu: intel q6600, motherboard: asus p5ql-pro, gpu: asus 4850, hdd: 640 gb WD caviar blue edition.

I tried all the versions of the osxkailway.ipc.iatkos but iDebeb was the only one that would get installed. @davide iPC would be good. And regarding your Ethernet NIC, I`ll be honest- Since it has been hard to support on windows, it would be even harder to find on Mac. But I believe your Ethernet chipset should be RTL1000. If yes, it’s supported, iPC, Kalyway comes with this KEXT driver! @Jeremy Wayne You are running into a gneeric Kernel Panic.

This could be anything among RAM, HDD ATA issues. I recommend checking these resources: @Gurvinder P Singh Try accessing your BIOS during boot (F2 or F10 Key).

Look around for USB options and enable them including “Legacy USB devices”. That might help. @HR 10.5.6 Kalyway or iPC 10.5.6 is latest. Google it or look over thepiratebay @davide Can you give those 3 lines of error? It’s hard to comment without that.

Since it crashes at very early stage, I doubt if it’s some serious compatibility issue. @kojoseph Goto RUN cmd. New command prompt opens.

Type “DISKPART” and enter the prompt changes to “DISKPART” then type those commands and follow instructions for each command towards right side of // @knoxlogi I guess you missed it during install. You had to tickmark the right Intel Ethernet driver. Don’t worry you can Search for the adaptor model “KEXT” in DVD or Google, you should be able to find it. @George Clueless on this. This line is not an error.

@xcrunner509 Is that a Turion? Your NIC is Realtek RTL8139/810x, it’s supported in iPCs, Kalyway. Your audio is Conexant. Did you miss them during customizing your installation? Your wireless will not work directly. You can try the experimental wireless project-, but this might crash Mac from booting next time as well. Install at your own risk.

If it crashes, boot into safe mode and remove the driver. @the Beta Guy Yes you can. I haven’t tried it but this should work. Guide is for Windows installations from USB flash drive, but should work for ANY OS. Hi Taran, Ive read the post but think I still need a little guidance please I just recently lost my beloved quad core mac pro266 in a bushfire. Taranfx, First thank you so much.

This looks awesome and I would love to give it a try. I have a good desktop but it is a bit dated and most of my hardware is not listed in the HCL for 10.6.0 Could you give my hardware a looksy and let me know if you think it would jive. I also havn’t looked at the HCLs of earlier versions, would those be more compatible with my setup?

Thanks Again! Desktop Rig: MSI neo4 Platinum SLI onBoard Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit 3Gigs ram 2x Nvidia 6800 Ultra (trying to get in SLI but so far unsuccesful in Vista x64 or win 7 x64. Could I do this in snow lepoard?) 2x WD 200GB harddrives (would like to have Mac OS installed on these in a Raid 0, possible?) Linksys WMP11 Wireless-B PCI Adapter. I think this article is extremly complicated!! I had Windows XP, FreeBSD and an empty dos partition, now also Ubuntu that seems to be rather perfect for thinkpads, above all the nicenst FreeBSD bootmanager, just F1, F2, F3, no ugly overfeaturism.

You can install it also without FreeBSD, just get the installation CD and boot and go into “patitions”, write w, say yes, go out. Anyway, I installed ideneb 1.5 on that DOS partition and I had to do NOTHING! I could say F3 and behind it the chamaeleon or whatever slightly ugly thing appeared, some animal. I wished I could go directly into MacOSX, but it is not so important. What is much more important is how to read email, Thunderbird, on 4 OS with one profile folder on the NTFS partition. It works, but sometimes it does not. Btw, much better that that famous Windows partition manager from powerquest or whoever: get an Mandriva install CD to shrink your NTSF filesystem, perfect!!!

But in all cases, during installation of a new OS: if you have SATA, run on compatibility mode in your bios or it might trash your partition table. Thanks for all the work you are doing here. I am trying to install dual boot Vista Extreme Edition (Ultimate hacked by Amit ) and MAC OS X on a oldish IBM T43 I have.

I installed Vista pretty smooth. It works fine.

I am following these steps to install MAC OS X. I downloaded the iAtkos v1.0i, wrote to a DVD at minimum possible speed (DVD + R) and now booting on it.

It boots and gives the F8 option and when I press -v it does a series of steps but halts at a point and then just reboots. The last message I can see is this. Iopccardbridge start failed Got boot device. (something) major 14 minor 6 (pauses for some time) syncing disks done killing all processes (reboot) Am I missing something? Is IBM T43 good enough for OSX?

This is the config Intel Pentium M – 1.8 Ghz 2 GB RAM ATI Mobility Radeon X600 – 64MB 60GB SATA HDD. Thanks in advance. When I try to boot to MAC OS X Leopard 10.5.6 (iPC), it gets stuck at the boot loading screen with the Apple and the “Busy” mouse. After a minute or so, a circle with a slash through it appears on the apple and I cannot progress any farther. This is on a desktop that has Windows 7 RC1 7260 on it. Oh and I just realized my problem is probably the same thing as kinchit's. Okay, I realized that I didn't choose my drivers and such But I'm not sure what drivers to pick SPECS: ASUS P5K Pro Motherboard 4 GB G-Skill RAM 1333 Mhz 250 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD 1 GB DDR3 nVidia EVGA 9600 GT Core 2 Duo Processor E8500 3.16 GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB And I got my speakers I had for my old Dell E520, not sure what sound drivers to get though Please help as soon as possible, I'd like to get MAC OS X Leopard soon, as well as upgrading to Snow Leopard soon.

Hello Taran 🙂 My name is Rence, thank you for your post. Well i downloaded 2 macosx86 os, first is the ipc 10.5.7 and the other one is iatkos v5.

I installed both os with no luck well actually it completed the installation, but after booting when i remove the os on the drive it says boot error and when i leave the dvd on the drive it hangs on the apple logo screen. I tried this a couple of times about 10 times, 5 times using ipc and 5 times using iatkos, when that happens i always use startup recovery using windows 7 then i delete the partition where i installed the mac osx86 then i recreate it. Well i have a guess that the drivers that i used in installing is not compatible can you help me with this because i searched forums and the links you provided in this post to no avail, i am installing it to my laptop its a compaq presario v 3000 series, v3532TU to be exact: the specs are (this is from dxdiag): Intel core2 duo cpu t1700 1.8 Ghz ram: 2560 display: mobile intel 965 express chipset family 358 MB Sound: Conextant high definistion smartaudio If you can send me an email for you reply it would be a great help Please help me thank you in advance 🙂. Hey, I tried several things with the custom install in step 5 but nothing seems to work.

After installation on the apple boot screen it shows a stop/error sign after a while and nothing happens after that. I guess I chose something wrong with the custom install, but I don't seem to find what I have to choose to make it work. Maybe you can help me. Just send me a mail so I know your email adres so I can send my hardware info. It's quite a list and I don't know what you need to know about it. Thx in advance. Greatttt Guide!

Easy for newbies! Only thing I have an issue with is my dvd/cd rom drive. I have the SONY CD-RW/DVD-Rom CRX880A and people who have installed uphuck have said that it works out of the box just like their wireless on their Dell Inspiron 1501. I used ideneb v1.3 10.5.6 and my wireless works but my dvd/cd rom doesn't. Do I have to play with bios and change to IDE or SATA or maybe I have to install the driver on the WIndows XP to get it to work on the MAC OS? I am a newbie so sorry about the questions. Hello Taranfx, Hi there.

I need some help here with installing MAC OS X Leopard on my HP Notebook. Its one of the newer notebooks bought about one month ago. Can you check the hardware that I have and let me know if they work well with OS X?

Model: HP G60-535DX Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4300 2.10Ghz (I'm sure all the tests pass for the SSE2 and SSE3 and all this and that because I checked.) Memory: 3GB DDR2. Graphics: Intel 4 Series Graphics. Actual Model number is 4500M. (If it doesn't work, let me know if there's any way to set my resolution to something like 1600×900.) Sound: Connexant Pebble High Definition SmartAudio Touchpad & Keyboard Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller (for Ethernet Wired Internet) Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (doubt it would work) Western Digital 320GB SATA Hard Drive (Working when I installed Mac OS X last time) I actually installed MAC OS X before but I think I messed up at one part so I will try again. However, many of my hardware did not have drivers installed so I had to use external equipment.

Help me outt! OK i have been looking at trying the supremacy of a mac for a while and this seems like the sensible way to do it without committing to spending a fortune. I have followed your 1st step in looking for my laptop in the wiki but i cannot seem to find it.

I have an acer aspire 5735. As it is not in the list does it mean that it will not work or do i just have to check the hcl for all my individual components? I don't want to waste my time and a disk to find it doesn't work. Oh and i'd just like to add that considering you've put all this info up for free i'd like to say i admire you for being so helpful. Hello Taran, I've just gone thru hundreds of posts and finding your's the perfect.Before i say something i want to tell u that i'm a novice to mac OS.Everywhere it is directed to use iATKOS v7 for dell inspiron 1545(i'm using).should i go with iPC.or please send me a torrent link which siuts my lappy best.(3GB DDR2 ram,intel core 2 duo 2.0 GHz).Also under HCL(the link given in your post).it saysto get 1366×768 resolution one need to have a working linux in the system and also to replace the bootloader with GRUB2.PLz help me with that aand plz send me the link of the torrent if possible. Regards Gaurav.

Hey Taranfx, I PMed you but am unsure if I sent to to the right email, so I'm going to post my problem here as well. I was worried about messing up my computer, so I first tested the process on my little brother's hp vista laptop and successfully created a mutliboot system on his vista hp after much trial and error.

But when I tried the process on my laptop, I couldn't make it work. I've tried 11 different “customize” combination, and (with most of them) the install says it is “complete” but when it tires to reboot with the black screen, the last message is see is “syncing disks Killing all processes” then “continuing” and then one more message that i can never read because a moment later the computer is shut off and upon reboot the computer says “boot0:testing” three times and then ERROR.

I have partitioned off half my hard disk because I felt confident in the process and had checked on the wiki and saw that the Sony most similar to mine and their's seems to have to work perfectly. I am worried that my computer is one of those which “will never work,” and will be extremely disappointed if I won't have MacOS and a hard drive that has been cut in half. Any suggestions? More or less. It took me a month and alot of help from the people over at insanelymac.com but now I have a barebones OS X. I can't get the screen resolution right tho, the internet working, the sound working, or the USB drives functioning. Maybe you can try some different drivers and let me know if you manage to get any of those fixed (the internet is the big one).

I ended up using iPC for my install disk. Unfortunetly I'd tried so many times with so many different driver combos that I don't remeber which specific drivers I checked. But basicly to make multiboot work for you your may have to do thinkgs a little differently. After step 6 on this guide your computer will not boot to OS X. It's fine, the OS is still there.

Use your command prompt after your windows boots up to do the command line stuff listed in step 7 (that is how I finally got mine to work.) It will tell you there is an error or that you can't make that drive active, but again, it's fine. Go ahead and use EasyBCD to turn on your new OS and you should be golden-ish. You will be able to multiboot anyway! Please need help,I am Stuck.I clicked on ERASE on right hand side and under the format option selected “MAC OSX Journaled Extended” and click Erased. The disk was erased But MEssage use disc utility to repartition this disc using”GUID partition table” when i tried to go back to window leaving leopard installation on rebooting my laptop Message “missing operating system”.I checked order of boot in BIOS, it is set as cd drive first. I can not even use my recovery cd Same message “missing operating system” PLEASE help. I have a Toshiba Satelite A505-S6960 laptop I have been installing Mac OSX on.

The CPU is Intel Core 2 duo, T6500. There are no examples of MacOSX86 installations in this laptop in the OSX86 Wiki.

The closest I could find were other Satellite Toshiba latops, which all employed iATKOS 10.5.7. I got a copy of iAtKOS 10.5.7 with Chameleon bootloader and installed it on a partition on my hard disk. The install was successful, and the PC boots into Mac, and the other two Windows platforms I have on the PC. In Mac, the Mac OS does not even fully load, before I get the message that Mac does not see my keyboard and the machine freezes right there. It does not see my mouse either, but the touchpad works.

Can you suggest anything to get over this hurdle? Hi Taran, I did exactly as you mentioned, but I failed at Step 4. After Erasing the new active Partition and closing the Disk Usage Window, I do not see any partition in the Destination Locations window and as such I could not move ahead. Please let me know if I did something wrong. Here is from the Log: Disk Utility started. Preparing to erase: “disk1s2” Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record 1 volume will be erased Name: “disk1s2” Size: 24.4 GB Filesystem: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Initialized /dev/rdisk1s2 as a 24 GB HFS Plus volume with a 8192k Journal Mounting disk. Could not mount disk1s2 with name after erase Erase complete.

Hi Dimitri, I had the same problem exactly. After 3 days of repeated trials, I got it fixed on my system. Here is the fix: Initially when you create New Partition in Windows, format it.

Dont' format in NTFS. Select FHS (Apple Mac). In case you cannot find it, download Paragon Partition Manager and format using Partition Manager.

Select FHS format type. Now if you boot the DVD, you will find your new partition. You DO NOT need to erase while installing.

Just select your new partition (shown in Destination Locations) and continue. Hi taranfx firstly thanks about the tipsnow i have iatkos v1.0i and when i start boot from the dvd it boot,but when i press enter to install in only give me a apple logo and it stuck there for a long time.after that i boot again and press f8 and -v it show me: mac frame work successfully initialized using 2621 buffer header and 2621 cluster IO buffer headers extension”com.apple.driver” acpismcplatform plugin” has immediate dependencies on both com. Kernel and com. Kpi components; use only one style and it stuck for very long time.why??can you help me to find the solution? I use dell d505 intel centrino 1.8 ghz ram 512 does my pc support?? Hello I believed put the leopard on my pc! Because they produce sound and taste of course!

Iatkos Snow Leopard

But only occurs in leopard! And I need help! CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E7300@2.66GHz Wolfdale 45nm Technology RAM 3.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 5-5-5-15 332MHz Motherboard ASUS P5QL PRO (LGA775) Graphics LM19V @ 1280×1024 512MB Radeon X1600/X1650 Series Hard Drives 488.39GB WDC Western Digital WD5000AAJS-00YFA0 ATA Device (IDE) Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B ATA Device EBMDS QNW56NKHMJ01 SCSI CDRom Device Audio High Definition Audio Device HELP ME PLEASE. Hi:) Well i was want test Snow Leopard on PC I was watch alot of movies on youtube about that, readed alot of posts on forums and pages, I downoaded many of wird version of Snow Leopard but always same happend: Without -v mode bootload initializing and after like 5sek of loading shows of like 0,5sek Apple screed and restart my pc With -v mode i see 4 lines of loading and after that just restart no time to make any pic or somthing of that its just to quick Sux! Last ver what i tested: SnowOSXUniversal10.6(432)GMv3.5 (others) Mac OSX Snow Leopard v10 6 3-HOTiSO Snow Leopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Intel AMD made by Hazard My configuration – Notebook Samsung R560 (data from Aida32) Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz, 2261 MHz Motherboard: ID SROSA001.86C.0000.D.

From specification is somthing on Intel PM45 Ram: 4096 MB, Samsung DDR3-1066, 2x 2 GB, maks. 4 GB) HDD: WDC WD3200BEVT-35ZCT0 320GB SATA 5400 GPU: Nvidia 9600M GT 512MB DDR3 Lan: Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Wi-Fi: Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 Bios: Phoenix 11/14/08 – 08LA.704/JJC Any one have some ideas whats happend? Or how i can cheak what is wrong?

Would be nice if some one can help me with that 🙂. Hello Tranafx, How are you?

I hope that you're fine Anyways, thanks for these great steps, but I've a big problem that I'm searching for a way to boot OS X from a logical partition, because my notebook (HP Pavillion dv6-1390ev) has a HDD with 500 GB & it's divided to: 200MB System 150GB Win 7 13GB Recovery 300GB My own stuff The first 3 partitions are primary while the last one is extended, now when I searched I discovered that max no. Of partitions is 4 primary without extended, or 3 with extended with any no. Of logical inside this extended one, so the problem now I can't make another primary one & if I convert the logical to primary so I won't be able to make another partition for my stuff, so I'm really looking for a way to install the OS X on logical partition.

This newbie desperately needs some help. I have a Gateway M6827 laptop that I've managed to get both Windows 7 Pro and OSX 10.6.4 on. The drive is divided into two partitions. If I try to boot I get a message saying no operating system is found.

If I boot off of Empire v1.08.5 I'm given the options to open Windows or Mac. Windows boots without a problem, but Mac goes through loading of HFS files and then I have to go through a bunch of stuff loading. I've tried BCDEasy, it doesn't recognize anything.

Disk Management in Windows won't let me change anything. This effort has been going on for 6 weeks now and I'm about to decide to live with it, since I can't get wireless anyway on the Mac. But, any suggestions and help will be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I’ve managed to get OSx86 and Windows 7 Pro on my Gateway M6827. But can’t boot into Mac. To the best of my knowledge I followed the DISKPART commands exactly, but noticed after every entry nothing was displayed that my entry had accomplished anything. I installed Easy BCD 2.0 and was able to set Mac as the default. When I turn on the laptop I get the choice to pick Windows or Mac. If I select Windows it takes me right to it.

If I select Mac it goes to Chameleon with only Windows showing. If I click F8 it shows both OSs. When I click on Mac I’m sent back to the original screen to pick Mac or Windows. I’m so, so close, but not quite there. Any suggestions?

A few notes on improving your odds of a correct and functional install: its best necessary for osx86 is installed at the beginning of a physical disk. IF YOU DONT SEE YOUR DRIVE, SEE STEP 4. You need a MINIMUM of 8gb free drive space, osx as far as i recall comes out at about 6.5gb physical data depending on build, so unless you intend on just staring at the wonders of osx and not having the ability to install actual programs, i'd suggest bumping up your partition size as suggested by the author. OSX can not be installed on, but can read and write to NTFS drives, so if you intend on formatting a new large capacity drive, you can always just set aside 50 or 60gb at the beginning of the drive for OSX, create as mac journaled, and format the rest as NTFS, then you can use that for media (movies, music, data), that is accessable to both a windows, linux or mac environment, thus removing unnecessary redundancy. IF YOU USE THE VOODOO 9.5.0 kernel, remember, you MUST use the seatbelt fix. It is a WONDERFUL IDEA to create a disk image of your correct install using mac's built in backup imaging software, that way, you can insert your install dvd, open “disk utility” and just mount your image of the correctly installed and functioning version of OSX by having mac do its DD to drive.

Make sure this resides on a mac journaled partition, perferably on a partition not attached to your active mac partition. (i have a 20gb partition on the back of my 250gb hdd3, and it's sole purpose is to store a restore image). IF YOU ARE USING PS/2 input devices, please PLEASE use the PS/2 fixes, otherwise you'll have to reinstall, or buy usb HID's. Cheers, and happy Mac'n. Thanks for the great tutorial. I used iAtkos S3 v2 and Windows 7 Pro.

While I understand your reasoning on doing the boot through Windows, I’d much prefer not to see any more DOS screens than possible. As you know iAtkos doesn’t have an Extra folder.

There is an efi folder, with nothing in it. I’ve searched high and low for a solution to get back to a Chameleon boot, but can’t find anything. At least not anything at my novice skill level. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also, is there anyway to change the dull gray screen and even more dull gray Apple on the boot screen? I tried BootxChanger, but it apparently doesn’t work with SL 10.6.5.

Thanks again for any help with these issues. Hello, 1st of all thanks for the guide but i have a problem at step 3,when i type -v i get a few lines then the screen goes black and returns to the booting screen.when i just press enter without typing -v, the screen is loading for a few seconds then a white screen with gray apple on it appear for half a sec then screen goes black and returns to boot screen again.This has been happening to me for like 15-20mins now and i cant access my windows 7 as well, it says “Missing Operating System”.

Im trying to install mac on my laptop and im using my PC at the moment and i cant use my laptop since i cant access the windows. Need a help please. Hi, I have gotten through step 4, erased the partition, and installed the OS, but as far as getting to the HARDWARE section and customizing my hardware I can’t find that anywhere. I have and INTEL based until, it is a Fujitsu Stylistic 5112 tablet with a Core 2 processor. When I did not do this step, it just rebooted and gave me a blank blue screen. Could someone please help me with this step, I have seen on youtube people using these tablets with Mac OS X installed, with the Wacom digitizer pen working and everything, if someone could give me some guidance that would be appreciated.

Thanks so much. Hi there guys, I Followed this tutorial about installing mac osx leopard, using the iPc 10.5.6 version. I managed to install it sucessfully but when i restarted the machine nothing happend and my win 7 started booting. I thought that the mac osx boot wasn’t loading so i downloaded easybcd and added the mac osx boot to my Boot list. When i select the mac osx to boot it loads me the chameleon boot loader with another hard drive selected by default. When i hit F8 i can select my MacOSX to load, when i enter -v and press enter i see some loading Darnwin x.x.

Loader, loading machkernel, loaded /xxx/Xxx/xx, loaded /xxx/XXx/XXx, and then it crashes it doesn’t reports any error just get’s stuck after that. Do you have any idea of what could be my problem? Hi there Taran, great instructions by the way, found them through google and followed them word for word, had a few problems and got some help from a friend but now that helps has disappaeared so i am at a loss. I managed to install the OSX via iPC, everything went smoothly, just a couple minor problems and one MAJOR problem preventing me from using the OSX itself. The keyboard&mouse are not detected but luckily i have a spare USBkeyboard&mouse that i can plug in and they are detected fine, this problem is not major but would be good if could be solved.

No audio, no audio detected whatsoever! The MAJOR problem is that no matter how hard i try i can’t seem to get the internet to work, not via AirPort, or Ethernet, or any other way, nothing is detected and i have literally read all of the help articles on the mac through about 5 times, trying every possible way, all to no avail 🙁 I would really appreciate this problem solved as I could really do with having internet access, as the OSX has taken over my previous Windows7 installation, and even with installation disk it doesnt work! Please help!! I get error: disk1s3: I/O error. SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed. ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed. ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed.

ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed. ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 disk1s3: I/O error. SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed. ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed.

ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed. ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed. ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00 ect. Hey dude, thank you. This is on of the less obscure tutorials! One question: How can I tel Mac OS X during installation WHERE to place the bootloader, so that I do not have to recover the windows bootloader?

I have a triple boot (Ubuntu, Win 7 and WinXP, and with Mac it with be QuadBoot — don’t ask YES i do need and not it not for show). In any case, for instance when you install Ubuntu, in the advanced options it asks where you want to install the bootloader, if you want to install it at all. What I do is that I usually place it within the partition that I install the operating system and then use trusty good old BCD to chainload from my existing bootloader to this new one. Any suggestions?

Secondly, I have bought a retail DVD of Mac OS X Lion. I have downloaded iBoot and try to follow the instructions but I can’t seem to get anything to work. What am I missing here? I have read somewhere about a patch.

Is this the issue? Is it doable? Should I just forfeit my 35 bucks? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Hey, I encourage this problem when I’m trying to install the osx86 leopard 10.5.6 on my computer Asus N90 (.2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9550.4GB PC2-6400 RAM.NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M 1GB GDDR2 VRAM) I get to the darwin boot meny and I chose -v as boot option, but when I do this all I can see is some text flashing by way to fast that I could be able to read it, then the computer restarts.

If i run it without any bootoption I see a apple logo for 1½ second then the computer restarts. I’ve also tried the bootoption “busratio=17 cpus=1 -v -x -f” and it yeilded the same results.

I would Love some help about this matter. Has it something to do with my computer? I know it’s kind of old.