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
Before you Begin
There are Several Flavours of OSX86 Project 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 OSX86 wiki.
If you have any doubts, you can get them cleared @ghosharindam on Twitter
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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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 http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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 Insanelymac.com 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. e.g. if You have NVIDIA geforce on your laptop, you should select NVDarwin from the “Graphics” section, not all.Hit Ok when you are convinced!
6. 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 . 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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 @ghosharindam on Twitter. Don’t hesitate.
24 comments:
I've got myself a little problem with installing Mac OS X. I've got the dvd with Mac OS X on it, then after I reboot and get to the part where you need to type -v to start in VERBOSE mode it says: loading darwin...
A few seconds later, black screen and my pc reboots, any idea how this comes?
I've got an I7 core processor 3 gb ram, ati video card..
When booting into MAC OS X get a frozen screen and then it plays some odd music! any help please email me. Other wise thank you so much this is an insane thing!
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 must admit, you had been a very helpful guy for all your guides.
We appreciate your blogs.
Best Regards
Paul J.
I have 2 hard drives on my laptop. One has vista and I tried to install Leopard on the other. I've gone through all the steps but when I try to load Mac from the boots screen it just restarts and brings me to the boot screen again until I choose vista.
Any ideas of what may be causing that?
Thanks for the reply, but I have to say that I decided to just have the Mac OSX on my laptop. So no need to worry on XP or Vista. Heheeheh
But I have a new problem... I used the iPC 10.5.6 version. Everything works fine, except the audio input. My onboard is a Realtek, and I used the Azalia driver, so I get just the audio output.
So, do you have an idea of how I can fix this???
Thanks again!!!
@Marco - As EasyBCD is not compatible with Windows XP, try the following. Add this line to the boot.ini file:
C:\chain0=”Mac OS X”
chain0 file should be available on ur osx86 disk, copy it from there to c:\
Now U reboot, U`ll get two options at boot.
@Tantalus - Go to BIOS and set your DVD drive to a higher priority than hard drive.
Google on this for more instructions.
I have an error ""Bootmgr Is Missing""...Plz Help Me.....If U know how to fix it or know what is this so plz reply me on my email address diper07@yahoo.com THnx.....
@Robin - you need to recover it. Get a windows 7 cd, boot it and it will try to repair the system (if you don't have a win 7, there are some windows 7 recovery discs floating around, they are like 300mb or so).
Select your system, next and then "startup repair". Solved for me
Does this method can be applied to x64 version of Windows 7?
@bearboss_85 - Sure
and I'm just wondering Does snow leopard need to be installed on previous version of OSX or u can start from the scratch format the disk and install snow leopard.
thanks in advance
@Alla - This method is for installing Leopard and not snow leopard. Google for "snowosx" for snow leopard osx86 method
Thanks, got it, but how can I make snow leopard boot at the startup, it doesn't,, I'll try to use SL boot123 Can this solve my problem, and if u have any other Ideas
i downloaded ideneb 10.5.5 and burned the .iso file on a DVD. I partitioned the secondary hard disk and the installation works fine. When the computer restarts, it automatically boots Vista for some reason. I cant get it to boot it from the secondary drive. I dont know what to do. Any suggestions ,,,
@Garry - Download and install EasyBCD then add an entry for "x86 Generic PC", that should do it.
Hello i need help on where to download the OSx86 10.5.x .iso file
Thankyou
This is a great post
@jttkill, you can download the torrent off of any torrent website. I use Mininova, so the fastest link is: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2849479
Im jus waiting 4 it to download! Can't wait to have windows 7 + Snow leopard!!!
Hi there, I have tried all the different hardware. My hardware is compatible but my problem just is proving hard to find the answer via google. So I hope you can help I have videoed the problem so you can maybe see more as to what goes on.
Here is my spec it is just a summary but if you need any more I can tell http://i29.tinypic.com/zo89s5.jpg
The version of iATKOS was v7
here is the link to the video
http://www.twitvid.com/47F31
Any questions please ask away
@david
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!
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 //
this is how I did it (step by step guide), works great for me :)
http://iworldzz.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/install-mac-os-x-on-a-pc-dual-boot-with-windows-7-or-vista/
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